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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Jenkem on November 28, 2017, 08:36:55 AM

Title: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 |OT| Maximum weebage! Year of Nintendo continues!
Post by: Jenkem on November 28, 2017, 08:36:55 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6hvvrDR7c

Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: demi on November 28, 2017, 08:47:49 AM
Neither
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 28, 2017, 09:44:47 AM
Xenoblade Chronicles looks like something I would totally play, if someone re skinned the game without animu and waifu
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Post by: Great Rumbler on November 28, 2017, 12:58:00 PM
Xenoblade Chronicles looks like something I would totally play

.
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Post by: paprikastaude on November 28, 2017, 02:07:38 PM
Which one has the creepier fanbase?
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Post by: bork on November 28, 2017, 02:27:24 PM
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 appears to be an actual video game with more than 20 minutes of game play.

On the other hand, it doesn't have amazing story like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgmpy8U9x7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGznQ1kw6I

Tough decision for sure. :thinking
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Hot Slice on November 28, 2017, 03:04:00 PM
Sonic Forces, without a doubt.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: thisismyusername on November 28, 2017, 04:45:52 PM
Neither

The only right answer.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: counterhit on November 28, 2017, 04:46:52 PM
Xenoblade will be a decent game weird people will jerk off to.

Sonic is a bad game even weirder people jerk off to.

The question is: how weird are you?
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Hot Slice on November 28, 2017, 04:52:45 PM
Xenoblade will be a decent game weird people will jerk off to.

Sonic is a bad game even weirder people jerk off to.

The question is: how weird are you?
How weird? I’m a Huelen/10.

Seriously, even I can’t beleive how many hours of enjoy Forces has given me. I love it.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Boredfrom on November 28, 2017, 05:06:43 PM
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 appears to be an actual video game with more than 20 minutes of game play.

On the other hand, it doesn't have amazing story like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgmpy8U9x7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGznQ1kw6I

Tough decision for sure. :thinking

Being fair, it was how stupid the story was in Sonic Forces that made me buy it. (And that iit cost less than 30 dollars in the Mexican eshop).
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: tiesto on November 28, 2017, 08:56:59 PM
A fan of both EDX and Xenoblade? A man of taste 8)
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: bork on November 28, 2017, 08:58:10 PM
Actually buying Sonic Forces
 :trigger
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Boredfrom on November 28, 2017, 09:05:23 PM
Actually buying Sonic Forces
 :trigger

My switch needs games.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Positive Touch on November 28, 2017, 09:07:51 PM
just say you like a shitty game damn
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 28, 2017, 09:55:29 PM
I'm happy I don't know a single Sonic fan in real life.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Jenkem on November 28, 2017, 10:34:32 PM
I'm happy I don't know a single Sonic fan in real life.

Are you saying every Sonic fan you know is married?!

 :doge
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Post by: Boredfrom on November 28, 2017, 10:37:00 PM
just say you like a shitty game damn

  :badass. I like the shitty game.
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Post by: Positive Touch on November 28, 2017, 11:06:14 PM
 :success
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Boredfrom on November 28, 2017, 11:08:03 PM
 
:success

  :rash
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Hot Slice on November 28, 2017, 11:39:43 PM
I’ve bought 6 copies of that game already, so sue me.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 28, 2017, 11:48:35 PM
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/6hLODLJTkHf8c/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Let's Cyber on November 29, 2017, 01:54:25 AM
There is a good possibility I'll play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at some point.

Sonic Forces?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3CfD8TPac
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Jenkem on November 29, 2017, 09:28:33 AM
I will buy Sonic Forces when it's in a humble bundle for 5 bucks

still need to get LOST WORLD tho!
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Post by: Joe Molotov on November 29, 2017, 10:40:26 AM
I will buy Sonic Forces when it's in a humble bundle for 5 bucks

still need to get LOST WORLD tho!

You really don't.  :holeup
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Post by: nachobro on November 29, 2017, 10:43:33 AM
Xenoblade shipped :rejoice
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Corporal on November 29, 2017, 12:47:48 PM
I've been on a media blackout on this game. All I know is that there will be big titted girls in skimpy clothing that can turn into weapons, in a game featuring a shounen coming-of-age story with a boy protagonist in one of the ugliest scuba diving gear ever devised by man - and that there will be a Japanese language patch (not even sure if there will be subtitles).

I expect to cringe a whole lot at the inevitable :uguu, but whatever. Should be fun. The CE is on its way.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: archie4208 on November 29, 2017, 02:09:11 PM
All I know is it has a sick battle theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUmUgnwf6eY)

The titties are icing on the cake.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: demi on November 29, 2017, 02:40:19 PM
That's probably going to be a boss theme or unique monster theme
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 29, 2017, 02:44:50 PM
https://youtu.be/ABiPg1UL9Vg

Sonic has that classy Toilet the Toilet DLC.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: nachobro on November 30, 2017, 09:48:05 AM
https://twitter.com/gematsucom/status/936135397867950080

:lawd
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 01, 2017, 05:03:42 PM
The one thing that I like about Xenoblade 2 is they didn't bother to put invisible walls in places where you'd generally expect they'd put invisible walls. You can use Rex's crappy jump to platform around to places where there's no reason for you to be.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 02, 2017, 01:40:17 AM
Found that out when I jumped off the ship to my death.

Does the battle speed feel really slow compared to the previous games?
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: demi on December 02, 2017, 01:58:42 AM
Yes, because you cant attack and move at the same time. Like, uhhhh wat
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Post by: Jenkem on December 02, 2017, 03:43:39 AM
Yes, because you cant attack and move at the same time. Like, uhhhh wat

It's strange getting used to but kind of makes sense since you are meant to time your arts in relation to when the combo hits and where in the 3-combo string you activate it.. and each weapon type has an entirely different rhythm and feel to it as far as timing goes.. not being able to move and attack also seems like it's more of an issue for the first few hours until you get you a full party.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 02, 2017, 08:39:36 AM
Why does everyone seem to dislike this Xenoblade whereas everyone seemed to like the one on Wii U? What's the difference?
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Post by: tiesto on December 02, 2017, 09:30:21 AM
Why does everyone seem to dislike this Xenoblade whereas everyone seemed to like the one on Wii U? What's the difference?

The reviews are quite positive, it's just the usual crowd complaining because of big ol' anime tittays on one of the characters and the goofy looking lead character design.
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 02, 2017, 09:49:59 AM
it does look extremely dumb
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Post by: Positive Touch on December 02, 2017, 10:44:24 AM
it does but I'm not understanding how it's different from literally every single other jrpg
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 02, 2017, 11:31:14 AM
Played it for about 3 hours last night and I really like it. :trumps
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Post by: archie4208 on December 02, 2017, 11:36:47 AM
Amazon fucked up my delivery and I won't get it until Monday.  :maf

At least I got a free month of Prime out of that. 
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Positive Touch on December 02, 2017, 12:13:49 PM
I'd play Xenoblade 2 if it's art style and voice acting didn't seem putrid to me.

I'd play it if I had a switch :shrug

xenoblade 1 was awesome
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 02, 2017, 02:57:04 PM
it does but I'm not understanding how it's different from literally every single other jrpg

agree they are all trash
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Post by: Freyj on December 02, 2017, 03:35:22 PM
Noticed the gameplay looked much slower watching some twitch streams. Seemed almost automatic.
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Post by: Positive Touch on December 02, 2017, 04:25:22 PM
lol my comment was supposed to mean the tittays look dumb not the game but o well


i will still buy this game
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Post by: demi on December 02, 2017, 07:03:45 PM
The english VA is so terrible. God damn

Aaaaiiyyyahhh (https://youtu.be/Ir_dwZ0nedo?t=43m20s)
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Jenkem on December 02, 2017, 07:57:39 PM
Why does everyone seem to dislike this Xenoblade whereas everyone seemed to like the one on Wii U? What's the difference?

because X lets you roam around and fly around as a Mech absolutely curb stomping shit
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Post by: Jenkem on December 02, 2017, 07:58:30 PM
The english VA is so terrible. God damn

Aaaaiiyyyahhh (https://youtu.be/Ir_dwZ0nedo?t=43m20s)

I think the English VA is fine, but yeah this Rex kid can't fucking scream.... like LOL it's so fucking corny
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 02, 2017, 08:24:37 PM
it does but I'm not understanding how it's different from literally every single other jrpg
Maybe because I'm lame, but most high quality jrpgs do not have s shitty art direction as this game.  I mean I'm sorry but games like Persona, Final Fantasy, Nier, and Lost Odyssey have a less super anime art style while being clearly Japanese. Even the "anime" games like Valkyria Chronicles and some Tales game character designs, mechanical designs, and overall art direction that makes things at least look cool. Everything in this game looks lame.

And I honestly don't think thats been a problem in most of the Xeno games.

Xenogears looks like 90s anime so it's cool.

I liked the soccer mom look of Xenosaga 2.

