Gaming Xenosaga

[electra]

I'm pretty excited about this game... anyone have any clue when it comes to North America?

[RicoTranzrig]

Not really, they haven't said anything about a specific release date. They're really taking their time in the translation so it better be good...

[Semjaza]

It's supposedly due out the first quarter of 2003, meaning any time before March.

I was excited when I first heard about the game... Until I read that it's only about 10 hours long, extremely easy and most of your time is spent watching cutscenes. Games that are mostly cinema do not interest me personally anymore.

Still, it looks pretty interesting... I'd rent it at the least. The production values are really high, and the music is amazing. I was under the impression that everyone in the game already spoke English, so I can't see why the translation would be all that difficult... But as long as they spend some time on making it the best they can, then great heh.

[ZeroBlade]

WHAT?! THE GAME IS ONLY 10 HOURS LONG!!! THAT [SIZE=4]SUCKS!!!!![/SIZE] Thats only a fraction of Xenogears length! Man... that has to be a typo or something. I'd be very disappointed if this game is that short. I'm really getting ticked off with the trend of today's games. All gfx, no length, story, and gameplay. Where did you hear this man? :flaming:

[Semjaza]

Gamespot said so in a really short news article months back. I can't find it right now though, and their preview is locked. IGN makes no mention of length at all. I remember people on boards that imported it (or were from Japan even) saying it was between 10 to 15 hours long.

The odd thing is that the developers/publishers say it takes 40 hours. So I guess it just depends on who you want to believe.

I suppose they could mean it could be maybe 10 hours of solid playtime if you ignore the cutscenes. There's a cutscene in the game that is a whole hour long .There are a couple in the 30-40 minute range. The rest are 5 minutes and below.

If I find another source, I'll edit this.



Edit: I just talked to someone who completed it and he told me it took him about 35 hours. However this was to get every single secret and extra in the game, as well as extensive leveling.

That's a pretty big contrast to Xenogears which is like 60 to 70 hours without all the secrets or tons of leveling lol.

Either way, it sounds like Gamespot really rushed through it.

[electra]

10 hours... well hopefully it'll still be worth it. :eek:

[ZeroBlade]

I see... well if thats the case... next time to see the guy ask him if it was any good. If thats how long it'll be then the only way I'll buy it if its good. I grow tired of really short awesome games. Thanks for the info Semjaza.

[SephirothNIN]

Maybe 10 hours was by speeding like hell through the game. FF9 was a long rpg type game, but it was still possible to breeze by in 12 hours or so (for that excalibur 2 mess). True Xenogears was insanely long, mmmm Xenogears...oops where was I..oh yeah heh it was insanely long, but there was a lot of text that had no relevance to anything. Sometimes I'd be stuck talking to some random bozo in town for 5 minutes, because I'd mash on the X button to get through it and accidently initiate the whole conversation again =\. Plus I got lost in a few dungeons, that certainly made the game long. I think I'd buy xenosaga even if it was only 3 hours long anyway, because if they DO put out the other 5 parts of the xenogears saga, I'd feel pretty stupid having parts 2-6 and not part 1 =\.