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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Catch All Info Thread
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Dice//
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Honestly, until this stops happening, I've lost faith in Japanese game plots being as good as they can be.
How this happens without fail in almost everything ever is absolutely baffling as far as humour goes. Do even otakus actually like this????
Dark_castle
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I meant the art style of the characters, the character design, not the models. There is a difference here. The previous two Xenoblade games had awful models, but their character design and art direction weren't that bad, aside from Lyn, she's bad regardless. I admit it is a rather premature to label this game as having bad character art and design at this point, but as a first impression? Baaaaaaaad.
And I just notice the little exposed ass cheek on the female lead design pointed out by others. Real mature guys.
Dark Cloud
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I know I'm gonna love this game for the world, music, gameplay and how the characters come together. This weaboo stuff or whatever you call it I don't care about.
Spieler Eins
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Resident Evil 7, Nioh and Yakuza 0 are coming shortly. I.e. there's still hope for this country, lol (and hopefully at least the former two become decent enough successes to give certain signals to developers).
Dare I say teaser, with most stuff not appearing (monsters, NPC), the strict minimum to just to say, "the initial series is still there".
People like to complain, nothing new.
I just want these bath stuff as few as possible. I don't want it to get to Sen level.
That's the only part that should concern people really.
Dark_castle
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You know what's more baffling. The original Xeno game in Xenogears had top tier story/plot of not just JRPG's but video games in general. People thought Xenoblade had a good story, while I thought it was okay at best, though I didn't bother to beat the game, stopped like halfway through so maybe I'm wrong. Xenoblade X generally accepted to be worse than Xenoblade in the story.
There is a difference in disagreeing and saying someone is wrong for having a opinion over something very subjective, you can accept that people like something you don't without trashing their opinion.
On the other hand, I find the character designs and expressions art pretty cute, I wonder if they chose Masatsugu Saito based on his experience in working and designing anime CGI characters and mechanical models from Expelled from Paradise, which if done well can look pretty good.
Jonneh3003
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I tweeted Adam Howden saying that I was wondering if he has any involvement in Xenoblade 2, he responded with "so am I". Adam was the voice of Shulk, knew it was a long shot but thought I would ask nonetheless.
Localisation probably hasn't started even if Shulk makes an appearance.
Localisation probably hasn't started even if Shulk makes an appearance.
Dice//
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I'm not sure what the baffling part here is, that the stories might be getting worse?
Fingers, toes, and eyes crossed.
Dark_castle
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Oh shit, Van Damme is in this? Game fucking redeemed. GOTY 2017 HERE WE GO
No, it really wasnt. Shitty techno rock hop
Damn. I hope British VA returns. I'm really worried.
I posted this previous thread, the animation from Expelled from Paradise is pretty good, really does show that anime CGI done right can be great.
Having seen more art and all, this... Does look way more anime than the first one, huh. This game had my hyped as hell but now I'm worried.
Yes the first one had a couple of shitty anime tropes, but somehow the narrative wasn't affected much by it if that makes sense. This looks like it's doubling down on it, I mean, there's promotional art with that girl's exposed ass already, Jesus.
Yes the first one had a couple of shitty anime tropes, but somehow the narrative wasn't affected much by it if that makes sense. This looks like it's doubling down on it, I mean, there's promotional art with that girl's exposed ass already, Jesus.
It could come out March 2018 and that would still be in Nintendo's 2017 fiscal year.
Maybe it'll get delayed beyond that point but they have a solid year to work on it.
purseowner
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Yeah the movie was cool. The story was okay but it was really for the animation that it's worth looking at.
True, but the default outfits were all relatively normal. Here, we already have her back almost completely exposed... personally I don't mind it, but between this and elements like the bath scene I suppose there will be many, many things that won't sit well with some people.
Alex_Mexico
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It appears to be so and I don't like that. The first Xenoblade is one of the best jrpgs in recent years and it didn't have to go full anime...
StereoVsn
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They will just paint it over with black paint/contrast to make it look like pants Tokyo Mirage style.Don't worry - I'm sure Nintendo will cover that up in the West.
