Talk:Star Ocean

It's 2014, this article needs revision! + Material Trader
It's almost Feb of 2014 and Star Ocean supposedly has had updates since then. For the first update, SO was featured in a game engine demo a few years back for what I believe was on the PS3 (some argue it was the PS4). The second update would be how there is a TCG in Japan, however I can't seem to download and play it due to the fact that they limit it to Japan only (Star Ocean Material trader).

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an official website for anything. I don't understand what is going on with Tri-Ace and while I would love to rant and say how much I hope they're not giving up on their SO franchise, I'd hate to admit that they don't do a good job at advertising new updates as they should. Joystiq and IGN are good places to get info on Material trader. I'm not a good writer so I leave the rest to you guys :) 20:11, 28 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.194.244.69 (talk)

Untitled
The article says that some names were changed in star ocean 2 and 3 for the US release ,it would be nice if the article showed the original names as well as the names they were changed into for the us release.
 * No it wouldn't, because the actual name changes are already listed in each game's respective articles.--Claude 21:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Star Ocean IV announced!
Yup, it's official! Hopefully we'll know some more about it at the Square Enix Party!

 Check the end of the article!

Star Ocean PSP
feel free to add this news into the article: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/story.php?sid=6170405&part=rss&subj=6170405


 * I'm guessing you people aren't actually reading the article (or template), because this info is already included.--Claude 18:32, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Manga translation?
Okay, so the article mentions that the manga's been scanlated/fan-translated, but by what group? It's not licensed (or going to be anytime soon), so is there any harm in announcing that? After all, the group that fan-translated SO1 was announced in the article, so...--TheSweet 05:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The translation patch for SO1 isn't illegal, but the scanlations are.--Claude 21:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Space opera?
Can Star Ocean really be classified as space opera (it currently is)? Having seen the anime series, while there is space opera like universe in the background, almost all episodes are more of a fantasy than sci-fi (and hardly fulfill any definitions of a space operam which requires the heroes to adventure across space, not on a single planet).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Publisher
Why is the Publisher listed as "Square/Enix"? I assume this is an error. At the time this game was developed and published, "Square/Enix" did not exist. The company that published this game was simply Enix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.134.41.209 (talk) 21:05, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Design
This section points out that Star Ocean: The Last Hope was the first game to show unique weapon graphics, but each weapon appeared on the character model in SO3. 24-Apr-2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.94.174.5 (talk) 16:53, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Any references on the Star Ocean series?
I cannot find anything related to the series, and I would love to improve this article. Does anyone know of any, or can help identify some? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 03:09, 24 May 2020 (UTC)


 * https://archive.org/details/GDCVault-STAR-OCEAN-4-Flexible-Shader (tri-Ace game engine history)
 * https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2017/03/31/20170331-so3/ (20th anniversary interview)
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20230117025958/http://sisilala.tv/myarticles/258 (General Star Ocean series interview)
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20230117030108/http://sisilala.tv/myarticles/181 (Interview with Yoshinori Yamagishi)
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20220630163930/http://sisilala.tv/myarticles/184 (Interview with Yoshinori Yamagishi)
 * https://news.line.me/detail/oa-4Gamer/aacf0143a017 (Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean cafe)