Star Ocean The Last Hope Available November 28 for PS4 and PC with 4K support!

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Star Ocean The Last Hope is the fourth game in the long running series, developed by Tri-Ace and published by Enix (Now Square Enix) Published back in 2009 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, the game now features 4K video (For PS4 Pro and PC only) and will be a digital download only release. The game will be priced at $20.99 on both platforms, while having a 10% discount for Playstation plus members, and steam users the first two week after the game is playable (ending December 12) The playstation purchase will come with a exclusive theme and Playstation Network avatar icons based on the game while steam will offer a mini soundtrack with the purchase. The Steam game also comes with Denuvo DRM that people are aware of.

Developed in partnership with tri-Ace, Star Ocean: The Last Hope takes place at the beginning of the Star Ocean series timeline and is a full HD remaster with added 4K support and PC keyboard, mouse and controller support. The game takes players on an epic journey across the universe in an immersive, intergalactic story of survival where humanity must turn to the stars in search of a new home. Featuring strategic real-time combat, the remastered title also keeps the original deep Item Creation System and Private Action system that explores character relationships and subplots for a richer and more rewarding story, and exhilarating Blindside battle system, which fuses evasion and offense.

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Huh thought publishers stopped using Denuvo. It's either that or nobody is raising a fuss about it anymore, OR maybe there hasn't really been any high profile PC releases recently.
 

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I am just a bit confused at the prices of the square enix games. $20.99, why not just $19.99? Does that extra dollar make a difference? Is not the first time they don't do multiples of 5 for their prices, common stuff is like $4.99 $9.99 $14.99 $19.99

Final fantasy VII on ps4 is $17.99 and on steam is $11.99 Final Fantasy IX is $20.99... I just don't get it. :wtf:
 

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Ah, good. Denuvo. Let the shit storm commencement.
Regardless or not the controversies of it, in the end, Denuvo is entirely pointless now, seeing as the latest version is getting cracked a day after release on average.

Focusing on 4 is a weird choice, but I suppose it's the easiest to re-release in terms of licensing or last gen hardware. Would like to see the PSP games get PC ports ala the Disgaea series.
 
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Huh thought publishers stopped using Denuvo. It's either that or nobody is raising a fuss about it anymore, OR maybe there hasn't really been any high profile PC releases recently.
Practically all of them without their own proprietary DRM (Uplay/Origin) use Denuvo. Recently, Bethesda has removed Denuvo from recent game releases because of how ineffective it's been (day-1 cracks for the past few weeks). A couple other studios have followed suit. Square Enix, it seems, is sticking fast to it tho.
 
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Regardless or not the controversies of it, in the end, Denuvo is entirely pointless now, seeing as the latest version is getting cracked a day after release on average.

Focusing on 4 is a weird choice, but I suppose it's the easiest to re-release in terms of licensing or last gen hardware. Would like to see the PSP games get PC ports ala the Disgaea series.
Why is 4 a weird choice? :unsure:
 

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Regardless or not the controversies of it, in the end, Denuvo is entirely pointless now, seeing as the latest version is getting cracked a day after release on average.

Focusing on 4 is a weird choice, but I suppose it's the easiest to re-release in terms of licensing or last gen hardware. Would like to see the PSP games get PC ports ala the Disgaea series.
I want a PC port of the newest Star Ocean so it can be modded to be a better game.
 

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Why is 4 a weird choice? :unsure:
From general consensus I've seen online, 4 seems to get a lot of hate and wasn't well liked by even fans of the series.

I want a PC port of the newest Star Ocean so it can be modded to be a better game.
Every modpack in the world can't help that game become more tolerable.
 

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4, of all things? It was something I loved back in the day, but having replayed it semi-recently, the mechanics are very shallow and it really doesn't stand as well as it did back then. Even as someone who has previous experience enjoying the game, this really doesn't appeal to me. Now the thing is, does this release mean that they realize the series has appeal and intend to continue developing entries, or does it mean they're going to focus more on reselling old titles than developing new games in the franchise? This franchise is something I think has some serious potential, but iirc, the latest game had mixed critical reception and didn't sell as well as they wanted.
 
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Regardless or not the controversies of it, in the end, Denuvo is entirely pointless now, seeing as the latest version is getting cracked a day after release on average.

Focusing on 4 is a weird choice, but I suppose it's the easiest to re-release in terms of licensing or last gen hardware. Would like to see the PSP games get PC ports ala the Disgaea series.
They'll figure it out
 

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From general consensus I've seen online, 4 seems to get a lot of hate and wasn't well liked by even fans of the series.
Honestly I'm not really a fan of these games, i find some of it frustrating and difficult. I'm not the best person to talk about this. I played one on the psp, is supposed to be based on the unreleased snes game, I say is probably okay, except of how exp gain works and maybe the cost of stuff, and maybe even the fighting, the game is just feel unbalance.

I even managed to play till the end of time, much of the same problem. Sometimes hitting people don't make them flinch and you can just get beat up from enemies that won't stagger and still hit through your attacks, instead of having 4 like before, you now have 3, I don't get why the party must change size when making a game in sequels. The other thing, once again is the exp gain and purchasing some stuff, more balance issues. I feel like the game could have been fun if it wasn't those things I come across.

People could probably say I'm not a RPG fan, but I played good RPG games, Breath of fire IV, Rogue Galaxy, Tales of Symphonia, Super mario RPG, Chrono trigger, Final Fantasy IV,Mario & Luigi, and I played some frustrating and difficult ones like Final fantasy 10, probably any dragon quest game I picked up, Shin Megami Tenshi Persona, Conception 2 children of the seven stars, and probably the worst I remember playing is Breath of fire 2.

But I mean, I dunno, what is bad about it, it got a 5th game so it couldn't been that bad right?
 

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Honestly I'm not really a fan of these games, i find some of it frustrating and difficult. I'm not the best person to talk about this. I played one on the psp, is supposed to be based on the unreleased snes game, I say is probably okay, except of how exp gain works and maybe the cost of stuff, and maybe even the fighting, the game is just feel unbalance.

I even managed to play till the end of time, much of the same problem. Sometimes hitting people don't make them flinch and you can just get beat up from enemies that won't stagger and still hit through your attacks, instead of having 4 like before, you now have 3, I don't get why the party must change size when making a game in sequels. The other thing, once again is the exp gain and purchasing some stuff, more balance issues. I feel like the game could have been fun if it wasn't those things I come across.

People could probably say I'm not a RPG fan, but I played good RPG games, Breath of fire IV, Rogue Galaxy, Tales of Symphonia, Super mario RPG, Chrono trigger, Final Fantasy IV,Mario & Luigi, and I played some frustrating and difficult ones like Final fantasy 10, probably any dragon quest game I picked up, Shin Megami Tenshi Persona, Conception 2 children of the seven stars, and probably the worst I remember playing is Breath of fire 2.

But I mean, I dunno, what is bad about it, it got a 5th game so it couldn't been that bad right?

It's not that bad at all, Star Ocean 4 is one of my favorite RPGs.
 
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Is on ps4 already. Or did you mean pc port? I dunno, maybe they would have found it more effort? :unsure:

Yeah it's on psn for ps4 but should it been on PC too in retrospect of this announcement? It couldn't of been more difficult because that was on the PS2 (star ocean 3) this one was on xb360 and ps3 now pc
 

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