So what do you hope is next for Monolith Soft, a new blade, X or some new Xenogame?

Better gameplay, music and story. The only thing either of them have in terms of fun over 1 is mech traversal in X. Everything else is straight up worse.

are xeno -blade, -saga and -gears related in any way?

>Better gameplay
1 has easily the worst gameplay in the series, there is nothing redeeming about it.
What do you think is "better" about it?

>Better gameplay
XB 1 is fucking slow, X and 2 shits over it
>music
sure mechanical rhythm and unfinished battle are god tier but on average 2 is better than 1
>story.
IF WE KILL MUMKHAR WE'RE JUST LIKE LIKE HIM

>Better gameplay, music
How? A game can’t live on its story alone, especially when 1’s story isn’t that remarkable in the first place.

kinda spiritual sequels/remakes since all three involve the same guy but made with three different companies.

I'd like them to establish one or two other major IPs of theirs soon so that they don't just become "the Xenoblade guys".

Your an absolute fucking retard and your opinions on gameplay are worthless. 2's gameplay was a collect the orbs minigame where every character felt the same thanks to that abysmal gacha system. 1 had a party where they played differently and you were encouraged to switch between them.

0 for 3. Try again.

X sequel, hopefully

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>Your an absolute fucking retard and your opinions on gameplay are worthless.
Says the guy who thinks 1 has the best gameplay in the series.
How ironic.

>drops Sawano OST from X
holy shit kill yourself

*ruins the game*

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>story
Shulk pulling monado out of his ass to solve every problems doesn't make a good story.
>ost
Time to fight is bland, An Obstacle in Our Path is Ryu theme rip off and those two are the most listened songs in XB1
>gameplay
XB 1 has braindead AI especially melia, sharla is useless

Yes, because it does. There's the most variety between characters and room for playing around against high level enemies, as well as balance between the gems and break/topple system.

>actually defending Sawanoshit
Are you the kind of retard who thinks KLK was a good anime?

I wonder when we'll finally see something about pic related.
They're also working on something else which is very likely the next Xeno game, so there is no need to worry.

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A Soma Bringer sequel that's actually fun.

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She's the best thing about XC1 and proves that it's perfectly fine if you undo the major death in a story if it's done correctly and if it doesn't happen too often.

Back to the cuckshed, Melia.

>XB 1 has braindead AI
You're right. I much prefer the great AI from 2 where the character will literally stand inside of poison swamps for no reason, and are completely incapable of spacing properly. Good thing you can switch party members at any time. Oh wait.

>Time to fight is bland
Are you retarded?

>An Obstacle in Our Path is Ryu theme rip off
You're probably retarded.

>those two are the most listened songs in XB1
Definitely retarded.

"Childhood friend who likes the MC dies right at the start of an adventure" is such a shitty plot device and cliche in Japanese that them not falling into that kind of awful pitfall was a welcomed changed.

How about expressing yourself without memes you absolute troglodyte? I love Sawano's works, his music fits the game and gives it energy. Also, this is a video game board, fuck off to Yea Forums if you want to share your anime opinions.

>How about expressing yourself without memes you absolute troglodyte?
Sawano's music is derivative garbage. All of his songs sound exactly the same, and if you're the kind of knuckle dragging subhuman who thinks that the crescendo into a sudden drop followed by the same fucking vocals every time is energetic, or that his awful lyrics are entertaining, then no one should ever take your opinions on music seriously. How about you express a thought about his music without sounding like a complete fucking retard who can't string together a coherent thought and just doubles down on insisting that "it's hype!"?

>Also, this is a video game board, fuck off to Yea Forums if you want to share your anime opinions.
At least try to be a little bit familiar with the work he's done in the past if you want to talk about his music.

A new IP, we need a palate cleanser after nonstop xeno for the past few years

I would rather wait for the next gen before any kind of rerelease. If I’m gonna play/ buy xeno 1 again then I want it to look pretty.

Holy shit why are you so mad about his music, do you have autism? It's all personal taste, I enjoy it, you don't, and that's fine. But being this absolutely anal-blasted over something trivial like video game music is retarded.

I would have liked it better if Mumkar was still regaining his memories slowly through out the story, that would have brought up some grey areas to why killing him on the spot was not good. Still I liked how ruthless and hypocritical he was, a great villain.

at least make an argument or something

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That’s rumoured to be a Zelda game, the other piece of concept art had the triforce on the walls.

I would love a remake of the Sasa games with the same art style and game play through the three games. Not a fan do the drastic changes the game's have now

>Express your opinion!
>Oh wait, you actually know his work and can describe why it's shit?
>Fuck you, I like it!
You're retarded and you input is meaningless. Don't try to start up an argument about why music is or isn't good, then get angry when you realize you don't know your elbow from your asshole when it comes to music.

>2's gameplay was a collect the orbs minigame where every character felt the same thanks to that abysmal gacha system. 1 had a party where they played differently and you were encouraged to switch between them.
Yes because agility gems + topple locking for 50 hours is way better. And I too love mindlessly following Melia’s flow charts.

You’re really brainded if the gacha and orb bursting stopped you from having fun with 2’s combat and customization. Also love how you didn’t comment on X’s gameplay because it just shits all over 1’s in every regard.

With three studios under their belt, we are bound to get something new. I want something toon focused from them but with the complex theme they’re known for.

Four, they opened yet another one in Tokyo and are recruiting

If you're trying to liken topple locking in 1 to the orb building in 2 in terms of frequency or how much you had to lean on it, then it's clear you didn't play either game.

>customization
What fucking customization? You picked interchangeable roles with interchangeable moves that all worked the same regardless of who has what, and then the whole thing is just a race to build orbs and do a team attack.

>you need a degree in music to validate your taste
no

Playing through XB1 again, this time on dolphin, I'm really beginning to appreciate how distinct each Xenoblade game is. They each have totally different feels, yet all 3 are some of my favorite games of all time.
Although I love 2, X edges out for me since 2 represents pretty much everything I hate about modern Japanese games. Weeb pandering designs, botched exploration, gachashit, and anime tropes all over the place. Although X is significantly lacking itself, the direction it was heading is everything I could ask for and that's also why I'll never stop waiting for XBX2.

Also still holding out for a Saga 4 or Baten Kaitos 3, but those are beyond NEVER EVER

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>Stop just hurling insults and explain why you don't like it!
What was the point of saying this if you know literally nothing about the topic at hand and can't even articulate a basic opinion on it? This isn't degree in music level criticism, this is knowing the bare minimum about it to be able to express an opinion less stupid than "It makes my ears happy." Really, what did you hope to accomplish by asking for a detailed opinion when you're too fucking stupid to understand anything about music? Was it just an idiot's bluff?

This is literally the most autistic post I've seen today

Hopefully it has mechs on it

On one hand, its really cool that a jrpg had the 7th hour character actually change the party interactions rather than just being the odd one out.

On the other hand, she killed the party interactions. Shulk immediately stops caring about anyone not from colony 9, rein is free to romance the fuck out of sharla, and melia loses every connection to the party.

>a musician has a style
Gee, wow!

Sawano's instrumentation always stands out, and is incredibly bombastic. Though his tendency for drops proceeding a crescendo may be common, it's the energy it delivers--a slight reprieve entering intensity--that makes it so satisfying. A sort of "calm before the storm". And while he's incorporated it repeatedly, to so easily dismiss the rest or whole of his compositions is just disingenuous and ignorant.

