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Yeah this seems like it's leaning more towards the earlier Xeno- games in tone than it is Xenoblade, which is a shame as the shounen framing and hot blooded no-nonsense protagonist helped alot in making the series' philosphical plotting and gnostic themes more relatable and engaging. I mean we'll see and I'm still totally going to pick this up because the exploration looks amazing but I'm expecting a big dip in the story department as things stand
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It was quite funny how idiotically single minded Shulk was at the beginning of the game, even after it's been extensively established the Monado can't hurt faced mechon in every cutscene he still keeps going after Metal Face like this time it'll be different before going down in like two seconds
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Jan 16, 2015 17:26
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This sounds like an offline MMO. I mean we'll see, but sometimes less is more
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Jan 28, 2015 21:45
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ImpAtom posted:"Offline MMO" was a pretty good description of Xenoblade. Fungah! posted:That's also literally the number one thing people complained about with Xenoblade, so that shouldn't be a surprise I was kinda hoping they might trim some of the fat for the sequel rather than double down on the mmo trash content. I do like to do sidequests in rpgs but having to do all the 'find 5 fossil monkeys' crap to get to the actual good bits was a pain and an active detriment to the game
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I'm really not getting over how most of the female cast look like realdolls, it's absolutely terrible Did everyone involved in the character design of Xenoblade die or something?
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On the other hand those environments looks absolutely fantastic so maybe it was the consequence of some deal with the devil or something
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Feb 6, 2015 14:16
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NTT posted:720p? :/ Super Mario 3D World and Bayonetta 2 were both 720p too and they look fine. As long as it can keep a consistent framerate I'm not too bothered, the environments are still gonna look fantastic and the characters are still gonna look terrible
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Feb 8, 2015 12:19
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Anime was really good until it became too anime. Anime
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I've got a growing feeling this is going to be a mess, it's massively ambitious and there's obviously been a ton of work put in but there just seems to be a pileup of weird bad choices which just seem outright worse compared to Xenoblade. I'm calling it now a major complaint is going to be 'there's tons of interchangable characters who barely feature in the plot and all have generic skills' ala Chrono Cross for one, the character art and music seem a massive step backwards, the MMO quest structure seems like it's doubling down on Xenoblade's worst traits and the main storyline seems suspiciously like it's aiming for humourless anime melodrama over the lively shounen action show Xenoblade did I'd really like to be wrong but the more they show of this game the more it seems like Xenoblade was a happy acident
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Mar 12, 2015 20:40
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Fungah! posted:lmao the loving game's not even out yet you goober. you're basing this on loving nothing Or the extensive gameplay trailers they've been showing to build hype  I mean I said outright maybe I'm wrong and I hope I am but what they're showing right now looks like it stinks
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Fungah! posted:also lol at saying this'll be anime melodrama and that xenoblade wasn't Sorry did you miss the bit where I said said Xenoblade had a great shounen plot? I get it's an anime series through and through but Xenoblade had a pretty snappy plot with clear character motivations and an action focus, Xenoblade X has a blank slate protagonist, a cast of like fifteen and is written by the guy who wrote that really bad Gundam show. Anyways some of the gameplay improvements do look pretty good and I don't wanna disparge things unfairly, it just seems like the only thing which has any character at all right now is the environments
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Fungah! posted:you're focusing on the wrong word. xenoblade's got all kinds of crazy melodrama going on (the game opens with your girlfriend getting killed by a robot for god's sakes) and the implication that "the main storyline seems suspiciously like it's aiming for humourless anime melodrama" unlike xenoblade is pretty funny Okay if you're going to be pedantic let's say 'turgid' instead, Xenoblade used melodrama to drive it's plot pretty well, Shulk got mad and hot blooded and beat things up (or tried at least). Pretty much everyone in this are military personnel who's main character trait seems to be 'takes job seriously', I dunno maybe it'll still be good but it seems like they have alot less to work with and the huge focus they're placing on working for corporations and doing MMO quest stuff makes me think the game and the plot are going to have a casual relationship at best anyway Honestly I don't know why you're getting so bent out of shape about this, I hope it'll still be good and I'm still keeping a close eye on it, it just looks to me like they've made alot of weird decisions which are moving away from what I actually liked about the first game
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I'm really sorry to anyones feels I've damaged in this thread by posting tentatively negative things about a video game
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Mar 12, 2015 21:59
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Kurtofan posted:"It's Reyn Time, bitch!!", said Reyn as he entered the Monado Man, Bionis's Leg's top gay club 'I'm really feeling it!' - Shulk, five minutes later
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Junkie Disease posted:Were getting it tomorrow. The Nopon already rode dinosaurs into battle in the Sword Valley fight (and this fateful sidequest, it'd be kinda cool if they stuck with something similar to that
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Kurtofan posted:I see Cthulu type stuff is popular in video games lately. Quasi-religious bizarre alien horrors have been part of the Xeno- meta-franchise from the start haven't they?
