Board 8 > Xenoblade Chronicles - information/hype topic

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why would anyone mention Graces - that fan translation got cancelled once the PS3 localization was announced


but as far as games that are in english goes, Another Code R had a eu release, and of course there's Disaster which according to Reggie is an awful game

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From: transience | Posted: 8/15/2011 9:03:51 PM | #050
that's all I have too. Wii doesn't have enough software to invest in anything else.

I have +400 GB of my 1TB external used up! <_>

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ahhaha SHINE modded his Wii because I called him a beta

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oh didn't know it was cancelled. See I don't keep up on these things. I literally had no idea how to do any of this a few hours ago

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Eurogamer - 9/10

No Japanese RPG has more successfully married its various components this hardware generation. It's a game that invites us to reassess an entire genre, pointing to a bold future while nodding its respect towards the past. It's a towering triumph.

ONM UK - 92%

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Aw yeah order dispatched. Hopefully it still arrives by the end of this week!

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Xenoblade "the JRPG of the generation"

as in like

the only one worth mentioning bahaha

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n-europe review

The home-console JRPG has been treated shamefully poorly this generation. It is unfair that this fact may go some way in dampening the quickly-building consensus that Xenoblade Chronicles is by some way the best title that the genre has produced for years. But make no mistake; we have something special on our hands here. Not only is it easily the most exciting original IP to release on Wii, it is that brand new, quality, hardcore Nintendo title that her fans have been screaming out for since the dawn of the console. You will be exploring, collecting and side-questing for months to come. Then in years to come, once the dust has settled, Xenoblade Chronicles might just be whispered on the lips of Nintendo gamers in the same unparalleled regard as Tales of Symphonia, The World Ends With You and Chrono Trigger. Take up the Monado; it’s time to go and discover a whole new world. 10/10

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So basically not a single negative review yet. I bet if this game had HD graphics it would be averaging closer to 95.

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http://www.gamerankings.com/wii/960564-xenoblade-chronicles/index.html

looks pretty close to 95 to me!

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http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html?site=wii&cat=0&year=0&numrev=4&sort=0&letter=&search=

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transience posted...
Xenoblade Chronicles might just be whispered on the lips of Nintendo gamers in the same unparalleled regard as Tales of Symphonia, The World Ends With You

okay this isn't a good feeling and I'm not trying to be snarky

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I like how you removed Chrono Trigger to strengthen your argument

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If I could put Xenoblade in the same sentence with Symphonia, TWEWY, and CT, I'd be a happy man!

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On GR's all-time list Xenoblade is #51. Not bad at all.

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I won't besmirch Chrono Trigger's name by including it in that sentence! though it does illustrate how far Nintendo console JRPG standards have fallen.

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:O

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Goddamn, this has to see an American release.

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Now now Neon.

Let's not do something so brash as to imply that both of those aren't fantastic games, the latter in particular.

"Opinions different to mine"=/="low standards".

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TWEWY is fantastically terrible maybe

TWEWY such a bad game

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Excuse me while I vomit at those posts

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this is your fault, neon

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apparently the PAL version has dual audio

I did not know this and now I have a difficult decision to make.

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Yes. The VA has been quite well received in reviews. Also the website has voice clips of both the English and Japanese voices, and frankly I far prefer the English voices.

The one problem with the English voices, however, is that it isn't lip-synced. So if that bothers you, stick with the Japanese.

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I really don't like the british voices. I feel like high fantasy stuff fits british voices and sci-fi fits american voices. this is more of a sci-fi game. DQ8 is fantasy and fits well with the voices -- plus those are done execptionally well. these, I dunno.

I'll play in english though because I always do that regardless. one thing you'll want to do is turn down the voices as they have a lot of in-battle banter that's not very interesting.

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Do you hate Star Wars

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reading another forum about this

whoa dual layered game and even after you trim it with WBFS it's still 6.51 GB. Literally 6 times the size of Twilight Princess.

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bad comparison, that's a gamecube game!

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well it's the only one I tried last night to make sure everything I did yesterday was working

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so us 'muricans have to mod our wiis to play this? and what's this business i hear about losing virtual console games?

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nsmb is under a gig. it's great. other m was about the same as Xenoblade.

you won't lose anything. that's shine being paranoid about Wii -> Wii U conversions.

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I really don't like the british voices. I feel like high fantasy stuff fits british voices and sci-fi fits american voices. this is more of a sci-fi game

I said this and people made fun of me.

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I don't mind the British voices

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From: Theon_Greyjoy | #084
I really don't like the british voices. I feel like high fantasy stuff fits british voices and sci-fi fits american voices. this is more of a sci-fi game

I said this and people made fun of me.

*points and laughs at you and only you; transience's opinion is sound however*

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CalvinbalI posted...
so us 'muricans have to mod our wiis to play this? and what's this business i hear about losing virtual console games?

that's just SHINE, and SHINE caved and megamodded his Wii

in order to play an import disc, all you need to do is enable homebrew (install HBC), then get the GeckoOS homebrew app

when I do something I do it all the way, baby.

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damnit. my wii is at suree's house.


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The one problem with the English voices, however, is that it isn't lip-synced. So if that bothers you, stick with the Japanese.

*switches to Japanese instantly*

I thought we were passed this.

Personally, I don't mind it. I generally prefer listening to a language I can understand than reading subtitles, so it takes really bad audio to get me to switch. It's kind of annoying, but on the list of things that can annoy me about video games (or dubs, for that matter) it's pretty down there.

Also Theon, it's an idea that deserves making fun of. I'm sure you didn't find Star Wars unwatchable because the cast is 80% British, or the LotR films badly acted because they used an international cast.

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We argued about this in another thread, but in Star Wars the British speaking people were high ranking Imperials or Jedi. Nobility, sort of. Not lightly clothed dudes with huge swords and spiky hair.

And what? LotR uses British accents for all humans, elves, and hobbits IIRC.

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Btw I accidentally saw like three seconds of a clip that probably takes place near the end, and it looked f***ing awesome

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does the game have random battles? plz say no

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From: SnoicFactor | #094
does the game have random battles? plz say no

No

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From what I have seen, it appears that the actors in this game change accent depending on their race in the game, acheiving the same effect using different British accents. And as I said last time, how does barely clothed dudes fit Americans more than British people? It seems like a fairly neutral point to me, so either would be acceptable.

Also, a lot of LotR's cast were American and Australian, and they tended to all speak in RP, a British but deliberately neutral accent. There are some variations, such as the orcs speaking like dockworkers, but that's getting off the point-the actors weren't all British and most used a neutral-sounding accent.

But that's enough about accents, I think. We can at least agree that it isn't going anywhere. I just don't think that sci-fi settings favour either British or American accents. It's a bit different for fantasy since most fantasy settings are Britain analogues, but for those that aren't...

I also agree about the clips being awesome. I highly recommend everybody check out the 6 videos available on the official website.

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aww yeah got it working

I think I'll just listen to the theme for a few minutes, go to bed and then have an epic session tomorrow

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wii get.

what app do I need to play PAL games? is there a setting to change in USB Loader?


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nah. just load it up. Xenoblade can output at 60hz or whatever it is.

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