Just like Shimomura has her sprightly piano, Sawano is his own musician with his own stylings (clearly not to your tastes).

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So is Xenoblade X on Cemu now flawless or does it still have those audio bugs?

>give me a real explanation about this thing!
>here you go
>no fuck you, that's autistic!
Short of posting a wojak, that's the fastest way to show off how retarded you are.

>T. Melia

>her being alive is basically the turning point where the game goes from "standard story but still solid" to "oh god shulk why are you forgiving a mass murderer and why did you kill a bunch of generics right after this"
No, Fiora did ruin the story
If it was just Meyneth taking the corpse of a dead girl and Fiora was truly gone for good then things would have been more interesting

>Oh fuck, he nailed him down to a tee!
>I'll dress it up to make it sound like banality is a style and not a sign of a complete fucking hack with no range whatsoever!
You just tried comparing the use of an instrument to a specific motif that he repeats the same fucking way in every big song. Pretending that his shitty, hackneyed attempt to drum up hype with retards is somehow satisfying won't make it so. I sincerely mean this, if you like hearing the same song he's been composing since Unicorn over and over again, then you have absolutely no place to comment on musical composition.

>And while he's incorporated it repeatedly, to so easily dismiss the rest or whole of his compositions
>the rest or whole
Trying to sound eloquent works a lot better when you can actually construct a grammatically sound sentence.

>disingenuous
Keep that stupidity on reddit.

>It's just a taste issue, like Shimomura's piano!
youtube.com/watch?v=Hm8KBTPxE_g
Except the strings are the star of the best track in the game.

I WANT TO FUCK KOS-MOS

>Shulk and Fiora
>best track in the game
Christ

Absolutely.

>still no comment on the rest of his compositions

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Just stop posting please.

The unmemorable ones with retarded lyrics that ruin any chance of them being enjoyable? If you speak English anywhere near a native level, the novelty of hearing English words thrown into a song just isn't there and his music loses its shine when you realize how stupid it all sounds.

You've heard one Sawano song, you've heard them all.

youtube.com/watch?v=V6uScXSUggE

>Remove the Suwano Soundtrack

Sorry, can't agree with that when it'd rob us of this theme.

youtube.com/watch?v=a_pggmF8Wks

Just stop trying to talk about music when your ears are too full of your dad's semen to hear anything. Please.

Don't they have like 4 projects they're working on?
One of them being from Takahashi's Xenoblade team and another botw2.

>not Colony 9 day
>not Bionis Leg day
>not High Entia tomb
>not Mechonis Field
>not End of Memories
The man with no taste

Okay, and? What about his instrumentation or the mechanics of his music?

>stop having fun

Shiro Sagisu to be the lead composer for X2

But this theme is better.

youtube.com/watch?v=PGkPEDFRgng

I think one of their teams are for supporting other projects like BotW, Two are making games and the forth has just finished setting up they're new studio so they won't have anything for a while.

Add Colony 6 Hope to the list as well. They're all fantastic tracks that go in the top 10.

>What about his instrumentation or the mechanics of his music?
Amateurish at best and marred by the awful lyrics and chanting that he leans so heavily on.

Now this is someone who actually knows music.
youtube.com/watch?v=uu94eOQqYP4
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it's a cliché, but most fictional japanese stories fail to deliver what XC1 could: actually giving a shit about that character dying that early.
I honestly was shocked at that happening, even though it's such a generic plot device as you say. I think it really has a lot to do with how likeable and great the characters are in that game.

They could have been compared to other large studios like Capcom or Sega if they weren’t a subsidiary of Nintendo. How was it Monolith out of all the other acquired studios that expanded so rapidly?

Just bring Kajiura back.

Not bad, I find XBC and XBX have totally different tones they go for. Like hell, X's main theme is just as good and really fitting for what it's all about. youtube.com/watch?v=6QGK6i51zIU

botw and shit

you sound like a jealous, failed musician angry about others being sucessful

Of all the stupid projection I've heard, this is some of the best.

audio bugs were fixed in the january build
flawless? depends, i can play it at 60 fps with high loads (95% sometimes on a single core) on my stock 8600k, but i think there are STILL some slight purple textures around, albeit nowhere near as many as there used to be

>actually giving a shit about that character dying that early.
I never understood why so many people cared personally. She was literally just the childhood friend who was around for a couple of hours and did the teehee I look after Shulk shit. What exactly was so great about her or anyone else?

seeing them together felt a lot more natural and serious, without any other tropes being blatantly obvious as you'd see in anime
on top of that, i thought her design was cool, her english voice fit well and her playstyle was nice
they felt like a group of real friends who've grown up in that little colony of theirs
it honestly took me back to feels similar to old kingdom hearts games
I don't know how else to explan it

Hit too close to home, huh?

Melia, stop posting.

Where did you come up with me being angry about others being successful when in the very post you quoted I posted music from a popular and revered composer while saying his work was great? My work is not nor has it ever been related to music. You're an idiot.

Any hopes for me?
I own the game on Wii U but after giving XB1 a shot on dolphin with hd textures and 60fps I'm interested in seeing how X can look.

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I still don’t get it, it just sounds like low effort shit. We barely know anything about their daily lives or them as people apart from Shulk doing Monado research and having a cool chemistry with Reyn. In fact, I think I would have actually been sad if Reyn was the one to die because he somehow felt way more involved with Shulk and Colony 9.

if i can play the game at 60 fps and it's considered one of the most demanding games on cemu (due to still not having dual/triple core recompiling) then yes, you definitely can play the game at least on its intended framerate: 30 fps
now 60 fps? not so sure about that, you'll have to try but i'd say no

Not that guy but I liked Melia a lot more than Fiora. At least she didn't suck the air of every scene she was in, and her interactions with Riki were cute too.

I hope they would stop doing mediocre-kinda good games and try to top their greatest creation - Xenogears

60fps is awful for X as it makes the B prompts mid battle twice as fast.

Oh yeah I completely forgot about that shit

Here's how you explain it:
>I played that game when I was younger and its characters and story hold significant nostalgic value to me. Unfortunately saying "it's good because I like it" makes me sound like a moron so I'm going to pretend that it's some kind of transcendent piece of art.

>title screen theme
Eh, it's alright, but I consider Theme X to be the game's main theme and also the best main theme of the XB series
youtube.com/watch?v=LsUw4Hzex0M

>he doesnt want Yuki Kajiura to come back

Cool user, I'll give it a shot

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I wish it was that simple but no, don't make me look like some dumbass that can't appreciate a good setting and good characters when I see them.

I played the game in December 2017 and loved every bit of it. I'm also 25 and played a fair share of other JRPGs and this one managed to wake up all those feelings I had when I played JRPGs as a child / teenager.

>hey takahashi-san i made you a main theme, good isn't it?
>hey that sounds great! is the rest going to be as good as this?
>h-haha yeah...

Gears was one of those raw games that all the other spiritual successors attempted to refine based on the structure it set up. The only way to get another game like that is have someone completely new make a game that doesn't try to be anything like what came before it.

where

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user you have a small brain

XBC X2

The new games only feel like fractions of Gears split up into seperate titles. They haven’t actuallu tried to do something that ambitious in one single game again.

OLD GOOD
NEW BAD

Well Gears did nearly kill the team due to unreasonable dev time. Maybe they got ptsd from the experience.

The only similarity to any of his tracks in XCX is the "Yeah" sample.

