THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: MCD on February 06, 2015, 10:35:37 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpzCdnCFNM
Translation:
Open number 8. You're still alive. Are you okay? Don't push it. You just woke up. You're the only one to wake up. I'm Elma.
Our journey from Earth was suddenly cut short. We had to make an emergency landing. This is the planet we landed on. It's still untamed.
What do you think? Not bad, huh? This is our city, New Los Angeles. Welcome to NLA.
I'll tell you about NLA. This is our new home. This is the industrial area, at the entrance. Lots of weaponized machinery is made here.
This is the commercial area. Lots of people gather here. I like to go shopping. This is the residential area, where everyone lives.
This is the Blade area, our military's headquarters. Lots of weapons and equipment can be bought and stored here.
What's a Blade?
Blades are our police and military, protecting our city. They're also used in recon. Life is our support system. Some life pods broke off.
We need to go find life pods scattered across the world to recover survivors. Lin will explain the Frontier Net. Your position is shown.
The shining beam is a Frontier Spot, where you can gather information from data probes. They collect info about the places you set them.
This probe found a treasure nearby. Each area's objectives are revealed through the data probes. Find 100% of the objectives!
As you place probes, the dialogue of NLA residents will be expanded. Quests can be undertaken from NLA residents or directly from Blade.
If you succeed in your quests, you'll be handsomely rewarded. Be sure to clear them. Relationships between characters expand by interacting.
Planet Mira is still largely unexplored, and there's lots of room to explore.
Tatsu will continue explaining. There are several continents.
NLA is on the grassland continent. Next is the Night Light Forest continent. Then, the Forgotten Canyon. They're all huge. The White Forest.
Finally, the Black Steel continent. It's a volcanic area. It's really huge! Tatsu keeps saying the continents are huge. He can't help it.
There are so many locations in each continent that they can't all be explained. Each has a number of landmarks, secret areas, and vistas.
Did you think traveling would be a hassle? You can dash, jump, and skip travel to data probes you've placed. Navigation Ball helps the lost.
Just follow the Navigation Ball to your next destination. Use the Hopper Camera to get a bird's eye view from above your current location.
If you get a Doll (mech), you can travel even faster by transforming into a vehicle or taking to the sky. Find new areas to explore.
Dolls can't just be used by anyone, only certified Blade members. Creatures of Planet Mira. There are many different kinds, big and small.
It's best to avoid creatures that are far above your level. Watch out for obards. Creatures with special names require caution.
Alien species, friendly and hostile, can be interacted with. Our objective is to seek out the Life Points. Sometimes we have to fight.
Next time, we'll teach you the skills you'll need for survival.
Japanese bundle:
It'll cost 35 000 Yens, apparently. Sadly, they didn't show any pics during the stream.
(http://i.imgur.com/PuM6dvr.png)
They also confirmed you'll be able to pre-purchase the downloadable version of the game. Starting 11PM JST today!
(http://i.imgur.com/bj9xrU3.jpg)
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3D coming out on April 10 in NA, new trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xuRbkXcZ8
Out on April 10 in NA.
Europe and Japan get the game on April 2.
StreetPass will be involved:
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D will include unique StreetPass functionality, which help you earn in-game tokens to unlock music & character models!
You can get tokens by scanning Shulk's amiibo, too.
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You can get tokens by scanning Shulk's amiibo, too.
all 50 people who managed to buy one will be really happy about that
put features in games that require a figure that is extremely scarce
flood channels with gamecube controllers but not the adapters to use them
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I think everyone waiting bought the mayflash one by now.
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mayflash right now:
(http://i.imgur.com/bccMBOB.gif)
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Gross, disgusting third party accessories
Will enjoy my 1% gaming on my top quality Nintendo first party accessories
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I have the original from Nintendo. Bought it from Nippon-Yasan for about 4k yen. Now it's 11k or so. Gross.
