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Veggeta X
04/10/18 10:45:28 AM
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Literally.

Like, in today's time and age we have people bitching nonstop about incomplete games and paying for expansions, DLCs and extra content. And yet we had a half made game in Xenogears back in the 90s and almost everyone loved it.
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Giant_Aspirin
04/10/18 10:51:11 AM
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what was "half made" about it?
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
04/10/18 10:51:40 AM
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I would say KOTOR 2 is better for that title.
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 10:52:00 AM
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The second disc was almost literally a visual novel.
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BignutzisBack
04/10/18 10:52:16 AM
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The plot is the best part of Xenogears so the 2nd disc didn't affect it in a bad way
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Giant_Aspirin
04/10/18 10:52:20 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
The second disc was almost literally a visual novel.


so because it's dialog / story heavy, that qualifies it as "half made" IYO?
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_BIueMonk
04/10/18 10:52:48 AM
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i dunno. i got half way though it and got bored and quit.

now everytime i load it up i never get past that first forest.
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eston
04/10/18 10:53:16 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
what was "half made" about it?

The game was not finished. Square pulled resources from its dev team in order to fund Final Fantasy 8, and a huge chunk of the latter part of Xenogears is just a slideshow with text.

It's still one of the best jrpgs ever made
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 10:55:12 AM
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BignutzisBack posted...
The plot is the best part of Xenogears so the 2nd disc didn't affect it in a bad way

It did in a very bad way. Most of the 2nd disc had a character sitting in an literal black empty black room explaining most of the plot. You had very very little interaction.
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 10:55:33 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
so because it's dialog / story heavy, that qualifies it as "half made" IYO?

The 2nd disc was.
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eston
04/10/18 10:56:14 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
Veggeta X posted...
The second disc was almost literally a visual novel.


so because it's dialog / story heavy, that qualifies it as "half made" IYO?

The entire game is story heavy, but the difference is the latter half has relatively little actual gameplay compared to the first half
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 10:56:55 AM
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eston posted...
It's still one of the best jrpgs ever made

Xenogears is the most loved and accepted half made game
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 10:57:49 AM
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eston posted...
the difference is the latter half has relatively little actual gameplay compared to the first half

Which makes it complete ass. And please let's not try to make it sound like the plot of the game was any good either.
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 10:59:10 AM
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fenderbender321 posted...
But the game is still complete. There's final bosses and an ending with a conclusion to the story.

People gave FF15 shit for being incomplete and yet they also have a final boss and a proper ending.

Xenogears is the most loved and accepted half made game
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Giant_Aspirin
04/10/18 11:00:14 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
eston posted...
It's still one of the best jrpgs ever made

Xenogears is the most loved and accepted half made game


the final 1/4 of Dark Souls was basically unfinished ..... a much greater injustice IMO
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eston
04/10/18 11:00:14 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
eston posted...
the difference is the latter half has relatively little actual gameplay compared to the first half

Which makes it complete ass. And please let's not try to make it sound like the plot of the game was any good either.

I didn't think it was ass, and the plot is one of my favorite sci-fi stories from any medium. The sheer scope of it blows my mind
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Poiuyt
04/10/18 11:01:54 AM
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fenderbender321 posted...
The ending was rushed. But the game is still complete. There's final bosses and an ending with a conclusion to the story.

This.

It's like people saying Dark Souls is unfinished just because the pacing after the Lordvessel isn't as tight as the first half. IT'S STILL FINISHED, THERE'S A FINAL BOSS, FINAL AREA, END CREDITS AND NEW GAME PLUS, YOU DOLTS.
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Dragonblade01
04/10/18 11:02:57 AM
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Final Fantasy XV told its story in a far worse way than Xenogears did.

Hell, FFXV starts by proving that it can't tell its story well.
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bobtuse
04/10/18 11:04:46 AM
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I feel like Wind Waker falls into this category. I really wish they'd taken more time to finish the things they wanted to do.
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eston
04/10/18 11:04:58 AM
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Poiuyt posted...
fenderbender321 posted...
The ending was rushed. But the game is still complete. There's final bosses and an ending with a conclusion to the story.

This.

It's like people saying Dark Souls is unfinished just because the pacing after the Lordvessel isn't as tight as the first half. IT'S STILL FINISHED, THERE'S A FINAL BOSS, FINAL AREA, END CREDITS AND NEW GAME PLUS, YOU DOLTS.

I think at this point it's splitting hairs, but it's obvious that huge pieces of content are missing from the game and in my book that makes it incomplete
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:05:27 AM
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eston posted...
the plot is one of my favorite sci-fi stories from any medium

Disagree whole heartily. The inter-dimensional shit is a complete clusterfuck. The maker recreating the world so that it could perfect it's ways to beat the final boss isn't complicated to understand and yet they made it look real complex and symbolic. It was a dark time for Square TBH they also tried to do this with Chrono Cross and Parasite Eve as well.
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:06:21 AM
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Dragonblade01 posted...
Final Fantasy XV told its story in a far worse way than Xenogears did.

It didn't literally have someone sit in a black room explaining the plot.
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eston
04/10/18 11:06:34 AM
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Sort of like how KOTOR 2 was released, had an ending, etc. and then people spent years adding in all the unfinished content that was still on the disc. It was an incomplete game
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Giant_Aspirin
04/10/18 11:07:45 AM
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Poiuyt posted...
fenderbender321 posted...
The ending was rushed. But the game is still complete. There's final bosses and an ending with a conclusion to the story.

