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Blue Dragon (Xbox360) |OT|
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Shush!duckroll said:6 hour game confirmed.
Btw everyone should watch this video (except for those who do not want anything to be spoiled) for the music alone, haha
http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3413_en.html
duckroll said:
I think it's most likely a vicious rumor...as he said he finished a Disc 1 in just 5 hours.
However, I've seen a videocasters that has played for over 6 hours still not change the disc.
Btw, this game must not be my cup of tea. A big cliche. I just watched the gameplay of peercasting, though.
Blimblim said:Shush!
Btw everyone should watch this video (except for those who do not want anything to be spoiled) for the music alone, haha
http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3413_en.html
ahhaaaaaa lalalalalalaalalaaa :lol
That old grand father reminds me of Sakaguchi.
nelsonroyale
Member
Blimblim said:Shush!
Btw everyone should watch this video (except for those who do not want anything to be spoiled) for the music alone, haha
http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3413_en.html
wow, what the hell did I just watch ahhahahahaha
peace
Another peercast (commented by the one playing...):
http://localhost:7144/pls/88F1DEE3E9E3A380EB70A381F593C293?tip=60.34.11.89:7144
Change the first 7144 with your own peercast port.
http://localhost:7144/pls/88F1DEE3E9E3A380EB70A381F593C293?tip=60.34.11.89:7144
Change the first 7144 with your own peercast port.
nelsonroyale
Member
Munba said:I just seen the newest Blim video, the Overworld Map. Damn, the return of old ages. That excited me truly.
Munba
Im slightly disappointed...I mean the world map has nothing like the scale of dragon quest viii...that game had the best world map ever...ffxii would e equal without the load times
peace
Munba
Member
Mefisutoferesu
Member
That's not much to worry about in my opinion. FFIX's 1st disc was only something like 10 hours if I recall correctly, yet it still managed to be a nice long game. Maybe Sakaguchi's a bit of a front loader?Cedille said:
P.S. Marumaro's kin sure seem to hump a whole lot...
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Jonnyram said:
O. M. G. You're playing it. RIght now. Blue Dragon. It's on your 360. And you're making monsters fight each other. That's what's happening. While I'm eating Cheerios.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
GhaleonEB said:What kind of Cheerios? Plain old regular Cheerios, or those yummy new ones with yogurt covered Cheerios mixed in? Because if it's the plain-old...well, that's even worse.
Plain. Old.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
dark10x said:I assume it is not region free, right?
THAT right there is why I want the PS3 to succeed over the other machines.
I'd be all over this otherwise. :\
That's it? Really?
Well, that's a bit of hyperbole, but I'm not lying when I say that I'm extremely disappointing with the fact that some of these RPGs are being released on XBOX360 simply because of region encoding issues. That's a huge issue for me.BenjaminBirdie said:
However, there simply aren't enough games total to justify a Japanese XBOX360 in addition to my US system (where most of the games will be hitting anyways). It's just that, for the handful of RPGs that the 360 is going to be receiving, I'm annoyed that I have to miss out on them.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
dark10x said:
I must be misreading this. Are you saying that developers are making games for 360 exclusively because they want their games region coded and not for the PS3 because region coding isn't required for their machine?
Also, I'd be surprised if any major Japanese exclusives didn't make it over here eventually, considering sales trends for 360 software.
OK, before I sleep some quick impressions.
Opening scene was great - a really quick, but good introduction to the three starter characters. Shu's voice actor makes him sound really spunky, unlike the lead characters of most recent FFs, and the other two are just typical RPG chars - whiny girl and clever shy guy. There are plenty of event scenes while wandering about, so you don't get endless exploration (so far).
Graphics are schweet - it's really, seriously hard to see the difference between in-engine and pre-rendered stuff. I guess the only way you can tell is in some of the environmental stuff that happens, i.e. there's just no way they'd put that kind of thing into the engine itself. There is a little bit of v-sync trouble here and there, but it's mostly harmless and doesn't happen often. The d.o.f. effect is nice too.
