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Lethemonster posted:Ofcourse not. It's how you know if someone is a good judge of character or not. If they don't think Dickson is the most amazing JRPG pirate then you push them off a high building. But... but Gilder from Skies of Arcadia...  Mazed posted:Dunban's official romanization (in the artbook) is "Dunbun". This is indirectly related, but the original name for Dagran in The Last Story is Quark. nine-gear crow posted:Anyway, am I the only one who shouts out "DICKSON! If doing this is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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nine-gear crow posted:Anyway, am I the only one who shouts out "DICKSON! You, everyone in this thread, and pretty much every character in the game. It gets better as the game goes on, too.
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I can't make myself pronounce Reyn as 'rine'. Not helped by the fact I saw it written a long time before I heard it and already convinced myself it was pronounced 'rain'. It just seems like a really odd spelling for that.
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It helps if you think of it as a German spelling with a Mandatory Fantasy Y shoved in there. Someone in the party has to have one. It's the law. Edit: Alternately, it is pronounced "rain," only through the mouth of Eliza Doolittle: the Reyn in Speyn steys meynly on the pleyn. Wonderslug fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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Lethemonster posted:Dunban is also a stupid name but he character is so foofy and awesome that it's ok. Maybe the names that stand out as silly to us sound better in the original translation. I don't know- I hear the name 'Dunban', it definitely puts me in mind of a swaggering hero. Maybe some kind of elegant pirate sort.
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Wonderslug posted:Edit: Alternately, it is pronounced "rain," only through the mouth of Eliza Doolittle: the Reyn in Speyn steys meynly on the pleyn. Funny that you should mention that, considering the party banter... though I think that particular one involves a character we haven't met yet.
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Polsy posted:I can't make myself pronounce Reyn as 'rine'. Not helped by the fact I saw it written a long time before I heard it and already convinced myself it was pronounced 'rain'. It just seems like a really odd spelling for that. I found listening to it being pronounced over and over again in-game for about 20 hours helped for me at least. I'm an aural thinker, so I can hear it in my head the way the characters pronounce it, British accents and all.
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DOOP posted:Is it just me, or is the latest video private again? Yeah it is. It had issues I didn't notice and I decided to not be lazy and just wait til I'm well enough to record a proper commentary. In the meantime - Thread question What influences do you see in xenoblade? I've played a fair amount of games, but I have mostly played all the mainstream classics in each genre. Eg, the Final Fantasies, Zelda, etc, so I'm interested in what less typical games have informed the creation of this one. Obviously keep it spoiler free. And there's some 'lp superstar' called janitor ironcross or something who has just stolen all of the xenoblade soundtrack and is using it all willy nilly as background music for his '13th age' lp. I recommend you all go find the last few episodes and help steal the music back.
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Lethemonster posted:What influences do you see in xenoblade? I've played a fair amount of games, but I have mostly played all the mainstream classics in each genre. Eg, the Final Fantasies, Zelda, etc, so I'm interested in what less typical games have informed the creation of this one. Obviously keep it spoiler free. Mechanically, I would say Final Fantasy XII really shaped a lot of how the game feels when I play it. Both share that "open world you can literally walk from one end to the other of" style of gameplay. The combat also feels very XII-esque, with the line between exploration and combat being very permeable. Over all, I like XII's battle system better than Xenoblade's because there was more to customize and control and the party AI was as smart as you wanted it to be thanks to the Gambit system. Setting-wise, I'm at a bit of a loss for comparisons, all said. I've encountered "worlds built on the back of X" stories before, but nothing of this scope and scale. I want to say Baten Kaitos, but I honestly haven't have any experience with it beyond seeing the occasional screenshot, so take that with a grain of salt. EDIT: Actually, I have thought of something. The setting reminds me an awful lot, aesthetically at least, of Chrono Cross, another game Monolith had more than a few fingers in as a developer. And story-wise? Well that one's piss easy: Tetsuya Takahashi has been trying to perfect what he only got about 45% finished in Xenogears for the last 15 years. And after trying five times (ie: the Xenosaga trilogy, and the two Baten Kaitos games), he finally stuck the landing on #6, Xenoblade Chronicles. I really can't say much more without it being a spoilerfest. However, I felt, upon completing Xenoblade, an odd sense of completion, having followed the Xeno series since Xenogears back on the PS1. This was the one that took all the themes that the games leading up to it had been experimenting with and made a complete thought out of them, and restored my faith in Takahashi and co. As storytellers and pretty much guaranteed my eventual purchase of a Wii U for X, and only for X. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Sep 4, 2013 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Mechanically, I would say Final Fantasy XII really shaped a lot of how the game feels when I play it. Both share that "open world you can literally walk from one end to the other of" style of gameplay. quote:I really can't say much more without it being a spoilerfest. However, I felt, upon completing Xenoblade, an odd sense of completion, having followed the Xeno series since Xenogears back on the PS1. This was the one that took all the themes that the games leading up to it had been experimenting with and made a complete thought out of them, and restored my faith in Takahashi and co. As storytellers and pretty much guaranteed my eventual purchase of a Wii U for X, and only for X.
