Pan-Xeno thread. What is your:

Whats good about X?

>First Xeno game
Xenosaga I
>Favorite
Xenosaga III
>Favorite area
I liked being able to see the Miltian Conflict across the 3 games, getting a little more insight to it each time. The little nods 3 makes to the previous 2 games was really neat.

Speaking of music I really like how Alba Cavanich in XB2 literally sounds like a modern rendition of an early 80s anime track.

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Entertainingly written sidequests with goofy dialogue choices and branching paths
Tons of armor to play dress-up dolls with
Large openworld to explore; lots of fun to be had by evading enemies and going to places way overlevelled from you

If you like the exploring of other Blade games or you like games where you can dick around for ages before returning to the main plot then X is perfect. I already played Blade games by putting the main story on the backburner until I got bored of sidequesting, so I never had to deal with the gated story chapters. Of course it's not surprising most people don't play Xeno games that way so they just hit their head on the endless story chapter gates and then got a mediocre narrative for their troubles.

>torna above base game
how to invalidate your opinion

>first xeno game
xenoblade 11
>favorite
either gears, X, or blade 2 for the story/exploration/combat respectivly, depends how I feel at the time
>favorite areas in any Xeno game?
Exploration wise I think Gormott and Noctilum are the best. Sylvalum is the best visually. Storywise It would be the entire Morytha areas of blade 2

>xenogears
>xenogears
>Shevat

It improved on the combat heavily

>xenoblade 11
Did X2 ever come out, future user?

it didn't, it removed a good deal of strategy by having orbs apply on every special attack. The only thing that's improved are about half of the talent arts being cool. The other half are useless or way too situational.

Is there a Xeno game without absolutely Kino music? I don't think so

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Xenosaga 1. The music isn't bad but it's extremely underwhelming.

xenosaga 1 has a great soundtrack. I didn't like it at first because it didn't sound like any of mitsuda's other work, but it grew on me

Reminder:
Xenogears is a SquareEnix IP.
Xenosaga is a Bandai Namco IP.
Xenoblade is a Nintendo IP.

>Best side quests in any game ever made. They basically amount to 1.5x the content of the already long 50 hour campaign, and they're extremely well written and directed
>Interesting world design
>Best combat of any Xeno- game
>Extremely customizable characters. You can have an acrobatic midget with balloon tits or a towering lanklet acting like a riot cop
>Plenty of party members with memorable and endearing sidequest chains that end up being as fleshed out as Zeke or Morag by the end of Xenoblade 2

I think it's a flawed gem, but I can understand why some people don't like it. It has a flawed main plotline, but I think overall it has the best story of any Xenoblade. It's an absolute masterpiece at environmental story telling. You end up caring more about Mira than you should care about a fictional world. It's as fleshed out as Tamriel or Middle Earth, if not more.

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Sadly. I would love for all three to be linked. Like, straight up have the Zohar introduced in Xenoblade 3 and Fei, Elly, KOS-MOS, Shion, Elma, Lin, Py/My/Pneuma, Rex, Shulk, and Fiora fall out of it.

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>best combat
skell combat is the worst in the series, counting saga 2

>Xenosaga 1. The music isn't bad but it's extremely underwhelming.

Lmao

Xenosaga 1 puts most film scores to shame

youtu.be/vxqVuNnFbZw
youtu.be/Cc7p3u5UJpw
youtu.be/kzVA4tDyVXk

Skell combat isn't even half of the system. Even then, it's pretty much the same as Xenoblade 2's system. You get a reduced amount of arts, you spend most of your time auto-attacking, and then you use your specials to blow shit up. Activating overdrive is just switching to Mythra and hitting >50% crit rate, but in skell form.

Meanwhile, there are classes in X with a more unique spread of arts than exists in the entirety of Xenoblade 2.

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>Even then, it's pretty much the same as Xenoblade 2's system
no it's not? skell combat is brainlessly spamming arts, xenoblade 2 has you build up to specific blade combo chains while juggling driver combos

are you the same retarded who thinks overdrive ghost walker is less broken than chain attacks in 2?

