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It's very hard for me to play this on the Wii because of how awful it looks which sucks because of how the game itself is beautiful. I tried playing on the PC but it never worked correctly
I finally gave in after over two years of hearing about it and finally bought a copy online here in Japan. I always said I would wait for a used copy but the game was never cheaper used at any game store around my parts. Last week or so been reading people impressions again and I finally said i cant wait any longer to play it. So now I'm just waiting for it to be delivered this week. Can't wait to play it finally and hopefully it lives up to the hype. However I have one annoying problem. My wii has a crazy screen problem where tons of flickering gray lines and dots appear on the screen randomly. I'm probably going to have to send it in to repair it. Hopefully wont cost too much for me, I have no idea how much Nintendo of Japan charges for such fixes. Either way looking forward to playing this soon.
It's very hard for me to play this on the Wii because of how awful it looks which sucks because of how the game itself is beautiful. I tried playing on the PC but it never worked correctly
Yes I would very much appreciate that. Thank you.
Thank you. This is amazing. I'll try it out soon and let you know how everything turned out.Sure thing.
This is what you'll need:
Anyway, that can be a lot to take in, so let me know if you have any questions - and good luck!
Thank you. This is amazing. I'll try it out soon and let you know how everything turned out.
Oh wtf I spent all day fiddling around to get it to 90% perfect......Like any game, it's a matter of opinion, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience thus far. The only negative feedback I have at this point (44 hours in) is that the end-game is not nearly as gorgeous as the early areas, but that's mostly due to the completely different kind of environment you're in. It's impressive in its own way, but I just don't find it (or the enemies) as exciting.
Try the below and see if it works for you. The main thing is that if your PC isn't a beast you're not going to be able to run the game well regardless, so don't be trying this on some dual core laptop or something
Sure thing.
This is what you'll need:
1x Xenoblade PAL / NTSC ISO. There's methods documented on how to rip this from the disk out there, so not going to reiterate here.
HLE Audio patched Dolphin client - You can use the pre-compiled version linked to in this post, or you can get the patch and patch the client yourself.
NOTE: Try regular Dolphin 3.5 with LLE audio first if you have an i7 or greater (especially if overclocked) as chances are you can probably run LLE and not have to worry about the HLE patch.
30 FPS Patch (PAL VERSION ONLY) - Try out the game first and see if you can run it at a stable 25 FPS. If you can, then use this (backup your ISO first just in case) to get it to run at 30 FPS.
Motionjoy - Use this if you plan on hooking up a PS3 or 360 controller and using that with the emulator. I have issues with using the PS3 profile with my PS3 controller (go figure) so I set motionjoy for 360 controller emulation and that works fine.
Here's all of the important settings:
NOTE: Depending on your graphics card you may have issues with using Texture instead of RAM under EFB Copies. I recommend trying it out with Texture first if you have a good graphics card. Otherwise, you can use RAM. Texture does cause the save screen screenshot to be all garbled, but otherwise I have not noticed any other issues, and it runs faster than RAM for me so I've stuck to it.
NOTE2: The "game-specific" settings can be gotten to by right clicking on the game in Dolphin (add it to the list so it's always there when you start Dolphin) and then clicking on Properties.
Anyway, that can be a lot to take in, so let me know if you have any questions - and good luck!
It's a really shallow action rpg with a really mediocre story.
Oh wtf I spent all day fiddling around to get it to 90% perfect......
The music is fantastic, and I fixed most of the stuttering but not all. A lot of the so called fixes I've read about didn't work for me.
Still...after dropping 6 hours into it today and yesterday, I have to say RPG of the...generation?
I'm hard pressed to name another jrpg or even RPG that is so beautifully put together with one of the best soundtracks in a long time.
THIS is what final fantasy should have been and there are similarities to 12. This, however, is more fun to play and I like not having to fiddle around with customizing actions to get members to do shit.
Reminds me of the glory days of Baiten Kaitos.
Positives
- gorgeous in dolphin. Lands are stunning and the col ours are bright and vibrant. The environments show a great sense of scale and will leave you in awe.
- mix of ff12 and Grandia battles and I like the banter before, during, and after. It's very seemless and gives the characters a lot of character.
- heavenly music. Eclectic mix of sounds that just seems to work. I already have a few tunes stuck in my head.
- voice acting is extremely well done and now I finally get that stupid reyn time reference. The accents really help with the immersion for some reason and I'm glad they stayed.
