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[Fireblend]

So I guess it's useless for me to translate the tweets more if they're put in separate topics by other people.
Is it how it works on Neogaf ? Duckroll should have told me because I asked for the title change.
Well... better know early that late.

...What? I don't see any other thread.

And this isn't a competition, it's pure convenience. Consolidating the information here is useful for everyone who's not following every single thread about the game, which you've done a great job of. It's far from useless. You don't have a monopoly on translating tweets about it though

 

[Waji]

...What? I don't see any other thread.

And this isn't a competition, it's pure convenience. Consolidating the information here is useful for everyone who's not following every single thread about the game, which you've done a great job of. It's far from useless. You don't have a monopoly on translating tweets about it though

Never said I had or wanted a monopoly

Spoiler

I don't even like the game...

. I did it because it was nowhere to be found not to be "the one who does it".
I'm just wondering if it's normal since I saw so many threads with people saying : "there's already a thread for that, and then moderation coming.

Anyway if it makes most people comment on the other thread it's actually better, so this one remains calm ha ha.
So, whatever : P.

If most tweets could be up on wednesday it would be pretty convenient : P.

 

[Harpoon]

I'm wondering if he also designed the character with the eyepatch since his outfit looks like it could belong to the same group. His weapon also looks a bit similar to the one the other blue haired character is using.

Not sure about that. He doesn't seem to have the same thing on his chest that both of the Torna characters do.

 

[Waji]

Not sure about that. He doesn't seem to have the same thing on his chest that both of the Torna characters do.

What's Torna ? Localised name for the organisation ?
Is it mentionned in the western trailer ?

 

[Mister Wolf]

What's Torna ? Localised name for the organisation ?
Is it mentionned in the western trailer ?

Apparently is the name of a organization.

 

[Fireblend]

What's Torna ? Localised name for the organisation ?
Is it mentionned in the western trailer ?

It is:

 

[Waji]

Haaa indeed, I knew I saw that word somewhere before. Thank you guys.

 

[James Scott]

So Nomura designed several characters while the Hentai artist Saito designed the protagonists.
If Torna include the masked man, the other guy with the sword, and that lady with the mask then I think Nomura probably made the best designs.
I like Pyra's well enough. Her wing/scarf looks good though she's a bit under dressed.
Rex is a mix of being too boring and too weird. Maybe if the helmet is something he'd put on in combat/regularly and it looked better. Not sure.

 

[Harpoon]

So Nomura designed several characters while the Hentai artist Saito designed the protagonists.
If Torna include the masked man, the other guy with the sword, and that lady with the mask then I think Nomura probably made the best designs.
I like Pyra's well enough. Her wing/scarf looks good though she's a bit under dressed.
Rex is a mix of being too boring and too weird. Maybe if the helmet is something he'd put on in combat/regularly and it looked better. Not sure.

You mean the one with the train conductor-esque hat? She looks way more like a Saito design than a Nomura design to me.

 

[Safros]

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask this in, but as someone who has played and enjoyed the Gears and Saga games and assuming that Xenoblade 2 is similar to 1, what can I expect from this?

The combat looks completely different but I'm also looking for story and general tone comparisons. I'm not expecting something as dark as Gears, mostly based off of what little I know of Blade 1, but I wouldn't mind being wrong.

What little I've heard of the music in this seems up to par though, so I'm thankful for at least that.

 

[Mister Wolf]

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask this in, but as someone who has played and enjoyed the Gears and Saga games and assuming that Xenoblade 2 is similar to 1, what can I expect from this?

The combat looks completely different but I'm also looking for story and general tone comparisons. I'm not expecting something as dark as Gears, mostly based off of what little I know of Blade 1, but I wouldn't mind being wrong.

What little I've heard of the music in this seems up to par though, so I'm thankful for at least that.

I would expect more of the grand adventure tone of Xenoblade 1 but with less of the despair revenge that set the tone for Xenogears and Xenoblade.

 

[Aostia]

Guys I love the transaction on this thread
Don't derail it

 

[foxuzamaki]

So Nomura designed several characters while the Hentai artist Saito designed the protagonists.
If Torna include the masked man, the other guy with the sword, and that lady with the mask then I think Nomura probably made the best designs.
I like Pyra's well enough. Her wing/scarf looks good though she's a bit under dressed.
Rex is a mix of being too boring and too weird. Maybe if the helmet is something he'd put on in combat/regularly and it looked better. Not sure.

You would be very much surprised how many professional Japanese artists draw hentai, you'd be surprised how many artists that worked for Disney and dream works draw pornographic imagery of those characters, we can't single saito out for this

 

[Mister Wolf]

You would be very much surprised how many professional Japanese artists draw hentai, you'd be surprised how many artists that worked for Disney and dream works draw pornographic imagery of those characters, we can't single saito out for this

Yeah. I can see why he was picked based on Expelled From Paradise and the newest Cyborg 009. His art translates well with CG animation and polygons.