>First Xeno game
Xenogears
>Favorite Xeno game
Xenoblade 1, 2 and X
>Favorite area in any Xeno game?
Satorl, the Shimmering Marsh at night
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It's kind of linked in Xenoblade 2. The conduit's called the Zohar in the game's files and although the KOS-MOS/T-elos/Shulk/Fiora/Elma cameos have no consequence or impact on the story, there's stuff from KOS-MOS's XB2 concept art and Elma's ingame dialogue that suggests there's some canonicity going on. With the conduit's ability to cross universes everything's up in the air.

With how friendly Bamco is with Monolith I wouldn't be surprised if Harada pulls some strings and lets Takahashi tie Xenosaga into Xenoblade officially.

I don't know how he'd do it since the Conduit and Zohar work differently. But they're both mysterious enough and have enough similarities that Takahashi could bullshit a way to make it related without being cheap.

Xenogears will never, ever be connected to Xenoblade and Xenosaga though because Square are stingy.

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>First Xeno game
Xenoblade 1
>Favorite Xeno game
Xenogears
>Favorite area in any Xeno game?
Shevat, Zeboim, Morytha, World Tree

>Activating overdrive is just switching to Mythra and hitting >50% crit rate, but in skell form.
false equivalency, xenoblade 2 has disables and crowd control to stop combo building. There's no serious CC for skells and no combos to build under a time limit

You can do equally complex chains in skell form. And by that, I mean using one move that inflicts break, another that inflicts topple, and then grabbing the enemy.

>overdrive ghost walker is less broken than chain attacks in 2
It obviously is. You're retarded to believe otherwise.

Xenosaga and gears are linked way more closely than blade is to saga.

>There's no serious CC for skells
Anything with the gravity element. Plenty of enemies can also fry your skell and lock its controls, or inflict topple. Or any number of debuffs, actually. There are more debuffs in X than in 2, by a long shot.

so do people still want a Xeno Warriors game

I remember the topic coming up pretty frequently and then they just announced a Persona 5 Musou.

part of me wants one but after FE Warriors I know they'd make a total shitshow out of it. I keep thinking "it'd be cool if XB2 characters each had different Blade weapon movesets available so they could implement lots of Rare Blades without much resources, or X characters could use skells as a second moveset" but then I remember they'd only include the director's personal favorite Rare Blades and the only X content would be Elma as a Fiora reskin or something

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Yeah, my wish is mostly just for Squeenix to stop being so fucking Jewish about it. Even when they're partnering with Nintendo they still manage to fuck things up, like giving Cloud all of 2 FF songs, or only giving Nintendo the MIDI versions of DQ songs.

>So do people still want a Xeno Warriors game
I'd be incredibly down for it. iirc, didn't the guys who made HW and FEW say they wanted to work on Xenoblade Warriors?

They mentioned it as something they'd be interested in because of the focus on characters, yeah

Yes and no. Takahashi meant for them to be connected but he had to tip-toe around legal issues since Square are assholes. The connection is implied but not canon. The connections between Xenogears and Xenosaga are much more important to the narrative.
Bamco's a lot more lenient than Square is. The connections between Xenoblade 2 and Xenosaga are much more blatant than the connections between Xenogears and Xenosaga, but still not canon anyways. The connections are also moreso fanservicey "Remember that?" and "It could be connected on the side" rather than being important to the narrative compared to Xenogears x Xenosaga. The conduit is literally a Zohar-shaped god-tool that was found in a lake in Africa.

Franchise I've always wanted to get into but man it's a clusterfuck.
>PSX game is unfinished
>PS2 series had to be chopped from 6 games to 3, ending is probably rushed to hell
>Wii game trapped on waggle console
>Wii U game trapped on Wii U
>Switch game is a sequel to games I'll never play
>Meme-loaded brit dubs where the stupid ass localization decisions shine through in the subtitles so even if you turn it to JP audio you still see "OY GUV" instead of english

Xenoblade Warriors cast:

>Shulk
>Fiora
>Sharla
>Riki
>Elma (Fiora reskin)
>Tatsu (Sharla reskin)
>Rex
>Pyra
>Mythra
>Pneuma
>Nia
>Nia (blade form)
>Rex (equipping Nia)
>Electra
>KOS-MOS (Riki reskin)
>Finch
>Poppi QT

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The Xenoblades aren't meme-loaded, they're just full of quoteable British dialogue that became memes afterwards.

