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Louisgod posted:gently caress vocal songs, give me organic ambiance. I cringe every time I hear lyrics in video game music, especially in Japanese tracks. JAB, HOOK, UPPERCUT FEEL MY BLOW WHEN IT IMPACTS UP YOUR GUT YOU WANNA TRY TO BEAT THE CHAMP? YOU AIN'T TOUGH ENOUGH YOU THINK YOUR MOVES ARE THE BEST THEN I COUNTER-PUNCH I assume you don't actually mean "all tracks with vocals," right? I like new-agey or choral vocals, and I hope that's what they mean when they refer to "vocal songs." To me that would include tracks like Satorl Marsh at night and the final boss (please listen to that because if you're like me the boss died before I had a chance to appreciate his theme) from Xenoblade, and those are absolutely fantastic. This track from Tales of Legendia, written in the game's fictional language, also comes to mind. I feel like there's a difference between that and pop/rock/hiphop/rap/whatever songs. Whenever I hear that poo poo I think I'm playing a music video instead of a videogame. The exceptions of course are Pumpkin Hill and the entire Killer Instinct 3 soundtrack  E: I'm referring to music heard during gameplay. I'm fine with any vocal intro/ending theme if they're written well. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Doc V posted:-Takahashi's 300 hour playthrough was not a 100% run. YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I am ready.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:48
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Doc V posted:-Takahashi's 300 hour playthrough was not a 100% run. Holy crap, the first Xenoblade took like 200 hours to finish completely and that was big enough and now we're looking at almost double the size of that game. Also if anyone wants a sample of what the vocal tracks will be like, there's this song from one of the trailers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBqkzq8nAQI
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Is the game confirmed for a western/American release? If it's an xc situation I am completely ready to import a European wiiu and game
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Jan 28, 2015 18:51
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Calaveron posted:Is the game confirmed for a western/American release? If it's an xc situation I am completely ready to import a European wiiu and game It most certainly is.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:52
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Sawano pours tons of vocals into his tracks, so that's no big surprise.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:54
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The best news out of all this is that there is no dedicated healer.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:55
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Somebody please tell me vin diesel is one of the voice actors for the main character. You could totally play as vin diesel in shadowrun returns which was amazing. There was even the riddick shades option. It would be a really great way to target the non anime pillow crowd.
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Safety Scissors posted:Somebody please tell me vin diesel is one of the voice actors for the main character. You could totally play as vin diesel in shadowrun returns which was amazing. There was even the riddick shades option. It would be a really great way to target the non anime pillow crowd. Ugh no. Ill take Beat Takeshi. April launch and we still don't know poo poo about online.
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Terper posted:The main character is silent, the only voice lines are when they call out attacks/other stuff in battle. Is this confirmed? 
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Chronojam posted:Is this confirmed? I don't think it's been outright stated anywhere, but I can't really think of any game that both allows you to customize the MC's voice, and gives the MC lots of voiced dialogue in cutscenes. I mean, it'd be kind of waste of resources to record the same dialogue for 20 different people. It's a pretty safe assumption to say that the MC will silent when the plot is happening.
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That's really lovely because Shulk was awesome.
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Mak0rz posted:I assume you don't actually mean "all tracks with vocals," right? Actually I do, the lyrics tend to be nonsensical and feel forced and the X song over I think the second trailer comes to mind. FF13-2 comes to mind. J-pop comes to mind. I've never liked lyrics in video game soundtracks. Anyway, it's just a fun quirk I've had for years, I'm sure I'll get used to the music that plays.
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It sucks that the main character won't be doing a lot of talking, but that's just one of the costs of letting you do your own character like that. Saint's Row let you pick a voice and your character then talked, but they only had six voice actors in 2, and I think seven in 3 and 4, and there weren't all that many cutscenes where the Boss was talking.
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U-DO Burger posted:I don't think it's been outright stated anywhere, but I can't really think of any game that both allows you to customize the MC's voice, and gives the MC lots of voiced dialogue in cutscenes. I mean, it'd be kind of waste of resources to record the same dialogue for 20 different people. It's a pretty safe assumption to say that the MC will silent when the plot is happening. Bioware games do this, but Bioware is also funded by one of the biggest publishers.
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I said come in! posted:Bioware games do this, but Bioware is also funded by one of the biggest publishers. They were doing that since before the EA acquisition.
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Doc V posted:So, the latest issue of Famitsu has a 10 page feature on Xenoblade X. I haven't seen scans yet, but there's a bunch of tidbits on Japanese blogs already: Doc V posted:More stuff: Yes, yes YESSSSSSS  At last, the Future LA Union Worker With Mech simulator is complete.
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Louisgod posted:gently caress vocal songs, give me organic ambiance. I cringe every time I hear lyrics in video game music, especially in Japanese tracks. One of Sawano's 'things' is that he does a lot more vocal insert songs than most anime OST dudes, they're all in hilariously bad Engrish or German but that doesn't stop most of them from being amazing.
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http://gematsu.com/2015/01/xenoblade-chronicles-x-details-map-size-unionsgematsu posted:The eight unions are: Corepedian sounds pretty sweet, just get rewarded even more for exploring. On the other hand the idea of Companion giving me a mech to fly around and find a lost kitty (possibly stuck on a giant alien tree monster) is amazing.
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Gonna name myself Cloud and join Avalanche.