When did you play gears last? It honestly wasn't that good.
I just finished the game about 3 months ago and things like the mech fights were only good the first few times, but became an incredibly annoying and boring thing to do afterwards.
Second disc being essentially a visual novel was also kind of disappointing.

Nah, it should be Kenji Kawai.

Damn straight.

youtube.com/watch?v=gpvvFycI8IA

Bad movie, but great soundtrack.

>Bad movie
Watch it.

I'm about to watch the first Patlabor, is that one good?

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I have. Oshii took a campy Police Academy-type mech show and turned the whole thing into a slow, navel-gazey political thriller. I didn't sign up for that shit.

Soma Bringer 2

Look it up on youtube since you have to enhance it but its there very subtly.

Why does kosmos appear in every crossover game, did xenosaga sold alot?

The story, characters and thematic depth are still way stronger than anything from the Blade games. You can tell they tried going for something crazy.

It only feels right for Kajiura to come back for X2 since Mitsuda came back for XB2. I also feel Kawai doesn’t fit Xeno.

>I have
I meant watch it as in watch your mouth, not watch the movie.

>Oshii took a campy Police Academy-type mech show and turned the whole thing into a slow, navel-gazey political thriller. I didn't sign up for that shit.
You sound like the kind of person who gets mad at the magic he worked with Beautiful Dreamer.

Already did and hated it.

I haven't watched Urusei Yatsura, but I am the kind of person who thinks Jin-Roh and Innocence are pretentious dogshit!

>I am the kind of person who thinks Jin-Roh and Innocence are pretentious dogshit!
Oh, you're just a retard.

You right now.

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While i would like monolith to take a break from xenoblade Takahashi pretty much Nintendo won't let Takahashi do anything except, Nintendo certainly on board with anything blade related but anything else is a no due to Takahashi track record

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No, sorry. That ironicweeb shit for people who are still amazed at the novelty of anime doesn't really apply to me since I've seen more than 50 series. There's stuff on that list that's genuinely pretentious like Ping Pong and Ikuhara's faggotry, and then there's stuff like Diebuster which no one on the planet has ever called deep. And Eva's good for it's directing, but anyone who pretends it's deep as opposed to completely on the nose is a retard.

Besides, we both know that you've only seen a handful of things on that list. Why post it like it gives you a point?

Fuck off wojak retard

>eva
>angels egg
Understandable I guess, but you should at least be able to appreciate the god tier animation in the-
>flcl
>akira
>magnetic rose
>lotgh
Oh now I see, you're just an adhd zoomer

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l>13 year old in-game graphics made for a 19 year old console still looks better than some budget nip games today

Is it because the EPIII was graphically good for its time or the nip devs in general haven't improved very much since then?

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Project X Zone 3 or Namco X Capcom port.

The point isn't the choice of shows and movies, but the attitude of the people who watch them and gravitate towards those like them.

Cause a good chunk of the cutscenes are pre-rendered and most of the graphical detail is put into character models. Take a good look at the game's environments. They're like 90% blocky futuristic facilities that are easy to render.

Well considering his track record and how badly xenosaga failed, it would make sense nintendo would only allow anything xenoblade related

No idea, honestly, Namco has a weird way of handling its mascots in general. Just look at how inconsistent Pac-Man and Klonoa have flipflopped between overexposure and fall into obscurity. Same for Valkyrie, having stuff like her costume in every single Tales of game possible but never release or re-release her games in the west.

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Guess we can look forward to more otaku pandering trash like XC2 then

Anything that doesn't look like shit in handheld mode

>The point isn't the choice of shows and movies,
Actually, it is. If you're too stupid to familiarize yourself with the shows you're talking about then you just end up looking like an idiot. On what fucking planet does Diebuster attract fans who think that anime as a medium is super deep? Sounds like you're just another idiot ironic weeb who's used to arguing with other ironic weebs.

Sorry friend but that's not gonna happen due to Nintendo terrible handheld

The cutscenes are 99% real time in engine and of course they work within the confines of the hardware to render the environments. The game is made for ps2 with less than 4mb of vram, it's pretty amazing what they managed to squeeze out.

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In XS3 zero of the cutscenes are prerendered, that's the first two games and XS3 suffers for this by having shit framerates.
And the environments were pretty well done in XS3, even if they were basic. Outside of the sci-fi buildings the forest area looked nice and the sky box at the fifth jerusalem park overlook looked fantastic. Of course I can't find any decent screenshots though so you'll just have to take my word for it.

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>anything that has critical acclaim is pretentious
Why do people do this

For comparison, in the .hack//G.U. trilogy there are a lot more cutscenes that are pre-rendered, and yet Cyberconnect2 managed to port them on modern systems. Everything tells that the Xenosaga HD trilogy is pureposefully held for some reason, even Katsuhiro Harada, the guy who pushed Bamco out of its Japan-only/no PC ports phase, told that he has pretty much his hands tied.

What I mean by pre-rendered is that they're video files on the disc and not actually in-engine rendered scenes. It's like in RE4 on PS2, where a lot of GC cutscenes were too much for the PS2's hardware to handle, so they just replaced them with video files. If you ever play the game on an emulator, you'll know what I'm talking about. Here's an example. I played the game at 1080p, but this was clearly a 480p-ish video file playing.

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I got your back

I think it's mostly to do with the clunky combat and exploration in Ep I and Ep II they're great games but they're not great "games".

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I know what a pre-rendered cutscene is and there are only a handful of them in the whole trilogy. Maybe 30 minutes top out of hours and hours of real time cutscenes.

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They were in fact forced to have the cutscenes real time because if they were all pre-rendered they never would have fit onto the disc. Xenosaga III is almost 9 hours of cutscenes.

I'd rather Yoko Kanno

God, I dunno how I sat through all those hours of them, to be honest - especially in XS1, where they're particularly tedious and chatty.

Don't play with my heart like that. That's never going to happen.

>You can tell they tried going for something crazy.
This is what I meant by the game feeling very raw.

Take films and how a lot of low budget movies are flawed but have some really unique approaches to story or cinematography, one of my favorite examples is the extended fight scene in " They Live". The mega block busters however tend to streamline any film to maximize the audience as raw, uncleaned works can be too much for a casual viewer. Gears had a lot of issues but the personality and ambition could not be overstated.

but Xenosaga is 90% about the story, the gameplay is completely superfluous.

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I didn't really enjoy the story in those games. Felt a bit up its own ass.

>mfw Hope's first affinity mission
that was brutal

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Gib X2. With pilotable Faces and Sirens

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But user
Imagine this as the ambushed theme
youtube.com/watch?v=Yb05JTrK3vg

So it was just concept art for some Hylian temple the whole time. Nice.

Only by the existence of the Zohar

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Children, you're both wrong.
youtube.com/watch?v=RmfRj1t3NRg

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>tfw poppi will never sit on your face

Xenoblade 2 is shit, fuck this retarded moe ugguuuuu trash give me a real xeno game

>poppi
That's the retard version of Hana's name, right?

>leave the world tree to do side quests during chapter 9
>mfw if you're on Mor Ardain you can actually see Mikhail going ham on Indol in the distance
neat
Aside from NPC dialogue, does anything change on the other titans as well? I coulda sworn Uraya or Tantal were getting more sunlight than usual.

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I replayed XB2 in japanese recently and that line was way less edgy. Jin didn’t sound butthurt at all.

