PS3 owners will be pleased to know that today’s video game deal of the day over at Amazon is just for you – it’s Star Ocean: The Last Hope International! The normally $59.99 game is 50% off today (August 11, 2010), so you can get it for $29.99. This means it also qualifies for free Super Saver shipping…

Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the latest installation to the Star Ocean franchise and serves as the prequel to the entire series of games released so far. Players are thrust into a not so distant future where the planet Earth we know and love is no longer able to sustain life on its surface thanks to the mass destruction resulting from World War III. Earthlings now have no other choice but to rely on the ambitions of the Space Reconnaissance Force and must abandon their beloved blue planet for the great star ocean in search of another terrain capable of sustaining life.

The stars in the sky beckon once again for a worthy adventurer to delve into its great abyss in Star Ocean: Second Evolution (SOSE) where a young ensign mistaken for a hero of legend and an orphaned girl blessed with the power of healing find themselves bound together in a great excursion filled with discovery and deceit.

This is the second game in the Star Ocean universe following Star Ocean (PS)/Star Ocean: First Departure (Sony PSP) and, unlike its predecessor, players have the option to experience the game through the point of view of two different characters: Claude or Rena. While the overall storyline remains the same for each, whom you choose to experience this adventure with determines which characters you can recruit later on as well as different dialogue during events…

Amazon is doing a great job of turning me into an every day lurker because it just keeps surprising me with its unbelievable deals on video games. In what I assume is an ode to Cyber Monday, Amazon is currently offering some great role-playing games (including brand new releases and pre-roders) at rock-bottom prices. This means that in addition to taking advantage of these thrifty sales tags, shoppers will also save on sales tax and receive free shipping so long as the order totals $25 or more.

It’s hard to say how long these prices will stay up, so you had better act fast and take advantage of these bargain bin finds. It looks like RPG fans will be able to stuff themselves full of something else besides just turkey this holiday season…

Square-Enix has announced that Star Ocen: Second Evolution for the PSP will be launching January 20, 2009, instead of the previous projected date of January 6, 2009.

Evolution takes time, people. I’m not sure on the specifics but I think it took us some 10,000 years or so to grow thumbs so pushing a game back two weeks isn’t that big a deal. Plus, it’s not like there is a shortage of RPG’s to play until then and that pile of games you promised yourself you are going to get to is still weeping for…

The release date for the next new Star Ocean game has been revealed by Square Enix. Japanese fans get Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope on February 19, 2009, and North American fans will be able to pick it up a few weeks later on March 3, 2009. This action is indicative of Square Enix’s desire for shorter time spans between release dates, with the ultimate goal being simultaneous releases for games…

The PlayStation 2 may be the role-playing game (RPG) giant today, but it wasn’t always so. Back in the early 1990s the Super Nintendo, aka the Super Famicom, was undoubtedly the place to go for a large variety of solid RPGs. It featured great games like Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire, Lufia, Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG and Ultima. That may seem like a long list, but there were even more great RPGs which didn’t make it stateside.

At this point, it is possibly pointless to look for some of these old classics. They might occasionally pop up on eBay, but its not worth selling a kidney or lung to buy them. There are shady ways of acquiring these titles, but that isn’t recommended as it is illegal.

Today Important Importables honors Live A Live, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu, Star Ocean and Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Another Story.