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Xenoblade Chronicles |OT| Man, what a bunch of jokers.
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TheDarkKnight774
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Yea! my copy from Game arrived. Now im trying out the intro in english and japanese to see which i prefer. Even though im a subtitle only anime viwer in games for some reason subtitle only gaming is more a strain
Wow so far the english VAs are good. Love the accents. How do they hold up later in the game.
Wow so far the english VAs are good. Love the accents. How do they hold up later in the game.
8BitsAtATime
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I ordered mine last sunday, it got here today.Kaizer said:
wrowa said:
He was the overall director for BKO because he was both the lead quest/event planning director and the scenario writer. For Xenoblade, Tetsuya Takahashi is the overall director. Koh Kojima does not share the credit. He is simply credited as a "director" on the game along with the Nintendo supervisor/producer Genki Yokota. Takahashi is the executive director, and main project lead for the project. If you read the interviews, you'll know that Koh Kojima's actual role in Xenoblade is similar to his role in BK1 and Disaster, where he is in charge of the direction of the game, and the lead planner.
Dead Prince
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i have but it was actually through play-asia ;Plegend166 said:
wrowa said:
The actual wording of the credit doesn't matter as much as what the person actually does though. It's like how in US development, the term director does not always mean the same thing it does for Japanese development. Some game directors in the US are closer to the role of producers in Japan. In the case of Monolithsoft, I've noticed that they've been pushing their senior staff who have been at the company since the start into more prominent roles as credited, even if sometimes the actual job scope isn't very different.
For example, on Soma Bringer, the credited director is Shingo Kawabata, and he is the producer on Xenoblade. Tetsuya Takahashi is the producer of Soma Bringer, and the executive director for Xenoblade. But what does that mean in reality? Both games are conceived, written, and supervised by Takahashi. He picks all the staff working on the title, and he has the final say on all the aspects of the game from the gameplay to the music.
What I do feel though, is that by moving gameplay planners like Kawabata and Kojima up into "director" roles for Takahashi's games, what he is doing is reshuffling the balance of how his games tend to feel. It shifts the focus of the games more towards gameplay, instead of the gameplay being a separate component along with the story.
This is something that Takahashi specifically mentioned when he was working on Xenosaga Episode 1. When he made that game, he said that the design of the story events, the battle system, and the quest/exploration parts of the game, were all designed to be separate components. They were not designed specifically to fit together, because the sub-teams worked on their own to make interesting stuff in their own specializations.
With Soma Bringer and Xenoblade, it is clear that Takahashi wants to tell the same type of stories and create the same depth to the characters and the world as he always had, but at the same time he seems more aware now that what can make a game really special is if the gameplay complements the story and world as well, instead of just being a separate component.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
This bit of music pushed me over the edge into ordering. Amazing! Reminds me of Blade Runner and Metroid Prime.JumpingTheGun said:
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Yeah, it's pretty incredible. Apparently it's not til quite late in the game... motivation to keep playing, then!Sklorenz said:
2m16 = :O
Man that's a lot of games coming. Thankfully I've just got Tales out of that list and this game's going to be plenty to keep me company until that arrives. Unless CDJapan suddenly turn into Zavvi, then maybe not.InternHertz said:
Also man the (sub-quest chain in F
rontier Village
There's something inherently funny about a bunch of cute little creatures like the Nopons having a little underworld organisation amongst them. "No! I can't tell you anything, the boss will come and get me!"
L69, 107:17 playtime, 324 quests now. Three of the areas up to 5 stars.
They changed it with the European version. I've been keeping track manually since I'm playing the Japanese version though, just out of interest. Doubt I'll be finished before hitting 150 hours at the rate I'm going.Sklorenz said:
...Which thinking about it probably one of the longest amounts of time I've ever spent on a single playthrough of a game. Vesperia's still my longest playtime this gen at 167 hours and this actually has a pretty good chance of beating it. Scary.
InternHertz
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Varion said:
1. And it only is a small part of what I want to play/import that comes out between now and the end of the year.
2. Judging by your level you still haven't done the final part of that quest (it involves a unique L78)...but, man, IT. WAS. AWESOME.
You'll know why I'm saying this when you're there. The way it unfolded, the music they chose during the final act, an absolute blast.
It may be in my top 3 sidequests in the game. (Well I have one multi-area chain quest I really like apart from this one, and another that didn't "wow" me that much but it had voice acting from beginning to end and it surprised me.)
necrolysis
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kunonabi said:
Awesome. I saw your post, and checked the tracking on my bundle I ordered from them. My local Post Office actually received it this afternoon, so it looks like I'll be seeing my copy arrive tomorrow.
