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All three games are anime and everyone who plays them is an anime lover. The party in XBC1 also doesn't hold a candle to the new crew. The game forgets half of them Exist by chapter 10 in xbc.
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If you're Reyn, Sharla or Dunban you don't exist past Jade Face
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Oct 19, 2022 14:39
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Louisgod posted:Ok, looking forward to it and I’ll continue to push through. Again, it’s not that I’m not enjoying the game (I am), I was just expecting much more. Looking back, it’s the extremely thick exposition that the consuls lay on that’s really grating (think one even jokes about not having to explain something at one point), and the fight scenes bug the hell out of me specific to how they’re directed (same is true in movies where adversaries sit back waiting for their cue). Just asked my kids if they picked up in the 10 year lifespan still setting in and they too thought that was gone when the flame clocks were destroyed, kinda odd all we all missed it. Make sure you don't try and wrap up chapter 5 right before bed, many of us have tried and paid the price (of staying up until like 4am).
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Oct 19, 2022 14:59
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XB1 has great characters without great character development. It really becomes the Shulk, Melia, and Seven show after a while, mostly because they are the most important characters to the plot by far. XB3 has a somewhat similar problem--Noah and Mio are obviously the most fleshed out and complete characters--as you would expect from the leads. However, being introduced to all the characters from basically the start, having a full party shortly after that, group discussions, much more voiced dialog, named characters that interact with other named characters in the world (even having voiced scenes for things not related to the main story)--just to name a few important choices--helps with character development and growth immensely. Many quests specifically have certain party members lead the conversation or action--so everyone gets a chance to shine without generic "This is the way!" responses to quests. Eunie and Taion are able to get some decent character growth outside of the main story. Lanz is consistently able to be more than a one-note character (and is given moments of brilliance that are logical and not the standard "jock knows theoretical physics out of no where" cliche). Sena. If you ignore the hero and hero ascension quests, you'll miss out on quite a bit of this.
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Oct 19, 2022 15:06
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Dirk the Average posted:A few useful things: This is partially true. You always get CP from killing enemies, although the amount diminishes significantly if you are a higher level than the enemies. The CP you get from enemies more than five levels below you doesn’t go toward unlocking classes, so you won’t be able to unlock say Flash Fencer on anybody but Noah if you are lv 20 fighting lv 14 enemies.
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Oct 19, 2022 15:14
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Reik posted:Make sure you don't try and wrap up chapter 5 right before bed, many of us have tried and paid the price (of staying up until like 4am). I did get to the City last night and it does feel like the game has opened up very well specific to the story, and the cutscenes so far have been very innocent and cute.
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Oct 19, 2022 15:28
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Even in main cutscenes, Eunie got a whole lot of love and a whole character arc to herself
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Oct 19, 2022 15:30
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Prowler posted:If you ignore the hero and hero ascension quests, you'll miss out on quite a bit of this. I don't know why you would choose to skip the best story bits in the game. If anyone is avoiding these or skipping them. Don't.
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Oct 19, 2022 15:34
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Louisgod posted:I did get to the City last night and it does feel like the game has opened up very well specific to the story, and the cutscenes so far have been very innocent and cute. The scene where they see and touch a baby for the first time is absolutely incredible. Everything up until the City was good but going there throws you a curveball and makes you realize that maybe the plot of the game wasn’t what you thought!
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Oct 19, 2022 15:37
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:The scene where they see and touch a baby for the first time is absolutely incredible. Everything up until the City was good but going there throws you a curveball and makes you realize that maybe the plot of the game wasn’t what you thought! Yeah that one especially was very sweet and a welcomed tender moment. The story up to this point has felt like an odd sense of wandering through generic locations with the occasional Mobius barrier so the change in scenery is welcome.
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Oct 19, 2022 15:55
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Omobono posted:It's even worse than that. Monolith "Game Balance Is My Passion" Soft
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Oct 19, 2022 17:30
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TheKingofSprings posted:1 also has a lot of dead airtime with nothing happening, the end of Xord up well into Makna (and even then Makna is pretty slow). You mean the parts where you actually play the game?
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Oct 19, 2022 17:38
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Regarding XBC1, I kinda enjoyed Riki’s sideplot of being a dad who has to figure a way to feed his 13 children or something. That and Frontier Village being corrupt as all hell despite being so cute was just amusing, when doing a shitton of sidequests there.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:14
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The weirdest thing has gotta be playing a Xeno game without an Uzuki to make everything worse.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:24
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Plenty of Vandhams though!
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Oct 19, 2022 18:36
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QuantaStarFire posted:Plenty of Vandhams though! Not Enough Vandhams  Every game needs at least 3 vandhams, like xc3 does.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:46
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MonsieurChoc posted:The weirdest thing has gotta be playing a Xeno game without an Uzuki to make everything worse. Dunban is basically Jin Uzuki so it’s fine
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Oct 19, 2022 19:00
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Supremezero posted:Not Enough Vandhams Guernica is the only Vandham I met so far and he owned.
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Oct 19, 2022 19:29
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I know this discussion is a bit played out but I'm replaying Definitive Edition right now after beating 3 (I'll probs play 2 after) and I'd say the characters are all serviceable and steady but not too developed or interesting personality-wise. I'm sure this is not a popular opinion but Dunban, Melia and Riki are the only characters I haven't found boring at some point in the game. Honestly, there might even be some colony side characters in XC3 that I care about more than most of the cast in XC1. e: I should clarify I haven't done too many of the H2Hs but the characters in the main story are still lacking in XC1. Giggy fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Oct 19, 2022 |
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Oct 19, 2022 19:37
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TheKingofSprings posted:If you're Reyn, Sharla or Dunban you don't exist past Jade Face To be fair, there isn't much game past that point.
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Oct 19, 2022 19:46
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Did Xenoblade 1 have a Vandham? I don't remember one, but it's been a while.
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Oct 19, 2022 20:03
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WrightOfWay posted:Did Xenoblade 1 have a Vandham? I don't remember one, but it's been a while. The colony 9 captain guy's name was changed from Vandham in the localization. The yelly one with the big moustache.
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Oct 19, 2022 20:04
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Yeah it's like Vandarre in English.
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Oct 19, 2022 20:35
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Melia’s dad is the Vandham
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Oct 19, 2022 21:05
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Supremezero posted:Not Enough Vandhams (Late chapter 5/6 plot details) There's technically at least 5 if you count Noah and N, right? Manoueverable fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Oct 19, 2022 |
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Oct 19, 2022 21:51
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MonsieurChoc posted:Guernica is the only Vandham I met so far and he owned. You’re in for a… surprise. Manoueverable posted:(Late chapter 5/6 plot details) There's technically at least 5 if you count Noah and N, right? What
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Manoueverable posted:(Late chapter 5/6 plot details) There's technically at least 5 if you count Noah and N, right? Am I glad someone else had that thought during that cutscene. But no, I don't think they count. (Chapter 6) It was the previous City, not the current one. (Chapter 6) Both Manoueverable and I thought that Noah was the first Vandham during the flashback cutscene. It would have fit the game's themes.
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Omobono posted:Am I glad someone else had that thought during that cutscene. Oh okay phew I thought I missed something crazy.
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Oct 20, 2022 01:47
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It seems to me that the implication is still (Chapter 6) that Noah and Mio's son and his descendants make up the House Vandham line, which would make them and/or N/M, depending on how you slice it, the progenitors. It really can't be that much of a coincidence.
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Oct 20, 2022 01:59
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Manoueverable posted:It seems to me that the implication is still (Chapter 6) that Noah and Mio's son and his descendants make up the House Vandham line, which would make them and/or N/M, depending on how you slice it, the progenitors. It really can't be that much of a coincidence. there's a post game thing where, iirc, Nia says that the Vandham family had already helped her out in XC2, which doesn't really make sense unless they're all related. If that's actually true and their kid is the Vandham founder then either Mio is Vandham's daughter or she's not Nia's daughter.
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Oct 20, 2022 02:23
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I stumbled unto the dlc character and huh… This 2 stuff, with the blades?
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I kinda hope that the dlc story is an epilogue because I wanna see what Mio's true blade form and weapon is. We know that Eunie's blade in a past life was a gun instead of the gunrod she uses, so blade weapons can change from life to life. The Twin Rings Mio uses seem much too aligned with Agnus in design to be her true weapon in the real world. Cammuravi by contrast seems to be a blade using his blade weapon and some partial manifestation of the clothing/armor he would be summoned with mixed with Agnian armor. Really I want the most sugary sweet romantic scene as Noah and Mio reunite, thousands of years of twu wuv racing through their heads.
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Sylvian Wastes posted:I kinda hope that the dlc story is an epilogue because I wanna see what Mio's true blade form and weapon is. We know that Eunie's blade in a past life was a gun instead of the gunrod she uses, so blade weapons can change from life to life. The Twin Rings Mio uses seem much too aligned with Agnus in design to be her true weapon in the real world. Not just that, Eunie's blade is the same gun in flashbacks as well, and we know Sena gets suggested to just swap to a gun as well; people can swap blade weapons early on in life, all their weapons are just the ones that they picked and trained with for years.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I stumbled unto the dlc character and huh… Yes she is like 100% a 2 reference mostly regarding Tora and Poppi Update to further cement this claim i finished her ascension quest and the final battle used the xc2 battle theme Bakalakadaka fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Oct 22, 2022 |
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Oct 21, 2022 18:20
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Hey, so after you do Ino’s ascension quest and complete her inoswap grid and fully upgrade the HD ether cylinder; go back to the the nopon caravan she hangs out at when she's not in your party and talk to her for some funny dialogue.
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There was a small update but I don’t know what it did Edit: to clarify, the patch notes are incredibly vague.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:There was a small update but I don’t know what it did Big spoilers: 
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RuBisCO posted:Big spoilers: No, there was a 1.2.1 update like two days ago. Not sure what that one fixed.
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Killed another Consul back at Colony 9, that battler theme still kicks rear end.
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I think I've met the Uzuki: Teach is giving me less-assholish Citan vibes.
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