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As a fan of jrpgs, giant robots, and anime buttrock, I am excited for this game.
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Elma looks like she'd be cool, but from what I have heard from a stream last night her voice is incredibly mediocre and boring.
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Dec 3, 2015 06:14
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This game is real good especially now that I've finally got a decent handle on the combat.
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Dec 7, 2015 09:00
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I have to question the game's color coding of enemy difficulty, considering purples and greens are supposed to be easy and yet are both higher level than I am and capable of one shotting anyone in my party, basically. I suppose having the correct resistance matters a hell of a lot? Also it doesn't really matter now since I just cheated with reward tickets, but for getting energy tubes from puges in primordia, are there really only the four puges in the southeast in the entire zone?
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Dec 9, 2015 09:20
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Thank you Elma for actually noticing that it is kinda weird that we can all understand and converse perfectly fine with alien races we are meeting for the first time or simply listening to. I should really work harder on progressing the story rather than just loving around, but this is such a good gently caress around game.
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Dec 10, 2015 09:53
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The Ma-non have a strong appreciation for pizza, so they are cool in my book.
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Dec 11, 2015 07:36
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Doug seems like a good guy. I like him.
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Dec 11, 2015 08:57
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Infinity Gaia posted:Man, the more I use HB the more I actually kinda like him. Sure, he's kind of an egotistical rear end in a top hat, but his heart's in the right place and I find most of his post-battle convos pretty funny. HB is a cool guy and I will support him in his rise to the top. He also suffers slightly less from Xeno-face than for example Gwin. chumbler fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Dec 12, 2015 07:45
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AfroGunsou posted:tatsu keeps saying i collect new thing when i certainly have not collect new thing. could me having zero of a collectible at the time and then picking one up be triggering these notifications or is the potato boy broken and i just need to shut him off forever I think the point of those messages from Tatsu is to try to get people to post where to find things. I don't think it has anything to do with the collectopedia.
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Dec 12, 2015 08:53
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Where the hell is HB after you do his mission? I've been trying to get that dude back in the party and can't find him at all. The lack of an easy way to re-add party members is definitely my biggest complaint about the game so far, though that's really only for the fourth slot since Elma and Irina will probably never leave my party.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:16
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People were having trouble with the chapter 6 boss? I killed that thing in like 15 seconds. Though to be fair that may be due to being overleveled a tad from screwing around doing various missions and exploring.
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Dec 13, 2015 09:22
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horchata posted:I need to know what skills and arts you're using cause i chose the lance/sniper class as my first class and everything seems so slow Likewise if anyone has anything for the raygun that makes it not involve so much sitting around I'd appreciate it. Such a change from the dual swords class that always has something to do.
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Dec 14, 2015 02:35
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Random Stranger posted:What is it with scifi RPG's having massively racist party characters and that behavior is presented as a good thing? I can't wait to get this guy out of my party. I'm pretty sure that it is not presented as a good thing, but that being a space racist isn't the only thing about the character. Hell, most of the random people get along just fine with the aliens or have a quest about them overcoming initial revulsion.
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Dec 14, 2015 07:43
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Is it possible to mess up a heart to heart and end up locking yourself out of something? The game is in general very forgiving so I hope not, but I am still worried about that before I start doing them.
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Dec 14, 2015 09:23
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Irina is cool and I like her.
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Dec 15, 2015 07:58
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Cake Attack posted:instead, i just shot him with a sniper rifle for 10 minutes Raygun also works.
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Dec 16, 2015 05:44
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I want Mamapon in my party, though I understand that she is too powerful and would make the game too easy.
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Dec 16, 2015 07:48
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It is very inconsiderate that you park your skell right in the middle of an intersection if you fast travel to the commercial district. Must give the BLADE department of urban planning fits.
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Dec 16, 2015 09:57
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It would be nice if the game have some sense of how much the various attributes and resistances actually do. Like is 100 beam resistance a 50% beam damage reduction or something, and is ground fighting in a skell suit suicide? Likewise how much is the bonus or penalty for elements on weapons, though nothing so far has seemed outright ineffective so I guess it can't be too much. And on that note what do you even use against what targets? I got from just random conversations that thermal is good against bugs and ether is good against regular critters, and I'm guessing electric is good against mechanical and fish and gravity against flying and big targets, but what about beam?
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Dec 16, 2015 22:19
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HB is a treasure.
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Dec 18, 2015 03:45
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Lao wears very tight pants.
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Dec 18, 2015 05:11
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Infinity Gaia posted:Nagi is the best character in the game, has best conversations. Best party overall for maximum banter is Nagi, HB and Murderess, IMHO. I've generally enjoyed the various characters, though Phog could use a little bit more. I generally run around with Irina and Elma who talk about going shopping after battles, and if you have a female character with the Major voice Irina makes fun of both you and Elma for being princesses. Also Doug is great and underappreciated.
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Dec 19, 2015 05:26
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Yakiniku Teishoku posted:Aggressively normal is probably how I would describe it, she's supposed to be a badass leader but she just likes work and cats and classic cars like your pal down the pub I'm kinda of the same mind on Elma. Yeah she's pretty boring in terms of personality and voice acting, but you occasionally get little bits of characterization apart from her ~deep mysteries~ that make her feel like a relatively normal person, and it works reasonably well for me at least. She's basically just a jrpg protagonist except not the one you play. Also the ending cutscene of chapter 7 amused me with everyone doing the same hand on hip thing in response to Vandham. chumbler fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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Dec 19, 2015 07:31
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Skell beam gatlings do a ton of damage, but they're likely to get you in a real jam if you aim it wrong. Kinda makes me feel bad to use a skell in story mission boss fights that I'm a bit overleveled for due to a lot of exploring and side quests.