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I hope the story has some good momentum and an interesting cast. All the rep grinding and mats farming MMO stuff they've previewed so far looks insanely tedious so there better be a good long plot full of anime melodrama and crazy revelations to balance it all out
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NicelyNice posted:I'll spoiler tag this, just in case - details the structure of the plot, no actual plot details revealed: lol
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:That's awesome and all, but don't you think people would prefer spoiler tags for a game virtually no one has played yet? In the future please feel free not to
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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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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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The exploration in Xenoblade was cool but the quest design was trash and just finding NPCs to actually receive and hand in quests was often a hideous chore in itself, I mean the number one bit of advice people have been giving to new players in this thread is 'don't do anymore sidequests than you need to, it's just not worth it'. So unless they've picked up things in that department pretty massively, Xenoblade Sidequests: The Game really doesn't sound like something to get excited about to me
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Infinity Gaia posted:Most sidequests are picked up from the same place (a quest board type thing in town) so that at least has improved. More sidequests actually have real plotlines attached, with some of them actually causing permanent changes to the world (supposedly?). I haven't really hear much complaining about quest design, probably because sidequesting is actually the focal point this time around so they put more effort into it. Well, that's something. Trying to locate quest givers in Alcamoth or the Nopon city is something no one should ever be subjected
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RareAcumen posted:Finally, the thread is negative enough to post this and get away with it. 
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Normalfag and proud
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I really like the game but I agree with pretty much everything ImpAtom said a few pages back, the MMO sidequesting really aggressively drags the game down. I do think the plot's pretty cool though, it's pretty much all JRPG and shounen cliches but it's done with a tremendous amount of style and intelligence; if you were ever going to play one game about a hot blooded young man killing God, I'd make it Xenoblade
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'The boys in the Xenoblade thread are totally going to love this 4chan gamergate rant I found on tumblr, better post it now when it has absolutely no bearing on the conversation'
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Terper posted:Some would I'm really glad all these years on people are still making these hilarious 'I'm a very smart person' posts about Xeno- games. I've never seen such a self-important and wildly pretentious fanbase
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Motto posted:Like? The weird sex-pervert stuff they added to appeal to the terminally brain diseased otaku market
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Motto posted:lol Case in point?
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Pornography is good and fine, but I really don't think every mainstream series needs dedicated groping mechanics, call me old fashioned
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I agree it's not porn, it's just really godawful pandering fanservice in a mainstream SRPG title which used to be very restrained and tasteful in such things
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If Intelligent Systems actually just wanted to go ahead and make a porn game I wouldn't really take issue, it's shoehorning 15-rated titilation into conventional franchises just to chase that otaku buck which annoys meThe Taint Reaper posted:What loving universe do you live in where these things exist? The only mainstream SRPG is Starcraft and Red Alert. And Red Alert is dead. At least in the GBA titles, the female characters mostly wore standard armour and the romances were either implied (in the case of men) or pretty clean, compare to: quote:Camilla: “The way you’re using your hand feels so good. Very skillful.” I get it's a financial issue due to shrinking markets etc, but it's a shame the series has gone from something you could reasonable let a pre-teen kid play unsupervised to actively baiting horny otakus
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The Taint Reaper posted:A Grown rear end man freaking the gently caress out over anime boobies showing up in videogames. I'm not freaking the gently caress out friend, I'm saying it's a shame formerly clean franchises are having to get so sleazy to keep on going. Characters like Marth and Lynn are cool without having to touch their boobies and groins and hear them breathlessly swoon over the player Crabtree posted:You do know you're talking about Fire Emblem right? Okay, I appreciate it's not Final Fantasy, but it is a long and ongoing series with a relatively large fanbase for a SRPG, it's certainly bigger than any of PSP/Vita jrpg franchises
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Crabtree posted:Uh no, I mean "keeping it in the family" isn't exactly a new low in a game about shipping and breeding the best child soldiers. The Taint Reaper posted:I hate to break it to you but Fire Emblem was never clean. Eh, I can't speak for the SNES games but the GBA and console titles were all pretty clean and even Awakening drew the line quite a bit further back. If the SNES games were as sleazy annd pandering as Fates then I guess it's a shame it's returned to those roots I guess? The Taint Reaper posted:Lets not even get into the fact that Mara from SMT Debuted on a Nintendo system. SMT is a completely different franchise and Mara is about as far away from fanservice as is concivably possible, you silly billy
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Crabtree posted:The robots are still cool in X, right? That's really all I care about it besides exploring a new world. The robots do look cool, some of the gameplay reports I've read make it sound like robot maintenance really is a huge drag and timesink though. I'm kinda excited for this game but I've heard enough that I'm gonna wait and see what peoples reactions are rather than make it a day one purchase
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Tae posted:Is your argument seriously based on babble fish translations, because you don't seem to understand fire emblem's history of localization. Like I said, I'm basing it on the games which got western releases, which aside from Awakening never seemed to go in this direction at all. Fire Emblem and Sacred Stones did not have erotic breast touching minigames Sam Faust posted:I believe the people in charge of localization are 8-4. Notable localization jobs include Revengance, Drakengard 3, and Fire Emblem Awakening. This is cool, these guys are great
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