Xenoblade 1 is not overly animeish and Xenoblade 2 had really good mechanical designs and actual good character art. Those 3d models though...
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Post by: Positive Touch on December 02, 2017, 08:39:26 PM
i definitely like some jrpg designs, but yeah these definitely fall on the crap side of the spectrum (what the hell is up with the main character's pants?). i just meant almost-naked women with huge titties was par for the course.
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Post by: Jenkem on December 03, 2017, 04:59:19 AM
fuck this gacha crap, 20 cores and not a single rare blade

throwing this game in the trash
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Post by: Trent Dole on December 03, 2017, 05:43:16 AM
https://twitter.com/botwzelink/status/937083753431580672
whole lot of angry incels flipping their shiz over this trash char design getting called out. :doge
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: desert punk on December 03, 2017, 07:13:36 AM
Instead of fixating on the silly animu aesthetics, can someone who's already playing this game tell me if it's actually good otherwise? Gameplay, decent narrative... Does it have the same throw-away side-quests the first one had?
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Post by: paprikastaude on December 03, 2017, 08:17:55 AM
I love how quickly one failed console has led Nintendo to desperately embrace the lowest tier otaku with several series (Fire Emblem/#fe, Xenoblade, Tecmo collabs). Also, the irony in defending their shitty online services with "protect our audience from pedos", but making games with sexualised lolis.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Positive Touch on December 03, 2017, 09:27:07 AM
lmao that character looks like some deviantart bullshit

Instead of fixating on the silly animu aesthetics, can someone who's already playing this game tell me if it's actually good otherwise? Gameplay, decent narrative... Does it have the same throw-away side-quests the first one had?

everything i've seen so far says the game is fucking great
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Post by: desert punk on December 03, 2017, 10:15:47 AM
everything i've seen so far says the game is fucking great

Just wanted to hear some specifics from you guys.

But if it's a good game, then I can live with the embarrassing character designs. I mean I used to play Tales games and this one here doesn't look too different to me, except titty sizes I guess. And anyway, it's not that I'd be playing this in public, even with the fucking switch  :lol
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Post by: paprikastaude on December 03, 2017, 10:38:06 AM
Current Tales of is painfully generic, but for some reason I thought the Team Symphonia games were still okay (despite generally dumb clothes for all).  :yeshrug It hadn't yet entered modern animu as much as the above at that point.
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Post by: desert punk on December 03, 2017, 11:05:50 AM
Current Tales of is painfully generic, but for some reason I thought the Team Symphonia games were still okay (despite generally dumb clothes for all).  :yeshrug It hadn't yet entered modern animu as much as the above at that point.

Yeah, Vesperia was the last quality Tales game. While I haven't played another one of these game since Xillia four years ago or so, from what I've heard current Tales is just low-budget mass-produced shit now.

Though Tales was always very animu, even during its heydays. Don't know if anything changed in that regard, unless visuals and subject matter are all about pandering to the otaku crowd now too.

I just hope that outside of the character design, the new Xenoblade keeps the questionable shit to a minimum.

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Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 03, 2017, 11:36:56 AM
https://twitter.com/botwzelink/status/937083753431580672
whole lot of angry incels flipping their shiz over this trash char design getting called out. :doge


Based on that character design I'd like to bestow upon the game, all the Game Awards! You deserve it Xenoblade 2.

10/10.     (Especially the Games for Impact one.)
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: demi on December 03, 2017, 11:40:45 AM
So far I think its the worst xenoblade.
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Post by: paprikastaude on December 03, 2017, 12:26:59 PM
Based on that character design I'd like to bestow upon the game, all the Game Awards! You deserve it Xenoblade 2.

10/10.     (Especially the Games for Impact one.)

Your joke falls flat, since it insinuates that Geoff Keighley's PR show would have any kind of meaning.
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 03, 2017, 01:50:22 PM
Just as much meaning as any other award show then.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 03, 2017, 04:28:12 PM
So far I think its the worst xenoblade.
Yeah, I'm not too hot on it either right now.

This may be the jrpg that proves I'm too old for jrpgs.

Or maybe it's just shitty. A common defense is that "oh it's for Japanese teenage boys".

Yeah so where recent jrpgs like Persona 5, Final Fantasy XV, and and even Tales of Beseria and they weren't this shitty in art direction, character design(well maybe Beseria), and writing.

And man does the gameplay not feel as exciting as XCX. That felt much faster and not like you were simply standing around waiting for gauges to fill. The first two xenoblades had such a quick pace combined with quick cooldowns that they didn't put a spotlight on the automated attacks. Also since XCX was about synergy and using your moves(which you had more then 3) when your party needed, I felt more involved.
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Post by: paprikastaude on December 03, 2017, 05:26:54 PM
XB2 makes me want to give XCX a shot retroactively, which looked way more appealing, excluding the embarassing soundtrack. The problem with (J)RPGs is that they are too long for anything that isn't above average. I don't mind playing 6-7/10 games, but not when they are 100 hours long. I'd rather get through the 5 hours of Sonic Forces' weirdness than to bear anything XB2-related over dozens.  :doge  Also, the battle system of the series is shit, you basically played the first XB for the locations and soundtrack - the story was awfully cliched too, but at least the characters weren't blatant abominations.
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Post by: demi on December 03, 2017, 08:15:38 PM
So far I think its the worst xenoblade.
Yeah, I'm not too hot on it either right now.

This may be the jrpg that proves I'm too old for jrpgs.

Trails of Cold Steel 3 will change your mind. I'm so excited to play that. At least the english VA know how to scream
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Post by: Tasty on December 03, 2017, 10:41:59 PM
The english VA is so terrible. God damn

Aaaaiiyyyahhh (https://youtu.be/Ir_dwZ0nedo?t=43m20s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 03, 2017, 10:57:50 PM
XC2 is pretty much animu trash characters and story, but I still really like it anyway. Went and bought a Switch and a copy of my own so I wouldn't have to keep borrowing Joe's. Dunno yet how I'd stack it up against the previous two Xenoblade games, but I'm having fun with it regardless.

:yeshrug
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Post by: demi on December 04, 2017, 12:04:15 AM
The english VA is so terrible. God damn

Aaaaiiyyyahhh (https://youtu.be/Ir_dwZ0nedo?t=43m20s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg

This is better VA than Xenoblade, no lie
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Post by: Tasty on December 04, 2017, 12:11:54 AM
:lol
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Post by: bork on December 04, 2017, 12:17:06 AM
Still not sure about how I feel about this game yet.  My biggest problem with it is the way the camera moves.  It's so blurry sometimes that it is hard to tell what the hell I'm looking at if I'm walking around and moving it.  The other is the combat system...not too big on "stand there and let them do shit on their own" games, but at least some control stuff opened up towards the end of the first chapter.

The english VA is so terrible. God damn

Aaaaiiyyyahhh (https://youtu.be/Ir_dwZ0nedo?t=43m20s)

 :trigger

Glad the first I thing was to download the Japanese VA pack.  But that creates some annoyances with either understanding the Japanese dialogue and not seeing it match up with the subs and/or the characters having different names.  Why is Homura called "Pyra" in the English version?  ???  (Yes, I know both names mean "flame," but why even change it at all?)
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 04, 2017, 01:02:12 AM
So far I think its the worst xenoblade.
Yeah, I'm not too hot on it either right now.

This may be the jrpg that proves I'm too old for jrpgs.

Trails of Cold Steel 3 will change your mind. I'm so excited to play that. At least the english VA know how to scream
Eh.

Watching Falcom stories is basicly like watching paint dry. I can't get into the Cold Steel games.

Also yeah what's the point of having these Japanese audio tracks in games when the subs are only going to ever reflect the English dub. It's worse here because there's a bunch of U.K. English thrown in.
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Post by: demi on December 04, 2017, 01:03:28 AM
Maybe you should just leave
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 04, 2017, 01:04:29 AM
Maybe Falcom games should get a budget.
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Post by: demi on December 04, 2017, 01:15:44 AM
Ur lost mate
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Post by: StealthFan on December 04, 2017, 02:23:32 AM
Da fuck? Falcom games have lower budgets for a reason, breh. They don't have tons of money and they make games for portable systems or that were made like ten years ago for the price of a craft service table that are just now being fucking released in America or on PC.
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Post by: Trent Dole on December 04, 2017, 02:53:42 AM
Apparently Tits McGee is not a super important character and you may not even encounter her, lol @ that design anyway.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 04, 2017, 02:56:20 AM
Da fuck? Falcom games have lower budgets for a reason, breh. They don't have tons of money and they make games for portable systems or that were made like ten years ago for the price of a craft service table that are just now being fucking released in America or on PC.
I like Falcom games. Love Ys. I don't like when Ys has a story though.

I just can't get into the Cold Steel games because well anime high school stuff is just no, but also because their cut scenes because of budget, tech level, and well writing are so stilted to watch. Long, drawn out, and poorly animated. I'd take the talking heads and 2d abstraction of the Trails games.
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Post by: StealthFan on December 04, 2017, 03:08:15 AM
Yeah Ys VIII...was...uh. What about the Vita one? That looks cool. Should I try that. I know it has story but is it fun?
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Post by: archnemesis on December 04, 2017, 03:13:12 AM
Yeah Ys VIII...was...uh. What about the Vita one? That looks cool. Should I try that. I know it has story but is it fun?
Ys Seven is a good game, although it would be better with fewer conversations. Same goes for Celceta.

In fact, all the Ys games for Vita are well worth playing.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 04, 2017, 03:19:32 AM
Memories of Celceta and VII are really good.
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Post by: demi on December 04, 2017, 08:10:03 AM
https://twitter.com/Xythar/status/937144531983593472
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 04, 2017, 11:46:27 AM
I don't think the game looks good graphically either way you slice it.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 04, 2017, 11:51:12 AM
Xenoblade 2's combat gets better once you get more character and unlock juggles.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 04, 2017, 12:35:34 PM
I still have no clue what consumables do, though. +12% synergy, is that good, is that a lot? Who knows. I just try random things in my pouches to find what my blades like, and then keep using that and hope for the best.
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Post by: Corporal on December 05, 2017, 09:16:48 AM
Seeing as the game has caused me to drop off the net for a while, I dare say I'm able to enjoy it immensely despite its many faults - some of them glaring, others more mildly inconvenient, but it all falls to the wayside when I'm just running around through beautiful vistas battling exotic animals to damn good music. Loving the art style of the environments and the effing huge cities. Since it's my first Xenogears title, the fighting system still feels fresh and enjoyable. There's so much useless stuff to do, I am still happily stuck on chapter three despite having poured every single waking hour that was not otherwise essential into this game. Why progress when you're having the time of your life.

