My thoughts after putting in about 19 hours...
 
So couldn't play it for a couple days, picked it up again and after getting used to the controls and getting deep into the game now I'm really liking it. I realized somewhere between throwing a Goron off the side of a mountain, walking up on a magnetized wall to solve a puzzle, wearing Zora scuba gear (it's like a freaking Frog Suit!) and having bombs that explode underwater this is a pretty great game even by Zelda standards.
 
Does it feel like it's missing a couple things? Maybe and sure the open world area does feel fairly flat but... meh.

Definately has a lot of cool moments. I remember my first playthrough being pretty enjoyable. Like I said, I didnt really find the problems i had with the game until i started a second playthrough. Thats not something everyone does, but its a big thing for me.

Damn. Peoples better step up to full hardcore pot smokers to avoid the damage caused by casual smoking.

I'm really split lol

We didnt help at all XD

Thats up to you dude. Personally its a but gaudy for me.

I was always impressed at how well Nintendo ported yoshis circuit from gcn to the original DS.



So its kind of had a bit of a soft spot for me, so I think this is extra awesome. Looks fantastic.

Oh yeah, right you are. I forgot what 480p meant.
 
Although based on the images I've seen, I think the texture resolution is a bit lower too.

Not really, Xenoblade wii had textures that were made to be viewed from a distance, the up close lod had really, really, really bad low res textures. Worse than a lot of og 3ds games.

I think a lot of people are misremembering the game, through a combination of remembering textures from farther away at their optimal viewing distance, and because a considerable amount of images that show up on the google image search are unlabeled from this retextured dolphin mod:



But when you see parts that had yet to be improved...


It really hits home just how low res xenoblades textures really were. And honestly, how do you get lower res than that on a system with over twice the ram (256Mb just counting main ram, vs 88 Mb all the ram on the system), and how would you notice on a down ressed image, that was then a blown up lossy compressed image or stream?

Another thing to remember, is that all screens and video of Xenoblade 3d are from 2d mode, which halves the resolution yet again, and fills in the space by doubling each vertical line, which means you are left with half the texture, stretched out to fill the screen.

Yup. And nintendo gets every cent of every ad, that appears on any one of those any time anybody watches one.

Fo real? 
Dang that's genius.

Yup. Mk8 is going to make nintendo a boatload of money, along many different avenues.

Wrong. You are gullible who buys up lies well I would tell you the devs I know say you're wrong but a link might be even better http://www.polygon.c...women-animation

Thats the joke XD.

Cool, now can we have anything other than Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword in this? 95% of everything in this game is a love letter to those games. Let's see some Majora's Mask characters or some love to some of the handheld games, or have your freaking ninja character be playable!

Well, we probably have at least 20 more characters to go through.

Im not expecting them to short out on majoras mask, or other titles.





I know these arent playable characters, but if we are getting weirdo stuff like agitha, you can be garunteed we are going to see characters like skull kid with majoras mask and majora.

And impa at first glance may have a more skyward sword face design/hair, she is very clearly not the impa from skyward sword. Its actually a very pronounced difference.




Skyward sword impa has very, very pronounced facial features, including a large forehead, an almost Gerudo like nose, and is incredibly tall, (about 2-3 feet taller than hyrule warriors impa), has a very long neck, looks like it was designed after the neck lengthening women who use weighted neck hoops like she wears, although not as extreme, with only 3 hoops making for the incredibly long neck, and is incredibly gaunt, despite wearing very loose clothing. ANd of course their are the tattoo differences. Skyward sword impa has the sheika symbol on her forehead and a tear drop tattoo on her left eye, and blue lips. Hyrule warriors impa has a fang like tattoo, and then eyelash tattoos on the left eye, reminexcent of the eyelash tattoos on oot impa, except red and only on the left eye. Hyrule warriors impa face is much shorter and more round than skyward sword impa's face. They do have similar hair, though ss impa is blonde, and hyrule warriors impa is platinum haired.

The uniform is also far more reminescent of a take on OOt impa's armor. Impa looks like shes taken from OOT, instead of skyward sword, just with a veryblessed amaziballs redesign instead of a direct take on oot Impa's hideous god awful design with the clown lips.

You can also be garaunteed shadow link, which would be a Zelda II plug.

Tv? You think they captured this from the tv? I thought a capturecard was used. Don't know if you can adjust rgb settings on those though. Yet, the same editor knew how to capture bayonetta2 footage since that looks great. Strange case.

Doesnt matter what they used, Trying to display rgbl on a device set to rgbf will do this every single time, the values arent lining up, so get a white washed out image.

We have dozens of hours of live played bayo1 footage from treehouses etc showing off bayo 1 with the correct display settings, and looks nothing like the goof up shown here.

You can go into the japanese miiverse right now and look at the screen grabs that prove it.

