Nintendo’s President and CEO Satoru Iwata unveiled brand new Wii U games in Nintendo latest Nintendo Direct. However, X or Xenoblade 2 looks to be the Wii U’s first original game that takes full advantage of the hardware and gameplay functions of the system, leaving current generation JRPGs in the dust. Playeressence's Furious Francis salivates over the trailer and discusses the game in detail.
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Xenosaga was good, but not AAA like Xenoblade, Monolithsoft leveled up with that game.
well my opinion I disagree. I think Xenosaga had a more indepth story than what xenoblade had. Still one of my favorite stories for video games and one of the top series.
Man did I hate people say the game sucked because all it was is cut scenes and no gameplay. Yes there was 8hrs of cutscenes but to get everything it took an extra 80+hrs.
People often align the game with the system when it is the game that should be the main focus. So what ends up happening is you have people who have different levels of expectations to win them over.
I buy it day 1!
Also on topic: I'm about 20 hours into Xneoblade and it's dope. If there was a game to get me into the Wii U it would be this one.
U forget a game like xeno back in the day no dought they would make it for ps1 to ps2. U just never seen any game like that made on the nintendo 64, gamecube, or xbox.
I don't know if you can count the ps1 though since that was made by squaresoft at the time.
Only reason xenoblade was made on nintendo because nintendo bought them out. I don't think they would of made it for the wii if they had the chance to make it on the ps3. They are nintendos first party comapny now.
So they never played it safe really. Xenoblade would of sold better on the PS3 anyways. Even though wii sold great only games that sold very well was mario and casual games.
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Yeah, it comes from the worst game of the series, but you can't deny the rivalry was epic.
@MikeMeyers: Was that comment necessary? It's like you were looking to invite the fanboys in to start console war battles. Seriously?
But the original Xenogears is still the best overall.
If Wii U owners want 3rd party developers to bring their games to their console then they better start buying them. It would be a shame if monolith does a fantastic job with this game and then sells very little.
They bought this trash because it's CoD those mature hardcore players are nothing but brainwashed fools, even bad port like Skyrim on PS3 sells far better than almost anything 1st party on PS3.
Sony create some great games but their customers are fools.
You didn't know? Being a first party studio under Nintendo makes your company 10,000 times better.
MonolithSoft was a great company prior to leaving Namco Bandai. Xenosaga 1 and 3, DBZ Attack of the Saiyans, and the two Super Robot Wars games(I've heard these two were good, not sure) were good games.
On the other hand, Namco x Capcom and Xenosaga 2 were pretty bad. The gameplay on Xenosaga 1 really sucked as well, but everything else was great.
That aside, was it decided that this was Xenoblade 2?
Those graphics should hold up for a while, I think the main problem the Wii had was the games resolution as well as the wii remote.
Wii U exclusive games should look pretty decent, but I guess compared to the other consoles it wouldn't be able to compete.
I do agree with the above poster, that if Wii U games start to look like this and only get better from here on out, then there are going to be a lot of happy Wii U owners out there, and possibly some PS4/720 owners who want a secondary console for some exclusive Wii U games.
Regardless, this game looks very impressive, and if it has the scope and size of Xenoblade plus the added horsepower and graphical capabilities coupled with the extra storage space on the Wii U discs, then this game could certainly be an incredible experience. I can't wait to see more, hopefully at E3!
But I think you can clearly see, when you optimize a game for a system, you won't have those problems.
This game looks stunning, and I cannot wait for it to release.
What about disk space?
The Wii U discs can hold up to 25GB, which is the same as a single layer Blu-ray disc. I don't know if the Wii U can read dual layer discs, but either way it shouldn't pose a problem with 25GB to work with.
What were you saying Ez2013 ? And the game is pre alpha which means you can expect the kinds of leaps and bounds that Pikmin 3 has made since it was first unveiled.
By the time it's finished X will look better than anything on Ps3 and 360. That's not really a bragging right as the wiiu is an 8th gen system , but it's true.
Yes it looks awesome but let's not say things that aren't true.
You are not a professional and in the end professionals will explain to you how games liek the TLOU, GOW, Beyond etc... are better than the competition and nothing the wiiu spews out looks better.
