What is your honest opinion on Xenoblade Chronicles 2?
its BASED as fuck
It's fine.
Rough diamond
It's okay. Nothing special. Rex sucks.
Second best JRPG of the generation behind Dragon Quest 11
Also the best Xeno game since Xenosaga 3.
Unironically cannot play it because of the MC. I hate shotashit with a passion.
I want to INSEMINATE Mythra!
Great game.
I hope they bring back its combat system in future games.
pretty environments and character designs except rex whose design is almost as bad as pizza cutter sword man.
Everything about the gameplay was mediocre to terrible, the excruciatingly slow combat, the mind numbing mob grinding, the floaty movement, the deluge of filler features like the ability to equip random nicknacks for 1% boosts, the barrage of tutorial pop ups that make you feel like you're catching up with a series thats been ongoing for 30 years, the awful accents, the terrible main character..
at least it has waifus
Like XCX, I started hating it around halfway through but I still sometimes want to pick it back up
>the awful accents
Only Americans would think like this
This, I found the moment where rex thanks their god for giving them life was beautiful. Pyra is also pure and innocent and is made for protecting.
Started out fine but as the game went on I started to really not like the plot and by the time I reached the tree I only really liked the combat and HATED everything else about it so I stopped playing.
One of my biggest buyers remorse ever.
Mediocre. Too much menuing that winds up meaning nothing.
Each weapon needed more than one extra skill to play with and you should have been able to swap between party members with the D-pad so you can actually pull off combos instead of the game basically playing itself.
Overall the player has way too little input on how the fights play out for how many "tools" there are to augment combat. Having (and emphasizing) a tank/healer/dps system does NOT work when most of your party is controlled by AI, causing every fight to play out exactly the same.
Fun mechanics, great world, likable characters, that aren't Rex. The weapon system was good for me because on a different playthrough I could have a different journey. Made it feel unique because other people didn't have the blades I did.
>Japanese """"""humor""""""
This except I didn't like the combat either.
And I absolutely hated the blade progression system. And the merc mission management timewaster. And everything related to field skills.
I only took the time to finish the story because I really liked Homura's breasts.
Liked it enough to play for 350-ish hours total, including the expansion.
Here's your battle system bro
That's a one smug singing girl.
It’s good for bonding
>WARNING: Low semen
Fake as shit, the game gives you so much semen it's impossible to even come close to running out, even during the milking minigame.
Great game
where it shines it's amazing, but there's a whole bunch of shit that drags the experience down to a 7/10 for me. the small staff and rushed development really fucking show in places. also poppi is one of my favorite girls this gen along with kat
Find a flaw.
Haven't actually seen the webm posted in a while, I'm quite surprised
great game, finally got all rare blades.
I read in a pervious thread mods started banning for spamming that shit.
But no confirmation about that.
I ultimately enjoyed it but it should have been much better.
Main characters are bland as fuck, the story is generic and lacks the heart and twists of the first games. Apart from at the very end that is.
Antagonist motivation is complete garbage and Jin’s motivation just doesn’t make any sense either.
At least the pacing and supporting cast is good, and nia is best girl but that’s not enough to make up for the story.
Gameplay is good but takes way too long to explain and get into, its a ok system i think but seriously needs to be reworked. Also art style went way too far in the animu direction as did the story and I feel it put off a lot of people from buying the game. I hesitated on buying it myself partially for this reason
BASED OFC
EMULATION WHEEEEEEEN?
it's for weebs and weebs ruin jrpgs
Cope, tranny.
I bought this game for the tits & asses, played 4 hours and dropped it. Give me a reason to pick it up again
You have to use items to speed up combat.
Sounds like you need to git gud.
very nice
wish it wasn't stuck on nintendo hardware
The fact that you lose momentum after jumping ruins the whole game for me. I’d rather have X on the switch
The art direction of the first game was vastly superior and adding lots of fanservice to the generic animu redesign doesn't make up for that.
>JRPG
>skill
I can't, so that makes her a Mary Sue
The thread yesterday was magical and comfy as fuck.
Props to guy who posted Nia porn and never got caught.
Why do you retards do this. You get the tits and ass literally for free in the abundance of art and porn made of these characters that played the game for you. Get games for the sake of enjoying the gameplay, not for a quick wankfest you absolute fucking mongoloid.
gotta share as much welsh minge as possible
Nia isn't for lewd.
Nice shoulder tit.
It's an utter disgrace to Xenosaga, which is already an utter disgrace to Gears.
gamesux
It's got flaws, but overall is a fantastic adventure game with lots of fun and an ass of content. Not much cringe either, mostly confined to 2 scenes
>Not much cringe either
This.
I love the game, but boy does it have problems.
Congrats, you posted one of the scenes I talked about, Eric
Made for black men
>2 scenes
Its not a lot, but its definitely more than two. There's the nia wanted poster, one eyed monster, the uraya merc camp 'blushy crushy' scene (although that one is like 70% shitty translatiors that didnt want to say moe), and everything involving mythra and kora girl power.
Also every time Rex yells but that's not the scenewriters fault.
>Not much cringe either
Best rpg this generation
It was kinda mediocre. I liked the graffix, I liked the music, I liked the environments, I tolerated the story until the very end where it actually turned cool for a second, and I didn't like the battle gameplay all that much (it all mostly hinged on the one gimmick of dealing bazillions of damage with a chain attack, and you didn't even gain access to CA until you were like 1/3rd of the way into the game).
Catgirls are cute.
Not much cringe considering you constantly only post the same 3 scenes in a game with like 14 hours of cutscenes.
Where did Xenoblade 2 hurt you?
Ignore Eric, if you do it long enough he will eventually kill himself.
Just like xfag probably did.
For me it's Vale.
Don't reply to him, he's just a massive autist.
Ah right, so a handful. It's been a minute since I played, but I remembered being pleasantly surprised that there was so little of... that, especially given the fan service art style. I really should go back through some day soon
>Not much cringe
>fan service art style
I don't even know what this means to people anymore
Did people seriously not like this scene? This is honestly one of my favorite chapters. I vastly prefer deliberate absurdity to your more typical anime melodrama.
It means an eceleb told them the game was problematic.
Well shit, this time the shitposters are awake.
Can you romance her?
A very good game. I thought the combat was terrible until I started chaining, makes a massive difference. Story really picks up in chapter 3 and I like how blatantly sexualized the female characters are in a game with a decent budget when it's normally no budget games like those Senran one's that do this..
Yeah, that was my experience too. I saw a couple webms of things like the sleepwalking scene and blade quest stuff before I picked the game up so I was expecting so much worse, but it was really tame.
A lot of people consider chapter 4 the worst chapter in the game. I didn't think that scene was too bad though, and the transition into the battle was at least clever.
Shitty animu game. I can get better fap material elsewhere, and for free.
Chapter 2 is the worst chapter and you can't convince me otherwise.