- lots of skills to upgrade, passives to upgrade, gems to upgrade and relationships to upgrade.
- equipment is reflected on characters
- great flow in gameplay without a lot of loading and battles are super quick in transition.
Negatives
- the story is a bit clichéd at the point I'm in now and I don't really like the MC. The VA isn't at fault, he did a great job with what he had to work with. Plucky young lad out to dave the world blah blah blah.
- controls and camera aren't where I'd like them to be...they made some odd ass choices...
- lot of palette swapped enemies... How many fucking species of club-wielding rabbits are there?!
- the biggest beef I have with the game is the shitty, monotonous, boring, and repetitive quests. Find x number of items. Kill X number of that. Find X person. Etc etc etc
So it's pretty much the same as Xenoblade.
How's your CPU usage when you're playing? If it spikes whenever you get a skip, then that's probably your answer there. I get a hiccup once in a very great while at this point with the above settings, and only in cut scenes with a lot going on (usually a dip down to 28 FPS and then right back to 30, so it's minor).
Also, it's funny that you mention Baten Kaitos as I'm playing Baten Kaitos Origin after this. I'm almost at the ending, though, so that may be this weekend.
The comparisons to FF12 are amusing too, because I played that game for 2 hours and never touched it again. Thought it was boring as shit with characters and a story that didn't captivate me at all
Could be. I'll check it today during Reyn time.
I did have a few progs running in the back but the thing is, it'll run perfect for the first bit and certain areas like the first town give the audio problems. A restart pretty much fixes things. I'm at the point now where they're so infrequent that it's bearable.
And for some ungodly reason, this runs way better than monhun. No audio graphical glitches but dat low fps....I REALLY have to crank down settings to to get it playable.
Core i5 2.8 GHz
Nvidia 660ti
8gb ddr3
Win7
Unlocked. I've never OCed it though as none of my games benefit from it. May fiddle with it laterThat i5 at 2.8 ghz is what's killing you. Can you overclock it or is it locked? The minimum recommended for this game via emulator is a quad core at 3.2 ghz, but for really smooth playback 4 ghz+ via an i7 is the best bet. I'll be going with intel myself on my next upgrade most likely.
Edit: Here's an example. I checked my OC settings and found out that they'd been reset while I was doing some stuff on my PC lately, so turns out I was actually running things at 3.2 ghz! I then pushed it up to just over 3.8 ghz stable and upped both the internal resolution in the game and turned on 4x SSAA. I now maintain a stable 30 FPS in combat, even with like 6 enemies on screen. So yeah, CPU power makes all the difference here.
In fact, I was only level 70 when I wasand in order to get through that I would've had to grind for at least an hour or two, if not longer. I honestly just didn't have it in me at that point, so I just tossed in some insta-level 99 cheat codes and powered through the rest of the battles. I was still interested in the story all the way through, just tired of fighting stuff. So, in that respect, it could have been probably about 10 hours shorter and not lost anything.in the heart of the Bionis
You mean Zamza? He didn't want to destroy the world so much as reset it and absorb most of its biomass to continue his own life. By which I mean, his motivations were perfectly logic (if obviously evil and selfish), as opposed to "MWAHAHA I'LL DESTROY THE WORLD FOR THE SAKE OF IT!". I agree that Egil was more interesting as a character, but that's the deal; it would not be satisfying to have him as a final boss because he has good (if misguided) reasons for what he does. Offing a true villain is more satisfying as a finale.
I assumed more or less the same myself, but the official guide (which has facts straight from Takahashi himself) states as I said, that"while it's wasn't shown, in the world after the ending a technology to regenerate lost body parts is developed by Linada. Through this all Faces regain their original bodies."
While Shulks actions aren't mentioned, they could have played a part though. If the Faces were essentially "destined" to die as human/machine hybrids, then Shulk changing the world to let people decide their own futures may have opened the door needed for Linada to develop the technology to save them. Maybe.
I've been dying for a jrpg for the longest time and was extremely disappointed by Xenoblade. Sure, the world is vast and all, but I guess I'm so old school that I couldn't get over not being able to go into random houses and stealing from treasure chests, that kind of thing.
Also, it was like they didn't put any effort into keeping me from guessing the plot twists. Major spoilers ahead:
Yes, I did guess that Fiora was alive, because you never really see her die. Plus, it took the characters like twenty seconds to get over her. You can also smell Dickson's betrayal a mile away. Was I supposed to be surprised by this when he mutters to himself, "Everything is going according to kaikaku!"?!?!