You pray and hope but your prayers wont be answered lol Your hype off of what? I see neogaf has more informed and smarter pool of ppl in it because your going crazy over video of an empty boring looking world? lol come on man those videos proved or showed anything. I can put GOW3 pics next to those and show you how its really done with tons of enemies trying to massacre me.
Ppl trying too hard to prove that wiiu is next gen and its coming up short. You know its grasping for straws when rehashed games and hd remakes are "Nintendos awesome announcments that Sony and Micro should worry about" lol
Gow. TLOU, Beyond, Ni No Kuni all better and look better than anything that was shown sorry man try again in a few years.
Bring a game with this characteristics and better graphics for ps3 or xbox and we can talk about it.
Btw the games you cited, no one look better than this.
Try again.
PS: I am waiting for the GOW3 pic with better graphics
At Exx2013:
I saw all the GIF (they look even worst on video), and they belong to action games with loading every 10 minutes and definitely, GOW3 does not look better than this. I own a ps3 bro.
Finally, LOL, if you think ni no kuni looks better than X (totally different art styles) then I tell you, Wind Waker HD definitely smash ni no kuni.
NEXT
""Btw the games you cited, no one look better than this.""
i don't know what kind of world you live in
if you think those games he said don't look better
here
all in-game gameplay gif ...non of them are cutscene
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now again say with a straight face they don't look better ...
you nintendo guys hyperball this game way tooooooooo much just like you did with ZombieU
as for open world JRPG game who look better than X games ...Ni No Kuni
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Let me tell you something it looks like its going the open world route indeed lifeless, bland, minimal enemies and will be repetitous as hell. I seen a video of dust 514 that makes it look like its running on a super computer and although the visuals are decent on the ps3 and game seems good it doesnt look that suped up.
Games like Uc2, Kz, GOw3 look better and have more life so i dont even have to mention the new ones. Im already playing a gorgeous jrpg with lush graphics on my ps3 and its called Ni No kuni which based on reviews is tried and proven. Keep letting Nintendo pull the wool over your eyes. I wont!!!!
lol OMG!!XD Ok ok
you know what !!..it's no point to argue with you any more or any WiiU fanboy for that matter
you guys like to live in another world as it seem
what ever help you ;)
matter to me. I own xbox360, ps3, and wii U so bring on the games. What i think we all can agree on is that this game actually shows the potential of the wii U. With that said, all those gif and screenshots just make me glad that I own a ps3 (ps4 day one). This does look like some you're not going to want to pass up if you're a wii U owner. 2013 looks to be the return of JRPGS.
Of course they can make a game like God of War that is closed off with invisible walls and camera angles that you cannot control look better in a small closed off space than an open-ended, sprawling, massive world like Xenoblade 2.
Xenoblade 2 is open world, and it is truly impressive how detailed the character models are, how detailed the landscapes, and how gigantic the monsters are and everything runs at a brisk framerate. Xenoblade 2 looks better than anything ever done on current gen consoles. Deal with it.
Now is it the best? It all comes down to preference. I think ff13 looks a little better and from the videos from FFvs13 doesn't even compare. FFvs13 I can actually say it looks like it will be on par with uncharted. But thats square-enix for you. Graphics power house. I know alot of people hated ff13 but no dening that the graphics were amazing.
Some don't understand that they see something that looks better they think its better graphically. That is not true. Graphics deal with Global Illumination, Lighting, Normal Mapping anything with the game engine.
But why does someone think another game is better than the other though? Its just one is more artistically better. U don't need to have the best graphics to make a game look amazing. A great artist can make a game look alot better with a mediocre game engine than someone with very limited artistic skills on a top of the line game engine.
I remember when Mario Galaxy came out there was some that thought it was the best graphically game ever. No not even close. They just liked the artistic style of it.
If the world is as big as Xenoblade and detailed as it was then the environments will be amazing.
This game is going to force me to get a Wii U, hopefully I'll be able to wait until the first price drop. I have always been a huge fan of Monolith, but I would like to see them take another shot at a space opera like Xenosaga.
Xenoblade 2's enviornments are more detailed and lush. The grass and textures look a lot better in Xenoblade. Draw distance and scope are better as well. Plus the monster detail is better.
Run both games open worlds side by side. Xenoblade 2 is hands down better. And the scary thing is, the game is not even complete. It could look better when it finished.
