Tidus_Great
Banned
it looks downgraded. The textures and lighting dont look as good and the character faces are the same as ever.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X Direct - Battle on March 6th [up: video with subtitles]
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Downgraded from what exactly?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Nothing has been downgraded at all....if anything it looks like the character models have gotten a slight upgrade if anything, dont be expecting anything like a downgrade when the game is probably going gold in japan as we speak.
Let's not start this again. It was agreed and accepted that there was no downgrade after some tried to foolishly push this idea. The textures, light, etc was improved since the game was originally shown. We've had the video and picture comparisons already in other threads that shown this.
Sable~Knight
Member
Not sure if I follow. I thought I was going to order my party members during battle - "attack", "defend", possibly nothing but basic stuff like this, still at least some kind of direct input. If I remember correctly in XC you were able to tell them to focus on one enemy for example, so this seemed like an extension of that. Honestly I was already picturing how it might look on the Gamepad - another cool implementation of the touchscreen! Maybe I'm just completely off the mark though
There's a battle menu (which you bring up by pressing +), which has all those commands, they showed it briefly during the E3 Treehouse footage, but it was fairly extensive.
In addition to that is this new soul voice system, think of it as real time combos, strategic and tactical coordination with your party. You can customize and tinker with these soul voice actions to your liking, but from what I understand so far is that sometimes after using an art you'll be prompted to press B, which will allow a soul voice to activate, encouraging your party member to use a specific art. This is especially relevant because you'll have arts that combo together (general example: I use something that has the effect of making an enemy more vulnerable to a certain type of attack, my party member has that art, and so I call to her to use it, and she does). That's what I know so far. Still getting caught up on this thread, and haven't watched the entire thing yet either..!
Trevelyan9999
Banned
Have to disagree:
Elma from E3 2014:
Elma from today's presentation:
Improvements in every way from lighting to textures (not referring to these pics but overall game), even to the dreaded faces (well definitely Elma's lol)
Sable~Knight
Member
Ah that's a shame... I assumed you had to wait a few years because you wanted to finish Med school first
Sable~Knight
Member
The mecha we see at the end isn't the usual red one we're used to see in the video... mecha customisation confirmed ? *_*
There are actually a few different models we've send, a mass production doll, an inferno unit, the ocean Dolls (from the E3 trailer) were different again, and then we've seen similar heavily customized ones, and then there are all the alien mechs. I know that we can customize colour, and by changing arts we can change the equipment on our Doll (think giant sword, shoulder mounted rocket launcher, energy shield, Gatling gun etc).
Sable~Knight
Member
Check out the exploration video on iYakku's youtube channel, they introduced 3 indigenous alien species, the Nopon, the Vyers (hostile aliens) and Ma-non, intelligent with the best technology around, love pizza. In addition to those there's octopus woman from here, and the cat aliens. It's been speculated that GROWTH is an alliance of some sort between multiple alien species... Idk. We'll see, but there's definitely indigenous, intelligent life on Mira.
StreetsAhead
Member
Right, but if he's a party member in the same way as Elma & co. are, why introduce him in the same way as Serika, Meledes, and Fry?
SuperCambot
Banned
That armor... It's great to know this game is nice and pervy, as expected. What's her name is supposed to be 13 years old, right? Nice cleavage.
I don't really care. I think all the outfits/armor is great, actually. I actually hope there's an Amiibo line for this game.
EDIT: Also, did the monster at 22:10 barf up a human being?
I don't really care. I think all the outfits/armor is great, actually. I actually hope there's an Amiibo line for this game.
EDIT: Also, did the monster at 22:10 barf up a human being?
Actually the game didn't get downgraded. Your eyes did.
That looks like Lyn. Could possibly be a monster that is capable of eating party members. I know a few other RPGs that do this but I can't name any off the top of my head.
That or it's just a weird animation glitch.
It's being worked on by fan translators iYakku and Gessenkou. They said we can expect one with the dialogue translated either today (Saturday) or tomorrow(Sunday), and to expect one with full translation of menus later in the week.
Here is their work on the last "Direct". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjTzuqyQZlc
Persona5me
Banned
Good god, the combat looks atrocious. It makes Final Fantasy 14 ARR's combat look like Devil May Cry. The art style looks improved but the combat system looks like its going to be MMO-lite. I'm just going to wait for FF XV instead.
Did you play Xenoblade?
GasProblem
Member
I enjoyed the combat in Xenoblade *shrugs* Especally the Break/Topple/Daze mechanic.
This looks even better. Some pretty flashy moves in there.
Comes out in Japan in april right? Excited to see some impressions.
Luckily I have Monster Hunter to tide me over 'till this hits
This looks even better. Some pretty flashy moves in there.
