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 Post subject: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 13:56 
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Look at this, a sequel to the greatest ever JRPG ever made. On the day that I completed the first one! Amazing coincidence. It's like the universe wants to make me happy this morning.



It looks sexy! In HD! So let's all speculate which of the new consoles its coming out on...

*whispering*

What?

*more whispering*

WHAT!?

*other person shrugs*

FUCKING WiiU? Oh, COME ON!


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade 2!
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 14:01 
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That looks like the sort of game I'd sink hours into, and yet if it's on the WiiU I will never play it.

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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade 2!
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 15:27 
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Monolith Soft is owned by Nintendo now. Wasn't ever going to be on any other console.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade 2!
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 15:29 
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Monolith Soft is owned by Nintendo now. Wasn't ever going to be on any other console.

A shame, as I won't buy one as I was bitten too badly by the Wii.

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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade 2!
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 15:30 
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SUDDENLY HAVE A REASON TO BUY A WII U DANCE


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 22:26 
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THREAD TITLE CHANGE!

Video footage!



EXCITEMENT!


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:39 
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New Xenoblade will be 5 TIMES as big as last one. 5 TIMES. Y'know how long it took me last time? Me neither. I recall it was very long (*smirk*).

http://www.vg247.com/2015/01/29/xenobla ... ast-games/


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 14:38 
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I keep meaning to play Xenoblade Chronicles. I put on the Wii, start the game. And then I realise how little I like the Wii Remote and turn it off again. I fought through Tales of Symphonia 2 for Tenebrae, Ratatosk and chums, but I just can't bear to do that again.

Arc Rise Fantasia > Xenoblade Chronicles because it supports the Gamecube pad.

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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 15:27 
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The remote ain't that bad after you've spent mucho mucho time with it. And there's no gesture commands so you've no reasons I wave it around like a looney.

OR you could get it on the 3DS when it comes out, if you've got one of them new uns.

It'd be shit not on the big screen with the music blaring though.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 16:28 
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Over 2 years ago I made this topic. Jesus.

Anyway, release date in JAPAN: 29 April!

Europe and everywhere else: Sometime this year. U helpfully vague. :(


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:39 
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MrD wrote:
I keep meaning to play Xenoblade Chronicles. I put on the Wii, start the game. And then I realise how little I like the Wii Remote and turn it off again. I fought through Tales of Symphonia 2 for Tenebrae, Ratatosk and chums, but I just can't bear to do that again.

Arc Rise Fantasia > Xenoblade Chronicles because it supports the Gamecube pad.

It was sold in an edition where the classic controller was included, so surely it supports that?

Edited for clarity.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 13:54 
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Check out the video in this link.

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/04/29/xeno ... redecessor

Thing is, most people will look at the UI, the numbers, the crazy Japanese and think it looks rubbish. BUT IT WONT BE.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 13:55 
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Am I the only one excited about this?

It looks bloody terrific.



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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 16:05 
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Eurogamer Essential http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... s-x-review

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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 16:42 
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I want this so bad. 4th December bitches.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 16:58 
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Shit on a stick, this is out today and I haven't gone to get it. I shall resolve this tomorrow cause I know it will be the best game released this year.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 18:44 
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Bumping this thread because a) makes it easier to find when I actually want to post in it b) I've got it c) it's been reviewing extremely well.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 18:41 
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Amazon £24.99! Bargain.

Well I'm assuming anyway since I haven't given it a good going over yet.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 22:13 
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I gave it a good going over for many, many hours and enjoyed it greatly OK thanks bye


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 21:46 
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I almost started this yesterday but my WiiU doesn't have enough memory to download the downloadable stuff that makes loading quicker. "15 gig" it said and 4 clicks later the WiiU was laughing in my face at how little storage space I actually had. It didn't help that WiiU was telling me how many megabits I had left when I was trying to work out how many gigs of space that many thousand megabits that was.

"You need 15 gig"
"You have 4567 megabits free space"

Which, to me and grandmas up and down the country with their WiiU's, is vastly unhelpful.

Anyway, turns out I had stuff I was unwilling to delete so I couldn't download the packs. I had a portable hard drive and could probably have downloaded some on that but it was too much of a faff and I wasn't in the mood.

Cool story, right? I didn't even come in here to complain about measurements of storage space.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 22:00 
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Turning to the actual game I was planning on starting it fo'reals.

