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Xenoblade Chronicles X "Direct" on Feb. 6 [info in OP]
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RPGCrazied
Member
(I love youtube's little gif creator thingy, it's gotten a lot better)
Those look so fun to fight. I was laughing at that level 55 rock thingy chasing the party. lol
DaSorcerer7
Member
Yeah, that looks spectacular.
kuroneko0509
Member
EDIT: woops bundle artbook
timetokill
Banned
This game looks absolutely massive.
I usually shy away from 3000 hour RPGs but I'm gonna make an exception for Xenoblade.
I usually shy away from 3000 hour RPGs but I'm gonna make an exception for Xenoblade.
The locations in this game are too hype
I would rather have a road trip in this game.
RPGCrazied
Member
For european ears the voices of US english localizations sounds almost the same
I'm European and I love both US and UK English^^ It's the style of acting and women sounding like 4-year-olds in a lot of Japanese VA that I personally can't stand anymore.
It's more about bad voice over direction, not the language itself. I've been a huge Anime fan, always insisting on listening to the original VA, but my tastes have changed dramatically in the last few years.
Well, it's just a matter of preferences, anyway. If there is English audio I will just use that.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Can anyone gif the part with the mech flying through a dense part of a forest, and navigating it and it looks so goooooooddd
hurricanes
Member
Hate the vocal part of those songs, and (very likely) nonsense titles. I want my ACE+ and Shimomura Yoko back. Sigh...
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Nice!
DragonSworne
Banned
Expand this studio ASAP!
We need more projects from these guys. Hopefully they can retrun to the Baten Kaitos universe.
We need more projects from these guys. Hopefully they can retrun to the Baten Kaitos universe.
Stilton Disco
Member
So damned conflicted on this game.
Firstly, the good:
Fuck me but those environments are just gorgeous! Amazingly colourful, beautiful richly detailed, overwhelmingly grand scaled, full of life and life forms, and just hands down some of the best open world landscapes I've ever seen.
The creature, tech and mech designs are similarly fantastic looking, and I desperately want to bomb around in one of those transformer mechs.
On the other hand there's the bad:
The character animations are terrible. Even just moving through the environments, they look like lifeless animatronics superimposed over background. Their movements bare no relationship to the speed or ground they're travelling, the swimming looked like utter dog shit in particular.
The combat too, looks weightless, and unrealistic, more like a pair of mimes staging a fight, rather than an actual coming to blows.
Lastly, those huge areas, as grand as they are, greatly concern me. Just how much to do in those massive expanses is there? Because in terms of game progression and interactivity, they seemed almost completely empty, all style over substance, and potential boring to have to traverse once the spectacle and novelty has worn off.
On the opposite end of the scale, there's those menus. That's a fuck ton of info and apparently items there, and I seriously worry about bloat because of it. Depth and too much ether than too little content is always better, but there are limits, and I so not have as much free time for excesses in games as I used to.
Finally, the ugly:
Those character designs are just fuck ugly. It looks like the creepy malformed puppets from that Lazy Town show. I've just never seen a game with such hideous characters before, in the 30 years I've been around games.
Overall, I'm still giddy with excitement, but I'm also kind of disappointed this isn't looking better beyond the landscape eye candy.
Firstly, the good:
Fuck me but those environments are just gorgeous! Amazingly colourful, beautiful richly detailed, overwhelmingly grand scaled, full of life and life forms, and just hands down some of the best open world landscapes I've ever seen.
The creature, tech and mech designs are similarly fantastic looking, and I desperately want to bomb around in one of those transformer mechs.
On the other hand there's the bad:
The character animations are terrible. Even just moving through the environments, they look like lifeless animatronics superimposed over background. Their movements bare no relationship to the speed or ground they're travelling, the swimming looked like utter dog shit in particular.
The combat too, looks weightless, and unrealistic, more like a pair of mimes staging a fight, rather than an actual coming to blows.
Lastly, those huge areas, as grand as they are, greatly concern me. Just how much to do in those massive expanses is there? Because in terms of game progression and interactivity, they seemed almost completely empty, all style over substance, and potential boring to have to traverse once the spectacle and novelty has worn off.
On the opposite end of the scale, there's those menus. That's a fuck ton of info and apparently items there, and I seriously worry about bloat because of it. Depth and too much ether than too little content is always better, but there are limits, and I so not have as much free time for excesses in games as I used to.
