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Mazed posted:I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive from Nintendo, but I decided I'd indulge myself and listen to the soundtrack. The first track's title is a gigantic spoiler, might wanna mention that in your post (and be careful what tracks you listen to yourself  )
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SomeChump posted:The first track's title is a gigantic spoiler, might wanna mention that in your post (and be careful what tracks you listen to yourself Thanks. Made some changes, had a sneaking suspicion. And, figured...always a slight risk of spoilers via music, albeit ambiguously so. But, having listened to the whole four-disk collection through, I don't regret doing so in the slightest. This is a god-tier soundtrack, and the three composers behind this have done proud, if not surpassed previous games of the Xeno title. If anyone is interested, Here's a non-Youtube full playlist that I put together. As with before, mind possible title-related spoilers. I cannot wait for this to arrive. For once, it seems like excitement for a new game may actually be justified. Mazed fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Apr 10, 2012 |
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Apr 10, 2012 12:08
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My copy and art book are out for delivery! Now to wait on UPS... Or I could just go to sleep, that'd probably help.
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Apr 10, 2012 12:31
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Okay, so we all know that Riki's (the one in the cutscene where you recruit him) theme music is the most ridiculously appropriate awesome and badass-in-a-cute-way theme for a hilariously ineffectual character. I need your help, now. (Spoilers for the area with a hidden village) What is the name of the music track that plays when Dunban and Riki have a campfire chat before meeting up with Shulk & Co.? It's some kind of mellow and wistful remix of aforementioned theme and i must hear it again.
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Apr 10, 2012 12:38
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HenryEx posted:(Spoilers for the area with a hidden village) I want to say it's this but I could be wrong.
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Apr 10, 2012 13:06
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Alris posted:I want to say it's this but I could be wrong. Hell yeah, it is. Just listen to the part from 1:40 on, awesome. The auto-advance text option for voiced dialogue is ingenious. Some of the voiced dialogue scenes are timed really well with the music if you let them advance automatically.
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Apr 10, 2012 13:35
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KoB posted:Its really disapointing that playing the game on its native console will never look even 1/10th this good. This is simply untrue. Don't dissuade people from playing it on the Wii - it still looks great.
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Apr 10, 2012 14:20
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Ragequit posted:This is simply untrue. Don't dissuade people from playing it on the Wii - it still looks great. Speaking of this - what is the best way to get a good picture on the Wii? I have my roomates console, but he only has the standard component input, and not the composite one. I saw a couple of HDMI converters on Amazon - are they worth it?
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Gyshall posted:Speaking of this - what is the best way to get a good picture on the Wii? I have my roomates console, but he only has the standard component input, and not the composite one. I saw a couple of HDMI converters on Amazon - are they worth it? Component cables make a tremendous difference, especially on larger screens. HDMI converters will do nothing to improve the actual picture quality; they can't add any information to the video signal. They only exist to help those people who have ample HDMI inputs but few other inputs.
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Apr 10, 2012 14:51
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I assume you mean the opposite (Composite is standard, Component is the best you'll get with the Wii)? Component cables tend to help a lot, but short of fiddling with a few TV settings and hoping for the best, there's not much else you can do.
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Apr 10, 2012 14:52
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HenryEx posted:Okay, so we all know that Riki's (the one in the cutscene where you recruit him) theme music is the most ridiculously appropriate awesome and badass-in-a-cute-way theme for a hilariously ineffectual character. Come again?
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I think he's trying to say that the TV only has composite and HDMI inputs. If you have component cables, tehre are component-to-HDMI converters that may work, but they're also expensive, and wouldn't really be worth it for a Wii of all things.
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Ragequit posted:This is simply untrue. Don't dissuade people from playing it on the Wii - it still looks great. I have the game now and while I really like it a lot (Playing 480p on component in 16:9 on the Wii) it doesn't look anything like that screen shot and makes me a little sad actually. It looks fine for a Wii game and I will still have a lot of fun playing it (Thanks for the recommendation Louis God, I would have never even looked at this game otherwise) but that screenshot looks amazing compared to the actual Wii visuals. Great game though. I bought a classic controller and have been playing with that (Been meaning to get one for the older Nintendo Games) and I am becoming obsessive compulsive with finding the blue shiny things. I need to become better at Combat. It takes a little getting used too after playing games like Skyrim for so long. And I have died to a few higher level monsters. I also like if you have the right characters in your party, being able to go to a heart to heart icon and learning more about the backdrop of the characters themselves in a cut scene, but I also like that it is optional. I'll be doing them simply because of the character development and so far they have done a great job on that. I wish I could remap my B button to my A button and reverse those. Blame that on my PS3 and Xbox playing, but I am used to pressing the right B button to navigate backwards through the UI/Menu not to progress forward, while A, the bottom button, activates what is on the menu. Is there a way to do this and I have not found it? I love the voice acting, and the story really seems to take off and is fluid. Good character development as well, without all the teen angst emo stuff. (There is still a little, but I guess that is to be expected in this genre) There is a ton to learn, and tons of things to figure out. It's almost information overload, but it's nice you can always go back and read more tutorials. So many things to know though, which is good and bad I guess. Overall, really impressed so far. PS: When I complete a side quest, does it complete when I find the item/kill the monster/deliver the good? Or do I have to go back to the NPC giver? (I am about two hours in and did a few of these, but didn't know if they fully completed or not) Utnayan fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Apr 10, 2012 |
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HenryEx posted:a hilariously ineffectual character.