Mobile mode sharpening filter is bad though. The mobile mode framerate problems and resolution variance gives me headaches for sure, but the sharpening filter gots to go. Eugh.
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Post by: Fifstar on December 05, 2017, 09:25:33 AM
I don't think the game looks good graphically either way you slice it.

I saw the first picture and assumed that was the undocked one, than saw the second pic :holeup
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 05, 2017, 04:34:02 PM
I kind of think this game is bad.

Like I don't understand why the game basicly goes into slow motion when combat starts. I feels like your character is treading through water. It's so aggravating. When you you fight scouts, is basicly is free money from them to run around because you can't possibly keep up them.

Which leaves me to say the man does battle itself feel slow. I guess you can't move and attack because now abilities are tied to active combat instead of simple cooldowns like the other two. But Jesus does that mean I'm wasting time moving and positioning my self for attacks and going to get potions. It also feels super slow to do so and maybe to make for that effect the made the pace of battle feel like a slog itself. In fact because of these changes it highlights the slowness and boredom of auto battle. A problem the others did not have because you were often moving around because of the emphasis on toppling and because you didn't have 3 whole moves you had to watch to see if the where ready. Like wow is that a step down from XCX where you had plenty of moves and because of the battle yells and topple system where you always involved and using different things.

The whole arts combo thing is a nice idea. Kind of like the Yells in X where you followed up attacks based on what your team is doing, but here it's crappy. It's not tied to battle pace at all and just combos, but instead now you have to pay attention to what you're doing, what your party member has avaliable to do, what Level thier attack is, what the gauge on the enemy is at. Because you don't want to use a level 3 when another character hasn't gotten there's to even level 2. And if you do use it and you kill the enemy, it doesn't carry over to the next enemy which is incredibly dumb. So you are just sitting there paying attention to very little sub systems instead of the original idea of toppling.

And Jesus Christ is the voice acting amazingly awful. Now I know why they mostly showed the trailers in Japanese. They must have been embarrassed.

And man are these characters obnoxious or just plain not funny. I don't find the robot girls quick delivery talking cute. I don't find cat girl to be beyond anything but anime stereotype girl. Pyra is just boring. Tora, well his race sucks in all these games. Why they force this type of humour down are throats idk.

People are saying it looks ugly in portable mode. Honestly it looks ugly regardless. Full of muddy looking textures. The image quality sucks even in console mode.

The map is awful and everything is so tideous. This game is such a drop in quality after two great games it's so sad.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 05, 2017, 04:49:08 PM
You get Topple in Chapter 3.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Corporal on December 05, 2017, 06:07:52 PM
The Animu is strong with the game, yes, but hey, it's a Japanese game, a coming of age story, with artwork like that, so of course it will be packed to the point of breaking with shounen tropes. It's not like this is a new issue either. That's just how these things go. The Japanese are anything if not predictable in these situations. Sit back, relax and treat it as a kiddo show like Pokemon or whatever, only with a guest appearance of Tifa. At least the main guy isn't a total and utter twat. Normally, that's kind of a requirement. And I dunno, I'm loving the environments. Chapter three has treated me well so far.

On potions, way I see it: You only need to run after the potions if your healer doesn't do their job, or if your party members somehow can't get to them instead. They will disengage and grab what the party needs whenever they're not getting aggro.

Like Demi said, topple etc only gets unlocked during chapter three. Which is also when you enter a new area and learn how to break orbs, which in turn allows you to do some ridiculous damage. Plus some mildly interesting story stuff. Takes a while to get the game going, no doubt. Then again, they utterly botch the teaching via meaningful tutorials, so barely anyone who isn't determined to get to the bottom of the interlocked systems will ever bother to learn "proper" combat - so it's kinda worst of both worlds, late unlock and little to no explanation.

It's pretty clear that this game was rushed IMHO. Doubt they will address many issues, but hopefully there will be a few QOL improvements in a patch down the line.
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Post by: TVC15 on December 05, 2017, 08:31:36 PM
Xenoblade 2 made me straight :(
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: archie4208 on December 06, 2017, 12:29:50 PM
This game is pure anime garbage.

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and I kind of like it
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Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 06, 2017, 06:21:09 PM
When I'm done with Mario, should I play Xenoblade 2 or Disgaea 5 first?  The Metacritic scores are very similar for both the review scores and the user scores.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 06, 2017, 06:54:59 PM
Well, have you played previous Xenoblade or Disgaea games? Which did you like more? If neither...uh...Xenoblade, I guess?
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 06, 2017, 07:12:19 PM
I haven't played the games from either series before
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 06, 2017, 07:19:34 PM
Why start now!
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 06, 2017, 10:45:26 PM
I feel like in the latter half of chapter 3 and into chapter 4 the game really stats to open up. You've got more places to explore, the chapter 3 titan is a really beautiful location, combat finally starts to get good [more options in fights, better strategy, feels like a fast pace even if it actually isn't], and the story finally gets moving. I'm still tempted to put it slightly below the other two Xenoblades, but it's really close, only thing that really holds it back is some derpy character designs and shonen-esque story that ticks off all the requisite boxes.
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Post by: demi on December 06, 2017, 11:53:29 PM
I'd rather play Disgaea 5
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Post by: Corporal on December 07, 2017, 04:25:44 AM
Halfway through chapter four now.

The tropes, they sting and burn. And the dub. Shit's hilarious.

I also got a new blade from the gacha. It's a cinnamon-skinned gal with incredibly wobbly breasts that wears a miniskirt that exposes her panties. She also likes to kneel, apparently, because that's her idle animation. And some of her attack moves have her swing around her spear like a pole dancer.

I am so, so glad that I'm outside of my formative years. If I played this game as a youngster, I'd probably get fucked up proper.

Regarding XBC2 and Disgaea 5: these are two incredibly different game types. One is a static SRPG, and the other an ARPG. Both are fun, both are very weeaboo. Disgaea is more polished though. Focuses on grinding a bit too much for my liking, but YMMV. It really depends on your preferences.

Edit: don't forget that you can give the initial few stages of Disgaea a try by downloading the demo. Do that, then decide.
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 07, 2017, 04:36:09 AM
Disgaea games are great. You can break them in the most ridiculous ways. Literally 5D Chess.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 07, 2017, 02:10:51 PM
Yeah this is the game that really proves to me that I don't understand jrpg fandom. I don't quite understand how everyone is so positive.

The cast is great!
The writing is really good!
The battle system is amazing!
Pyra is a really good character!
The voice acting is good.

I just don't get it.

I laughed out loud honestly when Pyra changed into Mythra and the voice actress had to sell her character being tough and more stern.

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Post by: demi on December 07, 2017, 03:00:37 PM
https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/936347149209669632
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Post by: Positive Touch on December 07, 2017, 04:03:01 PM
playing any jrpg with english voice acting is an insta-fail
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Post by: Rufus on December 07, 2017, 04:10:12 PM
Is it any less annoying in Japanese?
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 07, 2017, 04:13:17 PM
playing any jrpg with english voice acting is an insta-fail
Final Fantasy XII.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Positive Touch on December 07, 2017, 04:22:54 PM
:| ok that's the ONE exception
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: TVC15 on December 07, 2017, 04:25:15 PM
Look who I got last night. Bonus: she has a Southern accent. I'm so straight right now.

(https://i.imgur.com/Vsjbvbj.jpg)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 07, 2017, 04:47:37 PM
Dammit, I've just got a loli and some weird crystal girl. Give KOS-MOS, you piece of garbage game. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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Post by: Corporal on December 07, 2017, 06:24:24 PM
Am not happy with my newest addition to the team.

Why would I want a pole-dancer in a miniskirt that's so short it hides nothing at all. And her tits jiggle as if they had a life of their own. And there's that thing where she kneels in front of the main character during her idle animation.

I could stomach all of that, if it weren't for the fact that I still can't figure out how to unlock more of her skills. The description is incredibly vague, and I get the feeling like I need to progress near the endgame to use her to her full potential.

Just arrived at the inn with the HOT SPRINGS in chapter four. Yes, hot springs. I... know what to expect. I dread it, but it will almost assuredly happen, otherwise the game wouldn't have been so up incredibly subtle about disclosing info about it.


....I do like her tan, though. I'm a sucker for that. Mixed bloods best bloods. </uncomfortable TMI disclosure>
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Post by: tiesto on December 07, 2017, 07:53:07 PM
playing any jrpg with english voice acting is an insta-fail

DQ8 and original Xenoblade were pretty good. RPGs + British accents go well together.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Positive Touch on December 07, 2017, 08:54:44 PM
dq8 was good, but i switched xeno to jp. skipped over the 3ds version too because it only had english and i need to retain my weeb credibility
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 07, 2017, 09:00:05 PM
XC2 has a pretty dope soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeepQwD5-GU

:whew
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Post by: Corporal on December 08, 2017, 07:43:16 AM
Yeah, it's one of the main reasons I'm addicted to the game as much as I am right now. The music and the vistas blend together into such an atmospheric package, it keeps drawing me back.


....Cringed through the inevitable hot springs scene. Cripes. They even stick the fucking robot in there for no reason at all. Never change, Japan. :lol
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Rich! on December 08, 2017, 01:54:37 PM
I'm on chapter 4 of Xenoblade 2. About 32 hours played so far.

It's a fantastic game. Especially with the english dub. Fucking manc, welsh and scottish accents all over the place! Incredible. I love it. I usually hate english dubs (eg. danganronpa) as it's always the samey shitty US accent, but this is damn good.

And the blade designs? Dude, I purposely have the blades with the biggest tits in my roster for a reason. What kind of man doesn't love exposed ass and massive boobs? fuck

Sonic Forces is fucking shit. Don't buy it.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 08, 2017, 04:09:07 PM
https://kotaku.com/xenoblade-chronicles-2-is-pretty-darn-different-in-japa-1821131255

Arigato gozaimasu, Tim Rogers.

Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Positive Touch on December 08, 2017, 05:35:27 PM
i'm so mad that people keep hiring tim rodgers
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: Rufus on December 08, 2017, 06:05:14 PM
He's weird, but I like his videos (liked his writing on Actionbutton, too). (http://i.imgur.com/G36Lf41.png)

He did turn me off of the Actionbutton podcast though.
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Post by: bork on December 08, 2017, 10:37:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcAmB_S9WkM
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: archie4208 on December 10, 2017, 10:56:11 PM
Just had Xenoblade crash on me after not saving for about an hour.

Cool.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 11, 2017, 09:03:01 AM
I’ve had two crashes, both times when fast-traveling to Torigoth.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 11, 2017, 01:57:02 PM
I had a soft-crash while going through menus. Just showed a blank menu screen and none of the buttons did anything, but I could still move between the Switch home menu and the game screen.
Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Sonic Forces?
Post by: a slime appears on December 12, 2017, 02:30:24 PM
I'm about ~45 hours into the game and 2 is a better game than Xenoblade 1 and X. Without question.

VO is pretty top tier too. Tons of different voices that match the characters' personality. They genuinely thought it through, better than most RPGs out there. Lot of thought went into selecting accents for different races and the people who do the weirdo characters absolutely nail it.
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Post by: Corporal on December 12, 2017, 03:53:32 PM
Feeling crushy-blushy yet, Mr. Rex? :-*

I think they really overdid it with the accents. There's no need to go so over the top with them. And sorry, but Rex in particular really needed some of his takes redone. Plus, the schizophrenic Blade that crops up later falls a bit flat since the VA struggles with the concept of representing two different personae. And proper Tsundere speech patterns.

However,  I'll take it. It's a bit overdone, some of the choices seem off (Nia oscillates wildly between "utterly wrong" and "absolutely the best choice" for me), but in the end it's a cohesive package and ... it works. Which is far more than  I ever expected, honestly. I can listen to this and not get goosebumps (subject matter aside). It's good enough.

Bonus: there's one thing that really destroys the dub for me, though. THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME! THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME! THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME! THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME! THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME! THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME! THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME! THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME!
(It's so much worse when you can actually understand what they're shouting.)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 12, 2017, 03:54:06 PM
The end of Chapter 4 is the most anime ever.

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Fighting a maid robot.

Fighting a GIANT maid robot.

The giant maid robot boarding montage.

You now have a maid robot to fight the giant maid robot.

Mythra flipping through the air and casting Meteor in slow-mo to murk some baddies.

Also, earlier in the chapter, but Mythra slapping Rex into the screen for making a penis joke, and the screen shattering into a battle transition, in a parody of the style of Final Fantasy X.

:lawd
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 13, 2017, 12:25:15 AM
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is easily in the top 3 JRPGs I've played in the past few years, only games that really come close are Final Fantasy 15 and Persona 5. I'm in Chapter 6 right now and the game is moving along at a pretty good pace, but it still gives you plenty of room to go off and do other stuff. I've got just over 40 hours in this so far and still feels like I've got a ways to go before I reach the end-game, so I'm happy with the amount of content the game has. I think somewhere earlier in the thread was saying that maybe the game was rushed a bit, but I don't get that feeling at all. Everything feels pretty fleshed out and handled well, with lots to do and see.
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Post by: archie4208 on December 13, 2017, 06:46:14 AM
Yeah I hated this game at the start, but I just hit chapter 6 and I'm really warming up to it.  The story appears to be shying away from slapstick animu garbage and I've opened up enough blades to have some good variety (although I still want that blade with the tigole bitties that triggers Resetera :'()

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Reading about how to properly animation cancel and use chain combos at Reddit upped my enjoyment immensely.  The tutorials could better explain things.  :doge
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Post by: Corporal on December 13, 2017, 01:05:45 PM
XBC2 needs a manual - at best it should be one of those game guide sized super manuals with an attached optional walkthrough and plenty of artwork.
(Even better if it was one of them apple ebook things with videos and whatnot. Remember when they tried to sell that rich and creamy content stuff with Yellow Submarine and other high profile content? Good ole Jobs...)


I FINALLY unlocked thunder mastery or whatever level 2 for my electric loli. Now to backtrack through all areas for the 74538146 previous instances of her custom stuff.

Also, a mate warned me about a point of no return event in chapter 8. Jikes. Now I'm OCD'ing like a proper madman and doing every quest and opening every chest and whatnot. While I'm still in chapter 5.
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Post by: bluemax on December 14, 2017, 02:47:02 AM
Didn't XCX  also struggle with not explaining the mechanics and desperately needing a manual?
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 14, 2017, 01:04:34 PM
Didn't XCX  also struggle with not explaining the mechanics and desperately needing a manual?

More like, this has been an issue with Monolith Soft games going back to Xenosaga I.
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Post by: Corporal on December 14, 2017, 04:32:59 PM
Looking at the bootiful MariO hardcover walkthrough/artbook/Nintendporn makes me doubly sad that this game has no such thing. I mean, the artbook in the CE sure is nice from what I could see when I flipped through it (still trying to avoid spoilers). It's just, it could be a really amazing artbook-and-walkthrough-and-manual hybrid instead. Fewer artworks to ogle, but on the other hand sorely needed utility far beyond that.


Oh well. It's odd that this game is still on the top spot of the German eshop. Even before the 25%-off Rocket League, which by all accounts should be a decent seller. Then again, Germany. Our throughput on switch downloadable games is probably counted in dozens per quartal. :-\
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Post by: TVC15 on December 14, 2017, 05:13:14 PM
Chapter 3 question

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Last night, before I quit to go to bed, I just got to the big city and Pyra has been captured. Rex has to use different blades, but all of the ATK blades I've drawn so far are non-rare and kinda shit. Please tell me I get her back quickly
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Post by: Corporal on December 14, 2017, 08:03:43 PM
Don't fret, TVC 15, you will have her back pretty quickly.

However, temporarily and arbitrarily losing access to drivers and/or Blades is quite common in the game. Better get used to it. Some even leave your party permanently or for extended amounts of time.

Also, don't worry about drawing shit Blades at first. You will soon have a use for them, and that will lead to you boosting your idea cloud stats, which in turn will help you with drawing better Blades.

There's also a salvage point (key words "pier" "#2") that can be exploited for farming common and rare cores that you will unlock very soon.
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The nerdlings have found out that you just need to get the cheapest variant of cylinders and fail all QTEs, then look for a crab with a certain level among the monsters that spawn. It will occasionally drop rare cores, and consistently if you can overkill it. It also almost always drops a common core.
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Title: Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 |OT| Maximum weebage! Year of Nintendo continues!
Post by: TVC15 on December 14, 2017, 09:07:00 PM
Thank you. I’m blushy-crushy for you.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on December 14, 2017, 10:41:35 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiVZMxf4E2Q

:uguu
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Post by: Tasty on December 15, 2017, 01:39:25 AM
Jesus Christ.
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Post by: TVC15 on December 15, 2017, 01:52:51 AM
The apparently final chapter 3 battle is testing my patience :(. I’m going to try and grind for a bit, and if that doesn’t do the job, it may be back to homosinuality for me.
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Post by: TVC15 on December 15, 2017, 03:51:07 AM
I did it! I forgot that sleeping in an inn gives you a ton of extra XP for some reason. I went from level 22 to 30 and then smoked the fight.
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Post by: Corporal on December 15, 2017, 04:10:42 AM
The rest XP comes from exploration and such menial tasks. It gets added to an XP bank account of sorts, and you can withdraw it if things get too annoying, like you just did.

I still think that the Roc design is somewhat unfortunate. In a game full of boob monsters he looks like a bird with tits.
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Post by: Let's Cyber on December 15, 2017, 05:22:31 AM
dammit, you dudes got me hyped for this now. might pick it up this weekend

 my backlog  :stahp
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Post by: benjipwns on December 15, 2017, 06:12:45 AM
i like your attitude
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Post by: archie4208 on December 17, 2017, 02:52:33 PM
Look who I got last night. Bonus: she has a Southern accent. I'm so straight right now.

(https://i.imgur.com/Vsjbvbj.jpg)

I finally unlocked her yesterday.  :lawd
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Post by: Corporal on December 17, 2017, 05:02:58 PM
I just spent my weekend baking cookies and not playing videogames and XBC2 in particular. Fuck me, I have a slight core gambling addiction. Need to roll some more gacha. Gimme Waifu for Laifu.
dammit, you dudes got me hyped for this now. might pick it up this weekend

 my backlog  :stahp
So, have you succumbed yet? Did you indulge over the weekend?

I just hope you kept your hype in check. It's still a (likely) rushed, rough game with plenty of annoyances.
If you can see past that though... :aah
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 17, 2017, 10:18:33 PM
Got nearly 80 hours in this so far, about halfway through chapter 8. :whew
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Post by: archie4208 on December 17, 2017, 11:49:50 PM
I'm at 65 hours and at the final boss (who's beat my ass twice).  :yeshrug

I don't have the patience to do side quests any more.  :fbm
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Post by: archie4208 on December 19, 2017, 04:36:00 PM
I beat it.  It's basically the opposite of Persona 5 where the beginning is dreadful and it gets progressively better throughout (although I hated the ending).

I never want to touch it again.
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Post by: tiesto on December 19, 2017, 07:33:46 PM
What is aggro apart from 90's slang?
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Post by: archie4208 on December 19, 2017, 07:42:14 PM
Shorthand for aggression aka when the enemy is targeting a particular character.  You want your tank to draw the enemy's attention as often as possible as they are more durable than your other characters.
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Post by: tiesto on December 19, 2017, 09:18:48 PM
Shorthand for aggression aka when the enemy is targeting a particular character.  You want your tank to draw the enemy's attention as often as possible as they are more durable than your other characters.

I don't think I'm at the point where I have tanks yet?
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 19, 2017, 09:36:38 PM
Shorthand for aggression aka when the enemy is targeting a particular character.  You want your tank to draw the enemy's attention as often as possible as they are more durable than your other characters.

I don't think I'm at the point where I have tanks yet?

Do you have Tora and Poppi yet? They're you're first driver/blade tank. But once you start getting more blades, you can switch things up and make pretty much anyone a tank/attacker/healer with the right combination.
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Post by: tiesto on December 20, 2017, 12:43:25 AM
Yeah I got Tora and Poppi. I thought you meant something different, like a real tank :P

The nomenclature in the Xeno games is a bit weird to me even after all this time :P

Also do I need to do the gatcha stuff (rare blades) to be successful or can I just grind things out? Do you ever get more rare crystals? I used one up and got shit from it.
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Post by: Corporal on December 20, 2017, 03:42:09 AM
Yeah I got Tora and Poppi. I thought you meant something different, like a real tank :P

The nomenclature in the Xeno games is a bit weird to me even after all this time :P

Also do I need to do the gatcha stuff (rare blades) to be successful or can I just grind things out? Do you ever get more rare crystals? I used one up and got shit from it.
"Tank" is not XBC2 specific vocabulary. It's from the old ages of RPGs. Tank and spank. Recruit a meat shield that is so heinously obnoxious that an enemy can't help but beat their ass with ever-growing enthusiasm, then amass as many damage dealers (dps) as possible to kill the enemy, plus maybe a healer or two so the Tank will survive getting their shit pushed back in for long enough. It's the holy trinity of RPG party game design. Most MMOs feature some sort of this setup, even the ones that claim they don't.

Anyway, just keep drawing Blades. Core supply is not an issue after you have finished chapter three.
Even before the salvage spot that gets unlocked after that which churns out at least one common core per dive, if you need more, salvage. You can get quite a few cores by just that. You may also encounter human enemies that shout THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME at you at some point. If you farm them you will also gain an above average amount of common cores.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 20, 2017, 02:11:46 PM
Just finished Chapter 7 at 58 hours in. That fight against

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Jin & Malos
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https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/204208-xenoblade-chronicles-2/76085727/891988318
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was a bitch, but that ending was :uguu :uguu :uguu
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 21, 2017, 12:39:15 PM
Beat it last night, logged nearly 90 hours. What a great game.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 22, 2017, 12:52:26 AM
60 hours in and I just hate this game so much. I can't believe how terrible it is in almost every conceivable way. Anytime it does something I like it quickly follows it up with something worse. Chapter 7 has just been a disaster with terribly designed encounters, field skill checks, and dungeons. This game is so bad. I've spent so much time that I can't simply just drop it. I wish there was a easy mode so I could just power through it. So that when ENEMIES FUCKING ARGO DURING A "BOSS" BATTLE BECAUSE THE AI WONDERED OVER THERE I CAN JUST NOT GIVE A SHIT.
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Post by: Corporal on December 22, 2017, 05:51:45 AM
I'm not as far yet (still wasting time in chapter 5), but can't you just lure away and exterminate any roaming mobs before engaging the boss? Failing that, are you sure they actually aggroed and didn't just get hit by splash damage? I know this has happened to me before.

Also, normally you should easily be able to curbstomp your way through most areas by staying at an inn and levelling your party to the max.
I was too lazy to persevere through the fights against my merc buddies to unlock the higher merc rank, so I just added seven levels and roflstomped the annoying bastards. No more random aggro from mobs as well. Kinda boring, to be honest.

But who knows, chapter five might still be easy mode.
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Post by: kingv on December 22, 2017, 09:46:34 AM
I just started this last night and so far so good. One thing that’s nice about having been gaming since the 80s is that now all graphics basically pretty good to me. People say it looks bad in handheld, but my frame of reference includes games that look so terrible that it still looks about as good as PS4/X1 to my eyes. Like it’s closer to horizon than it is to say, FF7 or Oni.

Of course I’ve barely done anything yet.

I don’t hate the pants as much as I expected to.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 22, 2017, 05:23:46 PM
First patch is out. Nothing really major [other than fixing some quests that could become broken], but it does make using the map/fast travel a bit easier.
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Post by: a slime appears on December 23, 2017, 07:52:50 AM
This is the weebest thing I've ever played in my life holy shit.  :rofl
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Post by: kingv on December 23, 2017, 11:54:12 AM
I finished up chapter 1 this morning and so far, I actually like the pace. I was really expecting the beginning to be worse based on impressions.

It’s very weeb, and I, about 75% sure that Pyras voice actor does one of the characters on monster high cartoons my kid watches.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 23, 2017, 06:35:09 PM
This is the weebest thing I've ever played in my life holy shit.  :rofl

https://twitter.com/ToastCrust/statuses/942230973025992705
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 23, 2017, 06:45:49 PM
I'm about 10 hours in and so far I like this game.  The weeb shit doesn't even faze me.  I'll take all the giant anime titties, plz.
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Post by: kingv on December 23, 2017, 09:16:31 PM
I love titties in games. Nia got a fat ass and probably one of the super pussies.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 23, 2017, 10:01:35 PM
 :kobeyuck
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 24, 2017, 10:30:10 PM
Halfway through chapter 3.  This game does a really good job with the environments to make this feel like an epic game.  I'm taking time to do some grindan, the side quests, etc.  Really like the game so far.
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Post by: Corporal on December 25, 2017, 01:48:09 AM
According to the Switch I have played XBC2 for 75 hours. And I'm still in chapter five. Probably near the end of it, but nonetheless. Boggles the mind.
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Post by: kingv on December 25, 2017, 07:23:34 PM
Just about done with chapter 2 and... man I wish I could review the tutorials. The feedback for the glade arts is sort of bad. I can’t really tell when I am doing to combos or whatever.
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Post by: sinxtanx on December 26, 2017, 05:04:13 AM
I'm like 7 hours in now and man

the anime-pedal has met the metal
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Post by: Boredfrom on December 27, 2017, 07:43:14 PM
Just had Xenoblade crash on me after not saving for about an hour.

Cool.

Happened something similar early so I save at every opportunity.


Man, Jin has the KyloRen/Sasuke syndrome. I’m in the chapter 8 and I lready see the twist of
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Malos and the Elf Pope are playing both sides together.
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I like how Rex pointed out that their goals are exactly the same.
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Post by: Vizzys on December 27, 2017, 08:14:12 PM
Started this last night
once you get to pyra I can confirm this game is maximum anime
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Post by: Boredfrom on December 27, 2017, 08:48:22 PM
Started this last night
once you get to pyra I can confirm this game is maximum anime

How cute. Wait until you see the event where Poppy joining the party.
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Post by: kingv on December 27, 2017, 09:02:06 PM
I got to chapter 3 on my plane ride today and can’t figure out where the heck I need to go to get to the Uni shipbuilders or whatever.. I keep stumbling into areas where my whole party can’t get 2 shorted by even the lowliest enemies.
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Post by: Boredfrom on December 27, 2017, 09:21:33 PM
Salvaging. Generally speaking, the quest objectives descriptions will at least mention in what are the item is or if is a salvageable item.

Also, have you checked your blades affinity chart? You need to check your status to there activate your upgrades.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 28, 2017, 02:10:54 AM
Well I finished it. What an awful game. I almost hope this is the last Xeno JRPG if this is what Monolith Soft thinks is acceptable. I haven't been so disappointed in a game in such a long time. This is easily the worst JRPG I've played since Eternal Sonata. At least that game had the decency to be short. This game is easily an 80hr game.

What was there to like here?

It wasn't the story. The story was crap. Tales level crap complete with the same sophistication of themes. Any 5 year old could tell you the some moralizing crap this game does, probably with a bit more directness and little need to keep repeating the same stuff over and over again for hours on end. I get it, life is worth living and it won't change if you refuse to not change. I get it, people need to work together. Jesus Christ did this story have the nuance of a Disney Channel kids show, except here they felt the need to have characters constantly moralize to you the player. It got extermley annoying.

And yet most of the character's had no real development. The party members were awful and for most of them after they had their little episode of development the story put them in the back of the bus, only playing lip service to them every once in a while. Good jrpgs will have their characters tied to the story, the setting, and keep them involved till the end. Not here. Once they join you're party, they are done honestly and in the end what where these character's arcs? Rex's stays an optimistic little generic anime boy the whole time. His only challenge is I guess he loses at one point. Oh boy! A character with really no personality beyond being optimistic anime boy. No challenge in life beyond keep going. No identity crisis. No real conflict. Just super boring. Nothing memorable about this character at all and his strange creepy waifu relationship is lame and otaku baity. He loves Pyra why? What is their relationship beyond "GOTTA GO TO ELYSIUM". Like there's nothing there whatsoever.
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Morag becomes useless and offers nothing after she joins you. Far more interesting as an antagonist because at least she had presence. After she joins your party she just continues to be stern anime female. Yawn inducing. I don't know why people like this character beyond their waifu fetishism. She looks stupid. She looks like Chopin from Eternal Sonata and her cool presence fades after chapter 3. But see here's another character that added nothing to the game. Here we could have seen the reflection of the world's politics as she clearly is bias towards her nation. You get a few snippets, but nothing interesting. Honestly what was her character? Did she have an arc? Did she have any conflict? No.

Zekke. Whatever. Not even a character. They don't do anything with his exiled prince aspect and the anime badass goof thing pretty much stops. But here is the perfect example of where the game basically stops to a crawl to show his backstory and then moves past it. Out of nowhere the game decides to stop what it's doing and have his backstory with Pandoria and then goes "oh were done with this episode" time to move on with the Nia stuff. It was like ok, I guess that's all this character deserves.

