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transience
07/06/11 7:41:00 AM
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actual gameplay starts about a minute in, not just scenery

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ZFS
07/06/11 7:48:00 AM
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I have no idea what's going on there. Is this turn-based? Real-time? I don't like the way that battle menu is setup.

Love the huge world and the scenery, though!

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transcience
07/06/11 7:50:00 AM
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it's ff12. you should like it, I would think.

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ZFS
07/06/11 7:53:00 AM
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Good news!

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transcience
07/06/11 8:16:00 AM
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as for the menu, it looks dense but that's because it's unfamiliar and midway through the game. instead of having vertical menus you go left to right. it'll be fine if you are eased into it.

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Weakupedia
07/06/11 8:21:00 AM
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too bad we're not getting this!

nintendo's basically ASKING for everyone to look into wii pirating, especially considering fans don't even have to go out of their way to translate the game.

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ZFS
07/06/11 8:26:00 AM
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Yeah, I'm sure it easier to adjust when you're eased into it, but it looks kinda cumbersome and cluttered when you go into battle. HUD is all in your face. Looks fun, though. Good group of RPGs between this and Last Story.

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neonreaper
07/06/11 8:27:00 AM
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What are the characters supposed to be like?

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Liquid Wind
07/06/11 8:30:00 AM
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nintendo's basically ASKING for everyone to look into wii pirating, especially considering fans don't even have to go out of their way to translate the game.

by deciding not to release anything good for the next year and a half except skyward sword, NoA is pretty much signaling the death of the wii, that they've already moved their focus to the 3DS and the U. I don't think they care if people start pirating wii games now.
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transcience
07/06/11 8:31:00 AM
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they seem pretty standard. new hero type, grizzled warrior, etc. I don't know too much, but given that it's a Xeno game I'm not worried about it really. they do an excellent job developing characters, for better or worse.

it does look cluttered. on the other hand, I've never heard of a cluttered interface really hurting an RPG. FF10 is cluttered as hell and nobody really minds.

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pjbasis
07/06/11 8:33:00 AM
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FFX is cluttered?

Always thought it looked rather sleek. (for the amount of information anyways)
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transcience
07/06/11 8:37:00 AM
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there's menus and turn menus all up in your way. Not a huge deal but they are there.

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SuperAngelo128
07/06/11 8:47:00 AM
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wE ChOOOse to FIIIGHHT

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ZFS
07/06/11 8:52:00 AM
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I don't think FFX was too cluttered, or at least I don't remember it being that way. Menus weren't as sleek and minimal as FFXII, but they weren't bad. Here, it stood out immediately. It almost makes a 'window' for the action. It's not a dealbreaker or anything, but it's something that jumped out at me.

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KimPilgrim
07/06/11 8:55:00 AM
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You know, this is the first time I've ever seen extended Xenoblade gameplay. I've been supporting Project Rainfall mainly on principle.

Honestly, this looks pretty damn boring. Same fake MMO gameplay as FFXII and White Knight Chronicles.

Still, it should be localized. I'm sure some people will be really into it and demand is certainly high enough.

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transcience
07/06/11 9:01:00 AM
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external image

looks pretty busy to me.

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granted, so is this.

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pjbasis
07/06/11 9:03:00 AM
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Oh, you can get the hints turned off in FFX.

And that's an opened menu, it's not like some HUD that's always there. I can agree the turn-order thing can be obstrusive.
Widescreen would have really made it look nice.
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GranzonEx
07/06/11 9:03:00 AM
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That HUD is definitely intrusive. The portraits don't need to be that big, just have their names be big and that would have been fine.
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transcience
07/06/11 9:05:00 AM
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people like ltm are why I don't like this operation rainfall thing. it's not even about Xenoblade. half is Nintendo trolling and half is some kind of good guy crusade.

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neonreaper
07/06/11 9:22:00 AM
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Okay good, never played Xeno.

I don't know why I said "okay good", the game isn't coming over here.

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Theon_Greyjoy
07/06/11 9:32:00 AM
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I'm going to need to look up how to brew at home.

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GuessMyUserName
07/06/11 10:39:00 AM
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..... woah, I did not notice you're supposed to go up and press b on people when Shulk gets a death vision

I've always just casted Monado's shield spell on the team and tried to kill whatever's gonna kill in the death vision.

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BIGPUN9999
07/06/11 10:41:00 AM
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From: transcience | #003
it's ff12.


why the **** do people want this game here then?

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Liquid Wind
07/06/11 10:44:00 AM
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because skyward sword is the only game that NoA will be publishing in the next year and a half that will likely be better than FFXII, or worth playing at all for that matter.
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BIGPUN9999
07/06/11 10:49:00 AM
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thats cool for skyward sword

but that doesn't explain why people are fighting for a FINAL FANTASY XII AKA THE WORST GAME EVER clone to be released here

whats next, are wii fans gonna complain when a Lunar DS clone doesn't get released here?

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Liquid Wind
07/06/11 10:50:00 AM
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man I'm usually the first one to say that square is terrible now and hasn't done anything worthwhile in over a decade, but worst game ever is some serious hyperbole
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Liquid Wind
07/06/11 10:50:00 AM
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but yes, that's how desperate the wii userbase is
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KimPilgrim
07/06/11 10:51:00 AM
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FFXII is not the worst game ever

But it's up there

Infinite Undiscovery can't be topped

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GuessMyUserName
07/06/11 10:53:00 AM
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Xenoblade is a fantastic jRPG, and we really don't have any fantastic jRPGs this gen.

