The shame of it is the game could be so much more appealing if they changed two aspects - get rid of levelling-up by picking on wild animals minding their own business, and make the combat full action based like Monster Hunter.
"the game would be more appealing if you fundamentally changed what people liked about these games"
bold strategy, Cotton
I implore you to look past whatever it is that is causing you to dislike a character design so much that you would miss out on one of the best JRPG's of this generation as a result.
I notice a lot of gamers will immediately write off any game that looks Japanese. But I overcame those prejudices and now I love Japanese games and I love Japanese style. And the reason I love it is because I played so many fantastic games in that style but now my mind equates that style to quality. Not only that but I just think it looks cool. Different. And it's not like Xenoblade 2 is all out anime. It's more of a hybrid style.
Karak (ACG reviews) makes a good point about fun games and looking past certain things that you might not like about a game, yet still enjoying it. He's also speaking to people who enjoy games that aren't perfect 10's, but the fun factor is there.
@JaxonH I really don't understand it myself. I enjoy Japanese art styles and all, but it's this style that gets me. IDK, I really liked Xenoblade's aesthetics, so such a departure may have shaken me. It's not that I think it's a bad game or anything, I just would rather play something else.
It's like a mental glitch or something.
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If a game is this good, nothing will stand between me and it. It's like if they announced a new Metroid game using that crap art style Next Level Games came up with- I thought it was horrible, but I'd still get the game. Because it's Metroid, and Metroid's awesome.
Mario, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, Zelda, Monster Hunter... they can do whatever art style, setting, theme, whatever... but at the end of the day I'll always buy every one of them because they're just that good. The rest is fine print
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Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
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I'm not a fan of the art style either, but I wouldn't be buying the game even if I did like it. JRPGs just aren't for me, outside of a select few games that are technically JRPGs but don't seem like them at all.
I can't say I've ever avoided a game purely based on things like art style or setting. For example, I'm really not a big fan of Oblivion's art style or pretty generic setting compared to games like Skyrim or Morrowind, both of which have art styles and settings that I quite enjoy (outside of how dated looking the games are, especially Morrowind and unmodded/non-Special Edition Skyrim), but that wasn't a factor in my decision to buy the game.
To each their own, though. We all have our reasons for not buying games.
Fallout will come. Hines says they've got more in the oven.
Fallout is for sure a lock. The question is do they have anything beyond that... and will enough Nintendo fans go out there and support these games, or will they let them fall by the wayside and send a message that this is not what we want to play.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@Late well if you can do that, why can't you transfer saves that way?
The limitations on save file moment is a security thing not a technical one. Nintendo could very easily let you do whatever you want with saves. But they don't because save file exploits are a thing.
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@Knighty_IX Those are some incredible figures. The only question now is whether Switch will have overtaken the total lifetime sales of Wii U by the end of the year or whether it happens in the first few months of 2018.
Longer term it looks like Switch will eventually exceed the total sales of the 3DS and (especially since Nintendo has no other obvious place to go with hardware) we'll probably see the platform endure for a very long time.
Look it was never going to fail as hard as the Wii U, nothing could. That was a disaster from concept to finish. But I'm fairly sure it won't surpass 3DS sales. The sales are impressive, can it maintain that though? I don't think so. It's fairly crap that you've to wait a year to get basic things like a browser and Virtual Console. That's potentially 20-25% of its life missing common features.
Look it was never going to fail as hard as the Wii U, nothing could. That was a disaster from concept to finish. But I'm fairly sure it won't surpass 3DS sales. The sales are impressive, can it maintain that though? I don't think so. It's fairly crap that you've to wait a year to get basic things like a browser and Virtual Console. That's potentially 20-25% of its life missing common features.
1-2 Switch selling as much as it has sort of caught me off guard. Completely forgot it even existed tbh, considering most people don't even seem to mention it.
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