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set in LA lol
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never thought I'd buy a Wii u but here we are. unless a shitload of good stuff gets announced for x1 and ps4 at e3 this year, I'll prolly end up buying a Wii u during a winter sale. this game looks fuckin hot
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I'm gonna buy it, never play it because I have too many games already, and sell it on eBay for $100 in a few years. :bow
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that whopping $40 resale
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set in LA lol
dat american fanservice
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Can they just go ahead and release this in America tomorrow? Thanks.
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set in LA lol
dat american fanservice
(http://i.imgur.com/kj2bpKg.jpg)
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(http://gematsu.com/gallery/albums/xenoblade-chronicles-x/february-7-2015/Xenoblade-Chronicles-X_2015_02-07-15_012.jpg)
this face is Sin and Punishment tier. or pre-release DOA5 hitomi levels of derp
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i played this game back when it was called star ocean: the last hope
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:what please don't compare the weeb majesty of xenoblade to a lowly star ocean shitpile
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god dammit where is my red foxx emoji
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Apdfz4HNrY&app=desktop
the vocals should be left in the battle music for hilarity's sake
stuck in a whole different plaaaaaaanet
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgI2vL6DNI
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3D coming out on April 10 in NA, new trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xuRbkXcZ8
Out on April 10 in NA.
Europe and Japan get the game on April 2.
StreetPass will be involved:
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D will include unique StreetPass functionality, which help you earn in-game tokens to unlock music & character models!
You can get tokens by scanning Shulk's amiibo, too.
Only playable on New 3DS :'(
I'm so outta the loop i didn't even know there was a "New 3DS" which games can be made for and not be compatible with my not new 3ds lol
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3D coming out on April 10 in NA, new trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xuRbkXcZ8
Out on April 10 in NA.
Europe and Japan get the game on April 2.
StreetPass will be involved:
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D will include unique StreetPass functionality, which help you earn in-game tokens to unlock music & character models!
You can get tokens by scanning Shulk's amiibo, too.
Only playable on New 3DS :'(
I'm so outta the loop i didn't even know there was a "New 3DS" which games can be made for and not be compatible with my not new 3ds lol
To be fair, most of the general populace don't know that either. :shh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBSQXVo5lU
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those character models look more plastic than the original Xenoblades.
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I've gotten used to them now I don't care. I just want it already.
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I just hope they fix some of the stuff from the first game. I'm not looking forward to another slew of meaningless sidequests.
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Me too, since that was the universal complaint. But considering there's a union dedicated to those types of meaningless fetch and search quests, I doubt it :lol
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How could they not fix that? :neogaf
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Me too, since that was the universal complaint. But considering there's a union dedicated to those types of meaningless fetch and search quests, I doubt it :lol
Vote Scott Walker for president, and he will shut down the powerful fetch quest union.
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English preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=132&v=yqY2zCo-0mQ
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Only played a little bit [maybe an hour and a half, and on the tablet rather than an actual TV], but saw far I'm happy with the direction it's going in. Ground combat seems to be pretty similar to the original Xenoblade. Not really convinced that the rap/hip-hop soundtrack really works for this kind of game, seems more appropriate for something like the later Persona series, but it's still okay.
And I like being able to create my own character, even if that does make it less story/character-focused than the original.
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I got this
Why did I get this
Seems kinda cool though
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Greatly anticipating starting it this weekend, also have 2 weeks off at work starting the 22nd, so I expect a LOT of playtime!
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Game is straight trash after Xenoblade. Animations and VA on par with Xenosaga. Went back to Zestiria.
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Game is straight trash after Xenoblade. Animations and VA on par with Xenosaga. Went back to Zestiria.
What is better about Xenoblade? I got that too for 3DS but haven't tried it.
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Everything really
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Well it does do commit the "do a lot of tedious bullshit to advance the game" thing that is so popular in games today. I don't like busy work. I like going about my game on my own pace. Nothing kills my intrest in a game faster then looking at a map with a bunch off filler content knowing that to simply see the best parts of the game I'll have to wade through that content. Xenoblade early in the game tells you to do 15% of random bullshit just to unlock chapter 4. That sucks, just as much as passing millions of missions that I cant do because I haven't hit the requirements.
