Official Thread:

Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Tri-Ace

EB/Gamestop Pre-order bonus:

Pre-order Infinite Undiscovery and receive a limited foil print plus a code to unlock your choice of five different in-game items which will affect your characters’ growth and abilities. While supplies last.

Pertinent Links:

http://www.infiniteundiscovery.com/ - Official US site
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/undiscovery/ - Official JPN site
http://blog.square-enix.com/undiscovery/ - Official Blog of the game

Newest Reviews:
IGN - 7.1/10 (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/902/902768p1.html)
Gamesradar - 7/10
Gamepro - 3/5
1up - B (http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3169677&p=4)
Gameinformer - 8/10 (http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/944B7C03-65C5-4066-AE4E-B71F7CE7CAE9.htm?CS_pid=200512)

Boxart:(taken from slaughters post)

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb181/Genma_Gouki/IMGP0212.jpg

Trailers and Movies:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34278.html HD
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_7062_en.html First 10 minutes

INFINITE UNDISCOVERY? Is that what they are going to name it for the US? Odd name.. anyways, the more rpg's the better even if it is a jrpg ;)

Looks interesting, there are a number of RPGs coming this year that I want to play and this one is on the list.

At this point, I'll take an RPG I can get.

Lost Odyssey is doing a lot to turn me back on to JRPGs. Hopefully this one is as good or better. God knows how many discs it is going to be :)

That is a dangerous release date; two weeks after TOO HUMAN and two weeks before THE FORCE UNLEASHED. It'll be interesting to see how out plays out for them...

I've been looking forward to this since it was first announced. I'm a bit worried about the battle system, though.

I saw the trailer for this and am really excited for it.

I suspect most serious Japanese role-playing gamers would be better served by playing Lost Odyssey than this title if they haven't already. tri-Ace tends to make their games too action-oriented for my tastes, resulting in extremely chaotic play and difficult-to-control combat. As a result, I was not a fan of the Star Ocean games at all.

I suspect most serious Japanese role-playing gamers would be better served by playing Lost Odyssey than this title if they haven't already. tri-Ace tends to make their games too action-oriented for my tastes, resulting in extremely chaotic play and difficult-to-control combat. As a result, I was not a fan of the Star Ocean games at all.

Exactly my thoughts (3 posts up). However, with the complete lack of JRPGs on this generation's consoles, I'd imagine that most fans of the genre have already played "Lost Odyssey." I was really hoping that the PS3 would offer as many RPGs as its predecessors had during their runs, but it's been a complete let down so far (hopefully that will change).

I'm still looking forward to this game and hoping for the best, but I doubt that I'm going to enjoy the combat system.

That is a dangerous release date; two weeks after TOO HUMAN and two weeks before THE FORCE UNLEASHED. It'll be interesting to see how out plays out for them...

I think all three titles are going to disappoint...

[edit] - Okay, after the demo of Force Unleashed I admit it's looking like it will be a fantastic game. I was right about Too Human though!

Yeah this game is beautiful, one of my most anticipated this year!

What's with the PS2-quality textures these days?

Well, you see, Japanese developers have been developing on the PS2 for so long that they're convinced that this is really all that's possible...

I hope that's just sarcasm. :(

Consoles are well beyond the days of PS2 and can potentially deliver visuals that are on par with modern PC games. Why do the devs skimp? is it really that much more work to make high-rez textures?

Might check it out after I finish Lost Odyssey (about 72 hours in, and still some side quests + DLC waiting)

Might check it out after I finish Lost Odyssey (about 72 hours in, and still some side quests + DLC waiting)
How is lost odyssey? that game anygood?

Yes. As was mentioned above, Lost Odyssey is probably a good bit better than Infinite Undiscovery is going to be (if that makes any sense). As long as you don't have a problem with turn-based combat (or even prefer it), it's fantastic.

... And now the IGN review does indeed reveal that Infinite Undiscovery is somewhat lackluster, as predicted. Not terrible, but certainly not great. Personally, I just don't enjoy tri-Ace's game designs. It's like the real-time combat system from the Tales series of games taken to and well beyond its logical extreme, where everything is just massive button mashing and "find the boss' weakness before you die".