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Tupperwarez posted:Yeah, agreed 100%. He finally nailed it this time, I think. It's a real trip looking back at the Gordian Knot of Xenogears' narrative and comparing it to Xenoblade Chronicles' narrative. Xenoblade is a lot more focused and meanders a whole hell less than previous Xeno games, and benefits greatly from it. I wonder if it's a case similar to Silicon Knights with Eternal Darkness - Nintendo keeping a tight reign on them to make sure they turn out something good. And generally telling them "get this part done before you add something else".
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I wonder if it's a case similar to Silicon Knights with Eternal Darkness - Nintendo keeping a tight reign on them to make sure they turn out something good. And generally telling them "get this part done before you add something else". Good point. I wonder just what exactly was the ratio between Monolith's artistic coming of age vs. Nintendo's quality control in Xenoblade turning out as good as it did. Because Namco pretty much gave them free reign to do what they wanted and they put out three games that no one really understood and were commercial bombs for it. And I'm saying that as someone who loves the Xenosaga trilogy. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Sep 4, 2013 |
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I'm probably just projecting here, but Greg Stolze's RPG Reign is set on the bodies of two titans, Heluso and Milonda, facing each other, with the same kind of inward-facing gravity. They're not exactly ancient foes or anything, though.
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When I tell other people about this game, I usually describe it as having the exploration and expositional style of Skies of Arcadia mashed together with the combat of Dragon Age. That's usually enough to pique some interest.
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I'm also reminded of Skies of Arcadia, although it's been so long since I played it that's mostly due to the improbable land masses involving spectacularly long falls. Something about the way the natural world is presented, particularly when they really decide to crank the dial on the scenery porn, also makes me think of Okami. The art style is obviously very different, but if you compare, say, Satorl Marsh (the current area) at night to one of the revival sequences in Okami there seems to be a similar aesthetic at play. Of course, that's probably less direct influence than Japanese developers living in Japan taking inspiration from Japanese landscapes. Wonderslug fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Sep 4, 2013 |
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nine-gear crow posted:
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Took the words right out of my mouth. It's hard to think of other game comparisons because the other Xeno- games are so such a strong influence.
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nine-gear crow posted:Mechanically, I would say Final Fantasy XII really shaped a lot of how the game feels when I play it. Both share that "open world you can literally walk from one end to the other of" style of gameplay.
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nine-gear crow posted:The combat also feels very XII-esque, with the line between exploration and combat being very permeable. Over all, I like XII's battle system better than Xenoblade's because there was more to customize and control and the party AI was as smart as you wanted it to be thanks to the Gambit system.
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Lethemonster, do you still have the raw footage of Journeys 2-6 without your commentary? I'd love to be able to download an MP4 of that to watch again and again.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Lethemonster, do you still have the raw footage of Journeys 2-6 without your commentary? I'd love to be able to download an MP4 of that to watch again and again. Yeah. When I'm next on uni campus I will upload and post it. Should be back on a roll by the weekend. Salmonella and friends are... unpleasant and I'm taking a few more days break from anything other than eating and watching Fry and Laurie. Edit: Sneaky edit    
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When you have an update, it's ENCOURAGED to make a new reply, even if it's a double or triple post. People tend to only check threads if they see new posts. I've started my replay of the game. I'm now supposed to be heading for Raguel Bridge in pursuit of Juju, but the little idiot can wait as far as I'm concerned. However, since I'm now level 18 and have finally completed my collectopaedia for Colony 9 and Tephra Cave, I suppose there's no putting it off anymore. One thing I don't like is searching for the missing collectibles for the collection thing. Even the Google Doc faq doesn't mention where the best chances of finding some are. I've been trying to play as other characters more, other than Shulk. I'm getting better at Reyn, but early-game Sharla is just tedious. I've been trying to use her tranquilizer bullet for crowd control, but I've been screwing it up and switching targets tends to make the other members of my team stop attacking entirely, which is not helpful. I'll come back to her later after she's gotten more useful abilities. She's not fun to control personally at the moment. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Yay! More Reyntimes! Shulksulks! Dickson fixins! ...Dunban funlands? And um... Sharla snarls. Getting all up in that bionisbutt. Anyway, I missed the update too and am getting all twitchy about not paying proper attention to the thread. Like when you pass by a sparkly on the edge of the screen and are not immediately overcome by videogame collectathon OCD and are forced to go back like I would be. I'm just delighted that a game as well-developed as this got made and subsequently LP'd for my viewing pleasure. I'm watching this just as avidly as I did your first go-round and praying that some of your skills pass osmotically through the screen so I can suck less at this game.
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I'm pretty hyped that we're not that far from where the last LP ended if I recall correctly. Like, only a few videos I'd guess.
