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Champeenship posted:Yeah I have heard that (spoilers for minor quests) you can kill very minor npcs with your choices in some minor quests. Is that type of blind consequences choice an unusual case, or are they virtually all like that? I would be pretty demoralized if that were the case.
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Moxie posted:Is that type of blind consequences choice an unusual case, or are they virtually all like that? I would be pretty demoralized if that were the case. If the save system is as generous as it was in XC, it won't be a big deal to reload and get your preferred outcome.
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Preview: "If I were to describe my 70 hours with Xenoblade X in one word, it would be “boredom.”
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Motto posted:Preview: "If I were to describe my 70 hours with Xenoblade X in one word, it would be “boredom.” Honestly the only part of this which bothers me is that I was hoping for action combat that was a bit more twitchy and involved.
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Jun 10, 2015 02:41
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Whats Kotaku again? A Young Adult Novel review site?
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He thought the first one was boring too.
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I imagine that the combat is probably pretty close to XBC, in which a lot of people apparently couldn't figure it out and wound up thinking that the game played like an MMO. I'm more interested in what differences the classes have, but he makes it seem like it's really just weapons, rather than more mechanical differences.
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Silvain posted:He thought the first one was boring too. Also he meant to write Kotaku in his headline not Xenoblade.
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I know it's Kotaku, but it echoes most of the impressions I've read on the game here and elsewhere. It seems that the game won't do much to win over people that didn't like the first, and it doubles down on the aspects that fans found weakest without improving them while largely tossing out what people did like. e: Even the impressions I've read on neogaf from people that actually went to 100% the game sounded pretty lukewarm. Motto fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Motto posted:I know it's Kotaku, but it echoes most of the impressions I've read on the game here and elsewhere. It seems that the game won't do much to win over people that didn't like the first, and it doubles down on the aspects that fans found weakest without improving them while largely tossing out what people did like. Really this is a game that was never going to do well critically, either from fans or from "professional" reviewers. For the fans it is a game that could never live up to the hype, plus it seems each person had their own one thing that they think should have been changed from the original but wasn't. For professionals you will have people like the kotaku guy who doesn't seem to like the style of game if he had the same complaints on the first one, and plenty of reviewers who just seem to not like jrpgs.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Really this is a game that was never going to do well critically, either from fans or from "professional" reviewers. If they'd just made Xenoblade 2: Kill God Even Harder I'd have been pretty happy. Implying fans are impossible to please when the devs are clearly pulling away from the most popular aspect of the previous title and expanding on the least popular is pretty stupid, it looks to me like they have just made a mediocre game
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Motto posted:Preview: "If I were to describe my 70 hours with Xenoblade X in one word, it would be “boredom.” Well an article like this is not surprising or shocking to me, but I find the headline pretty funny. This game was so dull I only played it for 70 hours.
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sout posted:Well an article like this is not surprising or shocking to me, but I find the headline pretty funny. Yeah, this isn't even one of those situations where they had to put in that amount of hours in order to write a review for his job. A lot of those hours were voluntary.
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Idk the gameplay so far looks like you chip away at a gigamoths health for 5 minutes and everyone looks like bug eyed dolls with a storyline where everyone yells into their intercoms on their gundam I think what made xenoblade work so well was the light hearted comedy, faster paced (although undeniably mmo-y) gameplay, British voice acting, great soundtrack, with a ton of charm sprinkled in between. Fighting against mechons and them screaming at the top of their lungs that they want to brutally murder you is straight fun, it felt so over the top. I don't see much besides more gameplay mechanics/huge worlds to make me 100% the game and enjoy it all the way thru like I did with xenoblade because it looks like it's missing everything else
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All I wanted was a dumbass god slaying story with the mystique and mythos of Xenogears and the oh poo poo moments of Xenoblade accompanied by ACE+ music and British VA if possible. I'll buy and play this game day 1 but I won't be happy.
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Louisgod posted:I'll buy and play this game day 1 but I won't be happy. this is the dumbest thing i've heard in a really long time
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I'm going to buy it day 1 and enjoy it because I like exploring and making numbers go up.
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Fungah! posted:this is the dumbest thing i've heard in a really long time It was a joke. I'm psyched for this game despite the impressions and will love it regardless.
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Louisgod posted:It was a joke. I can't say I'm going to enjoy something I've never played but I'm going to buy it and enjoy it for what it is because I want them to make more games.
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I don't like fetch quests and fossil monkey hunts so I think I'm gonna give this a pass, I hope they've got all this offline mmo bullshit out their system now and their next game is good again though, it's a genuine shame how this one seems to have turned out
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bef posted:I can't say I'm going to enjoy something I've never played but I'm going to buy it and enjoy it for what it is because I want them to make more games. Yes, I hope to enjoy it but I'll enjoy it if it's good. I'll be disappointed if it's not. Some kotaku dude not liking it is a pretty good sign though.
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Sakurazuka posted:I'm going to buy it day 1 and enjoy it because I like exploring and making numbers go up. same
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Louisgod posted:It was a joke. you're pretty not good at those, just fyi
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bef posted:I can't say I'm going to enjoy something I've never played but I'm going to buy it and enjoy it for what it is because I want them to make more games. yeah
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Motto posted:Preview: "If I were to describe my 70 hours with Xenoblade X in one word, it would be “boredom.” It's Kotaku so instead of saying "they picked him to review it because a negative review will get more buzz" I'm going to go with "he reviewed the first one so they told him to review the second."
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Louisgod posted:All I wanted was a dumbass god slaying story with the mystique and mythos of Xenogears and the oh poo poo moments of Xenoblade accompanied by ACE+ music and British VA if possible. This is me except not joking. Xenoblade X's characters look funny and aren't interesting or charming in any way. I'd like to punch in the face the person who decided to go with a silent protagonist. The soundtrack blows and from what I've seen/heard the story is nothing in comparison to the original. So that leaves the combat? The combat was ok, but not enough for me to want to purchase a sequel. If I still purchase this game it will just be in hopes they sell enough to think about making another Xenoblade on the next platform and not gently caress it up this time.
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I bet it'll sell even better than the regular Xenoblade. Doesn't contradict the above statement, tho.
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I said come in! posted:Xenoblade X is coming to America on December 4th. That's just unacceptable, they had plenty of time to be prepared for this.
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I said come in! posted:Xenoblade X is coming to America on December 4th. Meh, not that long in the grand scheme of things.
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Motto posted:Meh, not that long in the grand scheme of things. Yes, the wait is actually very short. I was still expecting this to be pushed back to next year.
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Yeah, not that long. For 2001 Squaresoft localizing Final Fantasy IX and X for the European market. This is 2015.
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Dastardly posted:Yeah, not that long. For 2001 Squaresoft localizing Final Fantasy IX and X for the European market. This is 2015. Those two combined don't even begin to approach the amount of text in Xenoblade X localization takes a loooooooooooooooooong time and is not nearly as easy as you might think
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I imagine that it'd also be ready for an October release actually, but no zelda means this got pushed to be the big holiday release.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:I imagine that it'd also be ready for an October release actually, but no zelda means this got pushed to be the big holiday release. thought it would have been star fox.
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Mediocrity Goggles posted:That's just unacceptable, they had plenty of time to be prepared for this. lmao
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Nintendo always uses the weekend before Black Friday for their biggest holiday releases. Putting XCX out in a weird December slot suggests to me that they don't see it in that role. Starfox probably gets the big November 20th release.
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Mediocrity Goggles posted:That's just unacceptable, they had plenty of time to be prepared for this. i seriously can't stop laughing at this gently caress
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