TheMoon
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USK. FSK is for movies only.
They adapt these box arts to not cover key artwork elements.
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Xenoblade 2 official Japanese twitter account and website thread
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USK. FSK is for movies only.
They adapt these box arts to not cover key artwork elements.
Neoleo2143
Member
New Interview of Takahashi by Gamekult:
https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/...on-createur-tetsuya-takahashi-3050796525.html
Translation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xenoblade_...xenoblade_2_interview_with_tetsuya_takahashi/
It's got some fun responses. Also, it shows that Takahashi is indeed paying attention to his literary surroundings as expected.
https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/...on-createur-tetsuya-takahashi-3050796525.html
Translation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xenoblade_...xenoblade_2_interview_with_tetsuya_takahashi/
It's got some fun responses. Also, it shows that Takahashi is indeed paying attention to his literary surroundings as expected.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
That's interesting he picked Saito for better facial expressions. Guess he was tired of the doll faces of the previous 2 games.
Why is no one asking if individual armor pieces will show in the characters? All signs points to yes, but it would be nice to have a confirmation.
Neoleo2143
Member
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Why is no one asking if individual armor pieces will show in the characters? All signs points to yes, but it would be nice to have a confirmation.
All signs point to no from the character portraits used in the menu instead of polygon models to the Blades equipped affecting your characters base stats like defense.
Neoleo2143
Member
If they made Noctilum their standard for area design. Woo, boy, we're in for a damn treat. Wouldn't have ever thought a non-Dark Souls RPG would get level design as radical and fun as Noctilum.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Far beyond.. seriously??? Thats incredible and suspicious at the same time. H O W
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Ugh, forgot about the portraits.
Sorry you're gonna be stuck with robo-chaps until Rex gets his midgame shonen hero power up.
He said there are many different titans, the exploration in those titans are seamless, but the transition between each titan will be cut because it's just traverse through the cloud sea and not that interesting
Neoleo2143
Member
And that's a reasonable answer but it also gives Monolith the ability to make the most interconnected and dense areas they can without worrying about how they fit in a grander world geographically. I can easily see how they can potentially surpass Xenoblade X.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
That makes sense then. Thats some good game design as well based on how fast they are releasing it. Well I think it is.. probably helped with the development process.
I won't worry about the word design from Monolith, they are the master
Now i'm just hype to see what's wait us this holiday (plz no delay...)
whyamihere
Banned
TheGreatLugia
Banned
Would you guys be alright if I made a new thread with highlights from both of those interviews?
They really shouldn't have bothered asking, pretty sure there is an interview that asked about it and they said it's up to Namco if the series continues. Takahashi doesn't know about the series much and it shouldn't be surprising, but it's pretty obvious since Honne has been in Kyoto for some time now that it won't continue.
That'd be great. The part about going "far beyond what Xenoblade X proposed" is thread worthy on its own lol.
Dark Cloud
Member
Please do. I can't wait for another Xenoblade topic that degrades into how ugly and bad the character designs are.
We could make a betting pool on how many posts it will take until someone brings up.
I say it takes 10 posts.
blankslatenator
Banned
O wow that third bgm track is amazing!
They all are pretty awesome sounding, bit third has a nice fusion of all three games in one.
I hear the guitar male theme and the Violin female theme working together to create the story of the music.
I will play this game as a shameless baby man, IDC.
They all are pretty awesome sounding, bit third has a nice fusion of all three games in one.
I hear the guitar male theme and the Violin female theme working together to create the story of the music.
I will play this game as a shameless baby man, IDC.
Put me down for 15
TheGreatLugia
Banned
I'm halfway through picking the quotes I want to put in the OP at the moment, but I will be including the part where Takahashi mentions picking Saito as character designer so the protagonists could be more expressive because I think that's an important answer. You've been warned, though. =p
ThatChairMan
Member
Just from that interview, Takahashi indirectly confirms that gear exists, so that potentially throws a hole in the the "stats are solely based off of Blade" argument.
Of course, it still doesn't confirm whether this gear is cosmetic or purely stat enhancements, or even whether it's armor and not just accessories, but it is putting more weight into the idea that cosmetics still exist.
I'll change my bet to 5 then, lol.
Dark Cloud
Member
Lol! Yeah, it's coming early with his character design comment and that's where the focus will stay.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
The thread about the interviews is up: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1396468
It was a bit difficult deciding on which quotes to include for the first post because of how interesting most of the questions and answers were.