It has a grrrrr-reat introductory sequence. No bullshit just "the earth got fucked up and shit loads of folk died." It's pretty epic so I was quite excited to get down to bizness.

But you can't play because you have to create a character. I fucking hate these things. Hair, eyes, height, scar on face and so on - I couldn't give a shit.

And this is even worse because now I'm not even playing the Mondo boy from Xenoblade Chronicles or someone with some actual character and character development to be getting on with through some trials and tribulations - fuck no, now I'm some bleeding mute that only nods or shakes his head in cut scenes like someone with mental health issues. I don't even have a voice. Well, I do, because I had to pick one at the character creation screen and I was only thinking at that exact time "Blimey they would have to record the lines 9 times" cause you get that many voices "Unless they have some cool way of altering the voice in-game. Fuck off. They got around that by the main character just saying absolutely nothing. Hnnngh.

What was the other thing? Oh yeah, I haven't played a JRPG for ages so I was utterly overwhelmed by the amount of screen UI. So I turned it off. Then I couldn't remember how to fight anyone... Fucks sake. So I'm keeping it on until I've fully remembered the myriad of button presses.

It just made me remember how impenetrable JRPGs are (and RPGs if we're being honest). When I got fighting a tiny spider a fuckaton of numbers started jumping out the spider like it'd eaten a VHS boxset of Seseme Street. I killed four of the bloody things and did not have a clue what I was doing. It was the most bizarre experience. I thought the original was a bit more helpful towards explaining the mechanics. Maybe this one will start explaining in a bit and it wasn't expecting me to muck around with the systems in place until I've had a run about. But if that's the case, don't put some bloody level 1 spiders all over the shop.

It does look visually stunning in a sort of Wii in HD kind of way. That's not meant to be a bad criticism, by the way, because it does look nice.

And of course you won't get this anywhere else but on the magical WiiU where, apparently, some good games lived for a short while.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:35 
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I have to admit that I only played just under an hour of this and never loaded it up again. It's too impenetrable for all but the most hardcore JRPG fans, that's my impression. It's as opaque as it gets and it's just not the sort of game I can get on with.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:41 
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Saturnalian wrote:
I almost started this yesterday but my WiiU doesn't have enough memory to download the downloadable stuff that makes loading quicker. "15 gig" it said and 4 clicks later the WiiU was laughing in my face at how little storage space I actually had. It didn't help that WiiU was telling me how many megabits I had left when I was trying to work out how many gigs of space that many thousand megabits that was.

"You need 15 gig"
"You have 4567 megabits free space"

Which, to me and grandmas up and down the country with their WiiU's, is vastly unhelpful.

Anyway, turns out I had stuff I was unwilling to delete so I couldn't download the packs. I had a portable hard drive and could probably have downloaded some on that but it was too much of a faff and I wasn't in the mood.

Cool story, right? I didn't even come in here to complain about measurements of storage space.

The cool thing about the Wii U is that you can just plug in an USB stick and format that for more storage. I've got a 128GB stick plugged in.

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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:52 
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Anonymous X wrote:
I have to admit that I only played just under an hour of this and never loaded it up again. It's too impenetrable for all but the most hardcore JRPG fans, that's my impression. It's as opaque as it gets and it's just not the sort of game I can get on with.

Saturnalian on his original Xenoblade "review".

"I can't bloody stand RPG's."

I don't think I'd describe him as a hardcore JRPG fan.

Not that I've played either to comment.


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 13:31 
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Xenoblade 1 was the first proper JRPG I'd ever really played and it's easily in my top 10 of all time greats. Reading back the Xenoblade thread I'm reminded how absolutely batshit mental the story was and how I was loving every plot twist and turn. It was really was something special.

I never really returned to JRPG's after Xenoblade, not for fear of going into another one again, but just because of the amount of time that you need to invest to get the most out of them. It's like learning to drive every time I picked one up.

I only played a single JRPG to completion after Xenoblade and that was Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, which, again, was just astonishingly good (Top 10/top 20 of all time-mark, easily) so whilst the genre is difficult to pick up they really reward the time you put into them with some fantastic stories, worlds and new ways to play outside of "shoot face here."


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 Post subject: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 14:54 
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I like JRPGs, but Xenoblade X is too far in the direction of being super-involving and super-complex for current personal tastes and circumstances. (Most of the JRPGs I play these days are on the 3DS and PS Vita, FWIW.)


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