Unironically the most mind-blowing game I have played since Shadow of the Colossus first graced the Ps2 in 2005. Never before did I fathom a modern game could be capable of dethroning so many other classic personal favs of mine considering the extremely thick nostalgia goggles I wear for the SNES and Gamecube's respective libraries. Xenoblade Chronicles X currently sits in my number 3 spot of all-time best vidya.
What is your excuse for not playing this sacred masterpiece, Yea Forums?
I've started XCX like 5 times over the years and never finished it. I always drop the game shortly after getting a Skell because I don't want it to end.
It's so fucking comfy at first and the xenophobic tensions towards the midpoint are great, but I don't want to get to the point where I've done all the character events and all the story missions and all that's left is killing the biggest beasts.
The latest story mission I can remember doing is the one where you defend NLA from a Ganglion siege. It was a lot of fun but I could feel the end on the horizon and it took the wind right out my sails.
You stopped at chapter 8 when there are 12 story chapters. Since side-quests unlock with chapter progress you are missing out on so much of the game, not to mention all the post-game stuff too. If you like the game you owe it to yourself to finish it - better that than just repeating the same stuff over and over, which you can do after you finish it anyway.
probably my favorite game of the last 10 years. good gaem
I really need to play it again. We're never getting a switch port are we?
Correct.
DIE WOLKENKRATZER
No excuse I poured 200+ hours into it. It took me 40 hours to get the Skell because I was having so much fun running around. And then I got the flight module 75 hours in. It's a very special and emotional game to me for many a reason.
Keeping impossibly false hopes for a Switch port and Elma in Smash
tank top is true power.
What's your top 10, OP?
Forgot mah pic.
Always been interested in this series, can i start at this one or do i have to start from whatever the fuck the first is.
Also does CEMU do 4k for this? I got a pretty beefy PC
I'm probably alone with this, but I was always on edge exploring new places. It felt like everything was alive and one misstep could kill. Such a unique experience
WIND BLOWS HARD IN DECEMBER
As a rule of thumb, Monoloth games without a numerical sequence are not direct sequels. Xenoblade X has very little to do with Xenoblade Chroncies besides some similarities in the combat system.
As flawed as it is, it's definitely in my top 10 of all time. It's been a long time since I've been this immersed in a game.
Convinced, the download begins, now i get to figure out CEMU
tfw you will never play this game for the first time again :(
>The soundtrack is rancid dogshi-
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Worth noting CEMU has a few audio mixing problems but I think there's a patch for it. Also the game relies on you seeing the gamepad all the time to see a larger map, manage data probes and for fast travelling, so be prepared to use that.
Also remember to save every time before you go into the affinity chart. There was a softlock glitch on Wii U and it can happen on CEMU too.
>it'd be expensive
>btw we just opened 50 new branches and our profits are up 200%
JUST FUCKING PORT IT REEEEEEEEE
>The soundtrack is rancid dogshi-
STUCK ON A DIFFERENT PLAAANET
A LOT MORE THAN WE CAN MAAANAGE
BUT WE GOTTA KEEP ON STAAANDIN'
That was my exploring experience 90% of the game, unless I was flying. And then the freedom you feel on large areas where you can run wildly and avoid enemies, it was such a great feeling.
>As a rule of thumb
>Literally 1 game breaks such a "rule"
I can guarantee even people who love open world games have never even heard of this game. There is no way you can convince me in any way theat there exists a game with a better open World than XCX. If you can say with a straight face that game Y has a better open world than XCX, you are either speaking from a story perspective or haven't even played XCX.
Because typically people who want open world games didn't own a Wii U, nor did they release on Wii U. Much less to an exclusive capacity.
Pain in the ass to emulate, wiiu cost too god damn much even if I buy it used. Port when?
Gothic II
It's pretty empty and barren, there's nothing to discover in it. You're practically performing orbital drops to destroy something then fuck off back to new LA.
Seeing how NLA changes was amazing though, the lore of the races,this
Story is never ending
it's a fucking shit game mate. the only xeno game I never finished.
glad it will never get a port or a sequel
question: how do you have taste this bad?
