Last Remnant PS3 Prospects Not Looking Good

zlatko - 136 days 18 hours ago

I beat it and invested close to 120 hours into it...maybe more. The "hiccups" "bugs" w/e you want to call them were auto fixed with installation to your hard drive, so for me these "issues" were non existent.

The main two problems with The Last Remnant are the same ones that IU and SO4 suffer from---sh*t story accompanied with poor dialogue with poor voice acting. So maybe 3 things, but I couple the last two together, since they go hand in hand. The battle system was awesome, music was great, side quests enjoyable, unique way of leveling things up, and above all a challenging game to however much time you put into it.

JRPG fans wouldn't be that disappointed with it honestly. It's a solid 7.8/10 from me. It's just too hard to overlook the two problems I listed though for most, and even I was just unwowed when the curtain fell on this game.

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Dark-vash - 136 days 18 hours ago

@ zlatko
I Agree with everything you said!But noticed A LOT of problems even with the HDD instalation...

I've finished the game too, spent a lot of time in it...

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FantasyStar - 136 days 18 hours ago

Agreed, TLR is a good game and unique indeed, but the voice acting and poor story overall isn't so hot. Hell how is it that a a RPG can have a poor voice performance casts when story plus those matters more than gameplay? But anyhow, the game is worth something of a playthrough. For the record though, I thought Rush's VA did a decent job.

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KampferZeon - 136 days 17 hours ago

Those who would have already played it.

Being a PC/Console 360 exclusive doesn't change the fact that its a poorly executed average rating game.

There are better games to play on both system now.

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Guitardr85 - 136 days 17 hours ago

Agreed! I went ahead and bought this game for the PC and the end result??? I regretted not pirating it, loL! PS3 users won't miss that much, and they get to keep their dignity by not feeling like they have to buy a subpar game just because its an RPG on the PS3!

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Jim Hawking - 136 days 16 hours ago

I thought I was the only one who hated SO4's story/dialogue.

Bubbles

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hulk_bash1987 - 136 days 16 hours ago

Considering how lackluster the game was, both sales and review wise. Its not a lose for PS3 owners in my opinion. Square Enix just needs to concentrate on getting FF XIII out the gate.

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blackpanther25 - 136 days 16 hours ago

I agree the gameplay was ok, but it was lacking something. I swear i must be the only one who thought that they didn't finish their combat idea.

I mean they want you to have squads and stuff to really give you control, but at the same time you can't change people class, armors, or weapons (besides the main character). Instead they have these scenes where they will tell you that they need an item to upgrade their weapon.
I mean what is the point of giving us the ability to make squads if we can't "truly" create our own personalized squads.

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gaffyh - 136 days 16 hours ago

Finished the game, was based too heavily on chance, not enough control of your characters during battle means you could lose a battle very quickly. This meant you had to take a very JRPG approach to every major battle, meaning you'd have to prepare heavily for the battle to win.

I don't think this even deserves to be ported, I'd rather that Square Enix work on a better game. This game was OK, but most people will hate it, only hardcore JRPG fans would actually invest enough time to finish it.

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menoyou - 136 days 15 hours ago

who cares this game sux big time just like every rpg from square enix this gen so far

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 136 days 14 hours ago

I don't think this game will really be missed for PS3 owners, but hey you could have gotten it for $10 at Best Buy on the 360 about a month ago.... It is probably dirt cheap now on ebay.

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Halo3 MLG Pro - 136 days 13 hours ago

Yup. Put all the minor flaws aside and Last Remnant is a sweet jrpg. Gets a solid 8 from me.

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FarEastOrient - 136 days 1 hour ago

In Japan the want of a PS3 version of the game is still there and ranks in the top 10 still.

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zlatko - 135 days 22 hours ago

The battle system of minion recruits in the game got their equipment upgraded as your battle rank went up. For them to learn skills you just had to use them in battle successfully and keep doing so. If you were able to manually pick each characters equipment it'd be a ton of micromanagement, especially since the game actually was a new approach to the strategy RPG genre. The lead characters saying,"can I have X item?" was just an easy way to upgrade the ones you liked, and had an item that person was geared towards having for a good upgrade to how you were progressing them. As for the characters saying, "can we go look for item X?" it was just incentive for you to go out and grind more in hopes of finding the right items to give people better equipment.

