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Anyone here a played Xenosaga series? This is one of my favorite RPG series besides Final Fantasy. The 3rd game of the series is my fav, even though I didn't really care for the ending. Any thoughts?
Xenosaga is a really great series. Well, the second one sucked in my opinion, but other than that, it had nice gameplay, cool characters, and a nice story.
The only thing that pissed me off was... (spoiler for Xenosaga 3 ending)
Spoiler:
They killed Jin! Whyyy?!?!?! And Shion was being kinda annoying near the end.
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The first game was done fairly well, but I had issues with the gameplay. In fact, the gameplay was what kept me from continuing on. The second felt slightly better with teh gameplay, but the long cutscenes killed me, they were terribly done. I never got the third, it came out about the same time I got close to finishing the first one.
The writing and storytelling in the game is one huge clusterfuck, in all of the cutscenes I was wonder just what the hell was going on. Video games are suppose to be fun, not a bunch of techno babbling bullshit. Made up words are thrown at you left and right, did the developers actually think we'd know what they're discussing? I shouldn't have to read an encyclopedia to understand what the hell was just said.
The characters are pretty much your opinion. The only characters I liked were Kosmos and Rubedo. The other characters weren't bad but they just didn't interest me. The VA's are pretty terrible because the way they convey the lines is so overly dramatic and it makes the whole thing sound awful.
Gameplay is a big ugh. Animations are way too slow, and not slow as in "hard" slow, slow as in the animations taking too damn long. A typical random battle would take at least 5 minutes.
Music/Sound....... do I need to say anything on that? I know I sound hypocritical when I say I love Demon's Souls when that has no sound, but at least the game is super fun to play and you won't be caring what kind of music is playing. Xenosaga has no music, and what little music they did have get's way repetitive. Seriously now, the same battle music for the whole game? GTF out of here. I know they put music in Xenosaga 2 but the OST in that game was so forgettable I couldn't tell any good tracks from the game after completing it.
Keep in mind, I haven't played the third game yet but I really don't want to considering how abysmal the first 2 games are.... I will play it someday but it's something I can wait for.
Sounds like this game has a lot of random parts thrown together without much thought. Still, I usually tryout a game anyway just to see if I like it anyhow.
Let's hope the music is as great as some people say it is.
i absolutely LOVED Xenogears, but Xenosaga is terrible. They might as well have made it a movie. The gameplay is slow and clunky but the story is epic, told through a ridiculous amount of cutscenes (all of which are long. Some are seriously like 30 minutes). So yea, not really a fun game but would make a great movie in my opinion.
I've played some of the first one, and stopped cuz it was just boring. But since xenogears was so good i wanted to at least know what happens so i looked up videos and stuff of the others. so now i dont want to play anymore of them.
I personally loved xenosaga. Something about the story really immersed me in it, it was just so interesting to me if a little confusing at times, and I really liked the characters. kos-mos is still one of my all time fave designs. But yeah the second one did suck pretty bad, but the third one made up for it imo. i never played xenogears though, and i've always wanted to but never came across it
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Music/Sound....... do I need to say anything on that? I know I sound hypocritical when I say I love Demon's Souls when that has no sound, but at least the game is super fun to play and you won't be caring what kind of music is playing. Xenosaga has no music, and what little music they did have get's way repetitive. Seriously now, the same battle music for the whole game? GTF out of here. I know they put music in Xenosaga 2 but the OST in that game was so forgettable I couldn't tell any good tracks from the game after completing it.
The OST of the first game isn't astounding, but its good in it's own right. The second has what I would call mall music.
Meanwhile, I believe you're just trying to pull whatever out you can to bash it, as they shift battle music a few times, I know there's "Last Battle" which was quite good. Then, battling KOS-MOS, Proto Merkabah, Rising Emotions, Durandal, and all of the orchestral pieces were well done.
they didt even release the 1 and 3 in europe
i bought part 2 it came with part 1(movie version)
and when a battle starts the music is gone and it starts when everyting is on screen(bad programming)
loading time for batlles that kinda sucks and comparing the battle system to other games means is fail
and Albedo is just so creepy...
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The writing and storytelling in the game is one huge clusterfuck, in all of the cutscenes I was wonder just what the hell was going on. Video games are suppose to be fun, not a bunch of techno babbling bullshit. Made up words are thrown at you left and right, did the developers actually think we'd know what they're discussing? I shouldn't have to read an encyclopedia to understand what the hell was just said.
The characters are pretty much your opinion. The only characters I liked were Kosmos and Rubedo. The other characters weren't bad but they just didn't interest me. The VA's are pretty terrible because the way they convey the lines is so overly dramatic and it makes the whole thing sound awful.
Gameplay is a big ugh. Animations are way too slow, and not slow as in "hard" slow, slow as in the animations taking too damn long. A typical random battle would take at least 5 minutes.
Music/Sound....... do I need to say anything on that? I know I sound hypocritical when I say I love Demon's Souls when that has no sound, but at least the game is super fun to play and you won't be caring what kind of music is playing. Xenosaga has no music, and what little music they did have get's way repetitive. Seriously now, the same battle music for the whole game? GTF out of here. I know they put music in Xenosaga 2 but the OST in that game was so forgettable I couldn't tell any good tracks from the game after completing it.
Keep in mind, I haven't played the third game yet but I really don't want to considering how abysmal the first 2 games are.... I will play it someday but it's something I can wait for.
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Random battles were so fucking damn long!
The VA was terrible but I guess it's acceptable as I can't remeber a game that by that time had "good" VA.
The music... Play the game with no sound and it will be better. No, seriously.
But the story wasn't THAT bad. Yes, characters sometimes didn't use common sense but they were not so bad.
I couldn't make myself to complete it. But I "kinda" enjoyed it.
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