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Blue Dragon (Xbox360) |OT|
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tambourine
Banned
This game looks all kinds of awesome! I'm dreaming of playing it every day! 
nelsonroyale
Member
p3tran said:
for an rpg? I seriously doubt it will...famitsu is alway generous towards rpgs and theyve hardly been overly critical of 360 games compared to other platforms... I mean ffxii got full marks from famitsu, and the grades were often slightly lower elsewhere....
peace
=GabrielKnight=
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I just hope my 360 will last long enough to finish this game °_°
DarknessTear
Banned
I have the Eternity single.. Ian Gillian's singing isn't so great. It sounds really.. non-english and weird. Maybe it was the lyrics he was given?
Thunderbear
Mawio Gawaxy iz da Wheeson hee pways games
Can't wait for this game... I hope they don't take too long to bring it to America. I hate having to wait for FF's for 10+ months. Me and a friend played through FF8 import with a printed translation in hand hehe, not sure if I am that "hardcore" anymore.
I have to say the game looks so much better in motion than it does in stills. It looks fine in stills, but in motion it looks beautiful.
I have to say the game looks so much better in motion than it does in stills. It looks fine in stills, but in motion it looks beautiful.
tambourine
Banned
DarknessTear said:
Yeah, I'd agree with the latter. The lyrics sound weirdly Japanese as in an anime opening theme song, as if a Japanese native who's got english for a second language authored them.
DarknessTear
Banned
duckroll said:
Yeah.
duckroll said:
Eternity was translated into English by Alexander O Smith though.
DarknessTear
Banned
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=GabrielKnight= said:I hope the world map is fully explorable, even if it's in inferior scale compared to DQVIII.
Aniway, this is really a test for Microsoft... if it fails, even with such a game, then they can leave Japan and concentrate on western markets.
I'm really curious to see how many consoles they will be able to sell when it comes out
I don't think they should ever leave Japan outright. They're close to ~200k now, right?? and will possibly move another ~100k when this game releases along with DOAX2, so really, they should try to carve that niche out as best as they can. Get to that 1 million installed base of hardcore gamers and they may be able to survive over there. I still think they should re-brand the 360 with a known publisher's name, like Capcom or something, to help move more units.
tambourine
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DarknessTear said:
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Sean*O said:
since Microsoft were the financial backers for the founding of Mistwalker studios, I think its likely that Mistwalker will fulfil its contractual obligations and say 'cheers for the money MS' - then see what Sony and Nintendo have as incentives to go to their platforms too.
DarknessTear
Banned
Hmmm, it appears Sakaguchi did the lyrics for EVERY lyrical song.
DarknessTear
Banned
duckroll said:
I haven't really paid much attention.
Argh, I want this game. By the time I get a HDTV, a 360 and can get the game.. I wonder if it will be old news? Hate it when that happens!
I just listened to Ayako Kawasumi's song for Blue Dragon, and I can't state enough how her voice should never ever be the most important part of a song. For Mahoromatic at least she had the music behind that helped a lot, but just her with a guitar is a bad bad bad bad idea.
I'm a big fan of her voice work, but when she tries to sing it's like they are dozens of cats in heat mixed with nails-on-chalkboard sound.
I'm a big fan of her voice work, but when she tries to sing it's like they are dozens of cats in heat mixed with nails-on-chalkboard sound.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
p3tran said:
I doubt it. It's going to get demerits for being a Been-There-Done-That RPG and I'm sure there are wags that will take off points for it being on multiple discs in this Blu-Rayge. I predict scores betwixt 8 and 9, Viva Pinata style. Considering how much that game owns, that's fine by me.
Wow. The Blue Dragon Ral Grado manga is really damn good! While early 2ch scans would have you believe that it's a pervy shounen manga, it's actually a pretty solid first chapter of a dark fantasy manga.
The story is set in a fantasy kingdom which has imprisoned a boy named Ral inside a shell for 15 years since his birth because when he was a baby a dragon shadow manifested and he was considered a threat. All his life the only two people he has known is his Dragon shadow Grado and the woman who visits his cell from time to time, Mio.
Now 15 years later the kingdom is under attack by monsters and they feel it is time to let him out as a final solution. The first thing he does is to kill the man whom he knows as his father. Apparently while he considers himself a child who knows nothing of the ways of the world, he believes the Dragon knows all, and they decide things together.