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voltch
07/06/11 10:53:00 AM
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Last Remnant :)

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ZFS
07/06/11 10:54:00 AM
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FFXII is a great game. It's not a 'FFXII clone,' though. That there's a similarity in gameplay styles doesn't mean it copies everything good and bad about FFXII but then again BigPun!

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tazzyboyishere
07/06/11 10:56:00 AM
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FF12 wasn't that bad. People just overdo it becuase it's from a quality series.

Honestly, Xenoblade isn't all that intriguing. I was always just hoping it'd sell well and give Nintendo incentive to localize The Last Story, which looks great.

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SnoicFactor
07/06/11 10:56:00 AM
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not really impressed by this game.

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WVl
07/06/11 10:57:00 AM
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Wait, this is seriously for the Wii? I thought it was for the 3DS, looking at it.

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GuessMyUserName
07/06/11 10:59:00 AM
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Xenoblade >>> The Last Story >>>>>>>>> Pandora's Tower

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Liquid Wind
07/06/11 11:02:00 AM
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xenoblade is the only one of these titles that is at all compelling to me. not my most anticipated title and I wouldn't bother importing it, but worth buying considering skyward sword is the only other good wii game on the horizon.

sadly, NoA doesn't want to

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ZFS
07/06/11 11:05:00 AM
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Last Story looks like the more interesting of the two - and by a team that has made games I've liked before. Shame neither one is coming out here.

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GuessMyUserName
07/06/11 11:09:00 AM
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From what I played of Last Story, it's pretty good, but what I played of Xenoblade got me seriously interested a lot, I already love it.


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and from what I've played of Pandora's Tower, it's also pretty good, but has a huuuuge flaw of time-limit gameovers. I mean maybe I wouldn't have noticed it if I understood japanese, and didn't accidentally use an item that brought be back to the beginning of the dungeon I was almost finished, and I'm not sure if there's always that timelimit, but from what I experienced it bothered me.

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KamikazePotato
07/06/11 11:09:00 AM
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Man I don't get anyone in this topic. How can you be 'impressed' or 'not impressed' with a game you've never played? I'm not saying go into it blind but a lot of people here seem to have decided whether or not they're going to like the game already.

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Liquid Wind
07/06/11 11:09:00 AM
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TLS definitely has the better pedigree, I've never loved the xeno games before, and only really got interested in xenoblade when I found out that it was extremely different from xenosaga...
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GuessMyUserName
07/06/11 11:10:00 AM
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From: KamikazePotato | Posted: 7/6/2011 2:09:15 PM | #039
Man I don't get anyone in this topic. How can you be 'impressed' or 'not impressed' with a game you've never played? I'm not saying go into it blind but a lot of people here seem to have decided whether or not they're going to like the game already.


I have played it >_>

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07/06/11 11:15:00 AM
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From: KamikazePotato | #039
Man I don't get anyone in this topic. How can you be 'impressed' or 'not impressed' with a game you've never played? I'm not saying go into it blind but a lot of people here seem to have decided whether or not they're going to like the game already.


the only two people saying these things are ltm and snoicfactor so i don't know why this bugs you

and usually when people see games in action they've heard about, and see how the gameplay mechanics unfold, they have a positive or negative reaction


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transience
07/06/11 11:17:00 AM
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apparently, impressions based on gameplay videos are not allowed and people should just buy games randomly based on their name!

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Big Bob
07/06/11 11:18:00 AM
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I think a lot of the hate FFXII got was because it felt more like an MMO than a traditional Final Fantasy game, and as a result we were all playing it the wrong with (i.e. going on the straight story path rather than exploring the world and doing all the sidequests). At least that's just my view.

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transience
07/06/11 11:19:00 AM
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the thing with Xenoblade is that its appeal isn't really apparent in videos. it's one of those things where you touch it and want to just explore everything. the music kicks in and the expansive environments capture you. it just feels good in a way that most modern RPGs don't these days.

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The Real Truth
07/06/11 11:20:00 AM
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FF12 gets hate because nothing ****ing happens, and Vaan. The license board was also incredibly stupid. I remember having bow 1-4 and having to go through like 3 levels of dagger just to get to bow 5 or something ridiculous. It made no sense. It was not organized at all. Like they had some great ideas and just threw them onto a board randomly.

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07/06/11 12:48:00 PM
#47:


nintendo is clearly backing a winner:
http://twitter.com/#!/NintendoAmerica/status/88694615011622912


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transience
07/08/11 3:45:00 AM
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whoa, date moved to August 19 in Europe

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-08-new-xenoblade-chronicles-release-date

six weeks!

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Lightning Strikes
07/08/11 4:06:00 AM
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FFXII had potential. It just wasted it with its dull, badly paced story, worse characters and needlessly slow gameplay. I liked the idea behind it, and the exploration was pretty good, but it just fell flat in execution. Xenoblade, however, takes the good aspects of that (especially the exploration) and adds its own stuff. Definitely worth checking out if you liked FFXII, or like me wanted to like it.

Also, "good guy cusades" nothing, this is the sort of thing you need to support. You need to get a message out there, both for the benefit of others (seriously, acting like being selfless a little is bad what the hell) and to make sure that if this sort of thing happens to a game you want, it can be fought. Hell, I'm European and I was supporting Operation Rainfall. Speaking of which!

transience posted...
whoa, date moved to August 19 in Europe

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-08-new-xenoblade-chronicles-release-date

six weeks!


WTF

Especially since Nintendo haven't changed their website or anything.

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transience
07/08/11 6:18:00 AM
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