Sorry, I'm sleepy. Less the art style, more the abundance of provocative blade designs. I'm not complaining about those designs, just thought there would be more fan service scenes and was happy there wasn't
Nah, I don't buy into that sort of bullshit
There's no romance system in this game. If there was people would give Nia the happy ending she deserves
A good game with about a million minor niggles and caveats. The gameplay loop itself is addictive, and the combat is initially far too limited with a deceptively low skill ceiling for all the intricacies it eventually introduces. Locking rare blades behind gacha shit instead of side quests with a few exceptions is annoying, and I wonder if that’d be different if the game wasn’t rushed out for 2017. The exploration is fantastic, and environments like Gormott, Uraya and Tantal really sing, with a few bland ones. Not as great as X, but on par with the original. OST is amazing.
Plot, characters and dub are divisive, and with the exception of some dramatic scenes though, I liked all 3, even Rex. Jin was also cool. Zeke and Nia were the stand outs overall and everything from chapter 7 on was very well done, even if it dragged a bit in the middle.
Merc missions were a mistake, 7/10, good game that needed more time in the oven. I still need to play Torna.
>Phoneposter
Post discarded.
It's a good game but it's heavily flawed. And the fact that the xenoblade series gets worse with each entry makes me fear for the next one. I only have a little relief because 2 was only worked on by half the staff.
How can you say that, when X and 2 are vastly superior to 1?
X>1>2
Nearly every facet of 1's gameplay is made severely obsolete by X and 2.
When you make statements like this you really have to reveal if you're a storyfag or a gameplayfag.
Sorry your game ain’t perfect. It’s still good.
On the upside, the Torna campaign does resolve a lot of the combat issues. Particularly in terms of balance and introducing some actual Support skills. The character switching mechanics and new abilities add some much needed depth to the rigid, monotonous system in the base game. The only flaw it brings to the table is its short length, and subsequent stunting of character growth and ability pool. Although, I think Talent Arts alone are more interesting than anything the main game offers, especially when positional/racial damage skills were bloating the whole system.
I don't even disagree with your post, but phone posters need to be expunged from this site.
the webm
I’m away from the PC and killing time. That’s it.
Xenofags are the worst
Might need to check it out then
Post it, coward. Make this a true Xenoblade 2 thread.
mediocre crap which only gets attention cause its only big jrpg on switch and waifufaggotory
not a waifufag but it was good
Cringy mess of a game with bad writing and bad MMD style cutscenes that only hardcore weeaboos with terrible taste would defend.
The only positive is it's got great porn material.
Cope, Eric.
really makes me think
>have to find alternative ways to shitpost now that the webm can get you banned
Anti-XC2 fags really are pathetic.
This webm somehow loses more quality every time it's posted.
>Everyone that hates the game is just the person known as Eric.
Grow up.
Why?
check my webm
Wait till P5 gets on switch. It's coming r-right guys?
Not as pathetic as the people that actually enjoy this garbage. Uh, I meant, Poppi is cute! Cute!
I think the game is ligitimantly ruined by the core crystal system
Has XB2 really been shitted on that bad already?
Mediocre like pretty much all of the series, also a major step back from X mechanically speaking and X wasn't even that good to begin with.
Even the porn is disappointing.
That webm is actually one of the most posted things on Yea Forums now.
They are that SEETHING.
Boring pandering trash
>m.jpg
one of the only decent games this decade
Not him but he has a point. I LOVE MYTHRA'S giant tiddies and h
Neko girls stinky feet.
And so are the folks defend this. What a site. How's it feel that this is XB2's legacy?
One of the worst games I've ever played
I didn't like it. Played for about 60 hours iirc, maybe a bit less, and I hated it half of that time. It's not terrible, but not that good. English dub is terrible outside of Nia, whose English VA fits better than her Japanese VA imo. I also found Nia to be the best character and I don't like Rex, Mythra, or Pyra. It was also too easy. I heard there are other difficulties, but I only bought the base game, no dlc, and I didn't beat it so I only had the default difficulty available. I'm not sure how to get the other difficulties, but from what I've read they fix a few problems I have with the gameplay. Either way I don't plan on playing this game ever again. I have better JRPGs to try.
It was the first Xenoblade game I've ever played.
For me:
Pros:
>Story is a bit uninteresting in the beginning but quickly gets more engaging and the last part of the game is very cool
>Combat is pretty fun and carries the game over long hours well
>Areas look good and makes you want to explore
>Voice acting is memorable
Cons
>Gacha systems
>No exploration from Titan to Titan on your own airship
>Exploration skills is mostly a miss system
>Relies a bit too much on anime tropes
>Character design is either fucking garbage or fucking awesome
The swimsuit isn't her default outfit from the beginning.
Basically had a two man crusade by Xfag and a dude named Eric. Xfag has been MIA for a while, and Eric is still here over a year and a half later to try to derail games because he's just that sad. It's at the point where I don't know if everyone talking shit about the game aren't just him, because he manages to be in every thread and has since launch.
Mmmmm das it mane
Mediocre. Could've been worse though, it's playable.
I have a lot of gripes, but I think my biggest gripe is that just like all catch-em-all games, there's a clear imbalance between which Blades are good good and which Blades are bad and the game throws a ton of junk at you. With only a measly 3 slots, I didn't feel like I had much freedom to just use who I want to. And Tora can't even use any of the Blades you get, so if you like Tora but you don't like Poppi then well fuck you you can't do anything about it.
Is the DLC Torna expansion good? I liked the main game a lot, but never bought the DLC.
>liking Tora yet disliking Poppi
what kind of horrible fucking criminal does this
>t. obsessed schizo
Maybe if we stop making threads like this he'll disappear.
Well, even if you have shit garbage taste and feel the reverse, then you're still stuck with Tora and you have the same problem.
Yes, if you like the main game you're going to like Torna
Or we wait till he inevitably kills himself, which would be much funnier.
>accidentally posted the web version instead of the scan
turns out I'm retarded
its more ff than current ff
>slow combat
Literally not a single fight in the main game has to take more than 2 minutes. You're just bad.
What has already been said. Good game, with some issues. Biggest one for me is gacha, and sidequests are usually uninteresting
DQ4 and FF6 are 'made obsolete' by DQ6 and FF8. The former games are still absolutely worth playing. Obsolescence only matters for shitgames that only depend on a gimmick to stand above the rest of their genre, rather than purity of gameplay experience.
Can't speak for Dragon Quest, but FFVIII plays markedly worse than FFVI. Any game with level scaling will always plays worse than a game without it.
>what is Persona 5
The game really does have more of a waifu bias than necessary though.
The Blades were a good excuse to have a huge variety of different designs and party members and its 70% anime girls, 20% bishie guys, and 10% unique designs.
Persona 5 was great but not as good as DQXII and XB2.
Hell, it's not even the best Persona game.
A overall better game with flaws but still better.
DQXI*
lmfao is this a parody? How the fuck does anyone even play this game?
agreed
you could argue that it fits into the story element of blades adapting to what humanity wants, but i'd still prefer a bit more variety than what we got. cute girls (and guys) are nice, but the weird designs were some of my favorites
Not a game, for starters.