After his savage attack, Mio calms him down and promises to teach him what he needs to know to survive in the world, but they have a problem and need his help. He takes on the monsters attacking the city, and saves the day, earning his safety in the castle. While Mio looks after him in his sleep, the Dragon continues talking with him in his thoughts.....
The art is really good, as expected of Obata, and dark fantasy shounen action is a refreshing change from the usual stuff in Jump. This could turn out to be a really good manga, depending on where it goes in the future.
The story is set in a fantasy kingdom which has imprisoned a boy named Ral inside a shell for 15 years since his birth because when he was a baby a dragon shadow manifested and he was considered a threat. All his life the only two people he has known is his Dragon shadow Grado and the woman who visits his cell from time to time, Mio.
Now 15 years later the kingdom is under attack by monsters and they feel it is time to let him out as a final solution. The first thing he does is to kill the man whom he knows as his father. Apparently while he considers himself a child who knows nothing of the ways of the world, he believes the Dragon knows all, and they decide things together.
After his savage attack, Mio calms him down and promises to teach him what he needs to know to survive in the world, but they have a problem and need his help. He takes on the monsters attacking the city, and saves the day, earning his safety in the castle. While Mio looks after him in his sleep, the Dragon continues talking with him in his thoughts.....
The art is really good, as expected of Obata, and dark fantasy shounen action is a refreshing change from the usual stuff in Jump. This could turn out to be a really good manga, depending on where it goes in the future.
nelsonroyale
Member
duckroll said:
interest piqued...
peace
Blimblim said:
Yeah, but at the moment he's most famous for the recently completed Death Note, since the second live action movie is running in Japan now and the anime series is running on TV now. Ral Grado shares many design similarities with his more gothic Death Note designs, but he has MUCH more liberty here since its a pure fantasy manga. There's some pretty cool stuff.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Is any of this stuff related to the game or is this like some Tenchi Muyo type stuff where everything is basically its own thing?
BenjaminBirdie said:
Some people have suggested this might be a prequel. In a way this is it's own thing, as far as characters and story are concerned. It might very well be set in the same world at a different time. The first chapter has a pretty interesting explaination for the shadows and how they take on a life of their own. It's a part of the mythos of the world that exists in the game as well. The suggestion that this is a prequel comes from the fact that the game's story revolves around the re-emergence of technology and stuff from an ancient civilization 100,000 years before. It's way too early to tell if Ral Grado is a prequel, or simply set in a different location from the game, or whatever.
Loved HikaGo (until the unfortunate and abrupt end) and Death Note is one of the few manga I've bothered to read in awhile (sooooo out of the loop now), so I look forward to Blue Dragon. Mostly though, I just want to play the damn game! Probably be another year till we get here in the States I imagine.
Wow, the art is indeed excellent, Obata didn't do a half assed job with these.duckroll said:
A Blue Dragon sequel using this art style would be most interesting, but that won't happen of course.
Nah, last I heard it was still planned for the first semester in the US. Nothing official of course.Meier said:Loved HikaGo (until the unfortunate and abrupt end) and Death Note is one of the few manga I've bothered to read in awhile (sooooo out of the loop now), so I look forward to Blue Dragon. Mostly though, I just want to play the damn game! Probably be another year till we get here in the States I imagine.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Blimblim said:
Maybe a Blue Dragon fighter, tho!
I hope they end up translating this stuff and releasing it over here.
And Meier, I doubt it will take a year for this to get to the US. It had better not...
Junpei Heat
Junior Member
Dammit! Duckroll beat me to it :lol
I suppose later he'll get haircut and that dragon isnt very friendly looking...
I suppose later he'll get haircut and that dragon isnt very friendly looking...
Junpei Heat said:
I doubt he'll get a haircut, this is an Obata manga after all. :lol
Yeah, I think the Dragon isn't "good" either. The entire backstory about the World of Darkness and the nature of shadows, monsters and gods is definitely going to play a part in the story. While Grado is definitely looking out for Ral as they're still one body right now, I wonder what Grado's objectives are in the long run....
BenjaminBirdie said:
Yeah, I hate to say it but aside from Toastyfrog (of all people), the majority of the American press wouldn't know a good RPG if it bit them in the ass (case in point: all the low BK2 scores and all the high Fable scores).