The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2

I wasn't a fan of the way Brad handled this QL. He seemed to be overwhelmed by the amount of content in Ni No Kuni and clearly showed it during the QL. He does this occasionally with certain games which means that he acts strangely during these QL. He should calm down and just try to show the game better instead of skipping a lot of cutscenes and talking over many of the spoken dialogue. I'm not saying it's easy or anything. I'm sure I wouldn't fare any better.
 
"Maybe she immigrated to her home country? Makes sense to me."
I love you, Vinny.


"Tidy, eh?" is a new one for me. I think I like that little fairy character. I think.
Holy crap, "purrprietor," hahahahaha!


Gosh dang, I haven't been keeping up with this game at all, but that town looks gorgeous. When they're running around, it is almost unsettling how much of an animated feature it looks like.

Man, I hate to say it, but I kind of really want to play this now. I just want to run around and look at the environments more!
 
Phatmac said:
I wasn't a fan of the way Brad handled this QL. He seemed to be overwhelmed by the amount of content in Ni No Kuni and clearly showed it during the QL. He does this occasionally with certain games which means that he acts strangely during these QL. He should calm down and just try to show the game better instead of skipping a lot of cutscenes and talking over many of the spoken dialogue. I'm not saying it's easy or anything. I'm sure I wouldn't fare any better.
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Don't see what is wrong with that - shows how most people will feel once they begin to play. Personally, I don't want to see 50 minutes of cut-scenes and dialogue when I'm watching a Quick Look - especially if it's a game I haven't yet played and might play in the future.
 
valeo said:
Don't see what is wrong with that - shows how most people will feel once they begin to play. Personally, I don't want to see 50 minutes of cut-scenes and dialogue when I'm watching a Quick Look - especially if it's a game I haven't yet played and might play in the future.
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I know, I'm just nitpicking. He was just acting more anxious then I anticipated.
 
Vire said:
Brad just said it reminded him of Dark Cloud.

SHIT YEAH.

I'm in.
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Yeah.

I was gonna wait on this game, but the QL convinced me.

People across the board seem to be having a really hard time showing off this game though. The QL is about 30 minutes of babbling, then doesn't really do a great job showing off the actual mechanics, but does a lot to show off how pretty and indepth the game is when concerned with catering to it's own world. The demo was similar in that even the creators didn't exactly know what vertical slice to show to get people interested.

But man, this makes me want a Orbis/Durango Dark Cloud 3.
 
Brad and Vinny sent this from not even on the radar to nearly in my cart on Amazon. Damn you Giant Bomb!

Typographenia said:
"Maybe she immigrated to her home country? Makes sense to me."
I love you, Vinny.


"Tidy, eh?" is a new one for me. I think I like that little fairy character. I think.
Holy crap, "purrprietor," hahahahaha!


Gosh dang, I haven't been keeping up with this game at all, but that town looks gorgeous. When they're running around, it is almost unsettling how much of an animated feature it looks like.

Man, I hate to say it, but I kind of really want to play this now. I just want to run around and look at the environments more!
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We've found Sigma's hometown! Another metamystery solved!
 
SweetTeddie said:
It's crazy that the towns look like that. They feel like HD FF12 towns (obviously smaller) in that there's so much going on and it feels lived-in.
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It's like what we never got more of: lush colorful gorgeous-ass detailed towns on the order of early gen 7 JRPGs like Eternal Sonata/Tales of Vesperia/WKC. AKA, "What a JRPG fan of 2005 would think some JRPG towns would look like in next gen".
 
Dizzy-4U said:
Quick Look: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Brad / Vinny) (55:08)
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That compendium!

Next gen am here.

SweetTeddie said:
It's crazy that the towns look like that. They feel like HD FF12 towns (obviously smaller) in that there's so much going on and it feels lived-in.
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We had such an amazing start into this generation as far as jRPGs were concerned... followed by literally years of draught with a bunch of middling (Tales, Eternal Sonata) to flat out shit ones (anything Final Fantasy).

This seems like a return to the beginning of the gen, when we were still hopeful about getting a ton of great jRPGs, coming off the amazing FFXII and seguing into great PS360 efforts like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.
 
Haunted said:
This seems like a return to the beginning of the gen, when we were still hopeful about getting a ton of great jRPGs, coming off the amazing FFXII and seguing into great PS360 efforts like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.
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Actually, that was the surprising thing: Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey were X360 exclusive. The best JRPGs to come out for a while in this gen were exclusive to the 360 (and LO ended up being better than FFXIII). It felt like the generation started in a bizarro world of some sort.
 
RotBot said:
Given the fawning over the in-game book, I was surprised there was no mention of the Wizard's Edition of Ni No Kuni, which includes a hardcover copy of the 300+ page book.
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Brad brings it up on the podcast. It seems he didn't know about it.

It seems weird that Namco wouldn't send out the CE to reviewers though. That seems like swag publishers would give away. lol
 
Man 2013 looks to be one of the ps3's best years; too bad my ps3 broke not too long ago and I'm too naive and optimistic, believing ps4 will be backwards compatible, to convince myself to purchase another ps3 so close to ps4 coming out.
 
Is there stereotypical personality traits associated with the accent?

I'm trying to figure out what the American accent equivalent would be if there was one.
 
Felix Lighter said:
Is there stereotypical personality traits associated with the accent?

I'm trying to figure out what the American accent equivalent would be if there was one.
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Welsh stereotypes? Errrr, probably quite jolly. I dunno what an American equivalent would be, I don't think there is one.

Gavin and Stacey is the go-to "TV show about Welsh people" (well except Pobol y Cwm but that's not exactly useful for obvious reason), if you want to look into that.
 
Shrinnan said:
Actually, that was the surprising thing: Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey were X360 exclusive. The best JRPGs to come out for a while in this gen were exclusive to the 360 (and LO ended up being better than FFXIII). It felt like the generation started in a bizarro world of some sort.
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Microsoft seemed pretty intent on courting all sorts of gamers at the start of the generation. I might be wrong, but I think they pretty much entirely funded both Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey. It's just a shame they seemed to completely give up on that strategy around 2009 or so, and have since been content to just rely on Halo, Forza and third party stuff to get by.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I understand why they did. I doubt BD or LO sold anything like enough to justify their development costs. But it's still a shame. There hasn't been a 360 exclusive outside of XBLA stuff that's interested me in a long, long time. Which is why I sold mine last summer.
 
Strike Suit Zero seems okay, but the sound effects are not doing it for me. It doesn't sound like noises a spaceship or a spacebattle would have. I don't know, maybe that's just me, but there's just something totally wrong about it all.
 
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