Lost Odyssey, anyone playing it?

[TheGrandMom]

Ok, I'm hopelessly addicted. I just finished the first disc (there are 4) and I have 30 hours playtime into it. I couldn't be happier that I'm homebound for a week because I'm sick! LOL

It's nothing innovative, just a good solid JRPG. One of the things that is driving me crazy is having all the immortals learn the skills of the items and the humans. I'm one of those people that will make sure that they learn ALL of them so I'll spend hours grinding just so they do....and there is a LOT of them so far! lol So I'm off right now to boot up the 360 and grind away....almost have all my 3 immortals caught up on skills and then I'll go explore the mountain villiage of Tosca!

[Telera]

Re: Lost Odyssey, anyone playing it?

All the reviews I read of it gave it full marks for story and general gameplay (which I think is all that matters to an rpg) but rated it down because it did nothing new.

To be honest, most RPG's I've played that try to reinvent the wheel end up falling short of the classics, so I'm actually *happy* to hear that it doesn't try to really fall all over itself to do new, shiny things with the genre.

So long as an RPG's story is good, I don't care much about what else the producer tried to do. One of my most loved RPGs of all time is a little-known NES game called Crystalis. :p I think my most loved bar-none is Dragon Quest 5, followed close by KotOR and Mass Effect, but that's only because Bioware is love.

So this makes me hopeful. I haven't gotten to buy it yet, but I'm going to come pay-day. :p

[jwalton]

Re: Lost Odyssey, anyone playing it?

The irony is that a lot of the folks and reviewers crying about it not doing anything new picked up Dragon Quest VIII and gave it high marks, and get all nostalgic about the "good ol' days" of RPGs.

I still have to pick this up, as I'm finishing up Ratchet & Clank Future... getting close to beating it I think. I've learned to avoid picking up every game at release that results in backlogs, and buy them as I play them instead.

[Mazon]

Re: Lost Odyssey, anyone playing it?

I haven't picked up Lost Odyssey just yet, but everything I've seen and heard about it makes me want it pretty bad. Since I quit FFXI couple months back, I've been going through my stockpile of unplayed games ... and there's quite a huge pile.

[Satimasu]

Re: Lost Odyssey, anyone playing it?

The wife and I were thinking about picking it up. But, it's all sold out everywhere anyway. But, since I'm back out on the road anyway, doesn't do me any good. She's happy with Dynasty Warriors 6 right now.