Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles 2

@EvilLucario Thank you for the detailed response, really appreciate it. As for the price, you are getting confused, I was on about XC1 for 3DS, not the Wii version, which cost a lot more than XCX for Wii U.

It's not a terrible game. It's a terrible representative of the genre.

@Snaplocket what about them
@Dezzy this guys a liar, the game is terrible.

C'mon guys. I don't wanna feel like I'm in a Sonic thread.

So now that the direct is done, they have decided to really put this game on display with that Treehouse guy going around to all these different gaming outlets and playing the beginning of the game as well as the new commercials and what we already saw in the direct.

They are showing too much. After watching the video I posted in this thread yesterday, that is enough for me.. I clicked on various other videos from other sources that just came out the past couple days.. theres a 30m one, and a 17m one that I know of and have not watched. The beginning of each one starts to tell or show me too much info and I close it out... I feel like if you watched all of these videos you would basically know the first two hours of the game.

So im done watching anything until the game comes out... I will just watch the videos ive already seen over and over and over until dec 1st.

I think this was the first Direct I've mostly avoided. I've got enough of an idea that...I'm not sure it was too spoiler-y, but I do want to be safe. Even though I know it'll still be a while before I actually have a Switch. And even though I am still playing Xenoblade X.

@kkslider5552000 I'm smack dab in the middle of XCX's story, and I toyed with the idea of skipping this for the moment, but I've been really impressed with a lot of the recent footage I've seen of the game. I think I'll just put XCX on hold and focus on this. Hopefully I can get back into it after a few months go by. Maybe I'll log in once in a while and go do a few missions to make sure I don't forget how to do stuff in that game.

@Ralizah To be fair, you can also spin "survival against hostile alien forces" to sound overdone and boring too. That's pretty much what Halo started off as first, after all, if you replace the Ganglion with the Covenant. There are finer details to separate both series, granted, but in the end it comes down to if you like the Sci-Fi aspect over fantasy. Though, in the end, both XC1 and XCX have Sci-Fi and fantasy. It's just that XC1 focuses more on fantasy (but still has Sci-Fi stuff like the Mechon) and XCX focuses more on Sci-Fi (but still has stuff like swords and traditional melee weapons and weird species [though the species part could also apply to Sci-Fi]).

I can't decide if this is a great or terrible comparison tbh. But it is ironic considering who composed Xenoblade X.

Here's a good compilation of information for people who are still on the fence about XC2:

^ I love these first 2 questions and their answers.

“Do I need to play the first game before playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2?”
“Not at all!”

“What's this game really all about?”
“Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the sequel to the 2012 hit on the Wii.”

@MegaTen
Just curious about FF VII Remake.
Is it true if the game will be released on Dec 2017 ?

About FF VIII, it was my Favorite Final Fantasy with Very High Fashion outfits. Simple yet Sophisticated. If i say the Outfits for FF X and FF XII, FF X = Harajuku style, FF XII = A little bit Drecktitude (quote from Andre Leon Talley)

@Anti-Matter No, not even close. FF VII Remake doesn't even have a release window yet. Given the massive undertaking, I'd guess we won't see it until 2019 at the earliest.

@Rextephan
Oh, i see.
Because i saw FF VII Remake somehow "Released" on Dec 2017 based on playasia.com last time. Now, it updated to TBA with Unofficial cover.
https://www.play-asia.com/final-fantasy-vii-remake/13/708x47

And i understand it was a Place holder.

Depends what you consider a spoiler. They've spoiled almost nothing in terms of the story except the starting event in the game.
Beyond that, they've just named the main characters and shown off the various worlds.

@Dezzy I'd say the reveal of Pyra and Mythra being the same can count as one, depending on who you ask.

@EvilLucario

I don't think they would've shown that if it was a massive story spoiler.

@Dezzy well it kind of is if you havent started the story yet... I would have rather not known.

@Inertiacreep

Well you'll need to see the story to know whether you would've have rather not known or not.

@Dezzy no, i would have rather not known.. when I was watching the direct I was like, "Ohhh!!!! wait wtf?!! this whole time??"
I would have much rather been all hyped up middle of the night waiting for the release and started the game, get to that point and just be blown away like, "OHHHHHH!!!!! WHAT?!! THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVAAAARRRRR!!!!!"