It was a bit difficult deciding on which quotes to include for the first post because of how interesting most of the questions and answers were.
moustascheman
Member
A world with even more to discover than X is really getting me excited. I really hope nintendo is telling the truth when they say this game is coming out this year.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
During the Treehouse stream, they said the game is currently in the phase of development where the team is working to polish everything up. They also said they were two weeks away from finishing the first build of the game that includes English voice acting.
Even if the game got delayed, I doubt it would be a long one.
I think it's nice to know Takahashi picked Saito for this reason. The result is pretty good. The trailer felt like an intersting japanese animated movie and I'm confident with Monolith for the writing. They never did any bad RPG for me. I even apreciated Xenosaga 2 which is often disliked a lot.
Hope to get some more details around the gameplay and good to go. Anyway there still are ~5 months before release. Plenty of time for news.
But not but everyone unfortunately.
There can be some cliches it can be "shonen", anime-looking or whatever, but it can also be great.
Hope to get some more details around the gameplay and good to go. Anyway there still are ~5 months before release. Plenty of time for news.
Expected.
But not but everyone unfortunately.
There can be some cliches it can be "shonen", anime-looking or whatever, but it can also be great.
Exactly what I want and thought it would be. The whole adventure is going to be awesome I know it since I watched the trailer.
Ah yeah sorry, my bad. Happens ot me way too often lol.
But wait, does the USK adapt the box art so it doesn't cover key elements or Nintendo of Europe has to because of the USK's small dick compensation?
WAT
God damn. Didn't they say they wanted this to be a simple lovers story? This sounds really good.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Would ring accessories that give stat bonuses be considered gear.
Of course. But there's always room for surprise with Monolith.
Nope. He said he wanted young characters and so on but that was never especially the main or only point of the story.
It's Monolithsoft. It's like people discover them each time after thinking the games are be Compile Hearts titles.
Ha ha.
TheMoon
Member
They rate games. They don't touch marketing materials or product packaging, of course.
Neoleo2143
Member
It's hard to say since the fundamental idea is not as novel as the first game's setting. But it's also an advancement in that same idea which could make it interesting in its own right. For the most part, the Bionis and Mechonis didn't really move around as they were seen as dead giants. But here you can clearly see the titans moving about as living beings as you traverse on them which is immensely awesome. The proposition of variety between the beasts is also compelling as is the story element of recognizing that these creatures are actually alive and the implications for the people living on their backs.
I just noticed that there is finally a web page for XC2:
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/xenoblade-chronicles-2-switch
It says Holiday 2017.
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/xenoblade-chronicles-2-switch
It says Holiday 2017.
Did you happen to miss E3?
I didn't notice the web page until now. I'm sorry. The web page was absent from the NoA web site for a long time after they first announced the game.
I meant about the release date announcement.
The beasts moving and being alive really is intersting. They also probably feel something about having people leaving on their backs. And how do they live ? What do they "eat" and what if 2 beasts attack each others for some reason. Could be crazy easily.
And when you try the main website it's like nothing's new (except for the inevitable link to E3 page somewhere
You don't have to be sorry ha ha. At E3 they like to add everything on a separate page only about E3.
And when you try the main website it's like nothing's new (except for the inevitable link to E3 page somewhere
titiklabingapat
Member
There is a series of novel where the cities are all mobile and 'eat' each other. Could be similar to that.
Frightening...
I don't think that's particularly surprising. He isn't referring to raw world size, but to the amount of places you can discover - and in that regard a smaller, but dense world can easily surpass Xenoblade X. They (barring some late game surprise) don't have to design the world with mechs in mind, so everything can be designed at a smaller scale. We're also assuredly getting quite a lot more meaningful places - towns, caves, dungeon-like areas - in Xenoblade 2 than in X, which, well, didn't have many of those in the first place.
Neoleo2143
Member
There's a pretty important detail that I didn't notice at first. In the Treehouse demo, Anchor Shot only had the ability to spawn healing potions. But in this picture it seems Anchor Shot also has the ability to topple. Which means that upgrading arts in this game can add additional properties to arts that didn't exist before. The choice of Topple (as opposed to something like break), in particular, is pretty smart for this art as that adds complexity to going for a topple and not going after healing items for safe damage or makes healing safer.
Very nice job ! I'm getting rusty, that's the kind of stuff I like to check usually (worst is I should have seen it easily since it's in the trailer).
I hope you're right because it would mean the battle system is going in new layers the way I wanted it too.
With the launch and several weapons = different Arts sets, it was already going pretty well but now even more.