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So, yes, Xenoblade is out in English and it's also "out" in English, if you catch my drift.

Anyway, no other JRPG this generation even comes close to Xenoblade in terms of ambition, scope, and pure detail that you can find in every nook and cranny of this game. Even the characters aren't so bad, sure they're plucky teens for the most part but there not quite so annoying or brain-dead stupid as so many other RPGs like to revel in [looking at you, plucky kids from FFXIII] and the story, from what I've seen so far, is actually kind of interesting. I'll have to play further to find out for sure, but it doesn't instantly repulse me, so extra points there.

I like the addition of the Heart-to-Heart scenes, one of my favorite aspects about the Star Ocean series., just little scenes that give you a peak at the characters without the oppressive weight of world-ending disaster looming on the horizon. And it actually seems like they're not total animu embarrassments, so more points for Xenoblade.

I like being able to equip my characters with different armor and weapons and actually seeing those new pieces of equipment displayed. It's a nice carry-over from the game's obvious MMO inspirations. It's just a nice touch that you hardly ever see in single-player RPGs [from Japan].

I love the contiguous world, with hardly any borders in sight, streaming as you run across boundless prairies and watch the mountains grow from out of the distance or looking down at the city from the top of a hill. Towns and buildings have detail, little touches that you won't find in MMOs, things that remind you that you're still playing a single-player game.

Only thing I really have an issue with is the characters' faces. They look...off. At the same time, they sort of remind me of Vagrant Story. Wish they'd gone with higher quality models for the cutscenes, but oh well.

So, Xenoblade is basically a combination of East and West, MMO and single-player RPG, taking aspects of each and melding them into something that's familiar but also unique. And it absolutely STUNS me that Nintendo, in its current mindset, put up the money for something this big.

So, NoA, you can just go right ahead and die in a fire because I'm playing this baby anyway.
Wait is it out or isn't it? Your last comment makes it sound like it isn't.
Not in the Americas, thanks to NoA's idiocy. It came out in Europe, though, because NoE is awesome like that.
I still reflexively hate it because whoever made it had the nerve to prefix it with Xeno- even though it certainly has shit-all to do with the Greatest Game Ever Made and reveals nothing of its ambitious and woefully-incomplete story.

So fuck Xenoblade.
Xenogears didn't invent the prefix "xeno" and it's also the exact same guy who made Xenogears and Xenosaga. They decided to name it Xenoblade to honor his work on that series.

It's the best game on the Wii and the best JRPG in years.
Lost Odyssey is pretty amazing too. It's probably the best Highlander spin off, though the bar isn't very high there. The whole "feel" of it reminds me of FF6.

I'd love to import Xenoblade, but the Wii is region locked and I'm not willing to risk getting locked out of the Wii online network by hacking the thing (there's no fear of that with the PSP since it doesn't truly support the PSN network in games).

So there's Xenoblade, Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland from a few years back, Mother 3 from a few more... What exactly is Nintendo doing with all their translators lately? It can't take that long to translate the latest incarnation of Wii Fit.
Quote:I'd love to import Xenoblade, but the Wii is region locked and I'm not willing to risk getting locked out of the Wii online network by hacking the thing (there's no fear of that with the PSP since it doesn't truly support the PSN network in games).

As far as I know this has never happened though, so it doesn't exactly seem likely...
Great Rumbler Wrote:Xenogears didn't invent the prefix "xeno" and it's also the exact same guy who made Xenogears and Xenosaga. They decided to name it Xenoblade to honor his work on that series.

It's the best game on the Wii and the best JRPG in years.

I suspect its naming had more to do with brand recognition than honor, because otherwise, maybe eight people would ever buy a JRPG on the Wii.

But hey, no, that's cool. Maybe next we can get Xenodance and Xenofork. Or, maybe they could give their intellectual property a name which doesn't ride the honored coattails of a game with which it is otherwise completely unrelated and stop being so Xenofuckingstupid.
Xenosaga already did it, mang, no sense getting worked up over it now.