I know, right? It is fantastic. Spent over 250h in it.
We still might get Zohar/Conduit fuckery down the line to explain what the hell Mira is.
God i wish the story in this game wasnt so ass. I love the combat, I love the skells, i love the exploration, i love the music even, but the STORY. WHAT THE FUCK. SO MANY RANDOM TWISTS THAT DONT EVEN MAKE SENSE AND THEN JUST END IT ON A HUGE CLIFFHANGER THAT MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
how can such a soulful game turn into soulless trash 2?
>2 was soulles-
neither does BotW, yet that game is lauded as the second coming of christ, because the great plateau was the entire game.
It's one thing to not focus on the story, but ending on a cliffhanger is a dick move and will make any potential sequels stuck between a rock and a hard place
>do we focus on making a new continent to explore (the strength of the game) while ignoring all the setting stuff we did last game
>or do we spend an entire game trying to patch up the plotholes and cliffhangers we ended the last game with
where's the soul? All I see is reused assets mashed together by an outsourced company
No one mentioned BotW, besides you.
Opportunity cost, user. The time, manpower, and money they spend porting it could be spent on making new things.
If you really care to know, here ya go, faggot
The story in itself is alright if you can look past the bazillion cliffhangars, but the villains are absolute dogshit. Literally Saturday morning cartoon tier, especially Luxaar.
One thing that really annoyed me, though, is the NPC death count. You can't just give a shit about anybody when everybody is dropping like flies with little to no time to build up an emotional attachment to them:
> a teammate of Irina gets blown up during the Ganglion siege
> everybody is fucking sad about it
> can't really care for the guy since he was basically name-dropped a few times before and that's it
t. Sawano's style is trashy as fuck.
The side quests and their casts are unironically built up better than the main cast. I felt worse about Ackwar dying because it was a consequence of my own choices, or that one guy with the bomb strapped to him in the same mission, than I did for Lao's teammates or Marcus.
This. I really liked XCX and a lot of elements for the open world were great, but at the same time it could feel pretty barren and lacking too. I hated that items and collectables were just those little blue crystals to represent them too.
BotW is certainly similar in how the open world is both enjoyable but can feel shitty and barren too. At least XCX also had more questing and tons of customization and things to do, while BotW felt like exploring the world was even more meant to be the center of the game. While it was still fun and the world looked pretty, yeah it was pretty boring and barren a lot of the time. I'd put XCX's world over BotW's for me, personally. Just BotW gave you better mechanics to explore with how free the climbing and shit was, despite flying Skells.
I was enjoying the absolute shit out of this game, right up until the point where all the team members I'd been building were suddenly made obsolete, and the world exploration was trivialized, immediately sucking out all the wonder and mystery I'd been experiencing up to that point.
I don't think I've ever felt so robbed in any videogame.
Therefore it's a vaguely accurate rule instead of an ironclad one. Thus "a rule of thumb".
I was going to play it in 2015 but i did't have enough space on my Wii U hard drive and i didn't want to erase stuff. So i used my money to buy Splatoon.
In hindsight i believe it was for the best. I was 14 at the time and i wasn't used to RPGs on the scale of the Xeno Series, i probably would just like it for a while but wouldn't go very far (Did this with Child of Light).
Now that i've played XC2 i'm interested in new Xeno experiences.
> A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
This pretty much sums up my feelings about most deaths. Despite playing through the game only a few weeks ago, I can barely remember any of the sidequest characters. Most prominently I could remember the faggot twins and Professor B. Who was Ackwar again?
It's hard to care about humans dying in XCX during the story for a much bigger reason than not getting to know them first.
ate too much tatsu.
I hated BotW for the same reason. I went into it mostly blind and my biggest disappointment was how empty it was.
The soundtrack sure is wild for this game. Almost all the instrumental stuff is great, while anything with actual lyrics is grating garbage, especially with how New LA loops the same like 2 songs the whole game making them even more painful.
