Hey Sup Forums, I've been meaning to play this for like 7 years, but have constantly put it off because I'm a Europoor and it was never released here.
I just now found out that the PS3 is backwards compatible with PS1 games, so I'm wondering, since the PS3 isn't region locked would I be able to play the NA version of Xenogears on it if I get a physical copy?
There's a bug in a boss fight on second disc that is only avoidable on the original hardware. You need savestates to get through the bug without a massive waste of time.
Josiah Bennett
Why not just emulate it?
Xenogears as a game hasn't really aged well, it's hard to play it without a speed up key since the text speed is so slow and the encounter rate is so high.
Hudson Bennett
No, it doesn't work. Ps3 games are region free, but PS1 and 2 games are still region coded, even in the Ps3. Your best option is to make a US PSN and buy it off the store, the digital versions are region free.
Camden Bennett
>There's a bug in a boss fight on second disc that is only avoidable on the original hardware. Wrong, just play it on Mednafen.
Isaiah Thomas
Haven't even heard of this emulator, thanks.
Owen Flores
Just get the digital version through the store or emulate it. Its a fantastic game. Well worth a play through.
Mednafen has been the best PSX emulator for like 5 years now, you must have been out of the loop for awhile.
Luis Wright
I believe it's a game that needs to be modernized. It's a really good video game story that's gone to waste. Anyone outside of US or JP never even got to play it.
Cooper Ramirez
I've always just used ePSXe for PS1.
Christian Ross
Unless Squeenix decides to suddenly hand the IP over to Monolith that's probably never going to happen.
You poor thing. That must have been rough.
Aiden Taylor
It won't work. i'ved tried this with a UK ps3 and american/japanese ps1 games. It's fairly simple to emulate at least.
>the only released xenosaga 2 in Euro-lands Kill me
Caleb Ortiz
What? I've finished Xenogears on ePSXe at least three times and haven't even heard about that bug. Which boss fight?
Angel King
It used to be a problem for a long time back when ePSXe fell out of active development.
I think modern versions of both ePSXe and PCSX-R have it fixed by now.
Alexander Jones
Play a different game, man. Xenogears is a messy plot dump with supbar gameplay and pacing. The mechs and over-the-top anime bullshit aren't worth all the flaws.
Dylan Jackson
You're gay.
Evan Harris
Not an argument.
Owen Howard
Remember that time they literally crucified a pikachu. the plot was fucking reatrded and I'm still mad all these years later.
Owen Allen
Not a heterosexual.
Joseph Myers
>Just emulate it on PC or your phone. Why he need to became a dirty thief? He only need to buy the game using an USA account
Noah Perry
Then you have to live with the painfully slow text speed like an idiot.
It's not like anyone who made the game is still working at Square Enix so there is no point in giving them money for it.
Matthew Wright
Chrono Cross is better
Nathaniel Fisher
nice logic thief
Christopher Hughes
I think my favorite bit of disc 2 bullshit is that long, batshit scene where Grahf sacrifices himself and Fei gets his shit together... kind of. You go from Id going super saiyan by trying to absorb the power of the Zohar to this bizarre scene where Fei literally discusses his life issues with his split personalities in some extra-dimensional editing studio, and then to a fucking talk with God. Like, Jesus Squaresoft, how many sharks did you have to jump before you got out of the water? Nevertheless, I guarantee you a bunch of fags on here are gonna talk about how amazing and epic this hour of cutscenes was. What a bunch of gobbledygook.
Mason Wilson
Well you can buy the game off ebay, and then emulate it. Or better yet you can give Monolith money by buying one of their games.
Playing it legit is only going to make you hate the experience more though, so I don't see the point it doing that way unless you're a really slow reader who also loves monotonous random encounters every 10 steps with PS1-era load times every time a battle starts or you open a menu.
Lucas Bell
The best part was that second town with the multilevel walkways and shit. Was a nice town.
Daniel Campbell
Go fuck off liar.
Dominic Taylor
It's during the first boos fight with Deus when you first enter Mahanon. The bug is that the game will freeze during one of its attacks, and it's almost impossible to get through without using savestates
Luis Ortiz
>PS1-era load times >tfw every time it loads your first impression is the game crashed
Thomas Young
I'm pretty sure that problem has long since been resolved.
I fairly recently replayed the whole game and never encountered that but I do remember it being a problem way back in like 2005 when I first emulated it.
Julian Wright
>Krelian rummages around in his coat for a moment and manages to locate his middle finger, which he then shares with his audience That this will never be finished hurts me physically
if it were to be finished now you'll only want to kill yourself anyways. Destiny chose this path for this game, trying to fix it now is only gonna make it worse.
Blake James
>Man blowjobs are great! >Pft, handjobs are better. This is you.
Jackson Hernandez
This game's translation reads like a fucking textbook, man. I feel sorry for Richard Honeywood. The dude basically had to translate this game solo dolo for the vast majority of the localization process. Fuck all those pussy whipped translators who walked out on the project due to the religious references and fuck Squaresoft for not hiring editors.
Nathaniel Young
No, don't do this. I grabbed some PSX games through Plus years ago and it didn't work.
Lucas Bailey
that what happend? holy shit, I didn't think the west was such a puss about religion just 20 years ago.
Henry Green
are you talking about downloading it from the play station store? I did it and it worked just fine.
Isaac Thompson
Chrono Cross was actually finished, so I have to agree.
Tyler Rodriguez
Grahf's theme is something I will always remember from this game
David Lee
When it has shit like this I actually totally understand why some so many were afraid of a potential backlash.
You've got to remember that whole senate hearing about video games was still fresh in everyone mind, shit was less than five years ago at this point and a game as innocuous as Night Trap was paraded around like it was Rapelay.
And this game specifically implied the two main characters have premarital S-E-X. Think of the fucking children.
Angel Gutierrez
Maybe because you weren't logged onto the account that had PS Plus on it? I've bought over 30 PS1 games from the US PSN store and they all work perfectly.
John Cruz
Every time I try to remember it it always shifts into clad in darkness.
Man, that dude's boner for Xenosaga and dismissal of Xenoblade is so irritating. I dunno how anyone can like Xenosaga. Xenogears was a subpar game, but at least it had some great ideas under the hood. Xenosaga was the dried up dregs of those ideas. It's a goddamn mess.
Ian Cox
>dismissal of Xenoblade is so irritating Blade's incredibly basic plot and characers are kinda a joke coming off Gears and Saga, I don't really blame him. Not to mention the step back in graphics from Saga III to Blade was off putting.
I think blade is a fine game though if a little unworthy of the Xeno name.
Parker Edwards
>Blade's incredibly basic plot and characers are kinda a joke coming off Gears and Saga So a convoluted mess that never gets finished is better than a game that limits its scope and actually delivers on what it sets out to do? I don't get that train of thought. Not to mention that the plot and characters in Saga are tripe to begin with, so what's there to be inferior to in the first place?
>Not to mention the step back in graphics from Saga III to Blade was off putting. Only if you use character models as the metric for good graphics. Saga III's environments were bland as hell compared to Xenoblade's gigantic, detailed landscapes. I'll admit that the character models in Xenoblade are pretty ugly up close, but the trade off is literally everything else looking much better.