Looking back, I don't mind being completely in the dark about certain characters, like how it was in Heavy Rain. Sure, even though I did feel somewhat cheated, the shock element was more satisfying than having to grind for hours upon hours then to find out what I already knew.
While that's true, I think the real twist there is that Alvis - who interacts with Dickson a lot - wasn't a bad guy. He's very much built up as someone doing *something* sneaky behind the scenes. Did you get that, too?
I had an unopened copy waiting for over a year now. I was holding out till the Wii U so I could play it on the gamepad as I didn't think I'd be able to hog the tv for such an extended period of time. Well turned out it's not playable on the gamepad, so I've started playing it yesterday on the Wii instead. (And holding off buying a Wii U until, probably 2014 or something, which is really really weird for the one time Nintendo fanboy that still resides in me somewhere).
Anyways, really liking it so far. Lovely music, the muddled graphics are a bit getting used to after five years of HD gaming but hold up okay, and I hate turn-based JRPGs, so am grateful that they went with a more action based approach (although so far it's pretty daunting and I prefer the Tales of.. approach). Well I'm only one and a half hour in and I'm already thinking oh boy ten times this. I have no patience anymore lol, I really wonder how far I'm going to get in this game before being distracted by something else.
The English voice acting is great, but the character writing is a bit... aimed at twelve years old? I hope I haven't outgrown JRPGs for good.
I was all excited to try this on Dolphin but after reading through this thread it seems I'm out of luck.
The best I can throw at it is a Core i5 @ 2.50GHz, GT640M, so I'm guessing I shouldn't bother?
So Xenoblade is now sold out on gamestops website. Any other places I can buy it for the $50 retail price and not get screwed?
So Xenoblade is now sold out on gamestops website. Any other places I can buy it for the $50 retail price and not get screwed?
My CCP always "disconnects" every 5 mins. I tried connecting the Nunchuk but the disconnection message still pops up. It seems to be only with this game, I tried searching it and some other people have had the same problem only with Xenoblade but there were no solutions how to fix it.
Anyone here know?
You mean if you let it sit idle or does it do so when you're playing? If it's when it's idle, then that's normal. Alt +F5 in Dolphin will reconnect it. However, if what you mean is that you're actively using the controller and it keeps disconnecting then I have no clue as this never occurred for me.
What's the difficulty like in Xenoblade incidentally?
Also how long does it take to beat?
I've been thinking about getting this game for a while but I don't know if I can invest that much time into it.
It'll happen when I'm playing, I'm not using Dolphin just a regular Wii.
I'll just be playing then all of a sudden it "disconnects" and I have to remove it from the wiimote and plug it back in. I mean I don't mind doing it but it gets annoying and it'll probably ruin the hardware in the long run.
What's the difficulty like in Xenoblade incidentally?
Also how long does it take to beat?
I've been thinking about getting this game for a while but I don't know if I can invest that much time into it.
So I just got to the Village full of those little things. I absolutely adore this game so far. The atmosphere and sense of adventure missing from almost every JRPG this gen is present here. The music, oh god the music. And I actually am finding myself liking the characters so much that I am giving everybody a little playtime. That's extremely rare for me. This is everything i wanted Final Fantasy 13 to be when it was first announced. Shame i waited so long to play it.
I've been playing this on my Wii U but I've been really pissing around the idea of getting a DVD drive that reads Wii discs just to play this on Dolphin though. Every time i get to an awesome scene, i can't help but think how much better it'd look in HD. How did you guys get the ISO ripped? Apparently after some research it takes a VERY specific DVD drive and I'm just not sure I want to spend the money to buy a drive just for this and 2-3 other Wii games on Dolphin.
The ending of this game is what I think as one of the most perfect endings to ever be put in a JRPG. It ties up all loose ends, it's heartwarming, and there'sthat subtle little detail thrown in there that allows your imagination to fill in the blanks. Like say, the entire game was all inside Klaus's head or something.
Why can't I do any heart-to-hearts?
So no store is really selling this for $60 anymore? Anybody know the cheapest place? I recently signed up for Gamefly again, might just rent from there and buy it.
So no store is really selling this for $60 anymore? Anybody know the cheapest place? I recently signed up for Gamefly again, might just rent from there and buy it.
Why can't I do any heart-to-hearts?
So no store is really selling this for $60 anymore? Anybody know the cheapest place? I recently signed up for Gamefly again, might just rent from there and buy it.