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Well it does do commit the "do a lot of tedious bullshit to advance the game" thing that is so popular in games today. I don't like busy work. I like going about my game on my own pace. Nothing kills my intrest in a game faster then looking at a map with a bunch off filler content knowing that to simply see the best parts of the game I'll have to wade through that content. Xenoblade early in the game tells you to do 15% of random bullshit just to unlock chapter 4. That sucks, just as much as passing millions of missions that I cant do because I haven't hit the requirements.
But the thing is that the best parts of Xenoblade X are doing the side content. If you just blew through the main story, it'd be like whatever because it's not particularly good. But exploring the world and some of the sidequests is easily the best part of the game.
I have lots of serious issues with XBX, but the progression requirements don't bug me that much because exploring and doing side stuff is pretty fun. And you can get enough % most of the time just mapping out all the relay fast travel points anyhow.
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Well I mean ideally, I'd like the worthwhile side content to be just thrown into the main story.
I really just don't like open world games I guess. i like linear structured games.The first XB was a pretty straightforward and linear game.
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The exploration and atmosphere in this game are top notch. The landscapes are gorgeous in spite of the Wii U.
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I agree sorta, they are but some of the areas are also really sparse. The desert, the white one and the last one are all kind of so-so in content although the desert effects are gorgeous and the white place has awesome music. The Jungle's the best one imo because it's so layered and well designed from a level design perspective. The first one's pretty good from a vertical design perspective.
Reading the post-game impression threads, most people are talking about the plot problems which was one of my main issues with the game, but what I'm surprised is that hardly anyone is talking about how once you can fly the game has zero level design and the whole rest of the game is just "warp/fly to this spot on the map, watch a cutscene/pick up an item/fight something, repeat" outside of one mini-dungeon in the last world and a couple of caves. I think those were the two biggest issues with the game; otherwise it does a lot right with the battle system (although I think the battle system in the Skells is totally broken, but on foot is fantastic), some incredible exploration like the jungle area on-foot, and a lot of good quests.
The interviews with Takahashi recently have been really promising though. He's basically said two things of note: 1) That XBX was an engine/HD test and he knew he couldn't handle a big meaty story while doing that so he didn't try and just focused on exploration/battles, and 2) That the next game (XBX2) will be much more story-focused and closer to Xenoblade's story/gameplay pace. Those are basically the words I needed to hear after being letdown by XBX since I went in expecting a great Takahashi complete story in one game and got an extremely sparse prologue to ta new franchise instead.
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Yeah this game has some major flaws.
-The story is godawful (I'm browsing online during cutscenes).
-The combat system is overly complex and does a poor job of explaining its systems.
-The game doesn't explain systems in general (I got stuck for a few hours because I didn't realize I had to use FrontierNav to extract some minerals for an affinity quest that fed into the main quest).
But it has a mesmerizing hook that compels me to play. I'm sure I'll get burnt out in 20-30 hours before I finish the main quest, but I will have got my money's worth.
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how did this game get much better reviews than Zesteria?
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Xenoblade's still better than Zesteria though. Even a weak Takahashi game is gonna be better than any Tales game, and this is coming from a Tales fan!
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35 hours later and I'm getting burnt out. The final continent underwhelmed me, the main quest is dumb and the affinity and side quests are all the same.
It was fun while it lasted!
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35 hours later and I'm getting burnt out. The final continent underwhelmed me, the main quest is dumb and the affinity and side quests are all the same.
It was fun while it lasted!
At least you got that far and found that out in 35 hours! I think I was around 60-70 hours at that point.
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The game kinda died when I was able to get a heavy Skell that could kill mobs 10+ levels higher than me. Also when I hit the last continent I thought "that's it? :-\"
But I always get burnt out on open world games between 30 and 50 hours so I'm satisfied with my purchase.
