JumpingTheGun
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Quick question: Is there anything I shouldnt sell? Im getting an awful lot of random items.
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Xenoblade Chronicles |OT| Man, what a bunch of jokers.
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Right on, exactly. I can already tell it's going to be a bit tough to rock my fave (XII) after this -- positioning already matters, and the battle system already feels like an extension of XII's steps forward.RurouniZel said:
I suppose so. Didn't XII manage to do both five years ago though?
Rahxephon91
Banned
Well I'm from Chicago and I got my Zavi order today. I bet you will get it either Tomorrow or Saturday. That's my hunch.RPGCrazied said:
Rahxephon91
Banned
Yes. I think I'm aware of at least 3. Me, 1 other who escapes me, and a poster from New York.Trojita said:
Haunted
Member
You should sell old equipment and low level gems, but try to avoid selling materials and collectibles if you plan on seriously doing sidequests.JumpingTheGun said:
There are lots of missions just demanding random materials you might've collected on the way. Feels good if you accept a quest and immediately clear it because the stuff is already in your inventory.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
Haunted said:
awesome. exactly what i was thinking. thanks man
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
I did. Today, shipped to Italy tho, posted on the 23rd.Trojita said:
Although I won't have time to fire it up till sunday night after Inter's match versus Palermo, not in a hurry anyway but yeah, it would've been nice being part of this thread's discussions.
Got the game today!!! I would've posted this earlier but I got sucked into the game so fast I dropped everything else I was doing. Very satisfied with 365games service, shipped out last Tuesday and arrived this Thursday, pretty good turnaround. I'll use them for The Last Story & Pandora's Tower in the future.
I've only played for about 3 hours, mostly exploring the first town, fighting baddies, etc. and gotta say, I'm amazed so far. I was a little nervous I wouldn't like the game b/c it had combat similar to FFXII and for some reason XII's combat never clicked with me, but I'm having a blast. I hope you get your copy soon RPGCrazied.
Magnus said:
after ~70+ hours I am starting to think that it's more like a strange design choice than a trade off...
just look at the faces of some npcs 70 hours later in the game like
vanea
meyneth
egil
SerArthurDayne
Member
Got my copy from theHut (same as Zavvi, so presumptively the same shipping methods if not the same exact warehouse) in Austin, Texas today. No date of shipment on the item, but shipped from Belgium, so the shipment from Uk to Belgium probably explains why it took a couple days longer than typical.
HadesGigas
Member
I like how you can trade with all the "named" NPCs. I'm at the start of the game but I already got a situation where one lady asked me for two of some item, then I talked to a guy like 20 feet away and traded some junk I had for the items I needed instead of going to kill whatever animal drops them.
Knux-Future
Banned
Rahxephon91 said:
I'm from Philly and I am still waiting.
It seems to just be pretty random. I'm going to Vegas for a week on Sunday, so it's not like I can actually put in that much time anyway so I'm not sweating it right now. Which is a good thing since I would probably be mad as fuck. So I understand RPGcrazed's pain.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
Could a fast travel system get any better? I mean jesus, all you have to do is fucking blink and youre where you want to be.
this game is now the new JRPG gold standard. period.
this game is now the new JRPG gold standard. period.
Anabuhabkuss said:
why not do dolphin + 40" tv and look at the glorious results?
JumpingTheGun said:
you cant do that in specific parts but that warping is very handy
duckroll said:
one thing that i would like them to do is hair physics and design (as in not flat-ish). Then again using the current designs saves some rendering time
x3r0123 said:
Why assume it is some amazing technical decision, when it is much more obvious that their character deisgn, modeling, and animation staff are just not that good? Just look at every single Monolithsoft game made.
They're pretty good at animating fight scenes and mechanical stuff. They have zero experience with good emotive character animation. They have never done good hair. Their internal character designs (XS Ep2, XS Ep3, Soma Bringer, Xenoblade) generally blow.
It's definitely a weakness that Monolithsoft has. I love their games, but it's very obvious to anyone following the studio since they were founded where their strengths and weaknesses are.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Tell me RPGCrazied's copy has arrived by now. I'm pretty sure that a friend of mine ordered it from Zaavi SINCE he had been complaining about not getting it, and it arrived at her house on the west coast of Canada this morning! XD
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Everywhere I look Xenoblade is out of stock. Where can I get this for the cheapest possible (and I'd prefer not to get the bundle, but will still get that if that's all there is.) Sorry to ask this.
26thletter
Member
Got my copy today from 365game!! Can't wait to play it over the long weekend!!
Played a bit more and got a new party member and beat the second boss. I like the battle system a lot especially the
. Exploration is very impressive in this game. For those that are comparing this to FF12, I don't think the comparison stands. I also thought this at first but both are way too much different. The exploration is much better in Xenoblade but the leveling up and ability system in XII is much more interesting to me. The loot system is even more annoying in Xenoblade since there are tons of sidequests everywhere requiring specific loots. No bestiary either so it's hard to remember where you saw X monster.
visions
DownLikeBCPowder
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BocoDragon said:
Right. It is 100% a component cable. 100% a component c able. Not only that, but it is certifiably displaying in 480p from the minute the Wii starts (the television displays the resolution anytime it changes it), it continues to do so until the game loads from Gecko. Once Gecko drops and Blade opens, you can visually see the tv flash and it notifies you that it's down to 480i. The television is about five years old or less and runs 1080p for my other systems. I've tried no changes to settings, I tried force NTSC, I tried force PAL60, just no change.
