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 Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:49 am Post subject: Xenosaga 1+2 - First Scans |
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| Quote: | After the recent confirmation fo Xenosaga 1 and 2 heading to the Nintendo DS, we bring to you the first official scan of the pending title.
Features
* 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.
* 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.
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http://gamingevolution.info/upload/Xenosaga12.jpg
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Looking pretty solid right now. Hope they can make this turn out well. 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:56 am Post subject: |
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have any of the Xeno games been released in Australia?
i remember a friend was real keen to get Xenogears on PSX, but it was banned or something here. never released at any rate.
or is Xenogears nothing to do with Xenosaga?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: |
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Oh god I'll stick with the PS2 games thanks 
They have butchered the games lol
Check out the latest hyper mag, all the xenogears/xenosaga stuff is explained in a feature
In short xenogears is related, but xenosaga is like a re-telling.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| Ashmaran wrote: | | Check out the latest hyper mag, all the xenogears/xenosaga stuff is explained in a feature |
Gee, I wonder why you mention that Ash?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| Ashmaran wrote: | Oh god I'll stick with the PS2 games thanks
They have butchered the games lol
Check out the latest hyper mag, all the xenogears/xenosaga stuff is explained in a feature
In short xenogears is related, but xenosaga is like a re-telling. |
...You would know....how?
You haven't played it. Ignorance kills 
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| Ray00101 wrote: | | Ashmaran wrote: | Oh god I'll stick with the PS2 games thanks
They have butchered the games lol
Check out the latest hyper mag, all the xenogears/xenosaga stuff is explained in a feature
In short xenogears is related, but xenosaga is like a re-telling. |
...You would know....how?
You haven't played it. Ignorance kills |
Indeed ignorance does kill, only this time it kills your post. Why? Because Ashmaran has played them. There is such a thing as importing you know? Ash imports all the time. If you couldn't work it out by his post too, it was Ash who wrote the article in Hyper. Yep, ignorance kills. 
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:41 am Post subject: |
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He's played the DS versions already, wow--that must take some skill considering they aren't even out. 
**It takes half a brain to tell I was asking how he knows the DS version will suck
...ignorance indeed
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| Ray00101 wrote: | | **It takes half a brain to tell I was asking how he knows the DS version will suck |
It also takes half a brain to remember that he was joking with the comment you bolded. It also takes half a brain to remember that these are ports. I too would also prefer to stick with the Ps2 versions. He doesn't know whether the DS versions will suck, no one does.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:40 am Post subject: |
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Geez calm down Mr Ray and thanks for backing me up Nismo I always seem to incite arguments here with only a few lines of text
The PS2 games have lovely graphics and the storytelling is just as important as the gameplay on offer. Each game was huge in terms of storage space, the first one using a dual layer DVD. They were epic!
Now they have cut the games down a lot in order to fit both on a single cart. It looks like a step backwards into a more Xenogears type style of game with the sprites.
It'll probaly work ok, but I'm surprised that they aren't using the DS properly to make a more involved and customised game (using the features of the system to make say an interactive story from someone elses viewpoint) instead of basically chopping everything up to fit two games into the one. Hence the butchering statement. This with the combination PAL release for the PS2 titles really looks like Monolith are concerned about the life of the series and are doing whatever it takes to build up the fan base to sell the next title better.
I honestly suggested the article as a good read for an overview of the series, I purposefully didn't mention who wrote it 
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I imported Xenosaga 1 and 2, but I only finished them cause I like the story, as games they were terrible. The combat system wasn't that good, long annoying dungeons and pointless sidequests. Reviews complained about the long, wordy cutscenes but they were actually the only reason to play the game -_-
Hopefully this will be fixed in Xenosaga 3 but I don't have my hopes up. Maybe the DS version will be a better way of playing the first 2? It certainly looks cute.
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