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A Big... Dog posted:drat though these kids need to shut up during battle Sharla, did ya see me!? Did ya see what I did!? No, seriously, the constant chatter is one of the best parts of Xenoblade. I love it.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:35
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I'll love it if it sells better in America and they didn't even wanna bring it here.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:39
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General Morden posted:Apparently Xenoblade isn't selling too well in Japan. I guess I hadn't really thought about this until now but was the New 3DS a success? Is it selling?
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Apr 8, 2015 22:45
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Help Im Alive posted:was the New 3DS a success? Is it selling? Nearly 2 million systems in Japan. 2 million people with the system. And its single exclusive game, one of the best JRPGs ever made, sold 50k copies.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:00
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Many people most likely already played the game.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:03
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Apr 8, 2015 23:03
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In seriousness its a downgraded port of a several year old game, its not some great surprise or tragedy it's selling poorly
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Apr 8, 2015 23:04
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This really seems more a thing for us Americans who can't find a copy without paying through the nose for it.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:07
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I wonder if they're ever going to release more than like 2-3 Nu3DS-Mandatory games.
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Cake Attack posted:In seriousness its a downgraded port of a several year old game, its not some great surprise or tragedy it's selling poorly Yeah exactly. Xenoblade 3DS's big appeal is for people who didn't or couldn't play it on its original console. There's probably the least amount of those people in Japan.
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Cake Attack posted:In seriousness its a downgraded port of a several year old game, its not some great surprise or tragedy it's selling poorly I think most are hopeful of it doing well so that things like this would happen again, things doing bad in Japan tends to make it a hard sell to bring over to our shores.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:13
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Suspicious Cook posted:Sharla, did ya see me!? Did ya see what I did!? You're right, I'm actually enjoying that stuff now. Loving the game so far. It might be the perfect game for my tastes. Sunk four hours in already after work 
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Apr 8, 2015 23:27
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Yeah I thought Xenoblade was good but I played it on the Wii... I have a New 3DS and everything but I'm not really even remotely tempted to repurchase a shittier looking version of it. If I wanna replay it I'll set up Dolphin or something and play with BETTER graphics and framerate than the original edit: not trying to rain on anyone's parade who's enjoying it tho. If you're playing for the first time then congrats, the game rules, and if you're taking advantage of the portability then that's even better -- it's just nothing I can get very hyped about
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Apr 8, 2015 23:29
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HD Dolphin version is definitely the definitive version to be playing. I wouldn't want to sink the hours necessary to play it into a handheld that needs to recharge anyway. I'll make up for it by buying X day one.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:35
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Yehhhh it's my first time playin Xenoblade so I'm living the dream rn
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I'm planning on getting it whenever I buy a new XL and I have a mint wii copy I've played for about an hour total. I'm that dude.
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goferchan posted:Yeah I thought Xenoblade was good but I played it on the Wii... I have a New 3DS and everything but I'm not really even remotely tempted to repurchase a shittier looking version of it. If I wanna replay it I'll set up Dolphin or something and play with BETTER graphics and framerate than the original When i played it on the Wii, it took me months and months to get through it because i had to share the TV with my girlfriend. Having it on the DS is pretty handy because you don't have to time sink the TV anymore. Although, a HD WiiU version would have been aces, the second screen on the DS version is mainly used to show character health and the map, it probably could have been fine on the control pad.
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Mannn, I wanted to get ABE LINCOLN VS ALIENS now that the patch is out, but Xenoblade actually comes out on Friday so now this is Sophie's Choice.
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I'm gonna buy it, play it for a while, and then not beat it.
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I put like 20 hours into the Wii version when it came out but some other game distracted me from finishing it up + tv being hogged by my partner. Now any time I start my save I forget what I'm doing and lose interest so meh why not. Also I'm that guy that cannot stand the game in Dolphin. I have an i5-2500k, 8gb ram and a 670 GTX yet the emulation is still poo poo years later unless you really love dropped frames and audio stutter. Sure it might not affect most people but audio buffering issues really detracts me from wanting to continue playing a broken implementation. To be honest that's how I've felt on any game in Dolphin. Also the Wii pro controller sucked rear end.
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Crosspost from the eShop thread:John Lee posted:Alright, I have a possibly stupid question that I was hoping some WiseGoons™ could help me with.
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I don't mind the downgrade in visuals because from what I've seen, it's a pretty negligible drop. I just wish it didn't come out the same week as Etrian Mystery Dungeon and weeks after Bloodborne. And during my finals.Lemming posted:I'm gonna buy it, play it for a while, and then not beat it.  Edit: John Lee posted:Crosspost from the eShop thread: Buy him a prepaid Visa card of the equivalent amount so he could get an eshop card?
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Huh. And then I could just give him the information over the internet, right? Only thing I am worried about is that some of those Visa cards don't allow purchase of things outside of the country-of-origin. I've gotten four, and two have and two haven't allowed it, and it's pretty hard to tell by looking at the packaging.
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John Lee posted:Huh. And then I could just give him the information over the internet, right? Yeah, that could be a problem. Do they have Walgreens or CVS in Canada? See what US retail places Canada has and have him ask if they can take US gift cards. A lot of places don't even need the gift card present, so you could always just send him the gift card number and have him use that to buy an eshop card. It's pretty roundabout, but doable.
