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I love these women. Anonymous
God, I hope the saga never ends.
>> Anonymous
It already did. OOPS.
>> Anonymous
Hey, there are rumors of moar, so shhhh!
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Monolith said there would be six episodes. I want my favorite RPG to finish dammit.
>> Anonymous
Monolith is now owned by Nintendo, while the IP for Xenosaga is owned by Bandai Namco.

Not happening. They had to condense much of the last three episodes into the third episode since they knew they would not have good odds for another Xenosaga.

Your best hope is whether or not CyberConnect 2, one of the last remaining decent JRPG devs under Bandai Namco, will actually tackle it. The problem is the writer. The writer, man.
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Yeah, I heard the master behind the story jumped ship. Too bad. This series had such potential.
>> Anonymous
There's also rumors of a xenoGEARS remake.

What about Ezmerelda, Elly, and them?
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>>664639

>They had to condense much of the last three episodes into the third episode since they knew they would not have good odds for another Xenosaga.

More like they decided during development to end the series at III. I have to say one thing, Xenosaga is better-edited than almost any game series I've ever seen; Episodes I and II are really a split-up Episode I, and Episode III is a condensation of what was originally Episodes 2-6. Given all that, the series came off remarkably well, much better than Gears.

>>664674

A Gears remake would be lipstick on a pig unless they finish developing it. (2nd disc LOL. Even though using character narration is a good storytelling tactic, it's so obvious they didn't want to do that.)

Anyway, ecchi. Attached is relevant even though it's cosplay.
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And some moar.
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>>664664
More like the master of the story was fired.
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>>664699

Takahashi was there until the end.
>> Kebinu !GhiZeo/aQQ
>>Even though using character narration is a good storytelling tactic

Read a book then. I would rather play through the dungeons and apocalyptic wars than have Fei sitting in a chair talking about it. Fucking Square and their fucking budget cuts.

PS: Not bashing, Xenogears is my favorite game of all time.
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>>664728

So the entire game's events being conveyed through text dialog boxes is okay, but the spin on the concept presented by the second disc is not? I don't even like the game and I appreciate how they made the most of a bad situation. Whatever, buddy.
>> Kebinu !GhiZeo/aQQ
>>664736

Moron, there's a difference between dialogue and cutscenes as part of the gameplay and substituting cutscenes and dialogue INSTEAD of the gameplay. Actually it's not even dialogue, it's monologue.
>> Anonymous
bump for more t-elos
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No matter how you look at it, it came to end too soon. Shit, this series is what got me into genetic engineering. I was actually inspired by a video game of all things.
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>>664748

Sorry, you missed the point. Apologies for your inability to comprehend what I wrote. RAGE elsewhere.
>> Anonymous
>>665465
>>665465
this looks like a game.
source.
now.
jesus christ.
>> Anonymous
>>665695

Super Robot Wars or Namco X Capcom. Where have you been?
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>> Anonymous
So who you think is hotter? T-elos or KOS-MOS? They say they look identical, but I dig KOS-MOS.
>> Anonymous
>>665989
Kos-Mos, she doesn't have the dirty skank look that T-elos does
>> Anonymous
>>666020
Do you have a picture of said dirty skankness?
>> Anonymous
>>666197

Doubtful, because it doesn't exist.
>> Anonymous
MOAR KOS-MOS
>> Anonymous
There would be 6 episodes from which Xenogears IS the fifth, and Xenosaga Eps I,II and III are ONLY the FIRST one!

in other words

-Episode I "Xenosaga I,II and III"
-Episode II
-Episode III
-Episode IV
-Episode V "Xenogears"
-Episode VI.
>> Anonymous
>>664584
>> Anonymous
>>667523

Sorry, but Xenogears is the fifth XENOGEARS episode. IOW: Perfect Works timeline

Xenosaga was a redo of concept, of which Gears isn't a part. IOW: different universe.
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I blame Final Fantasy 7. Gears and 7 came out at the same time. Final Fantasy is a bigger name, therefore, squaresoft ditched/cut funding for Xenogears and put more emphasis on FF7; that completely overshadowed Gears. The team that was making Gears said "fuck you" to squaresoft and broke away to make Monolithsoft. Namco's not as rich/big as squaresoft/sqenix, so the funding to make such an epic series was not there. Also, squaresoft/sqeenix, owns the rights to Gears; that's why Saga is a bit different. The morale of the Gears team was shattered, they split up and the death of the Gears/Saga series ensued...Fuckin' Cloud...But I can't hate Tifa.

Also, for no reason, the same team that made Gears also made Chrono Trigger, two aswome games; this team suffered a similar fate as Team Clover, the one that made GodHand for Capcom. Badass game makers, producers can be big fuckin' idiots at times.
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*sigh* Why do they always stop making good things?
>> Anonymous
>>667622

Hey now, you can't blame it all on that.

Fact is, though Xenosaga has an awesome story, the first two games sucked ASS for gameplay. They didn't get it right until the third, and by then it was too late.

XS1 - Mediocre game, good amount of hype.
XS2 - Bad game, little hype.
XS3 - Good game, no hype.

After the first, a lot of more casual gamers were put off. And by the time you're past two, the number of casual gamers interested in the series, has dwindled to a lone spurt from a sore dick.

Unless you're making cheap-production niche games, you can't support a franchise with a handful of diehards. Xenosaga's own below-averageness is as much to blame for its ultimate demise.
>> Anonymous
>>667653

>Fact is, though Xenosaga has an awesome story, the first two games sucked ASS for gameplay.

Disagreed. They were solid in terms of gameplay. I enjoyed Xenosaga's myriad battle systems more than Xenogears', to say nothing of the vast improvement to the mecha fights.

But whatever, the series is over now, the Gears fans who resented it because it wasn't Gears Ep I can be happy in their little niche now.
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>>667770

>They were solid in terms of gameplay.

The fewer fight engines amount to air-ground-BBAO and LOL EVERY ATTACK A CUTSCENE, the better. Nobody needs that shit.

And AGWS, yeah, that was solid mode alright. Take all the shops and any other element of RPG design other than cutscenes out of the second game? Brilliant too!

Being better than Gears is like getting a medal for walking two blocks instead of one. Yeah, sure, it's an improvement, but it's still lame unless you're 600lbs and getting exercise for the first time in your life. But you go right on lying to yourself, sure.
>> kris-alyx devereux
i agree episode 1' s battle system was hard but ok but episode 2 fuck meeee that was way to complacated when you actually needed a math degree just to figure out the damage rates, but episode 3 fixed nearly everything that was wrong except the ultraconvaluted story and no i'm not gonna say anything about spoilers but the battle system is easy to get into if the story is not i really hope namco bandai will give xenosaga a rebirth in the near future.