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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgI2vL6DNI This sums up the Xeno Directs in like 6 mins. The last 30 seconds shows more of what adversaries were fighting in terms of enemy mechs and aliens. God drat. Upsidads fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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How much of the online stuff is actual multiplayer? I came away from the doll video with the idea that it was all like dragon's dogma, finding other players out in the world and recruiting them as npcs, but some parts of that trailer have big fat monster hunter hp bars with player names next to them on the side of the screen like you're actually playing with real people. Is that real multiplayer? Just for super hard bosses?
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Apr 15, 2015 04:07
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Are those Telethia at ~5:40?
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Apr 15, 2015 04:10
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What the gently caress is that robot at ~6:05.
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:What the gently caress is that robot at ~6:05. loving Awesome. Also big
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Apr 15, 2015 04:25
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Man, I want to see footage from the localized version so bad. Shame we'll probably be waiting on that until fall/winter.
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Apr 15, 2015 04:33
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The wait is going to be painful once it launches in Japan later this month.
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I said come in! posted:The wait is going to be painful once it launches in Japan later this month. At least we'll know if it sucks or not. if it's good the wait'll be painful, if it isn't then at least the disappointment comes quick.
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Apr 15, 2015 04:49
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Can't wait for the doomsaying if the amazon.jp rating gets bombed with 1's for some silly reason like it tends to be. e: Or like when people were getting ready to write off DKTF in the WiiU thread a while back when the first review was "good, not great".
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Motto posted:Can't wait for the doomsaying if the amazon.jp rating gets bombed with 1's for some silly reason like it tends to be. 1 star: I couldn't date my waifu so this game is literally Hitler.
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Apr 15, 2015 05:09
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I'm legitimately expecting people to react like that to FE14 if it doesn't have a marriage system.
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Motto posted:Can't wait for the doomsaying if the amazon.jp rating gets bombed with 1's for some silly reason like it tends to be. Eh, I don't think the original Xenoblade got bombed in any way. So I think we'll be good. This one has robots now, there's no way they'll complain.
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Apr 15, 2015 06:11
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The Black Stones posted:Eh, I don't think the original Xenoblade got bombed in any way. So I think we'll be good. This one has robots now, there's no way they'll complain. You underestimate Japanese nerds.
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Apr 15, 2015 06:13
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Every recent major game to come out in Japan seems to get flooded with 1 star reviews on Amazon and I can't fathom why aside from people hatin' to be hatin'
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Butt Ghost posted:Every recent major game to come out in Japan seems to get flooded with 1 star reviews on Amazon and I can't fathom why aside from people hatin' to be hatin' Imagine if you can do angry forum ranting but companies actually have to pay attention to it!
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Apr 15, 2015 06:20
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lets hang out posted:How much of the online stuff is actual multiplayer? I came away from the doll video with the idea that it was all like dragon's dogma, finding other players out in the world and recruiting them as npcs, but some parts of that trailer have big fat monster hunter hp bars with player names next to them on the side of the screen like you're actually playing with real people. Is that real multiplayer? Just for super hard bosses? Most of the online features are, as Takahashi put it, "loosely connected", where you don't directly interact with other players, but there are also Squad Quests where up to 4 human players get together and fight against bosses in a more traditional real multiplayer mode. Ometeotl posted:Are those Telethia at ~5:40? Yep, it says "Telethia Plume" right there at the top of the screen.
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Famitsu Magazine seems to be the goto source for Western gamers who want to know if a Japanese game is good or not before it comes to the states. Once they have their review out, we should know a lot about the quality of Xenoblade X. My feeling though is that this game will be really good.
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Apr 15, 2015 09:26
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Famitsu has been poo poo for years and a good score from them is zero sign of quality.
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Sakurazuka posted:Famitsu has been poo poo for years and a good score from them is zero sign of quality. Oooh.  Well I don't know then anymore. We have a few goons around here that are fluent in Japanese, so hopefully one of them picks the game up.
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Silver Falcon posted:Oh no, you definitely don't need to do all of them! If you do all of them you will end up grossly overlevelled and steamroll everything. Plus you'll get burned out quickly. On the other hand, following a guide to get/complete all of the quests as they become available isn't as much of a burn-out as people are making out. I think it's perhaps down to how i use the 3DS as i don't really play it for long periods of time, just intermittent bursts which seems to curb the rabbit-hole-esque way that the side quests can become when you're sitting down in a massive 5 hours bender on the Wii. Hell, i'd actually advise it because i remember saving all of this stuff for the endgame point making it feel like a super chore as simple ways of completing later quests were locked behind affinity which hadn't built up because i left it all to the end.
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Were NA players in general bothered about the British accents? I found them charming and would miss them in the sequel.
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Apr 15, 2015 10:35
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I've seen a few people complaining about the voice acting, but I loved it, personally. I doubt the sequel is going to be full of British accents though since it's a United States ship that gets blown up in the beginning.
