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Blue Dragon (new?) scans
- Thread starter kallisto76
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New images (both realtime)
And new video:
http://dl-bluedragon.durasite.net/bd_movie8_hd.wmv or from my site. "Interesting" choice of music.
reriel: the video you linked before was the first one released during TGS IIRC (edit: october 5)
And new video:
http://dl-bluedragon.durasite.net/bd_movie8_hd.wmv or from my site. "Interesting" choice of music.
reriel: the video you linked before was the first one released during TGS IIRC (edit: october 5)
kallisto76
Member
really good! thanks blim! 
neo2046
Member
posted?
http://dl-bluedragon.durasite.net/bd_movie8_vga.wmv
:lol :lol
(for those who doesn't know, he is Akira Toriyama)
http://dl-bluedragon.durasite.net/bd_movie8_vga.wmv
:lol :lol
(for those who doesn't know, he is Akira Toriyama)
Russian Steve
Member
*Sigh*
Now I'm starting to get excited for this game. :lol
Now I'm starting to get excited for this game. :lol
laceystorm
Member
wow. i can't wait to see more.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
If this turns out well, I hope Artoon just becomes an RPG factory.
FateBreaker
Member
Kunai said:
that is beautiful.
looks like two discs, can anyone confirm how many tracks?
FateBreaker said:
From CDjapan:
Right now SME is only listing one song!:lol
http://www.sonymusicshop.jp/detail.asp?goods=SVWC000007428
New scans from Famitsu, thanks to neo!
Two more pages, but text only:
http://images.xboxyde.com/gallery/public/4619/748_0002.jpg
http://images.xboxyde.com/gallery/public/4619/748_0003.jpg
Two more pages, but text only:
http://images.xboxyde.com/gallery/public/4619/748_0002.jpg
http://images.xboxyde.com/gallery/public/4619/748_0003.jpg
kallisto76
Member
wonderful scan!! thanks blim, this game is one of my most wanted! i hope there will be an official date for the pal versione soon!!
Mr. Pointy
Member
Every time I see screens of Blue Dragon, I can't help but want the hero's level to go over 9000.
Kunai said:
Thats awesome. Man i hope this game is good....and acessible, i'm sick of Hard as **** Keep llevelling up till you fall out RPGs :/
FFXII kinda was the last stroke for me. And this is really a design matter that should bear some discussion, from what i gather, specially JRPGs are designed around the fact that each battle is like a chess game and you have to outsmart the enemy, you have to think your attacks, so shit it should let you just play without having to spend an hour before a boss just fighting to level up. Take FFXII, i would kill most of the enemies that were in the each area, and it still wouldn't be enough when i got to the bosses, and shit i would spend an hour with the boss before coming to the conclusion that i couldn't beat the damm bitch because i just didn't have the attack power or the life to beat him.
And that kind of game design just, doesn't appeal to me at all anymore, shit i actually pondered the option of buying ****ing action replay to go through the damm game, but my cheapness didn't let me.
Duckroll finally found the V-Jump videos and I uploaded them to xboxyde. Nothing really interesting unfortunately.
http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3825_en.html
http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3825_en.html
Yes master!reriel said:
http://dl-bluedragon.durasite.net/bd_movie9_hd.wmv
Edit: Looks like the HD version isn't complete, so...
http://dl-bluedragon.durasite.net/bd_movie9_xga.wmv
some gameplay info from gamefaqs poster (based on a play session at tgs and last sakaguchi's interview translation):
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* As we have seen from movies, you can see the enemies on the map before battle starts. If you can walk into them from behind rather than the front you get a back attack, which starts you with an advantage (two of the achievements are related to this as well.)
* However, that isn't all. It also seems that you will be able to paralyize and cause other status effects to enemies before going into battle.
* Furthermore (I saw this in the demo too) one of the options when walking around is "Fight All." A circle expands out from around your character and you can fight all of the groups of monsters within it at once.
