shadyspace
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Wait, so how do people rip Wii games to a USB hard drive then when DVD drives won't read them?Aeana said:
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Xenoblade Chronicles |OT| Man, what a bunch of jokers.
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shadyspace
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Ah. Word.Aeana said:
BlazingDarkness
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Any particular reason you chose Game? They're the more expensive option the majority of the timeRobobandit said:
CruxisMana
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BlazingDarkness said:
I presume because you pay extra for faster delivery.
Or because the CE is only available from GAME.
Robobandit
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BlazingDarkness said:
I chose GAME because I don't trust Zaavi and an acquaintance of mine from the UK recommended GAME.
I also ordered the CE, so there was that reason too.
Also, fastest delivery available is 4-6 days since I'm in the US..
What the hell? I decided to buy my own copy of XenoBlade but Zaavi is giving me problems.
I received an e-mail late last night stating that there was a payment problem using my debit card (it doesn't specificy what's wrong other than saying that to please update my card info). So I check to see if my card info is correct, which it is , and resolve the issue by having Zaavi recharge my card to have the order processed correctly. Then I get a confirmation "thank you for your order from Zaavi" e-mail. However, half an hour ago, I check my e-mail again and get another message from Zaavi stating that there's another payment problem with the same debit card. I go back to the site and check my card info again and it's fine, Zaavi doesn't mention or even highlight anything wrong with my card info so what the heck is the problem ?
I just used the same debit card to buy an sd card from Amazon last night. To state the obvious, I still have plenty of money left in my account.
I want my XenoBlade!
I received an e-mail late last night stating that there was a payment problem using my debit card (it doesn't specificy what's wrong other than saying that to please update my card info). So I check to see if my card info is correct, which it is , and resolve the issue by having Zaavi recharge my card to have the order processed correctly. Then I get a confirmation "thank you for your order from Zaavi" e-mail. However, half an hour ago, I check my e-mail again and get another message from Zaavi stating that there's another payment problem with the same debit card. I go back to the site and check my card info again and it's fine, Zaavi doesn't mention or even highlight anything wrong with my card info so what the heck is the problem ?
I just used the same debit card to buy an sd card from Amazon last night. To state the obvious, I still have plenty of money left in my account.
I want my XenoBlade!
Starwolf_UK
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All I can think is bank blocking payment as it doesn't fit with spending patterns (UK retailer etc) so it might be worth getting touch with the bank just to make sure. Then again I could be wrong on this.
CruxisMana
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Hiltz said:
365games?
Electivirus
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I went with 365Games, myself.
thefro said:
Interesting, I stumbled across the Japanese version of trailer 4. (The heavy spoiler one).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEj81aER08U
I guess NoE tried to copy the marketing of Xenoblade as closely as possible to the Japanese release.
I like how the time of day affects cutscenes as well.
MidnightScott
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Electivirus said:
This, I hope it doesn't take too long to arrive here in the US. My brother is slightly interested in playing it and he's gonna arrived here on Aug. 21st and stay for about a month.
That's it, I just heard one of the battle themes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4vCEHpv6Hg&feature=related
PURCHASED! I KNOW I WON'T REGRET IT!
Sorry Reggie, I won't wait anymore. Now I hope it'll run fine on Dolphin with my rig!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4vCEHpv6Hg&feature=related
PURCHASED! I KNOW I WON'T REGRET IT!
Sorry Reggie, I won't wait anymore. Now I hope it'll run fine on Dolphin with my rig!
Mockingbird
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Just got an e-mail from amazon about my Monado pre-order.
If only. If only.
If only. If only.
Weird.
EDIT: I figured it out. I had half USD and half CAD and the website didn't auto-convert the difference.
Dead Prince
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got the wii hacked. now i wait for my copy (blazingdarkness ordered from ASDA) hopefully it arrives in an orderly time. i barely even watched videos of the game. didnt know what type of battle system it uses lol. all i know is that the faces are shit.
what is the best control setup. CC or Wiimote? if i use the remote do i have to waggle?
what is the best control setup. CC or Wiimote? if i use the remote do i have to waggle?
Snapshot King
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Mine from DVD.co.uk still says pending even like 3 days later. -_-
Bel Marduk
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DMPrince said:
CC. No waggle.
Mockingbird said:
That reminds me that I have to cancel my amazon preorder in the extremely unlikely chance that I forget about it and NOA does release.
I called GAME to order my copy (necessitated due to 'fraud protection') but I haven't gotten email confirmation yet and only see a 28 cent 'international transaction fee' on my statement.
Here's to hoping everything went well and they'll charge and notify me when the game's ready to ship.
Because this came up here and I just had this discussion on some other forum: People who shit on the graphics and compare it (usually just the characters) to other PS2 JRPGs need to realize that this game is nothing like a traditional JRPG. It's a lot closer to western open world games. A much more sensible comparison would therefore be GTA:
And Morrowind of course:
Once you realize that, Xenoblade looks pretty damn awesome all of a sudden, right?
And Morrowind of course:
Once you realize that, Xenoblade looks pretty damn awesome all of a sudden, right?