>First
Gears
>Favorite
Blade
>Favorite Area
Shevat in XG, Satori (at Night) in XBC

your narrative that any of this is because "square are assholes" is retarded.

Xenoblade 2 has all of 5 references to Xenoblade 1. You can enjoy the game without playing it.

Also, if you've got a PC made this decade, you can emulate Xenoblade 1 via Dolphin (no waggle), or if you've got a 3DS you can play it on that. As for X, you can play it using CEMU, and it, and BotW, are the most emulated Wii U games and thus have the most support.

Alternatively, buy a second-hand Wii U for $90 and then you've got access to Xenoblade 1 and X, on top of the rest of the Wii U's catalog that hasn't been ported (W101, SM3DW, Metroid Prime Trilogy)

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How does this Xenoblade-related image make you feel? Perhaps BORN IN A WORLD OF STRIFE

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honestly the brit dub is a way bigger factor in me not touching those games. and again, even though there's the option for jp audio, the subs are still britspeak.

none of those stop the arts spam from occurring, having the bar drain in 2 has the entire process start over (or getting blade/driver locked)

nothing in this series is as broken as ghost walker overdrive, you can't even get hit during it

X doesn't have British localization. It also has the best voice acting, though I'd reckon 1's localization is more iconic, and has more poignant scenes with Adam Howden.

X does not have better VA than 1, not even close. There isn't a single memorable VA

>There isn't a single memorable VA

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>mythra
>spam arts
>die due to aggro gain

for all the wrong reasons

>for all the wrong reasons
as opposed to "I have never heard a British accent before therefore this game has good voice acting"?

>Xenoblade X 2
>Klaus is a good dad
>one of the last things he does before dying is giving Malos another chance
>Malos reactivates on Mira as a weird Conduit/Zohar paladin like Alvis but without the godness
>Malos retains all of his memories and personality from Alrest but is separated from Amalthus's imprint on him and Torna's depression/hatred
>as a conduit wizard he mostly watches from the sidelines and doesn't get involved unless Zohar shenanigans get in the way
>becomes the Black Knight
>takes a notice of Lao who reminds him of Jin
>wanting to atone for what he's done on Alrest, he revives Lao on the beach at the end of Xenoblade X
>becomes to Lao as what Alvis is to Shulk or Pyra is to Rex
>Xenoblade X2 is a Lao and Malos redemption arc as two broken edgelords awkwardly try to become good guys
>Lao and Malos are the protagonists
>Lao and Malos constantly clash with Elma, Cross and the rest of the gang as a reoccurring boss fights (even though they're not bad guys, just doing their jobs)

>set in Mira a hundred or so years after Xenoblade X
>Mimeosones don't age so most of the original cast are back
>Mira is more developed now, more towns and cities besides NLA, highways going through the original continents, flora and fauna are exploited and farmed, resources are industrialized
>two new continents across the ocean introduced
>4 new continent-sized areas under the ocean introduced
>focus of the game is ocean exploration in mechs rather than land exploration
Takahashi please hire my lazy NEET ass

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>Nothing in this series is as broken as ghost walker overdrive
Yeah, chain attacks in 2
>You can't even get hit during it
Neither can you get hit during chain attacks in 2. Oh yeah, and you can deal even more absurd amounts of damage and seal away moves. At least Ghost Walker can be mitigated by superbosses in X. Chain Attacks can ruin Kurodil. If you try Ghost Walker-ing at the 2 giant worms in Sylvalum, they'll delete your evades and then OHKO you.

Playing Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time in Dolphin with the HD texture pack. It's my first Xeno* game. Pretty fun so far.

Shulk, Reyn, and Dunban are the only memorable performances in 1, though. And 2 of them because of memes. X was more professional, but also a bit soulless in execution.

adam howden has one of, if not the best VAs of a dub, british or not

you have to build up to a chain attack in 2 with orbs, you can initiate an overdrive in X at the start of a battle and keep it there

>If you try Ghost Walker-ing at the 2 giant worms in Sylvalum, they'll delete your evades and then OHKO you.
ghost walker isn't OP because of the 6 hits it gives you, it's OP because the entire animation grants you unlimited evasion

What part are you at?