Challenge mode is cool and all, but why doesn't defeating enemies in challenges give the party EXP and SP?
HOW?
> This is his overall Opinion not the masses.
It's the widely held opinion by JRPG connoisseurs.
>Not much cringe
>Rex straight up Friend-zones Nia
>Rex is constantly treating Pyra/Mythra as a friend/sister and yet somehow we're supposed to believe there's love interest
>Rex's voice
>Rex existing
>Tora being a fat incel that made a sex bot is a plot point
>Minge is cringe
>Grinding through the scavenging mechanic involves more braindead combat than BOTW and takes up a huge chunk of time
>Game replaces character development with convenient asspull plot twists (Oh, _______ was a blade all along!!!!)
Did you play the game?
DLC added difficulty sliders. You can make any enemy in the game a joke now by having them attack once a minute for 10 damage.
Oh yeah definitely in fact why are we getting a remake, spinoffs, and more merch?
*Oh yeah definitely in fact why aren't we getting a remake, spinoffs, and more merch?
Great game, loved it
>>Rex straight up Friend-zones Nia
That's based.
>Rex is constantly treating Pyra/Mythra as a friend/sister and yet somehow we're supposed to believe there's love interest
That's EXTREMELY based.
>Rex's voice
That's Chad.
>Rex existing
Redpilled.
>Tora being a fat incel that made a sex bot is a plot point
That was self-insert bait for you user.
>Minge is cringe
Memes aren't in the game.
>Grinding through the scavenging mechanic involves more braindead combat than BOTW and takes up a huge chunk of time
BOTW was GOAT.
>Game replaces character development with convenient asspull plot twists (Oh, _______ was a blade all along!!!!)
It's alright if you don't understand pure ludo but don't start shitting on things outside your reading level.
I liked the game. I love the memes,
Based.
He's a teenager, but it's not like he's 12
But P5 was JRPG of the year. Where were you when Xenocringe 2 got BTFO?
Why Is she so perfect?.
Holy fuck this is the one based grandpa
Movies aren't games.
>JRPG connoisseurs
>Discussions being summed up in "Pyra or Mythra" and "Minge"
The absolute state of this genre.
>persona 5 gets brought up again for no reason
and that's how you know xfag's back
Still doesn't change anything. Cope better. But honestly let's just talking about it because I don't want this thread to derail to P5 vs XB2. I've seen enough autism today.
P5 is trash
*STOP talking
Too late, user.
cope
I honestly prefer 3 but every since smash it hit mainstream.
Who even started this? I know it was some guy posting with green text.
Ahhh, now that's a man.
I don't enjoy it as much as XC1. I just don't connect with the characters as much.
I thought your pic was about the Powerpuff Girls
How?
I don't really know, I think I made that webm from this guy
youtube.com
it was on hard mode you casual
Not Pyra or Mythra.
Only correct answer. I don't know if it was the fact that I wnet in blind without hype into these two games that made them so enjoyable for me.
P5 would have been a better Persona game if they kicked out combat completely because it was so boring and easy even on higher difficulties and dungeons were somehow more boring than P3 endless tower. Story starts strong, becomes incredibly boring and then shits the bed at the very end.
>The soundtrack is shi-
youtube.com
The combat sucks and doesn't really explain anything. Fights in an rpg should last no longer than 2 minutes, not 7 minutes.
Its autistic foreplay.
No non boss fight in XB2 should take more than 3 minutes. You're just shit at the game.
Ah, I see got ya now.
>The soundtrack is shi-
who the fuck are you quoting
garbage
His imaginary Erics.
>But P5 was JRPG of the year.
By whom you fucking retard? Only tasteless niggers would consider P5 a good jrpg
His imaginary boogeyman
OH NONONO
never played it. i wanna fuck nia
This.
>By whom?
Absolute uninformed retard.
Never heard "Eric" say that, but you can't deny blunderfags existence.
I wonder how cute is her anus.
I've had the combat chaining explained dozens of times to me. It never seems to do more damage. It's all just weak damage.
Here's the combat:
Put on food that decreases arte cooldown
Spam everything without slowing down
Win
have you forgotten to give chips to everyone?
Nope everyone is chipped up.
>not Tantal Night
Sad
Beautiful
Even in threads trying to actually talk about the lore instead of veiled waifufagging, he tries to shit up the place. He's not going away, best to ignore him
Is this your own site? lmao what a faggot. I don't like P5 compared to 3 but that's just untrue especially with smash boosting up it's popularity.
...
I didn't actually use food until I had already beaten almost all of the super bosses. Certainly made some of them more interesting, namely that Bastard in Mor Ardain. Kept knocking me off the goddamn platform and resetting the encounter before I could get the chain attacks going
it's all about fusion combos, my man
you can get some crazy shit done with them
>1 review
Absoulety destroyed.
Welcome to the black man's world then.
I had a blast. Renewed my faith in jrpgs.
What went right?
SOUL
The anime artstyle probably helped a lot, along with being a early switch title.
It’s a really good game.
Still makes me kek
is this available on the Wii U anymore? SWiTCH is too bloody expensive for me still.
Too much gachafag pandering. It's like they were testing the waters to make the next game full-on gachashit
I saw a lot more people complaining about the art style than praising it. I can't imagine that it would've sold worse if it was slightly less anime.
>somehow managed to make the gacha system somewhat acceptable
>humongous scope
>fun characters
>anime artstyle
>tons of collectibles
>endgame content
>ng+
really it was just everything people wanted from a huge JRPG that hadn't really been around in a little bit. Would love to have more of it, for sure.
I'm gay, so rolling for bayo
user, it was never available on the Wii U.
Vocal minority, the artstyle helped it stand out among other switch titles at the time. It certainly helped sell the game in Japan, since XCX didn't do so well over there.
People don't know what what they want until they get it. Xenoblade 2's art direction and style are phenomenal and it will probably age better, from an aesthetics standpoint, than most games this generation, much like Wind Waker, Jet Set Radio Future, and Okami look a lot better than a lot of 6th gen games.
quick question, why the fuck does every video I see of this game have the announcer turned on? The game already tells you if you pulled it off correctly, and the announcer doesn't say anything that you can't already see, so why do you need the game to tell you vocally too? There's already six people (seven with Gramps telling you the enemy's element) talking over each other, you don't need eight
>user, it was never available on the Wii U.
Oh right I forgot. BoTW is available, but not XBC2.
because who cares
It's staggering how much better 2 and X look than Xenoblade 1, Monolith moved to making HD games well.
Name a better villain.
Do the NG+ blades have unique blade quests attached to them?
It's fucking habbening lads. En route to 2 Millions.
Albedo.
Malos is still great though.
Who is still buying two year old games? I bought BotW and XB2 on release day, like most people did.
based klaus
The switch online vouchers make XB2 a really good deal in japan, so a lot of people that weren't willing to pay the normal price are picking it up now.
the third best JRPG of the gen.
