Psycho_Mantis
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I keep coming back to it like subconsciously. It definitely looks spectacular. I have not scene those draw distances and IQ on current gen rpgs so it did surprise me in how good it looked.
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Monolithsoft WiiU trailer - X (Takahashi x Tanaka x Sawano, Xenoblade x/multiplayer?)
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I keep coming back to it like subconsciously. It definitely looks spectacular. I have not scene those draw distances and IQ on current gen rpgs so it did surprise me in how good it looked.
Monolith pulled off Xenoblade on the freaking Wii. These guys are going to knock it out of the park with this new game.
I assume that their budget is also much bigger compared to Xenoblade.
Yes! I often thought while playing Xenoblade how cool it would be to fly.
Oh man.
Yep. That's why I'm hopeful that the final game won't look quite as washed out as the trailer.
It wouldn't actually surprise me if the trailer was made very quickly to give Wii U owners something to look forward and talk about to.
This is a little premature.
KuwabaraTheMan
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I didn't think about that, but now you have me wanting to play a game set in Byston Well.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Xenoblade looks pretty much exactly like its first trailer and also the first screen everyone bashed, they just didn't do a good job of showing the awesome vistas you encounter etc in much of the early media. Not to mention people didn't believe they could expect such vast areas from a Wii game, or that people like bashing and do it even when there's little reason to.
That's funny. Just watching that trailer, I was kind of surprised at how differently the final game ended up looking.
I was one of those bashers, I think. Boy was I wrong.
One thing that's pissing me off right now.
I wasn't interested in Xenoblade at all until I saw a trailer on my 3DS for it about a week before the UK release in August 2011. I then brought it a few days later and was fucking blown away, literally hooked to the game for an entire week straight and now I've finished it five times.
Now I've seen the trailer for the successor. Same as before, I want it! But...It's not out for at least a year. But I want it nooooooow. I want instant awesome like when I first found out about Xenoblade!
/impatient.
I wasn't interested in Xenoblade at all until I saw a trailer on my 3DS for it about a week before the UK release in August 2011. I then brought it a few days later and was fucking blown away, literally hooked to the game for an entire week straight and now I've finished it five times.
Now I've seen the trailer for the successor. Same as before, I want it! But...It's not out for at least a year. But I want it nooooooow. I want instant awesome like when I first found out about Xenoblade!
/impatient.
i think everyone was, which is probably why it was such a hard sell to come here originally,
we all were such fools.
I get a feeling from the trailer that part of it was actually intentionally mediocre. Now I'm not saying they made it "bad" on purpose, but the first half of the trailer is clearly supposed to give off the sense that this is a game like Xenoblade, but in HD. The choices they made in what they wanted to show seem pretty deliberate, even if the footage is rather rushed together. It was meant to look like "more of the same" for the most part. Then the guy gets into the mech, and everything changes from there. Just as the trailer gets really good and exciting, it ends.
Seems like a classic case of a teaser where they want to create a false sense of familiarity before going all out to show something surprising and unexpected, and then ending before people have enough, so they want more.
Yep. Draw distances especially look astounding and the whole mecha thing just totally does it for me.
DeaconKnowledge
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Right when the footage starts and the guy is running, there's something happening on the right side of the screen. Like a rockslide or a monster attacking or something? Can anyone make it out?
Black Door
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Gonna need more than a minute and a half long trailer to confirm that.
Ingueferroque
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That X at the end is so Xenogears. Am I wrong? Should I play Xenoblade Chronicles as a big Xenogears fan? (And no, I never got into Xenosaga)
It's a robot. When they're not activated they're kinda slummed on the ground.
Glorified G
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The draw distance is incredible.
I don't think I'd be able to deal with the party gauge, health meter and art selections not being on the main screen. You really do need to pay attention to them constantly during battle, and if you have to keep looking down at the gamepad to do so then you are going to fail miserably.
The map, radar, quests and inventory would be ideal for the pad though.