Not a bad wait for this. I ordered the bundle on the 18th, shipped on the 20th, arriving the 30th, it looks like. Now I just have to decide if I'm going to finish Tales of Vesperia, or start this. I backlogged Vesperia previously to play a recently-acquired Xenosaga III, ironically.
Windom Earle
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15th of August:
It's not like we didn't warn you...
schennmu said:
RPGCrazied said:
It's not like we didn't warn you...
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Lol, ridiculous. You've been warned, you chose to be a cheapass (nothing wrong with it) going with Zavvi anyway and now you're endlessly complaining. Blame yourself and man up.RPGCrazied said:
So, what are the majority playing with - Japanese or English dialogue? I was playing Jap for the first 5 hours then switched it to English and cringed a little at the cockney (I live in London myself so it was very jarring) but found that it was really useful to understand what my team were saying during large battles, so I have stuck with it, for now.
Where there's a will, there's a way. I've just found (thanks to gamefaqs) an easy leveling up technique but am afraid it could ruin the experience a bit. I'm at level 45 and it involves
For those who know about it, are there any drawbacks to leveling up like this?
killing level 78 monsters with Melia on Bionis Leg near Raguel Bridge North.
For those who know about it, are there any drawbacks to leveling up like this?
damn that's nice
Junior Member
is this online?
edit: the game. is it online? like with other people working together
edit: the game. is it online? like with other people working together
damn that's nice
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thanksHooYaH said:
Android18a
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kiryogi said:Actually the real issue is importing from Europe. Importing from Asia is usually a very brisk process. So to properly put it, it's more like "you can tell who hasn't imported from Europe before"
It's also like this in reverse. When I order a game (to the UK) from the US it takes generally 2-3 weeks. If I order from Japan or HK, it's usually closer to 2-3 days. I was playing Pokemon White from Japan within the launch week.
I've got Disgaea 4 coming from the US, so expecting that one to turn up towards the end of September. Which will still beat the PAL release, so I'm ok with that.
SecretMoblin
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YOU WENT THERE.Luigiv said:
slaughterking
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Luigiv said:
iamaustrian
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Just got into the
easily the best RPG this gen and even in my "alltime-Top 3 RPGs"-List so far. this game has the potential to take the top spot
swamp area. It was day and I thought "meh, this looks actually pretty shitty" but then nighttime came and it blew me off my chair. holy fuck. and a "Can't get any more better than this" at the swamp music. It felt almost endless-ocean'ish.
easily the best RPG this gen and even in my "alltime-Top 3 RPGs"-List so far. this game has the potential to take the top spot
CruxisMana
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Bennettt2 said:
I am totally doing look this up. I'm underlevelled at the moment and was looking for something quick to do.
donkey show
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Same here. It's up there with Chrono Trigger and FFT as my all time faves and I'm only 25 hours in.iamaustrian said:
jump_button
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iamaustrian said:
oh just when you think cant get any better you going to the next anime and WOW then the next OMG
this game could full up a top 10 of best settings, only 35 hours so
Windom Earle
Member
Ok, two more things I don't like:
- It's way too easy to get overleveled, so there is no challenge in the main story so far. It's not like I did any heavy grinding, just side quests. Kinda takes the tension out of the game. At the same time, it's obvious that there is no way to beat the "red" enemies without leveling up.
- Slight location spoiler:
suck!
- It's way too easy to get overleveled, so there is no challenge in the main story so far. It's not like I did any heavy grinding, just side quests. Kinda takes the tension out of the game. At the same time, it's obvious that there is no way to beat the "red" enemies without leveling up.
- Slight location spoiler:
The Swamps
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
20 hours in... Just got
as a party member. I am pretty comfortable with Shulk-Rayn-Sharla.... I am not sure if I should trade any of them for
....... hmmm.
Am I playing it at a good pace? It seems like all I am doing is just running around... I have a bit of a sidequest fatigue right now *sigh*
Dunban
Dunban
Am I playing it at a good pace? It seems like all I am doing is just running around... I have a bit of a sidequest fatigue right now *sigh*
SecretMoblin
Member
wrowa said:
And replace with
Dunban for the rest of the game
Reyn is useless.
iamaustrian
Member
put sharla on "reserve" and take
instead of her.
Sharla makes the game far to easy.
Reyn and
are one badass "we-kill-everything" combo. Shulks healing abilities are far enough
Dunban
Sharla makes the game far to easy.
Reyn and
Dunban
donkey show
Member
Just did that last night and it truly is a slaughterhouse in theiamaustrian said:
Satorl Marsh