>tfw you actually make anime real
Is he /ourgod/?
They just have heart to hearts, sadly. Pretty entertaining ones, at least.
good, we will never know though
Me
Malos did nothing wrong
He absolutely is. We ended up in the wrong universe, bros.
Thanks!
Just thought if NG+ is worth it, but probably not.
This.
this must be reason why i saw screencaps of the game in twitter recently
When Fan/Haze reaches out to touch Jin's face right before she dies, was that implying that she remembered him?
Yes, as an other user said, nips are picking it up due to the Nintendo voucher being an excellent deal for XC2
Dromarch is cuter than all of them. God should've made more Dromarchs. He fucked up.
Post Mythra fats
You mean regular Mythras?
For the first like 5 hours, it's awful and has tutorials that either suck at explaining things or explain things in ways that are out of order, like how you learn how to make an orb at the very start, but aren't told what to do with it until you meet Vandham.
After you get Mythra, though, the game is good. Then once you get Pneuma, the game is amazing through the end.
About 20 hours in it clicked for me and I understand why people like it now.
>For the first like 5 hours, it's awful and has tutorials that either suck at explaining things or explain things in ways that are out of order
>doesn't explain chain attacks until you have like five party members
I remember XB1 did that shit when you were still playing as Dunban in the flashback.
If you need the game to spoonfeed such a trivial mechanic to you, you're only proving my point.
>no fingerless glove meter
it's shit
Why is this considered acceptable character design?
>Wasn't as immersed with the character cast as I was for XC1, but I loved the Torna crew
>Gameplay is an improvement from the first game, but the inability to review tutorials was retarded so it took a little while for me to get the mechanics down
>Didn't have as much fun exploring Alrest as I did the Bionis/Mechonis. Titans felt more compact, and the only areas I enjoyed were Tantal, Uraya, and Gormott
>Field Skills butchered my enthusiasm for exploration because of how they function
>Gacha system was unnecessary when there's plenty of Rare Blades with other means for recruitment
>Story was kind of dim until Chapter 6
Otherwise, I enjoyed the shit out of this game. I hope XC3 has major steps forward, and brings back the darker tone that I enjoyed from Gears and Saga. Also hoping for mechs in the sequel as well. I know they're in X, but I can't help but hope that they're actively available in the mainline. Being unable to control Siren or Ophion was sad.
Considering how just making orbs is so complicated that the game has to have a literal flowchart taking up a portion of the screen at all times, it sounds pretty poorly planned out.
I fucking love pantyhose
We're getting X2 next.
And the good music.
This.
>inb4 they call it "X Part 2" and try to pick up the plot
it's too fucking weaboo for my tastes, the localized voice acting is absolutely dreadful, the artstyle doesn't fit the more serious tones of the story and more the stupid fanservice moments, of which there are way too fucking many of.
it's hard to think that this is where xenoblade chronicles has gone, let alone knowing that this is the ultimate destination of what started with something as fantastic as xenogears.
So what was the point of the Blade system, again?
Klaus says the Blades exist because he was afraid that humanity would return to its former state and someone like him would appear again...but what about Blades is supposed to do anything to prevent that? They collect data and evolve but what does that accomplish?
The vast majority of the Blades we see in resonance to shitty people just obey their Drivers' will and help hurt even more people - how does that improve the world? What's the point of creating a system that can take a totally neutral entity like Logos (that up until that point was working to help the world by overseeing the Blades with Pneuma) and turn it into a Blade hellbent on wiping out humanity because the guy that resonated with him was fucked up and felt that way deep down?
If Blades really are there to keep humanity from sliding back into its old ways - why don't we see a single example of a bad person who resonates with a Blade that improves them and makes them a better person instead of just enabling them? The closest it gets is Theory, but all she does is kill her Driver at the very end, after having spent most of her life killing people for him. And what she did is clearly a major exception, considering all the other Driver enemies that the party fights in sidequests.
Is Klaus retarded for thinking any of this would be effective at all, or am I for not getting it?
Blades were there to monitor the human condition. IF they turned out to be complete garbage (they did), Klaus would just abandon all hope for the world. He didn't want to give them a new planet just so they could nuke it to pieces again.
This.
As opposed to not simply being called X2 and continuing with the plot?
Calling X2 after XBC2 implies it wouldn't be a direct sequel.
The biggest spoiler about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the title of the game.
>There are people, in this very thread, who think Mythra is better than Pyra
I come to these threads for the titties
i did play it but i hate shotashit too, Rex doesnt get any better, just play the dlc is better than the main game
How likely is it that the X series is going to end up being a prequel, before XC1 takes place?
LETS SHOW EM A THING OR THREE
>Considering how just making orbs is so complicated that the game has to have a literal flowchart taking up a portion of the screen at all times, it sounds pretty poorly planned out.
What? The flowchart is not complicated at all, it flows naturally. Just by seeing it, my fucking 12 yo nephew understood right away what it meant and how he had to chain some attacks, without having read any tutorial beforehand. This is actually good UI design. You can't be more dumb than a 12 yo kid.
man, just what happened? why did they did a complete 180° from Xeno 1 to a fanservice anime?
The way Klaus describes it makes me think their role isn't just to simply observe.
>But I did not trust this world, born as it had been.
>What if it were to repeat our mistakes? What if someone like me appeared?
>To stave off these doubts, I implemented one final measure.
Klaus doesn't trust the world, so he creates the Blades to ease those worries. If they were simply a way to monitor humanity, I don't see how that'd do anything to reduce his doubt - it'd just be a way to watch his fears come to life.
blades didnt even manifest as weapons at first, they just began resonating with humanity and its tendency for war manifested the weapon part, they were meant to unite humanity and guide it instead they started resenting their perceived slavery thanks to faggot pope dude
OI LOIK YER ATTITOODE
I LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE
>it flows naturally.
Ah, yes. The natural progression of dropping ice on something, then pouring water on it, then blowing on it with a fan.
Natural.
The real question is, where will they go with Blades in XC3? I doubt Takahashi will abandon the Blade + Driver system that has been present thus far. It was in XC1 to a lesser degree as well, since Shulk was essentially an Aegis Driver for Ontos and the true Monado.
I like to masturbate while viewing images from this game. I particularly enjoy ejaculating while viewing images of Pyra. I hold real women to the standards of the characters in this game and will die a virgin as a result. I don't mind though because I prefer the feeling of my own hand.
I really want a xenoblade warriors
stupid faggot persona first they steal the smash spot and now even my warriors wish, I fucking hate cringesona and fatlus they should all go die
>The art direction in the first game was vastly superior
>Except for the fact that there wasn't even a main designer available
So..
being honest i legit wish X is kept as far from the main ones as it cans but i know this shitty director can do something without having it all tied somehow
This is implying Xenoblade 2 isn't a movie game.
Cursed image
It's alright. Combat is a bit slow though and the dub is terrible. I'd say Rex and Pyra kinda drag down what is otherwise a pretty decent cast, but then that's standard for JRPGs.