Yup wouldn't be surprised if they won Iwata's confidence with such a great game as Xenoblade.
confirmed for never playing xenoblade in any form
you funny
GARZEY'S WING: THE GAME
Certainly, when I'm in battle, I want the important stuff on screen. But when I'm standing on a cliff overlooking the beauty of the vista (and I've done this countless times in Xenoblade), nothing should get in the way of that view.
if they still value a strong showing at E3, it sounds very likely to me that they would do something like this.
Certainly, when I'm in battle, I want the important stuff on screen. But when I'm standing on a cliff overlooking the beauty of the vista (and I've done this countless times in Xenoblade), nothing should get in the way of that view.
heh
you can turn off the HUD in xenoblade you know. Everything can be turned off apart from the health meter and the art selections in battle via the options menu.
Nintendo confirmed that E3 will be focused on the new Smash Brothers, 3D Mario, and Mario Kart games for WiiU, so they'll already have a rather sound E3. I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a better and longer trailer for this by then too. Could be a pretty solid E3, especially if they also have Bayonetta 2 and a playable Wind Waker HD there. Best Nintendo E3 in years?
Yeah, filters. And much better textures, way higher polycounts, normal mapping, better animations, better draw distance...
How did I not know of this before?! This might be another reason to go over the game again.
How did I not know of this before?! This might be another reason to go over the game again.
Just booted up the game via Dolphin and took these two screenshots for you to see the glorious HUD-less Xenoblade:
lovely stuff
Heh, same here. Back in the day it was first shown I thought it looked hideous, and I only started to be a bit interested once I saw the great praise it was receiving, and even then, I exclusively bought it in order not to miss it given the poor release it had. One of my favourite games, ever.
Green Biker Dude
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if this is a single player game, then it could be amazing
if it's multiplayer oriented, then it'll probably suck dick, like that metal gear game on the psp that was supposed to be 5 but turned out to be a flop or something. either way, fuck monster hunter. keep it a single player rpg, or at least, balance it like one.
if it's multiplayer oriented, then it'll probably suck dick, like that metal gear game on the psp that was supposed to be 5 but turned out to be a flop or something. either way, fuck monster hunter. keep it a single player rpg, or at least, balance it like one.
KojiKnight
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God... I missed one day of gaf and this is what happens?
So... does anyone still believe "Nintendoomed" at this point?
So... does anyone still believe "Nintendoomed" at this point?
metalslimer
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Sounding like it. Sure we'll get some casual stuff in the mix, but they have enough solid content to keep the masses happy -- maybe Retro's game will show up too. This Direct felt like a mini-E3 in some ways.
The last really good one was 2009 or so.
In the UK, yes. Unfortunately.
When your console hasn't got a single game in the UK top 40 for the past three weeks and half of your top ten in the Wii U charts are selling less than 320 copies each throughout the entire UK, it's not a good sign.
It's B.K. Ignore him. He likes to cry a river because it's apparently not Xenogears/Xenosaga 1 continued or whatever.
I honestly always thought the idea of an Xenoblade sequel would look like this, but I never expected the scope to be so big as to allow flying with the robots.
2010 was really good.
crazyjah2003
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Just out of curiosity; which two are they?
No? Wtf.
It's B.K. Ignore him. He likes to cry a river because it's apparently not Xenogears/Xenosaga 1 continued or whatever.
I don't care that it's not a continuation of Xenosaga or Xenogears. Would I like a continuation? Of course. I hate having serialized stories cut short. I miss the old Takahashi. Xenoblade was garbage. I don't care what anyone on GAF says. The battle system was one of the most boring and repetitive I've seen in a long time and the story was just a boring, generic shounen story. I had to force myself to finish it. If it wasn't a Takahashi game, I wouldn't have made it to the end. I kept hoping that something would happen to make the game good, but it never did. I've never felt more like my time was wasted on a game as it was on Xenoblade.
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