 

[takriel]

Can I just say that I find it unbelievable that Xeno 2 seemingly matches the first game's OST? I never thought we would get such a magical soundtrack again, but here we are, with four sample tracks that could easily belong to the first game.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Does anyone believe we may fly around in airships in this game. I saw what looked like airships in the trailer and figured we be in one of them. I'm hoping we will be able too like old school Final Fantasy, but I'm keeping low expectations for that.

 

[Waji]

Does anyone believe we may fly around in airships in this game. I saw what looked like airships in the trailer and figured we be in one of them. I'm hoping we will be able too like old school Final Fantasy, but I'm keeping low expectations for that.

It's not impossible but I'd be happy getting a Baten Kaitos-like map.
Something to create a nice visual link between each areas as a whole world.

Yeah. I can see why he was picked based on Expelled From Paradise and the newest Cyborg 009. His art translates well with CG animation and polygons.

I definitely agree with that.

 

[Shiggy]

The European boxart is up, and it's the same as in the US bar the different age rating:

 

[Dark Cloud]

It's not impossible but I'd be happy getting a Baten Kaitos-like map.
Something to create a nice visual link between each areas as a whole world.

Hmm I've never played that game so I'm not sure what the map is like.

Man you know the music is going to be amazing when it touches you before you play the game lol. I'm a big sucker for pianos. Some of my favorite music ever is done by piano like To Zanarkand from FFX.

WOW Elpis Soul Cave is my favorite so far. It gives me Satorl Marsh feelings.

 

[-shadow-]

The European boxart is up, and it's the same as in the US bar the different age rating:

I truly like this. Can't for for the inevitable Limited Edition!

 

[Mister Wolf]

I hope this game will have some special Blades that we have to fight to acquire.

 

[Dark Cloud]

I hope this game will have some special Blades that we have to fight to acquire.

I think Blades are dropped by monsters, right? I could see defeating a certain Unique Monster giving you the one and only certain Blades.

 

[Joe Condor]

I truly like this. Can't for for the inevitable Limited Edition!

Hope for one with red Joy Cons similar to this!

 

[MicH]

Hope for one with red Joy Cons similar to this!

I have this limited edition and would instantly buy a XB2 limited edition. Hope we get one

 

[Shadow Broker]

I would buy a collectors edition but hope it's something other then Joy cons that comes with it. Unless it's highly decal Joy cons. I already have a pair of neon red joy cons I don't use.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Hope for one with red Joy Cons similar to this!

I want a red Switch Pro Controller! Maybe with some nice XC2 designs on it.

 

[Aostia]

Hope for one with red Joy Cons similar to this!

Yup
I still have the red pro controller, alongside the red wiimote, as for the white/black and golden pairs

 

[Fireblend]

People were doubting Mitsuda? Xenoblade Chronicles' is one of my favorite OSTs of all time, but I had no doubt Mitsuda would be able to compose stuff at least on par with it. I'm sure the full thing will be mind-blowing stuff.

 

[Zolo]

You would be very much surprised how many professional Japanese artists draw hentai, you'd be surprised how many artists that worked for Disney and dream works draw pornographic imagery of those characters, we can't single saito out for this

I'd also argue not the person to single out for. If the people in charge didn't want half naked women in the game, the artist would be directed not to draw half naked women.

 

[ThatChairMan]

I hope this game will have some special Blades that we have to fight to acquire.

I wonder if might be some Amiibo integration in this, like with Nintendo's other games. Seems like an easy way of "this amiibo unlocks this character as your Blade!" kind of deal.

 

[Waji]

I wonder if might be some Amiibo integration in this, like with Nintendo's other games. Seems like an easy way of "this amiibo unlocks this character as your Blade!" kind of deal.

Shulk with Monado. Done.

People were doubting Mitsuda? Xenoblade Chronicles' is one of my favorite OSTs of all time, but I had no doubt Mitsuda would be able to compose stuff at least on par with it. I'm sure the full thing will be mind-blowing stuff.

I'm actually pretty sure it can top the first one. Sound quality already does.

 

[Aostia]

Shulk with Monado. Done.

Would actually be NEEEEEEAT to unlock Shulk/Monado as a Blade!

 

[Fireblend]

I'm actually pretty sure it can top the first one. Sound quality already does.

Absolutely. It's Mitsuda, he hasn't composed one single bad track in his life, I literally universally love his stuff

And from what we've been learning about this OST, he's both given it his all, and gotten a ton of support from Monolith to realize his vision. And it shows in those samples.

 

[Neoleo2143]

Absolutely. It's Mitsuda, he hasn't composed one single bad track in his life, I literally universally love his stuff

And from what we've been learning about this OST, he's both given it his all, and gotten a ton of support from Monolith to realize his vision. And it shows in those samples.

If we're already this impressed, I can't wait to hear those choral tracks from Anuna.

 

[Waji]

If we're already this impressed, I can't wait to hear those choral tracks from Anuna.

I was thinking the exact same thing a while ago.
We just got a calm but nice track at the end of the teaser as well as a piano theme.
So we basically heard almost nothing, butit sounds extremely promising.

