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Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition Environment Comparison
- Thread starter TheGreatLugia
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Mechonis has some great locales too including the Fallen Arm, Agniratha, Central Factory, etc. XC has the most varied places in the series IMO.
i liked the stories and characters of this, but the combat was tedious so i dropped it. copy and past for xb2 except i hated every single character in the 10 hours i played. the world is always so gorgeous though, i wish i could get into them.
Pretty much the same? Erm.....no they are not. Almost every single comparison screenshot in the OP shows added polygons to the environments. The second and third picture alone shows huge improvement to the building. The building in the Wii version has very blocky parts. The Switch version has all that smoothed out by adding a lot of polygons. The Wii version often has vegetation as just a texture. The Switch version has actual polygonal vegetation.
How can you look at this comparison screenshot and say they look exactly the same?
Polygonal upgrade, vegetation upgrade, cloud upgrade, drawing distance upgrade.
I guess I'm clueless when it comes to graphics because other than the vegetation change and resolution bump I honestly can't see any significant difference in that screenshot.
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You don't notice how in the original the large circular arch structure is like a hexagon but in the Definitive Edition it's smoothed out? A regular remaster would have just upscaled it to HD.
Nice. There aren't many 70+ hour games that I'd replay, but this is certainly one of them. I cannot wait to explore these lands again while listening to the fantastic field themes.
TP HD was just a remaster and it still had a ton of visual improvements over the original
We'll see. Don't write anything off yet, I'd hope for a remaster of a Wii game (even though it seemingly is getting redone in many ways) it would look a little sharper than a rushed out Switch game haha
That's what they claimed, I noticed no difference while playing Torna; I suppose performance was better? Res seemed the same to me.
Great idea!
HH mode was actually far better in Torna the the base game. If you play a bit of 2, then switch over to Torna you can tell.
Still heavily anti aliesed, but its sharper, bit higher res and more fps
This game has the most beautiful world in a video game ever. Can't wait to see how Valak Mountain will be in HD... oh my.
What they built on a Wii was unquestionably brain melting even back then! That art direction, draw distance, those vistas, the sheer scale, all the detail, really quick load times, no bugs to speak of, buttery smooth performance (outside of effects-heavy battles), it remembered every single item drop you left lying around in the entire world!
They ate EVERYBODY's lunch with this game. A year before Skyrim came out. Xenoblade wiped the floor with other video games. It's just that barely anybody plus their grandma paid attention to this "niche 100h JRPG on the Wii." Now it's coming for a victory lap. Fuck yea.
The more I think about it the more I realize this is the best Xenoblade and one of the best games ever. The world is on these 2 Titans is amazing. I love how the world opens up. I just love the feeling of the party and adventure you go on. The music is amazing. The environments are great. The game feels "homey". It has the Final Fantasy 9 feel that I love so much.
I just can't wait to see all the changes and additions.
I just can't wait to see all the changes and additions.
Eh, RDR was already out the year before and from tech perspective XB cant really hold a candle.
Also the only thing really going for it on the Wii is the size of maps; textures, models and pretty much everything was kind of low for what the Wii could do. Which is why we're in this Remake situation.
Me when people say they can't notice inconsistent frame pacing and frame drops.
Oh yeah, Yuzu or Switch 2 are my best hopes... can't spend all those money to play at choppy 720p.
RDR came out a few weeks before Xenoblade. You're saying a PS360 AAAA game has better graphics tech than a Wii game. This is not what I'm talking about ...obviously?!
I've never played a Xenoblade game before but I'm kind of intrigued by this. Somehow this feels more emotional than what I saw of Xenoblade 2 which didn't grab my attention for some reason.
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You literally just said "They ate EVERYBODY's lunch with this game. A year before Skyrim came out. Xenoblade wiped the floor with other video games."
Xenoblade was absolutely and unquestionably super impressive by Wii's standards. It's just that people have forgotten what those standards were. :D
Wow, now I'm wondering how 11 y/o me would have reacted to Xenoblade. I guess I would never have recovered from the sheer epicness of it all.
Not playing one of the best games of all times due to surround sound? Okay
The shoulder has some houses and what seems like a village though. They can implement more npcs while still keeping everything there self-contained.
I did say that. And it did. Obviously doesn't mean games on the HD systems had inferior tech or anything lol. That would make no sense.
A Google search for Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition yields 347,000 results. Searching for Xenoblade + surround sound gets you 418,000.
It may not be an opinion that you share but, like it or not, high quality sound is as important to some people as high quality graphics are to others. For me, it's especially true when a game takes place within a proper 3D environment.
I'll underestand if time constraints, technical or financial reasons prevent them from implementing surround sound (doesn't mean I'll buy it, but I'll understand), but I can't think of any good reason why Monolith Soft should want to remaster the game to 2020 quality graphics whilst leaving the sound in the 20th century.
Is this the one with huge texture pack on Dolphin? I tried this out. Looked pretty bare to me despite massively improved textures. I hope can they enliven this game for a new gen.
It's not definitive, far from it, but given those numbers and the the fact that the top hits are literally "Does this game not have surround sound", "PSA for everyone hoping to play in surround sound", "Surround Sound? : Xenoblade_Chronicles" [plus a list of disgruntled threads on the theme], "List of Wii U games that support 5.1 surround (with a post complaining about Xenoblade flagged up)", "Can we talk about the lack of surround sound in some switch games" [from... Resetera] and so on, it would take a special kind of stupid for someone to deny that this is something that can be detrimental to many people's enjoyment of a game.