Kubera Leez
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That is all I can think of as well. I don't think a demo would work that well for this game without severely limiting the biggest draws of the the game such as the environment.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X Direct - Battle on March 6th [up: video with subtitles]
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That is all I can think of as well. I don't think a demo would work that well for this game without severely limiting the biggest draws of the the game such as the environment.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
You and me think alot alike.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Welcome!
I just kept wondering what was happening while brainlessly persisting in attacking, like Bart grabbing an electrified cupcake.
Sable~Knight
Member
Gessenkou's pretty thorough and accurate, and he's a native english speaker so he puts things in terms that make it more understandable, while still trying to bring out the character of the conversations. iYakku is a native japanese speaker, and he goes over the translations, and then there are others providing a little bit of input and feedback as well. They're very well done. I watched the other guys' first video, and it seemed a bit less accurate and more literal to me. The complete video will be much more in depth as well, since we'll have all the text and menus fully translated.
Sable~Knight
Member
I definitely think it's still a game you can enjoy. The battle system is only part of the draw. In addition to that there's the world exploration, story, and many other little things like the mechs, music, etc. It's really a game they're going all out in every aspect of, and it has broad appeal for a variety of things. Maybe the battle system isn't what you'd like exactly, but I think you'd still find it tolerable at least, and the other aspects of the game will be enjoyable that it'll be worth it. At least give the game a try and a little bit of attention
Can't hurt.FlashbladeGAF
Member
Demos take time away from the main game to make.
FFXV needed a demo to show good faith for a 10 year in development game that has one more year before release
Xenoblade CX comes out NEXT MONTH in Japan
Kind of my point, yeah.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Wow, thanks for the link. I wonder why NOA doesn't sub these officially? They know the game is generating a lot of hype. Unless they plan to do English versions of these with the English VAs.
lol I did cringe at it myself
kuroneko0509
Member
most likely we'll be seeing them near the english release date with English VAs.
TheMoon
Member
Because the Western promo hasn't started yet since we have no date yet. The game has a fixed date for Japan and is very close to release which is why they're getting this there now. It would be a waste to do these for the WW audience now. You want to hype people up closer to release, not half a year before and then have nothing for the pre-launch period. It makes complete sense. Plus you get everyone super hyped for it watching anyway and doing crazy translations, community engagement, discussion. Wins all around.
Sky Interloper
Member
Goddamn, the sheer scale of this game is inmense. Just the battle system seems much more expansive than the original Xenoblade one, and we haven't seen anything about the Dolls yet.
The other aspects are looking pretty good too. Those vistas and enemy designs are glorious. I hope Nintendo is not spoiling anything after the beginning of the game, I loved the surprises I got last time and a Skyward Sword-like info deluge would be bad form. Also, I'm pretty accostumed to Sawano style of music, so vocal voices are not a surprise at all. I just hope he didn't went overboard with them and put them in every single piece of the soundtrack.
Come on NOA, I need a date. Even a release window would do.
The other aspects are looking pretty good too. Those vistas and enemy designs are glorious. I hope Nintendo is not spoiling anything after the beginning of the game, I loved the surprises I got last time and a Skyward Sword-like info deluge would be bad form. Also, I'm pretty accostumed to Sawano style of music, so vocal voices are not a surprise at all. I just hope he didn't went overboard with them and put them in every single piece of the soundtrack.
Come on NOA, I need a date. Even a release window would do.
Cow Mengde
Banned
I see why everyone is complaining about the music. I like Sawano's work on Attack on Titan, but in this game, the lyrics ruins the otherwise excellent music. I love the battle theme until the lyrics started playing. Goddammit!
Yeah. I watched the newest video and I assume they picked the same music they used in the last video. But damn, I hate to be "that guy", yet I cannot help but be immensely disappointed at what I am hearing here.
First off, every time a new music track started I kept wondering, "Is this finally going to be a non-vocal track?", yet sure as I kept thinking that, it never came. Each track eventually was filled with lyrics. What is even more infuriating for me is that I usually love vocal tracks, particularly choir vocals, like in Xenoblade. But nope, in all the music sampled so far that I've heard, the lyrics are terrible JPop garbage likely roughly translated into Engrish. I guess anime-fans will eat it up, but damn it is annoying.
Yeah yeah I get this was the director's choice because he's a huge Sawano fan and wanted that type of music for this game. If these tracks had no vocals than they'd be ok, which is what is so frustrating, and it's just such a downgrade from the original Xenoblade soundtrack in that regard.
