I've barely scratched the surface of Xenoblade and I'm hyped for this new game. Just awesome news.

I guess I should get around to actually playing the game then. Gamefaqs, I choose you.

I get a very Xenogears feel to it ;)

I just...

I haven't even completed Xenoblade yet.

But this game. It looks amazing.

OH MY GOODNESS. OH MY DAYUM.

Uh, yeah, I'm gonna need one of them Wii Us.

Monolith does Mechas again? Woohoo!

I am extremely happy!!!! But also slightly disappointed... Just because this is HD doesn't mean you have to only use grays and browns Monolith! Not entirely joking.

Seriously though I just hope we get those lush colorful environments like Xenoblade.

If this is a direct sequel I expect Sulk in Smash for sure.

Yeah I agree with Caterkiller about the greys and browns.  Are HD graphics just too realistic looking for lots of colours?  Does it look silly?

I have no completed Xenoblade yet and I'm probably a long ways away from doing so.  I've been real busy so I haven't been able to play any games for months.  But this busy period should be over by March and getting back into Xenoblade is something I'm specifically looking forward to.  It's such a good game that while playing it I honestly think to myself "as disappointed as I have been in the Wii, this one games makes that purchase worth while".

So would I buy a Wii U for this and Pikmin 3?  I can see it, but only fools buy a system for games that aren't out yet.  I've seen too many people get burned by cancellations or the resulting games just not being very good.  I've got time to these come out and hopefully that will let me see how all this matches up with the PS3 and Xbox 360 successors as well.

Whoa!  That's a day one preorder for me.  It does indeed look like a direct sequel to Xenoblade, though with the way that game ended, you could very easily have a direct sequel that doesn't require any knowledge of the first game, except for characters saying stuff like "Remember when all that stuff from the first game happened?"

The mecha aren't completely out of left field, either.  There were mechs/mecha/walking tanks in Xenoblade, just piloted by NPC's or "townspeople" in Colony 9 (the first town at the very beginning of the game).  There was even a sidequest where you had to fetch a part to fix one that had crashed.

On top of that, the end of the game had some Machina walking around the remains of Colony 9 "improving" their technology.  I think it was Otharon who said to Vanea "Wow, your Machina technology is much more advanced than ours"

I've only had a good 3 or 4 sessions with my copy of Xenoblade, the last save was right before Colony 6 after what appeared to be the first true boss encounter, which leads to me believe I'm VERY early on in the game..

and even I'm not surprised by Mechs appearing in what seems to be a sequel to this game. Who are these people that think it comes out of left field?

That's it.  Right there.  The only game I truly bought a Wii U for.  I don't care if it's not until 2014, but I will have that game day one.  Good show, Monolith and Nintendo!

Me too. I mean come on, compare the red X at the end of the trailer to the X on Xenogears

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Xenogears_box.jpg/250px-Xenogears_box.jpg
http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Xenogears-Logo-X.jpg

Looks a lot like Xenoblade but uglier. Hopefully, the final game will include some more colourful scenarios.

Have you even played Xenoblade? The entire games wasn't all super-colorful. There were many parts of the game where the environment was incredibly bland.

I couldn't help but stare when this trailer finally played. Makes me even more curious as to what Retro Studios is doing. Monolith Soft has start to put down their cards. Time for it's sibling in development to do the same.


I really need to finish Xenoblade. It's been slow going for a while because of work, etc. However I'm so excited about this new game I'm going to make the time to finish now.

Yeah, you're right, but they definitely weren't the parts we want to remember, are they?  I would say the early game parts were the most jaw-dropping, by far:  Colony 9, Bionis Leg (how amazing is the Bionis Leg!?).  Satori Marsh, OMG. 

The bland parts were basically the ones that were all indoors:  The cave bit between Colony 9 and the Bionic Leg, anything inside the Mechonis , and that High Entia Tomb Place .    Oh, and maybe inside the Bionis

But the absolutely beautiful parts of the game were so numerous.  And you may not agree, but the first time I entered the final "level" of the game, my jaw dropped, and kept dropping.  Absolutely amazing.  Despite the fact that, admittedly, having that kind of world as the last level of a JRPG is kind of a cliche.  How many times has a JRPG ended in space? 

I'm so glad It's going to take me forever to finish Xenoblade because I just went and spoiled the ending by reading your post. I'll likely forget by then :)

I just got a chance to watch the trailer, and oh my god I want this game right now.

Just because I do like some forums on GameFAQs (mainly for The Simpsons: Tapped Out), I clicked on a thread about this game and some troll was trying to say Nintendo fails because they say it looks no better than a Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 game.

Anyways, it looks good to me.