[venomqo]

im very surprised that no1 has made a thread about this game yet.

Xenoblde Chronicles

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Xenoblade Chronicles, known in Japan as Xenoblade (ゼノブレイド Zenobureido?), is a role-playing video game published by Nintendo and developed by Monolith Soft for the Wii console. The game was announced during E3 2009, when a trailer was released to media. The game follows a young man named Shulk, who wields the titular Xenoblade - the Monado - against the Mechon in order to ultimately save the world. In January 2010, the game was renamed from Monado: Beginning of the World to Xenoblade to honour Tetsuya Takahashi, "who poured his soul into making this and who has been working on the Xeno series". The game was released on June 10, 2010 in Japan,and was released on August 19, 2011 in Europe and on September 1, 2011 in Australia. There are currently no plans for a North American release.

Battle System:

Xenoblade Chronicles has an real-timeaction-based battle system where normal attacks will happen automatically when enemies enter a party member's attack radius, similar to Final Fantasy XII's battle system. However, manually-activated special attacks, called Arts, each have their own "Cooldown" time after being used; Talent Arts, on the other hand, can only become available for use again after using enough normal attacks. Arts for each character have to be set on a "battle palette" at the bottom of the screen, which can be modified outside of battle. Movement of the character in play is also executed manually with the analog stick; however this only plays an integral role when using Shulk's Arts as they are more effective if used from the side or behind. Another feature of battle is the aggro ring, which appears around party members who are targeted by enemies. The bigger the ring, the more focused an enemy's rage against that member will be. This gives Shulk and other members the chance to attack the enemy from the side or rear. Xenoblade Chronicles also has the "Visions" system, where Shulk can see glimpses of enemies' future attacks, and the player has to try to react (e.g. getting out of harm's way) or prevent it from happening (e.g. warning fellow party members about the attack or using a Shield Art), thus "changing the future."

Gameplay images taken by me:

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Anyway, handsdown one of the best, if not the best wii game ive played, very awesome battle system, very nice story and voice acting, good graphics (considering its on wii) list goes on, i love it. anyone else playing it?

[Daichan]

I'm playing it, though on a very old TV... maybe that's why I paused playing it, I want to enjoy this amazing graphics on a better TV ;D (even though it's on Wii, my TV is that bad, that you want to puke...)

It's awesome. I first thought I don't like the main character (I mean, who's name is "SHULK"? And his face doesn't look that good, etc. I wonder why they made him like this.), but in the end I got to really like him.

I think it gets interesting after obtaining the Monado *fancy* ^.^

[venomqo]

if you have a half decent computer you should check out [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] ist awesome and what i used to take those screenshots, wii games run smoothly, and u can get the wii mote working really easy. the major bonuses are no load times and AA on games (makes them look better).

[ComradeHX]

How decent of a PC are we talking about here?

I am really interested in getting some Biohazard wii games onto PC.

[Darkchao45]

Ive tried playing the ISO burned to a disc on my Wii with no luck. I could format one of my external HDD's and put the game in there and play it but that along with dolphin emulator requires effort

Perhaps one of these days ill get of my lazy ass. Game looks bloody good though.

[venomqo]

a decent computer, id say would be a decent dual core cpu, average graphics card, maybe a gtx460 or a 6850, but im sure older ones would work, theres some performance tweaks u can try. and a decent amount of ram, 2 gig imo would be fine, but who doesnt have 4 gig of ddr3 nowadays.

and if u have a specific disc drives(a list of which can be found on the forum) then u can play the games straight from disc. unfortunately i dont =[

and dolphin was easy as to set up

[Darkchao45]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/02/xe...-release-date/

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[TekNiiQ]

dolphin emulator is amazing along with the HQ filter they have for the games. Superb quality compared the the Wii console itself.