I would hope that people are smart enough to distinguish the X series, from the main series
That just feeds back into my point - why? If they're there to guide and unite humanity, why instead let humanity's lust for war turn them into weapons?
And Klaus had already written off the world as a failure before Amalthus even became Praetor, so it's obvious that there were problems even before then. The majority of Blades don't even resent their 'slavery' to the Praetorium - it's really just the members of Torna that have a problem with it. The rest just suck it up and take their lot in life without really complaining, because that's what Blades seem to be designed to do.
not necessarily the best but the most likeable characters of all JRPGs next to XC1
Considering how they retconned the end of Xenoblade 1 with Xenoblade 2, I fully expect an X2 to retcon them leaving Earth to be at the same time Klaus did the thing, and earth "exploding" was actually just the machine.
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>how they retconned the end of Xenoblade 1 with Xenoblade 2
[citation needed]
I LOVE THE SMELL OF SALVAGE
Lol LMAO XD
Cry me a river your beloved series will never go mainstream! Your tears are so sweet keep going!
I'm happy this goofy shit is posted in every thread for some reason.
AREN'T WE INTREPID
AAAAAA THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME
*Granny voice*
Too bad that's it's legacy now...
Not him, but the entire Orbital Elevator sequence was retconned quite a bit from XC1. That's about it, though.
They did.
Xenoblade 1 ended with the explanation that the earth got terraformed and turned into a ball of water, but jupiter and saturn were still there.
Xenoblade 2 retconned it, saying that the ball of water was actually another dimension and that the regular earth stayed the same.
RIP those other two scientists in the XB1 cutscene
I used to cringe whenever I saw that webm since Kora's blade quest was awful, but I've seen it so much at this point that it doesn't phase me as much, and I find it cute. Weird.
Pyra is the better 'waifu'. Mythra is the better character.
Maybe not "likeable" in a strict sense of the word, but as far as fairly recent JRPGs go I think Tales of Berseria has a better cast.
Made me buy a switch sold it after
>Xenoblade 1 ended with the explanation that the earth got terraformed and turned into a ball of water, but jupiter and saturn were still there.
Xenoblade 1's explanation was that Klaus 'destroyed one universe and created a new one', not anything about terraforming Earth.
Don't feel too bad, P5S looks like a botch job
>Not a general SMT Musou
>Not even a general Persona Musou
>Specifically a Persona 5 Musou
I have no idea what the fuck they were thinking.
To the other save editor user from the previous thread who made his entire party into Nia, how did you go about changing Drivers? Mine are set as the regular five and I can't get Malos, any of the Jins, or Vandham working.
It's a great game with some glaring design issues (why the FUCK don't merc missions continue in sleep mode? Who thought Ursula's quest was okay? The dub was obviously rushed and botched, field skills are poorly implemented, the drop rate for some of the rare Blades are fucking ridiculous for a single player game, graphics sometimes drop to 3DS tier in handheld, etc.)
Every Xenoblade is an overall amazing package with a handful of glaring and easily addressed issues (which, admittedly, are almost never the same as the other games'). All I want in life is a game with all the strengths of all three Xenoblades and none of their weaknesses. That, to me, would be the holy grail of JRPGs.
wtf am I reading. Go replay XC1 or something.
For a studio that was a husk of what it ussually was because they had to work on BotW
IT's pretty impressive. made by 30 ish people
>Wanting a Musou in general of all things
That's the problem. It's going to be eaten up regardless though, because there's a lot of people who wanted P5 for Switch. Fuck that, just give me another Raidou game.
The device is literally a terraformer. They even call it that.
Saying that it's an alternate dimension is a retcon.
>the holy grail of JRPGs.
Already exists, lad.
>The device is literally a terraformer. They even call it that.
Point me to one instance where the word 'terraformer' is used in Xenoblade 1.
Didn't mean to quote
I'm just mad that the Cloud Sea Level function wasn't given enough focus. It appears in a handful of areas, but that's about it.
The fact P5 needs a remake this soon is really telling about the absolute state of base P5, I wouldn't use that as a boast if I were you, just puts Atlus at the level of Game Freak when it comes to game design.
>made by 30 ish people
You dropped a zero in there somewhere.
youtube.com
Do you seriously want to start a battle royal between the Personafags, SMTfags, and Xenocringefags?
Nocturne is overhyped as shit in its own series, let alone in the realm of JRPG's.
>Empty corridor dungeon design with a lot of teleportation sequences
>Combat is piss easy
>Story and character development were practically nonexistent
P5 is not getting a remake.
He's thinking of the number of people from Monolith Tokyo who worked on it.
About 50% of their usual team was working on BOTW, the rest (about 40 people) were on XB2. They outsourced a shitton, though, so saying it 'was made by 40 people' isn't really true.
I wonder how XC2 would have been, had the full team worked on it nonstop. Even more than that, if the game had released somewhere around the middle of 2018.
>claims it's not a retcon
>has to move goalposts XB1 and only XB1
Then it's a retcon.
BotW was obviously finished long before it released. Nintendo obviously weren't going to release it exclusively on a dead console, like the WiiU, so they waited for the Switch and made it a launch title. I doubt it took away that much from XB2's development.
>15
>shota
I guess it could skirt the line depending on the character, but Rex's actions throughout the game are clearly not pandering to shotacon sensibilities.
Really? I found the plot only got better and better as the game went on. At the beginning it wasn't really clear enough to be interesting, while the writting was a major turnoff. But the writing improved as it went on, and the plot became more and more unveiled.
I liked p5 way more than xenoblade 2, I dropped xc2 twice and resumed later while I just played through p5 in a week because it held my attention
>surprised that there was so little of... that
The fuck are you talking about faggot? Use your words.
Did the ending of make XB2 make you feel like pic related, Yea Forums?
She's the only normal person/driver in the party, despite being the most hyped early-on. It's a funny detail that improves her character and place in the narrative, in my opinion.
>Takahashi: Monolith Tokyo has a little less than 100 developers. Of that group, between 50% to 60% was helping Nintendo with Zelda (Breath of the Wild). Of the remaining 40 to 50 people, several were part of R&D (Research & Development), and the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 staff was made of the remaining 40-plus members.
No. Especially not after Takahashi admitted to bringing both of the girls back for fan service reasoning. I found Aion disappointing as the final boss, as well. I guess Torna kind of remedied that though.
>not liking this scene
What the fuck man, I bet you didn't like Chairman Bana's mech-boarding sequence either.
Yes, because I want to know
>Do Pyra and Mythra still have their memories?
>Does Rex ever actually ask them out?
Yes, though both Pyra and Mythra being in the ending was a dumb asspull.
Still, I didn't expect the game to win me over like it did.
The ending of all three Xenoblades made me feel like pic related, with maybe one more angry Kermit clamoring for a sequel for X.
Based Monolith Tokyo.
kinda
>Takahashi admitted to bringing both of the girls back for fan service reasoning
he said he keep them alive for a wholesome ending, because there were a lot of games with bad endings
yes and yes
Yes, and then it happened again with Torna.
