Star Ocean 3

Albel Nox145 · 07-04-2006, 03:43 PM

Has anyone plated Star Ocean 3 Till the End of Time for Playstation 2? I think it's a great game, just a little long. I have only reached level 217 so far out of 255 levels. Does anyone else play this game?

モネ? · 07-04-2006, 04:03 PM

I don't remember Star ocen 3 having levels at all. As far as the game istelf. It sucked major. The battle system was glitchy and the plot was weak and cliche. I don't see how it got on the greatet hits to tell you the truth.

Oh your talking about battle levels.

Yes, I'm talking about that star ocean. It doesn't cahnge my opinion about the game.

Albel Nox145 · 07-04-2006, 04:28 PM

Maybe you were thinking of a earlier version of Star Ocean. What were some of the characters you remember from it? The one I am thinking of has Fayt, Sophia, Cliff, Nel, Roger, Albel, ect.

Eggman · 07-04-2006, 05:21 PM

Albel's an awesome character. The game was not so hot otherwise. Chaining Side Kick for all eternity got boring.

Opethian · 07-06-2006, 11:53 AM

i have yet to pick upt the 3rd installment of Star Ocean but i rather enjoyed the first one on SNES and the 2nd story on PSX

EvangelionUnit03 · 07-06-2006, 03:17 PM

Reasons why I ended up hating the game and not finishing it:
1. It tries to pass off as a sci-fi game that really is a fantasy game. That pretty much destroyed my initial impressions and I spent most of the game wondering when I would ever get off the planet...only to end up getting on another planet...and ending up having to go back to it.
2. MP Death. Still, it was useful for some fights (killing a boss in three hits with the Lighting Blade was fun)
3. Invention. Took way too long and unnecessarily complex The game doesn't even do a good job of explaining what the hell each thing does.
4. The plot. By the second disc, I think everyone knows what I'm talking about.
5. Irregular levels. Having to grind Sophia from level 1 to level 60 in a day was not fun.
6. Uneven difficulty of enemies.
7. Not being able to buy the high-end items when you get back on that goddamn planet (and not being able to go back, unless if I am seriously missing something).
8. Bonus Gauge. A novel idea at first and it made grinding faster, but it was seriously maddening when it broke and finding out you can't make it rise anymore because you leveled up too much.

Good things, though:
1. Event Skipping (especially when you keep dying at a boss battle)
2. Nel
3. Maria
4. Nel
5. Pretty detailed encyclopedia, though it managed to lightly spoil some things ahead of time if you kept reading it. It even mentioned SO1.
6. Nel

~Squall~ · 07-07-2006, 01:10 AM

I happened to love this game. The battle system is my favorite of any RPG battle system. It's just very addicting, and alot of fun. The Bonus gauge did get anoying after awhile when you would lose it as soon as you got the x2 exp. <_<

The story to me great. I loved the characters, the music and everything about the game. There were some glitches throughout the game, and some of the cut scenes would go on for hours with nothing happening, but that's what scene skip was for.

There's plenty of replay value, and some of the later enemies present a great challenge. I've only gotten to about level 95-ish (well with Fayt and Nel only...everyone's either 60 or below), but I still have fun with it.

Good game.

A2P · 07-07-2006, 07:32 AM

The story is not the best I've ever seen, but it IS a fun game to play. I originally disliked MP death, but in time, I realized that MP Death was new and creative, and I began to love it. Cliff and Nel were the best 2 characters to have fighting along Fayt. Aerial Assault and Flying Gullitine are win. Right now though, I'm at the Maze of Tributations, and I'm still there because I decided to take a break from the game, heh...

Hiroyuki Sakai · 07-07-2006, 11:54 AM

I started playing this about two weeks ago, and I was having a blast. Then I got to the Shrine of Kaddan, and the difficulty spiked like nothing I've ever seen before. I got out using so many of items.

So I went online to see if this was supposed to happen and got mixed responses. I had a feeling I was just underleveled, but I also found out that inventing does a great deal of help. I tried my hand at it, and got some much better weapons, and I finally learned how to cancel bonus.

So I figure I'm fine now, maybe just get a few more levels under my belt. <b>Wrong</b>. Everything else is harder. I'm dying far easier, Cliff stands around half the time doing nothing. Maria takes 4 hits and dies. So I go back to a place where I had no problem before. For some reason even enemies that I had little problem with before are now much harder. Those goddamn harpies in the area before Surferio are doing way better that before (I could kill them easier ~15 hours into the game than ~20 hours). It's insane.

Either Maria really sucks and is bringing my entire party down, or the game just decided to increase the difficulty for no reason at all. I still like the game, I'm just pissed that this happened.

**cstarflare** · 07-07-2006, 12:14 PM

Unless you're dead set on using Maria or hate Cliff/Nel, I suggest sticking with Fayt/Cliff/Nell for now. Nell's Flying Guilluitine wins all. You can bring Maria up to speed later when you're in a better position to.

I had a tough time in the Shine but I don't remember having too much trouble after that, aside from a few boss battles.

This thread reminds me that I need to finish my level 1 universe run.

A2P · 07-08-2006, 09:47 AM

The Shrine wasn't that hard at all...

What I found really hard was those stupid Lava Caves. where I kept getting MP killed

Timer Rabbit · 07-15-2006, 11:06 PM

I liked that game in story and charater wise.

My sister does all the gameplay and secrets. (Heh. Imagine a little Leneth from Valkyre Profile! X3 Love little kitty girls..)

Far my favorite character to torture another character is Peppita/Souffle. (She dances and gets her enemy confused! XD)

The far only bishonen I fell in love in that game is Abel. (I usualy yell (in text) Abby! XD Realy. Wait till you see me in DA.)

dog$ · 07-16-2006, 08:26 AM

Never played SO1. Really liked SO2.

SO3

Strike One - 3 player party limit
Strike Two - overworld on tracks, leaving nothing to explore
Strike Three - levelling up means jack, it's all about the items you use

You're out, SO3.

DarkYoshii · 07-16-2006, 08:56 PM

I quite liked SO3, alas my Memory Card..Well, I lost it, so I need to start over. I'm trying to forget the storyline so I can do that successfully. I got it mega spoiled though, but oh well. It's still cool! ^_^ Still love it, want to get all the Battle Trophy things. Just gonna take..a long..long while.

METAL PIPE! >_>

LostHeaven · 11-04-2007, 01:00 AM

Yeah I own Star Ocean 3. I beat it too.
And whoever's quoting Albel Knox, please use another victory line.

Like "Hmph, just another worm."
or "It doesn't matter how many maggots you've got, I'll crush them all."

Need some simfiles for that game. Maybe Bitter Dance, or as I call it "Azazer's Theme"