Fights are super-easy so far, but also super-quick. If you encounter a monster from behind you'll get a back attack, or if they pounce on you, they'll get a sneak attack. Once you reach the world map, you can choose to encounter multiple monsters at once, but holding down RT and building an area circle around you. Any monsters in this circle can be attacked individually, together or all at once. If you attack different types of monsters at the same time, they will fight each other (Monster's Fight), which saves you a load of effort as well as netting you tons of EXP and bonus stuff (ooh, gold poos!)
So far the only world map bit I've been in was to link two areas, so it's not a big deal yet. The overall map seems quite big though.
One of the crazy things that is gonna drive completists insane - you can check nearly anything. A lot of the time there is no obvious graphical cue for what you can check. You just go up to a pipe on the wall and check it, or a broken tree trunk, piece of scrap metal, rock, whatever. And you find lots of stuff this way - equipment, gold, restorative items, medals. Dunno what medals are for yet, though.
Guess that sums it up for now. All round positive, I'd say. But I'm sure you all expected that from me
Opening scene was great - a really quick, but good introduction to the three starter characters. Shu's voice actor makes him sound really spunky, unlike the lead characters of most recent FFs, and the other two are just typical RPG chars - whiny girl and clever shy guy. There are plenty of event scenes while wandering about, so you don't get endless exploration (so far).
Graphics are schweet - it's really, seriously hard to see the difference between in-engine and pre-rendered stuff. I guess the only way you can tell is in some of the environmental stuff that happens, i.e. there's just no way they'd put that kind of thing into the engine itself. There is a little bit of v-sync trouble here and there, but it's mostly harmless and doesn't happen often. The d.o.f. effect is nice too.
Fights are super-easy so far, but also super-quick. If you encounter a monster from behind you'll get a back attack, or if they pounce on you, they'll get a sneak attack. Once you reach the world map, you can choose to encounter multiple monsters at once, but holding down RT and building an area circle around you. Any monsters in this circle can be attacked individually, together or all at once. If you attack different types of monsters at the same time, they will fight each other (Monster's Fight), which saves you a load of effort as well as netting you tons of EXP and bonus stuff (ooh, gold poos!)
So far the only world map bit I've been in was to link two areas, so it's not a big deal yet. The overall map seems quite big though.
One of the crazy things that is gonna drive completists insane - you can check nearly anything. A lot of the time there is no obvious graphical cue for what you can check. You just go up to a pipe on the wall and check it, or a broken tree trunk, piece of scrap metal, rock, whatever. And you find lots of stuff this way - equipment, gold, restorative items, medals. Dunno what medals are for yet, though.
Guess that sums it up for now. All round positive, I'd say. But I'm sure you all expected that from me
Diablohead
Member
I hope theres lots of side quests and stuff to do, the guy who says he beat disc 1 in 5 hours must have ignored anything, or mostly anything extra and probably played solid. Not everyone is like that.
No no no no, nothing like that. I'm not suggesting that region encoding has ANYTHING to do with deciding on a platform. I'm saying that "I" was disappointed in the selection of 360 as the platform DUE to region restrictions (as in, my disappointment stems only from that fact). Poor wording on my part.BenjaminBirdie said:
I'm sure most of them will make their way into the US, but I much prefer sticking to the original Japanese releases. It keeps me reading and, therefore, learning more and more. I haven't played an RPG in English for over a year and a half, and I've learned so much as a result. The releases have dried up, though, and I could really use something like Blue Dragon right about now.
Disappointment total.
Is there ANY known way to get around this problem without buying more hardware?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
dark10x said:No no no no, nothing like that. I'm not suggesting that region encoding has ANYTHING to do with deciding on a platform. I'm saying that "I" was disappointed in the selection of 360 as the platform DUE to region restrictions (as in, my disappointment stems only from that fact). Poor wording on my part.
I'm sure most of them will make their way into the US, but I much prefer sticking to the original Japanese releases. It keeps me reading and, therefore, learning more and more. I haven't played an RPG in English for over a year and a half, and I've learned so much as a result. The releases have dried up, though, and I could really use something like Blue Dragon right about now.
Disappointment total.
Is there ANY known way to get around this problem without buying more hardware?
I see. As someone who's also learning Japanese on his own steam, I do feel your pain. But I do most of my flexing at the local Kinokuniya. It'd be too distracting to try and play a game at such a glacial learning pace.
But I hear you.