The game was for sure 100% complete on the battle system portion end. The game even later as you play starts making very intelligent choices since your characters have developed enough for them. Early on if you pick a group to heal they would all focus on it or just defend if the healing was done. Later you may pick heal with your whole group, the healers within it are all set to do heals, but once health is healed enough, the extra healers will decide to do special attacks or normal attacks based on how much action points you had saved up with them.

The game leveled with you too, so if you are a person who just plows through the game for the story it will only be as hard your battle rank is but if you side quest and grind up then the game scales with you to challenge you more. My biggest issue with the games battles was if you do grind a lot, then the game starts to do the same two abilities on almost all bosses in some form to kill you. That completely defeats the strategic portion, because one would randomly kill a character on their turn, and another would turn them to stone if I remember right. One of those was uncureable too, so you basically had crunch time to make the most use of that group until they all died.(trying to keep them alive is pointless, since if they all wipe out you can just revive them all at full health).

Anyways yeah. The only thing future SE projects worry me about is the story/dialogue. Last Remnant, IU, and SO4 are all 100% fails on that portion. I mean in SO4 the lead character on my play through cried a total of 4 times. What a wimp. IU I don't even want to get into, since I spent 2 hours with it before I just called it trash and moved on. FF13's story needs to be a complete home run, because for me this is Square's last chance to prove they know how to tell a good story. Otherwise Atlus will become #1 at JRPGs with the Persona Series hands down. :)

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blackpanther25 - 135 days 20 hours ago

Well.. I guess if it didn't feel incomplete to you then that is good. Maybe i just didn't like the way they did it. Maybe i had certain expectations of the battle system since they said it was squad based either way
+Bub to you for convo

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hay - 136 days 18 hours ago

Well... They COULD make an improved port, but making Last Remnant a good game could cost them too much resources to make it profitable.

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cgoodno - 136 days 18 hours ago

I hear the improvements they made in the PC port were well worth it compared to the 360 version. I do think it might be a bit for them to stretch themselves so far on this game with a PS3 port. More than likely the sales on the 360 and PC ended up being below expected so they've had to move on rather than try to port it to the PS3.

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AKNAA - 136 days 18 hours ago

Porting this game to the PS3 is instant profit loss. why?
3 reasons:

1. SE knows that its not that easy to please Playstation owners(maybe 360 owners) when it comes to RPGs when you consider the good ones that were released on the PS1 & PS2.

2. If this game were to be ported to the PS3, it would end up being released almost near the same time frame as FF13, which of course you know what will happen...

3. The game just sucks period.

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Dread - 136 days 17 hours ago

@AKNAA

it is easier to please 360 owners than playstation owners!?

get over yourself u arrogant fanboy.

that is the problem with sony this gen.. they were arrogant at the start (remember all the comments made by sony execs during the launch) and created an arrogant group of fanboys. But reality has humbled Sony a bit in the past years (thx god), perhaps u should follow suit.

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AKNAA - 136 days 5 hours ago

Me, a fanboys?! Not exactly. But I do prefer the PS3 over the 360.

Well, judging by how 360 fanboys prefer sales figures over the actual quality of a game kinda made me assume that quality does not matter just as long as it sells better than the PS3 version/ or rival game...
but hey, maybe its just me.
Didn't you guys thought the last remanent and ninja blade was the next big thing since it was exclusive and all?! Lol!

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AKNAA - 135 days 20 hours ago

multiple accounts you say?! Lol! don't be stupid. who ever has multiple accounts to agree with themselves are pretty pathetic if you ask me...
And before you run your useless mouth again, how do you know I have not played the game? tried it out at a friends house, along with all the other people who agreed with me and said that this game sucks? just because people don't agree that its good, you assume that we're blind mindless fanboys?! Lol! kid, Get the f4@K outtta here! you just said yourself that you played for about an hour and cannot give a final judgment yet, but strangely enough, you defend the last remanent like as if its your savior?! WTF?! if anything, your the one thats the mindless tw@t! 1 hour of playing it and you still can't confirm to yourself wether or not you like it?! feeling a little slow there?! talk about lack of brain cells... I'm sure all game demos must be useless to you in deciding weather or not you want to buy it huh?!
BTW, how am I trolling?! isn't this article concerning PS3 owners?

