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Monolith (the Japanese one) goes crazy
- Thread starter Jonnyram
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Bebpo said:
Hey that's awesome! As much as I like Radiata Stories, I keep thinking of what it would be like with a Sakuraba score!
mutsu said:
Someone posted the sales in this thread already, in the US it's at about 110k. In Japan I THINK BK sold about 70-80k, but I don't have anything to back that up with.
It'd be hilarious if the Xenosaga DS games were some kind of text adventure type thing. But seriously, what the fuck?
Baten Kaitos 2 is cool though, I haven't played 1 but I really like the style, maybe they'll fix some of the complaints people had about the first one with it (battle system).
Mashing said:
Yeah. I loved BK for its visuals, music, interesting world, and very unique and fun battle system. Yet it ended up being not so hot because of the plotting and characters.
All they need this time is a good script. Good story + everything they did right with BK1 should equal a top-class rpg. Very nice potential here.
Prince of Space
Banned
Xenosaga III? Hey, maybe they'll have learned their les--
--ah, well.duckroll said:
You put that on your house, don't you?Drinky Crow said:
Maybe they'll make Xenosaga a 2D game for DS (the PS2 games are 3D, aren't they?). Sometimes I prefer 2D jRPG's, because they just end up being more streamlined. Pokemon, for example, is so much better, faster and more fun in 2D. Harvest Moon is another.
And it's been made pretty clear that Xenosaga 2 isn't very liked around here, but I don't know much about Xenosaga 1. I remember people saying it was no Xenogears (which I never got into, personally), but I don't know how it was looked at after the comparisons died down. How does it stand up?
wonderfuldays
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No way!
New information:
Xenosaga Ep3 - The series will be concluded with this game. The character illustrator has been changed.
Xenosaga 1+2 - There will be changes in the scenario and there will be additional characters as stated by Jonnyram. Yes the game is in 2D and the designs are said to be close to XS Ep1's anime style design.
Xenosaga Ep3 - The series will be concluded with this game. The character illustrator has been changed.
Xenosaga 1+2 - There will be changes in the scenario and there will be additional characters as stated by Jonnyram. Yes the game is in 2D and the designs are said to be close to XS Ep1's anime style design.
duckroll said:
Wow, bomba. And just when they decided to bring the series to Europe, too :lol
duckroll said:
Let's hope they're not close to Xenosaga The Animation's style
Actually to be honest I thought the characters looked better in Namco X Capcom. Or maybe that was just because KOS-MOS' breasts were bigger...
Man you guys have short memories. When BK was first announced on the Cube a couple years back Namco said it would be a "Nintendo Specific Franchise RPG" exclusive from Monolith. They are trying to build this sucker into a brand name for the Nintendo systems. They would of had better success if the word "Cards" was never associated with the game but most people I know won't give it a chance because of this.
neo2046
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baten 2 and Xeno 3
http://rapidshare.de/files/5084273/2005-09-14.zip.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/5084273/2005-09-14.zip.html
Ok I'm keeping an open mind (HAHA!) and I have to say the game looks promising. Having said that it is promising because my expectations of the series are now so low it would have to be really really shitty to be actually bad to me.
Here are some translations from the scans:
- 1 year after XS Ep2
- The same cast is back
- Keywords in the theme is "superhuman" and "eternal cycle", the same themes explored in the book the game is named after this time
- More ES units because they know that's the only thing we LOVED from XS Ep2
- Zohar Emulators are back in the plot
- Everything will be concluded this time
- Character battles will have TECHS again because they know we missed them in XS Ep2 and the battles will be speedier than ever
- Mech battles will have more mechs to choose from and more attacks and cooler attacks
- There will be some dialogue based subsystem when talking to people on the field now
- There are robobattles probably similar to the Xenosaga Ep1 one where you can take any mech you already have into an action game battle
- Graphic engine looks to be XS Ep2's
- Character illustrator is new, and looks hot
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Here are some translations from the scans:
- 1 year after XS Ep2
- The same cast is back
- Keywords in the theme is "superhuman" and "eternal cycle", the same themes explored in the book the game is named after this time
- More ES units because they know that's the only thing we LOVED from XS Ep2
- Zohar Emulators are back in the plot
- Everything will be concluded this time
- Character battles will have TECHS again because they know we missed them in XS Ep2 and the battles will be speedier than ever
- Mech battles will have more mechs to choose from and more attacks and cooler attacks
- There will be some dialogue based subsystem when talking to people on the field now
- There are robobattles probably similar to the Xenosaga Ep1 one where you can take any mech you already have into an action game battle
- Graphic engine looks to be XS Ep2's
- Character illustrator is new, and looks hot
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The big new thing in the plot is the Zaratharus system T-ELOS which was featured in XS Ep1's final dungeon as a blueprint.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Mirroring scans....
NGC Baiten Kaitos 2
PS2 Xenosaga III
NDS Pokemon something
NGC Baiten Kaitos 2
PS2 Xenosaga III
NDS Pokemon something
Flakster99
Member
I don't care how much they've sold, this is great news! Fucken A!
typhonsentra
Banned
Wow, they all look pretty nice.
neo2046 said:lucky! it is 2D :lol
- So XS I+II DS is made to prepare people for XS Ep3, I guess that means whatever they change, add and/or delete will be the new official canon.
- Battle system is based on XS Ep1's battle engine with a "PF System" added. It's not explained yet.
- The screenshots on the left are all 2D sprite adaptations of XS Ep1's opening 3D cutscenes, so at least we know how they'll be handling those.
- The screenshots on the right are "COOL MOVIES!" so at least we know they'll be using as much FMV as they can.
- Character designs look closer to XS TV anime than XS Ep1.
Wow, I never bothered with Xenosaga II but after my utter disgust with the first one, and hearing about how bad the second ones, I doubt I'll even touch another game in the series. Baten Kaitos I had a lot of potential, blown by such shitty pacing, lame characters, horrid tinny voice acting, and slow gameplay... but if these could be fixed, we could have a very nice game on our hands - I have much more hope for this than any other Xenosaga games.
i enjoyed xenogears, xenosaga less, but it was okay. the ds version looks really good. nicely drawn style.
baten kaitos 2! very surprising after sales of the first, and nintendo publishing it....
i didn't play much of baten kaitos, it sounds like it was good.
*edit - i wonder if nintendo payed/pays for the development of the baten kaitos series to keep it exclusive?
baten kaitos 2! very surprising after sales of the first, and nintendo publishing it....
i didn't play much of baten kaitos, it sounds like it was good.
*edit - i wonder if nintendo payed/pays for the development of the baten kaitos series to keep it exclusive?
gamergirly
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Ronin said:
I just got Baten off of somebody cheap. The game is rocking so far, so Im really looking forward to a sequel.
gamergirly
Member
jarrod said:
Wasnt Namco supposed to reveal a "big" sequel at TGS tho?
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
jarrod said:
They said that Baten Kaitos was going to be a Nintendo franchise, Tales is the most important rpg series that they have so they have to choose carefully where to release it.