Well Star Ocean games are meant to have a sci-fi feel to them so it would make sense for them to take place in the future and didn't Claude's "light sword" malfunction because of damage?
The question though, for you is, would you want to use those futuristic weapons which would most likely be some form of a gun - then the games would become similar to Resonance of Fate which was made by the same people.
They won't start it off any different because, as of now Star Ocean: The Last Hope was the last game in the Star Ocean series. It sucks because I would have like to have seen what happens after Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.
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