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jackdoe - 136 days 17 hours ago

Yeah, especially since all word of it disappeared. Though I think it became vaporware the instant the 360 version hit and garnered horrendous reviews.

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PELVIC THRUST ACTION - 136 days 14 hours ago

Except Haze was only about five or six hours of torture. The Last Remnant was at least 30-40 hours of torture. If I'm going to be force fed agony, I rather have it finished with as soon as possible.

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mastiffchild - 136 days 1 hour ago

Also while the politics had yet to hit FRD Haze was still a decent looking project. Then it went exclusive, then middleware got pulled, then they had to rush in house effects and ohysics, then...you catch my drift. Fact is Haze looked and plaued better over a year before release than it ever did after the support got pulled-for what reason we may never know but I always thought it was opart of why it went from multi to exclusive.

My point ios we could guess(esp when no copies ponied up for review) that Haze wiould suck and it has an excuse at least-a good idea and good dev scuppered by situation, imo.

WTF is SE's excuse this gen? Played TLR on PC and couldn't be arsed finishing it-another great idea but thrown together with spit and kleenex rather than any care or thought. Frankly a 5/10 would be too kind for me. PS3 only gamers should feel very relieved they aren't getting it tbh. It speaks volumes that the once mightly SE don't even feel they can resurrect the game either-seems a good idea isn't enough for them these days-lets just pray that the passion to finish FF13 properl;y is still there.

If not, and that game fails to be EPIC(which, after all the sh1t created by SE this gen it needs to be-it fails and the knives won't half be out)then I truly fear that SE might face real trouble and regret not being able to release worldwide simultaneously. If the Japanese version bombs at the critics what price western success?

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guitarded77 - 136 days 18 hours ago

Star Ocean would be cool

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lonestarmt - 136 days 17 hours ago

the only two JRPGS I wish the PS3 had was tales of vesipra which they are getting, and star ocean 4

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Infernostew - 136 days 16 hours ago

Hate to be the rumor mill but a good friend of mine was asked to alpha test the ps3 version of Star Ocean 4. He beta tests for a lot of games and will be testing Thief 4 although he turned down tests on SO4 due to being busy with work. He said it will contain a brand new dungeon that was not in the US 360 version due to time constraints but it will be in the EU release of SO4 on 360.

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bankai - 136 days 18 hours ago

this game is an example of a great idea that was just poorly put together. lets see what SE will drop the ball on next, they have been doing it alot since the merge.

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jackdoe - 136 days 16 hours ago

Square should just fire his ass as he and his team cost them millions only to produce a mediocre game that sold horrendously.

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StanLee - 136 days 18 hours ago

*crickets*

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Ramzadel - 136 days 18 hours ago

Oh man how right you are about those awesome heroes of Square lore, especially Fei Fong-Wong, best story yet.

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NotSoSilentBob - 136 days 18 hours ago

I agree with you. Square Enix should just become Enix as they have forgotten the value of Square in their name.

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biggame901 - 136 days 17 hours ago

Agreed and then some. Ever since the merger with Enix, SE has just been a disaster, one on top of the other.

At this point, FF13 and FFvs13 need to be brilliant. If not, SE will be in serious trouble.

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Jazz4108 - 136 days ago

360 is getting a exclusive on Magnacarta 2

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ravinshield - 136 days 18 hours ago

poor ps3rd is a trainwreck

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CyberSentinel - 136 days 13 hours ago

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

Last Remnant, and anything made by Valve or Activision!

Blind Lemmings, Gimpstation Is Teh Weaksauce.

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

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booyah007 - 136 days 12 hours ago

right...(what's the word?)...lemmings?

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Too_Hyped - 136 days 17 hours ago

And Valkyria Chronicles, Demon Souls, Folklore and Fallout 3 are all better RPG than the ones you just listed.

Poor bots.

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ultimolu - 136 days 17 hours ago

Oh noes, whatever the droids shall do?