Which game lets me dab on trannies?
>character is somehow split in two parts, usually with a 'good' half and a 'bad' half
>instead of ultimately merging back into one they simply exist as two different beings
Why does Japan do this? Pneuma seemed like she should be the final girl, but instead we get them as separate girls. At some parts it felt like the game wanted us to think of them as two halves of a whole but other parts wanted you to think of them as individuals.
But the former has implications either way from both story and cut content, and if the latter is true while the former is false, then I want to see Rex re-romance NuPyra and NuMythra.
Catherine
>claims it's not a retcon
Your reading comprehension is spectacular. I didn't even mention 2 or retcons, because that shit doesn't even need arguing - anyone who can't tell that they changed things is genuinely stupid. I've been talking about the events of Xenoblade 1 from the start.
Still waiting for you to back up your original point, by the way.
You should be actively embarrassed if you played this, enjoyed it, and encourage others to play it
Well from an in game explanation, maybe she can't assume the Pneuma form anymore since the Orbital Elevator and Conduit are gone?
>I didn't even mention 2 or retcons,
Well that's what the discussion is about, so your posts are irrelevant.
only Rex see them as the same character remember? that's why he is able to unlock her true power and so on
And why is that?
But then they become literal individuals in the ending, so any argument about them being the same person is completely destroyed at that point.
>Chronicles
The discussion is about you claiming that XC1's world is a terraformed Earth while the game never even once mentions terraforming and you can't provide a single fucking source to back your claim.
it's not exclusively on Playstation.
For the players!
Pneuma, like Alvis, is a computer
Mythra and Pyra are partitions of her, not "halves."
She essentially left her shell up on the station while giving Rex a usb stick with the data of both Pyra and Mythra's partitions on it, while the core ssd exploded.
It's not a remake idiot it's a expansion.
An announcer can be done well, look at DMCV. That's what they are trying to ape here btw.
Tore is the best Nopon character the three xenoblade games have. Discuss.
Why are people sperging so much over what is a retcon, and what isn't? It's not that deep, and you need to learn how to drop an argument.
>The discussion is about you claiming that XC1's world is a terraformed Earth
I guess you never beat the game, because the ending sequence starts with you finding Jupiter, then turning and looking at all of the planets that come before it in the solar system, and the only one that's "missing" is Earth and is replaced with a "ball of water" according to Shulk.
>It's not that deep
It is.
...Earth is 70% water.
He's upset he got proven wrong that it was a retcon, and now he's going to cry that xenoblade 1 somehow never claimed that earth was terraformed despite them literally showing it and it still exists in our solar system.
This is Yea Forums. Did you actual expect arguments when all it is, is just faggot calling?
they are the same person, they just become different beings
And yet the ball in the cutscene is 100% water, because it's the ball of water that the Mechonis and Bionis stand on. Because it's Earth, terraformed so that the only landmasses are those two robots.
Why are people so bad at portraying accents via text on this fucking site? Particularly the shit people come up with for Nia. It's mindboggling how wrong you get it sometimes.
I can't wait for X2 to retcon the shit out of events in X1 so people can rant for years about it.
Are you really so retarded that you can't grasp that a place called MEMORY SPACE is actually Zanza's MEMORY of SPACE and not the actual thing?
Once again, the thread is saved.
Thanks to XBC2
the model used in that cutscene is the exact same one used for the flashback with alvis after the final boss you dumbass
it's not a literal ball of water
BRING US BACK SEM LOCAL SNAECKS YAHEER
To be fair, X's ending was fucking trash so I would welcome a retcon
Yeah, no shit, retard. Earth isn't a ball of water either, because it has a core underneath.
Doesn't stop the planet in Xenoblade 1 from being Earth but wetter.
I'LL PRAY FOR YOUR SUCCESS MASTER REX!
ALL HANDS, SALUTE!
He somehow completely missed Alvis saying that the old universe was destroyed (which is what was actually retconned, by the way), so yes. He is.
I wqnt to mating press Poppi Alpha
>Rex's foster mother is a nigger
The exact moment I dropped the game, and went back to playing XC2 for the 3rd time.
Embarrassing boring weebshit from an embarrassing boring weebshit series.
>The exact moment I dropped the game, and went back to playing XC2 for the 3rd time.
Just bought the expansion pass, does it make the game easier? what items does it gave?
Based.
It gives you two incredibly broken rare blades right off the bat, among other things.
He's stuck in an eternal loop.
>His foster mom is a nigger
>He's a manlet shota
>His grandpa is a Titan who isolates him from the world, and knowledge of Blades for the most part
>His Blade is suicidal with mental issues
>His friends consist of a degenerate Nopon, a grown man who can't stop acting like a chuuni, and a military general who can't form abs or stop jobbing after years of training
What went so horribly wrong?
what advices can you give me, user? Should I have 1 character with 3 dps blades, another one with 3 healers and so? or just mix them?
>>His friends consist of a degenerate Nopon, a grown man who can't stop acting like a chuuni, and a military general who can't form abs or stop jobbing after years of training
You forgot the cannibal.
>He forgot Nya
:^( Why are we here? Just to suffer?
the AI works better with just 3 dps blades, or 3 healing blades etc but the fastest way to play is going full dps on everyone. Rex can heal with Pyra/Mythra
It's okay, but the lack of a strong motivation in the story made it worse when compared to the first one. The first one being a journey of revenge that slowly reveals more facts about the world is so much better than "let me help out this hot chick get to where she needs to go."
By the end I just stopped caring, and none of the characters kept me interested
He should just adopt Morag as his new sistermom.
Then he'll have a momgf, an auntgf, a catgf, and a sistermom. And also Telos stepping on his dick with her heels.
Not really. It would've done if not for the cowardly cop out at the end. Pyra and Mythra should've returned with their memories lost. Rex would then suck it up and greet them confidently like a man, resolving his character arc. Then Rex and Nia quietly embrace each other because he finally realises that best girl was there for him all along.
It would've been a bittersweet, but much more powerful and satisfying ending. The way it is now only leaves you with more questions than answers, and not in a good way. This would be fine if XC2 was going to get a direct sequel somewhere down the line, but we already know that isn't the case.
This. It also helps that Shulk was practically an adult, alongside the rest of the cast. Rex and his fantasy journey to discover Elysium was kind of meh, in comparison.
I hate how all the characters felt the same to use. The blade system was fucking awful, and the psuedo rhythm game shit made it optimal to just shit out all of your attacks at once. The world felt like a big step down from the last game, being on a bunch of different creatures isn't as interesting as living on one with different parts visible and another one looming in the distance. I really hated random drops for blades, it made setting up your party a chore on account of their roles being defined by what the gacha system drops. This could've been mitigated by having you "identify" the core crystals, and then giving it to the character you want. Maybe they updated the blade system and that's why so many people like it, but playing it on launch it was bad enough to ruin the whole game for me.
