Xenogears, bitches

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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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

for super otaku, I guess

Which I apparently have become. Gross.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

nnaslkasklfaklhfotjew

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

JAM UR HYPES

ILG now has a new subtitle

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

WASTE GAMES

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

get over here!

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

the blood code, oh the blood code

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

more like xenoqueerz lol

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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

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

why not on PS4?

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

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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