AceBandage
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darkwings said:
It's been on every NA release list since it was revealed last year, so there's a good chance.
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Xenoblade (Wii, Monolithsoft x Nintendo) Information Thread
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It's been on every NA release list since it was revealed last year, so there's a good chance.
AceBandage
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farnham said:
That's, sadly, not how it works with Tales games.
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Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
My point was; the fact that Tales of Grace was never released in Japan has no barring on whether or not it was an "epic" RPG for Wii.
Note: duckroll is still not participating in this thread, this is a remote message meant to be a public service announcement.
duckroll is a fucking idiot
You heard it here first. duckroll is a fucking idiot. The director of Xenoblade is not Keiichi Ono. It's Koh Kojima. How did duckroll the fucking idiot make such a mistake? Drugs, lots and lots of drugs. Good thing he's not in this thread anymore, or he might see this message and be sad.
duckroll is a fucking idiot
You heard it here first. duckroll is a fucking idiot. The director of Xenoblade is not Keiichi Ono. It's Koh Kojima. How did duckroll the fucking idiot make such a mistake? Drugs, lots and lots of drugs. Good thing he's not in this thread anymore, or he might see this message and be sad.
Glass Soldier
Banned
duckroll said:
But wouldn't the Koh Kojima part make him happy again? I don't get it.
SilverLunar
Member
duckroll said:
wrowa said:
Yes, all the new Monolithsoft games aside from the SRW OG Sagas are directed by company veterans who previously did not have a chance to helm their own games.
Soma Bringer - Shingo Kawabata
Disaster: Day of Crisis - Keiichi Ono
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans - Koji Hayashi
Xenoblade - Koh Kojima
Darthdevidem01
Banned
Will this sell a million like xenosaga & xenogears did?
AceBandage
Banned
Darthdevidem01 said:
Doubtful.
Darthdevidem01
Banned
duckroll said:
Oh I thought both sold a million worldwide (obviously xenosaga 2/3 didn't)
I can't help but feel this game hasn't been marketed properly in Japan.
AceBandage
Banned
ILikeFeet said:
Good luck with that...
ILikeFeet said:
Ooooooh! I want to take you up on that bet. How much do you want to wager?
Darthdevidem01 said:
Worldwide sure. But in Japan even if you combined all 3 episodes of XS, you still wouldn't get a million. It would be close though, just like Xenogears was close to a million but didn't cross it.
Xenoblade was shown at E3 last year. While this doesn't make it immune to disappearing in the NA, it is a good sign that it is going to come out in NA. As far as I know Tales of Graces was never shown at E3
Whenever somebody mentions game X (lately X = Tales of Graces) wasn't released in NA and Xenoblade probably won't either it is just a poor way to commiserate and usually not analogous.
Whenever somebody mentions game X (lately X = Tales of Graces) wasn't released in NA and Xenoblade probably won't either it is just a poor way to commiserate and usually not analogous.
As a reference for how Wii games sell in Japan: http://garaph.info/gamesearch.php?t...meid=&orderby=SalesLTD+DESC&res1=&res2=&opt=1ILikeFeet said:
When making this prediction, you won't want to use anything that sells 3-4 million copies on another platform (Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, Pokemon) to help aid your guess.
Xenoblade was announced at E3 (stealth-announced, but announced) and was on every NoA release list since then. Currently, the odds that it's coming to America are higher than the odds that it won't. Even if GAF likes being pessimistic and hating on NoA (which for the most part is justified).Parley said:
wrowa said:
Eh, that's never been much of a reason to believe NoA will actually end up localizing it. Disaster was also revealed in their E3 2006 montage, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure about Zangeki no Reginleiv but I think it was also revealed in one of their trailers as Dynamic Slash, wasn't it? I have some hope for the localization of Xenoblade but none of it comes from how NoA has revealed the title so far. Their approach seems to be to toss everything they know of in a big montage then decide later whether or not they will localize it.
I do think that interview with Dunaway, where she basically diverted the discussion to Xenoblade and Last Story, means that the higher-ups at NoA at least seem inclined towards localizing the games, if they haven't decided already.
Darthdevidem01
Banned
DarkPanda said:
I prefer that than the trailers/magazines spoiling half the plot of a certain game I was really hyped for
Bel Marduk
Banned
Huh, Koh Kojima is directing? That's interesting. Koh Kojima FTW.
No, Reginleiv was never mentioned by NoA. The trailer reel you remember was shown at Nintendo's autumn conference 2008 in Japan.Bear said:
Disaster's case in another one alltogether. It was shown during a trailer montage at E3 2006, but that was less about the reveal of Disaster than about showing some of the Wii's first generation games - it was the first public presentation of Wii games after all. After that we didn't hear anything about the game for, like, two years and it wasn't listed on NoA's release lists anymore either, as far as I remember.
In Xenoblade's case it was (kind of) announced at E3 and it remained on NoA's release lists ever since. That doesn't guarantee that NoA will release it in the US, but at this moment the odds are in favor of a release in the US.
In Xenoblade's case we got 5 trailers, a several minutes long documentation and a bunch of magazine previews with character information and such during the last several weeeks. There aren't many things in the dark that have to be talked about and Nintendo revealed much more about Xenoblade than about the other small-tier Wii games they published in the last years.DarkPanda said:
has this been posted? the site updated with 2 new NPCs. Anoop has translated them
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/06/03/xenoblade_site_update/
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/06/03/xenoblade_site_update/
AceBandage
Banned
ILikeFeet said:
Another sniper, interesting.
Bel Marduk
Banned
AceBandage said:
Too bad they won't do any actual sniping :lol Unless Carna is the exception since she fights up close.
Also, the old dude's name is Odama?
Edit: I hope the world is as big as DQ VIII.
Summary of Takahashi and Takeda interview
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/06/03/monolith-soft-discusses-developing-xenoblades-protagonist/
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/06/03/monolith-soft-discusses-developing-xenoblades-protagonist/
wrowa said:
Sorry about that, my mistake. Even so, I don't feel like the E3 reveal has much bearing on the game's future. Like I said earlier I still think it has a decent chance of being localized, but that decision will probably be primarily in the hands of their financial department. The biggest factor is whether or not NoA feels it is going to be profitable to localize the game. That short reveal segment at E3 is good for promotion at a trade show, but it's a nonfactor when they look at the numbers and decide if it is worthwhile.
The release lists are somewhat reassuring, though. Since the game is already complete, if it is indeed being released here I hope we'll hear about it at E3.
BKO's lead story writer is directing?!?!?!?! OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!duckroll said:
I think you can transport or save at any time now, except during an actual battle of course. So there's no need for waypoints, just go to the menu.thetrin said:
charlequin
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Bear said:
Let's be honest: the biggest factor is whether or not NoA thinks they can get away with not localizing it.