Generally it's best to stick to the same types of blade that each character starts with, although mixing and matching with attackers and healers can work sometimes. Don't mix and match tanks, though, tank blades give a passive aggro boost so it's best to go all in on one tanky character with three tank blades.
If you get really good at the game then you don't have to listen to that advice at all and can basically just do whatever you like.
Gacha sucks
Hi friends I have been summoned into the thread
Anyone that says persona 5 and xb2 are "the best jrpgs " has never played another jrpg. Xb2 is probably the worst game i've ever played and xcx was better in just about every aspect.
Also reminder that I am not blunderfag nor "shitch"fag. I hate xenoblade but the switch is fine. If there's a post hating xenoblade and it isn't accompanied by this trip, it isn't me.
I absolutely love it, it's my favorite RPG at the moment, followed by FF6 and DQ11.
Looking forward to Monolith Soft's next game.
The only reason people like XC2 better than the first one is because everyone is trying their hardest to love the Switch, so any game that comes out on it is automatically a classic or hyped up, look at ARMS. Not to say XC2 is terrible, it's just okay. People also love it for the waifus and the graphics generally being better/more anime.
Also, Tora is complete dog shit. Riki was way better
Based.
Not really interested in it but the red haired girl is cute af
I disagree, because the slowly reveals about the world ended up with a lot of plotholes
What about persona 5
I don't give a shit about the Switch, I hate waifu bullshit and dislike the main artstyle (it looks okay on some characters, but Rex and Pyra are awful) and I still liked XB2 more than the first game.
You're 100% right about Tora and Riki though. I want to go back to the days when the Nopon didn't make me want to fucking kill myself.
More like because XB1 aged like literal milk.
What about it? the persona franchise is a complete fucking mess with so many easily fixable issues it's a wonder the games get published at all. I'm not going to go around parading that there's a best persona because they're all fucking trash in their own unique way
I haven't played for a few years, so I don't remember all the details. What were the major plot holes?
I think XB1 aged just fine, I want back and replayed it after playing 2 and I still love it.
Still like 2 more, though.
>aged
Well I liked it
Nah, X and 2 improved the gameplay in nearly every facet from exploration, to combat, to side quests.
This. I like how unique the skills felt for your characters in XC1. Everyone shares the same blades for the most part in XC2.
You can like a flawed game. Pretending it's the best ever made is what makes you a fucking retard
They improved on it, sure, but that doesn't mean XB1 has aged poorly.
The first game stops being a journey of revenge a third of the way through and the plot only becomes worse as it goes along.
X always felt like a huge upgrade to the gameplay, but like the story fell flat on its face. Admittedly, I haven't finished X, but I plan on going back to it.
>Persona 5
>Flaws
Weak bait.
By the time the revenge plot is done, you're supposed to be invested in the rest of the story like figuring out the mysteries and getting Fiora back. For me it worked, and I was invested in seeing it through
Love the game but Rex is one of the most lame and generic MCs I've seen in a RPG. They went down the "shonen hero trope" checklist and just slapped them on this clown.
Malos pointing out the fatal flaws of conservatism with flair and style.
Rex is trash. Shulk was a turbo nerd but he had SOUL
Rex is /ourguy/.
>Tora worse than Riki
Hell fucking no. Even in cutscenes and while fight g he was more reliable than Riki which only got a a couple of gag hits. Hell Tora weirder shit barely plays in the main story too
>Goofy outfit
>Boring haircut
>"Coming of age" meme teenage protagonist
More like Wrecks. Addam had way more enthusiasm and charisma. Not to mention his design was clean as hell. If only Torna was a longer experience.
Shulk was also trash, but he's just inoffensive trash.
The Xenoblade series's biggest failing is how shitty its protagonists have been so far.
Use the Torna system where they are separate characters but you have to switch between them.
transcendent
Less is more. Riki didn't take up multiple hours of story with stupid family drama.
REX, CHECK THIS OUT!
>He had SOUL
Nigga, Shulk was literally and figuratively soulless thanks to Zanza.
I meant like, what spin will he put on Blades in 3? Make them each summon their own mech dammit.
Bring us back some local snacks, y'hear? (slurping noises)
>A character with no soul still managed to have more soul and passion than the following protagonist
How does Takahashi do it?
>being invested after the shit show in sword valley
>caring about the biggest Mary sue in the game which is Fiora
The revenge plot went out with a whimper and the game suddenly pull g out a godly entity out his ass with Zanza was awful. Egil was a wasted potential of a villain too. I played Xc1 after 2 and I honestly can't comprehend how the story is less generic than the sequel
>how shitty its protagonists have been so far.
*blocks your path*
>dub is complete fucking garbage
>game is so fucking easy you can get immunities to just about everything incredibly early on
>superboss is only fightable in ng+ and will more or less be unkillable unless you play through the whole game again to raise your stats (unless you REALLY minmaxed with the gym in the first playthrough)
>tutorials never fucking end, every single dungeon is riddled with them
>status effects with no counter like ratting and the extra 5 the final boss adds (not that those matter since you can 2 shot him)
>last 4 dungeons are complete fucking ass in general. Yes even the fucking casino
>music is either great or ear grating depending on the area
>3 things to casualize social links despite having the most auto links and still having 2 weeks of free time at the end of the game even if you do all the optional achievements in a run
>dlc costumes arent worn in the overworld
>dlc music is horribly mixed and is 80% quieter than everything else
>dlc music doesnt replace boss music
>mementos money glitch and reaper flu further casualize an already easy game
>velvet room voices that constantly interrupt themselves when you just want to fuse
>responses for persona capture that make no fucking sense in respect to their "personality"
>persona personality doesn't actually do anything
>shit like party members being held hostage is so incredibly rare you probably wont encounter it unless you're actively trying for it
>haru only gets 14 seconds of development
>morgana is the worst character in any video game in every aspect
>tons of leftover elements at the end showing lavenza was supposed to be more than nothing
>replacing igors english voice actor when only the jp one died
>both "twists" are fucking baby mode easy to figure out
>half the confidant abilities are completely fucking useless and the other half break the game
>mementos
>mementos conversations that are only 3 dialogue boxes long resulting in stunted conversations that feel cut off
Look again, idiot.
In your fucking dreams. We all know it's a route of retarded discussion discourse and crying.
Elma was a fucking bland though
For one, Elma isn't the protagonist, and two, there's going to be more to her character in the sequels, so your point is automatically dead. Even without the sequels, she has a lot of depth to her character. A xeno with love for the human species and its culture, while also being a hardened military general with a lot of war experience. Shulk and Rex don't even compare.
*treehouses in your direction*
Name one (1) good JRPG.
I still argue its better then xenocringe 2. I perfer 3 over 5 any day.
Everything about the machina is a huge plothole, it was impossible for the Homs to not know about them, Lorithia also spend a whole chapter trying to stop Melia and the crew from reaching Prison island, this is stupid because she want them to go there to free Zanza. But the worst part is Fiora, she lost all her potential after, suddenly, being alive ( she happens to have the spirit of a goddes by chance)
>b-but the robot body
5 minutes after talking with her, the machina tell you they have a method to bring her old body back.