* The trick with "Fight All" is that some monsters don't like other monsters. If you get two groups that don't like each other in the same battle, they may start fighting each other rather than you. One of the achievements is "Start 100 Monster Fights," you may have noticed, as well as one to fight 10 or more groups at once and beat them all!
* Exactly how powering up Shadows works is unclear right now, no status screen availible in the demo, but it seems they have a variety of categories that you can power up. One of these is "Barrier." A barrier called the "Bari- Barrier" allows you to automatically defeat enemies on the map without having to go into battle with them, if they are a certain number of levels lower than you are. This should cut down on pointless random battling (see Mother 2). You also still recieve points needed to powerup your Shadows from killing enemies like this.
* The main feature that made the battle system at TGS unique was the ability to charge moves. When you select certain attacks a bar appears with where each of the other characters in battle (both ally and enemy) will move marked on it. But holding down the button you can charge the attack up, increasing its damage but pushing the point at which the attack will activate beyond other characters turns. So the attack comes out later but is more powerful. In the footage I saw of someone else playing the demo this bar appears on the screen a few times when they select an attack, but they don't seem to know how to use it and never charge it up.
* No game in the next generation has depeicted drama to this extent.
* One goal that couldn't be achieved until now was to totally realize the world of Toriyama.
* Playtime is stated at being 40 ~ 50 hours. Sakaguchi says that going directly through the game still takes him 35 hours.
* There are 9 categories of Shadow, which can be changed freely at any time. Shadows and characters have different levels and need different experiance to level up. The Bari-Barrier which I mentioned before still gives you Shadow experience, but not much character experience, which is how they balanced that.
* Whilst character experience required for new levels continues to go up with each level, like a standard RPG, Shadow rank experience doesn't. So once you get the Bari-Barrier you can go back to the first dungeon, run around and rank up loads.
* Equipped skills to your Shadows gives you a great deal of variety. You can get a maximum of 11 skill slots and many skills combine together - e.g. create a magical sword attack that both steals and can be charged up, absorbs HP and MP and sometimes kills in one hit.
* The interviewer asks is this level of freedom <certainly sounds insanely powerful> made balancing the game hard. Sakaguchi replies that the staff would keep on coming back to him saying "this combination of skills makes it super easy!". He would get mad but doesn't believe in making the skills weaker, so they adjusted enemy strength instead.
* Plenty of little side games and stuff included. Once you can ride in the Mekkat (I guess the flying ship seen in the videos) you can travel to numerous places. Free download content is planned, the first from around New Year, and it sounds like these will be new locations to travel to.
* Sakaguchi even took part in adjusting the content of treasure chests. There are around 500 regular chests and around 5000 more searchable locations in the game. Sakaguchi wants the player to have fun with these - e.g. originally searching Zora's bathtub awarded 10 gold. He added +30 exp on there as well.
* Sequal is all but confirmed, but not actually officially confirmed, for Xbox 360.
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_______________
* As we have seen from movies, you can see the enemies on the map before battle starts. If you can walk into them from behind rather than the front you get a back attack, which starts you with an advantage (two of the achievements are related to this as well.)
* However, that isn't all. It also seems that you will be able to paralyize and cause other status effects to enemies before going into battle.
* Furthermore (I saw this in the demo too) one of the options when walking around is "Fight All." A circle expands out from around your character and you can fight all of the groups of monsters within it at once.
* The trick with "Fight All" is that some monsters don't like other monsters. If you get two groups that don't like each other in the same battle, they may start fighting each other rather than you. One of the achievements is "Start 100 Monster Fights," you may have noticed, as well as one to fight 10 or more groups at once and beat them all!
* Exactly how powering up Shadows works is unclear right now, no status screen availible in the demo, but it seems they have a variety of categories that you can power up. One of these is "Barrier." A barrier called the "Bari- Barrier" allows you to automatically defeat enemies on the map without having to go into battle with them, if they are a certain number of levels lower than you are. This should cut down on pointless random battling (see Mother 2). You also still recieve points needed to powerup your Shadows from killing enemies like this.
