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Neddy Seagoon posted:The retail version is a standalone cart, the digital version is part of the Expansion Pass for the base game and threads into it as a menu option iirc. I THINK there's a standalone digital version now as well.
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Dec 11, 2018 02:52
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Tae posted:Mithra has stockings now To clarify, It's a costume item because they did a slight redesign of her costume for the Smash Bros Ultimate spirit. The fanbase just collectively loved it so Monolith Soft put it in the game proper.
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Dec 11, 2018 02:52
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Tae posted:Mithra has stockings now What!!? How is she going to be able to concentrate???
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Dec 11, 2018 03:18
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Oh, all the sidequesting stuff is way better handled in XBC2 and you even get map indicators of where sidequests are. Heart-to-Hearts also don't require any form of affinity between party members, just go trigger them as you find them. Zore posted:XB2 does, XBX is about the same as 1 in that respect. RazzleDazzleHour posted:Yeah almost none of that is an issue in 2. Every character that matters is in your party, otherwise you get a quest marker for them or a minimap blip. The game is also divided into worlds where each one has a very specific hub area that everything is in, and also the quest menu has pictures to help keep things straight. I never really had an issue with finding someone or something unless it was a secret area Oh that's neat to hear. I was wondering how the later games went because I only heard the big things about them and my eyes kinda glazed over reading about it in this thread for some reason. So like, the weird looking faces in XBX and the not so great designs for the BLADES in XB2 like that bunny girl. Couldn't tell you anything about them beyond that and you take way too long to get Skells in XBX.  Neddy Seagoon posted:To clarify, It's a costume item because they did a slight redesign of her costume for the Smash Bros Ultimate spirit. The fanbase just collectively loved it so Monolith Soft put it in the game proper. Aww that's a shame. Sucks that you'd have to give up an equipment slot for it.
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Dec 11, 2018 03:42
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All of the blades and BLADEs are my precious children. Except Bose, he can gently caress off. Maybe Murderess too.
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Dec 11, 2018 03:49
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RareAcumen posted:Oh that's neat to hear. I was wondering how the later games went because I only heard the big things about them and my eyes kinda glazed over reading about it in this thread for some reason. So like, the weird looking faces in XBX and the not so great designs for the BLADES in XB2 like that bunny girl. Couldn't tell you anything about them beyond that and you take way too long to get Skells in XBX. The Blade designs aren't as quite big a deal as you think they are, because all the non-main-character ones (ie; the unique ones pulled out of Core Crystals) were done by guest artists to fill roster slots. Their average screentime outside of being used in combat consists of a sidequest chain apiece with some voiced cutscenes, and one or two heart-to-hearts. They're also kinda meant to look weird and egregious, (even if most of the guest designs were done with a lot of bare skin) because it's a visual short-hand to recognize Blades on-sight in the setting. Everyone else just has reasonable and practical outfits.
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Dec 11, 2018 03:53
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RareAcumen posted:Aww that's a shame. Sucks that you'd have to give up an equipment slot for it. IIRC it's something like Crit Up +25% (with the next highest being Crit Up +22%) on a blade that benefits from scoring as many crits as possible
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Dec 11, 2018 03:56
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RareAcumen posted:Oh that's neat to hear. I was wondering how the later games went because I only heard the big things about them and my eyes kinda glazed over reading about it in this thread for some reason. So like, the weird looking faces in XBX and the not so great designs for the BLADES in XB2 like that bunny girl. Couldn't tell you anything about them beyond that and you take way too long to get Skells in XBX. 