Correct desu mo

This. Why did Takahashi sell out to the isekai cute girl obsessed crowd?

Did you play both versions? How did they handle the JS, JK, JD thing?

>XB2
>Isekai
Also cute girls have been there since gears.

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He's nintendo's bitch now. Just keep making safe pg-13 anime xenoblade games and they'll keep supplying him with money.

Did you hear about how Nintendo has rejected over a dozen game pitches from Monolithsoft?

Alpha, QT (Quixotic Tutelar), QTπ

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It's because big titty robot girls are good for crossovers and generally most companies would rather use big titty robot girl than yellow sphere that eats things

>QTπ
That's pretty funny.

Xenoblade Chronicles X is super interesting.

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So XB2 was the result of MonolithSoft being told what to do instead of doing what they want? Makes sense. Its a real shame that they can’t work on things they are passionate about anymore.

Jin and lao did nothing wrong.

I'm not even the same user you autistic fuck

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>muh loved ones died unfairly
Takahashi needs to get over this meme motivation

They did literally fucking everything wrong and both of them realized it moments before dying.

I imagine there are worse ways to localize JC, JK and JD joke in her name.

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>My loved ones died so that means that I have to kill all humans
Nah.

Both a new IP and a new Blade. I want X-2 someday.

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XB2 was definitely a passion project with how many questionable decisions, from Pyra's design with her semi existent ass hanging out, to gacha mechanics for the fun of it, to the sensory overload of the battle mechanics.

>People who understand a thing are talking about it and using words that confuse me
>I need to yell at them without letting on that I'm confused and stupid
I can see how my post would upset you.

All that soulless weeb pandering

>do i fit in yet guise??? i hate anime i hate anime!!

Fuck off

That just wanted people to understand their and the unjust world/System.

>gacha mechanics for the fun of it
>gacha
>fun

No, it was by the numbers shitty otaku pandering. Gachashit, letting a bunch of artists just draw whatever they think is cute, a ton of romance bait with the MC that never actually goes anywhere or gets resolved, and naive and idealistic writing where they preach stupid ideals. That's not weeb pandering at all. In fact, the game was made by Japanese people for Japanese people, the target audience literally can't be weebs.

Honestly? Fuck anime. Only a few anime related things are actually good and Xeno was one of them. Now its become part of the 99% of garbage that is meant to titilate losers.

Weeb, otaku, same cancer. At least you recognise it is shit.

Who started the "Xenoblade 1 was a REAL game that didn't have any weebshit" meme and how can we kill it?
Xeno- has been "weeb" since day 1, the most recognizable character is a robo-waifu made from the soul of Mary for fuck's sake.
>B-BUT IS'S DIFFERENT!!!!!
No it's not you shithead.

>Honestly? Fuck anime.
>Weeb, otaku, same cancer.

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If you can’t tell the difference in tone, character design, art style and writing then you are just a delusional weeb.

Cope

What compels someone to post like this?

>Weeb, otaku, same cancer
You're an idiot.

If you don't think XB2 is pure xeno then you are just out to hate it or never finished the game.

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He’s seething because his weebshit got called out

>weebshit
4channel is an anime image board, you absolute parrot.

HER SCREAMS WERE MUSIC TO MY EARS AS MY CLAWS SLID INTO HER SOFT FLESH

Concept art doesn’t make a game Xeno. The game is nothing like that so why lie?

This is the video game board, Yea Forums and /jp/ exist for a reason

The last chapter of the game gets close, but overall its just xenogears 4kidz edition.
I guess it's a step up from XB1, but XBX's setting and character designs make it just as close to xenosaga as XB2 is to gears.

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Shimomura phoned it in on XC1. You could swap out her tracks with Kingdom Hearts tracks and I probably wouldn't notice.

But the Guldo are in the game and their lore is gears as fuck.

in fact
youtube.com/watch?v=4TwhD8e1oZM
Compare this to Time to Fight

Did you just post a track from a game that came out years later to prove she phoned it in on the earlier game?

No, I'm saying she's been phoning it in for a while
youtube.com/watch?v=WNORnKsigdQ

Why is the Xenosaga series so underrated?

The trilogy had so many memorable lines that were all performed by top-notch VAs and soundtracks but they are barely mentioned in reviews like "the best cutscenes/lines in games"

youtube.com/watch?v=MNXZjZ2mlxw
youtube.com/watch?v=iiNwHwi5zPc
youtube.com/watch?v=gC3WNBTo1Kk&feature=youtu.be&t=614

>No, I'm saying
But you clearly just tried to liken the two tracks to show that she's phoning it in, which would only apply to the latter one.

>no mention of jr walking into the room with orgulla in ep2 and calling her a damn bitch for no reason

Because Xenosaga is the definition of "walk 10m then cutscene", so not everyone can get into it

You have no idea what derivative means you stupid nigger

>Why is the Xenosaga series so underrated?
A lot of people hate the stories and the cutscene heavy nature of the games.

>A composer's current work can't be derivative of their old work
You have no idea what punctuation is or what words mean, you stupid nigger.

Xenosaga's VO is a clusterfuck. Ep I is really good for a japanese video game dub. Then they released Ep II and replaced half the cast with new actors. Okay, but then for Ep III they replace half the cast again but also get some from Ep I to come back so some characters have had three different actors.

I just played Ep II and III with the Undub and Uncensor when I found out that existed.

How would you like them to handle a Xenosaga HD Trilogy game?

1.) Keep all three games separated, so they're the same as how you played them on the PS2. How each game had its own battle system and the characters had unique designs in each one.

2.) Combine the games into one, come up with a new battle system that has elements of Xenosaga 1, 2, and 3 all in one and figure out ONE design for characters and go with it.

Option2 may be close to impossible. The first two Xenosaga games had a shit load of cutscene and while Xenosaga 3 had far fewer cutscenes, the benefit of Xenosaga 3 was that almost all dialogue was voiced whereas Xenosaga 1 and 2 had A LOT of text-only sections in-game. So it would be quite jarring to be in a cutscene fest with text-only sections and then enter Xenosaga3's story with scarce cutscenes and voice-only diaglogue

I like their Xenosaga1 designs the most, KosMos especially. While they did resemble Hallmark Precious Moments figurines, I felt KosMos was really a threatening Terminator-like machine in that game. Gnosis didn't start a fucking chance against this badass

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I wouldn't bother with them cause they're not good games.

They are interesting story games, the combat isn't terrible, and they pad out dungeons with block puzzles like "Tales of" games do.

Xenosaga was really fucking neat for its time because there weren't any other games in the early 2000's with those many cutscenes.

>Xenosaga was really fucking neat for its time because there weren't any other games in the early 2000's with those many cutscenes.
1. You say that like it's a bad thing
2. Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 existed

There's a certain charm to the original models.

I'd be fine with implementing the battle system from III into I and II and doubling the walk speed in I but otherwise keep them the same.

Optimally we'd get a remake of the DS Xenosaga Ep I & II but with ps2 cutscenes so we'd get the story Takahashi wanted for Episode II.

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This. Fiora was a boring-ass character I didn't give a shit about from beginning to end, and both her death and the 'twist' where she was alive all along were telegraphed to hell.

