This sounds good to me.My copy arrived yesterday and I have played the first 5 hours of the game. All I can say is this is everything I wanted and more. The fears of it being similar to XB2 are over... for now.
From what I've been seeing around the internet, the folks that are currently playing it really like it so far.So what is the veredict so far? Is it a really good game or what?
I've played the first 2 chapters and I'm not gonna lie I don't really see the comparison with Xenogears. I don't even mean that in a necessarily negative way and obviously am still quite early in the game but I don't think it's any more Gears-like than the first 2. If anything, I'd describe it as a sort of blend of XBC1 and 2's respective strengths.It is one of the games ever made.
More seriously, it seems most impressions really like the beginning chapter(s). Including some people who profess to have been Xeno fans since Gears saying it matches the correct tone and styling of that to the point that they think it may surpass the Blade games in reaching Gears level. Obviously it could fall apart later on, but I've always found that Xenoblade games get better over the course of the story, so the start being perhaps the strongest yet is a good sign.
This sounds good to me.
Sorry to be a pain but are you playing in handheld or docked? Curious how well the image quality/dynamic scaling holds up?
Is there an option to rewatch cutscenes? XC2 had an option at the title screen that unlocked more cutscenes as you progressed.I'm playing mostly docked. I did a full playthrough of Xenoblade 2 and Torna recently and the scaling seems to be better than on those games. But I think they applied some tricks to improve performance, because you can see some artifacts sometimes. I'm not an expert so I'm not sure exactly what was employed but between the two I prefer the performance and image quality in this game, even if perhaps it's not as detailed.
Is there an option to rewatch cutscenes? XC2 had an option at the title screen that unlocked more cutscenes as you progressed.
Thank you! This will spare me from taking 4,000 screenshots as I play, knowing that I can always go back for key moments, lol.
Sure thing. I was just paraphrasing one of the other people in this thread. I'm glad to hear it brings together the best of both worlds, that seems to have been at the core of this game's design document.I've played the first 2 chapters and I'm not gonna lie I don't really see the comparison with Xenogears. I don't even mean that in a necessarily negative way and obviously am still quite early in the game but I don't think it's any more Gears-like than the first 2. If anything, I'd describe it as a sort of blend of XBC1 and 2's respective strengths.
Thanks for the impressions, appreciate it.I'm playing mostly docked. I did a full playthrough of Xenoblade 2 and Torna recently and the scaling seems to be better than on those games. But I think they applied some tricks to improve performance, because you can see some artifacts sometimes. I'm not an expert so I'm not sure exactly what was employed but between the two I prefer the performance and image quality in this game, even if perhaps it's not as detailed.
lmao same, only 5 more days
get ready for it to be more if you ordered from nintendo, not optimistic about a day 1 delivery
So I made the mistake of watching this Xenoblade Chronicles X video from Digital Foundry:
Xenoblade Chronicles X Wii U Tech Analysis/Frame-Rate Test
Is this the most technologically advanced Wii U title we've seen to date? John takes a closer look at this beautiful title.Read our full article: http://www....youtu.be
This game looks incredible and I had no idea. Never played it back during the Wii U era. Why the hell hasn't Nintendo brought this to Switch? I swear it looks better then the new stuff in a lot of ways including scope of the land itself. Even seems to perform better lol and that's on old hardware. Weird. Now I want this on Switch so I can play it.
Also currently working my way through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (and eventually Torna) and I'm excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
Xenoblade X's world design is GOAT level.So I made the mistake of watching this Xenoblade Chronicles X video from Digital Foundry:
Xenoblade Chronicles X Wii U Tech Analysis/Frame-Rate Test
Is this the most technologically advanced Wii U title we've seen to date? John takes a closer look at this beautiful title.Read our full article: http://www....youtu.be
This game looks incredible and I had no idea. Never played it back during the Wii U era. Why the hell hasn't Nintendo brought this to Switch? I swear it looks better then the new stuff in a lot of ways including scope of the land itself. Even seems to perform better lol and that's on old hardware. Weird. Now I want this on Switch so I can play it.
Also currently working my way through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (and eventually Torna) and I'm excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
The game is the most polarising in the series and would need a lot of tweaks to make it play well. They might do it if 3's sales justify a high effort port but the energy is likely better spent on just making a new game
Not well.It looks awesome. How does the storytelling/cutscenes compare with the other Xenoblade games?
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Don't know if you guys follow the thread about sexualized women in games, but they're currently posting spoilers from the ending. Sigh. Ignoring the thread for now.
I really don't normally care about people hating on the sexualized designs in Blade, because even though I mostly just roll my eyes at them (them as in the designs, not the people discussing the designs, if that wasn't clear), I get it.
But I'd really prefer if it NOT start until after the game is actually released? Hate all you want, but these are images from the end of the game taken from pirated copies of the game. At least discuss it in the leak thread.
Sorry, I really don't want to discourage people talking about this stuff, but I'm annoyed that a thread not about the end of the game…has end of the game spoilers and I'm trying to dodge them for XB3. :/
lmaoIt looks awesome. How does the storytelling/cutscenes compare with the other Xenoblade games?
Heaven forbid people want to talk and bring light to gross sexualization in a game at the cost of spoilers. Also the post was properly spoiler tagged, so...
People are overselling the emulated version at this juncture, and I have spent most of the day on it. It needs more time in the oven. 60 FPS mod has major glitches, asides that it will run more like 40-50 FPS a lot of the time on even high-end PCs. The memory leak issue is a big nuisance. Performance problems with the high-resolution mod in Chapter 2 and beyond, which most people haven't gotten to. A couple of visual effects in the game are missing. I am halting my playthrough until at least some of these things get resolved.
Agreed.
Heaven forbid people want to talk and bring light to gross sexualization in a game at the cost of spoilers. Also the post was properly spoiler tagged, so...
the world design is sublime in it, but yeah the UI and overall UX of the game would need a decent overhaul.
Plus other feature like reworking affinity missions. Some kind of phone menu for party selection so you don't have to find individual characters.
They'd also need to rework more side missions into the main story path
It is very funny how the scope of the game means that certain things just sort of fall apart if you poke at them. Like how nothing in the game that moves has any collision detection (this is probably for the sake of the robots just as much as it is for performance).yeah, it would require a lot of work, the gamepad as a second screen was very integral to the game.
I'd also like them to fix the fact that vehicles just pass through you in NLA
It is very funny how the scope of the game means that certain things just sort of fall apart if you poke at them. Like how nothing in the game that moves has any collision detection (this is probably for the sake of the robots just as much as it is for performance).
Yeah thus far it goes X > 2 > 1 for me. And X is leaps and bounds ahead of the other two.
Think you have the wrong thread here….