Pyra. Just more anime waifu crap. What was interesting about her. That she talks mysteriously about this plot(EVERYONE IN THE GAME DOES. EVERYONE ACTS LIKE THEY ARE IN THE KNOW). She seems to be hiding something? She seems to have some secret? Some agency? Whatever thats all droped midway as she becomes more interested in crushy blushy for Rex. Her character just basically becomes Rex's girlfriend and loses any aspect that made her at all somewhat ok. Even Tusandre Mythra gives up the act as the game goes on.

I don't care about the Nippon character, but at least the chapter about him was full of actually amusing anime jokes. I hate the Nippons and thier humor and va. At least Poppi was somewhat fun in a very cliche anime way.

And then Torna is just whatever. I wish I liked them, but Christ did they suck. Nomura's work here seemed very phoned in. Oh he has glasses and is the smart one! Most of them just seem like overly sad sacks with the dumbest goal ever. WE WANT TO DESTROY THE WORLD BECAUSE HUMANS ARE BAD. I almost can't belive this is a theme/story beat in the game. Constantly about how humans destroy stuff. Yes, it's never been done before, but here it pretty much stops there.

Jin/Malos: Human's are bad
 
Rex: Well yeah, but not always and sometimes they do good.

Jin/Malos: Wel....yeah....but eventually all they do is kill and destroy.

Rex: Yeah, but so what not everyone is like that

Jin/Malos: i guess....but BLADES aren't slaves and thats bad.

Rex: Yeah but your driver's loved you and we work as a team.

Jin/Malos: Oh well...WHATEVER

Thats almost every scene and then anyway I guess Torna realizes how dumb and angsty they sounded anyway because reasons. or rather because the story is crappy. It's funny because right before they died it was like the game frogot to develop the glasses dude and the girl and was like oh yeah they I guess had something life...IDK brother and sister because. It was like wtf are you even trying?

And then Fantasy Pope is also evil because get this bad people did bad things and I guess he should control everything because of that. Nobody saw that coming.

No one here had interesting motivations. No inserting conflicts that reveal some character substance. No villain here had a logical argument that a 12 year old couldn't see a problem with. It was the worst of anime philosophizing and it was embarrassing and tiring to listen to.

And then the sci-fi twist is stupid. In the first Xenoblade it worked. The Monodo and just general setting of the world being on two giant robot gods already establishes that the world has something going on. Here honestly the world feels like a fantasy world and even Blades aren't odd. So to throw in the connection to the first game feels so random and pointless for the story. It also doesn't add much. I guess the creator is some sad sack in a space station who's point is what? He really makes no impact on the story and changes little about the core of the story. We learn about Blades, but as a non angtsy viewer I already know Blades are people and honestly the game does a really poor job of selling the Blade conflict. Yes there's regulations on them and yes the country where they were equals was unfairly destroyed. But honestly they don't seem unfairly treated and the Driver Blade thing needs to exist anyway. The alternative doesn't really work, so honestly whats the endgame? The game brings up this problem and then basically has nothing interesting to say about it.
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And I don't know the world never felt interesting to me. But also because it's a typical jrpg world and you know what? That does not work with the scale of the Blade games. Are these supposed to be big nations and big cities? Because they just feel like JRPG worlds and in that I mean a country has one city and that's it and the city isn't big. That works in things like Tales or other jrpgs. Hell in some Tales games they have in the background the rest of the cityscape to make you feel like this city is bigger. But since Xeno games go for scale, it feels like the whole world is small and less than a million people live in it. I guess that's true, but because of that none of these places feel like what they say they are. These aren't nations. They are some small towns. Other Xeno games did'nt feel like that because well in the 1st Blade it is just a small population, likewise in XBX.

Also the environments never felt as big or grand as XBX. A lot of them felt small. A lot of them felt like linear hallways. A big valley here and there, but most of them had few interesting aspects to them. Nothing like XBX's world.

Also the whole Titans thing was lame and did'nt do anything. At no point did I ever feel like I was on something. If you took out a few sky boxes, this world would feel like generic rpg world. Nothing like realizing your on the arm of a mech god like in XB1.

As for the battle system. It was fun somewhat. It always felt slow. When you switch to combat it felt like your character was now walking through water. Animation was slow and felt like it took forever. Stupid that animation was prioritized as characters would miss out on topples and launches because they had to do their animations. AI was dumb and I've never felt that about ai controlled parties. Not in FFXII, Persona, or whatever. Here since setting up combos depends on your party as well, means you have to wait and pray they switch to the Blade you want them to. Meaning you can miss out and chances and moves you want to do.

The RNG blade system is awful. That is all. After 80 hrs I never got Kos Mos. Fuck this.

And that's it. I hated this game. This has really killed my intrests in Monolith Soft. I can't belvie they made something this awful. I mean I don't even care about how ugly the game looks. There's not a cool design in this game. NEVER HIRE THIS CHARACTER DESIGNER AGAIN. I don't even care about Pyra's tits. Whatever they are stupid, but her outfit in general looks lame. Colorful robot girl anime shit in a world where no one looks like this. Then her and Rex decide to cosplay like Kos Mos. Everyone looks like crap. The game was crap and I hope honestly the Xeno series is dead if this is what they think they can make.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 28, 2017, 02:13:18 AM
This game is:

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/xenosaga/images/c/cb/Garbage.png/revision/latest?cb=20150914202043)
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Post by: tiesto on December 29, 2017, 02:44:58 AM
I'm in the midst of chapter 4 and I think this game is great so far, though there are a few things that should have been cut. The dispatch missions... they had something similar in MGS5 and FFT. Who the hell finds these things fun? You just send people out and wait in real-time. No gameplay whatsoever... what's the point? Also needing field skills to get to new areas is pretty pointless too.
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Post by: BlueTsunami on December 29, 2017, 04:20:53 PM
Choose, weeb bullshit or crucified hamsters? There is no middle ground.
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Post by: Boredfrom on December 30, 2017, 01:01:11 AM
Maybe is because the JRPG standards have become so abysmal but I don’t particularly hate Rex or Pyra (outside Mythra Tsundere BS), feel less forced than, say, Shulk and Dunban’s Sister whatishername. 

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Post by: tiesto on December 30, 2017, 11:11:28 AM
Yeah I quite like the characters in this game, so far it has a much goofier tone than the original or X (the latter of which the goofiness felt extremely forced and out of place). Fought the
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giant maid robot
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and was LMAO. Also LMAO at Mythra's tsundere stuff.
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Post by: Boredfrom on December 30, 2017, 06:57:22 PM
Beginning chapter 9: Game pls

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Dont try to make feel sorry for Torna, they are a bunch of unlikeable dicks that deserve having their face blown up. I don’t even feel sorry for Jin, how I will feel sorry for the rest of Organization XIII rejects
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I only like Malos because he is a unapologetic dick with some moments of self introspection:

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And god pls, pls betray Jin at the end.
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Post by: Baiano19 on December 31, 2017, 11:18:21 AM
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is easily in the top 3 JRPGs I've played in the past few years, only games that really come close are Final Fantasy 15 and Persona 5. I'm in Chapter 6 right now and the game is moving along at a pretty good pace, but it still gives you plenty of room to go off and do other stuff. I've got just over 40 hours in this so far and still feels like I've got a ways to go before I reach the end-game, so I'm happy with the amount of content the game has. I think somewhere earlier in the thread was saying that maybe the game was rushed a bit, but I don't get that feeling at all. Everything feels pretty fleshed out and handled well, with lots to do and see.

I realized it was full anime the moment Tora woke up Poppi.

That part there was 2 kind of people : those who laughed, embraced and loved it and those who were disturbed by it.

I fucking loved and am still loving it.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 31, 2017, 01:05:07 PM
I wasn't disturbed by it. I mean it was a simple anime joke.

I just thought it was dumb, like the whole game.
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Post by: kingv on December 31, 2017, 09:49:51 PM
I have been playing strictly handheld and the resolution drops haven’t bothered me much. The screen is really crisp and the frame rate is mostly pretty stable.

It’s a good 👀 by game for a handheld, even if it can’t hold 720p
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 31, 2017, 11:48:57 PM
I surprisingly played a lot of this on handheld and while I guess it's no technical marvel, as someone who is only use to Vita and PSP games it seems to be an upgrade from anything on the Vita. It has a really aggressive sharpening filter and it's clear that the image quality isn't great, but I don't know it looked and ran fine. Compared to Vita stuff anyway.
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Post by: kingv on January 01, 2018, 01:12:14 AM
I felt the same. People talk about the low resolution, but I didn’t notice it 99% of the time. The only time it became glaring obvious were certain scenes when it just took get quite bad, or directly after some of the cutscenes that hold 720p perfectly.

Most of the time it was a non factor. The game is plenty clear, IMO, and I never really felt like it looked muddy or blurry. But sometimes I think if you are a gamer past a certain age your perspext Be on good graphics is much different.

Like I basically think anything Xbox 360 or later has “good” graphics nowadays.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 01, 2018, 06:39:57 AM
Fuck me, but I actually liked all the initial mumbo jumbo of chapter 10
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They can totally make connection between the worlds of Xenoblade1/2 and Mira from X
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Also, fuck Jin but 
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Malos give him a hug before the end Chapter 9 actually won my over. I suppose that Klaus explaining that is just following programming with Elf Pope nihilism makes more easier to explain why he got along with Torna while still being a homicidal dickhead. God bless him.
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I was afraid because chapter 9 started so lame and the rest of Torna where still lame as fuck.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 01, 2018, 04:22:15 PM
Started on Chapter 5 and I'm 71 hours into the game with everyone at level 54.  I'm getting pretty tired of doing the side quests, especially since so many of them now want attributes that my blades don't have that will require lots of grindan to get.  Just not worth it anymore.  The Chapter 4 boss was peak weeb, complete with being able to see the pantsu of the robot maid. 