Now I just want this godly sound options menu. I think it's the first thing this series needs.

 

[Neoleo2143]

I was thinking the exact same thing a while ago.
We just got a calm but nice track at the end of the teaser as well as a piano theme.
So we basically heard almost nothing, butit sounds extremely promising.

Now I just want this godly sound options menu. I think it's the first thing this series needs.

I was wondering should I post my textual breakdown of the Treehouse material here or should I open a new thread for it?

 

[Fireblend]

I'd appreciate it if you posted it here so I didn't have to subscribe to too many Xeno2-related threads, but that's just me

 

[James Scott]

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask this in, but as someone who has played and enjoyed the Gears and Saga games and assuming that Xenoblade 2 is similar to 1, what can I expect from this?

The combat looks completely different but I'm also looking for story and general tone comparisons. I'm not expecting something as dark as Gears, mostly based off of what little I know of Blade 1, but I wouldn't mind being wrong.

What little I've heard of the music in this seems up to par though, so I'm thankful for at least that.

The first game's combat system is a bit like FF12 but a bit more active. Auto attacks but specials that require cool downs instead of MP and requiring teamwork.
It's a massive world with a ton of content and a pretty good story line.
This being a sequel to Xenoblade should show that it's going more in that direction while XCX was more MMO-lite with less focus on the main campaign.

You would be very much surprised how many professional Japanese artists draw hentai, you'd be surprised how many artists that worked for Disney and dream works draw pornographic imagery of those characters, we can't single saito out for this

Was originally joking since I forgot his name, lol.
Think his designs are fine.

 

[Waji]

I was wondering should I post my textual breakdown of the Treehouse material here or should I open a new thread for it?

Any but at least here for now it seems you should get a nice discussion out of it and not some quick troll action.
I can also edit the first message and add the message near CAAAAAAAW's (probably forgetting some A).

But it may also be worth a new topic and getting good results, so... really any.

 

[TheGreatLugia]

Absolutely. It's Mitsuda, he hasn't composed one single bad track in his life, I literally universally love his stuff

And from what we've been learning about this OST, he's both given it his all, and gotten a ton of support from Monolith to realize his vision. And it shows in those samples.

Just for clarification, the only sample track Mitsuda wrote was Elysium of the blue sky. Action Battle was written by ACE, Action Start was written by Kenji Hiramatsu (who was credited as the third member of ACE+ in Xenoblade 1), and Elpis Soul Cave was written by Manami Kiyota.

 

[playingwithfire]

That's a really impressive sky whale on the box art. Do we get to ride it? I hope so.

 

[Silent_Ocarina]

That's a really impressive sky whale on the box art. Do we get to ride it? I hope so.

I haven't watched the videos we have of the game since E3, but I seem to recall some language in the commentary about how they live on titans similar to Bionis and Mechonis and that the whale was one of them. So it's possible if I remember correctly.

 

[TheMoon]

I wonder if might be some Amiibo integration in this, like with Nintendo's other games. Seems like an easy way of "this amiibo unlocks this character as your Blade!" kind of deal.

They didn't do anything for X, they won't do anything for this.

Simple skins/designs for your mechs would have far more sense (and less work) than amiibo character X as your Blade, btw.

 

[Waji]

That's a really impressive sky whale on the box art. Do we get to ride it? I hope so.

I'd say it's highly likely. We'll ride different beasts, so there's a big chance we go on an adventure on THE beast appearing on the box.

They didn't do anything for X, they won't do anything for this.

Simple skins/designs for your mechs would have far more sense (and less work) than amiibo character X as your Blade, btw.

They also didn't release X worldwide. We never now : P.
I don't like DLC so I don't especially want that. I always prefer the game to be 100% available at launch, and that's it. No more no less.

But it seems more likely than mech colors only because People think Shulk with Xenoblade 2, more than they think "Nintendo-themed mechs".
They'll think about it when we see a Mario/Nintendo item in a Xenoblade.

 

[Dark Cloud]

I'll take a Shulk Blade if I scan my Shulk Amiibo.

 

[vareon]

That's a really impressive sky whale on the box art. Do we get to ride it? I hope so.

I think we'll ride it, but it's so goddamn huge that it doesn't feel like it anyway.

 

[TheMoon]

I think we'll ride it, but it's so goddamn huge that it doesn't feel like it anyway.

Pull a MGS 2.

You end up playing AS the sky whale.

 

[Aostia]

I'll take a Shulk Blade if I scan my Shulk Amiibo.

My amiibo wet dream

 

[Fireblend]

They didn't do anything for X, they won't do anything for this.

Simple skins/designs for your mechs would have far more sense (and less work) than amiibo character X as your Blade, btw.

The Waluigi blade dream is not dead yet!

 

[Wamb0wneD]

The European boxart is up, and it's the same as in the US bar the different age rating:

So the FSK logo will be over the characters. Great. God the self importance of the FSK and their stupid ass thinking of all people being heavily short sighted makes me angry. Destroys every single boxart.