Xenogears, bitches

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Desperately in need of a remake obv

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I never played this but the first half hour of Xenosaga really scared me off.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

The Xenosaga games for PS2 are unbearable shit. Takahashi created the original series at Squeenix but then he left to go sap money from Namco to start over and get everything "the way he really wanted it." So we know what that means.

XenoGears: SW Ep 4-6

XenoSaga: SW Prequels

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

You forgot:

Furries - check
Calvary/Golgotha - Check
Gunslinger - check
Sewer Levels - check
Blanka rip-off - check

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't really have furries in it! Just that poof thing!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

the second disc was weird. is it true that they ran out of time/money to complete it?

I like it how one character sacrifices herself Jesus-like.... and it leads her friends to discover the secrets of immortality...

also I was shocked by the ending, but perhaps I misinterpreted it. as I saw it the main characters defeat the bad guy by showing him true love, but from the flashbacks the player knows that their love was created by a computer virus in order to replicate a child's need for his mother, and they only did that so that humans could develop the planet.

at the end of the credits it says it's episode 4, but I just took that as a star wars joke. I guess namco didn't.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah I just remembered why I never replayed it: the text speed is amazingly SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW and there's tons of useless dialogue in the game.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

I also like how the characters get hungry for the first time as soon as they visit the Soylent system.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

According to some sites where they've gone and run strings on the second disc, there's a lot of written story material that got left out because there was no more time/money to do the level design. Hence only like 3 real 'dungeons' to explore on CD 2.

It just seems like the game could just use one more coat of polish and some expansion of the material towards the end and it would be really great. As it is it really sort of derails right before the climax, I feel like it just has wasted potential. Obviously the creator's concept of the game and mine are vastly different though, if the Xenosaga installments are what Takahashi really wanted. Ugh.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 November 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't really have furries in it! Just that poof thing!

The Rat Mechanic! Had glasses and a hat!

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

what's the deal with the ones coming out for DS?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

I stopped playing this right during the final dungeon. Just...stopped.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Xenogears is the best videogame. It will be years before I fully understand why I believe this, although that list is illuminating. I also think that the story is homologous to the visuals of Katamari Damacy; you are in control of a massive hulking conglomerate that expands while the camera pans out revealing shocking horizons. The best part of Final Fantasy VII is like this: when you finally leave Midgar and the world map appears for the first time. The entirety of Xenogears plays like this!

― allen riley (allenriley), Friday, 4 November 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

S1ock the deal with the one coming out for DS is that Takahashi has been sacked and Namco/Monolith probably want to take the series into yet another direction prior to the 3rd & final installment coming out. They're editing two PS2 games down to fit in a single DS game.

I'm a little anxious to hear more, because frankly the Xenosaga games in their original form are so horribly bad that any editing or redesign can only help. Also, superdeformed 2D character design, practically always a plus in my book.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 November 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I like it how one character sacrifices herself Jesus-like

Man the Christos got nothing on the Anti-Type. You have to check out the Gnostic myths, go to town connecting the dots in that shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism#The_Classic_Gnostic_Myth

Also, this is the official history, translated from a Japanese "companion guide" to the game, for super otaku, I guess:

http://www.escaflowneonline.com/xenogears/pw/history.htm

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 November 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

for super otaku, I guess

Which I apparently have become. Gross.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 November 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

xenogears is awesome, im gonna have to re-buy it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I think my copy still works. It got some water damage somehow while being stored in my parents' basement. I don't think i've tried the game in like 4+ years.

I do associate this game with SDRE's "The Rising Tide," since I would stay up all night after getting home from my bar shift listening to that disc and playing the game.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

nnaslkasklfaklhfotjew

― lol xbox is hueg (Adrian Langston), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

always wanted to play this - had friends in the US who obsessed over it, but it never got released in my region.

― etc, Friday, 4 November 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

This is my favorite RPG. Or maybe that's FF6.

The best part of Final Fantasy VII is like this: when you finally leave Midgar and the world map appears for the first time. The entirety of Xenogears plays like this!
-- allen riley

Well put.

Xenosaga Episode 1 is dire in comparison. I never finished it and haven't bothered with Episode 2. I don't even know if that's out, actually.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

All of you guys should get LIVES MAN!
JAM UR HYPES ABOUT xeno this and final fantasy that
there all WASTE GAMES!

― Frizz, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

JAM UR HYPES

ILG now has a new subtitle

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

All of you guys should get LIVES MAN!

http://www.gameskins.com/ccp51/media/images/product_detail/codehood_lg.gif

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

WASTE GAMES

http://www.retrotrader.com/catalog/images/zzz22l%20013.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why was the Genesis called the Mega-Drive everywhere else than America?

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), North America (1989), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world as the Mega Drive. It debuted under the name "Genesis" in North America, as Sega was unable to secure legal rights to the Mega Drive name in that territory.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

But "MegaDrive" doesn't lend itself to "ABACAB" puns so easily!

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

get over here!

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Saturday, 3 December 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

the blood code, oh the blood code

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Saturday, 3 December 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

anyway, i recently rebought xenogears and am replaying it. nice graphics for a ps1 game!

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Saturday, 3 December 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am getting this game soon. :D TOMBOT's list makes it sound perfect.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

i'm shocked that you never played it, curtis! this game was huge for me when it came out, though obviously if you showed it to me now I would probably vomit on you and maybe attempt to chew off your orbital bones.

― IN UR BASE KILLING ALL UR DUDES (Adrian Langston), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

i found out about this game due to the local comic shop/game rental owner guy being a big fan of giant robot games, and suggesting this to me after I'd already played Front Mission 3.

― kingfish crab trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Xenogears is a must play,i still play on a daily basis,u have to play it or u r not truly a rpg fan

― Robert Deshone Higginbottom, Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

It is good to know that I have spawned the first random googler beachhead for ILG. I feel proud and victimized at the same time.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 19 December 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK I have set my sights:

MS Saga: A New Dawn for PS2:

Superdeformed UC Gundam Suits check
...

CLOSE ENOUGH

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

more like xenoqueerz lol

― IN UR BASE KILLING ALL UR DUDES (Adrian Langston), Friday, 23 December 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.siliconera.com/2007/11/13/xenogears-co-creator-pens-two-more-rpgs/

have no idea what type of lolololololololol goes here
lmao shwortz etc

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

nine years pass...

look at this epic wallpaper i found, guys

http://i.imgur.com/FczJ4nvm.jpg

When are they going to re-release this thing?

I still have fond memories of this. It's amazing that I finished it. I played through a borrowed copy on a borrowed PS1 from an AF buddy when we were living in the same barracks building (311 TRS J Flight forever, man). If a $29.99 app store version came out I would buy it tomorrow just to try and remember how the hell all the plot points were threaded together. Back in the golden age when every JRPG was stone sci-fi trope soup that ended up being about the Demiurge, and that was okay, this one still did it the best. Except for FFT, but I never did finish that one.

― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Thursday, 16 March 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/xenogears-(psone-classic)/cid=UP9000-NPUJ00664_00-0000000000000001

― art, Thursday, 16 March 2017 00:09 (eight years ago)

why not on PS4?

― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Thursday, 16 March 2017 00:19 (eight years ago)

In December 2015, Sony added PlayStation 2 backward compatibility and republished some PS2 games such as Dark Cloud

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/3682844/oneyng-fart-sounds-o.gif

― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Thursday, 16 March 2017 00:27 (eight years ago)

i've only played the first several hours of this game but it has my favorite soundtrack of all JRPGs

― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 March 2017 00:31 (eight years ago)

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