>Put important Cutscene from episode 1&2 on Xenosaga DS
>Make Xenosaga DS work on one screen
>Remaster Xenosaga III
Now BanNam can't complain about budget

Definitely option 2.
In its current state Xenosaga is just too inconsistent to re-release today. The games need a full remake.
I will agree that the Ep I designs were the best, but they look awful in game. However, if they remodeled them and used XB2's rendering engine then I think they'd look pretty good.
I seriously hope that they brink Tanaka back as lead character design, it'd be a shame for them not to considering they FINALLY got his faces to look good in 3D.

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>Did you hear about how Nintendo has rejected over a dozen game pitches from Monolithsoft?
That's not really as big of a number as you think it is, user. Especially considering Takahashi specifically mentioned bringing pitches from more inexperienced members of Monolith.

And with Monolith finally having some momentum. Why make Sakamoto-san from accounting's game when you could be capitalising on XC2's success? Not to mention the fact that Nintendo needs the manpower for Zelda.

XB2 is 75% Tales of and 25% actual Xeno.

Jin didn't 'just want people to understand' - ultimately Torna's goal was just to get vengeance on the Architect for making things that way and humanity for exploiting it. They weren't interested in trying to fix anything, they just wanted to destroy. That's why they're 'wrath'.

I don't like how the story handled her but she's a fun addition to the party and her playstyle is great.

A new fantasy game that ends up being a Xeno sci-fi game.

Why don't you just say 75% bad and 25% good if that's what you actually mean? Since you obviously don't know anything about Tales, and you probably don't know much about Xeno.

Not him, but Xenoblade 2's story does feel like a Tales plot until the final chapter.

>Not him, but
Why even bother.

>when asked if the next Xenoblade will be in a setting like Xenoblade X (characterized as "exploring planets and piloting mechs") or Xenoblade 1 and 2 (characterized as "travelling on titans"), Takahashi said it might take a third option "down a path it hasn't gone before"
What do you think that might be, anons? What do would you want it to be?

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Exploring space while piloting titans.

More mecha girls with bigger asses

Salvager's code rule 7: Love and justice will always win-- wait a minute, that's not right.

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Exploring mechs while piloting titans.

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it takes place on a giant mech that punches the shit out of giant aliens

Not him, but it's because this is a site of anons and it's important to know if someone is just interjecting a thought in about that specific post so you don't talk to them assuming they're the last guy and that they hold all the last guy's opinions.

wasn't there a manga like this
that'd be rad

It's happened in Macross a few times

Do you mean Getter Robo?

why does Fiora's face look so much like Shulk's in this artwork? I swear that's Shulk with a woman's body.

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kos or some say kosm hear our prays.

I'm not sure.
I don't think the one I'm thinking of was part of a long running series or anything, I thought it was just a one shot or at most a couple of chapters long story about a giant mech travelling through space and fighting shit
it's starting to bug me that I can't remember the name

Sounds a lot like Getter Emperor.

Unironically this.

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id like a new baten kaitos like the first one but of course its never gonna happen.

X > 1 > 2

1>>>X>2

Melia deserved to win

All Homs were created in Zanza's image.

>the childhood friend who's been in love with the MC should have lost and the alien girl who showed up near the start of the adventure should have lost
If you want shit like that, try reading any manga or LN ever.

Seethe more Shulk memester.

>showed up near the start of the adventure
Melia joins the party only a little bit before the half way point, though.

Coming right up

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Xenoblade Warriors fucking when?

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Fiora coming back was detrimental to the story, she should've stayed dead.

>Seethe
You're using that word wrong, retard.

She makes her appearance a lot closer to the start than the end of the game.

You're the same idiot who was saying this further up the thread, right? I'd be sad if there were two people that stupid.

X's story is so good, man. The lore is off the charts

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God I love Elma. I really wish she made the cut for Smash when she had the chance...

It's a shame they cut so much of her personality from her when they made the whole multiplayer change to the game.

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When the clash of Titans created the Earth
In Zanza's fair image Homs were shaped at birth
The Machina and Nopon were next in line
But they were too remote from Hom's own kind
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man
The Monado's host devised a clever plan
A beast he wrought...

...shit, nothing rhymes with Entia.

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She's still got plenty of personality, probably more than anyone in both of the games she's in.

Damn shame about her not getting into Smash, though. Maybe if she stays around for X2, and that releases when Sakurai is in the planning stages for Smash 6 (I'm stopping after this one for real this time edition).

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Doug even brings up how do they know a consciousness can carry over, but what I don't get is just how involved Elma was in the evacuation plan and did she know whether a consciousness can go from person to mim to person?

I love Elma too, she's so hot

This. I get why people hate the ending but each chapter in the game was pretty solid with a story that had me keep coming back.

My only issue is that we didn't see enough of each character, and all the one off villains we hear nothing about after we beat them.

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Elma wasn't a believer in a spirit until the post game credit scene where the Lifehold was actually destroyed the entire time. Basically, she didn't share any of humanity's regard for purity, only thinking about things numerically, because she was an alien far advanced beyond religion or even superstition.

I thought that scene with Doug was actually kinda of interesting in its implications. Hope it goes somewhere in a sequel.

To be fair, you kill all the villains. However, there are some NPCs in the game that do talk about them, like how Ryyz was merciless and brutalized her underlings, and how Goetia had 0 regard for their life, and while she didn't torture them like Ryyz, she sent them on suicide missions.

These things are only said in random text blurbs walking through NLA only in certain chapters, btw.

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He did bring up a whole vital flaw. So if they aren't wireless, which I did find dubious even with super space science to the point it seemed a hint, then either their souls are in the mims or the mims are merely programmed to act like they were.

It's because the characters suck.

Everybody was impressed with how well Riki subverted the "cute mascot that eventually becomes annoying" trend, and then Tatsu fell completely and miserably flat.

Lin's design was just unpleasant to look at, and 90% of her characterization was "look how good she is with tech" or "look, she thinks Tatsu is food."

Elma is better than either of them, but the vast majority of your exposure to the character was just other people telling you how fucking great she is. And half the time, it was just her getting credit for shit that the player character does.

The plot itself can be fantastic, but if the characters in the story are awful, most people aren't going to give a shit about the the story they're in.

god I love robutts

what was the point of dickson randomly turning into a giant, again

Xenosaga 1 did. Xenosaga 1 was the best selling Xeno game until a few months ago.

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It's implied that the souls are in the mims themselves, but that implication also means that either Mira is keeping the souls in the Lifehold running with its power off, or everyone who died in the game is truly dead, which is weird, considering Lao washes up on a shore, in what appears to be Primordia, and gets found by the Black Knight. And the extra weird thing about that it is that the entire Northwestern face of Primordia is entirely mountainous, so Lao would've had to float his mim around Sylvalum to get to the Northeast, or float around to the South. And that's after his mim got wrecked by turning into a chimera, so either the Miran waters healed his mim, or they recreated it on the other side of the ocean.

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The non participating protagonist was annoying and almost had me edging towards "Not all mims are people" theory.

It's an explanation for how he's been around for so long. You did notice all the giant lore throughout the game, didn't you?

>I'm beginning to think they got lucky with XBC
XB1's writing is arguably worse than Saga 2's writing.
Even XBX with its non-story has better writing, and at least XB2's self-aware about its shounen unlike XB1.

>Xenosaga 1 was the best selling Xeno game
Nah. Xenogears was. It sold 1.2 million copies - largely thanks to Squaresoft clout.

it's fucking LOST all over again and that implication raises more questions. I completed it a few weeks ago but I forgot, was there an explicit reason for such a myriad of races of the same planet? all of them were brought over by Ganglion?