I still like the game.  71 hours seems like a lot but I put it in sleep mode one night and didn't realize that the timer kept going when you had in sleep mode.  Realistically I'm about 55 hours or so in.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 01, 2018, 05:10:07 PM
Honestly, at some points you need to say “fuck side quests” and get on with the main plot.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on January 01, 2018, 08:43:22 PM
I did no side quests. Didn't make the game better for me, but you can easily do it.
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Post by: Corporal on January 01, 2018, 09:31:50 PM
I cast "seal stench" on that maid battle bot as it laid on the ground with its panties exposed. I feel like I accomplished a great deed that day.
The cockpit scenes that lead up to that battle were amazing. We all need more giant battle bots with extensive internal cockpit plumbing for pilot lifting. That's the kinda weeb stuff that I am fully on board with. The two idiots that got smacked into a tiny star earlier before that area were well appreciated too. I look forward to them showing up later again.

Anyway. Haven't had much time recently, but I'm still -STILL- futzing around in chapter five. I've been doing any and all side quests I have come across. Some are ass, many are too fetchquesty, but I do enjoy the occasional peek at the lives of the citizens. It just seems rude to not help out, at least occasionally.

Mobile mode absolutely needs some sharpening filter tweaks though. I know I've whined about this before, but I don't mind the occasional drop in resolution, I can live with the framerate issues, but I wish they would stop fucking with the image quality to this freaking extent.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 02, 2018, 11:45:44 PM
The sidequests get exponentially more obnoxious as you get further into the game.

On a positive note, I got Dahlia tonight :uguu
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 06, 2018, 12:06:40 AM
The sidequests get exponentially more obnoxious as you get further into the game.

On a positive note, I got Dahlia tonight :uguu

Big deal, I got Perun.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 06, 2018, 12:25:35 PM
I hate chapter 7
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 09, 2018, 07:25:17 AM
Despite getting a continuous flow of rare and sometimes legendary crystals, I haven’t received a non-story related rare blade in a while.  Just a bunch of toilet tier blades.  Hardly seems worth it to bond with any crystals.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 09, 2018, 11:29:07 AM
Despite getting a continuous flow of rare and sometimes legendary crystals, I haven’t received a non-story related rare blade in a while.  Just a bunch of toilet tier blades.  Hardly seems worth it to bond with any crystals.

Is only "worth it" if you are a completionist, and some of the blade quests can be pretty awesome (Dagas being more gutsy than Mythra). But yeah, the gacha system is god awful.

I never got a rare blade from a Legendary Crystal.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 09, 2018, 12:59:34 PM
The gatcha system would be way more tolerable if it let you burn more than one core at once in order to get a better chance at a rare blade.
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Post by: kingv on January 09, 2018, 04:35:14 PM
Agreed. I don’t like the Gacha system either. And the animation takes too damn longg
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Post by: Corporal on January 09, 2018, 05:10:12 PM
You can skip almost all related animations by pressing + and then follow the onscreen prompt, IIRC.

I think the gacha system is fine. You send blades off to merc quests to gather idea fragments and kick them out when they're fully unlocked for the bonus items, then repeat until your idea thingamadingdongs are maxed out and you actually have a chance at getting rare blades.

It's a bit convoluted, admittedly, but rare blades are, well, rare. If it was just a useless label, then everyone would minmax the ever loving shit out of their parties and ignore the trash.

Granted, a "merge two low level blades to get a higher level blade, repeat until you get a rare blade" standard gacha mechanism would be less annoying. I guess they didn't want to be THAT obvious about their lead up to an eventual XBC3 gacha IAP system.
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Post by: kingv on January 10, 2018, 12:00:50 AM
Huh, I don’t really understand the merc system yet.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 10, 2018, 09:39:47 AM
Huh, I don’t really understand the merc system yet.

There's not much to it, you just send blades on missions and wait X minutes then collect the rewards. The more recommended skills you match up when picking blades for a mission, the shorter the amount of time it takes. Pink missions are one-time missions (they generally offer the best rewards) and blue ones can be repeated.
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Post by: bork on January 10, 2018, 09:46:18 AM
This and other Xenoblade games are dubbed "action RPGs," but is there any point to actually moving around during fights?  I notice I still get damage when doing so.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 10, 2018, 10:59:29 AM
This and other Xenoblade games are dubbed "action RPGs," but is there any point to actually moving around during fights?  I notice I still get damage when doing so.

Just for readjusting to do back/sideattacks.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 10, 2018, 08:21:32 PM
Huh, I don’t really understand the merc system yet.

There's not much to it, you just send blades on missions and wait X minutes then collect the rewards. The more recommended skills you match up when picking blades for a mission, the shorter the amount of time it takes. Pink missions are one-time missions (they generally offer the best rewards) and blue ones can be repeated.

The other excuse to do Merc missions is that, as your blades get more skills, the character attached to that blade get more idea points. And, supposedly, with more idea points you get better chance to get a rare blade. Of course the gatcha is so fucked up that you can get a 1 crown common blade with a rare core while your idea Level is 9 in every category.
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Post by: Corporal on January 10, 2018, 11:28:18 PM
This and other Xenoblade games are dubbed "action RPGs," but is there any point to actually moving around during fights?  I notice I still get damage when doing so.

Just for readjusting to do back/sideattacks.
And the rare hasty potion grab to force Nia to finally stop running around and start healing.

And randomly falling off cliffs and other hazards, which automatically cancels the fight and more often than not despawns the enemies.

And readjusting your position after a few chained attacks have moved you away from your initial place. Which feels a bit like busywork.

But yeah, most of the time you are just running after an enemy that switched aggro or repositioning yourself after someone moved around.



By the way, you also deal damage to your designated target, even at a considerable distance, when you trigger a blade combo. Which helps, sometimes, when some asshole enemy is running away to pull some more mobs into a fight.

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Post by: kingv on January 11, 2018, 01:56:25 AM
Huh, I don’t really understand the merc system yet.

There's not much to it, you just send blades on missions and wait X minutes then collect the rewards. The more recommended skills you match up when picking blades for a mission, the shorter the amount of time it takes. Pink missions are one-time missions (they generally offer the best rewards) and blue ones can be repeated.

The other excuse to do Merc missions is that, as your blades get more skills, the character attached to that blade get more idea points. And, supposedly, with more idea points you get better chance to get a rare blade. Of course the gatcha is so fucked up that you can get a 1 crown common blade with a rare core while your idea Level is 9 in every category.

Where can you even check idea points?
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Post by: Corporal on January 11, 2018, 08:16:47 AM
Where can you even check idea points?
It's the "Thought Cloud" graph under Characters. Choose a driver then navigate to the appropriate sub-page by pressing L/R a couple of times.


Also important: get as much luck-boosting equipment as you can and put it on when drawing blades. It's supposed to help as well, IIRC.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2018, 07:05:46 PM
This and other Xenoblade games are dubbed "action RPGs," but is there any point to actually moving around during fights?  I notice I still get damage when doing so.

Just for readjusting to do back/sideattacks.

There is enemies that do AoE attacks that can be avoided by position, not mention that many of the blade users enemies have counter attacks.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 12, 2018, 11:53:25 PM
Beat the final boss, which was pretty easy.  The game clock shows 118 hours and 31 minutes :lol

There were about 15 side quests that I hadn't completed yet with a few more that I could have taken on.  As mentioned before, I got annoyed that it had been several chapters since getting a non-story rare blade.  It seemed like after Chapter 5 or 6 or whatever, I didn't get a single rare blade by bonding crystals.  It was pretty lame.

This game ticked off most of the JRPG checkboxes.  I see there is a season pass with DLC being released through next fall.  I might check it out a few months down the road and wrap the rest of the game up.

Overall I liked it although I spent a lot of time meandering around and grinding.  Solid 8.5/10 type of game.
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Post by: kingv on January 18, 2018, 11:28:03 PM
I’m about done with chapter 4 or 5, and I gotta day I really didn’t expect the one eyed monster joke.

That was pretty funny.
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Post by: tiesto on January 19, 2018, 10:17:33 AM
At the snow town in ch6, about how much longer is the game?
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Post by: archie4208 on January 19, 2018, 11:09:28 AM
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chapters total.  Probably another 20-30 hours if you rush it.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 19, 2018, 01:39:44 PM
Yeah, you're still pretty far from the ending, even if you just push ahead and skip most of the side stuff.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 19, 2018, 04:15:12 PM
I finally got a new rare blade again after a week of using 300+ common cores and 100+ rare cores. This gatcha suck ass.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 19, 2018, 07:14:42 PM
The last couple of chapters don't have much gameplay so if you skip through the scenes, you can finish them pretty quickly.  Chapter 7 is the shittiest chapter in the game in my opinion.
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Post by: curly on January 20, 2018, 05:51:43 AM
Holy shit the gacha is terrible. I've wasted so much time opening common crystals.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 21, 2018, 07:22:16 AM
I wouldn't even bother with the common crystals.  They don't get you much money either if you decide to sell them so they just become a nuisance item to collect.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 21, 2018, 03:36:26 PM
Common core crystals are useful early on,  before you start depleting the gatcha pool.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 27, 2018, 12:59:51 AM
New patch coming in a few weeks:

Quote from: http://www.siliconera.com/2018/01/26/xenoblade-chronicles-2s-1-3-0-patch-will-arrive-february-2018/
A release window and details regarding Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s next patch have arrived. The 1.3.0 update will be released around the middle of February 2018. This patch will add the ability to begin a new game plus file and fix an issue with a certain Driver’s Blades disappearing after a certain point in the game due to a 1.2.0 patch problem.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s new game plus mode is being called “Advanced New Game.” The official website does not mention what will carry over in it.