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Alvis and Zanza also in my opinion

>calling anything in 2 broken compared X when you can one shot all the super bosses before you even get to post game in X
never mind the retarded ghost walker spam in overdrive, just run a potential build

Really early. Basically the beginning of the game. Just got the cylinders and the Mechons invaded. 4 hours in because I'm really f̶e̶e̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶t̶ taking my time and enjoying it.

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You can build up the orbs insanely quickly, and you can deal absolutely absurd amounts of damage when you pop it. Meanwhile, Ghost Walker has a 54 second cooldown.

See, I know what I'm talking about because I beat both X and 2 at least twice. I doubt you've ever even finished X.

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Calm down X-fag. though I'd put Torna in B tier at least, and XSII in C, I still pretty much agree

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>First
Blade
>Favorite
Blade 2

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That ending was so terrible I dropped it and never came back to the series.

>base cooldown without overdrive
nice try kid

You can rig Poppi to OHKO everything, too. The amount of bullshit you can do with her is comparable to completely supping up Agashura Cannon or any of the super weapons in X. And potential builds that strong require well over 20 hours of grinding. I remember trying to fit 1 character with all Potential XX augments, and it took 28 hours of grinding the fucking Sylooths. Without the online tickets, it probably would've added another 4 hours onto the grind time.

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>Gears
>Gears
>Shevat and the entire sequence of defending it from Maria's father

It still takes 18 seconds to get off cooldown.

>You can rig Poppi to OHKO everything, too
I haven't found any content of poppi OHKOing anything, and I'd love to see anything get OHKO in the nopondemonium or bringer of chaos

user you really need to play Xenogears. The sheer amount of unfulfilled ambition in that game is amazing.

youtube.com/watch?v=wRVPnbdy5DY
youtube.com/watch?v=o1jCRozRd5U

the truth is the more customizable a game is the more easily it'll be broken. you can customize Poppi, Skells and Cross to such an absurd degree that it's no surprise they can do insane shit.

first of all, that isn't necessarily one shotting. the first vid also uses a glitch that was patched out. Now lets see the nopondemonium or BoC content

for

Best way to play it? Don't have an actual PS1. Should I emulate it on something, or grab the PSOne Classic version?

>First Xeno game
Xenoblade 1. This game also killed my Wii's disk drive when I was right at the end of Mechonis, I spent like a week trying to fix it but I fianlly just hacked it and played the game from a hard drive.

>Favorite Xeno game
Pic related, my favorites from left to right. but I love all of them.
I have been wanting to play at least Xenogears but my list of gamesin my to-play queue gets bigger and bigger by every passing day. I hope Xenogears or Xenosaga get an HD remaster so I have an excuse to play them right away.

>Favorite area in any Xeno game?
Noctilum, Primordia, Gormott, Gaur Plains. Probably in that order.

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emulate and use the text speed up mod

>First
Xenoblade 1
>Favorite
Xenogears
>Favorite Area
Woglinde

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>the first vid also uses a glitch that was patched out. Now lets see the nopondemonium or BoC content
>it doesn't count because it was patched out
>now what about this content that was patched in?
bit of a double standard to base your judgements on updates that only one game had the benefit of receiving, isn't it? comparing base game X to BoC XB2 is like comparing base game XB2 to BoC 2

>woglinde
why

I don't think you know what a double standard is, I'm taking added content into account in both scenerios, not omitting one. The game in its final state exists as it is now and will for 99.9% of its lifetime. If X had patches/added content (which it desperately needed in terms of the former), I'd consider it too

Emulate, get the Xenogear 2.0 ISO that fixes some bugs introduced in the NA version, goes back to the original control scheme, and most importantly puts back in the JP voices (with subs) so you don't have to listen to that unbelievably bad dub
youtube.com/watch?v=ZmAt4F5wyUM

Dunno, I really liked Xenosaga and it was a comfy first start exploring the ship. I also played through 1 during a pretty bad time and I still remember it fondly.

there's barely any voice acting anyway

Yeah but the other features are worth it anyway.

