It actually reminds me a lot of Xenogears (probably due to how much Xenogears was a big love-letter to Gundam and other mecha anime). There were a ton of sequences in Xenogears inside the cockpits of the Gears where you could see the environments around the mechs and all sorts of action taking place. It isn't the sort of thing you see very often, and was even mostly lacking from Xenosaga. So seeing cockpit monitors actually showing off environments and action in Xenoblade X is cool.
Xenoblade X (Cross) releasing in 2015 (Xenoblade Chronicles X in the US)
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It actually reminds me a lot of Xenogears (probably due to how much Xenogears was a big love-letter to Gundam and other mecha anime). There were a ton of sequences in Xenogears inside the cockpits of the Gears where you could see the environments around the mechs and all sorts of action taking place. It isn't the sort of thing you see very often, and was even mostly lacking from Xenosaga. So seeing cockpit monitors actually showing off environments and action in Xenoblade X is cool.
Now i really want to know how does this ties to xenoblade 1.
I dont want at the end some vague mention of shulk and company, i want something huge.
I feel you man. Takahashi-san, PLEASE DON'T PULL A CHRONO CROSS ON ME, pls
Yeah I really don't know why there's such negativity about this title. Clearly those people didn't play Xenoblade... what else were they expecting?
I love the environments and the fact you can go anywhere.
charlequin
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I dont want at the end some vague mention of shulk and company, i want something huge
I wouldn't get your hopes too far up. If there's one thing Takahashi seems to have wisely learned, it's to make all your game stories usefully self-contained.
foxuzamaki
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Thanks Ill check it out tomorrow
ShinobiFist
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I'm always moving forward. I rather have a pretty women that fucks mediocre, than have an ugly women that can fuck.
What about an average girl you can spend a 100 hours with?
Personally I think it looks good. Not my favorite art style, but far from ugly.
UberTag
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It's definitely a stupid name. No question about that.
Still plenty of time to change it until they put it on a box art.
Oddly enough, my only quibble after watching the 40-minute Treehouse play session is I'm not entirely sold on the idea of a silent protagonist for a Takahashi game.
Trevelyan9999
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They should definitely take as long as they need to with this one. This game could be another RPG genre defining experience just like the first Xenoblade. Can't wait.
HawthorneKitty
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Rewatching right now too, just to get to the music part.
Pegosaurus
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do you have a link?
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Graphics are downgraded my ass.
Oh my...I simply love thisd game. the Treehouse demo was the best thing about this E3 to me.
Maybe I'm weirded, or just don't get a lot of the anime / JRPG stuff shown here, but this trailer *really* disappointed me. Xenoblade was one of my favourite games of the last decade, loved it to bits, and I was honestly planning on buying a Wii U just to play the sequel.
But this trailer looked dreadful. It looks like generic anime giant robot trash and nonsensical shouting into the camera with open mouths. Xenoblade was about the vast landscapes to explore and the incredible variety and design in the areas, which the new trailer seems to completely bypass in place of MORE MECHS AND SPACESHIPS.
Hopefully the gameplay videos will comvince me otherwise, but the E3 trailer definitely left me let dow.
But this trailer looked dreadful. It looks like generic anime giant robot trash and nonsensical shouting into the camera with open mouths. Xenoblade was about the vast landscapes to explore and the incredible variety and design in the areas, which the new trailer seems to completely bypass in place of MORE MECHS AND SPACESHIPS.
Hopefully the gameplay videos will comvince me otherwise, but the E3 trailer definitely left me let dow.
Captain Smoker
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I'm really asking myself how large this game really is.
The hub town alone is probably as big as Bionis left leg in Xenoblade? Or am I exaggerating?
And the skybox is beautiful:
The hub town alone is probably as big as Bionis left leg in Xenoblade? Or am I exaggerating?
And the skybox is beautiful:
HawthorneKitty
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The previous trailers should have already sufficed for you. This trailer was obviously a story trailer.
Pegosaurus
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thanks
Earthpainting
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Finally confirmed what I feared; It has a customisable main character. It's not that I love Shulk or anything, but I have seen very few games with customisable leads where I felt like my character mattered in a meaningful way. People won't be able to say your name, not even ambiently. The more customisable your character comes, the more generic the game's interpretation of you has to become.
Either way, the actual footage looked pretty good. The only big question I have about it is concerning the multiplayer elements we saw in the reveal trailer. I don't mind either way at this point. I just want to know what the deal is.
Either way, the actual footage looked pretty good. The only big question I have about it is concerning the multiplayer elements we saw in the reveal trailer. I don't mind either way at this point. I just want to know what the deal is.