Despite what my title says I'm not a complete idiot all the time. And I'm definitely not falling for the same thing again, so yes, they are component cables and they are connected and, as I've said which answers this, it is displaying in 480p until Blade loads.
_Alkaline_ said:
I had an old CC sitting around, but picked up Golden Eye and the CC Pro for cheap specifically for this game, hoping it would be more comfortable. I find that it is surprisingly comfortable (the Pro).
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
just faced the
, man his voice was definitely creepy
can't get enough of this game. GOTY contender
Mysterious Face Mechon
can't get enough of this game. GOTY contender
Dead Prince
Banned
nope lol. he's still waiting.BocoDragon said:
Sammy Samusu
Member
I kinda agree, but you should check some in-game cutscenes from Xenoblade, pretty impressive stuff so far.duckroll said:Why assume it is some amazing technical decision, when it is much more obvious that their character deisgn, modeling, and animation staff are just not that good? Just look at every single Monolithsoft game made.
They're pretty good at animating fight scenes and mechanical stuff. They have zero experience with good emotive character animation. They have never done good hair. Their internal character designs (XS Ep2, XS Ep3, Soma Bringer, Xenoblade) generally blow.
It's definitely a weakness that Monolithsoft has. I love their games, but it's very obvious to anyone following the studio since they were founded where their strengths and weaknesses are.
Early Spoilers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSO0Wlamk1U
duckroll said:Why assume it is some amazing technical decision, when it is much more obvious that their character deisgn, modeling, and animation staff are just not that good? Just look at every single Monolithsoft game made.
They're pretty good at animating fight scenes and mechanical stuff. They have zero experience with good emotive character animation. They have never done good hair. Their internal character designs (XS Ep2, XS Ep3, Soma Bringer, Xenoblade) generally blow.
It's definitely a weakness that Monolithsoft has. I love their games, but it's very obvious to anyone following the studio since they were founded where their strengths and weaknesses are.
well i was talking about japanese developers in general about hair. It seems alot of them are cheap on hair animation.
Look at xenoblade's hair animation
now look at RoF's hair animation (around 30 sec in, better but notice the giant strands of hair glued together)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od1oRl4yqz4
what i'm hoping for is something like this in the future except better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cECnvJeXXE8
I got this game yesterday I have played it for five hours it is fun.
But good lord the voicework is the most revolting shit I have ever heard. Story stuff and cutscenes whatever, it is fine. But the FIELD VOICES HOLY CHRIST. They are dreadfully, comically terrible in either language. The TWO SOUNDS that they randomly choose between when you jump are just so bad they are like parody, it sounds like the girl is being forced to orgasm with a power drill with every tiny hop. I am not sure if there is an option to turn the voices off wholesale, if there is that will make this game better.
Fuck
But good lord the voicework is the most revolting shit I have ever heard. Story stuff and cutscenes whatever, it is fine. But the FIELD VOICES HOLY CHRIST. They are dreadfully, comically terrible in either language. The TWO SOUNDS that they randomly choose between when you jump are just so bad they are like parody, it sounds like the girl is being forced to orgasm with a power drill with every tiny hop. I am not sure if there is an option to turn the voices off wholesale, if there is that will make this game better.
Fuck
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Is this the first Japanese game you have ever played?lobdale said:
InternHertz
Member
Well I guess I'll finally need to look into Gem creation, as I need an awful lot of Agility and Attack VIs to be able to do something to the hardest bosses in the game (that means they are red even at max level).
Up until now I got by everything with almost no Gem consumption (only AP and EXP ones).
Up until now I got by everything with almost no Gem consumption (only AP and EXP ones).
BocoDragon said:Is this the first Japanese game you have ever played?
Quite the contrary I have played nearly every console RPG ever released and I am used to nay CONDITIONED TO EXPECT terrible voice acting. It is just man what a disparity in quality between cutscene and field. The Japanese is intolerably grating, the English is just humorously bad. There is no win. I can't even switch it onto the "don't understand any of it don't care" Japanese now that I actually Do Know some Japanese and I am just reminded of how unnatural it sounds even compared to other works of Japanese fiction.
The brutal, mouth-in-a-meat-grinder Tongue's English accents do me no favors.
26thletter
Member
Just started, this game is really impressive. The music and world are both fantastic. I'll be playing this for the rest of the year, very excited.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I find the battle comraderie charming. I actually really like it. The only thing I don't like is the repetition of lines.lobdale said:
Holy crap. Import from UK, damn.Dmax3901 said:
_Alkaline_
Member
Dmax3901 said:
Yep. I got it for $99.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I often say a prayer in my heart... not for starving Africa.. but for the state of Australian gaming
$100 DAMN.
$100 DAMN.
SecretMoblin
Member
I love the fact that it's designed to shock you, and it ends up going wayyyy past what you initially think it will be. It just keeps going.TheExodu5 said:
$90 is the cheapest I've seen, though you're going to wait a while for shipping so you might as well just import it for < $50 AUD.Dmax3901 said:
And about Aussie game prices, normally you'll be able to find the big release titles for around $80 at launch. Bought a few Wii games for that price before they were marked up to the standard $90+ range.