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The British accents only really happened because it was localised by NoE originally, it wasn't even going to get a U.S. release at first.
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Apr 15, 2015 10:55
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Doc V posted:Yep, it says "Telethia Plume" right there at the top of the screen. Okay are we really sure this isn't a direct sequel? I mean the Nopon are easy to write off as "it's like moogles in Final Fantasy", but throwing in (late game Xenoblade spoilers) the Bionis' immune system and saying it's unrelated seems a little harder to swallow.
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Apr 15, 2015 10:57
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ImpAtom posted:Imagine if you can do angry forum ranting but companies actually have to pay attention to it! That's only going to work until companies have a hard time remembering the last game that DIDN'T get tanked in the user ratings.
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Suaimhneas posted:Okay are we really sure this isn't a direct sequel? I mean the Nopon are easy to write off as "it's like moogles in Final Fantasy", but throwing in (late game Xenoblade spoilers) the Bionis' immune system and saying it's unrelated seems a little harder to swallow. Chocobo feathers
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Suaimhneas posted:Okay are we really sure this isn't a direct sequel? I mean the Nopon are easy to write off as "it's like moogles in Final Fantasy", but throwing in (late game Xenoblade spoilers) the Bionis' immune system and saying it's unrelated seems a little harder to swallow. People keep saying it's not but I don't think anyone actually knows for sure, and it's a bunch of conclusion jumping. I'm going to keep believing it's a direct sequel (of some variety) until I have proof otherwise.
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I don't know if I want those faces as a direct sequel.
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Big Doll update this week! An overview page on Dolls: http://xenobladex.jp/world/doll.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI69lrGxcks -You gain access to Dolls when you reach a point in the story when you can apply for a Doll license -Later in the story, you can develop a flight pack for your Dolls -Light-type Dolls: less HP, high accuracy and evasion. High mobility in battle. Low fuel capacity, but low fuel consumption when flying. Relatively cheap. -Middle-type Dolls: balanced and easy to use. All parts are well armored, so it's hard for enemies to break off parts. A bit on the expensive side. -Heavy-type Dolls: very high HP and defense. High fuel capacity, allowing you to equip a lot of high-power weapons. Low mobility in battles, uses up a lot of fuel in flight. Expensive. Doll battles and customization: http://xenobladex.jp/battle/battle10.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8oUJzlJ3c -Hand weapons: modify how your Doll's autoattack works. Include rods, swords, assault rifles and shotguns -8 other weapon slots give your Doll access to arts -Back weapons: railgun, missile, grenade launcher etc. Give you high-powered arts -Shoulder weapons: missile, chaingun, laser etc. Give you arts that are even more powerful than back weapon arts -Arm weapons: shield, vulcan etc. Many support arts -Spare weapons: beam saber, hand grenade etc. Quickly recharging arts -Each weapon slot has left and right versions -As usual, you can spend 3000 TP to activate Overclock Gear -OC Gear lets you use Doll arts without spending any fuel -When you use arts, there is a chance you'll go into cockpit mode, which recharges all your arts -After you inflict Break on an enemy, you can Catch it, which prevents it from acting and makes all attacks against it hit automatically and deal extra damage -Flying and using Doll arts spends Doll Fuel, which recharges when you're not piloting the Doll and can also be bought at NLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IwMoproWI0 -You can customize your Doll's equipment, color and name Character pages for Dolls: Formula posted:A standard deployment model based on a light frame. Urban posted:An urban deployment model based on a light frame. Wels posted:A custom machine that sports the firepower of a middle-type Doll despite its light frame. Lailah posted:A custom machine based on a midweight frame. Inferno posted:A custom machine based on a midweight frame. Mastema posted:A multileg machine based on a heavy frame. Amdusias posted:A tank tread machine based on a midweight frame. There's also a new page showing off Dolls customized by the staff: http://xenobladex.jp/character/miracollection_doll.html New illustration: http://xenobladex.jp/gallery/gallery09.html  This week's Nopon gag page has screens of the Canyon of Forgetfulness: http://xenobladex.jp/special/sp-welcome20150416.html
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It keeps saying that Spare Weapons are "quickly recharging," but the recast times I see on the stat screen are usually 20 to 40 seconds, which is about the same as the other subweapons. They seem to recharge at a pretty good rate in a fight, though, so there's that. I also noticed that all of those fights took about two hundred fuel. Now this will be different for different weights, of course, because bigger Dolls have bigger tanks but use more in transit, so combat is a proportionally smaller amount of the tank, but off the top of my head, it looks like a Formula is going to be able to handle 30-40 engagements on a full tank, depending on how much flying you do and how extravagant you get with the various mounted weapons. The fact that fuel regenerates when you're dismounted and you can buy more (at an extravagant price, but it's an option) leads me to believe that Dolls are a good "hm, this might be a little tough" option, and not "OH GOD PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS" tier. Of course, the player party was also way higher level, so who the hell knows. There was also some part breaking going on in there. The first enemy got its knees shot out, and it looked like those could be specifically targeted. I guess Dolls can do part breaking against enemies of the right scale, which makes sense, since there are enemies in the game that are pretty clearly meant to be Doll-scale encounters, and it'd suck if you couldn't break them.
