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lestatdark on 22 April 2012
Crystalchild said:
Anyone in here who has played/finished the "Rainfall-Three"? (Xenoblade, TLS, Pandoras Tower)

If so, what are your opinions to those games?
i play Xenoblade right now, with TLS following early next month. I think Monolith really created a great game there, lots of stuff to do, a good story, refreshing battle system (almost MMORPG-like,.. or, instead, think of White Knight Chronicles II and FFXII making a Baby lol) that actually WORKS, and beautiful environments.
i didnt regret dusting off my Wii for it so far, i am around 40 Hours in.

The only one I've played so far is Xenoblade and I agree with your comments regarding it, but it did have some letdowns for me. While the enviroments are beautiful to look at, they're also extremely large and scarcely populated with things to do/kill/interact, which makes for some tedious and monotonous hours especially when you're doing one of the plethora of fetch quests. Also, I found the game to be too simplistic when it came to the battles per se and character management, which could have been better implemented.



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Crystalchild on 22 April 2012
lestatdark said:
Crystalchild said:
Anyone in here who has played/finished the "Rainfall-Three"? (Xenoblade, TLS, Pandoras Tower)

If so, what are your opinions to those games?
i play Xenoblade right now, with TLS following early next month. I think Monolith really created a great game there, lots of stuff to do, a good story, refreshing battle system (almost MMORPG-like,.. or, instead, think of White Knight Chronicles II and FFXII making a Baby lol) that actually WORKS, and beautiful environments.
i didnt regret dusting off my Wii for it so far, i am around 40 Hours in.

The only one I've played so far is Xenoblade and I agree with your comments regarding it, but it did have some letdowns for me. While the enviroments are beautiful to look at, they're also extremely large and scarcely populated with things to do/kill/interact, which makes for some tedious and monotonous hours especially when you're doing one of the plethora of fetch quests. Also, I found the game to be too simplistic when it came to the battles per se and character management, which could have been better implemented.

Yeah, add to that the sometimes flawed animations in Cutscenes.

But i think its an amazingly good game nevertheless. =) (Not like the best RPG ever, but definetly one of the best Games on the Wii, imo. which is, truth be told, not a task that would be hard to accomplish, but Xenoblade deserves attention still.)



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lestatdark on 22 April 2012
Crystalchild said:
lestatdark said:
Crystalchild said:
Anyone in here who has played/finished the "Rainfall-Three"? (Xenoblade, TLS, Pandoras Tower)

If so, what are your opinions to those games?
i play Xenoblade right now, with TLS following early next month. I think Monolith really created a great game there, lots of stuff to do, a good story, refreshing battle system (almost MMORPG-like,.. or, instead, think of White Knight Chronicles II and FFXII making a Baby lol) that actually WORKS, and beautiful environments.
i didnt regret dusting off my Wii for it so far, i am around 40 Hours in.

The only one I've played so far is Xenoblade and I agree with your comments regarding it, but it did have some letdowns for me. While the enviroments are beautiful to look at, they're also extremely large and scarcely populated with things to do/kill/interact, which makes for some tedious and monotonous hours especially when you're doing one of the plethora of fetch quests. Also, I found the game to be too simplistic when it came to the battles per se and character management, which could have been better implemented.

Yeah, add to that the sometimes flawed animations in Cutscenes.

But i think its an amazingly good game nevertheless. =) (Not like the best RPG ever, but definetly one of the best Games on the Wii, imo. which is, truth be told, not a task that would be hard to accomplish, but Xenoblade deserves attention still.)

I agree that it is a very good game and probably one of my favourite of the Wii as well (competing with the SMG games and Skyward Sword), but I still have to play TLS to see if it deserves the best RPG title for the Wii.



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Plezbo on 22 April 2012

EarthBound. Discuss.



Crystalchild on 22 April 2012
Plezbo said:
EarthBound. Discuss.