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Eh, "nothing" like a JRPG is stretching it. Areas tend to be more open and there's a shitton of side quests, that's the main difference to something like Dragon Quest VIII [okay maybe this isn't the best choice of game due to how traditional it is]. And Morrowind is way beyond it in geometry and texture resolution, though it has shit art direction (though some areas have good design, the terrain is just hilly bumps for example, wasting polygons like nothing, whereas Xenoblade has great design in most areas we've seen even if each of its particular aspects is rather flat and angular in comparison) and Bethesda seriously sucked at making characters. And anyway since they knew they had to work with such a limited system they could have gone for a cleaner style for the characters, since they're of anime design anyway.
I actually posted one of the better Morrowind screenshots I could find, most shots showed even worse textures and draw distance. Not only that - in Xenoblade, you usually have at least three main characters and sometimes far more than a dozen NPCs and/ or monsters on screen at once. Xenoblade is a lot more densely populated. And you'll still see far fewer loading screens in Xenoblade.Luigiv said:
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Well I don't think any given random house has this much geometry based detail to it in Xenoblade without seeing obvious angular lines everywhere...
True about the draw distance.
Disregard what I had here previously, it was a truform showcase image. Well, I still think their geometry is more complex in general:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xR4WYeXsw
True about the draw distance.
Disregard what I had here previously, it was a truform showcase image. Well, I still think their geometry is more complex in general:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xR4WYeXsw
Franchuzas87
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I find difficult to compare Morrowind environments with this:
Yeah, that's the most magical thing about it: It's incredibly fast. Many open world games have loading slowdown, or short breaks in case of buffer underruns (like Elder Scrolls). Xenoblade doesn't. Ever. Warping to the other end of a huge area literally takes a fade. Fade to black, fade back - two seconds, done. Impressive.Franchuzas87 said:
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Well, yeah, so while Morrowind does have a shittier draw distance it does have higher detail per object making each view pretty complex still.
Anyway, it was also a PC game shoehorned in the Xbox. I didn't play that version so wasn't sure of the differences.
Well I didn't bring it up and did say its art direction sucks and that its terrain mostly consits of bumpy hills. Smooth bumpy hills with plenty polygons, but still just plain boring.Franchuzas87 said:
The cities get better but still...
Only other JRPGs really have comparable art direction but then those aren't quite as open most of the time.
Still, most people agree Xenoblade's outdoors are beautiful. It would have been nice if the indoors and characters were on par with the landscapes. Some of the character models in particular are just plain unappealing, regardless of their polygons. Characters with even less polygons and a fraction of the texture resolution can still be appealing, as in some PS1 games. I'm pretty good with holding my expectations to the given system's abilities so something like Vagrant Story impresses me still.
What's the game's frame rate anyway? Does it seem unstable in the more detailed areas and such, showing that a few more polygons here and there would make it crawl?
How did that open world Jak game look on PS2? People had praised that for its graphics I think?
Quadrangulum
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Wow. The game looks incredible.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Man, why you people gotta bring Morrowind into this?
Franchuzas87 said:I find difficult to compare Morrowind environments with this:
Can we officially say that the art direction in Xenoblade is top-notch? The world created is so lush, bright, and vivacious! (at least half of it) I absolutely HATE the dark, dank virtual worlds of Marrowind/Oblivion. Z
Xenoblade is, to put it simply, a breath of fresh air. That's why we're so excited for this release - to get lost in Xenoblade's magnificent landscapes
SecretMoblin
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Zwei said:Can we officially say that the art direction in Xenoblade is top-notch? The world created is so lush, bright, and vivacious! (at least half of it) I absolutely HATE the dark, dank virtual worlds of Marrowind/Oblivion. Z
Xenoblade, to put it simply, is a breath of fresh air. That's why we're so excited for this release - to get lost in Xenoblade's magnificent landscapes
There's blue!! Actual, real blue! And green!
I don't get why color is such an abhorrent concept in modern game design. Is it really as simple as dark = mature? Because the Super Mario Galaxies are among the best-designed games of this generation, and they are bursting with color. Color is good!
Framerate can become unstable in combat if you pull an unusual amount of enemies and use special attacks. Typical encounters are one to five enemies, and in those cases, the game usually runs smoothly (there are also a few planned large scale battles that happen in confined areas, without any slowdown). But in some cases, especially if you're overleveled and grind for certain drops, you'll sometimes try to pull severals groups at once, and fight a dozen or more enemies at the same time in an open environment. If you do that, and you use flashy skills like Monado Buster or many of Melia's skills, the game will slow down. Also worth noting in that regard is that some enemies are huge. Like, Shadow of the Colossus huge. Pull several of those at once, and the system will have a really hard time. It never crashed on me, though, even if I managed to start battles so insane you'll get Sandlot framerates (measured in seconds per frame, not frames per second).Alextended said:
SecretMoblin
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wsippel said:
This game just keeps sounding better and better.
Don't get the wrong idea: It's not like you're fighting on the enemies. They're regular enemies, it's really just that they're enormous. Many times bigger than you. Regular enemies the size of houses, basically. It's still really fun fighting those things, though. Feels quite badass.SecretMoblin said: