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SyntheticPolygon posted:Kinda weird the game is advertising "it connects the 2 worlds of the previous games together" or whatever. I liked that each title had largely unique (if still connected) settings. I don't think a big thing needs to be made of how it fits together. I mean, a lot of these characters look like they literally merged former party members together, and the overarching plot appears to be the world of XBC1 is at war with the world of XBC2 So I think a big part of the game will be about how the "connection" between the two is very messy and not going great, which imo is a pretty cool and unique take
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Feb 10, 2022 03:14
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It will make perfect sense when they get married and live happily ever after
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chumbler posted:Can't be. With no XBX rerelease, people would lack context. Unless they do a surprise rerelease in the summer. As if this has ever stopped a Xenoblade game before. TheKingofSprings posted:And a lot more restrained for some reason A lot of the over the top art like the creepy gently caress bunny came from guest artists too, didn't it? Supremezero posted:Yes, but he still made Pyra and Mythra Mythra's outfit was about 80% of the way to looking perfectly fine, even just adding leggings to it in Smash Bros helped considerably. Pyra's was just stupid though. OhFunny posted:
She looks like one of Melia's descendants married one of Rex's descendants and had her weapon designed by Lin.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Kinda weird the game is advertising "it connects the 2 worlds of the previous games together" or whatever. I liked that each title had largely unique (if still connected) settings. I don't think a big thing needs to be made of how it fits together. Just curious but did you finish Xenoblade 2? To me this makes sense considering how 2 ends
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I hope a giant loving spaceship with United States written down the side crashes into the middle of the conflict zone halfway into the game.
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After learning that this game takes place in the same setting as the first two games (didn't see if this was explicit but seems obvious), at first I was thinking that this might be a problem since I enjoy games like this having some sort of big overarching mystery, while all the major stuff was revealed in X1/X2. But then I remembered that we don't really know much about that artifact from the events prior to those games (or much about that situation in general beyond the specific events directly relevant to X1/X2), so there's actually a bunch of mystery stuff they could still do.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Just curious but did you finish Xenoblade 2? To me this makes sense considering how 2 ends Yeah I beat the game and I enjoyed the whole "guess what, the games are connected" thing especially once you get to the architect but that's kinda how I liked it? Like the game wasn't about that, it was just a neat reveal to think about how it all fits. Making a point with the release of the first trailer to be like "This game will explain how it all comes together" and it doesn't sound that interesting imo. Just kinda makes it sound sorta deriviative? I appreciated that despite how they ended up sharing continuity Xeno 2 was its own thing pretty much totally separate from the og game and advertising the new game with how it's linked to the previous 2 just ain't all that exciting. Like, i'm sure that same with 2 it will pretty much be doing its own thing and it won't be like "Hey the point of this game is to be a chronicles direct sequel/2 prequel" or whatever but it's a weird point to start from.
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Ytlaya posted:After learning that this game takes place in the same setting as the first two games (didn't see if this was explicit but seems obvious), at first I was thinking that this might be a problem since I enjoy games like this having some sort of big overarching mystery, while all the major stuff was revealed in X1/X2. there is approximately a 0% chance that this game wont have a big overarching mystery
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Chronojam posted:I hope a giant loving spaceship with United States written down the side crashes into the middle of the conflict zone halfway into the game.
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Chronojam posted:I hope a giant loving spaceship with United States written down the side crashes into the middle of the conflict zone halfway into the game. You fuckers don't wanna mess with Neo-Houston.
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Me rn.
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In a surprise twist it's actually Xenogears 2 but to avoid Square's army of lawyers everyone's names are slightly off.
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https://twitter.com/freelnformation/status/1491604844460724224 Losing my mind. A year and a half before Xenoblade 2 came out, the good folk at Monolith enjoyed a little film called Captain America: Civil War. I'm not saying they made Nia to be Melia 2 in the end just to setup this. But. They loving did
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Supremezero posted:I mean, to be fair, you already know why 2 had issues, you lay it out there. So there's no reason to expect 3 to not be great. Monolith went on a massive hiring spree after XC2 so they were likely trying to avoid being mega understaffed again for this one.
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Feb 10, 2022 05:27
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They were helping out pokemon instead of Zelda this time.
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Chronojam posted:I hope a giant loving spaceship with United States written down the side crashes into the middle of the conflict zone halfway into the game. Nah I think they are playing the long game and it will be years before the games are connected. There is a reason it's called Xenoblade X (10)
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SyntheticPolygon posted:They were helping out pokemon instead of Zelda this time. Monolith does not appear to be involved with Pokemon Legends Arceus, per the credits.
