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New LA is hideous? Wut?
What a bizarre design
TurnipFritters
Member
The Residential district looked like it was created in The Sims 2.
Dark Cloud
Member
Am I the only one who saw this pic and though of the townspeople from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey?
CGiRanger
Banned
Do we have a list of the Artists who are contributing to this game? It is pretty expansive
Masatsugu Saito - Main characters and artwork
Tetsuya Nomura - Torna Organization (Titan, NPC's, etc)
Kunihiko Tanaka - Blade Finch
Nakaba Higurashi - Blade Uka
M Hakus - Blades Azami and Kubira
Yasushi Suzuki - Blade Vasara
Masatsugu Saito - Main characters and artwork
Tetsuya Nomura - Torna Organization (Titan, NPC's, etc)
Kunihiko Tanaka - Blade Finch
Nakaba Higurashi - Blade Uka
M Hakus - Blades Azami and Kubira
Yasushi Suzuki - Blade Vasara
Said the same exact thing earlier and stand by those words. I really love how despite how "inconsistent" the designs themselves are, they're being unified and translated really well through the rendering cel-shaded style of the game.
Really looking forward to seeing more of these.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Interesting......design. Wait! This the Baten Kaitos character designer! Yes! This is probably the closest we'll get to a BK sequel.
https://twitter.com/nkb_hgrs39
These are some pretty cool graphics to me. Its like cel shaded but its not?
I don't think so, but in the footage from Milan Games Week someone said something along the lines of "they had every renowned artist in Japan design a Blade". Clearly that's an exaggeration (I doubt the game will have thousands of Blades), but the list will probably be quite long.
Yasushi Suzuki did Vasara's design, and taiki (can't really find an informative page on him?) did Hotaru's.
Also, I think Torna's more an Illuminati-style organization than it is an empire from the way they've described it; Mor Ardain's more the empire with how it's annexing other Titans.
Smiles and Cries
Member
The number of Blades is kinda overwhelming for me already, as someone who has 100% every Xenoblade game so far. Hope they are not too difficult to track down.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
It's really great
CGiRanger
Banned
Good point. I'll edit that from now on.
Yeah, the new shaders that they're using in the engine I think makes the characters look so much better than what Monolith has shown in previous games.
I mean, it has come along so much from this:
And especially THIS:
Neoleo2143
Member
I like the potential for this Blade to be a double element of Fire and Ice. Like it starts out one element and when you switch off, the element changes, which adds an additional layer of complexity to the Blade Switches.
I don't think we do, but it's been reiterated that a lot of artists lent their hand to the game to make character designs, apparently not unlike how Let it Die got a ton of different bands to make songs for the game. While the art is inconsistent, the cutscene animation and shading style of the game seems to make it work better than one would think.
I don't think we do, but it's been reiterated that a lot of artists lent their hand to the game to make character designs, apparently not unlike how Let it Die got a ton of different bands to make songs for the game. While the art is inconsistent, the cutscene animation and shading style of the game seems to make it work better than one would think.
I love her red-hot, glowing boots. Lava boots. Waiting for this game to download on launch night is going to be an exercise in patience (and then it'll probably take 300 hours to unlock this particular blade).
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I really never thought Lin looked that bad, especially after playing the gameGood point. I'll edit that from now on.
Yeah, the new shaders that they're using in the engine I think makes the characters look so much better than what Monolith has shown in previous games.
I mean, it has come along so much from this:
And especially THIS:
mrpallyguy
Member
Lin's a pretty great character
RoseBell69
Member
Yeah, Lin's character design isn't the problem. It was more-so her obnoxious consistent personality that made me resent the fact that she must always be present for any story progression, etc.
We don't have confirmation either way. I don't mind the dub (plus it's the norm in RPGs that the dub sounds awful leading up to release and ends up being great or at least ok) but it'd be nice to have.
For the 100th time. No we don't know; and it most likely won't.
Its cool if they don't want my sale. If the japanese version has english text i'll just buy that but even Zelda managed to get dual audio.
TurnipFritters
Member
One assumes Zelda has considerably less voice acting than Xenoblade 2.
I don't think they're doing it to spite you personally, what an odd way to look at it. Still, we don't know. It wouldn't surprise me if it did.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I actually really enjoyed Lin and she offered a lot of brevity, except for the forced tatsu food jokes
CGiRanger
Banned
Eeeh, I thought she looked very bad in several of the cutscenes (especially the ones that repeated involving Tatsu). It's that lifeless doll-like face. Reminds me of the terrible style Tri-Ace adopted to their in-game characters of their HD games, plastic dolls.
Yeah, I'd like to see some receipts of the definite examples of "bad voice acting" that we've heard so far.
I mean, there are some lines that I thought were kind of eeeh, like Rex's infamous "Take Thisssss!" (really hope the in-game context is better, though it could be intentionally bad if he is supposed to try to act tough and gets swatted down by the lady Mor Ardain soldier), and some of Pyra's delivery ("That is Our Dream!" and "I wont use that power..." sound forced to me).
