Board 8 > anybody playing Last Story?

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I'm not too impressed so far but I'm only an hour in. anyone else playing? (besides GMUN)

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xyzzy

waiting for US release TBQH

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I'm probably gonna wait on the US release as well. I tried Xenoblade and it looked weird... Dunno if it's because of the formatting or just my crappy TV.

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For some reason my copy is arriving very slowly so I haven't started yet.

Should be here in 6 hours

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your TV. Xenoblade played fine in 50 and 60hz.

Last Story's framerate is the worst I've seen since like SOTC or something. the Wii's limitations are on display all over the place. it seems like it's trying to mimic Assassin's Creed at times but the system just cannot handle it at all.

battles seem kind of awesome though once you get into it.

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xyzzy

Estimated delivery: 29th Feb

Expect it here on Monday or Tuesday, though.

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Framerate is bad? No good.

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really bad. imagine if you were walking through an AC-like city but anytime you hit more than 5 people onscreen it dropped to about 10fps.

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xyzzy

Yikes. That will annoy me.

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it makes me a little dizzy. moving around the city is cool because there's a lot of detail and it's Xenoblade-level huge, but it's all teeny tiny corridors, a giant arrow follows you around pointing you in the right direction, you can't talk to 95% of the people or go in most of the doors and I don't like a lot of the colours.

being kinda nitpicky about it though, it really does seem like it could go somewhere cool. it's just so limited in both design and in hardware.

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xyzzy

Wait, arrow? Can you disable it?

And I think those are legitimate complaints. I'm sure others will have the same problem, especially coming from Xenoblade.

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"When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it."

yeah, watchign stuff for this game, it doesn't look all that appealing to me.

then again, i'm also still on the fence for xenoblade, and if it wasn't for all the hype/clamoring for a NA release i probably wouldn't even care about that game at all, either.

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I didn't see an option to disable. it's huge, too - it's like half the size of your character and omnipresent on the screen. it only seems to happen when you've enabled a quest of some sort, though. some are story-related.

Xenoblade has an arrow to keep you clued in but it's not intrusive.

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xyzzy

aww yeah finally playing

in the pub, I love Dagran, Syrenne, and Lowell already

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up to chapter 13 now, aside from the framerate issues, I'm really liking everything about the game. Really like the majority of the characters, battles are fun, and the story has been pretty enjoyable so far.

As for the arrow... yeahhh that is kinda nitpicky. It's not as gigantic as you're making it sound, heck you can't even see it when you're facing the general direction it's pointing. When I was supposed to go follow Dagran, the arrow pointing to the way didn't bother me at all as I explored around the Arena area instead. Either way, in the 13 chapters I've gone through, I'm pretty sure it has only been present during one of them. Oh wait, two, once to show you to drag the first boss away.

If I'm wrong about that, then I just haven't been noticing the arrow enough to even tell.

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How's the game's plot?

Only 4.5 hours in so I'm not sure I can really comment on that. It's mostly focused on the romance, there hasn't been anything wildly amazing yet aside from that.

But I'm really not the right person to ask about that anyways, I'm really easy to satisfy in that area just as long as I can follow along and the scenes are good I'm happy.

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I managed to somehow find enjoyment in Arc Rise Fantasia's plot, and that was...yeah. If it doesn't make me want to kill myself, then that sounds good enough for me!

yeah, it's only been in the one. that's a huge damn arrow though. hard to say it's not intrusive.

I'm on chapter 15 or so. just did a sidequest chapter that was pretty tricky. I like the game and enjoy doing fights, though I really don't 'get it'. it's just fun to do. battles need a retry option so bad though.

story is very, um, 'jrpg'. it's alright. makes me cringe a few times but everything makes me cringe story-wise these days, so it's nothing bad. I think the game starts out kinda poorly, dropping you in the middle of a dungeon with 5-6 guys talking back and forth that you don't know. I still don't know them very well but I'm starting to pick up on personalities and it's making it better.

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huh, just got to Chapter 21, and realized I didn't do a chapter I remember doing in the Japanese version (I believe it was Chapter 20, in some mansion with Horace, I really liked that chapter too)

I didn't realize there were miss-able chapters, or maybe I can do them out of order? They were side-story stuff after all

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How is the localization?

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Ok everyone this is Bartz so just remember.

20 hours nice. That's a nice RPG length.

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"When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it."

Can't complain, though Xenoblade definitely eased me into the Britishness of it. Though I just laughed out loud right this moment from hearing some random injured knight saying "Ohhhhhhhhhhh, my spleeeeen!"

Anyways just beat the game. I knew it was going to be a short RPG, but I'm really surprised at just how short it is. I'm talking 20 hour RPG here. Not that I'm complaining about that, the game/story really did feel complete which is all that matters.

Really like the characters though. Syrenne and Lowell are definitely among my favourite vg characters ever, higher than anyone from Xenoblade!

Gameplay is really really fun, but damn is it ever incredibly easy to overlevel yourself.

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missed a chapter in the epilogue

holy crap that chapter's ending cinematic, literally everybody just staring doing nothing for 5 minutes >_>

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I don't think I'll play The Last Story. It just never really looked interesting to me.

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