Cow Mengde
Banned
This is going to make localization interesting for NOA though. The lyrics are Engrish. Do they keep it to preserve the original feel, or would they have to remove or even re-write them for localization? I don't mind the overly bombastic fake Latin (or whatever it is) for those big bombastic track, it's the horrible Engrish/Jpop that gets on my nerves.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Yeah what im loving about this ironically is the community engagement from this, and this mostly stems from how much the community really loves xenoblade.
I dunno, I kinda like the vocal tracks. And they're kinda getting stuck in my head now since I'm watching the videos so often lol.
I feel like the majority of the vocal heavy tracks will be played in areas of NLA or during cutscenes though. I think that the music while exploring won't focus on them. I see you said you like choir vocals so I wonder if this track from the website will suit your fancy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az6tfEbQJWk
The battle system seems to be improved a lot. I cant wait to try out different class/character/armor/arts combinations. The possibilities are endless. I kind of liked the future seeing aspect of Monado, though, I hope it returns in some form, but there is no mention of it at all so I'm guessing that's out.
But the only thing moving much in that shot is Elma's mouth and the grass behind her.
CrazyHorse
Junior Member
Too much stuttering!!! E.g. 16:55mins horrible
Yeah, I think you make a good point here. One of the songs, the African native-like music played in a previous video presentation, sounds appropriately adventurous with its foreign and rhythmic composition like it fits in with the atmosphere of exploring environments such as the Primordial Wilderness, the area outside of NLA. It feels like that kind of music is well suited to compelling the player to explore a region that's both beautiful and dangerous.
Smoothice65
Member
Overclock Gear reminds me of the Limit breaks in Final Fantasy 8 (You can activate it when the group is low on health)
Why do I have the feeling that pro players are going to reach insane combos with this mode and find exploits in the game....
Surprised by the amount of characters you can have join your party. These are just human characters. I wouldn't be surprised if this extended to the alien allies you make in the game.
Expected the the equipment system would be similar to the first game but glad to have some confirmation. Does anyone have stills of the different outfits they start showing at the 20:33 mark. Especially the Elma one at the 20:34 mark. Love that outfit. Reminds me of female armor in Tera Online. Not the most modest but this is a game where you can drop everyone down to their underwear. I do hope there is a male version of something like that just to make it equal.
I find the system where the more you wear armor from one in-game company the types of equipment they will release to be really nice. Reminds me of how in Final Fantasy XIII where different vendors/stores were presented as different companies. This seems even more expansive.
Limit breaks were the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Overclock Gear section as well. Similar to the Chain Attacks as well but more individual based.
Expected the the equipment system would be similar to the first game but glad to have some confirmation. Does anyone have stills of the different outfits they start showing at the 20:33 mark. Especially the Elma one at the 20:34 mark. Love that outfit. Reminds me of female armor in Tera Online. Not the most modest but this is a game where you can drop everyone down to their underwear. I do hope there is a male version of something like that just to make it equal.
I find the system where the more you wear armor from one in-game company the types of equipment they will release to be really nice. Reminds me of how in Final Fantasy XIII where different vendors/stores were presented as different companies. This seems even more expansive.
Limit breaks were the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Overclock Gear section as well. Similar to the Chain Attacks as well but more individual based.
Siliconera has a gallery of the armor sets here.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/03/06/learn-xenoblade-chronicles-xs-class-system-weapons-kinds-armor/
Don't be disrespecting their culture man
Thanks!
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I hope the most ridiculously strong end level incredibly rare armor is just some normal ass clothes, just for the lulz.
This, along with the Class system, are probably the only negatives that I had while watching the trailer.
The game looks amazing, but there are some suggestions that we won't have a 'core' party so much as a guest party box, similar to how Xenosaga Ep III handled some of its temporary party members.
I would love to be proven wrong, though. I'm really hyped to see how this game does when it releases... hopefully we'll be able to read some glowing impressions from GAFfers.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Im pretty sure that was just in-universe type thing they did for the direct, the people wouldnt be in cutscnes if they were optional party members that you can miss, Im pretty sure all except maybe the last 3 shown are part of the main group, ru for instance was shown in the last E3 trailer and is featured in the promo/concept art with lyn and elma.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Seriously, people are disrespectful and dont even care. Respect the alien race.
Fill the black of the map with blue for water. Looks like the planet is mostly water with a land mass in the center, I guess kind of like Pangaea. I think it's the black that just looks off, implying that something is missing.
Thats kinda what I was thinking. I just need to go back and give it another shot. Ive just been spoiled lately with Dark Souls and MH4U styled combat and going back to anything else feels boring. I just need to get over it and get in that Xenoblade.
To be fair, it's a bit harsh to call a distaste 'stupid'. It's a very legitimate reason not to like the game as the battle system is on the more passive side of the spectrum. But having said that...
... you really should give the game a try. People keep mentioning MMO in here, but even though I have a strong dislike for 'MMO-style' battles, Xenoblade's battle system felt very engaging and immediate.