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100 new posts on this half dead thread? What the gently caress just happened? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs So we're getting Nia and Melia's daughters (granddaughters?) in the party while Melia and Nia are going villain. Fake villain. Ok there's no way they're actually villains the fandom would have Monolith's heads if they did. Now I wonder which Monado* the main character wields this game, we're kinda short on trinity processor cores. You know, with Malos dead, Pyra and Mythra status unclear and it's probably not Alvis. gently caress it, let's go full** anime and have this fourth Xenoblade be Rex, Pyra and Mythra's offspring somehow. If they're the MC too we could have Alvis being that uncle. *No loving way that sword isn't a Monado tier being **fuller? fullest? This franchise be loving peak anime so let's go even beyond Random musings, Brigid and Aegeon should still be around? I hope we meet the latest emperor and they're still identical to keep up the joke. Possibly an empress instead but the model is a clear copy paste. I love newMelia's weapon being the unholy fusion between Melia's staff and Sharla's rifle, meanwhile newNia swiped Drommarch's stuff. Because of course. Speaking of Drommarch, if Nia is here he should be too. I hope they don't do him dirty again. Were there any Machina people in the trailers? You'd think Melia's United Mecho-Bionis Federation would have some. No big wings bird people that I could see, but I assume after 1 all surviving High Entia took to continuing the Homs interbreeding program as a basic rear end precaution. Nopons. Nopons never change. More like Riki, less like Tora please. No gacha. Please no gacha. While I personally didn't mind it too much it did warp gameplay in bad ways just by existing. Oh gently caress it's actually happening  where's the preorder button why can't the
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Omobono posted:Were there any Machina people in the trailers? You'd think Melia's United Mecho-Bionis Federation would have some. One of the party members appears to be Machina 
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With all the attention back to Xenoblade as a series I'd love the list of guides/videos that explain how to actually play the game as all I've repeatedly heard is how completely loving difficult it is to figure out since the in game information is basically a lie. I do know that XC2 after all the updates and DLC got rid of some of the grind and maybe made the gatcha a bit better? I still have XC1 for the wii and was thinking about just hooking that one up to play instead of buying the DE for the Switch unless the consensus is to play the newer version.
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pentyne posted:With all the attention back to Xenoblade as a series I'd love the list of guides/videos that explain how to actually play the game as all I've repeatedly heard is how completely loving difficult it is to figure out since the in game information is basically a lie. Definitely play the new version if you can, there were some good QOL changes including an infinitely better map/quest/UI system. Made doing all the side quests much, much easier
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pentyne posted:With all the attention back to Xenoblade as a series I'd love the list of guides/videos that explain how to actually play the game as all I've repeatedly heard is how completely loving difficult it is to figure out since the in game information is basically a lie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8P7KhFSA2w&t=35s Simple video that is enough to get you going on your own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEksqxaML58 Nitty gritty details.
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Terper posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8P7KhFSA2w&t=35s Thanks for this. I absolutely love XC1 and tried to get into XC2 but just couldn’t. Hearing XC3 being announced has me considering trying XC2 again. Or just watching a Let’s Play on YT somewhere so I’m somewhat prepared for XC3.
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I'm curious how they're going to handle a 4 person party. Do we just get a 3rd broken AI member to compensate for the terrible AI of the other 2 non-controlled characters? I'm going to spend so much more time in menus setting up characters 
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Trailer shows four people running around on the field. For what its worth, X also had 4 person parties.
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huh, so it did i totally didn't remember because my overwhelming memory of combat in that game is just being constantly unable to tell what the gently caress was going on and never fully coming to grips with the millions of systems even after reading the manual several times and being 50 hours into the game lol still never did pull off a successful overdrive before i stopped playing! say what you will about 2's terrible tutorials but at least the basics are way more intuitive
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I like XC2’s combat, however it’s mostly suited for one enemy with loads of HP. So fights against minor enemies are mostly dull since it all dies before you get enough orbs to do anything. Compared to XC1 where all you need is gauge, and chain attacks can continue to a new enemy once the initial one dies, and regular combat is just more engaging. Even if the luck-based system for continuing a chain attack is annoying.
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Chronojam posted:I hope a giant loving spaceship with United States written down the side crashes into the middle of the conflict zone halfway into the game. I unironically hope that the big overarchng mystery of the game is that Aionis is being targeted by the Samaar or that the world of Mira got pulled into the unified XC reality. SyntheticPolygon posted:They were helping out pokemon instead of Zelda this time. Pokemon Legends would actually look good and have a proper open world if this were the case. Omobono posted:Now I wonder which Monado* the main character wields this game, we're kinda short on trinity processor cores. I fully expect that we'll see multiple conduits and respective weapons at play. Monado, Aegis(es), and probably end with some new god weapon formed from a unified conduit. Assuming that the MC isn't wielding a combined superweapon already, since the sword he has sure looks like someone combined the Monado and Pyra's sword. Pants Donkey posted:I like XC2’s combat, however it’s mostly suited for one enemy with loads of HP. So fights against minor enemies are mostly dull since it all dies before you get enough orbs to do anything. Orbs only mattered for high HP enemies that you couldn't just obliterate with driver combos.
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So have they said if the combat and game play is more xb1 or xb2? Weapons and armor and stuff or just chips and different blades?
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The blades system looks to be gone but two of the party members shown are blades. It looks like they're just full party members now without the driver system.
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I swear to god if they loving this up with more gatcha poo poo...
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Kris xK posted:I swear to god if they loving this up with more gatcha poo poo... I got my KOS-MOS first try. 
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glassyalabolas posted:I got my KOS-MOS first try. 100s of hours, never loving got one. What a great system.
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Kris xK posted:I swear to god if they loving this up with more gatcha poo poo... I hope there is more Gotcha so bad
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I really looking forward to experiencing all the clever new adjustments they've made to the system to improve the QoL over the last game and also all the completely new annoying chores and obtuse timesinks they've added to compensate
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