I also politely ask, who the fuck is the Black Knight and what was he referenced in?

This

Better gameplay kek

Some of the races were enslaved, yes.

>Nopon
Native to Mira
>Ma-non
Fleeing the Ganglion, arrived on Mira before either the Ganglion or humans
>Prone
Enslaved worker race
>Orpheon
Head scientists of the Ganglion, in charge of weapon R&D
>Wrothians
Mercenaries hired by the Ganglion
>L
Native to Mira
>Celica and Rock
Came to Mira to escape the Ganglion

>who the fuck is the Black Knight
Pic related. He's a mysterious (but not evil) being that finds Lao washed up on the beach at the end of the game. He was supposed to be more important to the game's story, but got cut, like Neilnail (next post).

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I'll be perfectly fine with Monolith doing a X2, and then a XC3 for Nintendo's next console. Alternating between the two branches of Xenoblades is the best way to do keep the franchise going without fatigue.

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And here's Neilnail. She was supposed to be tied in with Celica's story, being the only other Qlurian seen in the game. Considering the Ganglion had no idea how to counter or develop Qlurian technology, I doubt she was with them, but you can fight her twin skells in the Time Trials in the post game, and it's actually required to build the Ares 90.

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I did (well, I did all the giants quests and talked to all the npcs and stuff on my first playthrough but haven't bothered with much side content on later playthroughs, so my memory's rusty), though wasn't he just long lived because of zanza? I don't remember anything about the giants having really long lifespans or anything
it just feels weird that it's such a tiny random part of his character that gets thrown into the plot with so little explanation. like, who the fuck WAS dickson back then aside from 'zanza's lackey dude'? how'd he get involved with him? did he know arglas?
he's such an important character but it feels like we get to know jack shit about him

HARADA WILLS IT

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I'd forgotten how many were slaves and was pondering if Mira was some kind of magnetic hellscape.

I still hope the leak about Black Knight being Malos is trye

>>Nopon
>Native to Mira
Just like (((they're))) native to Bionis and Alrest, right?
I don't trust these furry fucks.

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>believing Yea Forums xenoblade """leaks""" for a second
c'mon user, you're not that dumb

i just want more Kos-Mos

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I doubt it, unless Malos becomes a servant of the Zohar, which is likely what brought everyone to Mira in the first place and causes all the phenomena.

There's also Professor B, who is a time traveling alien from the future who can't even escape Mira with a time machine. So I doubt it's a magnetic hellscape. There's a picture of Mira in the artbook, and it's much, much bigger than you think. Also, it straight up teleports the Ganglion in, according to Luxaar. The Ghost are the ones who shot down the White Whale.

And let's not forget the Definians, whose mother gets mindbroke so you can get 2 Definian waifus/husbandos.

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>but nobody plays Xeno for the gameplay
I do, faggot.

there's this one shot by Mizukami Satoshi called Into the Void

I'm not that dumb but i AM that hopeful.
it would be a cool way to cap off an XBX port

exhentai.org/g/893049/667c501639/

Here's the full artbook if anyone wants it.

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That's basically what the leak said, that Malos was reborn but had a new lease on life and has vowed to protect the conduit to prevent it from being abused.
but it's all contingent on XBX port even existing

Because of the long time I played the game over and a shite memory. Were the ghost mentioned much at all?

This guy knows his shit. Though, I feel like such a Xenogame should have an heavy emphasis on dramatic story, like Xenosaga. Kajiura sounds like gold on those. I'm not sure Takahashi would want to do such stories again.

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So, the Ghost are the ones that shot down the White Whale and another human arc (one carrying New Paris), and they probably ended up following the latter down to Mira. The artbook shows a bit of what they look like, for example They're also in the cutscene in the beginning of the game, fighting Elma and her previous teammates on board the White Whale, with all of the ones on board the White Whale being wiped out. They're still very likely to be on Mira, and I suspect that the Black Knight is to the Ghost as Elma is to the Ganglion.

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Fun fact, XC1 is actually the closest to an Isekai than XC2 is.

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oh shit, that's it
thank you user, that was driving me nuts

Christ. That's why I don't remember because it was right at the beginning. Thanks! I shall have to give the artbook a look.

BK going to fuck the ghost up?

>WHERE YOU EXPECTING TO BE HER FIRST BOY?
>O IM SORRY, I THINK MY CLAWS POPPED HER CHERRY
What was his problem?

Tantal is up the surface at that point, that's why it's getting sunlight

>shulk kills xords and a bunch of faced mechon
>killing mumkhar is too far guys
>dont even tell xords daughter that his father can finally rest
What was their problem?

The creators of Monolith created Xenosaga, wouldn’t surprise me if KOS-MOS gets in Smash. Because she’s essentially like Bayonetta & is a 2nd party Nintendo character now

Glad to help, more people should read it anyway

He didn’t know Xord was a homs and apparently there’s some culture about homs not killing each other.

Maybe.

Also, the Black Knight model was ripped literally 4 days ago. He looks like he fucks.

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Tantal's clear weather actually gets less sunny after it moves to the World Tree - the big holes in its shell get foggy after that point.
If you get the clear weather while it's available before then (I think it's just in the first half of chapter 6, and then chapter 7-8) it's really pretty, so it's a shame they made it completely missable like that.

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Who wouldn't want to go balls deep into KOS-MOS?

is it possible to remove his hood so we can see his helmet or is he gonna just stand there asserting dominance

Shion

>Also, the Black Knight model was ripped literally 4 days ago.
If by '4 days' you mean about a year ago, than sure.

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I'll upload it to google drive for those without credits to direct download

>tfw no Poppi Mahou Shoujo Henshin in battles
You dropped the ball there, Tetsuya.

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Leaked video of Xenosaga 4.

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3/10 not enough Erde Kaiser

>sell-out
Xenoblade 1 is the only Xeno game without cute girls (except Melia) and they all can still be heavily sexualized (except Melia)

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So, why did alvis never tell shulk about klaus and the implications of killing zanza (dooming another world)?

XB2 is nothing like Tales
If anything it's a collision course between Lunar/Skies of Arcadia/Xenogears.

It wouldn't make sense tonally, Poppi is an astro boy reference, not a magical girl reference.

In order from the best (and less likely) to the worst (and most likely):

1) A full Xenosaga reboot

2) "THAT" mysterious action game (pls with mechs and no MMORPG)

3) Another Xenoblade Chronicles

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Obviously Noponblade Chronicles.

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they absolutely should
but yeah, this kind of setting would be incredibly neat for a xeno game
>Xenoblade 1 is the only Xeno game without cute girls
just because its graphics are crap doesn't mean the girls aren't cute or that they aren't meant to be cute. they literally used mecha-fiora to sell the game

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I'd take a game with playable Nopon.
I'm still waiting on the day that Xenoblade gets a proper spinoff starring just Nopon. Maybe a business-simulator or a rocket-slime type game

New X game. Sci-Fi is better than the harem anime trash that chronicles has become.

>reading comprehension
I said (except Melia) after.
Fiora a shit and Sharla's an ugly tittyhag.

What about a sci-fi harem? I want to date Murderess!

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>I'm still waiting on the day that Xenoblade gets a proper spinoff starring just Nopon. Maybe a business-simulator
Monolith Soft Tycoon when?

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>when the fucking joke bonus boss battle becomes an integral part of the story
This was absolutely based.