God, I'd fucking cream myself if they brought Malos back like that
It'd be a really interesting concept of villains becoming protagonists
Has any other JRPG done that?

the only thing the difficulty modes do is adjust existing values to increase enemy power and nerf player resources and it's locked behind DLC
xenoblade.fandom.com/wiki/Difficulty_Levels

I don't know what you want to prove by showing that the game where you can deliberately make things harder by altering values is harder than the game where you can't. The game wasn't designed around BoC and yet somehow it's the golden standard to judge them by? Fuck off.

>Pan-xeno
What the fuck that means?

On that note, a Xenoblade X port with some of the BoC enhancements from 2, undoing of the censorship, audio options, and better online would be fantastic. Maybe some other QoL stuff like double-jumping to activate flight

Pan means encompassing all things regarding it, like how Pan-Asianism is a movement wanting to unit all peoples of Asia.

>what is elemental awakening
>what are rage strikes
>what is party guage drain

Pan = パン = Bread
Bread-xeno
Xeno Bread
Xenoblade X2 is a cooking game with Lin and Tatsu.
The Conduit will make an appearance as a Zohar-shaped loaf of bread.

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Well, with the xeno, it sounds like "pansexual".

Xenobread Chronicles

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ATTENTION ALL XENOFAGS

Who in their right mind would call their son Shulk? Fucking SHULK, man, really? Please take a moment to appreciate how immensely shit that name is.
S-H-U-L-K.
Worse still, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put someone named Shulk in fucking Smash of all places, and to add insult to injury, make one of his outfits just him on boxer briefs. What in the actual fuck? It's Wiifit Trainer levels of shit character we're dealing wih here. It must be a damn troll, it has to be.
Fucking SHULK man wth

he's named after the famous wrestler Hulk Hogan, who Dickson bears a resemblance to

the more you know

don't you mean Shulk Shogan?

>Shulk Shogun

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Oh shit nigga get the fuck out of here, but shit is getting good for you

I really feel like they're going to remake XCX at some point. They might as well, since they said it'd cost as much to port the game as downright making a new game. Anywho..
>Xenosaga 3
>Xenogears
>Mount Valak, or Sylvalium

i played xb and liked it. then i forgot about the franchise until the other day and started xcx.

I once started calling it xenobread without even thinking about it. It just fits.

So I decided to play the Xeno- games in order, and I'm just about to finish up Xenogears. Is there anything I should know about Xenosaga before jumping in? I haven't really heard too much about it outside of the near-universal panning the second game gets.

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you know how gears had a fucked up development? saga's was worse

Ahem...

FUCK Xeno, Fuck Takahashi and Sora's inability to make up their minds over a 21 year period and fuck Square for giving us Xenogears, the biggest waste of a JRPG ever made.

>they basically make a new game out of the skeleton and existing assets of an old game
Would be... interesting to say the least.

this, fuck them for getting thousands hooked on their dumb story that will never pan out

when will their reign of blueballing the story loving JRPG public end? they can't keep getting away with this shit

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Only played Xenogears. Don't see any reason to play any of the other games.

I don't have a Switch and the only game I really want one for is this one so with the Switch Lite coming out at a cheaper price, I might finally get this and play thru this game.

Now from what I heard there's some features taken out of the Lite that might effect some games - does anyone know how it could effect Xenoblade Chronicles 2?

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>First Xeno game
>Favorite Xeno game
youtube.com/watch?v=_udQ7Kq4lcQ

>Sets out with "Project Noah" tl;dr, the Japanese Dune...at least on paper.
>'Gears starts out good, massive vision, possible contender for above said.
>Disc 2, "lets sit and tell the player what they could have done"
>Episode V
>Perfect Works
>We had this all worked out, it was to be glorious
>21 years and 5 games, 2 "series" on...

"Ok guy...ok, THIS TIME, we got it!"

Don't blame the company, blame the creator.

>Xenosaga 1
>Xenoblade Chronicles, although 2 comes close.
>Damn hard to choose, but Abel's Ark and Land of Morytha come to mind.

Absolutely love the Xeno games and the themes throughout them. Hope we get an X2 soon, feels like that would be best. I want more mecha action.