Manon detective dude. His sidequest starts when you walk between two buildings in the shopping district and involves the pizza store owner goes nuts
Ah, that one. He had at least a bit of build-up before getting killed off.
New L.A. Night theme is based, though.
You honestly care more about xenos dying than humans dying because the game literally sets up human deaths to be inconsequential due to the Lifehold. Playing through it again and knowing these people are actually dead for good makes it a little more hard to hear.
>wiiu cost too god damn much even if I buy it used.
Nigga, you serious?
It should be 50dlls at most.
what are the chances this will emulate on my i3 toaster laptop
Beggars can't be choosers.
Does this thing still emulate like ass with terrible sound glitches and shit?
>terrible sound glitches
That's just the soundtrack, user.
I spoiled the ending to myself years ago since I never expected to play the game anyway. So I knew from the very beginning that everybody who dies is actually fucked. Still couldn't care.
And it isn't just humans (many of them are comical scumbags anyway). The retarded cavemen are bad, the pizza guzzlers range from bro to fucking annoying and just a dead Nopon is a good Nopon.
At least Lionbros, Suitbros and Insectbros balanced this shitshow out.
Slim to none. It runs like absolute shit for me with a decent GPU and fairly old CPU, I doubt a laptop would do better.
I'll never forget getting to Sylvalum for the first time. It's a whole different experience if you traverse there on foot rather than flying or anything like that.
too bad none of them join the party
Is a second playthrough worth replacing my GamePad battery, Yea Forumsros?
The game is really good, buy holy shit, the "Lin eats Tatsu" joke its really bad
Nah, I'd say $80~$90 would be a good sweet spot for the 32Gb model while maybe around $60 for the 8Gb shitstain. Not that anybody thinking of playing XCX should bother with the 8Gb model since the performance patch which is basically necessary to properly enjoy the game takes up 20+Gb iirc. Still, it felt like sorcery that they even got that game to run on the Wii U at all, let alone with such a consistent frame rate considering the scale of the seamless open world here.
The catgirls were sexy, especially the mouseeared one.
I taken a screenshot of every instance she made that joke.
>I taken a screenshot of every instance she made that joke.
post it
I was thinking of running XCX via CEMU on a pretty high-end gaming laptop at 4k resolution. You think it'd be able to handle 30 fps with little to no drops below? Pic related for reference~
Honestly. Great taste.
Lack of modern games tho, complete your backlog user.
>high-end gaming laptop at 4k resolution
Why.
Yes. It's the best open-world game I've played.
I sent them to a friend, but I will endeavor to make a collage for any future threads. I also once collected every instance of "It can't be helped" in Legend Of The Galactic Heroes.
I played the whole thing with an i5 4690k and a gtx 1060 6gb. You'll be fine.
>Why.
I am ADDICTED to super high pixel density. When you go 250~300 PPI with 20/20 vision, it is hard as fucking hell to go back. Hell, my 50'' 4k tv in the living room looks like a jaggy nightmare even when playing games at native 2160p.
And before you ask, no, I do not use any scaling in Windows 10. More screen real-estate is better if you can handle the teensy-tiny text.
I wonder why it runs like crap for me then. I get 30 fps in some areas but it often drops to 15 in combat or certain areas.
I really want an instrumental version of Uncontrollable.
The most technologically impressive game of the generation (Wii U is still this gen) came out on the weakest console of the generation. What the hell?
Also Xenoblade X holds the world record for biggest entirely handcrafted open world. There's bigger open worlds out there, but they're either procedurally generated, or partially generated and then manually touched up.
But 2's the most soulful Xenoblade.
But it's also the worst Xenoblade too.
Being jank and intentionally goofy doesn't make it soulful. It's seasonal anime filler made into a video game.
>seasonal anime
The most recent thing I can think of that resembles 2 in the slightest is Eureka 7 and that was over a decade ago. If anything 2's a mishmash of common 90s shounen and 90s science fantasy filler.
implying X doesn't mean ten
I'm pretty sure they'll port it eventually. I wouldn't trust what these sneaky devs say to be honest.