Gallery: Nintendo Website Shares Brand New Screenshots Of Xenoblade Chronicles: Future Connected

The RPG of the decade returns! And I will double dip into it. We are also awaiting for X

I can't wait for this AMAZING game... Finally with great graphics

Looks absolutely gorgeous... Seems like there's gonna be a whole bunch more content added than just the areas that didn't make the cut in the original XC! I hope we get to see some of the other main game party members in Future Connected.

the graphics look stunning!

I'm really liking the more normie-looking Shulk outfit. Xenoblade's (series) anime aesthetic can be overbearing at times, though it wasn't nearly as bad in XC as it was in XC2.

Game is looking beautiful! Might even be the best looking Switch game if it's optimized well enough!

Side note: So glad Last of Us 2 got delayed because I couldn't stand the idea of both fanbases picking on each other. Not to mention the recent news involving the VP of Naughty Dog that I won't get into. I'm just glad that Xenoblade can stand tall on its own without any of those crossover memes holding it back.

@flagloverNZ I can see from your username that you love flags. That's great, I think they're interesting too, but can you please stop posting them at the end of each of your posts? It really isn't necessary.

New to the franchise, but pre ordered this one!
Hoping for a great adventure!

I thought I the one thing fans want to know is whether or not Nintendo managed to get Jenna Coleman to voice Melia again. She’s a big actress now so time and money are a premium. Maybe being on lockdown helped?

@RadioHedgeFund ist the English voiceover any good? I played it with Japanese dub years ago and it was awesome!

It's so cool we're getting this additional content. XC:DE will no doubt be great!

@mazzel you should really try it in English this time. One of the best performances I’ve heard in an RPG. Puts the XC2 voice acting to shame.

@fafonio Thanks, I will! My experience with the English dubs of JRPGs is not the best... For FFX they even changed the content of the dialogue, so the subtitles and dub didn't match...

@mazzel It's an awesome dub if you don't mind the British accents.
The actor who plays the Shulk in English can actually do a real scream of rage during one of the scenes.

I'll all over this if it's not a technical wreck like the sequel

@fafonio XC2 didn't exactly set a high bar for voice acting, y'know...

@KayFiOS yep... it was atrocious tbh ... at least the Rex voiceover

@fafonio I don't even have a problem with the cast, heck I initially didn't care for Nia due to her sounding much older than she looks, but she ended up being one of the most entertaining characters for me. It's the lack of direction that bugs me. Like, I remember reading somewhere that Pyra/Mythra's VA explained that they were just given lines to voice, rather than seeing what was happening in-game and trying to put fitting emotion into that.
EDIT: But yeah, the main characters for future JRPG's should look at Rex as an example of what not to sound like. Also Tidus from Final Fantasy X.

Wow! So beautifull. This will keep me busy!

@fafonio I ended up switching XC2 to the Japanese voice track. I think those British accents are more jarring if you're actually from the UK. Felt the performances made it sound like a old, low-budget BBC kids' show. I actually think the standard of kids' TV is pretty high these days in the UK, but British child actors back in the Eighties and Nineties? Atrociously stagey.

Might give the English voiceover a go for XC1, though.

@mazzel It’s probably the best English dub of a JRPG that isn’t Ni No Kuni. Because it came out in the EU before the USA they used British stage actors and back in 2011 this was a rarity.

I’ve found it to be quite endearing. Shulk is really good as is Melia and Dunban. At no point did any of the battle banter become annoying either.

I think I'll be diving into Future Connected first before starting a DE playthrough and preparing to hunt for Black Liver Beans all over again.

@Krull that is true ... I remember switching to the Japanese dub .... and even that was pretty bad... a rare thing for Japanese voiceovers which are usually good and a safety net when the English voiceovers suck.

Overall the voice acting in the second one was pretty dull. Hell, considering the pedigree of the English voiceovers of XC1 and XCX ... it was a disappointment.

Anyway, everybody should really try the English voices for this one. They’re pretty good.

I'm so looking forward to reliving this amazing experience

As some one who first played this game on the New 3DS because of how scarce retail copies of the original Wii version was, I'm very much looking forward to this.

@jcvandan are you referring to XCX Or XC2? If for the latter, what exactly did you not like about it technically? Overall I like XC also better then XC2, but they are both epic games

This reminds me that I still have Xenoblade 2 and need to give it another chance. Really didn't like what I played so far, the world didn't capture me like the first game and X did.

Time to see what all the Xenoblade fuss is about! /o/ I'm very excited at this point, if the full game plays as good as the screenshots look.

@mazzel XC2. I just didn't like the fact it ran at about 480p (Wii resolution) in the big areas, and also the weird anti-aliasing artifacts around the characters. It was just too ambitious for the Switch. I think if they had made some compromises in other areas such as textures it would have been much better. I still put 60 odd hours into the game though, and I enjoyed it on the whole (apart from the ridiculous anime storyline).

When I watched the trailer, I thought this game was ugly in HD. (And I have the original Wii one.)
But that may have been the too much video compression.

These stills look better.
By all means, it'll probably look like a PS2 game in HD.

Which in itself is still better than how Pokemon Sword/Shield looks.

We really need some English trailers now and with parts of Future Connected too. Then we can find out if Jenna Coleman is still doing the new scenes for Melia.

Yes, I am very excited. Really feeling it, you might say.

@jcvandan Actually, I didn't really pay attention to this. Just yesterday I plugged in my Wii and strated XC1 to see the intro. To be honest, comparing XC2 to the graphics we got on Wii is not really fair. If you see it really side by side, it's world's between them. Sure, we are not talking Xbox1, PS4 or PC graphics here, but overall XC2 is quite beautiful!
The story on the other hand is really a little bit, let's say, creepy. XC had a more mature story and not so many akward situations. I mean Rex basically looks like 13 years old and having daydreams about really having a relationship and household with 2 women...

@mazzel no it obviously looks better than a Wii game but there was a digital foundry video about X2 and they did say that in handheld it was dropping to standard def, and it was horribly noticeable in handheld. Not so bad on the TV.

And yeah I thought the story was a bit creepy, plus I found as the game wore on it became convoluted and I had no idea what was going on. Plus there were portions of the game where every few mins gameplay was being intterupted with cut-scenes which really wound me up. I'll prob pick up this one though when the price drops a little.

@jtmnm I agree, one of the reasons why I didn't like XC2 as much. The overly anime aesthetics were....not so good.
HYPE

@jcvandan you will have the cut scenes in XC 1 also, but the story is never creepy. In the original release was a creepy "thing" as you have different armors for your characters. One type armor is actually quite "sexy", but one of the female characters is obviously underage, if not pre-teen. Still you could equipt it to her. But this was changed in the western release and was totally optional anyway.

@Xeno_Emblem by that I just mean that is uses all the worst sort of tropes that you find in anime. Personally I find anime is similar to western fantasy & western comics in that a large portion of it is trash but there's a percentage of stuff at the top which is excellent. I didn't mean to imply that all anime is ridiculous, but surely any fan can admit that a lot of it is absolutely ridiculous, just as a fantasy fiction fan I admit that the majority of that is. P.s. cheers for noticing the beard!