Finally, the ugly:
Those character designs are just fuck ugly. It looks like the creepy malformed puppets from that Lazy Town show. I've just never seen a game with such hideous characters before, in the 30 years I've been around games.
Overall, I'm still giddy with excitement, but I'm also kind of disappointed this isn't looking better beyond the landscape eye candy.
PAL will get a artbook, a statue of one of the mechs, a $50 eShop card, and a hand written note from Takahashi while us amerifats will be lucky to get a physical copy
I've uploaded the presentation to multiple hosts. Click on the image to download.
Thanks pal for uploading the video.
Always-honest
Banned
Yeah i agree about the charcaters' faces. Dajum
. But otherwise i seems like an interesting game.Captain Smoker
Member
haven't watch this, don't know if I should, I don't wan't to spoiler me even more. ;___;
omgomgomgomgomgomgomg
I'm just playing again through Xenoblade so seeing all this feels so familiar yet so way above. The scale, the monsters, the mech play, everything seems so much better. I have a tremendous good feeling after watching this.
And as far as the characters go the only one I dislike is Lin and I really like Elma (I hope the English voice will sound as nice as the Japanese one). I also like the other characters and I'm sure I can create a nice character to play with.
If I would know a bit of Japanese I would have ordered that special bundle immediately.
And as far as the characters go the only one I dislike is Lin and I really like Elma (I hope the English voice will sound as nice as the Japanese one). I also like the other characters and I'm sure I can create a nice character to play with.
If I would know a bit of Japanese I would have ordered that special bundle immediately.
kuroneko0509
Member
Ok if you don't care about Sawano
THIS
Yeah. I don't care about Sawano and the music didn't bother me.
My Wii U would've been busted before I can finish that game if that's the case
No need to worry
Dragon Quest X reach 9000 hours last week
Wii U is very strong machine.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
the soundtrack sounds excellent.
And mediocre if you don't know Sawano. It seems ok, but that snippet at the end playing the music from the original Xenoblade was a clear, immediate improvement.
Nah, if you have the time, it's great. I'm not knocking the game, but more bemoaning the amount of time I'll actually have to play it...and that I won't really be able to play it "properly." A game like this requires at least 2-3 hour sessions to feel meaningful.
I'm with you in that "family drama"
But, the solution is easy: every small piece of spare time will be dedicated to this game, that will probably last at least 6 months in my Wii U.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I marathoned The Last Story when I was on my paternity leave with our first child, and that game was basically the perfect RPG for someone in my situation. Great length, not overly complex menus, a focus on action, and still a pretty immersive experience.
nelsonroyale
Member
I am playing Dragon Age Inquisition on PS4 right now and the game looks very nice visually.
This impresses me so much more...god damn...we need more of this type of JRPG. I am hotly anticipating FFXV, but I kind of wish they went this route of creative release...I want to play this.
This impresses me so much more...god damn...we need more of this type of JRPG. I am hotly anticipating FFXV, but I kind of wish they went this route of creative release...I want to play this.
HeisenbergLannister
Member
Sanctuary
Member
Game looks great, but I don't think I'll ever be able to get over the white haired character looking like she's a Barbie made of plastic...
Or screw it, she actually almost looks like a gelfling from The Dark Crystal.
If there's one thing I cannot stand about the majority of animes, it's when they don't have a cohesive aesthetic, where the main characters look like they are from another planet compared to practically everyone else on the show. Same thing seems to be going on with this game. The main characters stick out, and not in a good way at all.
Or screw it, she actually almost looks like a gelfling from The Dark Crystal.
If there's one thing I cannot stand about the majority of animes, it's when they don't have a cohesive aesthetic, where the main characters look like they are from another planet compared to practically everyone else on the show. Same thing seems to be going on with this game. The main characters stick out, and not in a good way at all.
SatoAilDarko
Member
I honestly haven't watched any shows he was apart of (aside from a few episodes of Attack on Titan) and I enjoyed it. Mainly because the English sounds kind of hilariously awesome. Like I'm in an anime.
StreetsAhead
Member
Oh that looks fantastic. A nice expansion on the basic gameplay of Xenoblade.
So very excited for this game!!!
So very excited for this game!!!
My god....
