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C-Euro posted:Wow, I forgot how quickly this game raises the stakes and how high they go. Yeah  Here's what my thought process was during that cutscene the first time I played:"Oh man, she is so badass! This is so awesome, I love this girl... Oh. Well, crap.  "Also swimsuit armour is best armour, put that poo poo on everyone
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Glazius posted:I also like that this ancient superweapon that turned the tide of a previous war is now prone to failing at the most inopportune times. It's not that it's failing, it's that the Face Mechon are a new type that the Monado doesn't work on because Dunban beat the absolute poo poo out of them a year ago. It shows that the Mechon are capable of learning and makes them an even worse threat. Our ultimate weapon can't defeat them and we might very well be doomed, but we'll go down fighting anyway because that's what we do motherfuckers It's awesome.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I think I had Sharla use Gadolt's rifle for a long part of the game because it had 3 gem slots, no other rifle had those. Me too, partly because of the gem slots thing but mostly because I'm a sentimental fucker. I never could bear to sell Fiora's daggers either 
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Aug 27, 2013 20:12
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Nobody's commented on this, which is a shame because it's absolutely majestic. Also, it's the most accurate portrayal of Nopon that I personally have ever seen.
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Blind Sally posted:Melia is secretly the bag-lady from Home Alone II who feeds all the pigeons. God I wish this was true. Also Lethemonster, now that you're in Frontier Village, you know which sidequest chain you need to do. 
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Blind Sally posted:Ha, yeah, he also has so much HP that he's effectively immortal himself. Riki can make a surprisingly effective tank. Riki, Melia (especially once she gets her good DoTs) and literally any other character (Dunban Dunban Dunban) will effortlessly slaughter everything in their path. Brings a tear to your eye.
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My favourite thing about Riki is the dance he does as his idle animation. I could watch that little dude spin all day 
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Vil posted:The dilemma here is that despite the sheer number of sidequests, nearly all of them (aside from generic kill/collect ones from nameless NPCs) are in fact interesting and shed some light on the character of one or more of the NPCs in the game. If you really go nuts sidequesting, you actually end up seeing an appreciable amount of personality and sometimes development, from nearly every named NPC. And there are over 150 of them. God yes, that's part of what I loved about this game. The world's so fleshed out, it feels so alive. The NPCs all have their own things going on completely separate from the main plot and it's lovely. Hell, there's a decent amount of setting information you only get from sidequests. I'm pretty sure Lethemonster already said she wasn't going to do too much in the way of sidequesting though (just whatever she likes best or is requested), since it was part of what burnt her out on her first attempt LPing this, and I can easily see why. As for presentation, I'd prefer hybrid or screenshot so we can get some cute reaction shots  But whatever's most convenient is of course the best!Fake edit: Oh I have another sidequest request! The questchain in the refugee camp with that writer guy and artist lady and the little Nopon kid is adorable and shouldn't take too long at this point in the game (if you haven't locked it out already).
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Lethemonster posted:Shh no X chat yet. Could go too far into metagame theorizing and spoil stuff. There's a xenoblade thread in games you can talk about it in. Gonna link it since it's not been posted in for like a month As usual, beware of spoilers.
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I guess Monolith just wanted to remind everyone that this is actually a JRPG, despite lacking pretty much all the common annoyances. Therefore, it needed a whole bunch of awesome-looking but functionally useless crap. Square-Enix had already exhausted the world's supply of pointless belts, and so the High Entia were born.
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Critic of the Dawn posted:As for Melia... well, we don't really know her well enough to talk about that yet. I will, however, say that neither my friend nor I were big fans of how she played in-game, either under player control or as an AI. Maybe that had something to do with why neither of us really liked Alcamoth or the High Entia much in general. Or maybe it was the fact that Alcamoth is basically a huge dull empty palace overlooking a huge dull empty park with the game's least interesting music. On the other hand, Melia is my favourite character, for Reasons. I'm as critical of terribly-written female characters as you can get without going out the other side and becoming sexist again, and I absolutely loved the way they were handled in Xenoblade (Sharla's awful outfits aside). They're generally treated with as much respect as the male characters, they're not just there as cute-looking props or as eye candy for a presumably-male player, and that's all we really ask for. Even with the whole lady-healer thing, she shoots people back to health with a massive goddamn sniper rifle and that's awesome.
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There's definitely a little stuff left to do in there later if I'm remembering a sidequest correctly, but if you don't want to go back it's not a big deal.
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LordAba posted:Is Naked-ban still viable in the post game? Even with all the really good skills attached to him which I assume is Unadorned Beauty and as many spike resists you can put on him.  Digital Jello posted:Despite the story's latest plot twist, I'm a little unsure if this falls into spoiler territory. I don't think it does, but just to be safe: vaguely fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Feb 6, 2014 |
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C-Euro posted:Dunban is the most handsome man in video games, so why not him? I also have a soft spot for Melia, she's a pretty great character
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I thought this was the regular Xenoblade thread for a minute  A word of warning about Breezy Zelos - he spawns right in the path of a roaming t-rex enemy, so you have to gib him as fast as humanly possible if you don't want to get your face chewed off by a dinosaur in the middle of the fight. I never had a problem finding Sunlight Schvaik, he always managed to find me first. I couldn't go two seconds in that part of the zone during daytime without a screaming eagle divebombing my head. He somehow manages to be everywhere at once vaguely fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Mar 18, 2014 |
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Air is lava! posted:Hmm. Never saw that one. Or any one which forces you to use Riki for that matter. Riki gets some of the best heart to hearts
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Lethemonster posted:FYI if anyone posts spoilers from here on this is the image I will be posting as punishment:  You were not kidding about how bad this is, also kind of surprised they didn't jam Sharla into it as well The official (concept) art is super gorgeous! It's good to know I'm not the only one who noticed that Fiora and Dunban look nothing alike, although your speculation as to why makes things um just a tiny bit creepy I just thought maybe one of them looks more like their mum and the other one looks more like their dad 
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Glazius posted:Is Riki actually sympathetic to Melia, or just completely disrespectful but he's so cute it doesn't some across as mean-spirited?
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Lethemonster posted:I know I asked before what characters people wanted to see more of and so on, and we settled on Dunban first. I have been trying to collect a good amount of Dunban-centric quests and heart to hearts, but every drat thing I've managed to get so far is about him focusing on someone else (like the heart to heart with Melia above). Dude's too selfless, it's annoying. I'm hoping now I've got Fiora in the party I will be able to gather up other people talking about Dunban, at least. You can get a couple (I remember one with Sharla and one with Fiora at least), but IIRC they require max affinity. It's a pain in the butt
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Aug 12, 2014 17:24
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Lethemonster, my request is that in your next update everybody gets naked
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thetoughestbean posted:So, uh...  hell yeah
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Blind Sally posted:I hope his final smash is Reyn Time, and involves everyone's favourite lunkhead 
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