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Dec 20, 2015 07:53
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bloodychill posted:It's interesting to look at Takahashi's history and how each title feels like a direct response to the last one. Xenogears was too much story stuffed into one game so he tried to retell the story in bite sized chunks with Xenosaga. With Xenosaga, the gameplay was generally panned and people didn't much take to the episodic format so he shrank the scope of the story and focused on game play and world design with Xenoblade. People liked the gameplay and loved the world design in Xenoblade so that's what they focused on with XCX while sidelining the story. I could see a sequel being more character focused now that the larger world is more or less established, and I hope they would use the chance to develop the existing characters a bit more. I don't mind that the characters are a bit shallow in this one since it's not really a character driven story from the start. They're all functional enough, which is probably damning with faint praise, but I think it works well enough.
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Dec 20, 2015 21:25
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Elma's second and third heart to hearts are fun and help flesh her out. She actually has a sense of humor after all.
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Dec 21, 2015 05:54
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Is it possible to permanently miss arms manufacturers or have I just not gotten to them yet? I am missing 2. I have the 4 basic ones, the Orphe, and the Nopon. I am worried about passing some point of no return.
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Dec 21, 2015 08:35
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horriblePencilist posted:Man, I'm loving all these mutiny options in dialogues. "The Secretary of Defense went missing! I'll be the new one!" Picking Elma as your favorite type of pet in her second heart to heart is also pretty good.
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Dec 21, 2015 19:00
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Zombie Defiler posted:Also does anyone know why the gently caress Irina has such low base HP / is awful? She's the closest to a designated healer in the game. Also you can just put her in Sakuraba gear for the bonus HP or CC for higher base defense, though she'll get wrecked by beams in that.
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Dec 24, 2015 19:51
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Inflammatory posted:
Freedom has died.
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Dec 24, 2015 22:41
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Regy Rusty posted:Someone tell me about inventory and equipment management. I just got the game for Christmas and I've already picked up a ton of various weapons and armor. Fooling around with the shops in town has shown that there's upgrades for every single piece of gear, and selling things I don't need seems to involve going to a window that gives me very little info as I sell them off one by one. This is exactly the kind of thing I dislike doing. Is there a strategy to make equipment management as painless and not tedious as possible? My strategy is basically to just ignore it and if I want an upgrade I just buy it from the shop (upping the arms manufacturer levels gives their gear more mods, though they're fixed based on the manufacturer instead of more variable like drops, but gently caress that management).
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Dec 26, 2015 01:10
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Honestly if I was gonna pare back the excess party members, Gwin would be top of the list. He only exists to hang off Irene's side like a lost puppy. Lao too, because all you see of him in most missions is "Hi guys, bye guys, have fun guys Doug's battle quotes are interesting, at least. I can't remember any of Gwin's. I think his special arts are good, though.
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Inflammatory posted:enforcer is fine as long as you watch where you're aiming those aoe arts so you don't accidentally bite off more than you can chew. and you should be able to get a full party already, from what i remember. look for blue checkmarks on the map of the administrative district and you should be able to find gwin, irina, and doug to recruit them. Personally I would hold off on going enforcer until you've mastered a class line with one of the better melee weapons first (I use dual swords with it) and have a good stock of bp to max beam barrage asap. The knife has really poor damage and TP generation in my experience, and since it is more based on support skills you're relying on the often not terribly effective AI. Dual swords are also really good for TP generation which is needed because the raygun is a TP hog if you really want to get a lot out of it.
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Dec 26, 2015 20:14
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Dr. Stab posted:I'm definitely not looking forward to spending the next 300 hours listening to the same lovely songs over and over that I've already gotten tired of. That sounds like a personal problem, because the music owns, actually.
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Dec 26, 2015 21:14
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BillmasterCozb posted:I just bought this game, and I have not played the original Xenoblade Chronicles, is there anything I should know before getting into this? Besides reading the manual being very important to understanding a ton of the combat systems, nope.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:58
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Dr. Stab posted:
Look, that thing needs to be buried deep in the uhhh...
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Dec 27, 2015 22:14
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Suaimhneas posted:Honkbirds are great and I won't hear a word said against them Three honkybirds stacked on top of each other hosed me up once, but I couldn't stay mad.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:08
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After watching Star Wars I now just imagine a Chewbacca roar whenever my silent protagonist is supposed to have said something.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:56
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If they (hopefully) make a sequel, I hope they re-examine skells. They're fun at first for the big power boost, but are really shallow and boring compared to regular ground combat and basically supplant it until the super end game builds. I wouldn't mind them cutting out fuel use from flight and reducing the number of weapons you can equip (maybe just have your skell be equipped based on your class), but making skell attacks burn a lot more fuel and binding/parking restore it faster so that hopping in and out of a skell in combat or giving it a rest for a while is more of a thing. For fights where you're intended to be in a skell for longer periods, binding could restore more I guess. I definitely wouldn't want them to be ditched entirely, but they need to be iterated on to still feel cool and important without effectively removing a good portion of the game.
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Dec 31, 2015 03:26
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I have put 80+ hours into this game and only just noticed that in combat the tool tips at the bottom for what your skills do will say what allies' soul voices will do. Granted you don't really have a whole lot of time to notice it, but that makes remembering them a hell of a lot easier than trying to remember from the soul voice menu what they do.
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Dec 31, 2015 06:15
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