Comes out in Japan in april right? Excited to see some impressions.
Luckily I have Monster Hunter to tide me over 'till this hits
Whats wrong with it, as far as i can tell it looks like an improved version of the original combat system, which was amazing.
The answer is very obvious :^)
Persona5me
Banned
Yes I did. Spent over 100 hours on 2 playthroughs and that was in spite of the uninspiring combat.
This just makes your previous answer even more bizarre to me. I also think you'd be better off playing both this and FFXV, no need to make it one or the other. Both games look to be worthwhile experiences.
LOL. Sure. It's pretty obvious you didn't dabled into Xenoblade's combat system further than spamming same artes over and over, otherwise you wouldn't be spouting BS.
Also, you shitting on XCX battle system makes it pretty ironic considering your username and avatar. Just saiyan'.
Space Medafighter X
Member
Aw man, exactly what I was hoping for. Looks like WAY more stuff and upgrades from the previous xenoblade.
Jesus I can't wait!!
Jesus I can't wait!!
We all know whats going on here, go shit post somewhere else if you don't like the game. This thread is about the Direct announcement.
Oh mann, this is what i was looking for, Thanks!!
Oh mann, this is what i was looking for, Thanks!!
I'm really hoping the J-Pop music is mostly just for the trailers.
It's quite unappealing I agree, but I doubt they'll be blaring that as we spend hours exploring the world, that would drive people insane.
threelights
Member
Not to comment on your comparisons, Xenoblade's battle system was indeed very very bad and this one seems to follow it, but it also adds a lot of things that the battle system desperately needed. I would honestly give it a chance until the game is out (specially since we'll also have mech combat, and that may be completely different).
Also, if you expect a good battle system out of FFXV then I feel sorry for you...
Go play these games for their stories and exploration, that will give you way more enjoyment out of them.
Oh right, I've forgot that FFXV battle system comes down to MASH X TO WIN. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
threelights
Member
I would love to prove you wrong if you went to a FFXV thread, as to not derail this one. But if you want a quick explanation, then no, it's not that at all. The director pretty much confirmed they have no idea what to do with the battle system and will do whatever the fans want. That's the short version, but please, let's not derail this thread any further than this.
StreetsAhead
Member
I mean, it's all music from the game. Whether or not some of it is cutscene music or not is a question, I suppose. But they didn't write music just for these trailers.
They did say there's a lot of vocals in the music, though.
threelights
Member
With all the stuff we've seen (and mostly heard) so far...
I wonder if they'll try to do something like Libera Me From Hell from Gurren Lagann.
That would be extremely ballsy, as it could either make your game extremely epic or transform the end of the game into a headache if the music is not good enough =X
I wonder if they'll try to do something like Libera Me From Hell from Gurren Lagann.
That would be extremely ballsy, as it could either make your game extremely epic or transform the end of the game into a headache if the music is not good enough =X
saving the best for last?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
On topic of music: Takahashi said that the game has more tracks than XC. But (more or less) half of XC music was dedicated to the explorable zones/cities. Since XCX has only 5 main zones and 1 city (that we know of), I'm wondering if they've decided to break them down into smaller zones with each having its own track.
StreetsAhead
Member
saving the best for last?
Eh, I still think that either they're all temporary members or all full members. Doesn't make sense to just have 1 important member thrown in with 3 random, temporary members.
What the hell is that talking pink thing and how can I kill it?
I think you can cook it. It's apparently quite tasty in curries, with gravy or just deep fried.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
So the song that starts specifically at 24:28 in the video might possibly be my favorite song from this OST
http://youtu.be/Pq-H_xEc8c0?t=24m28s
http://youtu.be/Pq-H_xEc8c0?t=24m28s
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Quality since the localization is being done by nintendo's treehouse
and not square's in-house team, seriously they need to get better translators.
Have you ever played Xenoblade? You know that while character "automatically attack" they barely do any damage? Most of the real damage is done when you utilize a Arts, and they pretty much do it immediately after you select it. There's a whole lot more going into it too, like status ailments such as "Topple" where you do want to follow an attack with a particular kind of Arts in order to stun them.
If you think the combat is uninspired, then you haven't played FFXIII.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
Oh man, I missed out on hearing that the first time. That sounds fantastic.
But the combat in 13 was one of the few good things about it?
... once they took the training wheels off
... and they ruined it in 13-2
So nevermind!
Same for me, I'm still replaying this part just to hear this song
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Ive been doing just that
I really hope there's some diversity in the OST, at least... but I can already tell that I won't like this OST very much, to be honest. Such a shame.
BassForever
Member
I never got a chance to watch the last direct with english subs thanks