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>inb4 we get a game where your objective is to create the noponcaust

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But really, what these games all have in common is that they draw from Shonen anime tropes.

They're obviously working on a new Xenoblade game, probably that fantasy game as well. I just hope Nintendo isn't using up their developers for BotW2, they needed the help for 1 since they'd never done an open world game but they should handle 2 on their own.

Xenosaga remake would be completely in Bandai Namco's hands and I'd like to see them drop a big wad of cash for a good remake. They are the biggest anime game publisher so it's not entirely impossible that they'd want to do a remake.

For a lot of retards Tales just means the type of lighthearted anime JRPG they don’t like. They have no idea what they’re talking about.

Make a Civilization clone with Nopon.

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Would play that shit

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>I'd like to see them drop a big wad of cash for a good remake
Never gonna happen because they would never let it be Switch exclusive

As if I didn't already have enough reason to want to play Xenosaga I see this.
Now I just need to actually set up a ps2 emulator.

Monolithsoft wouldn't have anything to do with it. It could be multiplatform. Namco own all the rights don't they?

Better girls than 2 and X wasn't even trying.

>I just hope Nintendo isn't using up their developers for BotW2
Monolith's definitely involved in BOTW2, but now they seem to have a dedicated team for that (and are hiring more people to add to it and the Xenoblade team) so hopefully it shouldn't be taking too many resources from Division 1.
Though with all the new hires Monolith has, this time the worry should be less about whether the Xenoblade team will have enough people and more about how the old talent is being distributed.

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Someone sure is mad about 2

They knew what they were doing. Celica is as stacked as Pyra.

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No, I just think the girls in 2 are bland and personalityless, with a couple exceptions. Pyra's a doormat.

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They are as linked as GTA, Bully and Red Dead.

Some very interesting lore that seems to have been overlooked about Xenoblade Chronicles X.

xenomira.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/pax-prime-2015-slide-translation/

■Celica (Qlurian) Concept
◆Background

Came from another planet
From Planet Qlu/Magi village
Looks like she’s around 20
Occupation: Skell Air Traffic Controller
Very similar appearance to the leader, Nielnail (Qlurians who succeed the maiden all have the same appearance genetically)
Celica’s home planet was the final destination for ancient earthlings who left Earth several tens of thousands of years ago. This is why Celica shares a similar appearance and has similar DNA structures.
■Concept

Only a teeny bit different from humans?? body shape, hair, skin color
Maybe sort of like indigenous people, going with the “Planet was conquered” and “humans from tens of thousands of years ago” plotline?

Qlurian Character Diagram
Niel tribe (Maiden-like role)
Celica’s tribe Moss’ tribe

So Celica is a descendant of Earth's humans....

What if Mira exists within some space where time doesn't flow. What if the White Whale has actually been stuck on Mira for thousands of years.

What if this ties in with Professor B somehow? Maybe he's actually from the "present" time outside of Mira?

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>4X game with various Nopon nations and civs, both those from past games as well as those that will be in future games
>whole RPG element where you play as a heropon that has to help unite the nopon people to deal with an intergalactic threat
Endless Nopon 2 please

fuck off redditor. Go back and take your wojacks with you.

ur mom

>Nopon civ
>Homs civ
>Human civ
>Mechon civ
>High Entia civ
>Cave Prone civ
>Tree Prone civ
>Wrothian civ
>Ganglion civ
>Ghost civ
>Orpheon civ that plays like the Broken Lords
>Gormotti civ
>Urayan civ
>Ardainian civ
>Indolian civ that plays like Civ V Venice

Fund it

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I still want to see Nintendo tackle the FPS using XBCX as a world.
You could have two ark ships fighting each other, one with frozen humans who's forces are supplemented by robots and another ship with mims.
Could be like Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, but it wouldn't be shit.

I admit I found the Wrothian women quite sexy. Especially the one with the cute mouse ears.

>Celica’s home planet was the final destination for ancient earthlings who left Earth several tens of thousands of years ago.
That would have to have been the Samaar, since humans are descended from them as well. So that means Humans would be to the Qlurians as Chimps are to Humans in our reality. But also, it'd mean that if you busted a fat nut in Celica's tight cunt, you could have children.

It also probably means that the reason the Qlurians are so advanced is because they got all the Samaarian technology

The whole party is a bunch of nopons except for the obligatory human character

Ga Buidhe is the sexiest catgirl in the series.

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I just hope the next game comes out before Nintendo changes the lead platform again.
XC2 could easily have run on the WiiU.

>So what do you hope is next for Monolith Soft
Gas the Nopons

>no Blade civ

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but then who will run their twitter??

I'm not sure what annoys me more about this gif.
The clothing getting destroyed with no practical way to fix it. Or the fact that based on how things are coming off her tits should be exposed, but aren't.

>So what do you hope is next for Monolith Soft, a new blade, X or some new Xenogame?

To refocus their efforts on world design, gameplay and graphics, not story..

>But also, it'd mean that if you busted a fat nut in Celica's tight cunt, you could have children.
great news!

He already put X in the question

>What if Mira exists within some space where time doesn't flow. What if the White Whale has actually been stuck on Mira for thousands of years.

batenkaitos.fandom.com/wiki/Mira

Mira (known as City of Illusion) is a island floating in the Sky and one of the Five Great Nations. Mira is known for its constant fluctuation between this dimension and another. This gives Mira its mysterious glow and the feeling of impermanence where things appear and disappear at will. The island can only be accessed from our dimension through the Trail of Souls.

Her nipples have robo suction cup technology.

That boobknife is canon btw.

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I don't buy it. I think people are seeing things now that they know Zelda is being developed.

This.
It's awfully telling that not a single person noticed any of that before the hiring page for Zelda stuff went up.

Lmao why would tools of the human civ have a civ of their own? Might as well make a wrench and screw driver civ.

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fuck you amalthus, youre the reason why the gacha is so shit

>Game series has a developer known for writing some of the greatest stories ever told in gaming, with believable flawed characters, insanely ambitious galaxy spanning world building and an intricate and interwoven plot.
>Hurr they should just skip the story

1. Stick them in HD, tidy up the menus, add an option to speed up animations and include 1&2.

Keep that shit in XC3.

I want Monolith Soft the developer, not Takahashi the liar

I know it's canon, it still annoys the fuck out of me.

What are you talking about? Amalthus is just friendly fellow who provides a convenient service to make core crystals nice and easy to resonate with. You should be grateful!

can't wait for XC2 to be playable on Yuzu

>in game universe reason for gatcha is that the main villain is an asshole
Bravo kojima

I mean it'd still be a gacha even if he wasn't doing anything, it'd just have better rates.

Bet youre the reason ursula takes 16 fucking hours to become good you fucking kike
Also give me MY KOS-MOS REEEEEEEE

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the chosen race

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Just ask the mechon, the ayy lmaos or the bladdes, atleast none of those 3 ask for more than minium wage

Hey Jin...

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That won’t stop it from being a shit game

>even monsters that control blades are cucked when it comes to gatcha luck

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This one.

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Delete this old fart

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who fucking cares?

>this never got scanned
Thank the architect

I don't know, that spider that rolled Wulfric was pretty lucky.

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I will welcome any game Monolith Soft puts out.I had great experiences with the Blade series and now I'm going through Gears

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The only thing he did wrong was hiring incompetent faggots that gave Jin enough time to turn into a flesh eater. Realistically, Alrest was beyond fucked without the Architect showing himself.

