This one stood put to me as well.
I love how detailed all the people and the setting is.
Can't wait to explore these (HD) towns!
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 official website now fully open. Lots of New media of Titans and characters
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I love how detailed all the people and the setting is.
Can't wait to explore these (HD) towns!
Absolutely loved this soundtrack. Don't understand the hate.
Anyone else getting some faint Skies of Arcadia vibes from this game? That's a very good thing in my book.
Can't wait for this game to drop. Could not get into BoTW, not my kinda open world game, while this one seems right up my alley. This might be the first open world switch game I complete.
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I've been getting Skies of Arcadia vibes from it since it was announced.
The world in the sky, the airships, the similar plot themes. It all is very reminiscent of that game. And if it can be as good as that game was then this will be a real treat indeed.
Never played one of these before so super pumped especially since I have a mCable for my switch (1080p and good AA baby)
Time to change my desktop wallpaper.
For higher res, the direct link to zip files (max 2560x1440) : http://xenobladechronicles2.nintendo.com/media/
Glad it's not just me. I hope Monolith delivers because I've waited so long for another game to recapture Sky's cloud-bound swashbuckling adventure vibe :,)
ehh, I'm not sure about that. they're good at managing all the data the game uses. in terms of visual effects, they are far from Nintendo's best. but all their top games utilize the Switch differently
It's the same kind of game as Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (hence the 2 in the title), so you should be fine.
I cannot believe this is coming so soon. Feels like I picked up my launch-day copy of Xenoblade X sometime last week.
Here's the art for the other characters
I will protect this potato and his small robot daughter.
I feel like this is the first time they actually committed to a style... the last two games felt stuck inbetween styles ... it may be full on anime but at least it's not bad art.
There were a few good tracks in the first xenoblade... but I absolutely loved X soundtrack. I'm a little worried for XC2 in that regard... I guess we'll have to wait and listen to them https://goo.gl/jhgZTc to find out
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Dude, I know, taste and all, but if a soundtrack was forgettable it was X's. OG Xenoblade had an epic soundtrack that reminds me of older JRPGs.
The only memorable thing about X's OST is how shitty and out-of-place some tracks were. The best thing about it were the regions themes, everything else was filled with lyrical garbage.
the EPD Teams, particularly the Mario Kart team and the 3D Mario team. granted this is cheating since the Mario Kart team relies heavily on baked lighting and both have significantly smaller areas. though Mario Odyssey is an amazing achievement for a 60fps game, I think. the materials work is stupendous and with dynamic lighting to boot.
for a game that's more akin to Xenoblade, Breath of the Wild definitely looks better, but again, there are some differences going on. primarily, Xenoblade 2 looks like it has loads more draw calls with the massive amounts of objects on screen. Zelda though loves it's alpha effects (water, fog, distance fog, etc). atmospheric lighting is much better in Zelda as well. the atmospheric scattering effect is one of the best I've seen on any system.
Xenoblade 2 is going back to the sectioned off level design of the first game, so they have a lot more leeway in regards to stuffing the levels with objects. though this comes at the expense of things I place more value on (materials and lighting, though those are huge improvements over the previous 2 games).
while I dont think they are Nintendo's best, I'm not saying they're bad. as I said, they seem to juggle the most amounts of data on screen at once (with all the assets, with foliage, enemies, and battle effects) out of all the Nintendo teams
after 80 hours, I can recall, at best, Guar Planes. everything else sounded like generic high fantasy stuff. Xenoblade X was eclectic in it's styling at times but at least it made for the music to be memorable. now a game like Octopath, there's a memorable fantasy soundtrack. and that was just a demo
will Tetsuya Takahashi ever get super ambitious with his stories again like xenogears, xenosaga level stuff?
around the time of Xenoblade 1, he mentioned that with the previous 2 series, they were designed story first, gameplay second. with Xenoblade, he started gameplay first then story. maybe he will get ambitious again, but I highly doubt we'll ever see a multipart game from him ever again. if the finances didnt support it back then, they certainly dont support it now
Even back in the day, trying for a 6-part story was pretty crazy.
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Oh, all the threads and posts about this. It was something to behold.
I really hope that screen and vid capture is enabled for this game at launch.
The game has a lot of beautiful tracks. All of the overworld themes are fantastic and rival the best of the original Xenoblade. It's just the vocal themes that I dislike and you hear them so often. I'm an outlier in that I enjoy New LA's theme unironically but I can't stand the vocal tracks, especially the skell music that effectively replaces the superior overworld music.
Here's the art for the other characters
Wish these nomura pieces were larger.
The character designs actually look good! Eyepatch dude looks yummy. I really just don't like Rex and Pyra. This game has sort of slipped my interest, and the main narrative and characters do little for me based off what I've seen but I'll keep it on my radar. Unsurprisingly, the world looks absolutely stunning.
I loved X's music, I listen to the Primordial and Oblivia themes regularity and the lyrical stuff was fun too
I loved X's music, I listen to the Primordial and Oblivia themes regularity and the lyrical stuff was fun too
*Bursts thru the door* did someone say xcx music was good?!?!
Actually, it has great tracks. But the town music, which you have to listen to all the time in the game, was terrible. That one track soured my whole experience with the game.