Plus you know their specialty is good looking games.
Open world games have much more to cram in, it's why GTA series has always looked far worse even on PC then what non-open world games look like at that given time.
The mods on Skyrim do a good job to bring out alot of detail, but at a higher resource cost, and still isn't the same as a closed off one. But very admirable.
Plus you are looking at early development of a specific game on a new console versus late development of a specific game on a mature console.
Why not compare this to say GTA IV on 360/PS3? Or something like that. I think that would be more appropriate.
Yes the game looks stunning, no, it's not beyond anything we've already seen.
I'm not dogging the game, I'm playing it on a 50 inch LED, it has blemishes, believe me.
If you're disagreeing you clearly haven't played it or you are just completely blind. Whatev, ignorance is bliss they say.
are you sure you are talking about Ni NO Kuni here
because i thought you are talking about the " Monolith Soft" game
which indeed have ps2 textuers and lot's of them plus pop in every where
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
Xenoblade 2 looks like its adding Monster Hunter and Dragon's Dogma Elements along with hit detection and limb removal. Ni No Kuni's mostly just offering an overworld, something that hasn't been done this but should have been.
That game looks good, great, but its not really doing anything that hasn't been done in prior console cycles. "This" game, Xenoblade 2, looks like it does.
The only way it could be better would be to have factions of enemies you interact and effect by dialog or other actions. Change the course of the story.
I'm currently re-playing it on a 65 inch TV and it textures do not look anything close to PS2, I wish my PS2 games textures would look half of that!
Well, I don't think it's fair to judge "X" right now. I mean this is the first footage we have seen. When the development cycle gets in the final stages they will optimize it. How much? I don't know! But they will.
This game may be the reason I'll buy a Wii U before the next Zelda is released (no, Wind Waker doesn't count :P).
It all depends on the release date of "X".
If it releases near the other next-gen consoles, I might wait for Zelda until I'll buy a Wii U.
And Ni No Kuni is the best jrpg ever made.
Im sorry man But Xenoblade 2 looks freaking amazing! There is no way Ni No Kuni looks better than Xenoblade 2. NO WAY!
The more we support these games, the more of 'em we'll see and in increasing quality, that's why I pre-ordered Ni No Kuni and will most certainly pre-order Monolith Soft's X as well!
So far we have:
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Bayonetta 2
Xenoblade 2
Any other game is just an added bonus.
If the games was a cross over with a Sony series and was a PS3 exclusive than you will call it GOTY. It wont even matter what Sony series it will be a cross over with you will still call it GOTY.
Add The Wonderful 101!
If you want to play the original, do not buy it on ebay. you will get ripped off. You can still get it on gamestop's website for 50 dollars new and it's well worth 50 bucks for sure. It's worth it for the music alone let alone the entire game lol.
I am not denying that it doesn't look great but it's definitely being over hyped. I have played MMORPG's that are years old now that look this good.
From a graphical standpoint it is being over hyped, feels like ZombiU all over again.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I am guessing like Nintendo, Sony and MS have their work cut out for them they need to show the public how to look at graphics and how things are better on the new consoles... like taking them by the hand and showing them like babies.
This is the very reason why we will get VR gaming next gen... and because its awesome :P WiiU will be able to stream to a wireless headset but also use HDMi with the Rift.
Plz nothing shown on Nintendos end even comes close to the visuals of TLOU, Beyond, GOw
Stop it!!!! ppl want wiiu to be next g en so bad
Imagine how the next exclusives as mario, mario kart, SSB, Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, F-zero, Star Fox etc appears on the show. Mass Suicide heheh.
It is just the first hit. Better sony or Ms to show their next gen asap or ps3 and xbox games will look even worst from now on.
PS: If you are delusional enough to still say that ps3/box RPG looks better than this. Post a video.
LOL
All the xbox fanboys I seen are actually excited the wii is more capable including myself.
I'm a gamer and a tech guy, jumps in tech is exciting to me and many others. Defensive malice driven delusional slander comes from PS fans.
Anyways they know the undeniable truth hence there only being disagrees vs hundreds of hating spinners in here.
Wii U's ram will keep it ahead of current gen consoles alone.