Never played it. I, as a humble european have been made aware of Ness' existence the first time when i played SSB on the N64, and i really thought that Ness was just a Character to fill Char-place, i really heard about Earthbound just recently. (Okay, more like 2 Years ago.. but considering that Earthbound was released like almost 2 Decades ago, i really lived under a rock all this time... but in my defense, as i said, we europeans never saw ANY Mother-Game )

I could play a ROM of this game, but for some reason, i CANT STAND Emulated games. i mean, if people want to replay some of the good ol' classics, totally go for it, but for some reason i dont find this method of playing appealing... dunno, isn't fun for me.



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Plezbo on 23 April 2012
Crystalchild said:
Plezbo said:
EarthBound. Discuss.


Never played it. I, as a humble european have been made aware of Ness' existence the first time when i played SSB on the N64, and i really thought that Ness was just a Character to fill Char-place, i really heard about Earthbound just recently. (Okay, more like 2 Years ago.. but considering that Earthbound was released like almost 2 Decades ago, i really lived under a rock all this time... but in my defense, as i said, we europeans never saw ANY Mother-Game )

I could play a ROM of this game, but for some reason, i CANT STAND Emulated games. i mean, if people want to replay some of the good ol' classics, totally go for it, but for some reason i dont find this method of playing appealing... dunno, isn't fun for me.

If ever there was a game that you should go against your feelings of emulation for, it is Earthbound.  SUCH a good game, and honestly the quirkiest game ever.  It sucks that you didnt get a chance to play it, and that Ninty didn't Virtual Console it.   I would highly reccomend that everyone that likes RPGs play this game once.  SUCH a memorable experience.



mjk45 on 23 April 2012
lestatdark said:
Crystalchild said:
lestatdark said:
Crystalchild said:
Anyone in here who has played/finished the "Rainfall-Three"? (Xenoblade, TLS, Pandoras Tower)

If so, what are your opinions to those games?
i play Xenoblade right now, with TLS following early next month. I think Monolith really created a great game there, lots of stuff to do, a good story, refreshing battle system (almost MMORPG-like,.. or, instead, think of White Knight Chronicles II and FFXII making a Baby lol) that actually WORKS, and beautiful environments.
i didnt regret dusting off my Wii for it so far, i am around 40 Hours in.

The only one I've played so far is Xenoblade and I agree with your comments regarding it, but it did have some letdowns for me. While the enviroments are beautiful to look at, they're also extremely large and scarcely populated with things to do/kill/interact, which makes for some tedious and monotonous hours especially when you're doing one of the plethora of fetch quests. Also, I found the game to be too simplistic when it came to the battles per se and character management, which could have been better implemented.

Yeah, add to that the sometimes flawed animations in Cutscenes.

But i think its an amazingly good game nevertheless. =) (Not like the best RPG ever, but definetly one of the best Games on the Wii, imo. which is, truth be told, not a task that would be hard to accomplish, but Xenoblade deserves attention still.)

I agree that it is a very good game and probably one of my favourite of the Wii as well (competing with the SMG games and Skyward Sword), but I still have to play TLS to see if it deserves the best RPG title for the Wii.

In my opinion xenoblabe is better than TLS , but I will be interested in your take on the two games , can't comment on pandoras tower , havent played it .



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StokedUp on 26 April 2012

Are any of you interested in the Game of Thrones RPG that is coming? i watch the Unbelievable Series and im looking forward to the game. What im happy to see is that it does look quite good aswell. the combat looks interesting and the visuals look nice aswell.



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Crystalchild on 26 April 2012
StokedUp said:
Are any of you interested in the Game of Thrones RPG that is coming? i watch the Unbelievable Series and im looking forward to the game. What im happy to see is that it does look quite good aswell. the combat looks interesting and the visuals look nice aswell.


i totally dig the series, so i cant wait to see how this game turns out, while it really looks solid, we all know how licensed games like to turn out. but i am hoping!



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mjk45 on 26 April 2012
Crystalchild said:
StokedUp said:
Are any of you interested in the Game of Thrones RPG that is coming? i watch the Unbelievable Series and im looking forward to the game. What im happy to see is that it does look quite good aswell. the combat looks interesting and the visuals look nice aswell.


i totally dig the series, so i cant wait to see how this game turns out, while it really looks solid, we all know how licensed games like to turn out. but i am hoping!

haven't watched the series but have the books .



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