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U-DO Burger posted:I don't think it's been outright stated anywhere, but I can't really think of any game that both allows you to customize the MC's voice, and gives the MC lots of voiced dialogue in cutscenes. I mean, it'd be kind of waste of resources to record the same dialogue for 20 different people. It's a pretty safe assumption to say that the MC will silent when the plot is happening. Saints Row is another example to go with the various Bioware games above, but equally so, that's got more potential funding behind it to channel into that sort of thing, along with not being a massive, hundreds of hours long RPG. Personally, I'd say the most telling thing is that during the start of the game, there's not really any real dialogue options - just confirming your name, and then (I think) if you're ready to move on after the tutorial fight. Unless there's a sudden twist down the line, it doesn't really seem much like they're looking for the player's input beyond confirmation.
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Sakurazuka posted:Gonna name myself Cloud and join Avalanche. Naming my character Eric Peterson and joining Testament.
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Naming my character Erich Weber and joining Testament.
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The 300 hour thing (with theoretically infinite elements lol) thing sounds kind of overblown but man oh man the rest of that looks cool. Are they doing a demo anytime soon?
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This sounds like an offline MMO. I mean we'll see, but sometimes less is more
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A Steampunk Gent posted:This sounds like an offline MMO. I mean we'll see, but sometimes less is more "Offline MMO" was a pretty good description of Xenoblade.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:This sounds like an offline MMO. I mean we'll see, but sometimes less is more That's also literally the number one thing people complained about with Xenoblade, so that shouldn't be a surprise e: ....
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Xenoblade, despite being quite open and vast in scope, had a very linear story. Here's what you're doing, here's where you're going, here's why you're doing it, here's how you're going to go about it, but yeah just do it whenever you feel like, bro. And that's very different from what X is setting itself up to be. Which isn't bad, mind you, it will just be a different story told in a very different way. Which might end up being bad, but hey.
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Fungah! posted:The 300 hour thing (with theoretically infinite elements lol) thing sounds kind of overblown but man oh man the rest of that looks cool. Are they doing a demo anytime soon? Considering the guy made the game and is probably OCD about things I'd say he's probably grooming everything for bugs or things they missed. Still 5x larger than Xenoblade either means there's a shitton to do or there's a massive amount of empty, meaningless space.
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Terper posted:Xenoblade, despite being quite open and vast in scope, had a very linear story. Here's what you're doing, here's where you're going, here's why you're doing it, here's how you're going to go about it, but yeah just do it whenever you feel like, bro. And that's very different from what X is setting itself up to be. Which isn't bad, mind you, it will just be a different story told in a very different way. Which might end up being bad, but hey. The scale of xenoblade chronicles x is like no other game ever made.
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The story of Xenoblade Chronicles X will try too hard to live up to the goodwill left by the original Xenoblade, lack an emotional connection to many of the characters, have long stretches of time where nothing really happens and motivations stay the same, and just generally be too unfocused and ultimately unrewarding. e: Goddamn will it look cool and good while doing it though.
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Louisgod posted:Considering the guy made the game and is probably OCD about things I'd say he's probably grooming everything for bugs or things they missed. Still 5x larger than Xenoblade either means there's a shitton to do or there's a massive amount of empty, meaningless space. I hope there aren't 5 billion Collect 10 of X quests. U-DO Burger posted:I don't think it's been outright stated anywhere, but I can't really think of any game that both allows you to customize the MC's voice, and gives the MC lots of voiced dialogue in cutscenes. I mean, it'd be kind of waste of resources to record the same dialogue for 20 different people. It's a pretty safe assumption to say that the MC will silent when the plot is happening. Saint's Row, Dragon's Dogma, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Monster Hunter The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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The Taint Reaper posted:Saint's Row, Dragon's Dogma, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Monster Hunter gently caress, I have unwittingly outed myself as someone who has not in fact played any of those games.  How much cutscene dialogue does the MC get in those games? Do they have actual conversations that show personality, or it is more like a series of one-liners?
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The Taint Reaper posted:Saint's Row, Dragon's Dogma, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Monster Hunter Out of those five, only the Bioware ones have the MC talk a lot, and I think the only voice differences in those are male/female.
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Motto posted:Out of those five, only the Bioware ones have the MC talk a lot, and I think the only voice differences in those are male/female.
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U-DO Burger posted:gently caress, I have unwittingly outed myself as someone who has not in fact played any of those games. Saint's Row, Mass Effect and Dragon Age are the biggest of the bunch, since the main characters talk and respond as part of full conversation - albeit for Saint's Row and Dragon Age, only from certain sequels onwards. The Boss in SR will even joke about in 4 how they used to be shy and quiet back when they started out. Mass Effect and Dragon Age meanwhile have full voice acting for an absolute tonne of dialogue trees, though thinking about it, Mass Effect doesn't let you change the voice of Shepard - you just get gender specific ones. Whilst in Dragon Age 2 (I know, but I haven't played Inquisition yet), you play a rather definitive Hawke, so again, male or female only. Saint's Row, meanwhile, has had seven voices for the Boss as of the latest title, with Male and Female 1-3, plus a bonus voice (for 4, Nolan North). So its a bit of a sliding scale in terms of how any actors there are versus how much dialogue is used.
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Saint's Row 2 has three male voices and three female voices. Saint's Row 3 has three male voices, three female voices, and Zombie. Saint's Row 4 has three male voices, three female voices, and Nolan North. And while Astro Nut beat me, I'm posting this anyway, 'cause I remembered the Zombie voice.
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U-DO Burger posted:gently caress, I have unwittingly outed myself as someone who has not in fact played any of those games. Monster Hunter doesn't even have voiced lines for PCs, just a bunch of grunts and shouts
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Fungah! posted:Monster Hunter doesn't even have voiced lines for PCs, just a bunch of grunts and shouts But you can pick your preferred grunts and shouts.
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