I suspected that they would lend a hand to Zelda U, seeing as they helped on Skyward Sword and have a lot of expertise in open-world design. It makes perfect sense, and this lends some more credence to that thought.
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I suspected that they would lend a hand to Zelda U, seeing as they helped on Skyward Sword and have a lot of expertise in open-world design. It makes perfect sense, and this lends some more credence to that thought.
They will be on Monday.
Shadow Broker
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In the original Xenoblade how come some of these enemies power level goes over 9,000 once their health gets down to a sliver?
This game needs Skells.
This game needs Skells.
It think you are taking Spike damage
so you might try to equip your gear with spike resist
StarStabbedMoon
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Maybe he was referring to the Tokyo studio? After Skyward Sword, Monolith Soft split into two studios, one for their own games and one for helping out Nintendo games in Kyoto. The new helper studio worked on Link Between Worlds, Pikmin 3, and Splatoon. I could definitely see them helping out on Zelda U.
TheGreatLugia
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The mass hiring notices were posted by both studios, though.
Apologies if this has been asked, but what is the consensus on loading times?
Right now I'm planning on downloading the data packs and using the disc version of the game, but lately I am into buying things digitally because I am a packrat and at least digital packrats don't fill up the house.
If I do the download version of the game, will it run noticeably slower off of an external HD versus the Wii U's internal flash? Compared to disc with data packs?
Right now I'm planning on downloading the data packs and using the disc version of the game, but lately I am into buying things digitally because I am a packrat and at least digital packrats don't fill up the house.
If I do the download version of the game, will it run noticeably slower off of an external HD versus the Wii U's internal flash? Compared to disc with data packs?
Ooccoo
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Loading is fast most of the time, except when you move from one region to another. Never takes more than 10-20 seconds though, and most of the time it's faster. I have all the data packs installed and I'm playing with the disc.
I would actually tear up if we ever get it announced
Martylepiaf
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Is spike damage still a thing in X ?
Ready to jump back in tonight. Once you arrive at New LA, man, the game is sooooooo slow. Just going from trigger point to trigger point listening to slow, poorly lip-sync'd dialogue. 
Now that I'm back out in the world, it seems to be picking up.
The city is awesome, though. As with the previous game, I love that you can jump on pretty much anything. I leaped down into the main city and couldn't find a good way to get back up to the east gate - so I just hopped on a big pipe structure and kind of cheezed my way up. It felt like something you shouldn't be doing but that was awesome.
Now that I'm back out in the world, it seems to be picking up.
The city is awesome, though. As with the previous game, I love that you can jump on pretty much anything. I leaped down into the main city and couldn't find a good way to get back up to the east gate - so I just hopped on a big pipe structure and kind of cheezed my way up. It felt like something you shouldn't be doing but that was awesome.
StarStabbedMoon
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There hasn't been much comparison between digital vs. disc+data packs, but there also hasn't been any complaints. Most impressions that address loading say the data packs work very well.
If you were using the disc only, that'd be a different story. There are probably small differences between internal vs. external, data packs vs. digital, but these will be very small differences compared to using only the disc.
SmiteOfHand
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Astral Dog
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Someone said the Xenoblade disk cant include the data packs because its already full, but i checked and the overall size of the game is 21GB or close to 22, with all that supposedly included, arent Wii U disks like 25GB?
I'm pretty sure the issue is not disc space, rather, the lack of a system level installation feature. Downloading data packs is a work around since you cannot install data from a game disc on Wii U.
SatoAilDarko
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Yeah. I assume this is the reason.
But that's why Watch Dogs Wii U's beginning install was interesting. When you start it up it requires a 250 mb install.
Shadow Broker
Banned
1024 vs 1000? Similar to when you install a new 1TB hard drive that has 930gb of free space.
Astral Dog
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thanks , knew it was bit of a silly question but someone mentioned disk space as a probable issue.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
When are the reviews expected to come?
Or MGSV.
The 30th I believe.
sensui-tomo
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how long till we can play kamen rider in super mechs. I need more Skell stuff.
mrmickfran
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Looks nice, but the player doesn't appear to be selecting arts? Can you queue up arts or something?
I know that you could do that in the original Xenoblade, so I would guess probably. Usually each art takes a certain amount of time to execute but you can click as many as you like and they're performed in order.
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I'd say it's almost certain. Zelda Wii U is a huge game. If the team needed help from Monolith Soft on Skyward Sword, they'd need it for Zelda Wii U. I wouldn't be surprised if Monolith Soft shared some of their tech with the team and is helping to build the game.
The only thing that's odd is the fact that they were recruiting for both of their studios. Either Zelda Wii U is getting TONS of support and both studios are helpingI honestly wouldn't be surprised if pretty much anyone who's not working on an NX title is working on Zeldaor they're in the early concept stages of a new project and they're hiding that.
There's a full voicecast list of the VAs up from leaked credits. I like voice actor chat so I was wondering if this was thread worthy or best kept contained here?
CAAAAAAAAAAAW
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That's a single art, one of Doug's unique ones.
Starlight Beat in Japanese
So Cross gets other party member's unique arts too?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
It's a thirst worth starving for
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Ex Ellen excellent, read it all, interesting how he ponders how only a select few JRPGS make it ig despite the large amount of love the genre gets.
So false advertising then. Bad form, NintendoUK.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Always make noise, that's how E3 bombs happen.
Don't let your dreams be dreams ivysaur
Qt3= Quarter to three?
If that's the case they'll give the game a 2/10 just for that reason.
foxuzamaki
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Remember that the localized dialogue and the free DLC being added onto the game helped filled up some more space
CAAAAAAAAAAAW
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You can learn all of the nonMC unique arts by doing their affinity quest things.
https://twitter.com/Qt3/status/669386476765904896
I can't wait to hear the soundtrack that's been getting so much attention. I watched Kill la Kill after learning Sawano was doing X, and it was great.
And then there's the other end of the spectrum: https://twitter.com/vbalestriere/status/669636358474997760
Yabberwocky
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SoraanTribal
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Hmm, why is the character level max only 60? Seems low when the monsters can go up to 99. I know you could fight lvl120 bosses in Xenoblade as lvl99 if gemmed/geared properly but still, lol.
Don't Mechs make you stronger?
Vincent Grayson
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Because your Skells are going to be the main means of getting stronger past that point. Basically, you can't just level to beat the crazy high end enemies.