It's okay to be jealous.

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Where is it mentioned that they shot down New Paris? In the artbook?

>and proves that it's perfectly fine if you undo the major death in a story if it's done correctly
It's fine if you didn't see it coming miles away.

That they take pokemon away from gamefreak

Why is malos dabbing on those children

>Bet youre the reason ursula takes 16 fucking hours to become good you fucking kike
>ursula
>become good

I did not waste 1/4 of my playthough on a shitty blade user, i refuse to accept it

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sometimes you've just gotta nuke a town to have a good time
and killing their best friend is a great way to make a first impression on your future allies

Chu Chu died for our sins

oh yeah that kid is Mikhail huh
I should probably get around to playing Torna

There was a side mission where you find a chunk of New Paris, so they obviously got shot down too, and it makes sense for the Ghost to have done it since the Ganglion were already trapped on Mira.

XBC niggers with their disgusting shit taste. I hope they remake the game on the switch and swap out all the models for XB2 waifus as well as add gacha for the gundams.

Ursula is so cute, I just can’t get mad at her

>hey jin and mikhail, im the reason you guys lifes are so fucked, wanna join me in my quest to punch god in the face?

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spoken like someone who hasn't actually finished the quest
the cuteness gets old about 10 hours in

>Why would someone draw this
Because Amalthus is hot and right

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I can, 16 fucking hours user

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Retard confirmed. XB2 was actually a return to form. It was a lot closer to Xenogears than XBC. All the silly anime shit has been in the franchise since the very first game. XB2 was just the most light hearted in the series so far.

it's actually 'oh shit i'm the reason jin's life is fucked, I should help him punch god in the face'

>not even the fucking kill every unique monster blade is as annoying as ursula
What were they thinking?

>Because Amalthus is hot
but he isn't well admittedly he was kind of cute as a kid but that went away fast

Amalthus was nominated hottest guy on Alrest for 124 years in a row. Numbers and facts don't lie.

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Best Xenoblade girl

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>only nominated, didn't win
>been around for at least 500 years, only nominated 124 times
Weak!

core crystals
not even once

I wish we learnt more about the Indoline and Judicium. Like what was up with the markings on Ammy’s mother’s forehead? It feels like they wanted to do more with XC2’s worldbuilding and lore but couldn’t.

>alvin gets away with murdering based klaus because muh passage of fate
>klaus didnt know his waifu was alive and could never apologize to her

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That was part of the White Whale that had communications in French.

We could assume Alvis had no idea that anyone was left back home. And Klaus watching his other self murder Meyneth wouldn’t be much better, though it does make you wonder how much he knew, considering he was aware that Zanza’s death was approaching.

I think those might just be a Indoline thing, like the markings on the Tantalese.
But yeah, there's just so much about XB2's world that was left unexplored, and Indol and Judicium/Temperantia got some of the worst of it.

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Didn't Zanza himself have an inkling that he was going to die, since he stopped being able to see past a certain point in the future?
I could see Klaus only knowing because that feeling transferred over to him, or something.

Just give the Torna combat engine but in a more fully realized wotld that's more like XBC1 than 2.

He was in denial, he refused to accept it. Klaus accepted it without problems.

XBC2's world is more fully realized than XBC1
OR are you saying XBC1's style of world but more fully realized like XBC2's?

user he said "wouldn't", not "does more than anyone"

Klaus wanted to die, his daughter found a good shota dick, malos was about to get dabbed on and he got to redeem himself

This scene in XG was so forced and cringey to me, more than anything else in the series
There was literally no reason to crucify the fucking robots

>So what do you hope is next for Monolith Soft, a new blade, X or some new Xenogame?
Localized remake of Soma Bringer

If it must be one of your choices, would want X2, Saga Trilogy remake, and 3 in descending order

That makes sense. But it also adds to my interest more about what things were really like back then for regular Indol folk, or how that nation even worked as far as joining the religion or being a citizen goes. Sad that we’ll never learn more about Alrest and its people.

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But muh evangelion user

Maybe one day Monolith will take pity on us and release an Alrest Record that contains a bit more information on Alrest instead of summaries of shit we already and a few tiny scraps of clarification hidden in character bios.
I'm not bitter or anything.

Melia plz

I’m still disappointed myself. Should have guessed it would mostly be a character art book.

After the last two (relatively) text-heavy art books it was a real letdown, and moreso considering that even with the focus on art they couldn't include everything.
At least we got the tidbits that showed up in the production notes and the Siren model, but considering that a detail as big as Blades not originally having weapons is one of the pieces of information that isn't even touched upon ingame, you really have to wonder if there are other bits of lore there are that are just going to sit on Takahashi's hard drive forever.

I'm on the fence about grabbing XC2 for the Switch. How well does the game run in handheld mode?

>the number of followed accounts on the twitter account I made for finding Xeno fanart went down again
RIP, whoever you were.
Well, it runs, but it's not pretty. Not QUITE as horrible as the screenshots you'll tend to see of Gomott (which is definitely the worst looking area in the game in handheld mode), but still fairly ugly.

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How are they going to match X's world in X2?

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It's pretty terrible
Here's a screenshot in docked mode (Torna, but same deal)

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And here's handheld
These aren't (intentionally) cherrypicked screenshots, they're just the only two I have on my switch for comparison's sake

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>comparing Torna to handheld Gormott
That's pretty fucking cherrypicked user.

Jesus, that's a lot worse than I thought it would be. The main reason why I asked is because I'm going to be traveling a lot in the next few weeks and having something to keep me entertained during my downtime would've been fun, but I think I'll be passing on it for now.

I am a poorfag and the switch lite seems to be my only option, how is xbc2 on handlet mode?

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look a few posts up

Well, is not something I can't endure.

The Torna screenshot I took because I thought it looked nice, and the Gormott one I took because it was the first time I played in handheld.
Torna really doesn't THAT much better than the base game though.

It really is a shame they never tried to make it better by at LEAST removing the ugly sharpening filter, considering all the patches they DID put out.
Had they done that and retroactively applied some of the Torna QoL changes to the base game it really could have enhanced the experience.

>Torna really doesn't THAT much better than the base game though.
It's not that Torna looks that much better than the main game, it's that acting like Gormott/Torigoth is representative of the majority of handheld mode is bullshit.
It still looks shitty but it's not the kind of ridiculous blurriness that's in your screenshot, and it looks a lot more decent when you're viewing it on the Switch's screen. I've played plenty of XB2 in handheld and it isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

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>Hating on Satoshi Kon
The man died too young, what more do you have to hate on him, you piece of shit

For clarity's sake I tried to recreate the original screenshot in handheld mode. Ignore the skybox looking a lot shittier, that much is just the weather condition.
I guess there is more of a difference than I thought, but the visuals still look muddy. In general the AA and sharpening filter they used for this game look fucking awful, no matter how you play. I'm pretty sure this would look totally serviceable without it.

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>The point isn't the choice of shows and movies, but the attitude of the people who watch them and gravitate towards those like them.
Oh no, heaven forbid people like something

There are actually graphics settings that you access with a hacked Switch and use to turn off the sharpening crap.
It definitely looks a lot better that way.

I have an older model with the exploit but I don't wanna hack because I know it'll only lead to me downloading every game for the system and playing none of them. I had heard about this and it's honestly the one thing that has me thinking twice.
Got any screenshots of it?

Best boy.

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