But, hey, if you want to pass up an amazing game because of the NAME, then go right ahead.
Well, the title of the now never to be US version was supposed to be Monado, not Xenoblade, so I'm not sure if they were going to use that name here... but yes, it is kind of silly to use a similar game for a game that's got nothing to do with the other Xeno titles, even if it is from the same guy.
Uh...who cares?
Seems like I did.
You shouldn't.
GR, you really need to stop saying "Who cares?" as if it's some sort of valid argument, especially when the person talking to you about said complaint clearly does care. I don't think Weltal isn't going to buy the game if it came out here, he's just commenting on it being kinda manipulative.
A rose by any other name ect.
Dark Jaguar Wrote:GR, you really need to stop saying "Who cares?" as if it's some sort of valid argument, especially when the person talking to you about said complaint clearly does care. I don't think Weltal isn't going to buy the game if it came out here, he's just commenting on it being kinda manipulative.
I agree, that is a really weak argument for sure.
Not if you called them Stinkblossoms GR, not if you called them Stinkblossoms. Ol' Will may have been decent at writing a line or two but he was no psychologist.
Hating a game because of it's name is a pretty weak argument, too, but somehow I'm the bad guy here.
Who said he hates the game? I only see one person saying he hates the game.

It's possible to complain about a PART of a thing without hating the entirety of the thing.

For example, I hate the name "New Super Mario Bros. Wii". I consider it incredibly lazy and eventually simply incorrect as the years go by. However, I consider the game itself one of the best entries the Mario series has seen in recent years.
Mam. you guys should just play some games or something.
It may be a good game. I don't know, I don't have a Wii and I'll probably never play it.

I just hate the fact that they have to pretend it has any connection with Xenogears in order to make anybody pay attention to its existence. It's not quite the same crime as making it a bad AU fanfiction (which they packaged as a trilogy of shit called Xenosaga), but if they have no intention of ever doing anything with the original property they inherited, they should fuck off and assign a new name for whatever this is. It's like naming your kid Theodore Roosevelt Baker because you hope a kid named after a badass won't grow up to be gay and people will be fooled into thinking his parents aren't illiterate sister-fucking hillbillies who stopped cooking meth long enough to successfully reproduce.
And then Robin Williams named his kid Zelda.

These are facts.
Weltall Wrote:It may be a good game. I don't know, I don't have a Wii and I'll probably never play it.

Wii? I'm playing it on PC with an Xbox360 controller. :colbert:
My emulation must be PERFECT or none at all, or some. It's why the only SNES emulator I use requires two twin cooling super computers to run. Ideally I'd have an emulator that simply modeled all known laws of physics for a living room with some consoles in it and I'd just crash there forever.

But the thing is, you have a Wii GR. I'm surprised if you went through that trouble you wouldn't just hack your Wii and jam your crazy import disk in there, at least making sure some glitch doesn't destroy everything you've ever loved.
Dark Jaguar Wrote:And then Robin Williams named his kid Zelda.

These are facts.

Yes, but Robin Williams didn't do it to hide his deficiencies. I mean, he's Robin Fucking Williams after all.
Dark Jaguar Wrote:My emulation must be PERFECT or none at all, or some. It's why the only SNES emulator I use requires two twin cooling super computers to run. Ideally I'd have an emulator that simply modeled all known laws of physics for a living room with some consoles in it and I'd just crash there forever.

But the thing is, you have a Wii GR. I'm surprised if you went through that trouble you wouldn't just hack your Wii and jam your crazy import disk in there, at least making sure some glitch doesn't destroy everything you've ever loved.

The Wii can't output at 1080p with 9X anti-aliasing and 16X anistrophic filtering.
I'm about 8 and a half hours in now and I'm totally loving Xenoblade. Sure, some of the story parts kind of drag on a bit, and pretend like the "big reveal", or at least one of them, isn't totally obvious, but the story's not all bad and certainly not enough to take away from the great world that's presented here, the sheer sense of scale, and how much fun it is to explore. Combat's pretty cool too, especially when it starts throwing out a whole bunch of new stuff and you start to realize how much depth and strategy there is to it.

I haven't been this attached to a JRPG since the PS1 days.