Star Odyssey - Official Thread

[QuickSciFi]

How's the game so far for those who received their copies?

Same question

[Dark Sol]

Wait. Someone actually gonna play a game? I thought it's going straight to ebay to resell . lol

[CMA Death Adder]

Wait. Someone actually gonna play a game? I thought it's going straight to ebay to resell . lol

That's not even remotely funny.

[ShadowHawk]

That's not even remotely funny.

dont take it personal Brian, thats exactly what that poster does . He finds shrinkwrapped old Sega games and sells then for 100$ a peice from russia with no paypal

go figure

[CMA Death Adder]

dont take it personal Brian

Actually it's Brandon.

thats exactly what that poster does . He finds shrinkwrapped old Sega games and sells then for 100$ a peice from russia with no paypal

Huh. Well we should be safe then, because this is a non-shrinkwrapped, new Sega game.

Of course, our customers are free to do whatever they like with our games -- but obviously, after all the hard work we put into them, we'd prefer that they play and enjoy them. I suppose if the people who buy our games from resellers end up playing and enjoying them, at least that's something. *shrugs*

[Nick16]

Quite honestly, the only reason I feel secure buying this game having no idea of the quality of the game is that I will be able to resell it after I beat it and the game is sold out for much more than I payed for it. Sorry! >.<

[QuickSciFi]

How awesome. I just got home from the movies with my girlfriend to a very neat package at my doorstep.

My most relevant haul of the year... in all probability:

Great work Brandon. You've outdone yourself again. I can't wait to give this one a run. I enjoyed Legend of Wukong so much. I must say it was to my every expectation. I may be one of the few, but I love the artwork and chosen background of Star Odyssey. I can't wait to complete the SFT genny collection, though. Here's to hoping a re-run of Beggar Prince can be released once more by popular demand. Heck, I'll pay you more if you want.

[ShadowHawk]

^thats just f***ing sexy right there

[cheaterdragon1]

How awesome. I just got home from the movies with my girlfriend to a very neat package at my doorstep.




Great work Brandon. You've outdone yourself again. I can't wait to give this one a run. I enjoyed Legend of Wukong so much. I must say it was to my every expectation. I may be one of the few, but I love the artwork and chosen background of Star Odyssey. I can't wait to complete the SFT genny collection, though. Here's to hoping a re-run of Beggar Prince can be released once more by popular demand. Heck, I'll pay you more if you want.

Can you record some gameplay footage? And also how often do random battles happen? Is it as bad as everyone says?

Sorry so many questions! I'd love to play Star Odyssey right now but my copy hasn't been shipped yet.

[Waterfaller]

Gaaah, I'm jealous! I got hit with unexpected expenses recently, so my money I had set aside for Star Odyssey got as good as spent I'll just have to wait for my next paycheck then

[Joe Redifer]

Only played for an hour or so, so I can't give an honest opinion. All I can say so far is that it is a bit primitive, but certainly not horrible. Better than Traysia, certainly. I'll have some of video on it in Monday's Game Sack.

[PDorr3]

Hey, have not posted here in years, but I figured I would give some of my impressions on Star Odyssey. I am about 4-5 hours into the game so far and what I like most is the overall sci-fi universe, story, and characters I have found so far. I am definitely getting a sense of Phantasy Star meets Star Wars here. The writing is great, music is catchy, and gameplay is no frills but traditional and fun if you like turn based RPG fare. My main complaint would be that yes, the random battles are at times RIDICULOUS in the encounter rate. Grinding is also needed so you can save up money to buy new armor, which is definitely needed unless you want to continuously get pummeled by enemies (death reduces your gold by half) so saving up gold was tough at times until I found a good quick spot to farm and quickly go back to town, rest, repeat without needed to waste money on healing items. Overall I am looking forward to where the game goes from here despite the high encounter rate (I don't mind grinding).

I am actually stuck again though (at times it is hard to tell where the game wants you to go next, talking to EVERY NPC sometimes multiple times after completing events is highly recommended). I just got Rick on my team (first party member) and when I recruited him he mentioned about going somewhere with me, but now I can't figure out where to go next...any help here is appreciated.

I actually did a live stream of this game on justin.tv for a couple hours. I will provide a link for those interested but please take note of the following: I was streaming to a live audience and chat room, so I have my live audio commentary on the videos so it may annoy those of you who have no clue what I am referencing. I also got quite mad a few times where I kept dieing while I was trying to grind levels and money (don't worry I still like the game lol), and the part that some may hate the most, since I was streaming to a large audience I eventually provided my own music (most of it RPG game music anyway) instead of using the games music/sound effects since lets face it, I did not want to subject my viewers to hours upon hours of the same 2 repeating songs. Keeping these things in mind, here is the link: http://www.justin.tv/petesgameroom/b/289294428

[The Coop]

Can you record some gameplay footage? And also how often do random battles happen? Is it as bad as everyone says?

Yes, they are. They're almost as frequent as what's in Sword of Vermillion.

[old man]

I didn't get mine this week. I iz disapoint.

[chrisbid]

i got my copy on saturday

thanks again to brandon for his hard work, it is incredible that the game got into my hands within a week of launch



as for gameplay videos, here is a nice 25 minute primer i just posted on youtube