Star Ocean 4 is a prequel, plus more game details

Why is there no edit button? Curses!!!! I meant, "canonically, its a prequel."

Edge Maverick, what a stupid name. I'm sure someday we'll get a guy called Sword Sharp or some shit like that.

Is Tri-Ace making this? They've been on a roll of shit as of late, Radiata Stories, VP2, Star Ocean 3, all where mediocre or flat-out terrible.

Guess I'll wait for more info on this.

Ugh, DO NOT WANT. Star Ocean 3 was an abortion thanks to Square's involvement. I hold no hope for this sequel. It's such a fucking shame, too. Star Ocean 2nd Story is absolutely one of my all-time favorite RPGs, and they had to go introduce shitty plot threads and Final Fantasy-esque character design, and shit it all up to hell.

Oh boy, I can't wait for the 'we're actually inside a video game' moment in Star Ocean 4.

Star Ocean 3's gameplay was alright
(though the lack of a way to abort an attack once you've initiated it was a painful lacking. Watching a player run all the way across the map and attack an enemy 15 seconds after you pressed the attack button, during which the enemy auto-targeted has began an area of effect attack around it that does a few thousand damage to anyone nearby, and the stupid multiplier meter that requires you play as the magic user and hide in the corner (where you can't see what's going on unless you pause the battle with the switch character menu to look around because there's no good option to have the camera pulled back to show the whole field...), but the story, good LORD the story! They essentially said "The entire Star Ocean universe and setting was bullshit and is now invalidated, go play a Square IP lol". From the end of the first disc on was just PAINFUL- especially since at that point the game devolved to an endless boring dungeon crawler with increasingly retarded plot developments in between. The only reason I beat it was because I was expecting a MGS2 style reverse plot twist at the end or something. The "real" was insanely fake looking and blah compared to the original one, so what the fuck.
@Kia:
The only difference is the Star Ocean characters wear more clothes. Maybe it's just a result of similar "Anime inspired art style brought to a similar level of detail in 3d" engine, but still.

So...why didn't they call it Star Ocean 0?

After the retarded ending to SO3, what else could they do? XD

That video kinda makes me want to buy a psp.