Here, check out these great non-lyric tracks from the game:
http://youtu.be/kjTzuqyQZlc?t=22s
http://youtu.be/kjTzuqyQZlc?t=13m9s
http://youtu.be/AvpNXhzscjQ?t=38s
http://youtu.be/FatqK70ONd8
Enjoy
TheMoon
Member
Just rewatched the subbed environments presentation. That one also had a snippet of the scene with Marcus and Irina looking at this gigantic life pod, the one from the cutscene with the alien robots at the end of this one. I'm starting to think that this is the story point that will introduce and open dolls up to us in the story after having been introduced to the early goings on foot, running around and stuff, finding smaller life pods, meeting various characters.
So hype. And I'm totally in love with the silly back and forth between Tatsu and Lyn lol.
So hype. And I'm totally in love with the silly back and forth between Tatsu and Lyn lol.
StreetsAhead
Member
Is this the Ru artwork you're talking about?
Because this, along with the other pieces of art, sounds like it had specific orders attached to them, as it says the artist was asked to specifically include Ru, a character that she designed.
It'd be a step up from some of Xenoblade's "Too Ridiculous To Equip" gear sets.
It would just be refreshing to see the type of armor correlate with a character's properties. For instance, i have no problem with a bikini being one of the outfits, but i think it should offer little to no defense, but instead increase diversion (dodge).
I hope the most ridiculously strong end level incredibly rare armor is just some normal ass clothes, just for the lulz.
I'm ok with this.
Great video. I like that they're introducing the doublecasting and triplecasting dynamics, as I felt like the first Xenoblade didn't have enough safeguards against just spamming Arts in a repetitive cycle.
When they started talking about the concept of re-classing, I almost fell out of my chair due to the levels of systems that game is going to have. The first game was kind of teetering toward the brink of over-complication sometimes with its menus, so I was amazed that they're adding another level. I don't think it's going to be that overly-complicated, however. I like the idea of letting you custom-tailor each character a little more and give them different looks in battle.
Are these classes going to be generic for everyone, or are they all going to be character-specific? The preview suggested there would be a lot more playable characters than in the first game, so maybe it's going to be more like the job system in Final Fantasy V? If they're all unique, then they're probably not going to have as many playable characters as the video makes it look.
(Unless they're crazy and did spend forever making hundreds of arts trees and character models. I wouldn't put it past these devs.)
When they started talking about the concept of re-classing, I almost fell out of my chair due to the levels of systems that game is going to have. The first game was kind of teetering toward the brink of over-complication sometimes with its menus, so I was amazed that they're adding another level. I don't think it's going to be that overly-complicated, however. I like the idea of letting you custom-tailor each character a little more and give them different looks in battle.
Are these classes going to be generic for everyone, or are they all going to be character-specific? The preview suggested there would be a lot more playable characters than in the first game, so maybe it's going to be more like the job system in Final Fantasy V? If they're all unique, then they're probably not going to have as many playable characters as the video makes it look.
(Unless they're crazy and did spend forever making hundreds of arts trees and character models. I wouldn't put it past these devs.)
Just finished watching the video, and I didn't think I could be any more hyped for this game, but I am! The battle system seems mostly the same to Xenoblade, which is fine by me. Looks like there are tons more combos little things to optimize damage output and help you win a fight, which is fantastic. And the monsters you fight are so diverse and unique, as is the armor and equipment you don on. And being able to bring pretty much anyone with you into combat will certainly add a lot of variety. I am SO excited for this! It's my most anticipated game, and will probably be my GOTG. FF15 will have to be amazing to top this.
Oh, and The Life has a nice hometown.
Oh, and The Life has a nice hometown.
That kind of did that with Dunban's Skills. Not giving him equipment gives him more evasion.
I know this wasn't in the recent direct,, but does anyone else think the map layout is... Well overly segmented? I don't like the layout, it's seems like there is too much negative space. Are those areas on the sides unlockable or is it just a weird map?
Just kind of makes me think that the continents are starting to move away from one another. Had they arrived on the planet several thousand years earlier it could have looked like a supercontinent. iYakku's original translation for Grasslands was Primordial Wilderness and seeing how there are alien dinosaurs and creatures that remind me of prehistoric mammals and insects, I can kind of see that.
There still could be unexplored areas though, we just don't know. My imagination has really run wild with this game.
heh
I'm still pretty amazed by FF15 so I don't think I can compare the two, they're both awesome
Trevelyan9999
Banned
Try downloading the video directly from Youtube (lots of programs out there that do this) and watch that scene again, no stuttering at all my friend.
Youtube/Browser can cause stuttering sometimes if it's not a 60fps video.