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Hour 50 into Xenoblade: Welp, finally caught up with my first playthrough, all the way up in Agniratha. Took me about 80 hours to get here last time, and trying to finish as many quests as possible before the final boss gave me a major case of burnout, which is why I never actually finished the game. But I will this time, tonight. Hour 51:30: WELP! Turns out he wasn't the final boss! I think I may be a little under leveled, only 67, took me a couple of tries to actually win that fight. And now Mechonis is moving which is a nice big fat sign saying "your poo poo is wrecked". Well, at least I know the next fight is the final boss. Hour 52:30:  oh my god Dickson you dick I thought you were a bro you dick jesus christ this gameHour 53:30: maybe it's cause it's nearly 3 am and I'm a little buzzed right now but Dickson mugging for the camera is the best, I really missed having Mumkhar around to chew the scenery and be a really enjoyable villain, but Dickson and that red dressed High Entia chick both fill that role equally well  at about this point I thought I'd post my thoughts cause I've just hit another save checkpoint and I'm determined to beat this game tonight
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Xenoblade really is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Hour 53:35: laugh it up Shulk. That's how you get through a rough day oh hey Alvis are you gonna explain why you're so mysterious? No? Kay later - the affinity chart just updated to show the deceased  Hour 54: "you know what i am. And what you must do" ah, no, while you just explained a whole bunch of poo poo you kinda skipped over that part - Shulk you didn't say "sorry i kept you waiting" see me after class - yes we are all so shocked by Alvis's inevitable betrayal just look at the shock on my face its real - i hope i find better armour for seven soon, it's hard to take her seriously in the speed suit Hour 55: freedom to explore again! I'm gonna take a peek in Tephra cave real quick before moving on to the final fight Phone posting is the most annoying thing ever don't know how people do it EDIT: loving hell this game is huge. I just got to the next dungeon, took a look at the clock, looked around to see everything I'm gonna be fighting is at least three levels higher than me, gonna guess that if it's even half as long as the last dungeon that'll still be an hour, add onto that the inevitable miniboss rundown before the final boss and suddenly I don't see myself finishing this game for at least another three hours. So not tonight. I am weak. Also sober. Gonna fix that before starting again tomorrow. It is pretty cool seeing parts of the game I hadn't seen before. New areas still impress artistically though at least a couple of the last few dozen cutscenes made me wish they'd remake this game with PS5 level visuals. Also don't get why everybody said the writing doesn't hold up in the last half. Seems to be holding itself together just fine. 
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Doc V posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IwMoproWI0 That theme is really chill, and gently caress MS for posting all this artwork in such small resolutions. Edit: Just noticed that Elma is once again getting her poo poo kicked in that Doll artwork and she's actually in the process of falling out of her mech. It must be a running joke by the developers that Elma is always the first one to die in all of the trailers. Dastardly fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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Davinci posted:Xenoblade really is the gift that keeps on giving. It's genuinely surprising that I'm still enjoying a replay of an RPG (that i didn't complete as a kid or something), especially one this big. Also, all available quests done up to the point just after the Eryth Tomb or wherever, so that should be the majority of Alcamoth and Frontier Village done I think. The various guides you guys posted were quite helpful, although I've still ended up using a combination of sources. The app to track what's available to me in order, the wiki for a detailed breakdown of what to do for them and a bunch of npc maps that show you exactly where people are. It's still baffling me that there isn't a single source that combines all of these online. Like the wiki is close, but it's quest order availability is inaccurate and the descriptions of where to find people are sometimes obtuse and don't bother to include a map location. I'm also convinced the drop rates have been tweaked a little (or I'm having a really lucky run) as so far I've not had to do much in the way of grinding to get super rare items.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Also don't get why everybody said the writing doesn't hold up in the last half. Seems to be holding itself together just fine. People said that? That's nonsense. By the way, you're at the point of the game where the leveling curve is a bit wonky. The appropriately leveled enemies are actually now the highest leveled enemies way back in Colony 9. You can forge ahead anyway but the next boss tends to be a small bit of a rodeblock since it's easy to get to it underleveled.
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The writing starts falling apart right about when the final villain is revealed, but right up until that point it's enjoyable. It's a shame.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Also don't get why everybody said the writing doesn't hold up in the last half. Seems to be holding itself together just fine. That's the common complaint against Xenogears, not really Xenoblade. The common complaint against Gears is that it poo poo the bed on the 2nd disc. The Black Stones fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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Apr 16, 2015 14:36
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Tallgeese posted:The writing starts falling apart right about when the final villain is revealed, but right up until that point it's enjoyable. The ending is one of the best parts of the game.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Xenoblog I love everything about these posts.
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