Also, Dickson plot twist was shit, he just wanted to fight, that's all
Don't think with your dick.
>Elma isn't the protagonist
But she is.
>every etrian odyssey
>disgaea (although it takes way too long to get to "good")
>final fantasy xiii-2 but only for the gameplay the story is the worst in any game
>the pokemon gale of darkness hack
>kamidori alchemy meister
Paper Mario and the thousand year door. Prove me wrong.
Have sex.
>guy called eric
>people call a shitposter on a nepalese goat embroidery forum eric too
>get so mad that you put on a trip
>shitpost anyway
>High Entia are supposed to be this mythical race
>lol no we actually meet with humans and fuck them
>Emperor always knew of a way to stop the Telethia genes
>nope let's still keep our people secluded and shit
Elma was the MC of Xenoblade X. Cross was more of a bystander/support.
>From the wikia
user.. I'll concede though.
>the story is the worst in any game
You've obviously not played FFVIII.
No it's very specifically me. It started because I doxxed myself shitposting about that new megaman game and it devolved into "Shitch" posting. I adopted the trip once my name started getting spammed in every xenoblade 2 thread to defend myself (which was stupid) and xenoblade because I didn't hate the game. Then I actually played it and it's fucking TRASH
You caught me, but 13-2's is pretty fucking bad
>retcons entire previous game and makes everything that 13 had going for it (which to be fair wasn't much) even dumber
That's not hot OP.
>Eric
>Barry
>Ryan
Who's next on this board?
>the Homs literally ask the High Entia for help during the battle of Sword Valley
>yet Dunban, easily the most important part of that battle and someone who should've been heavily involved in its planning, thought they were just a myth
boco
Ass and titties
Ehh, Caius saves XIII-2. He's unironically one of the better JRPG antagonists from recent memory.
I don't know if I'd say XC1 had a less generic plot than the second one. It also fell into the normal JRPG shit of having to fight a god, etc. But I feel like it had more stakes at the beginning of the game so it was easier to become invested. At no point was I emotionally invested or interested in Rex's journey. He was just a dude who really wanted to fuck Pyra, and the only interesting side character was Nia
Honest question - if XBC2 had no female characters, would it still be a good game? I'm thinking the waifus are a big reason why people like it at all.
Shulk's dropping his revenge quest just because his waifu is still alive kinda killed it for me. It's especially annoying because just several hours before, he was goading melia to join his revenge quest because she is half human and apparently according to him, human should go for revenge if someone close to them got killed. Only for him to go "revenge is bad, guys" when fiiora is confirmed to be alive. It makes everything that come out of his mouth afterwards sounds hypocrital. It would have been way better if fiora stays dead and shulk still drop his revenge despite his loss.
Name one (1) game with no female characters.
maybe his voice and design sure but his motives are pretty dumb
>i'm immortal and have to protect a generation of lolis that always die
>i want them to stop dying
>the only way to stop them from dying is to destroy all of creation including the lolis
Yes.
I have no idea what the time scale was, but weren't the Homs around when the Mechonis and Bionis were still alive? Or if not that, then during that time period Zanza took back over the Bionis and attacked the Mechonis right? I think the time scale is big enough that it's implied to be lost history. The Fiora stuff was undercut by knowing they can just undo it
>maybe his voice and design
This is 90% of what makes a good JRPG villain.
guess that's true
the worst part about Shulk is the character development. You do all this shit for your waifu, and at the end of the game, when Fiora ask you if you like her hair, he just tell her she is pretty with whatever, just like the beginning of the game
That's because the other half of the staff was working on Breath of the Wild.
Find a flaw.
8 chapters for skells
Wii U exclusive
THAT is its fatal flaw
Found it.
A JRPG with a disappointing story, lackluster writing but somehow very entertaining gameplay and slice-of-life fun times.
It's a pokemon game now basically
Switch port when?
Skell combat is shit
Grind for Story Missions
Terrible Fetch Quests
Flying invalidates all exploration
TATSU IS NOT FOOD
Fiora is the worst thing in XC1. She should have stayed dead. Every bad thing in XC1 can be traced to her.
>oh no fiora is dead
>nah
>oh no fiora body is running out of ether
>nah
>oh no fiora is stuck in his mech body
>nah
And the worst part is
>fiora is so great how couldi even compete
Fucking boring-ass mary sue should've stayed dead.
Based.
He wasn't quite as good in II and III but episode I Albedo is my favorite vidya villain. Dude was bonkers.
>Fiora is the worst thing in XC1.
Ahem.
It's not great. They throw all this mobile game shit in, at least you can't buy fucking cores with real currency but the system is obnoxious as hell. Especially the field skill system where i got to have blades with X skill equiped to do an action and so i gotta roll fucking gachas to get blades. Then i need certain blades for one dumb side quest so I got to roll gachas some more and now i have a fucking pool of useless units to throw away and make sure i lock the good ones so i can keep reorganizing my party around everytime i need to do one fucking action on the map.
The Merc missions are also shitty Azur Lane comissions, many of the side quests have these as requirements and it's retarded. It takes like 20 hours for one blade quest cause she has to run like 200 merc missions on loop.
Combat is bland, I recommend pushing through the main story to get all the combat upgrades and make healing crit mythra. Xcx was way more fun, all XC2 has is fucking waifus. Just make a mobile gacha game of it already and fuck off.
Also dlc makes it better cause you can turn off QTE combat and make most enemies docile.
What if, Tatsu was food?
as interesting as plain toast
Not on Switch. Get BTFO.
God made Wulfric and realized Blades couldn't get much more perfect than that so he stopped trying afterwards.
MY RIFFLE'S GETTING HOTTER
GOTTA COOL OFF
OW! THAT'S SCORCHING HOT!
>crit Mythra
Shitter detected
>glorious tanned midriff on full display
No, she was a very welcome addition.
Fuck yes
It's honestly really nice to know that Monolith Soft are finally getting some more attention, they deserve it
Gotta beat the game asap so you can stop
This.
Is there anything hotter than a fully exposed midriff?
>insultingly bad localisation written by coffee shop Californians and performed by the secret guild of le silly cartoon voices XD
>soundtrack constructed in five minutes using drag and drop loops from a library
Best boy.
>Hating on X's OST
Easiest way to spot a pleb.
youtube.com
I think you have the wrong thread, user.
Good taste though.
This.
ALSO THIS FUCK Tatsu. He made Lyn an overall worse character.
Just hop in here you bunch of smarmy niggas
>the worst part
You're acting like Melia ever had a chance. She had a hard life, sure. but she's not entitled to that Shulk dick.
Sharla isn't terribly interesting but she doesn't really do anything to harm the overall story either. Fiora being Shulk's entire motivation and her generally being a bland childhood friend love interest is much worse.
Sharla is also hotter.