Poor bots losing Tales of Vesperia and missing out on extra content. :-)

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booyah007 - 136 days 17 hours ago

still staying stupid things. Oh look, 5 of your bot butt buddies agrees with you. I'm so full of lulz.

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iDystopia - 136 days 17 hours ago

Sure they are Nasim.

Fallout 3 runs better on Xbox 360(was the lead version)

"Valkyria Chronicles, Demon Souls, Folklore "

lol No one even knows what those are. PS3 no namers as usual. You wish you had Mass Effect 1 and 2, Fable, Star Ocean, Infinite Undiscovery and all Mistwalkers games(more to be announced in 2010). Tales of Vesperia will be another sub-par port for the PS3rd...we've already has it for well over a year. More last place sloppy seconds for PS3rd.

Poor Droids.

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Dante43 - 136 days 16 hours ago

Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean 4, Fable 2, Mass Effect are all way better.

Lost Odyssey is hardly any good, Blue Dragon? DBZ Ripoff? GTFO! , Infinite Undiscovery? Good? Since when 68% average is good? , Star Ocean 4? 73% average is good for you? I guess your Xbox360 standard are pathetic , hence all crappy games are good in your opinion.

Fable 2 and Mass Effect are the only game worth mentioning.

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delumine - 136 days 16 hours ago

poor xtards justifying their purchase of those sh!tty rpg's, BTW guy with marcus fenix as avatar cannot be older than 12

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ultimolu - 136 days 16 hours ago

Poor bots using multiple accounts like the cowards that they are. Poor bots beta-testing Ninja Gaiden 2 for the "droids".

Poor dumbass bots.

Nobody cares. :)

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booyah007 - 136 days 16 hours ago

I love it when Bots like to use "you're nasim" argument as their blanket argument. You and really Duh probably get along...or probably are the same person :)

Aren't Bot family love cute.

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Murderdolls - 136 days 11 hours ago

"Poor bots losing Tales of Vesperia and missing out on extra content"

Hopefully you live in Japan if you're looking forward to that.

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ultimolu - 136 days 8 hours ago

Poor Murder the bot doesn't know the PS3 is region free. :)

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booyah007 - 136 days 8 hours ago

the dumb@ss doesn't have a PS3.

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Murderdolls - 136 days 4 hours ago

PSN name is Murderdolls90 say hello I'll be playing Valkyria Chronicles later.

Region free woopdydoo it still won't be in English.

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All Time Greatness - 136 days 2 hours ago

Tales of Vesperia:

Xbox 360: 1

PS3: 0

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ultimolu - 136 days 1 hour ago

Yes Murderdolls, as if someone couldn't have known Japanese so they couldn't import the game.

Whatever.

Seriously, Valkyria Chronicles is a lot better than all the rpgs 360 fanboys are bragging about.

Anyone can say they own a PS3 so do you mind showing a picture? Because I find it cute that you're bashing the PS3 and yet you own one.

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Murderdolls - 136 days ago

Actually yes I'll take a picture with my Mac and upload JUST FOR YOU! =D

I'll go ahead and link it in my profile for everyone to see along with my extremely sexy 360.

Edit: Here ya go champ http://i118.photobucket.com...

Too tired to edit my name but yeah it says Murderdolls.

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ultimolu - 135 days 23 hours ago

So what games do you have may I ask?

Seems like you have more 360 games than PS3. Would you be using the PS3 as an alleged bluray player?

I see that the 360 fanbrats are at it again with multiple accounts. Too cowardly to stand up to anyone huh?

Bragging about mediocre rpgs eh?

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Murderdolls - 135 days 22 hours ago

The only PS3 game I actually own is Resistance 2... my oldest brother bought it for me for Christmas.

Twisted Metal is the reason I bought a PS3 and the handful of exclusives. I used to trade in my games alot so my 360 library has been cut in half.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan - 136 days 16 hours ago

Yea Demos Soul looks so amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

XD

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Johnny Rotten - 136 days 14 hours ago

I'll take a dungeon crawler over the same old Japanese anime unisex characters any day, and that includes the Final Fantasy series.

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Murderdolls - 136 days 11 hours ago

Further pushes my point Square actually releases games on 360.

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