The bug regarding the missing Blades is one that can occur in Chapter 7, then continue through the rest of the game. If a specific Driver has a Blade equipped, then that Blade can disappear from the Blade list due to certain action. It has not been accidentally released or deleted, but it no longer appears in the list. 1.3.0 will make sure this does not happen and the Blades all remain in the list.
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Post by: Rich! on January 28, 2018, 04:22:12 PM
Up to 90 hours now. Level 72/73 (apart from nia who is inexplicably level 79?!) Just spending time doing sidequests, and there's a shitload of them. I've only really followed the story up to the final boss, but I'm surprised by just how deep the other stuff is - there's so much to do with quests, affinity, dev levels, poppiswap, etc. I'll keep going until I beat all the superbosses, especially artifice ophion as I want in on that secret room!

I've completed Pyra and Mythra's affinity charts. Almost finished Azami's.

Still missing a few blades - kasandra, kosmos, herald, newt, adernine and perceval. A few of those I can get tonight, but fuck knows when I'll ever see kos mos
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Post by: tiesto on January 29, 2018, 07:46:57 PM
Up to chapter 9 and some of the battles are getting pretty frustrating (not to mention the skill checks too)...at level 66 now... so I'll go back and catch up on sidequests and blade quests for a bit... I think I'm missing like 10 gatcha blades.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 29, 2018, 08:19:52 PM
Up to chapter 9 and some of the battles are getting pretty frustrating (not to mention the skill checks too)...at level 66 now... so I'll go back and catch up on sidequests and blade quests for a bit... I think I'm missing like 10 gatcha blades.

At that point in the game, I just started running away from every battle that wasn’t scripted. A lot of those enemies are harder than any story battle.
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Post by: curly on January 30, 2018, 12:30:26 AM
 Up to chapter 7 and losing any interest in keeping playing :(

There's so many little things about this game I find annoying
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Post by: Tokyosandblaster on February 01, 2018, 10:52:45 AM
As a big fan of the first game, how likely am I going to enjoy the rest of the game? I'm on chapter 3. I like the characters for the most part. The story is pretty good. Battle system is decent, although I miss being able to move and do damage. How important is the gacha blade game going forward? As of right now, I'd like to stick with my default 3 person party and their default blades. I had to switch the new dude out with the fucking ponpon that's a tank. Should I continue?
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 01, 2018, 12:02:22 PM
The game is good.  Keep playing.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on February 01, 2018, 12:59:07 PM
I'd say stop because the game is a peice of shit but since you already like the awful characters and story.....

Also you get a new tank and no you can't just use the default Blades. Until then you have to use the tank given to you and don't worry about Vandham.
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Post by: tiesto on February 12, 2018, 10:53:25 AM
I need to get to level 5 affinity quickly for 2 of my blades to unlock their quests... any easy way to grind affinity?
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Post by: Boredfrom on February 17, 2018, 03:00:38 PM
I need to get to level 5 affinity quickly for 2 of my blades to unlock their quests... any easy way to grind affinity?

Pouch items.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 26, 2018, 04:46:01 PM
Finished it after 80-90 hours (In game timer was fucked). Did not enjoy it in the end and won't be playing new game plus.
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Post by: tiesto on February 26, 2018, 11:09:11 PM
They datamined the rare blade drops, KOS-MOS is of course the lowest:

https://nintendoeverything.com/fans-datamine-xenoblade-chronicles-2-rare-blade-drop-rates/ (https://nintendoeverything.com/fans-datamine-xenoblade-chronicles-2-rare-blade-drop-rates/)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 27, 2018, 10:13:14 AM
Looks like my save was in Column 3.
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Post by: Boredfrom on February 28, 2018, 12:54:03 PM
They datamined the rare blade drops, KOS-MOS is of course the lowest:

https://nintendoeverything.com/fans-datamine-xenoblade-chronicles-2-rare-blade-drop-rates/ (https://nintendoeverything.com/fans-datamine-xenoblade-chronicles-2-rare-blade-drop-rates/)

lol, the system is fucked up.

Also, Agate was my first rare blade, so lol.
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Post by: Bebpo on March 04, 2018, 12:31:13 AM
New patch out makes pulls much quicker. Can skip all the animations, but of course it's iffy implemented so you have to choose to skip before you even pull, so if you do get a unique you miss their introduction movie. And there's still a bunch of button presses every time you pull. Why does it have to ask you if you want to equip after every pull? If they're going to force you to make a choice after each pull, why not add a "equip yes/no/trash" option. The whole limited selection, gotta keep trashing pulls system is so stupid.

I'm still missing like 10+ uniques, pulled 8 epics, 20 rares, 30 commons tonight after this patch and got...1 unique :\

I'm at the

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Every time I sit down to play it after a long amount of time it goes like this:

-Oh hey, this is pretty and sounds good
-Oh hey, this combat is fun
-Oh hey, my AI teammates never do anything intelligent so I can't pull off driver combos because stupid ass eye patch man with his lightning pal won't UPPER the goddamn grounded enemy.
-Oh hey, enemy mobs pulling from everywhere, so much HP on little mobs even with lvl.3 blade combos, this is tedious as shit
-Oh hey, just died because pulled too many mobs on accident and couldn't run in time, time to go through a section again and fight everything that gets pulled again
-Oh hey, got a new blade, let's look at its tree, oh that's ton of grinding for a little content
-Oh hey, ran into another field check, time to switch in a bunch of useless blades for the check after slowly searching through list for the correct field skills, then do the check for something super minor, then remember to set everyone's blades back in
-Oh hey, merc missions came back, time to send them back out again for the 10,000 time

Like, there is a lot I really like about XB2, big environments, awesome towns, great music, solid battle system, solid story/characters.

but

This is like one of the most tedious games ever to actually play because of all the sub-system bullshit. I'm a huge Takahashi fan and enjoyed everything he's directed immensely until Xenoblade X. That was the first game of his I thought was kinda bad and a mess, mostly because of lack of an actual plot/characters and the mechs breaking the traversal and mech combat being kinda shitty. Xenoblade 2 is kinda continuing the trend of great game somewhere in there but a mess. The plot/characters are back in, but now there's a ton of annoyances that weren't in XBX /sigh

Will finish the story up at some point (might just use the new easy mode, tested it and all it seems to do is cut enemy HP by a ton) but even though there was a ton of content with all these blade quests, I can't see myself sticking with the game because of the grind you have to do for them.

It's weird because I felt like XB1 got it right the first time outside the 9,000 filler sidequests if you wanted to build the cities up, but that was all optional. I thought the combat worked in XB1 and I liked how you could assign a teammates move to your command bar so you had some control over what they execute. I much preferred the story/characters/world of that one too. I feel like the sense of mysterious exploration in XB1 isn't quite matched in XB2 and there's no moments like the marsh at night, or the city in the ocean, etc... XB1 felt like a single player MMO with a good story along the lines of FFXII. XBX/XB2 haven't really felt like that to me.
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Post by: Bebpo on January 10, 2019, 07:53:09 PM
So now that I finished this I looked up to see how many blades I'm missing from random pulls. Looks like even though I'm missing like 10-15 blades, only about 4 are left from random pulls which probably explains why when I pulled 18 epic core crystals and 10 rare core crystals last night all I got was T.Elos. The rest are all from sidequests.

Man I didn't even get Poppi's 3rd form and was wondering why little noppon guy only had 2 blades even in the end.

Probably should've done more sidequests. I mean I put like 100 hours into the game doing tons of exploration but I thought the sidequests all kinda sucked (like the original) and didn't bother with them.


Before I move to Torna, will maybe try to grab some of the quest/dlc item ones and try out the battle arena. Although I dunno what the point is, you get a new blade and without grinding or using it for hours upon hours all you get to do is watch it do a few moves special moves and you're over it in 5 mins. Locking each special blades unique quest or quests behind hours of grinding each of them was the dumbest thing ever. I enjoyed the blade quests I did with the blades I used, but for the majority of blades I never unlocked them far enough to get to their quests :| And no way I'm grinding new blades at this point after I've beat it just to do a little ok sidequest that develops their character a tiny bit.

Blades really were a mistake. Don't like them in the story, don't care for them in the gameplay. Blah.

Also can we talk about the ending?

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I'm fine with all the connections to Xenoblade 1 except the whole PORTAL-HALF MAN is half of the badguy/boss/god in XB1 who is completely whole and this totally feels like a dumbass retcon that makes no sense because how does the XB2 half a man pee if half his dick's in a portal? Like thousands of years he only has one leg to move around and one arm and makes a full universe out of it? Just seems so dumb to me I can't wrap my head around half-portal man or take it seriously /shrug

Couldn't they have just done the split person without literally splitting him? Like just half his soul or something is over in XB1. The portal thing is just duuuuumb.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 10, 2019, 09:56:40 PM
I’ve also been debating about getting 100% on XC2 but some of the side quests are painful.  XC2 is a 200+ hour game I’d say.  I bought the season pass but haven’t done much with it.  Maybe I’ll revisit it someday.
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Post by: Bebpo on January 11, 2019, 03:39:11 AM
Messed around with the challenge arena, was ok but not really my thing at this point. Tried to get Poppi's 3rd form but every step is grinding/farming. This whole game is nothing but grind after grind. I just don't find it fun to play. Gonna call it quits and just move to Torna. Hopefully Torna is a lot more streamlined and less of a grind.
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Post by: bluemax on February 02, 2019, 02:05:04 AM
I've done so many sidequests that I just put the game on auto battle all the time. Also I think having bought Torna and all the DLC bonuses it grants probably trivalized the game a bit. The only times I've struggled were when I thought I had to do a few boss fights with only 2 characters (because the UI is balls across the board in this game).