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The swamp is one of the best areas of the game, IMO. It's just so pretty! If you haven't done the next main-story quest yet, I vote that you do it at night without any speedup. It's not too long if I remember correctly, and shows off the area very well. Also, I take it you aren't doing a naked Dunban run? For shame! Someone should be showing more skin than Sharla, and that person should be Dunban!
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I didn't double post because it was a) a repost of a previous post and b) I have over 100 subscribers on youtube and it would never occur to me that they weren't all SA viewers because how the hell do I have more than 2 for one crappy lp?! LordAba posted:The swamp is one of the best areas of the game, IMO. It's just so pretty! If you haven't done the next main-story quest yet, I vote that you do it at night without any speedup. It's not too long if I remember correctly, and shows off the area very well. Naked Dunban is unfeasible until later on for various reasons. ALSO waiting until I have a full collection of scanty outfits for the other people in the team. For unit cohesion, obviously. JT Jag posted:I'm pretty hyped that we're not that far from where the last LP ended if I recall correctly. Like, only a few videos I'd guess. Oh yes. Oh you guys are so lucky I don't do live commentary. There was much swearing and whooping and curbstomping. I was just so drat happy to get that boss out the way. Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I've been trying to play as other characters more, other than Shulk. I'm getting better at Reyn, but early-game Sharla is just tedious. I've been trying to use her tranquilizer bullet for crowd control, but I've been screwing it up and switching targets tends to make the other members of my team stop attacking entirely, which is not helpful. I'll come back to her later after she's gotten more useful abilities. She's not fun to control personally at the moment. Sharla is only worth trying much later in the game when both she and lots of other people have a full set of skills and lots more to swap in and out. I don't find her remotely viable let alone interesting until after we have a full crew. How many people watching this haven't played the game before? It seems most people have, so just curious if we do have any first time viewers. Lethemonster fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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I don't own any console newer than the snes so I'm seeing this game for the first time. (Apart from following your first LP attempt.)
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Me, I didn't watch the first LP either since I was planning on playing it at the time.
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Lethemonster posted:I didn't double post because it was a) a repost of a previous post and b) I have over 100 subscribers on youtube and it would never occur to me that they weren't all SA viewers because how the hell do I have more than 2 for one crappy lp?! All your subscribers may be SA viewers, but not all your SA viewers are subscribers. I pretty much never subscribe to any Youtube channels, and never LP channels. I'm just trying to help, since I noticed two days passed between your edit and when I checked the thread.
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I've never played, though I did follow your first LP. The game is too far out of my price range, so I'd have to use emulation to play.
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I haven't played it because I know everyone says it is the GREATEST JRPG EVER but I'm not buying a Wii for one game. And like Stabbey I subscribe to LP threads but not their youtube channels, so I would definitely prefer you make a new post in this thread every update. Sindai fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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For big ones I will, the other thing preventing it was that it was a repost of what I thought was a crappy update. In addition to being confused that people actually subscribed to me of their own free will.     
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Sep 15, 2013 00:26
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I'm watching this because I no longer own a Wii.
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I'm watching too, and I've never beaten the game. I preordered it when it was coming out in America, but then my sister took the Wii up with her to her university and so I haven't played it as much as I could. I didn't even get far enough to get Fiora the first time. Thanks for letting me see it all!
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You really should try to get your hands on a Wii! It's one of those games where a Let's Play is in and of itself interesting without the banter of a Pokecapn LP or the absurd stream of consciousness of Pork Lift, but it's also just masterfully crafted on a game level.
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This was the section where I realized Dunban's right arm really is completely limp. He does everything with his left hand only, including pulling himself up vine-covered walls. Not sure how he manages that one.
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Lethemonster posted:How many people watching this haven't played the game before? It seems most people have, so just curious if we do have any first time viewers. I watched your first LP attempt. I tend to watch a lot of JRPG LP's because I usually find a lot of charm in the characters, setting, and sometimes even the general plot but usually find the gameplay pretty tedious. Xenoblade seems to have taken some steps to alleviate this but probably not enough for me. Anyways I'm just as interested in seeing where Xenoblade goes as I was the first time!
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First-timer here; I missed the first LP, and I don't have a Wii, Game so far looks pretty cool, I have to say, and the British v/a is just great to listen to. EDIT: Also, that wasn't suspicious at all, Dickson. CommissarMega fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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I liked the British VAs in this (and off-topic, Last Story too). As I'm really not accustomed to it, Shulk's VA made him sound a bit more adult-ish than his character model looks and typical JRPG protagonists sound. While this is a huge stretch, the Xenoblade world kind of reminded me of the Star Ocean series, where the hero begins in a heavy, fantasy-based world until futuristic technologies intermingle with it (I'm loosely referring to Bionis = Fantasy Land, and Mechonis = Future/Machine Land). It's a clumsy comparison, but it reminded me of said series regardless. Also, this game was the sole purpose I got the Wii, and these days, I can't stand JRPGs. I'm having a blast watching the LP, as I haven't played it in a while. It's a few vids back from the current update, but I totally forgot all about Xord.
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