This is the price you pay when a console launches before a PlayStation console, they will attack for the life of the generation. 360 and fans know this feeling.
all they do is cry wii u cant make games better then whats out now and when they do they cry anyway and said well it don't matter.
i love it!keep crying and saying wii u cant do graphics better then ps3/ xbox what ever helps right?
I will give them credit for helping From make Demons Souls though. Flipping amazing game. I'm ecstatic to see jrpgs finally getting hype and the props they deserve. I can't wait to see what Mistwalker does on the wii u. Lost Odyssey was one of the best games ever made and the production values were astronamical. TLS rocked but imaging it with these graphics is mind blowing. Square needs to step up and release VS 13, release Type-0, and release 10/12 on vita ASAP. They're being put to shame lately.
Probably one of the worst decisions I've seen a company make.
I really do home that Xenoblade 2 has mech customization along the lines of Xenogears or even go as far as Armored core.
I really do hope that this game is both amazing and well received by the hardcore Nintendo/RPG fans. I REALLY hope that Shulk and Fiora are in Smash 4...ALONG WITH BAYONETTA!! Smash bros needs female characters! With all these partnerships, I'd hope they have at least 4 3rd party characters. Sonic, Megaman, Pacman, and Simon Belmont? Bayonetta, Ryu (I REALLY hope not. Megaman is 1st priority.), Jin Kazama (only because Harada is involved in the project), Naked Snake? I'm certain that those companies (Namco, Konami, Sega, and Capcom) will have some sort of involvement in the game. More so Namco and Sega, than Capcom and Konami. Who knows what Nintendo will do?
Speaking of Xenosaga, that franchise was killed because of how bad Xenosaga 2 was. A lot of drama was happened during that game's development and is probably the main reason why there were only 3 games instead of 5. Xenosaga IS a cult hit though. Kos-mos is featured in a lot of Namco cross over games. SRW:OG saga Endless frontier to ProjectXzone. Kos-mos would be a great addition to the Smash bros. roster as well, Xenosaga 1+2 DS being her main ticket of entry.
Xenogears itself was a huge mix of fantasy and Sci-Fi. The main character and the society he lived in wasn't really advanced, and the Mechs were left by a previous generation. I doubt SE would let them use Xenogears directly, but a true spiritual successor to it would be awesome.
I know the original Xenogears had a book written for six different time periods of it's universe, 2 of which were kind of shown in Xenosaga, and the 5th time period was Xenogears.:)
That being said, it's games like this that sell consoles. Gonna get a Wii U when this drops.
But I will wait until the PS4 details before I do.
I can't get over the fact that this game looks so freaken EPIC, I want it NOW! Patients, patients, it's coming, but damn! I think that this game will be one of the most anticipated JRPG's of 2013 easily!
Off topic:
I just have one question, where in the hell is Divine, Mika, Akuma, and Miku at!?!? When something so epic gets announced on a Nintendo platform, they develop a bad case of Butthurt! I really want to hear what you guys are thinking right now! I'm being serious, log on to your multiple accounts and tell me what you(r), "different personalities" think of this game. Your comments are always good for a chuckle.
He references 1313 and Watch Dogs and forgets that what he was looking at was PC hardware running those games, not 'next gen' consoles. Or the Samaritan demo.
What the demos of those games show are higher quality than that which will be capable of the 720/PS4.
Remember people those tech demos needed 3x GTX 580 to run.
http://www.geforce.com/what...
The rumored possible upgraded GPU inside a PS4/720 seems to be an ATI 7850, which is basically equivalent to a a GTX 560ti.
One GTX 560ti is not 3x GTX 580. So how everyone expects what 1313 and Watch Dogs to look like, is a bit wrong.
That's how it will look like on PC, not 720/PS4.
Thus also, when people use THAT as comparison as what Wii U will do against PS4/720...it's just flat out a wrong comparison.
Wii U will hold it's own. Play the same games, but at lower settings, just like PS4/720 will be able to play the same PC games but at lower settings (except higher than that of Wii U).
Especially since the Wii U has barely been tapped. It will show off a lot more than it has so far, while the PS4/720 are assumed to be about 4x more powerful than they will be. Because that's what 3x580 is compared to a 560ti.
Hell it might not even be that good. It is supposed to be downclocked and stripped of some things, and might be a class lower entirely. We shall see. But while dev kits give a good understanding what the final units will be, often times they are more powerful.