NeededSleep
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still waiting to buy a wiiu tell this game comes out.. I'm hoping there is a chance.... a cold chance in hell, I know... that there will be a xenoblade themed bundle .
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Xenoblade Chronicles X: new info from Famitsu (map size, battle system, characters)
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I played Xenoblade on Wii for 12 hours straight in 2012 and stopped until this week when I continued my save. So you are telling me I don't have to play as Shulk?
Thanks,
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
awww yissss, some good ass info
transience
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Xenosaga 1 was 80 hours long too. It's probably more like 120-140 hours given that!
That said... mother of god. This news actually scares me more than anything. I love Xenoblade's exploration but I worry about them ratcheting that up to 11 at the expense of narrative. This is Takahashi though so we're most likely okay.
I still have no idea what to expect from X. Pretty crazy for a well-covered game that is more or less a sequel.
That said... mother of god. This news actually scares me more than anything. I love Xenoblade's exploration but I worry about them ratcheting that up to 11 at the expense of narrative. This is Takahashi though so we're most likely okay.
I still have no idea what to expect from X. Pretty crazy for a well-covered game that is more or less a sequel.
All sounds pretty good. Although a tad disappointed that human players can't control other members of your party, would have made battles really fun.
Souls-like connection should be interesting enough I guess.
I wonder if the faster paced battles and no healing came as a result of players sticking to Shulk, Reyn, and Sharla abd being stuck with really slow paced battles.
Souls-like connection should be interesting enough I guess.
I wonder if the faster paced battles and no healing came as a result of players sticking to Shulk, Reyn, and Sharla abd being stuck with really slow paced battles.
ArchedThunder
Banned
GTAV is about 126km2, Skryim is about 40.
RPG_Fanatic
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This game. This game. Really looking forward to this.
As for the open world versus traditional. I imagine to be similar to fallout. You have an overall objective and story progress as you move towards that objective, but you are free to go wherever you want.
As for the open world versus traditional. I imagine to be similar to fallout. You have an overall objective and story progress as you move towards that objective, but you are free to go wherever you want.
I think even you have your own avater you can still control other party members
oh lawdy
Ultra Numb
Member
Mira being 5x Xenoblade in size is ridiculously large. Obviously it's not reasonable to expect everything to be filled with meaningful content but hopefully there's a lot!
Very glad to hear about the faster-paced combat
Very glad to hear about the faster-paced combat
I don't play as Shulk except for during boss battles which usually makes things easier because they tend to be centered around the Monado. And also at the end of the game when he gets his Monado Armor ability and totally rocks with Dunban and 7 at his side.
Otherwise it's Melia, Riki, or Dunban as my main in that order.
Aside from the land area being big, I am really interested more in air/space travel and exploration. Just how high that doll can take you above ground and if there are interesting areas that you can explore above ground? Will it also enable airborne battles against flying enemies as well? Damn the possibilities...
SkeptiMism
Member
No dedicated healers, like Sharla in Xenoblade, or healer classes in MMOs.
The Hermit
Member
omg this is crazy
Yep. This was explained at E3 demo last year. Soul Voice is kind of like the party gauge in Xenoblade that fills up when you raise your affinities in battle.
Just watch the exploration trailer again and both your questions are answered...
I was getting bored of playing with shulk so this makes the game so much more exciting.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
What games did what Demon Souls did on consoles in the 90s?
I was referring to using the internet to leave messages, see what other players did, etc in certain spots of the game.
Maybe if you don't know how to play it or let the game idle for 45 hours. Episode I is 35-40 at the most for the main story.
Well it didn't reach the moon
it did travel high, but my interest is on the limits of flight as certainly fuel will be the key factor, and probably doll upgrades? I'm just wondering the possibilities in anticipation.No I meant as in a 4 member party being controlled by 4 different players.
Extra Sauce
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300 hours? That's downright scary.
Was about to post that. Xenosaga 1 really isn't that long. I think it's actually a relatively short game, a lot of the hours just come from the battles being seriously slow...
To me, just being able to explore is content that I really love, but you're right.
I hope there are a bunch of worthwhile city building quests where you're directly responsible for how New LA evolves as a city. That would be cool.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Well, Troy Baker did voices for random battle cries in Dragon's Dogma. It was literally just "male voice X", but we all recognize that voice.
transience
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Exactly. But they advertised it heavily as being 80 hours long.
Rebel Leader
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300 hours and 5 times the size of xenoblade
Freyjadour
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More than a little bit over "X hours of gameplay" being a feature.
Vincent Grayson
Member
These size measurements never make any sense to me. They're all arbitrary since games don't exist in the real world, and you don't move around those worlds like you do in real life in the first place.
A comparison to XB, saying it's 5 times bigger, that's far more useful, IMO, than just throwing out irrelevant measurements. Especially if you think about the way different games work. Skyrim is 40km square, much smaller than GTA, but you're going to take much, much longer to explore the world of Skyrim than that of GTA.
My problem is that a lot of people are using the numbers as a multiplier to how good a game might be. Just because something might have a large number attached to it, it doesn't mean that all of a sudden it's going to be linearly proportional to how much content there is, if everything looks worthwhile, and is ultimately fun.
All I need now is to know how many total player classes there are and how they differ, total # of unique environments, and weapon types there are. Xenoblade had a crap ton of environments most of them were totally different in look and feel from not only each other but most other games as well.