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Dec 11, 2018 03:56
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tghat would have been a better design
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The Blade designs aren't as quite big a deal as you think they are, because all the non-main-character ones (ie; the unique ones pulled out of Core Crystals) were done by guest artists to fill roster slots. Their average screentime outside of being used in combat consists of a sidequest chain apiece with some voiced cutscenes, and one or two heart-to-hearts. Endorph posted:XB2 has some bad blade designs but it also has some insanely good blade designs. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the system is worthless or something. I'm just saying that the only thing I know about the games are if they end up making a bunch of noise about it.- I don't even know what the name of that bunnygirl is- but she's the only one I know about besides Mythra and Pyra and part of that is based on A) fanart and B) some twitter thread however long ago that was like 'I might be nuts but I swear Pyra's tits are getting bigger cutscene to cutscene' or something along those lines.
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Dec 11, 2018 05:12
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CharlestheHammer posted:2 is infinitely better than one as it actually explains most of its mechanics and it’s not as unnecessarily complicated as 1 was. Ok, sure, you don't specifically need to understand most of the mechanics 2 neglects to tell you about, but there's also some very important mechanics that, while it does tell you about, it only does so briefly and in a tutorial that cannot be reviewed. You know how many people in its thread were going "wait what's a blade combo? driver combo? combos????" when it came out?
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Dec 11, 2018 06:51
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I wish Ursula wasn't the hell-grind to end all RPG hell-grinds
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Dec 11, 2018 07:23
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Just get behind her head and keep whacking with the Keyblade
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Dec 11, 2018 07:25
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Amppelix posted:Did we play the same game??? That’s way more than 1 does which tells you nothing and hopes you figure it out. Honestly I never really figured out what the gently caress i was doing in 1 where at least I understood the basic mechanics of 2.
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Dec 11, 2018 07:43
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1 is the game which has a million pages of tutorials, some optional even, just waiting for you to read them. Did you read them?
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Dec 11, 2018 08:12
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corn in the bible posted:lmao jesus christ put some loving pants on plachta
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Dec 11, 2018 09:46
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RareAcumen posted:Couldn't tell you anything about them beyond that and you take way too long to get Skells in XBX. People who complained about this also tended to ruin their own enjoyment of the game by grinding exploration requirements so they could get them ASAP, making the whole world feel smaller and combat duller like the robots are really cool and all but it's very complicated to make spaces to accommodate really different senses of scale and the combat is annoyingly just functional when they clearly put a lot of work into the on-foot battle system it is one of my favorite games ever but I'm not a mech fan so it didn't bother me doing most of it without them they definitely ended up being more of a customizable airship/vehicle with some fuckoff cannons than cool space battlers which is what I guess people wanted
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Dec 11, 2018 13:44
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So people were wondering why Hom isn't voiced, but it seems to be voiced in certain scenes for me, like this one for instance:  Is it maybe only voiced if you choose the male option?
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Dec 11, 2018 15:27
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Yakiniku Teishoku posted:People who complained about this also tended to ruin their own enjoyment of the game by grinding exploration requirements so they could get them ASAP, making the whole world feel smaller and combat duller I mean it's not really about being mech fans or 'I guess what people wanted,' its that they were all over the marketing material and 'cool mech combat' was the big selling point it felt like if they'd focused more on the ground combat in promotional material and made it clearer the skrells were just a side thing it probably would have been better received
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Dec 11, 2018 15:29
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my fondest memory of the skells is just using them to step on human-sized soldiers like 30 levels above me to gain a bunch of levels in one shot. especially that one base where i could get one guy stuck in the awning of the building so that he would just continually take damage without being able to do anything
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Dec 11, 2018 15:37
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The game completely fell apart for me once Skells got introduced. The level curve got smashed completely and it felt like a bunch of nonsense from then on. There should have been a separate levelling system for Skell combat because as is it just completely obviates the actually fun combat system by replacing it with a way simpler and more effective one.
