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ishiki on 26 April 2012
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Crystalchild said:
ishiki said:
Crystalchild said:
Conegamer said:


But I ask, are the graphics REALLY that bad?

http://www.destructoid.com/why-xenoblade-chronicles-had-to-look-like-shit-226518.phtml

i'd say Xenoblade is in the same corner as Persona.

looking at those games today, they suck visually - BUT the Artstyle is superior, meaning that while beeing disturbed at first, the game will win people over eventually. (And well, pretty much 99% of the Xenoblade players stopped at one point to simply "look" into the distance)

Oh and that article is a very good one, since the coremessage tends to be that Xenoblade is blessed with how it looks, since cuts would have been necessary if otherwise. And i agree, i honestly tried to hold back my need to puke all over the screen in the first hours, but looking back at the 60 Hours i spent so far, if i had to trade a portion of this game for shiny graphics, i'd gladly tell the graphics-whore inside me to go fuck itself. Hell, Xenoblade even managed to open myself to the wii again,, causing me to give Skyward Sword another shot once i am done. (And later on buying TLS and  pandoras tower)

PS: No, Xenoblade didnt look that bad, the guy overdid it a bit - while the Blurry Faces and cheap textures (well... Resident Evil 4 wasnt exactly stashed with lots of HD graphics either..) manage to be noticed, they dont ruin the game or the atmosphere., or the artistic Vision and the fact that the Worlds of this game are still gorgeous.

I think it looks a lot better than persona beings it's not one small town. And Randomly generated dungeons.

(I like persona more) 


It sure does look better than persona, but the latter stay's my favourite, simply because of the Design. I like the slightly darker tone a bit more. But what are we discussing about, both are brilliant games in the end! (P4 is my Favourite Game of all time, followed by FFVIII, and Xeno is, together with SSBB, my alltime favourite on the Wii., if not more. .. Even tho' i didnt see Xeno's ending yet lol)

I liked persona more for that same reason... If it had the more epic dungeon design of xenoblade, it would probably be my favorite game ever. But alas, you can combine the best aspects of many games and get the best game of all time.

But (I've mentioned this before), I played it using dolphin on PC which is at 1080p and anti-aliasing so my view on graphics of this game should probably be ignored :P.