* The main feature that made the battle system at TGS unique was the ability to charge moves. When you select certain attacks a bar appears with where each of the other characters in battle (both ally and enemy) will move marked on it. But holding down the button you can charge the attack up, increasing its damage but pushing the point at which the attack will activate beyond other characters turns. So the attack comes out later but is more powerful. In the footage I saw of someone else playing the demo this bar appears on the screen a few times when they select an attack, but they don't seem to know how to use it and never charge it up.
* No game in the next generation has depeicted drama to this extent.
* One goal that couldn't be achieved until now was to totally realize the world of Toriyama.
* Playtime is stated at being 40 ~ 50 hours. Sakaguchi says that going directly through the game still takes him 35 hours.
* There are 9 categories of Shadow, which can be changed freely at any time. Shadows and characters have different levels and need different experiance to level up. The Bari-Barrier which I mentioned before still gives you Shadow experience, but not much character experience, which is how they balanced that.
* Whilst character experience required for new levels continues to go up with each level, like a standard RPG, Shadow rank experience doesn't. So once you get the Bari-Barrier you can go back to the first dungeon, run around and rank up loads.
* Equipped skills to your Shadows gives you a great deal of variety. You can get a maximum of 11 skill slots and many skills combine together - e.g. create a magical sword attack that both steals and can be charged up, absorbs HP and MP and sometimes kills in one hit.
* The interviewer asks is this level of freedom <certainly sounds insanely powerful> made balancing the game hard. Sakaguchi replies that the staff would keep on coming back to him saying "this combination of skills makes it super easy!". He would get mad but doesn't believe in making the skills weaker, so they adjusted enemy strength instead.
* Plenty of little side games and stuff included. Once you can ride in the Mekkat (I guess the flying ship seen in the videos) you can travel to numerous places. Free download content is planned, the first from around New Year, and it sounds like these will be new locations to travel to.
* Sakaguchi even took part in adjusting the content of treasure chests. There are around 500 regular chests and around 5000 more searchable locations in the game. Sakaguchi wants the player to have fun with these - e.g. originally searching Zora's bathtub awarded 10 gold. He added +30 exp on there as well.
* Sequal is all but confirmed, but not actually officially confirmed, for Xbox 360.
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Doomgaze-MWFR
Member
I REALLY hope that there will be an ultimate boss such as Minotaur, Ozma, Ruby/Emeraud Weapon hidden somewhere
Famitsu most wanted charts
pos. title system developer votes
1. (1 / 1) Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Square Enix 1.765
2. (3 / 3) Blue Dragon Xbox 360 Microsoft 1.664
3. (2 / 2) Biohazard 5 PS3 Capcom 1.277
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source: www.gamefront.de
woohoo, Blue Dragon rocks!
Prediction time: will BD sell more than 150.000 units?
pos. title system developer votes
1. (1 / 1) Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Square Enix 1.765
2. (3 / 3) Blue Dragon Xbox 360 Microsoft 1.664
3. (2 / 2) Biohazard 5 PS3 Capcom 1.277
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source: www.gamefront.de
woohoo, Blue Dragon rocks!
Prediction time: will BD sell more than 150.000 units?
Outdoor Miner
Member
reriel said:
****ing amazing. The game's way deeper than the media/info released thus far would have me believe. I CANNOT WAIT ANYMORE. US Release Date plzthxdmn.
rostocker said:
Yes.
rostocker said:Famitsu most wanted charts
pos. title system developer votes
1. (1 / 1) Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Square Enix 1.765
2. (3 / 3) Blue Dragon Xbox 360 Microsoft 1.664
3. (2 / 2) Biohazard 5 PS3 Capcom 1.277
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source: www.gamefront.de
woohoo, Blue Dragon rocks!
Prediction time: will BD sell more than 150.000 units?
even lost odyssey it's up
11. (22/23) Lost Odyssey Xbox 360 Microsoft 525