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Boutros on 15 August 2011
forest-spirit said:
Boutros said:

9 is bad?

I am satisfied on my part. That is if it's coming in NA. Otherwise I hope it fails :)


Yeah, because NoE totally deserves to get punished for releasing this game. >_> I'm sorry, but unless you're a Monolith Soft hater or something I fail to see the logic here. If Xenoblade fails it will only hurt Nintendo of Europe, you know those guys that are responsible for this game getting out of Japan at all. The guys that do deserve to fail [NoA] won't take any harm at all. Heck, it would only make their decision more valid, and that's not what we want, is it? 

I meant I hope it fails on the critics front. That way I won't want it so badly :)



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Level1Death on 15 August 2011
SaviorX said:
Well this sucks.

How you can you justify the best RPG of the last 5 years not being here? :(

Well it's NoA policy. If they don't see 10 million in sales potential they won't localize it.



 

 

 

Boutros on 15 August 2011
Fab_GS said:
Boutros said:

9 is bad?


Who said it's bad?

Referring to rol's post above. 'Bad' was the wrong term. I meant more like 'not good enough'.

You know IGN can't take a break :/



Kamal on 15 August 2011

The only time I feel the urge to get a Wii :(



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jonop on 15 August 2011

I think this will be the next game I buy. I want to finish of some other games first though.



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PhalanxCO on 15 August 2011
trasharmdsister12 said:

PhalanxCO said:

Every high profile Wii game is compared against what the 360/PS3 are capable of technically, and docked points because of it.

Just a swift look through recent "big" titles on the Wii shows that isn't the case. Here are a list of "big-ish" titles on the Wii and their awarded 'graphics' score.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 10
Conduit 2 - 9
de Blob 2 - 8
Mario Sports Mix - 7.5
Mario All-Stars - 8
Disney Epic Mickey - 8.5
Donkey Kong Country Returns - 9
Sonic Colors - 9
Call of Duty: Black Ops - 7
Goldeneye 007 - 8.5
Wii Party - 6.5
SpiderMan: Shattered Dimensions - 8
Metroid: Other M - 9

Out of all those titles the only one docked points in graphics was CoD:BO because it actually released for the other platforms. The rest of those games (with the exception of Wii Party) 'allegedly' look as good, if not better than Xenoblade according to IGN. I don't think many would agree that Xenoblade is only 0.5 better in the graphics department than Wii Party. The worlds are more expansive than any of those titles while providing the same level of fidelity as any of those titles bar SMG 2. The art is excellent to boot. It's all simply seems because of what Rol has been stating - the reviewer wanted it to be on next gen platforms.

I'm sure more than a handful of people would be ornery if everything was compared to the tops of what a PC could push out.

Sorry, I should have specified that I was looking beyond IGN and to game reviewers in general.  Many games have been docked points for simply being on the Wii.



Mad55 on 15 August 2011

Good review, but he coulda said alot more it seems.



forest-spirit on 15 August 2011
Boutros said:
forest-spirit said:
Boutros said:

9 is bad?

I am satisfied on my part. That is if it's coming in NA. Otherwise I hope it fails :)


Yeah, because NoE totally deserves to get punished for releasing this game. >_> I'm sorry, but unless you're a Monolith Soft hater or something I fail to see the logic here. If Xenoblade fails it will only hurt Nintendo of Europe, you know those guys that are responsible for this game getting out of Japan at all. The guys that do deserve to fail [NoA] won't take any harm at all. Heck, it would only make their decision more valid, and that's not what we want, is it? 

I meant I hope it fails on the critics front. That way I won't want it so badly :)


Oh, I see. That makes sense.



FinalEvangelion on 15 August 2011

So -.5 for being on the Wii and another -.5 for being a jRPG.

Good score none the less. My copy was dispatched today from thehut.com



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forest-spirit on 15 August 2011
morenoingrato said:
forest-spirit said:
Boutros said:

9 is bad?

I am satisfied on my part. That is if it's coming in NA. Otherwise I hope it fails :)


Yeah, because NoE totally deserves to get punished for releasing this game. >_> I'm sorry, but unless you're a Monolith Soft hater or something I fail to see the logic here. If Xenoblade fails it will only hurt Nintendo of Europe, you know those guys that are responsible for this game getting out of Japan at all. The guys that do deserve to fail [NoA] won't take any harm at all. Heck, it would only make their decision more valid, and that's not what we want, is it? 

Well, what do you want? Us to hope that a meteor falls in NoA's office?


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