Xenoblade X Eurogamer Preview: Maybe 2015's Most Impressive Open World
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TheGreatMightyPoo
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Giantbomb Quick Look is up, maybe old news.
He is always like that, I just don't bother. He has his opinions, which is fine but he will never hear one that goes against his, ever. You have more chance trying to talk to a concrete wall.
The Elite
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. Will have to wait.Joegrine_TT
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Giant Bomb Quick Look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKcoPGUHa4
The wait is killing me.
Why is this guy not banned yet? He's Evilore's mentally challenged cousin or something?
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Why is this guy not banned yet? He's Evilore's mentally challenged cousin or something?
One of the things I like about Xenoblade (original) is how it encourages you to rotate your party to build affinity. And the characters play differently enough that whenever I started getting bored with the battles, I could switch to someone else to change things up.
Palculator
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Mods must have him on ignore too.
Joegrine_TT
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Before i came on neogaf. I used to do a lot of reading in the comments section. Ninjablade is more of an entertainment according to how ppl reply to him lol
Palculator
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Hehe, I guess. But I'll stick with only being exposed to the posts people quote as a sort of filter.
can't watch it here - who did the QL? One of the rare cases where I'd very much rather have someone like Austin at the helm than Jeff etc.
Austin and Vinny
Oh lord Vinny doing the crab voice was hilarious.
I'd say they liked it, yes. Vinny is always like this.
Vincent Grayson
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Funny, I've watched plenty of videos of XCX, but the GB quicklook was the first to make me really think "Holy shit, there's a lot of shit to keep track of here".
The first game was also like that since some monster only appear during certain time of day or weather conditions.
Happened a few time in the first game I'm running toward a monster, the time go over what the game consider night time, see my target disappear. (They stay if they are engaged though thank god.)
Yeah, but with the impressions putting emphasis on the creatures in this game, I expected a step up from that.
Assassin's Creed IV was what he picked up as what he considered the best looking WiiU game to date (in a time when Mario Kart 8 was already available).
I remember because I thought it was a weird choice (of course different genres and all).
do female characters get that 'mask' thing as a face option too?
I need to see all of the Wonderful 101 main cast remade in Xenoblade.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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I might make Wonder Red and use him in this game.
I would have made Wonder Green but they removed the boob slider :[
brainchild
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I believe realism is what matters most to ninjablade, so I can understand why he'd choose that as an example of a game truly pushing Wii U. It has dynamic shadows and lighting, and that seems to be his barometer for a technically impressive game.
However, if we're going the realism route, I'd say Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the most realistic looking game on the Wii U. Of course, you don't need pure realism in order to find something technically impressive, but that would require some actual critical thinking skills...
Wonder Red remade
https://d3esbfg30x759i.cloudfront.net/ss/zlCfzTX4INYS5HTXf_
Only linking because Elma is dressed nsfw.
Aaronrules380
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Amazing
Yeah that was kind of weird. It looked really off in 2015 for that to happen. Idk.
Well, if the halo 5 thread is anything to go by then people could care less about locked framerate and smooth experiences if "compromises" we're made to get there such as what he listed in his post.
That looks pretty good. I hope that armour set can have colour variants out there like the last game.
And someone's attempt at Wonder Blue.
Edit: Ah the arm pieces are blue so I guess they fall under that series of different colours for certain armour sets.
I know what outfit Elma is getting in my game o3o
#partoftheproblem
bobbychalkers
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By the 15th hour, I'll probably have everyone in dumb skimpy outfits.
I've finally buy it. I'll use it carefully.
I'm probably going to cancel the special edition because I'm not paying near $100 extra for that. I'll just import the Secret File Art book and I already own the soundtrack CD.
Jupiter_Shrooms
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For the main character, is it known if your gender matters? Are their cutscene changes or romance options?
I don't think there's any romance option for your character. I doubt there's any major cutscene change as well.
Edit: In fact a bit of google-fu and no, no romance apparently. Too bad, when done well I like romance in RPG.
Jupiter_Shrooms
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Thanks! That's a bit disappointing since I enjoyed the little romanctic plot points of the first Xenoblade. Ah well, at least now I can build an eye-candy character
Europe. Paradise of having anticipated games way early.
Gamexplain posted a video of flying over all 5 continents. I kind of just skipped through but you get to see various weather conditions in the game. I think the aurora borealis is my favourite.
http://youtu.be/xb45yEoqc9U
http://youtu.be/xb45yEoqc9U
SmiteOfHand
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The fact that you can take off from inside the city without a loading screen is a really cool facet of their engine. Playing stuff like Fallout you would expect the giant walls of the city would serve as a sectioned off loading point, like Diamond City, but nope. It probably does use it as a node to decide what content to stream in, but still incredibly seamless. Well done, Monolith Soft.
Not so quick, but quite interesting. Austin seems to enjoy a lot the game and its complex systems. It provides quite a good overview on the battle system, bonuses, combos etc.
NeonZ
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There's a way to recruit characters made by other players, right? Is it just based on random chance or can you get to them directly with friend codes or something?
I'm now awaiting a group of W101 charactersto unite up for the online mode.
You know what? I'm beginning to REALLY like the music in this game again.
And man watching that is still mind blowing with what they got done with the Wii U.
All of this videos... man. Why we didn't have all of this stuff when the japanese version launched? It's like gaming media there didn' bothered on showing all the true beauty of this game and they just when straight ahead and score it with a 7...
Got glimpse of far flung areas, habitat of special monsters and that remind me the wonder of xenoblade.
Soundtracks with vocals are tiresome and sticking one for mech flying is a faux pas as far as I'm concerned.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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Good video but GiantBomb really needs to figure out Custom Thumbnails. Their vids look so generic without them