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Utnayan posted:
It depends on the quest. Some will have you go back to the quest-giver, but the majority do not. You could always look for crowns on your quest-list.
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I'm not sure how the English voices are, but I'm using Japanese with subs and everything (but particularly the awesomely evil Mechon) sounds like an over the top shonen anime. I was grinning like an idiot during all of the cutscenes leading up to and after The fight with Xord in the Colony 6 mines and the subsequent appearance of Metal Face and Dunban. It's such a welcome change of tone for JRPGs. I highly recommend playing through in Japanese during your next playthrough if you're playing in English now, especially if you're into things like Gurren.
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d0s posted:I'm not sure how the English voices are They are really well done. I was very surprised actually at the voice acting quality in this game, and it surpasses anything else I have seen in the video game genre. Good tone fluctuation and emphasis on important events or in dramatic scenes. Everything else I have played when I hear good voice acting tossed out I just roll my eyes. This game actually has it, and has it throughout the game itself so far. Not just restricted to one character, and then the next character is bland and monotone because it's a different actor. It makes me wonder if they had them all in the studio at the same time, rather than seperate throughout. That is the problem with most video game voice acting. When movie studios do it, they put everyone in a room together like they are really acting through the characters in the movie. For video games, it's all captured seperately and edited in throughout the entire game and definitely doesn't have the same result. Either way, great stuff.
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Apr 10, 2012 15:32
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English voices absolutely make the (mild Colony 6 spoiler) Faces, seriously. They just have the most amazing, cackling, over-the-top English accents I've ever heard in a videogame. Any cutscene with one of them in it is instantly The Best Cutscene.
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Apr 10, 2012 15:33
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One of the things this game does well is the dialog speed. There is a moe natural length pause between characters taking turns speaking. It's in stark contrast with FF13 which had huge pauses between dialog, it is really awkward.
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Is it possible to raise your playable character affinity without having them all in use at some point? I don't wanna spend forever grinding affinity with the new characters I just got.
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OmegaZultan posted:Is it possible to raise your playable character affinity without having them all in use at some point? I don't wanna spend forever grinding affinity with the new characters I just got. You can give them gifts, but you better have a TON of them. It is easier to just use them.
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Apr 10, 2012 16:08
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On the items screen, you can have characters give gifts to each other which can raise or lower affinity.
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Utnayan posted:That is the problem with most video game voice acting. When movie studios do it, they put everyone in a room together like they are really acting through the characters in the movie. For video games, it's all captured seperately and edited in throughout the entire game and definitely doesn't have the same result. I wonder if Xenoblade did that, what with the praise for the English VAs. Man. Why is this not done more. Naughty Dog does, and it's the reason the Uncharted series is so commended for memorable character interactions--hell, the actors do the mo-cap and voice-acting both. Granted, going to these lengths may not be possible for localizations (no one's gonna re-animate the whole thing to accomodate a new voice cast) but why big-budget game studios don't at least bring actors face to face is beyond me.
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OmegaZultan posted:Is it possible to raise your playable character affinity without having them all in use at some point? I don't wanna spend forever grinding affinity with the new characters I just got. You can have a character gift a blue sparklie item to another character which will raise their affinity. It's ridiculously slow, but you can improve their relationship that way. Each character has favorite items, depending on their personality (for instance, Shulk, the scientist, prefers mechanical items above all others) and also hated items which will lower affinity (Riki, the resident cute thing, detests other cute things).
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Apr 10, 2012 16:12
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Other than gifting, how can you raise affinity? Do you have to swap around which party member you control and which order they're in? Right now I'm trying to get Dunban and Reyns affinity up so I have Dunban in #1 and Reyn as #2.