How can you love Xenoblad and be let down by this? this is Xenoblad sequel (spiritual or actual we'll discover), landscape IS everything even here, and the story cut scene were not so different from the Xeno ones..
Did you watch the gameplay footage? If it does not convince you that it's Xenoblade+, then I don't know what will.
DracoBlade
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The ai will benefit from the delay hopefully but aside from that this looks as stunning as the first day it was revealed!
As some peasant who has yet to play the og Xenoblade, we can expect diverse environments beyond token tundras and arid savannah's right? The geographical formations of this forest area are already incredibly imaginative!
As some peasant who has yet to play the og Xenoblade, we can expect diverse environments beyond token tundras and arid savannah's right? The geographical formations of this forest area are already incredibly imaginative!
Pegosaurus
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some people complain about the trailer and I still can't get over how cool the music alone was
Its just so good.
Did you somehow miss all previous and current media about the game?
Smiles and Cries
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yeah Zelda U colors spoiled me a bit but I am hoping this game has vastly different areas like the original game
the areas that glow with light at night, we saw night but that was just the start area
Captain Smoker
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So, we know that the waterfall area (where the big dinosaur-enemies are) is in the small area pointed out here:
Now, going from the new gameplay footage, the hub world is south of the waterfall area:
You saw how large the hub world is? It's probably just part of the small red circle here lol:
Now, going from the new gameplay footage, the hub world is south of the waterfall area:
You saw how large the hub world is? It's probably just part of the small red circle here lol:
DangerMouse
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Totally agree, it looked amazing, that shot was so damned good and then on top of all that continuing their fantastic moving grass and sky also in that shot. And the scale is insane. It was also great when they showed off the dynamic scale too when you get close to something really huge like in the demo they showed on the stream. (Zelda looked fantastic too)
charlequin
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Have you... ever tried to watch Xenoblade cutscenes outside the context of the game?
I'm in the UK, and I pronounce it as zeenoblade, just like everyone else I know along with the staff at the GAME I frequent.
I don't know why anyone would pronounce it any other way
Most of the characters that I've become closest to (in a video game sense) have been characters that I've created, e.g. T.E.S. The story can still be good. Sense of adventure and scale will allow a player to craft their own story.
Yes, you are "weirded".
For someone who claims to have liked the first game so much, your reaction doesn't seem to fit. X is essentially more of the fucking same. But it looks better and adds playable, transforming, mechs to the mix.
ya, weirded.
donkey show
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Has this been pointed out yet?
(United States flag)
Yes, that's Neo Los Angeles.
thetrin
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Still, QA for the game (especially to get up to Nintendo's standards) is going to be astronomical. It will take a looooong time.
Has this been pointed out yet?
(United States flag)
Yeah the Treehouse Demo showed the opening cinematic which reveals this all takes place in an alternate universe of our own.
Graphics are downgraded my ass.
WiiU a little more powerful than Wii confirmed!
The gameplay videos and gifs on this screen are fantastic, and exactly what I wanted to see. But I'm not following E3 religiously, I just caught the stuff that Nintendo themselves put up in their show, and that's very different to what you can see on this page of the thread, hence my disquiet. As a trailer I think it's fairly bad, and it sells the game short.
(I do agree with the point about a customisable main character though - I actually liked Xenoblades storyline and worry this would be weaker story in response).
The other thing is, I don't really like giant mechs. I think they are a bit silly, and part of the reason I loved Xenoblade was because I enjoyed where it's story went with that idea and we didn't all end up in giant mechs at the end.
Hopefully they'll focus on giant landscapes and dinosaurs more.
It doesn't sell the game short in any way.
Xenoblade has tons of giant mechs. You just couldn't hop into one and pilot it. And this is a Tetsuya Takahashi game; mechs are his bread and butter. For his fans, this is a welcome return.
I don't think they are going to change it, otherwise they'd have kept it as just X for now.
Check out the 45 minutes of gameplay from the Nintendo Treehouse yesterday - definitely shows a way lot more than the paltry trailer during Nintendo's Direct Event.
I don't want to sound like an elitist, but Takahashi himself wasn't happy with Xenoblade's story since he though it was too shounen (typical action anime for boys), and vowed to make something much more grand next.
And just asking, what don't you like about mechs? Takahashi (and usually most anime) interweaves them pretty well into the story, and in this game it seems to be the distinguishing gameplay element.
You simply were not able to do that in Xenoblade. If you want open landscapes like in Xenoblade, then mechs are going to do a major service for you in terms of exploration. I love how they're not used as a gimmick for gameplay like in Xenogears.
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