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Yeah, surprisingly the final continent is the smallest and least interesting of them all. Wonder if it was a ran out of time thing. There's lots of cool floating fortress bits and stuff in the sky that are never used.
Best maps are the first 3 imo, with the complexly layered jungle being the best. The white continent is kind of empty but has nice music.
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Is it possible to recruit members without having to go out of my way to ask them? Seems super stupid and arbitrary.
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Is it possible to recruit members without having to go out of my way to ask them? Seems super stupid and arbitrary.
Nope. Wait for Xenoblade X Chronicles 2!...for UI optimization.
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Also there is no purpose in using other chars since you are restricted to using certain members anyway.... Like why the fuck cant I take Gwin when doing someone's affinity mission? Odd
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Actually you want to use as many different characters as possible all the times to build up their affinity levels for their affinity missions. Otherwise you ended up having to grind for a couple of hours each character which basically just sucks.
I was bad and used Elma and Rin for like 50-60% of the game and then I had them at max 5 hearts and everyone else at like 1 heart and it was a pain.
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Why would i want to do affinity missions? They arent interesting. The game forces you to use elma and lin.
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Why would i want to do affinity missions? They arent interesting. The game forces you to use elma and lin.
You're not going to like this game much :-\
The main story is short and sucks, the majority of the content of the game are the normal & affinity quests and the affinity quests are bigger budget ones. Some are good, some suck. But exploring the continents and doing the sidequests is basically what the entire game is about. If you just go through the main story it's gonna be fairly whatever. Also you need to do certain affinity missions to progress the story at a few parts.
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I already know this game is ass compared to xenoblade. Zestiria takes a dump on this game.
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I don't even think the PS4 version of zesteria looks better then Xenoblade. There is no area Zesteria tops anything.
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Is there any way to easily grind affinity levels?
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How are the multiplayer features? Are they any fun?
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The multiplayer is just as convoluted and confusing. But there IS actual multiplayer if you can care enough to try.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/701151-xenoblade-chronicles-x/72945335
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The music is lit
Shit goes all NARUTO when you fight a Tyrant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwT-S0Fb4LM
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Haha, yeah I like some of the tracks though I greatly prefer the Xenoblade soundtrack by ACE team and Kajiura.
But I can't hate on Sawano, that Gundam Unicorn soundtrack theme he did is one of the best themes in the last decade. In fact I'm 100% sure that's why Takahashi asked him to score XBX. Takahashi's a mecha fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK4nggli_0E&index=6&list=PLwxYdHjSD_pNFADBQsg8y6AKrGeItDsZp
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So after 35 hours, I'm only 6 story missions in. I haven't even been to the 5th continent yet! My aim with the game is to do all of the Affinity missions, main missions and normal missions. Probably not gonna bother with all of the bounty/collecting missions. I'm just worried about grinding the Affinity although I forget where I see it, but there's a trick to easily grind it once you beat the main story.
Oblivia at night music :lawd
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The social board missions are infinite, AFAIK. No point in stressing them.
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I just dislike open world games because I get overwhelmed by how much content there is and how much it seems I have to do to simply beat the game.
Now I'm being told I have to level up each character because maybe an affinity mission will be required and I'll have to have that character? It's so terrible that the characters don't auto level.
So basically I don't think I'm going to play through this. There's too much tedious stuff to do just to play through it. I feel like I have to do so much just to have any fun and get anywhere.
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The level requirement is only for the PC character, the level of the other characters doesn't matter, as far as I know.
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Finally finished the last story chapter. Final boss gauntlet was super hard the first time I tried it so I had to go back to the drawing board and spend a bunch of hours powering up my team. That was annoying.
Despite a number of flaws (biggest of which is repetition, IMO) I really enjoyed this game for some reason. Actually I am kind of dabbling in the post game content so using past tense is probably wrong.
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post game content is just farming for the Ares 90 and one-shotting bosses. Zzzzz
I just farmed LVL 56 enemies at Jair Fortress with my LVL 30 skells and hit 50+ before finishing chapter 8.