Agreed. One can also hit up the Japan Miiverse community for Bayonetta and seen some screens captured there. Even though it is compressed in Miiverse, it looks good cause it's a direct capture.
 
https://miiverse.nin...558073419801479

Ya beat my edit!

lol, tv is set for full rgb, wii u is sending out limited rgb, tv cant read the values correctly. They need to switch the tv settings to the proper mode.

 

http://referencehome...ull-vs-limited/

 

 

Oh, and the video compression is horrid.

Im all kinds of steaming for smash.

Incase your not joking by saying it could only mean that
 
It could mean many things the most common for people around my area is one of their family/or gang members was murdered

Thats an outline. The tear gets filled in when they get revenge on the murderer.

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"That's pretty common tho. Many publishers pay them for ads or give strong wording. Some ven send instruction manuals how to review it. It's why Pro website reviews are often full of BS giving so many hyped broken pieces of trash massive scores."



That's a pretty naive and unfounded statement.

WOW that is some world class irony. Paid for/pr 'reviews' is a massive contemporary epidemic...

Its not even something exclusive to videogames.

http://www.nytimes.c...wanted=all&_r=0

Very, very, clearly, the naive one is you.

If it was a beta I hope that quoted part isn't true for the full release. I occasionally lose my internet connection while playing games. It would really suck to have to restart because of that.

Yeah, im not ever going to even think about getting this game... But Im still keeping an eye out to see when/if this gets fixed/patched.

So... Ubisoft hired Don Mattrick to oversee Watch Dogs? Lol

Game is losing potential customers every day.

Wel, they lost their lead technical developer right before crunch time....

Hes working with vd dev now.

At first I was really REALLY disturbed... But not so much once I found out the sillies were using a wi fi ip camera.

Its still disturbing, but not nearly as much as when it sounded like the guy somehow wirelessly got into a closed circuit system.

Folks, nothing wi fi or on the internet is secure, and especially auxillery devices and applications like this at this point in time, most of them are incredibly easy to get into, and have virtually no security (the poor japanese are having their cell phone programmable toilets hacked because they all left the factory with the default test security code of '000000'.... ALL of them). Do NOT use these things for stuff like this. Use a closed system.

Fix the bird legs.

I don't know man, that's how they look in most of the designs I've looked at, sometimes they're a little thicker though.

Thats not how they look in any designs ever. Those legs looks like a chicken that was hurled at a wall and splatted looney tunes style.

The actual legs are a straight line, having no knee joint, on a 70 degree angle, they end in a foot/claw design that is 90 degrees, paralell to the horizontal plane, with toes/claws formed via an icosolese triangle, with a center line at 45 degrees to the inside. (mmore like 50 degrees for the claw on the side closest to bird body)

The hylian crest, and most 'hylian' design work in general has very bold, solid linework, very little to no thin line work.

Sorry mate, but Im inclined to agree with the above.

Nobody wants to see cutscenes of X, for a TV spot. They want to see what THEY can do in the game.

With games like Xenoblade, and Blade X, the most important part of the game, is the world you explore. Thats precisely when Xenoblade became a must have hit.

When Nintendo released the world exploration trailers:


Everyone and their grandmother can effortlessly crap out cutscenes now. But to make actual WORLDS worht exploring, instead of being funneled through a tube to the next cutscene?



Xenoblade showed us acting of our own free will. Anywhere we could see was practically something we could use our skills, wit, and ingenuity to get to.

Compared to other games, and their restrictions upon restrictions upon restrictions. Look, but dont go there. No you cant actually do that. No, thats just for display, no theres an invisible wall. No. NO. No. No. No. No.

Compared to that, we were as Gods.

Thats why so many people were pissed about the X story/cutscene trailer at e3.... But then were bubbering with pure joy at the treehouse videos.

Thats what people want to see from a Xenoblade commercial. Same with the box art, should be about the world, which is the main star of the game.

Not saying its not cool looking... Just that again, everybody and their grandma can crap out heavilly marketed an focus tested 'cool' today. Practically NOBODY, can do the things X is doing outside of cutscenes.

Has a tear tattoo. Means he committed a gang murder.

Miss Understanding, on 19 Jun 2014 - 9:17 PM, said:
To this day I've never understood "x is better" when it comes to promoting music. Don't you people notice that the best promotional strategy would be to use all of the services available? You don't have to limit yourself to a single one.

Thats pretty astute.

 
I was bored, so I tried to perfect the boxart. Also, I didn't put the Nintendo Network logo since boxarts that need ratings don't usually have the Nintendo Network logo. I just wish there was a higher res version of the image.

Hmm.... Doesnt really work as well from this zoomed out.

All the positive space on the bottom just makes the image really bottom heavy, and the logo up top just doesnt really balance it out.

The positive space right angle of the other box just makes a much stronger scene composition, which is nicely balanced by the negative space on the right. It really is a very strong and stable scene composition.