Yeah, for now, he's made it abundantly clear that XG/XS-type writing and storytelling is a dead end for him. If people are going in to XCX expecting him to return to that, then they're in for some serious disappointment.
Xenoblade X (Cross) releasing in 2015 (Xenoblade Chronicles X in the US)
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Yeah, for now, he's made it abundantly clear that XG/XS-type writing and storytelling is a dead end for him. If people are going in to XCX expecting him to return to that, then they're in for some serious disappointment.
The Cast's faces are a mixed bag, but luckily I played Xenoblade and this is a step up.
Wish we had Korean nextgen MMORPG level of customization though
Shulk and the rest of the Xenoblade cast would look fine with Wii U graphics. The characters from X however look like they were made in 5 minutes in an eastern MMO from the previous decade.
Which is interesting, since that's what his wife excels at so much. That said, it's great that Soraya is working on X as well. So excite.
oh yea i forgot that, i guess with that a planet-sequel makes sense.
Yea that makes sense, maybe at some point in the game we met
zanza and the mechonis girl, i forgot her name.
Man i rushed xenoblade 1, but with this game ill go as slow as i can! this looks AMAZING.
TheGreatLugia
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I assumed that would be the case, but when was it confirmed that she's been working on X?
I think Tatsu is a character from the first game. There was an NPC named Tatsu in Frontier Village involved in various sidequests.
Jumping the gun personally, that said she's been rather active on her twitter account about it. She has to be involved in some manner.
FlashbladeGAF
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60+ hours of gaming you get used to things.
Out of the main party characters; Reyn, Riki and Dunban looked good.
The rest were varying degrees of meh.
Ehhh...I think this will be more in the vein of Gears and Saga than you think. I hope so at least. I just want something at the ambition of Xenogears actually executed well.
Yeah there was, but I don't think this is the same Tatsu. The one in Xenoblade was slow moving and seemed elderly.
ArchedThunder
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Have they even confirmed this is the same universe as the first game? Judging by the opening I assumed Monolith was just turning the Xenoblade name into Nintendo's own Final Fantasy.
I've got my fingers crossed that during the entire year (+) they have to keep developing they will touch those up.
Kunihiko Tanaka, whose previous works include Xenogears and the first episode of Xenoaga.
FlashbladeGAF
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Yeah as mentioned earlier, it seems like no ones really captured Tanaka's style in 3D proper yet.
I can see him take inspiration from the two to some capacity, but I can't see him go whole hog (same with XB).
That's fair and reasonable; maybe he might some day.
Last two gifs:
Stupidly gorgeous art:
What I look forward to the most is taking screenshots of this game.
Lucent
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Makes sense. They looked like the first Xenosaga characters.
I will def not make my character look like the guys on the treehouse did. lol. Just a standard hairstyle with silver color is not gonna do it.
When I see this one, I keep thinking of Final Fantasy 7. I can't tell if that's good or bad, but it gets me excited. Good!
I can see him take inspiration from the two to some capacity, but I can't see him go whole hog (same with XB).
That's fair and reasonable; maybe he might some day.
Last two gifs:
Stupidly gorgeous art:
What I look forward to the most is taking screenshots of this game.
Agreed. It's one of the reasons I love RPG's. Exploring is the best and not only that but sharing what you enjoy with others. =)
Yeah, you're right. I just checked and he was 66 years old in the first game. Also, he was from Colony 6 not Frontier Village. His name in the NA version was changed to Satata. He looks very similar though. Wears the same swirly pattern glasses. I just instantly drew a connect to the first game when I saw him, and I thought that it was a kind of tease indicating that X is connected to the first game somehow.
I love how fantastical those flying creatures' movements are; it's like they're swimming through the air.
The attention to detail is amazing, they even have shadows down on the ground. I've never seen a game do scale as well as this one. To think it's on the Wii U of all things. Now that Nintendo's got a steady grip on HD development it's gonna be extremely interesting if they can get their shit back together and get on even ground with the next gen consoles in a few years.
If the gap between Nintendo gens and Sony/Microsoft gens wasn't so huge, it wouldn't bother me as much that Nintendo lags behind.
Pulse wishes it had the vertical terrain they've pulled off here.
Jurassic Munson
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This is what these guys are achieving with the Wii U. I can't even begin to fathom what their next-gen Wii R U game is going to look like.
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Haven't played XBX? Correct, I have not played it. Have you?
I finished Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii and put in about 95 hours total.
I wasn't expecting a character creator and I wasn't expecting as much gunplay as I saw in the Treehouse segment. I know Nintendo fans are sensitive but holy shit. There are some aspects that are very familiar to the XB wii game but this spiritual sequel feels more in line with Xenosaga's high tech universe than what was in XB wii(at least for what is shown in the first 3/4 of the game).
There isn't near enough vertical movement in JRPGs, yeah.
That's the first thing I was thinking once I saw the Nintendo TreeHouse video. The whole downgrade thing was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction(accompanied by trolls too).
This scene below was in Last year's trailer, and looks much better now(also changed from to night instead)
I think the confusion(concerning the possibility of a downgrade) came because the new trailer looked way more 'cartoony' than people assumed the game looked prior. Even I thought they might had went for a different rendering style or something, but after looking carefully, you can see that it always had that look. It's just that the seemingly more realistic parts we had seen before weren't as close up as we see now, or the lighting in the environment(like that hangar scene from last year) sometimes hide the shaded look.
But as those gifs show, if anything we are seeing more crisp and detailed sections of areas we had seen prior. There is definitely no downgrade to speak of.
Hey, onilink88, can you gif that scene with the herd of creatures running across the field? That'll be great, thanks!
LiveFromKyoto
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So when are people thinking for a release date? Feb/Mar '15?
Oh, I can only hope. It really does look like it might just be that close from what we've seen though.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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I would guess May 2015 the earliest for NA.
The zohar, the mechs, the opening cinematic and storyline... This all screams unofficial Xenogears Ep.1 reimagining to me, with Xenoblade's awesome scope and gameplay.
The guys on treehouse mentioned it was a "spiritual successor" to xenoblade, not an actual sequel. Seems to me like Takahashi went back to its original xeno-verse themes and ideas.
The guys on treehouse mentioned it was a "spiritual successor" to xenoblade, not an actual sequel. Seems to me like Takahashi went back to its original xeno-verse themes and ideas.
This one?
I missed this somehow, but...:
Wow. They've really nailed the art direction for this game. Hands down the best I've ever seen from a sci-fi JRPG.
Like I said.
Xenogears Origin story.
Xenosaga style.
Xenoblade world and combat.
That's why it's Xenoblade Cross.
The Cross denotes that it's a mix. Like Project X Zone.
Yeah, it does make sense! I almost can't believe we're getting this game...
I was so glad when I checked NeoGAF after watching the Digital Event video because when I saw Xenoblade Chronicles and the red X, I thought the X was a logo and Xenoblade Chronicles was the name of the game! I was trying to wrap my head around "Okay, so is it like, a parallel game to the other Xenoblade Chronicles? Or is it the realization of the concept Monolithsoft had in mind and Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii was just a prototype of what they were really going to do?" Then I found out about how the "X" symbol can be used for "Cross" in Japanese lol So it's called Xenoblade Cross.
Having played every single one of Takahashi's X games, if this is the one that all of his goals and ambitions culminate to, this will be something very special. Taking the best parts of all his previous works and finally making the epic he's wanted to. Oooh boy.
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