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>Don't blame the company, blame the creator.
I still get confused when people act like Square or Namco were idiots for not keeping Takahashi around. Like, it took years of failures and then Nintendo reteaching them how to make games for them to start getting success. I love Takahashi's ideas but he's definitely the kind of creator who needs someone to rein him in.

>The connection is implied but not canon.
This is completely wrong I don't understand how people keep believing this in fucking 2019 when there are websites like this xenogearsxenosagastudyguide.blogspot.com/

this isn't even possible and even if it was it would still be impossible because the black knight isn't a resident of mira

>First Xeno game
Xenogears
>Favorite Xeno game
Xenogears
>Favorite area in any Xeno game?
Sylvalum

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>First Xeno game
XC1 for the Wii
>Favorite Xeno game
XC2 + Torna
>Favorite Xeno Area
Xenoblade 1:
Satorl Marsh
Makna Forest
Alcamoth
Valak Mountain
Sword Valley
Fallen Arm
Prison Island

Xenoblade 2:
Uraya
Mor Ardain
Indol
Tantal
Morytha
World Tree

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>First Xeno game
Xenoblade Chronicles
>Favorite Xeno game
Xenoblade Chronicles
>Favorite area in any Xeno game?
It's a tie between Eryth Sea and Fallen Arm
>Anyone who answers Xenosaga II is unwelcome here.
Based and redpilled

Even Takahashi (begrudgingly) agrees. You can tell from XCX alone that he wanted to go ballistic again. It's telling that right after XCX Nintendo forced him to do a smaller scale, more focused game.

>Xenoblade 1
>Xenoblade 1
>Colony 6 or Gaur Plain

>XB1 that low
>XB2 in high regard
I found the brain damaged faggot of the thread

>the Iwata Asks interview where the producer/director (forgot who) at Monolith Soft got angry that they were asked to make a sample chapter to demonstrate their idea, then admitted it was a better method for making games after all
Still, at least XCX let them take a crash course on HD and openworld which came in handy immediately after for BotW and the Switch.

>gormott
That piece of shit area was bland and empty, dafuq is this shit?

It's fucking insane that XCX was their first foray into HD development. So many Japanese companies crashed and burned when it came to HD development from 2006 - 2015.
Monolithsoft made it seem they'd been doing that shit for years.

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I just played XC2: Torna as my first game and now am curious to try XC2 and XC1. Is it feasible to emulate XC1 on a laptop with good memory but just integrated graphics?

>PSX game is unfinished
Correct
>PS2 series had to be chopped from 6 games to 3, ending is probably rushed to hell
Correct
>Wii game trapped on waggle console
>trapped
Not only the Wii is the second best selling console of history and the easiest console to hack to play pirate games, but also the first point makes it dirty cheap to buy second hand and already hacked. Also the game don't use any waggle gimmick you can play it just find with a Classic and Pro controller.
If what are you complaining is that it's not in HD then you can pirate it almost flawlessly at 720p in a mid tier laptop
>Wii U game trapped on Wii
Correct but it truly is a hidden gem and a technical marvel for a console that use a processor that literally dates from 1997
>Switch game is a sequel to games I'll never play
You don't play it because you're such a picky faggot
>>Meme-loaded brit dubs where the stupid ass localization decisions shine through in the subtitles so even if you turn it to JP audio you still see "OY GUV" instead of english
Ok you're just being an autistic faggot, GET THE FUCK OUT of my Xenoblade thread.

So, he's kinda like Lucas in that aspect? Nevertheless...budget be damned, you feel that we were all cheated something that would have been the science fiction JRPG that would have set the standard. They should have stuck with the original Project Noah idea.

No the difference is Lucas has a vision and that vision WILL be completed, the rest of the world's opinion on it be damned. And hate it all you want, it makes a bajillion dollars when he does it.

Maybe because they are the only completely finished games on the meta-series?

Gears.
Xenoblade 1.
Sylvalum (From XCX).

