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Game Informer: Infinite Undiscovery Review

Despite the formulaic plot, some of the characters are endearing (a giant bear!), and several dungeons make excellent use of a multi-party mechanic that lets you put all of your ­accumulated warriors to good use. Along with its thoroughly entertaining combat mechanics, these elements help Infinite Undiscovery recover from its lack of surprises. It may not be the best game on Tri-Ace's resume, but it's still one of the best RPGs available for the 360.

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KingDizzi5737d ago

Still looks like nothing more then a side project by tri-ACE to get some extra cash for there main game which is of course Star Ocean 4

silverchode5736d ago

infinite undiscovery>too human.

sunnygrg5736d ago

Game Informer is one of the most forgiving reviewers around. Tri-Ace should work harder. They have to. I had high hopes on this one. There has been some really not-so-good JRPGs this gen.

InMyOpinion5736d ago

Game Informer seems to be pretty picky, 8/10 is a good score coming from them.

thereapersson5736d ago

It's why i've trusted them over most other magazines. And yes, 8/10 is a decent score for any game.

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solidsnakus5736d ago

i dont know but all reviewers tend to give jrpgs a low score just cause its a jrpg. i personally think lost oddysey is AAA but it got scored 8s and 7s.

LeonSKennedy4Life5736d ago

It's because nothing new is coming from them...

Apart from Persona 3, I haven't seen much innovation on that front lately...

TiberusX875736d ago

Lost Odyssey was definitely a AAA title for me.

I think that reviewers are looking more so at gameplay innovation and feel the JRPG traditions are just too outdated as i'd like to bet that if this game came out towards the 360 launch time it would have been an 8-8.5 as it is clearly better than Enchanted Arms which got a 7+

For me I like the formula and whilst I play many games and enjoy original game designs and gameplay innovations I always enjoy coming back to this formula from time to time, whilst I do appreciate the innovations from games like Eternal Sonata, Okami etc. along with Final Fantasy as it continues on year after year, as do the Reviewers/Critics and thats why they still get high 8-9+ scores.

Not all reviewers appreciate the old school formula any more and you will find games which use this formula, there scores will slowly drop each year.

On the other hand you can take the risk like too human and mess it up and get an even worse score for an RPG which was supposed to have alot of new innovations to it.

Either way, I say if you enjoyed Lost Odyssey and appreciate the old school JRPG formula you'll enjoy this game no matter what. If I can enjoy enchanted arms I can enjoy nearly any JRPG.

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Tri-Ace still uses their old game engine from 2008

The gaming community lately makes jokes about companies making games that look like "PS3" or "PS2" games. While this is such a nasty dig, there may be some truth to this in the case of tri-Ace.

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GoodGuy09353d ago

Sad really. I used to love these guys but man...they just aren't what they used to be.

phallusitator352d ago

According to the this they are exactly what they used to be…

Noskypeno353d ago

The Cod games have been using an engine built in the mid 90s. Nothing wrong with using an old engine if they update it. Bioshock used UE2 and looked better than most UE3 games. Arkham knight used UE3 and looked better than most UE4 games.

Chriswynnetbh352d ago

I would give my left nut for an infinite undiscovery pc port

shinoff2183352d ago

Sh it does suck but I enjoyed star ocean 6 the most out of any game last year. I thought it was solid af start to finish. My favorite game that year.

I'd love for Sony to get ahold of them.

shinoff2183352d ago

To late to edit but I just wanted to add not every game that comes out needs to push a consoles boundaries. Star ocean 6 looked fairly good to me.

shammgod352d ago

Yeah. They definitely squeezed every drop out of that engine for SO6. It was a fun game

nitus10352d ago (Edited 352d ago )

I assume you are talking about "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness" which I do have and am still playing. IMHO it is a good game but for some reason I still prefer "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" that I played on my PS3.

As a side note I have "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time" (PS2 version) which I played on my first gen PS3 but unfortunatly the Australian version of the PS3 did not have full backwards capability like the US version did. I got so far in the game and hit a bug (advancement to a new area between two mountains) that prevented further play.

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Xbox One's Last Batch of Backward Compatible Games & Rare's Enhanced for Xbox One X Shown in Action

During the Inside Xbox live stream today, developers from the backwards compatibility team announced that the program would sadly be coming to a close.

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mkis0071803d ago

Already? No more bc games to be added? This is huge news.

slate911803d ago

What a good run. Assuming every og xbox, 360, and One title will be available on Scarlett. Will make next gen transition easy. Hats off!!

Bigman4k1803d ago (Edited 1803d ago )

I'm not surprise at all I saw this coming

AK911803d ago (Edited 1803d ago )

As long as they continue adding more BC once the Scarlett comes out.

badz1491803d ago

so this partial BC program ended?

FGHFGHFGH1802d ago

well they're actually developing new games now so isn't that better?

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We're Still Waiting on these 10 Games to Come to Xbox Game Pass

The current game selection on Game Pass is impressive, but it’s still missing a handful of big games.Here are the 10 most dumbfounding omissions from Game Pass.

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xboxcult1863d ago

I can see most of these coming to gamepass sometime this year. Even some of them could make it GWG.

lxeasy1861d ago

Some of these are exclusives so I def see them coming to gamepass.