... And now the IGN review does indeed reveal that Infinite Undiscovery is somewhat lackluster, as predicted. Not terrible, but certainly not great. Personally, I just don't enjoy tri-Ace's game designs. It's like the real-time combat system from the Tales series of games taken to and well beyond its logical extreme, where everything is just massive button mashing and "find the boss' weakness before you die".

Disappointing first review. I'll wait until more reviews come out before deciding if it's worth trying out, though. If I had listened to some of the early critics' reviews of Lost Odyssey, I would've missed out on one of the great RPGs of the past several years. The user scores are tracking a little bit higher, too, and I tend to weigh those equally if not more when it comes to a game's playability.

I've usually been impressed with tri-Ace's offerings, although I agree that their implementation of a real-time combat system doesn't appeal to me as much as those in other RPGs.

Actually after reading the review there was not much negative in it to me. He used both compelling and intriguing when talking about the story (yes I did take them slightly out of context but it seems he found something compelling and intriguing and not boreing)and his first paragraph ends as follows "Infinite Undiscovery, while enjoyable, is nothing special."

Well, OK then, so it's not a "special" RPG...its not the greatest...are all games supposed to be? If it can be just an "enjoyable" game to me for 35-40 hours then thats all I really need it to be.

I think that game review sites just don't "get" most JRPGs. :(

If it isn't Western in origin, it just can't be good in their eyes.....

The question is... Have you played the Star Ocean games?

If I had to guess, I would guess that this game will have a lot in common with them. In particular, the lack of any real control over your fellow party members, coupled with the frantic real-time combat. I tried playing Star Ocean: 'Till the End of Time on the PS2 and eventually gave up due to some serious problems with encounter balancing, party members doing silly things and getting killed in combat, and the nonsensical "inventing" system required to get most of the better equipment.

So anyone else pick this up today?

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb181/Genma_Gouki/IMGP0212.jpg

Best Buy LE foil cover on the left, GS (and Amazon) preorder foil print with DLC code.

I'll post some impressions later...

No! I might buy it tonight. I'm looking forward to playing it.

My pre-order is in and I'm picking it up after work and playing it.

Will post impressions tomorrow. Updated first post for more of an official thread feel.

I picked this up today but I am 20 hours in Tales of Vesperia so I guess I should finish that, plus I picked up Mercenaries and my boss is awaiting my impressions on that. AND I turned off the Tenn\UCLA game last night after the interception at halftime, but luckily I DVRd it + 1 hour so I have to watch that now and see how this supposed "great game" played itself out...because UCLA QB looked like crp in the first half. So much to do, so little time.

I'm not far enough in for a detailed impression you need to get past the first 1 and half hours of the beginning of the game which I just passed.

So far the music is great, the VA is ok. It has some weird thing were some of the cut-scenes aren't voiced and it doesn't say who is talking. Those are few and don't last long. There is some slowdown in the battles with a lot of creatures and party members on screen. The kids aren't as bad as other kids in JRPG's.

is it really that much more work to make high-rez textures?

Is that a serious question? Of course it is.

I picked this up today but I am 20 hours in Tales of Vesperia so I guess I should finish that, plus I picked up Mercenaries and my boss is awaiting my impressions on that. AND I turned off the Tenn\UCLA game last night after the interception at halftime, but luckily I DVRd it + 1 hour so I have to watch that now and see how this supposed "great game" played itself out...because UCLA QB looked like crp in the first half. So much to do, so little time.

LOL. Tennessee fan?

I did a mini review in here for everyone. 7/10

Is that a serious question? Of course it is.



LOL. Tennessee fan?
Nope. Not really a fan of either team but I guess I was rooting for UCLA since they were the underdog. But it really looked like UCLA QB was overmatched so I assumed Tenn would run up the score in the second half.... guess not. It was a great game.,......unless your a kicker.

So I beat the first disc a few hours ago. It was fairly short, took me less than 9 hours, I'm guessing the majority of the game is on the second disc. Anyway right now the game is a bit disappointing to me, it just feels incomplete. I don't know why SE would rush it considering the time of year it is, but it really wouldn't have benefit from more development time.

Also I feel this game would have worked better as an online game. It's cool having several different parties all fighting at once, but you have so little control over everyone else it just makes you long for more.

Anyway here's hoping the next half is better...