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Apr 10, 2012 16:19
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When you take new quests, your main character will raise affinity with the others depending upon how the conversation goes. Also, heart-to-heart events will have big affinity boosts. There's really nothing besides heart-to-hearts (which are few and far between) that gives a big boost to affinity.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Other than gifting, how can you raise affinity? Do you have to swap around which party member you control and which order they're in? Right now I'm trying to get Dunban and Reyns affinity up so I have Dunban in #1 and Reyn as #2. You get affinity boosts during combat by
If you want to increase affinity between Dunban and Reyn, make sure that either of them is on point so that you benefit from affinity bonuses from side quests. Other than that, character order doesn't matter.
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Do Dunban and Reyn require more affinity between one another than other characters or something? And only your top 3 get affinity from sidequests? Is it the top 3 when you accept the quest or finish it?
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Fun Times! posted:Do Dunban and Reyn require more affinity between one another than other characters or something? It is whoever is in your party when you accept and complete the quests. You notice that sometimes the lead character will talk to one or both of the party members.
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Thanks for the preorder thread, I picked this up because of it and would have never known about it otherwise. I burned out on JRPGs a long time ago due to the mechanics becoming beyond stale and the developers on a quest to out-anime each other. Barring a few exceptions, the genre simply refused to change. From Final Fantasy to Final Fantasy 13, over 25 years, we got more linear environments and some convoluted post modern art where you learn skills. This game bucks enough of the JRPG conventions to make it a fresh experience while still being at heart Japanese RPG. And the characters are actually likable! No emotionally broken sociopath emo fucks for angsty teens to 'relate to' here! I'd prefer it if Shulk weren't a teenager, but he's generally pretty mature so far so I guess I can forgive them.
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One of the more convinient ways to raise affinity is to find an enemy with a status effect spike, equip the character with low affinity gems so they're immune to that status and then mash B next to them as the AI keeps getting inflicted with the status effect trying to hit the enemy.
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Skeeter Green posted:Thanks for the preorder thread, I picked this up because of it and would have never known about it otherwise. I burned out on JRPGs a long time ago due to the mechanics becoming beyond stale and the developers on a quest to out-anime each other. Barring a few exceptions, the genre simply refused to change. From Final Fantasy to Final Fantasy 13, over 25 years, we got more linear environments and some convoluted post modern art where you learn skills. This game bucks enough of the JRPG conventions to make it a fresh experience while still being at heart Japanese RPG. I thought Shulk was like 23 until I read that he was 18. He doesn't act like an anime teenager and is very mature. From what I've seen he only gets really emotional or upset at pretty appropriate times. At one point early on he yelled at Reyn, "No complaining!" when he started to talk about being hungry or some dumb thing in a cutscene. That made me really appreciate the characters.
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Some heart to hearts require a certain affinity level between characters so I was just trying to get theirs up a little bit to the green smiley face.
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Fun Times! posted:I thought Shulk was like 23 until I read that he was 18. He doesn't act like an anime teenager and is very mature. From what I've seen he only gets really emotional or upset at pretty appropriate times. At one point early on he yelled at Reyn, "No complaining!" when he started to talk about being hungry or some dumb thing in a cutscene. That made me really appreciate the characters. Yep. That's one of the best things about the characters - they behave like adults who grow and mature as their power level grows. It's just so refreshing after dealing with so many JRPGs where your characters grow to possess immeasurable and unrivaled power, yet they never develop a shred of confidence and retain the emotional maturity of a young teenager.
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Question: How do you play Dunban effectively? Because I've found him the least effective member of my party. Reyn and Riki are better tanks, Shulk and Melia do better damage... it just doesn't feel like he has much of a niche.
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Chaltab posted:Question: How do you play Dunban effectively? Because I've found him the least effective member of my party. Reyn and Riki are better tanks, Shulk and Melia do better damage... it just doesn't feel like he has much of a niche. Lots of agility. He's actually a good tank because he just doesn't really get hit that often, and he does a lot of damage so he keeps aggro well.
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Pierson posted:English voices absolutely make the Faces, seriously. They just have the most amazing, cackling, over-the-top English accents I've ever heard in a videogame. Any cutscene with a Face in it is instantly The Best Cutscene. I gotta say, when the first one started talking, it was a big oh-poo poo moment. I'm gonna spoiler that because of that fact. They really must've had the whole gang together for the dialog recording because it sounds like they're actually conversing for all the cutscenes.
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I'm about four and a half hours into this game and I'm running around on the leg with the fourth party member. I really like the battle system, fights feel more like puzzles and less like button mashing, at least for big monsters. I like finding places to see and monsters to fight but I don't care for the characters or plot at all. Then again I'm not even five hours into the game so maybe things will change.
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just finished buying everything i need to run the game (my laptop can't handle emulating it) Xenoblade Chronicles $50 Wii $80 classic controller pro $15 Tax about $10 if this game sucks im gonna toilet paper louisgod's house
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