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Overall, it actually was a good soundtrack. The problem was the songs that played most often were generally not good. That, combined with living in the shadow of the soundtrack of the original that was simply glorious in almost all aspects, really made it seem during gameplay to be an awful soundtrack.I mean, what songs do you actually remember hating other than NLA day/night, normal battle ground/Skell, and possibly the flight theme?
I would say "Character designs at least translates better into 3D than XBX" but realised it was just Lin who looked creepy af.
But yeah, miss Xenoblade 1's designer :'(
Monkey paws wishes
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, so on so fourth.
But the pacing was great and characters were kept grounded enough, perhaps. Melia in particular is unbelievably iron willed, and felt super bad for her.
I get what you mean regarding XB2's trailer literally having all the dialogue be every anime romance ever though. Yikes.
But yeah, miss Xenoblade 1's designer :'(
Monkey paws wishes
It was effected a lot by it. Much of the character development is typical anime naval gazing "I must protect those I love/friends give me power", story is avenging a friend killed by opposing empire, mysterious man of ambiguous siding
that ends up being an extremely important entity
love interest gets turned into an android
But the pacing was great and characters were kept grounded enough, perhaps. Melia in particular is unbelievably iron willed, and felt super bad for her.
I get what you mean regarding XB2's trailer literally having all the dialogue be every anime romance ever though. Yikes.
hurricanes
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A new Xenoblade 2 thread I see?
Let me whine more about the character design.
Let me whine more about the character design.
All Xeno games go full anime. For the record I do prefer the artstyles/art direction for XC and XCX rather than it seems we are getting now.
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Xenoblade Chronicles and X were both totally anime games. X even more, but let us not hide the anime tropes in Xenoblade Chronicles and everything else.
The new style doesn't look like lifeless puppets finally.
For obvious tropes:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/Xenoblade
Yeah let us ignore that half of the soundtrack is rather chill than techno/rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajBDGwumWcA
Hahaha no kidding. God, I really hope we get a sequel out of spite for those who hate Xenoblade Chronicles X because I freaking love that game too. The meltdowns would be glorious. Honestly, I like everything about each Xenoblade game that we're getting. No hate from me.
Update on Adam Howden:
https://mobile.twitter.com/A_HOWDZ/status/820980401476894721
He's also wondering if he's involved with the English version of the game.
https://mobile.twitter.com/A_HOWDZ/status/820980401476894721
He's also wondering if he's involved with the English version of the game.
I agree. The voice acting, for example. Let's hope it's in the capable hands of the people who worked on X, they did such a great job.
What? Please, god no. Give it to NoE/Side UK. A stock American anime VA will kill any hope of this game having any charm of the original.
purseowner
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Whatever they do, please give us dual audio.
They're not handling its localisation. It's in the OP.
I'm about 50 hours into the other two Xenoblade games, and have yet to beat either, but I really like the first 50 hours of each game. This game looks great already, and the portable nature of the Switch with this game is perfect.
Now, let's hope they can make the text a bit more readable than XCX.
Now, let's hope they can make the text a bit more readable than XCX.
Ah, oops. I had a feeling they weren't this time around. Thanks.
What he's saying is fact. Xenoblade 2's cahracters anime-inspired, just like those of the first one.
What you're saying is just your opinion.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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It's a little mind numbing to read multiple posts where people are just repeating a single term instead of properly expressing their opinion.
shark sandwich
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Xenogears is my favorite JRPG of all time. It's so depressing that 18 years later, no other game has even attempted to tell a story that huge and epic. I was naive to think that, with the exponentially improving technology, JRPGs were primed to take storytelling to the next level.
Guys, you know having a dumb bath scene doesn't mean the entire thing will be harem anime style garbage right?
I don't have problems with the more generic jrpg style for the characters (I'm assuming an artstyle change was mandated after someone saw how successful FE has gotten when it went "modern anime") but dear god I hope we can still change their clothing, because those pants look really stupid.
Also in the trailer the framerate looks really rough, I hope they smooth it out a bit by the time it releases.
I don't have problems with the more generic jrpg style for the characters (I'm assuming an artstyle change was mandated after someone saw how successful FE has gotten when it went "modern anime") but dear god I hope we can still change their clothing, because those pants look really stupid.
Also in the trailer the framerate looks really rough, I hope they smooth it out a bit by the time it releases.
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