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Xenoblade |OT| The Adventure Begins
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Twilight Princess
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i've started learning japanese for this game, anyone got any advice? lol
JordanLMiller
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Twilight Princess said:
Pray for a localization at E3. Seriously, good luck, though.
Quadrangulum
Banned
Hah. Everything looks superb. This is a complete reversal of reactions at the debut last year.
CruxisMana
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JordanLMiller said:
Monado was announced at E3 2009, so it's not far-fetched to be looking for a localisation.
CruxisMana
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ivysaur12 said:
Maybe I'm just setting my hopes too high.
My good friend Martin has A LOT of videos:
http://www.justin.tv/redsungamer/videos
Naturally, spoilers. Enjoy!
Edit -- Haha, I had no idea he even had a NeoGaf account! Sorry for the spam, but the videos are pretty cool.
http://www.justin.tv/redsungamer/videos
Naturally, spoilers. Enjoy!
Edit -- Haha, I had no idea he even had a NeoGaf account! Sorry for the spam, but the videos are pretty cool.
Alex
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DarkPanda said:
Everything from Harvest Moon to Oblivion, it's especially prevalent in PC RPGs. Like I said, it's not an uncommon thing for RPGs and open world games and has been around forever in varying complexities.
Red Dead Redemption is a notable recent title that does it as well.
I don't think people really have "schedules" like Shenmue or Radiata, as much as at night NPC group A is located in their spots and during the day NPC group B is located at their spots. Just like how at night you get enemy set A and during the day at the same spot you get enemy set B.
You die a lot in the game, whenever you try to take on something above your level/equip. Luckily you tend to spawn fairly close.
Diablos54 said:I'm watching one of the live streams I found in this thread, and the game's looking really good. Dude's died like 4 times to this boss, so it's good to see the main game won't be a walk in the park like some RPG's.
You die a lot in the game, whenever you try to take on something above your level/equip. Luckily you tend to spawn fairly close.
Bel Marduk
Banned
The 13 tracks from the special soundtrack CD have been uploaded
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3B0F9C2198D26DBA
Really like "Those Who Bear Their Name"
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3B0F9C2198D26DBA
Really like "Those Who Bear Their Name"
I'm mainly glad the vision system is a plus and not a cheat/annoyance. It only shows you attacks that will kill you or a party member and then you can often only change it if you have enough tension meter. It's also worked into the story well.
I'm still not 100% sure how much skill/strategy there is to the battles, which is kind of my problem with all of these MMO-lite offline rpgs. So far it seems like the difference between being able to kill a big rare monster and not just comes down to your stats and not battle strategy so much. I really do like how some attacks change their effectiveness depending on where you strike from.
About 5-6 hours in now.
I'm still not 100% sure how much skill/strategy there is to the battles, which is kind of my problem with all of these MMO-lite offline rpgs. So far it seems like the difference between being able to kill a big rare monster and not just comes down to your stats and not battle strategy so much. I really do like how some attacks change their effectiveness depending on where you strike from.
About 5-6 hours in now.
Crash Station
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ivysaur12 said:
Mitsuda is the best composer in the industry.
CruxisMana
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Bel Marduk said:The 13 tracks from the special soundtrack CD have been uploaded
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3B0F9C2198D26DBA
Really like "Those Who Bear Their Name"
After having a listen to what's here, it looks like "Confronting an Enemy" was the name of the song from the third trailer that I was looking for.
DJmizuhara
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Here's a bunch of video I recorded for gamersyde.
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_xenoblade_day_2-9430_en.html
This game is pretty awesome...I've been pretty much blown away by the visuals of the game and the combat system but it's something you're gonna need a little to figure out.
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_xenoblade_day_2-9430_en.html
This game is pretty awesome...I've been pretty much blown away by the visuals of the game and the combat system but it's something you're gonna need a little to figure out.
CryingWolf
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cosmicblizzard said:
Heck yeah, he has been ever since his very first soundtrack, Chrono Trigger, which is still my favorite soundtrack ever.
I love the story behind that, where he was just a sound engineer at Squaresoft before that, but he wanted to compose, so he told Sakaguchi "Either let me compose a whole soundtrack or I quit," and they gave him Chrono Trigger.
And the rest is history!
Start with katakana. It will give you the most immediately useful reward in the shortes amount of time, so it's a good first step.Twilight Princess said:
It's a set of sylllables used mostly for writing words taken from other languages (English seemingly 90% of the time), so instantly being able to read things like "Aitemu" (item) and "Sukiru" (skill) will be useful right away.
Those are examples from other games, so I'm not sure if they're in this one, but similar things are bound to show up in Xenoblade.
