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Xenoblade Chronicles X - Nintendo Direct Footage 11.5.2014
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Tanaka bringing back classy character designs <3
Opinions and all that, but eh....Ehhhhhhhh...
Squall5042
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This game makes it so hard to be excited for games coming out much sooner 
god, I wish we had a solid release date.
god, I wish we had a solid release date.They need to do something about the standing animation though, it looks weird for them to be standing with their hands out like they are in the final shot of the characters.
The music is great and the game looks great but did they say something about the release date??
Interesting maybe for the west it'll be on Q3 or Q4?
Interesting maybe for the west it'll be on Q3 or Q4?
It helps that Takahashi is super strict with music, too. The Iwata Asks talking about Xenoblade's soundtrack was a great read...
theusedversion
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Does the first game also take place in LA? I always thought this game was your typical fantasy and didn't have locales like that urban area. That was incredibly off-putting for me. They don't seem to go together at all. Yuck.
New LA is the city crashlanded on the planet (you can see it in the first seconds of the trailer, the huge dome detaching from the spaceship and crashing on the surface). So it's obviously a modern city. But we know nothing else about the planet and its civilization.
Does the first game also take place in LA? I always thought this game was your typical fantasy and didn't have locales like that urban area. That was incredibly off-putting for me. They don't seem to go together at all. Yuck.
They don't because it's an Earth colony that crash-landed on an alien world...
Otakumegane
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I just really really really dislike Rin's armor emphasis of underboob.
Need a melia outfit switch pronto.
Need a melia outfit switch pronto.
I liked the Xenogears vibes of the old logo. I miss the red X!
Especially so when you take into account that the red X used to stand for Xenoblade X for a whole year.You are not the only one. The first xenoblade had it's positives. The music, the artstyle, the world design were all top notch. The characters were charming and the story was decent. The combat was initially very fresh but after 30hrs became very boring. It all came down to whether you were the right level for the enemy and then perform topple backstab attacks until everyone dies.
I hope they do something to make the combat more interesting because everything else looks stellar right now.
publicpwnerer
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This is the game that'll make me pull the trigger on a Wii U. We really need more Mecha games.
Yeah no pop in was the first thing I noticed, guess they really took the time to polish that out.
theusedversion
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Thanks. Hope it works out well because right now I'm not seeing it.
Edit: Btw, the rest looked amazing.
There are more (at least 2) going off the footage from February of this year, but I guess they didn't want to show them off again yet...
Does the first game also take place in LA? I always thought this game was your typical fantasy and didn't have locales like that urban area. That was incredibly off-putting for me. They don't seem to go together at all. Yuck.
The idea is Earth is uninhabitable so they literally build ships that transport parts of Earth but the ship containing LA crashes onto a remote planet.
So you get this:
Coupled with this:
HNNNNGH!
chaosblade
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Seems like polish has been the focus for a while now. The E3 build seemed very far along.
Hopefully that means this game doesn't have any Makna Forest-level pop-in. It got pretty disgusting there.
theusedversion
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If the design of the urban area was different, I bet I would be fine with it.
RPGCrazied
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Poor Wii couldn't handle all those trees. Thankfully the Wii U is a much more powerful system.
Space Medafighter X
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Opinions man, not everything a collection of people on GAF hypes about is what everyone is gonna love.
There are clearly alien species in the town footage, which may or may not have been on the ship when it crashed, not to mention the likelihood of others on said planet...
The map in this game will be 5 times bigger than Xenoblade.
The mechs (Dolls) are 5 times bigger than the player.
Fuck the scale in this game is INSANE.
Brian_FETO
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Man....I'm loving everything about this game, but I'm not sure about the combat. I've never really played anything with an auto-attack (I believe that's what it is?) and it's kind of putting me off. I'll probably pick it up and try it though, everything else is so perfect.
FUCK! Awesome
FUCK! Awesome
chaosblade
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Natives? We've seen Nopons and other alien races that might have already inhabited the planet which could have towns/villages of their own.
So you haven't played Xenoblade? Play that, this game looks like an improved/expanded version of that game's battle system.
If Xenoblade X still has a huge emphasis on story and isn't just "make a bunch of missions in cool environments" then I'm pretty sure that your party is going to discover some other civilisation that's already living on the planet sooner or later.
I love this pic
chaosblade
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That did kind of concern me. Iwata almost made it sound like a game built off the WORST part of Xenoblade - the sidequests.
New LA is probably the "home base" city like Colony 9 and later Colony 6. Makes the most sense. The game does look really good. Too bad about the music though. Hopefully there's a custom soundtrack option or something.
I don't think that was the intention - in interviews, they've mentioned that overhauling the sidequest system was a priority. This might just be putting focus on a major improvement to Xenoblade's formula, rather than a shift in direction for the game itself.
RPGCrazied
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Uninhabitable? More like it blew the fuck up! lol
Reminds me of that scene in Titan A.E.
Speaking of Makna Forest i can't wait to see the Makna Forest equivalent in XCX.
This is STUPENDOUS. Wow, I'm so excited for this game
Can someone clean this up? I'd love to have it as my wallpaper '-'
Pretty please
Edit: thanks ^^
Sawano indeed. We are for an epic soundtrack here guys
))))))))))))))))chaosblade
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All the songs we've heard so far sound fine to me. I don't get the Sawano hate, but I've also never heard any of his stuff prior to this since it's apparently all anime music. So maybe the soundtrack will be inconsistent or something?
MagiusNecros
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Uninhabitable? More like it blew the fuck up! lol
Now why did Samus Aran have to go and do that.
He's the musical version of a writer who lacks all subtlety and hammers the audience over the head with thematic points and reminding them what and how they should be feeling in every scene to the point of self-parody.
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