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"Why didn't Skies sell well? :("

I've just completed it and my god what a game, you may remember me moaning about the random battles they are annoying but get past that and you have SUCH a bloody gem of a game I LOVED IT.
It stands alongside Final Fantasy 7 and Zelda in my ALL TIME favourite games,to think I actually sold it the first time I bought it and decided recently to buy it again second hand off ebay to see if I can tolerate it better!
Anyway as I've said I've been reading how this game hasn't sold so well because it's "unknown" unlike the Final Fantasy series and what a DAMN shame cos the likelihood of a sequel is slim because it didn't sell so well :(
Crap seems part of the overworks team is in the Sonic team producing other games.. DAMN YOU SEGA DAMN YOU.

I say anyone that hasnt got it goes out and gets it now! As soon as it shifts of the shelves again, SEGA might just say "well hey look at that! SOUL just made us a fair bit of money, its sequal time guys..."

Easily one of the best games ive ever played. The story was incredible and just kept me playing till the end. There were so many great lands, side quests and dungeons. A truly magical game if ever there was one...

Darwock wrote:
> Possibly cos it was a rehash of a game that had already been released
> years before? Why buy the same thing twice? Especially when the music
> has been screwed up completely.

Well there's probably a ton of people who didn't buy it first time round it would appeal to.

And yeh, the music isn't as good as the original, but it's not a reason to not buy the game.

Rickoss wrote:
> In every respect other than technically, the visuals are mind blowing.
> If that makes sense.

No it doesn't, the visuals were quite good when it was a Dreamcast game, but they haven't moved on at all for the GC version... and that looks badly dated now. Like PS one and a half graphics.

Possibly cos it was a rehash of a game that had already been released years before? Why buy the same thing twice? Especially when the music has been screwed up completely.

Whitestripes DX wrote:
> Player incompetance.

The game should have had it covered.

My copy is still sealed.

I bought it in january.

In every respect other than technically, the visuals are mind blowing. If that makes sense.

I really should go back and try to complete it 100%.

Skies is a massive RPG that I just don't have time to play.

If a game is very long it has to keep me gripped for the full 20-30-40-50 etc... hours...

Zelda is the only long game that has managed to do that.

Skies failed.

The random battles are pretty infrequent for an RPG anyways - and when you get a White Map you're laughing. As for the graphics - Skies has the most expressive characters in any game ever, so is instantly >

Probably the only game when totally 100%-ing it didn't seem like a chore - not even a little bit. Too good.

Rickoss wrote:
> Skies of Arcadia > *