The game's been out for about 24 hours. I don't think anyone is "that" far to tell. Especially because unlike XS ep1 or Soma Bringer, this isn't a 30 hour game.
Right from the start though, you can tell the writing is clearly on a higher level than 90% of games. Takahashi & Matsuno write scripts for adults, not 13 year old kids, and it shows. Very good prose, a varied and complex vocabulary, characters making intelligent decisions, and unpredictable events occuring. Basically from the start, the characters are on par with Takahashi's other characters and the story intro is intriguing.
Right from the start though, you can tell the writing is clearly on a higher level than 90% of games. Takahashi & Matsuno write scripts for adults, not 13 year old kids, and it shows. Very good prose, a varied and complex vocabulary, characters making intelligent decisions, and unpredictable events occuring. Basically from the start, the characters are on par with Takahashi's other characters and the story intro is intriguing.
Bebpo said:
That sounds pretty solid. Originally I was a super skeptic about this game (just simply due to past drama concerning XS transition from Takahashi's baby to, ultimately, I don't-even-know-what-the...).
But if you could keep us up-to-date on your opinion concerning the story, especially in relation to the quality of the aformentioned, I'd really appreciate that. It's the primary reason I'm at all excited
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
So, based on what we know, and what has now come out thanks to Japan, what kind of gameplay features and content are we looking at? What is this game delivering?
CryingWolf
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ReyVGM
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brandonh83
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ivysaur12 said:
oh my
god... holy FUCK.
Superblatt
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do i assume the game is impossible to play if you're not fluent in japanese?
Unfortunately I have to say once the initial wow factor ran out, I'm starting to have FFXIII flashbacks. Mainly that it has lots of cool stuff going for it, but it's starting to get boring like XIII. Like XIII, after a while it gets to be holding UP and run for ages while fighting enemies until you get to the next cutscene.
If this game had a speeder bike or something it'd be perfect. Maybe it does. I hope it does. As you get further in the respawn monuments start getting further from each other and it makes you less risky to take on enemy groups above your level because running for 4 mins to a point, dying in 30 seconds and then having to start mins away and run back is not so appealing. I really feel like the game is great, but the large scale environments are making the game slooooow. Doesn't help that story-wise after the intro areas there's been little story so it's just been adventuring forward, which consists of running for hours across big fields. I'm hoping this is just a lull and the story will pick up along with the pacing. Because of the size of the environments, it's a game where you play a few hours and you feel like you hardly accomplished anything. So it gets kind of tiring if you try to play all day.
I'd compare the size of the environments to something like Oblivion or Fallout 3 with fewer locations, barely any people, and lots of animals everywhere.
Hopefully day 2 will end on a more positive note. There's a lot to like about the game, but it just feels draining and not fun like running through endless tunnels 7-10 hours into FFXIII did. :\
If this game had a speeder bike or something it'd be perfect. Maybe it does. I hope it does. As you get further in the respawn monuments start getting further from each other and it makes you less risky to take on enemy groups above your level because running for 4 mins to a point, dying in 30 seconds and then having to start mins away and run back is not so appealing. I really feel like the game is great, but the large scale environments are making the game slooooow. Doesn't help that story-wise after the intro areas there's been little story so it's just been adventuring forward, which consists of running for hours across big fields. I'm hoping this is just a lull and the story will pick up along with the pacing. Because of the size of the environments, it's a game where you play a few hours and you feel like you hardly accomplished anything. So it gets kind of tiring if you try to play all day.
I'd compare the size of the environments to something like Oblivion or Fallout 3 with fewer locations, barely any people, and lots of animals everywhere.
Hopefully day 2 will end on a more positive note. There's a lot to like about the game, but it just feels draining and not fun like running through endless tunnels 7-10 hours into FFXIII did. :\
Sammy Samusu
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Holy.ivysaur12 said:
June 15th is the fateful day.
Lets have faith and pray, GAF.
Sure, but I think the difference was that in XS ep1 you only had to run about 3 screens worth instead of across giant fields.
If you've played FFXIII, it's pretty easy to relate. Remember how it was running across the main Gran Pulse area back and forth to do quests before you had chocobo. That's how Xenoblade is right now. Like Gran Pulse it was exciting at first for the sheer size of it, but now I just want to unlock the XB version of a chocobo to get through faster I'm reaaaally hoping there is a XB chocobo. Maybe he can be a robo-chocobo here.
If you've played FFXIII, it's pretty easy to relate. Remember how it was running across the main Gran Pulse area back and forth to do quests before you had chocobo. That's how Xenoblade is right now. Like Gran Pulse it was exciting at first for the sheer size of it, but now I just want to unlock the XB version of a chocobo to get through faster
I'm reaaaally hoping there is a XB chocobo. Maybe he can be a robo-chocobo here.