Xenoblade 1

Xenoblade 1

Despite Xenoblade 1 being my favorite game, Sylvalum is probably my favorite area in the entire series. if the rest of Xenoblade X were on the same level as that area it would have been a masterpiece

there's a fuck ton of content in gormott, what are you talking about? There's content there for almost every single level of party alongside a ton of branching paths and hidden areas

>XenoX didn't let you play as all of those good aliens
They all seem like they'd lend themselves to really unique playstyles too.
>indigen tamers who fight alongside their beasties
>toxic materials handlers with Melia-style casting but using debuffs instead of elements to cast spells
>samurai pizza cats
>self-sacrificing grasshopper men who prioritize the greater good over their own wellbeing, but also reproduce by division so they can afford to be self-sacrificing
Shame that X was stuck with everyone having to use avatar animations so they couldn't go out there with party members.

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I remember even Tecmo Koei said that if they were given the choice to make a another musou game based on a Nintendo IP they will pick Xenoblade but damn maybe my mind just fabricated that

Das Maus Uber Alles thinks and sadly, is saying otherwise.

He sold the property, he knew what he was doing. It's no longer his.

It's so obvious that the japanese cat prince was going to be a party member but it was cut.

So is Takahashi going to complete his "Perfect Works" this time? He's already 3 games in, and things are looking really smooth for his company. I have a feeling they'll go all out during the finale since it's the one part he's never got around to.

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>That side mission where you introduce females to the bug people race and the males have no idea what the fuck is going on

>Xenoblade 2 over 1. Shit taste mate.

Rolling rolling rolling got me stargazing

You mean Ga "I can't believe it's not Bart Fatima" Jiarg?
He even uses attacks you can use with the Photon Saber, with a model of Photon Saber you can wield.

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Xenoblade X is basically a more Sci-Fi heavy Xenosaga, and I hope it doesn't get abandoned. It has potential, but I have no idea what they're going to do about XCX1. In general the plot was pretty loose, it was on a dead console among other small issues. It makes me wonder if they're working on XCX2 right now, or if they're going to go all out on the mainline and proceed with XC3.

Outside of Elma being Kosmos, and the Ghosts probably being the equivalent of the Gnosis, I'm not seeing the comparisons. Anything else? Other than that though, if X2 is in the works, I have no doubt that it'll sell well. The Xenoblade franchise is pretty recognizable nowadays, and the Switch has a pretty wide user base.

imagine thinking any of the other xeno games are even close to being on the same level as xenogears

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On one hand I do want to see a follow up to X but on the other hand I'm not sure it's worth spending a whole game trying to salvage X's weakest point. X was fun for the exploration and optional content, a sequel is better off focusing on those rather than revisiting the same forgettable characters and underexplored story elements. It's definitely in a weird place.

Yeah, Ga Jiarg.

its amazing they managed to write so many bland characters for x. elma has no personality at all. she's just there. lin is just an anime trope.

Gears is, if nothing else, the closest thing to his original vision.

>Playing XB1 on homebrew wii u
>Spend all pre-monado gold on sexy bikini armor
>she immediately dies
>game isn't giving me a compass to complete quests, I have to remember where everyone is scattered about

At the hideout now after saving the kid whose bike broke down. Having a hell of a time. I hope it keeps getting better too.

I get what they were going for with Elma's personality but the story never really gets to explore it outside of maybe two scenes. She's meant to be goal oriented and pragmatic to the extent that she makes sacrifices no-one else would be willing to for the greater good, while also not really understanding why humanity would be upset about her decisions.

She's not lead material. She's the overly logical Spock to Linlee's emotionally driven McCoy, but there's no Kirk to balance them out, let alone anyone to really challenge her way of thinking or decision making.

probably xenosaga I

it can be salvaged by having it take place on Neo Tokyo or New Paris with new characters as the focus with New LA characters making appearances

I wouldn't worry too much about side quests. And yes it does

Make sure to talk to quest NPCs multiple times, some will hand out a bunch of generic "kill/gather 5 xyz" quests which you'll want to gather up the moment you find a new settlement before you go exploring.

>Best side quests in any game ever made.
They aren't at all.

>Plenty of party members with memorable and endearing sidequest chains that end up being as fleshed out as Zeke
no, not even close

Lin's cute when she's not in 3d. Or around Tatsu.

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2 is better than 1