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Well, the 3DS version of Xenoblade isn't gonna be as pretty but it is gonna have some new stuff in it, like the bestiary and music gallery, and they're fixing glitches so stuff like the damage from your weapons is actually calculated correctly now. (the Wii version has a bug where weapon damage is min+99 and no higher, even if the stats say it should be, which affects all physical attacks and makes things like Attack Plus gems useless)flyboi posted:Also I'm that guy that cannot stand the game in Dolphin. I have an i5-2500k, 8gb ram and a 670 GTX yet the emulation is still poo poo years later unless you really love dropped frames and audio stutter. Sure it might not affect most people but audio buffering issues really detracts me from wanting to continue playing a broken implementation. To be honest that's how I've felt on any game in Dolphin. Have you tried one of the dev versions? They put out updates for Dolphin basically everyday, and the performance increases from just the last six months are insane. Like, Rouge Squadron 2 and 3 would refuse to work or run like poo poo on any version of Dolphin released before December '14, but once they started working they became the go-to testbeds for fixing glitches and imperfections in the emulator.
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greatn posted:I'll love it if it sells better in America and they didn't even wanna bring it here. The original release sold and reviewed better internationally, against everyone's expectations.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Well, the 3DS version of Xenoblade isn't gonna be as pretty but it is gonna have some new stuff in it, like the bestiary and music gallery, and they're fixing glitches so stuff like the damage from your weapons is actually calculated correctly now. (the Wii version has a bug where weapon damage is min+99 and no higher, even if the stats say it should be, which affects all physical attacks and makes things like Attack Plus gems useless) Yes after the rage on all the dev blog posts I tried a few versions and the sound buffering issues and frame drops still exist. The only true option to fix the sound issues in Xenoblade is to switch audio to LLE which takes such a performance impact you have to downgrade visuals greatly due to the impact on CPU. It's great that they're working on overall compatibility but the issues I have with the emulator are fairly specific and will be ignored for quite some time until accuracy becomes more important than compatibility to the development team. Also last I read Dolphin is in a state of disarray because the codebase has grown to a monolithic mess and devs are afraid of touching it so another major rewrite is going to happen again which means stalled progress for quite some time.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The original release sold and reviewed better internationally, against everyone's expectations. Probably because of the long Operation Rainfall campaign that was basically some really huge viral marketing.
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Hey guys, I'm sorry if this has been asked to death, but what are the good jRPGs? I beat the snot out of Bravely Default and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and I'm playing through a few DS games like Chrono Trigger and Radiant Historia. I've seen some good stuff about Persona Q and the Etrian games but I'm a 3ds noob. I have the old 3ds XL. If I had the new one, I'd try Xenoblade.
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Just keep playing Chrono Trigger over and over until you die.
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NISA NA has a Rodea the Sky Soldier LE up for preorder: http://store.nisamerica.com/rodea-the-sky-soldier quote:- Rodea the Sky Soldier (3DS™ or Wii™/Wii U™) Wii U version is $75, 3DS version is $55. If you have a Wii U, I suggest getting that version instead - the 3DS version has performance/camera issues that aren't present on Wii U, and it comes with the original Yuji Naka-developed Wii game on a second disc.
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AbsolutZeroGI posted:Hey guys, I'm sorry if this has been asked to death, but what are the good jRPGs? I beat the snot out of Bravely Default and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and I'm playing through a few DS games like Chrono Trigger and Radiant Historia. I've seen some good stuff about Persona Q and the Etrian games but I'm a 3ds noob. I have the old 3ds XL. Try the demos for Etrian Odyssey 4 and Untold. Pick up whichever appeals to you more. They're both excellent and if you like whichever you play first, you'll like the other one too. (And then you can go back and play EO3 and then
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Regy Rusty posted:Try the demos for Etrian Odyssey 4 and Untold. Pick up whichever appeals to you more. They're both excellent and if you like whichever you play first, you'll like the other one too. (And then you can go back and play EO3 and then That's not a half bad idea. I've heard a lot about the Etrian games but I'm dubious about the game mechanics so I guess the best way is to try eh? the truth posted:Just keep playing Chrono Trigger over and over until you die.
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AbsolutZeroGI posted:That's not a half bad idea. I've heard a lot about the Etrian games but I'm dubious about the game mechanics so I guess the best way is to try eh? Exactly and the demos are excellent - they're the first few floors of each game and really give you a great feel for what they're all about. I recommend trying both demos because EOU has a story mode which is fairly significantly different from EO4's create your own party out of blank slate character classes, and you might like one more than the other. And it's all free so no reason not to.
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Etrian Mystery Dungeon is pretty drat awesome. I'm having a great time with it so far and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it. I guess I could have waited 3 months and bought it for like 15 though.
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MarcusSA posted:Etrian Mystery Dungeon is pretty drat awesome. I'm having a great time with it so far and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it. it's getting a fair bit of discussion in the etrian odyssey thread if you're interested in what other people have to say about it
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MarcusSA posted:Etrian Mystery Dungeon is pretty drat awesome. I'm having a great time with it so far and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it. I haven't bought it yet because I was intimidated by things that are different, but the EO thread has made it sound pretty cool. I think I'm gonna pick it up later in the month when I have some more free time.
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Regy Rusty posted:Exactly and the demos are excellent - they're the first few floors of each game and really give you a great feel for what they're all about. I recommend trying both demos because EOU has a story mode which is fairly significantly different from EO4's create your own party out of blank slate character classes, and you might like one more than the other. And it's all free so no reason not to. That probably helps seal it right there. I love games with good stories and playing Radiant Historia put a lot of initial faith in Atlus' ability to tell one (the only poo poo part of that game was the whole thing is played with the main screen as the bottom... Boo!" Untold shall go first, thank you. I've heard good things about the Persona game on 3DS but I don't know squat about that series.
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