Xenoblade Chronicles

[SilentlyHilly]

Is what I heard about the only way to buy this game is preordering it through Gamestop true? Because if it is I certainly need to jump on doing that.

 

[New Frontiersman]

Is what I heard about the only way to buy this game is preordering it through Gamestop true? Because if it is I certainly need to jump on doing that.

I don't think you're required to prorder it, but I've heard it's only getting a limited print run in the US and since it's supposed to be really popular I've heard that might be really hard to get if you don't preorder it.

 

[targren]

Settle down, Beavis. I modded mine too, which apparently makes me The Great Satan, but it was only so I could play the games I already owned. The DVD drive started dying so I was getting disc read errors in games, but it still works well enough that I can dump them to a USB stick (sometimes taking a couple tries at a lower speed than would work in-game).

You should have gotten the legitimate copy in the first place. There is NO excuse for hacking a game system!

Are you even reading what you're so frothily responding to?

Talk about invoking Poe's Law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law]...

 

[targren]

Yes I am.
(Note that this is not a low content post, as nothing more needs to be said.)

Then try harder, since he said right out that he DID have legitimate copies and that his drive was going bad.

 

[Terramax]

I was actually pretty disappointed by it :/

The environments are amazing, probably some of the best I've seen in a JRPG. And the quests and NPCs feel almost limitless yet usually don't get tedious. There are TONS of sidequests and stuff to do outside the main story and the game does give a good sense of adventure.

But the story and characters were so boringgg. Only the brash lovable idiot best friend character had any sort of charisma, and the main character is just painful to experience. Like, the main character was actually a huge negative for me. Other characters were stereotypes (not even interesting stereotypes) with zero personality, which doesn't hurt it for me, but goddamn I hated the main character. And despite having such an interesting concept, everything always ended up being ridiculously predictable, even (especially) when the game thought it wasn't.

Oh GOD! Thank you. THANK YOU. At least I'm not the only one out there that's tired of the same cliches in every JRPG over the last decade.

I watched my sister play through this and I literally cheered when that annoying female love interest at the start was killed. And I prayed that the same would happen to all the other characters.

This is one game where the bad guys should've won.

If this really is one of the best games for the Wii, I hate to think of what an average Wii title is.

If you like JRPGS, do yourself a favour and just replay another one of your cliched JRPGs for another time over. You'd be saving yourself a bit of money.

People go on about how bad FF13 was, but at least that game had a shred off originality and risk to it.

EDIT:

Except he's wrong. A truly high quality Wii game requires just as much time, money, and effort as a game on an HD system. That's why Resident Evil 4 is considered one of the greatest games of all time.

But that's a re-release of a Gamecube game. Silent Hill 2 is one of the greatest games of all time, but I wouldn't use the re-release to highlight the quality of the PS3.

 

[SycoMantis91]

NO SPOILERS
The game is very mediocre the characters are all stereotypes i.e Angsty main character, main characters bulky mate, standard anime love interest, old veteran etc. Also the jumping is over hyped because when you do jump the wii chugs like a hippo doing sit ups. And there are hardly any places where you can jump back up too only down, so it is a bit pointless. I suppose the combat system is good if u like trying to memorize strategies, and having to go through whole mini menu's to bring up one sodding attack. Also some enemies can only be seriously damaged by the Monado (red sword thing), and when these enemies are very frequent and only one character has the sword. This makes for an awkward combat system (in my opinion).
The story is long and has it's moments but in my opinion too long, it also became to boring to complete. but THE SETTING IS AMAZING two giant robots in the sea, I mean wow.
So yeah don't get too excited because you will end up disappointing yourselves. Sorry if you feel I was harsh I just thought you ought to know

*Is making fun of a games gameplay*

*has a mass effect 2 avatar*

Please leave

Ok, two things. 1. What does liking Mass Effect have to do with having a legitimate opinion of a game's mechanics?

2. "I suppose the combat system is good if u like trying to memorize strategies, and having to go through whole mini menu's to bring up one sodding attack. Also some enemies can only be seriously damaged by the Monado (red sword thing), and when these enemies are very frequent and only one character has the sword. This makes for an awkward combat system (in my opinion)."

Where in that statement does he do anything more than describe the battle mechanics and suggest that they're not something he appreciates?

You're giving a bad name to, well, whoever the hell else thinks fans of Mass Effect are ingrates because you don't enjoy the exact same game.

 

[LilithSlave]

Waiting to pick up my copy on April 6th at Gamestop.

I don't care! You tampered with your system! You betrayed Nintendo's trust! If you need to back up memory, buy an SD card!

You're joking, right?

It seems like such an obvious joke, it's so silly.

But then again, people do say some pretty silly things on the internet and mean it seriously.

 

[LilithSlave]

Yeah... you have to be joking. Being against console modding is absolutely ridiculous.