But nothing I've heard is to the level of Hyrule Warriors' dub. Every line I've heard in the trailers sounds like it's been phoned in.
TurnipFritters
Member
And the perfect way to see so many traditionally 2D character designers work faithfully translated to 3D thay otherwise wouldnt be given the oppurtunity.
CGiRanger
Banned
Heh, I was thinking of the previous incarnation of that series when I thought of that:
Atlus delivered by releasing a free dlc for Japenese VA in Persona 5. So its possible Nintendo could do the same if people complain enough.
CGiRanger
Banned
Wanted to put all the Special Blades and their Artists in one post (thanks to Almond for the gifs):
Finch - Kunihiko Tanaka
Vasara - Yasushi Suzuki
Hotaru - Taiki
Azami - M Hakus
Kubira - M Hakus
Uka - Nakaba Higurashi
Quite a mishmash of characters that are being put together. I would like to hope that each unique Blade will have some kind of backstory to them, as it'd be a shame otherwise. I wonder if these are acquired at random through Core Crystal Resonance, or if some Blades will be specific to certain in-game events.
Finch - Kunihiko Tanaka
Vasara - Yasushi Suzuki
Hotaru - Taiki
Azami - M Hakus
Kubira - M Hakus
Uka - Nakaba Higurashi
Quite a mishmash of characters that are being put together. I would like to hope that each unique Blade will have some kind of backstory to them, as it'd be a shame otherwise. I wonder if these are acquired at random through Core Crystal Resonance, or if some Blades will be specific to certain in-game events.
I wrongly assumed we were in an era where dual audio was finally the norm. FFXV, Persona 5, even Zelda got it. As a non English speaker, I have a hard time listening to that kind of anime characters speaking English. Where would be the best place to ask them for a dlc? Nintendo's twitter? Monolith's?
TheMoon
Member
We don't, it's highly unlikely.
It won't.
Zelda didn't get dual audio, it was a global SKU to boot and had only a tiny amount of voiced cutscenes. X2 will milk its card's capacity to the max with just one.
Not one place. All places. Politely.
Mediking
Member
Wanted to put all the Special Blades and their Artists in one post (thanks to Almond for the gifs):
Finch - Kunihiko Tanaka
Vasara - Yasushi Suzuki
Hotaru - Taiki
Azami - M Hakus
Kubira - M Hakus
Uka - Nakaba Higurashi
Quite a mishmash of characters that are being put together. I would like to hope that each unique Blade will have some kind of backstory to them, as it'd be a shame otherwise. I wonder if these are acquired at random through Core Crystal Resonance, or if some Blades will be specific to certain in-game events.
I'm throwing money at the screen but nothing is happening!!!!!
All that needs to be said, really. This is the first Blade design that I'm not too impressed with; the rest have otherwise been amazing.
Yeah same, in fact I dislike her design, I just hope she sucks because I ain't using her.
RoseBell69
Member
Lol yeah that's what I meant. I like that the game shows a smart and intelligent young girl, but I only dislike her forced tatsu food jokes.
CGiRanger
Banned
Uka's design definitely made me go "huh?" at first, but it's slowly grown on me. I like that her figure seems to be more "fit" and proportional than say, Pyra and her large bust size. I also like how well her artwork actually translated into the in-game engine.
Of course, the Baten Kaitos artist Higurashi made all her designs for those games very "strange" and unique. But then again they're also quite memorable
Of course, the Baten Kaitos artist Higurashi made all her designs for those games very "strange" and unique. But then again they're also quite memorable
Yes, strongly agree. Personally, characters (male or female) with bare skin (or fur) don't bother me at all. The only thing which exasperates me are HUMONGOUS busts on trim women. They strike me as an unflattering caricature of female anatomy.
Almond
Member
So if the pattern continues, who do you think will be the next party member revealed for Monday's tweet?
I'm gonna go with Eyepatch Guy and then his Blade Hikari (I'm assuming) tomorrow. They're the only other characters from the art work that we haven't gotten any details on yet.
I'm gonna go with Eyepatch Guy and then his Blade Hikari (I'm assuming) tomorrow. They're the only other characters from the art work that we haven't gotten any details on yet.
Isn't Hikari the blonde Blade, or was that never confirmed?
Almond
Member
It's never been confirmed as far as I know, but I assumed Hikari is the purple girl with the lightbulbs on her. But it could be the Blonde Pyra look-alike too if her element is light or something like that too.
Alas, there doesn't appear to be a pattern after all; no party member reveal tonight.
https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/919821899189796864
https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/919821899189796864
tonyh24613
Member
Maybe Tora can ride Poppi like he did in one of the trailer.
ChasingComets
Member
No confirmation AFAIK, the name for her (the blonde blade) was taken from the draft story outlines in that first(second?) trailer.