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Dec 11, 2018 17:19
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https://gematsu.com/2018/12/atelier-lulua-adds-sterk-two-new-characters Sterk in Lulua
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Dec 11, 2018 17:28
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sterk has to be like about as old as gio was in meruru at this point right also yay they got rie kugimiya in the game
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Dec 11, 2018 17:35
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The PSN sale that just went up has a bunch of RPGs
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Dec 11, 2018 18:22
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Endorph posted:I mean it's not really about being mech fans or 'I guess what people wanted,' its that they were all over the marketing material and 'cool mech combat' was the big selling point it felt like Yeah, I remember them being all over the promotional material and trailers and stuff so I wouldn't expect the combat with them to be serviceable at best. From the way Yakiniku Teishoku described it, I guess the best you could hope for is being able to call, hop in and out, or direct them at enemies like they're Titanfall robots or something. So then you could use them to try and pin down a giant monster of some kind and then you hop out and wail on it on foot with the much better combat systems. Phantasium posted:my fondest memory of the skells is just using them to step on human-sized soldiers like 30 levels above me to gain a bunch of levels in one shot. Ha, that rules! I love being able to find ways to punch above my weight class like that.
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Dec 11, 2018 22:31
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Dec 11, 2018 23:00
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im glad that come L&S they just have everyone else dunk on liane for being weird and obsessive about firis especially when firis herself gets some good knocks in
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Dec 11, 2018 23:09
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Firis is better than I remember, now that I understand what it's actually trying to do
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Dec 11, 2018 23:12
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Rorona also has Astrid being constantly weird and creepy towards her so I'm not really surprised Liane came out of the same writing studio
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Dec 11, 2018 23:18
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I always laugh when people say that Skells are the end-all of XBX combat, because this outs them as having never entered THE TRUE POSTGAME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCskEmIbEAs
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Dec 11, 2018 23:41
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 this color choice is still very inconsiderate
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Dec 11, 2018 23:41
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:I always laugh when people say that Skells are the end-all of XBX combat, because this outs them as having never entered THE TRUE POSTGAME Unfortunately overdrive is probably the most poorly explained mechanic I can think of ever seeing.
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Dec 12, 2018 00:01
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Overdrive is kind of a hot mess, yeah. I kinda like the Dagger/Sniper approach because you just sleep poo poo forever and also Flayonette has the best animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaHQd7feXVM Also the Ares 90 was a mistake, Verus Cain and Mastema White Reaper were so much better and cooler.
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Dec 12, 2018 00:13
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man i'd forgotten that XBX explained almost nothing and required you to go online and read the manual to understand how to play the game 
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Dec 12, 2018 00:17
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Yeah Overdrive is maybe the most poorly explained core combat mechanic in the history of videogames. On the flipside I kind of love how much there is to learn about the games and how they work. Set locations for crafting recipes were really cool because all the ultimate weapons were REALLY hidden so discovering one was huge. I also remember when someone found a really good weapon as a drop from a high-level enemy, so I went and killed it and got the exact same weapon. Up until that point, most people though weapon and armor drops were essentially random, but from there we were able to piece together that each enemy had a drop table based on their archetype, and that you could find particular enemies that were very weak in comparison to their level who you could kill for what were essentially lategame weapons and blow the game wide open.
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Dec 12, 2018 01:45
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Despite all of it's flaws I love XCX to death. I just wish the endgame grind for parts consisted of more than just doing boss time trials for hours. It competely killed my drive to keep going
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Dec 12, 2018 02:10
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uh, what the gently caress is overdrive.
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Dec 12, 2018 02:15
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lol i saw something like that happen in skell but i didn't even know that was a thing
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Phantasium posted:uh, what the gently caress is overdrive. Spend 3000TP to, for a time, greatly reduce cooldown times (and enable triple cooldown). Using certain colour arts in combination or in certain order can activate other effects like Appendage Damage up, Gain TP or extend Overdrive. You can also reactive Overdrive if you get 3000TP again, so with the right augments and item traits you can keep Overdrive going for a long time. Skell Overdrive is a bit different, but mostly it removes fuel costs, enables a special effect that changes depending on your Skell and can be extended if Cockpit Time procs.
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