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Game Industry: "After Lost Odyssey, we're done."
JamesKeenan
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The collective voice of the entire game industry made a statement today.
"Following this year, with the major hits all being released so close together, we as an industry feels things have gotten so good, too good in fact, that we're stopping. It was a tough decision, but after carefully examining exactly how badass this year was, we knew we had to call it quits. We had reached our goal. Nothing new or better could ever come of us.
What really drove the nail home though, however, was the 10 minute demo of Lost Odyssey (link below). The clip itself is Awesomeness itself made corporeal. Lost Odyssey is the divine offspring of Fucking, and Awesome. Awesome Incarnate. And with other such hits as Mass Effect, video games can't get better, so were stopping. We plan to finish off all games currently in production, such as Spore, but no new projects will ever be started again. Nor need they be."
God also made a statement in reaction, "Lost Odyssey was, in truth, originally an accident. I was trying to bring about the next messiah, but it apparently didn't translate so well from Divine to Human, and this is what came out. I think it's a comparable alternative, however."
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Srsly. The main character of LO is Kaim. Do I even need to make a joke here?
Game Information:
Lost Odyssey's storyline takes the player through Kaim's life, a man who has been sentenced to live for 1,000 years. He lives through multiple generations, becomes a part of many families, falls in and out of love and gets into conflicts. All this is set in a world that is on the verge of a mystical industrial revolution, where mankind has attained dark powers.
That's it. It's probably not the best game ever. I apologize for the sensationalism, and perhaps slight sarcasm. I know people usually don't use or understand these. However, I'm not really sorry. >=(
"Following this year, with the major hits all being released so close together, we as an industry feels things have gotten so good, too good in fact, that we're stopping. It was a tough decision, but after carefully examining exactly how badass this year was, we knew we had to call it quits. We had reached our goal. Nothing new or better could ever come of us.
What really drove the nail home though, however, was the 10 minute demo of Lost Odyssey (link below). The clip itself is Awesomeness itself made corporeal. Lost Odyssey is the divine offspring of Fucking, and Awesome. Awesome Incarnate. And with other such hits as Mass Effect, video games can't get better, so were stopping. We plan to finish off all games currently in production, such as Spore, but no new projects will ever be started again. Nor need they be."
God also made a statement in reaction, "Lost Odyssey was, in truth, originally an accident. I was trying to bring about the next messiah, but it apparently didn't translate so well from Divine to Human, and this is what came out. I think it's a comparable alternative, however."
Older Video
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Srsly. The main character of LO is Kaim. Do I even need to make a joke here?
Game Information:
Lost Odyssey's storyline takes the player through Kaim's life, a man who has been sentenced to live for 1,000 years. He lives through multiple generations, becomes a part of many families, falls in and out of love and gets into conflicts. All this is set in a world that is on the verge of a mystical industrial revolution, where mankind has attained dark powers.
That's it. It's probably not the best game ever. I apologize for the sensationalism, and perhaps slight sarcasm. I know people usually don't use or understand these. However, I'm not really sorry. >=(
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No? More like, just something other than "Cool game, discuss."
I wasn't really specifically trying for anything other than "not dull." The game looks awesome, the demo is incredible. I didn't see any threads discussing it, and I just thought that the original post was a more clever way of bringing it up than... eh. Oh well.
P.S. Lost Odyssey does look awesome.
then the FMV stopped. The player took control. And he and the enemy proceeded to take turns hitting each other. While two armies raged in the background.
what
the
fuck.
that completely turned me off of this game.
It's a few days shy of being a year old.
The E3 07 video would be a better choice of link.
welcome to jrpgs. perhaps you've heard of them.
Also, OP should have screens.
oh i love me a good jrpg. but after that vid i just felt fuckin LIED to. a jrpg's battle system is something you have to get to learn and appreciate over time, that I understand, but the transition between fuck-all awesome movie to two opponents poking each other was just too jarring. it's not how i picture starting a game (and yes, i understand its just a demo).
i'll look into it further when it actually comes out and read about so I'm not some misinformed twit. but as it stands right now...bleh
Awesome should only be used once a paragraph, and only when it's really deserved
There are other words too, you know
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Repetition is for awesomeness, though. Er, emphasis. Sorry.
Kaim is probably the ugliest main character in a jrpg in years.
Do they make any other kind? If so, that'd be awesome.
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The emphasis being "I don't know any other words"
Plus saying it too many times actually makes me think the game is lame
Meanwhile, this damn movie is still buffering. It better be awesome or I will be very cross
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Youtube and Gametrailers are pretty good.
Game may be awesome, but it might never be as awesome as that picture.
Lost Odyssey is for the Xbox 360.
Releases in North America and Europe some time in February 08.
So that's one game we can still look forward to, when no other games will be in development.
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Okay so that cinematic was pretty great, and I like the art style for those war machines
Then this douchebag comes leaping into the shot and damn if he isn't the ugliest looking character I have ever seen in a jRPG
And then the transition seamlessly from the cinematic was hilarious. So you can do a thing where you can go from cinematic to gameplay with no load time, but you use it to go from a fast paced battle royale to turn based? And the idle animations sucked big time, they were all just standing there!
That video was not awesome, that video was shit
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At least I got a new desktop wallpaper out of this thread.
edit- oh, it's a jrpg? n/m. I call idiot. It's nice to try to be like an arudoc OP, but this just fails in presentation so miserably.
Not only is it an RPG, it looks just like FF8, but without the certain something that makes FF VIII legendary.
Triple Triad.
Of course, I could be wrong. Some of the artwork makes me feel a little wary...I'm pulling for the bottle-opener-helmet-people, though.
It isn't his fault there are stupid people on the internet.
And I've got to agree about the old trailer. It had me all kinds of interested until the actual in-game combat started up. Still looks like fun but the transition was jarring.
Your sig is hilarious. Thank you for the lulz sir!
Goddamnit, that's the second time I've misread "Titles" as "Titties" today. What the fuck is going on here?
Not knowing what Lost Odyssey is or is about doesn't make people stupid.
Game OP's need more factual information and pictures.
That trailer is indeed sex.
That is not awesome. That is fucking brilliant.
Your mind is in the right place. All is fine.
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