This.

It's like people saying Dark Souls is unfinished just because the pacing after the Lordvessel isn't as tight as the first half. IT'S STILL FINISHED, THERE'S A FINAL BOSS, FINAL AREA, END CREDITS AND NEW GAME PLUS, YOU DOLTS.


the development team have stated they didn't have the time they wanted to finish Lost Izalith or anything surrounding that
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marc55
04/10/18 11:08:44 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
eston posted...
the plot is one of my favorite sci-fi stories from any medium

Disagree whole heartily. The inter-dimensional shit is a complete clusterfuck. The maker recreating the world so that it could perfect it's ways to beat the final boss isn't complicated to understand and yet they made it look real complex and symbolic. It was a dark time for Square TBH they also tried to do this with Chrono Cross and Parasite Eve as well.

?????

you never travel between dimensions in xenogears
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Dragonblade01
04/10/18 11:08:45 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
Final Fantasy XV told its story in a far worse way than Xenogears did.

It didn't literally have someone sit in a black room explaining the plot.

Yeah, instead it opted to leave out plot elements entirely.
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eston
04/10/18 11:08:45 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
eston posted...
the plot is one of my favorite sci-fi stories from any medium

Disagree whole heartily. The inter-dimensional shit is a complete clusterfuck. The maker recreating the world so that it could perfect it's ways to beat the final boss isn't complicated to understand and yet they made it look real complex and symbolic. It was a dark time for Square TBH they also tried to do this with Chrono Cross and Parasite Eve as well.

You disagree that it's one of my favorite sci-fi stories? I don't think that's how that works, lol

Also I don't think you got it but I don't have much desire to explain it to you tbqh
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:11:39 AM
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marc55 posted...
you never travel between dimensions in xenogears

The final boss is an inter-dimensional being.
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:12:05 AM
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Dragonblade01 posted...
Yeah, instead it opted to leave out plot elements entirely.

So let's equally shit on both games then. Oh wait you won't.
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Dragonblade01
04/10/18 11:15:10 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
Yeah, instead it opted to leave out plot elements entirely.

So let's equally shit on both games then. Oh wait you won't.

Um, of course I won't. They aren't equal.

Xenogears > FFXV
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eston
04/10/18 11:15:11 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
marc55 posted...
you never travel between dimensions in xenogears

The final boss is an inter-dimensional being.

No it's not
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:23:06 AM
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Dragonblade01 posted...
Veggeta X posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
Yeah, instead it opted to leave out plot elements entirely.

So let's equally shit on both games then. Oh wait you won't.

Um, of course I won't. They aren't equal.

Xenogears > FFXV

Xenogears is the most loved and accepted half made game
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:23:29 AM
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eston posted...
No it's not

Please do tell my friend.
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:24:27 AM
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fenderbender321 posted...
The finished product of Xenogears is Xenogears as we know it. It cannot be 'incomplete' because there is no 'complete' game to compare it to. There is no basis for what 'complete' is. And if there was, it would be the version they released, as that is the most 'complete' version of the game that exists in the entire universe.

Oh come on do you hear yourself? You know GOD damn well if this game came out today the way it is people would hate it and accuse of it for being incomplete.
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Dragonblade01
04/10/18 11:25:55 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
Xenogears is the most loved and accepted half made game

Repeating wrong things doesn't make them right.
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eston
04/10/18 11:26:52 AM
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I think you missed the part where I'm not gonna sit here and explain the plot to you >_>
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:27:26 AM
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Dragonblade01 posted...
Repeating wrong things doesn't make them right.


fenderbender321 posted...
And they'd be wrong about it being incomplete.

How very convenient to redfine what a word means to justify what you like and don't like.
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Dragonblade01
04/10/18 11:30:26 AM
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It's literally not incomplete...
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KingWhiteKnight
04/10/18 11:32:21 AM
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DevsBro
04/10/18 11:33:23 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
Veggeta X posted...
The second disc was almost literally a visual novel.


so because it's dialog / story heavy, that qualifies it as "half made" IYO?

It's not just tht it's dialog/story heavy, but that a lot of what happens is literally told to you, and you have to read, in text, "then this happened, then that happened." It's confirmed that the reason they went with this narration approach was because they ran out of money.

I did kinda like the first two or so of them, when it felt like they did it for artistic reasons. Then it turned out that this was going to ne the norm and it was kind of a letdown.
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:35:13 AM
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It literally turned into a visual novel.
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Turbam
04/10/18 11:36:31 AM
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I don't get why people are arguing this, its true.
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marc55
04/10/18 11:36:32 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
marc55 posted...
you never travel between dimensions in xenogears

The final boss is an inter-dimensional being.

no
the only being from another dimension was the one trapped and used as a power source
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Dragonblade01
04/10/18 11:36:34 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
It literally turned into a visual novel.

Do you not think visual novels are complete games?
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:38:11 AM
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marc55 posted...
the only being from another dimension was the one trapped and used as a power source

Okay so it was the other way around.
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pauIie
04/10/18 11:39:26 AM
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xenogears gave WAY more than ffxv did before it rushed to the finish line
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Veggeta X
04/10/18 11:39:40 AM
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Dragonblade01 posted...
Do you not think visual novels are complete games?

Oh stop it. A game turning into a visual novel when it wasn't supposed to be one is a bad thing, and cop out and show of either laziness or loss of productivity which is confirmed to be the latter so iono know why you still thinking it's a complete game.
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