You guys bought Xenoblade right?

[demi]

Pirate ass mutherfuckers. Repent! Got mine today.

[cool breeze]

yeah, bought it and got that artbook too.  played about an hour, was actually just going to make a thread to ask a question.

I played for an hour or so.  Got a sidequest saying I needed to go to a lab, which was also where the arrow was pointing.  I go there, a cutscene plays, and now I'm playing as a girl.  Do these sidequests go away or is there a point when I can just go off in a party and kill monsters and explore and stuff?


So far it seems pretty cool.  It cuts out a lot of fat from jrpgs and rpgs in general.  I like that I don't need to return to the quest giver for the quest to be completed.  First thing I did when I reached that town was jump off the edge and just run around.  There were these level 70 things rushing to attack me so I hauled ass out of there, then realized I was probably too weak to take on these guys with Shulk (?) alone so I fast traveled back to the entrance.

also, game is kinda ugly but no loading and hugeness make up for it.  and the brit voices are bad bad.

[demi]

If they're higher than you, you aren't meant to go there. The game is very open on where you can't go.

Quests that will expire will be labeled as such. There's so much quests that it really won't become an issue, but if it really bothers you, there are quest guides online. Honestly unless you're ADD riddled, I would just play at your own leisure. I broke over 80 hours just playing normally at my own pace.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

I've had the PAL release for a few weeks, sitting on the floor. I'll finish up the games I've started and get to it when I've got nothing else going on.

[demi]

Play on USB Loader!

The voices were irksome for some for me, but I grew to not hate them. I rather enjoyed them. I like Shulk's VA the most I think. Dunban's as well.

[cool breeze]

I'm not going to do every quest.  I already have like 15 and most are MMO style "kill x number of monster."  Just wondering if this game jumps between characters or if I'm still in the introductory phase and eventually Shulk is my main while this girl and that Reyn guy tag along, and then it opens up.


already installed and am playing on usb loader.  usually do that with all new wii games (last one was 5 months ago...)

I just switched to Japanese voices.  I don't mind bad VA and prefer English because  I can sit at my computer while they talk about the power of friendship or whatever, but oh god the accents are so strong.  So many Fs in the wrong places.

[demi]

You are still in the intro phase. When you get Monado and some shit goes down, then the game "starts" - and you will ALWAYS play as Shulk (you can choose who the playable leader is though when you get more people)

[demi]

I'm not going to do every quest.  I already have like 15 and most are MMO style "kill x number of monster."  Just wondering if this game jumps between characters or if I'm still in the introductory phase and eventually Shulk is my main while this girl and that Reyn guy tag along, and then it opens up.


already installed and am playing on usb loader.  usually do that with all new wii games (last one was 5 months ago...)

I just switched to Japanese voices.  I don't mind bad VA and prefer English because  I can sit at my computer while they talk about the power of friendship or whatever, but oh god the accents are so strong.  So many Fs in the wrong places.

wtf no, now you will never know what time it is

[Great Rumbler]

[cool breeze]

fine.  I'll switch back and see if it gets better.

I want my same 5 regular VOs like troy baker and cam clarke and bosch  :'(

[Bebpo]

It's a good rpg, enjoy it guys.

/waits another 2 years for next Takahashi game.

[Akala]

I don't have time to play it so don't wanna buy...but it'll prob get rare as fuck.

Although if I buy it it is guaranteed to be on the next virtual console or whatever. Eh.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I'll get it sometime this weekend.  Might as well get one of the small handful of Wii games worth owning.

[Tasty]

GameStop's shipping it to me. Waited too long so I missed out on the artbook. Oh well, less clutter.

This game run any better ripped to the hard drive?

[Great Rumbler]

Is it Reyn Time yet? Yes, it is.

[Momo]

Still have to get another Wii.

Anyone have a clip showing accents at their strongest? Spoilers are okay.
(It likely wont bother me as I'm used to poms much more than americans)

[Great Rumbler]

[Momo]

I like the accents. You guys are lucky there arent terribad southern accents

[cool breeze]

so far this is great.  everything is so fast and there's nothing weighing you down to get bored.  if I didn't have to wake up early tomorrow, I'd probably play all night.

switching back and forth between Japanese and English, the Japanese is better but it is more convenient in English and it's not as bad as I initially thought. 

[magus]

the best walking simulator that i know of

[Positive Touch]

nah man can i borrow your copy

[Freyj]

I'm not going to do every quest.  I already have like 15 and most are MMO style "kill x number of monster."  Just wondering if this game jumps between characters or if I'm still in the introductory phase and eventually Shulk is my main while this girl and that Reyn guy tag along, and then it opens up.

Doing every quest in this game is a recipe for madness. The game is much more enjoyable just doing what you can do while exploring, anything else that seems interesting and then continuing on and abandoning the rest.

[Bebpo]

I liked the quests and it was fun doing them all.  But at times it definitely got tedious on some of them.  Plus if you do them all it'll take you 120 hours to finish it and that's a lot of time.

[magus]

a lot of quest boils down to killing X monsters,they basicaly solve themselves while just dicking around... the real pain in the ass is finding the NPC that give the quests,so really just don't start wandering around the city like an idiot and you'll be fine

[tiesto]

Yup bought the game and got the art book... gonna get cracking on it next weekend now that ME3 is done.

[cool breeze]

yeah, after the monado I'm walking around colony 9 and every two feet there's another quest.  one of them is: go talk to debt collector; uh, are you going to tell me or do I need to run around until a red exclamation point shows up on my mini-map? it doesn't seem worth it.  again, the other quests are MMO crap like collect x flowers or kill x monsters or kill x special monster.  the frequency of these quests without much reward just makes seem like a pain.

side quests and no control over squadmates are the two bitter points so far.  those enemies you could only kill with the break > topple combo got annoying since Reyn wouldn't do his move.  I'm sure he was in cool down, I didn't have a way of knowing that so I wasted my topple attack.  the only way seems to be a chain attack but that takes a while to charge up, and there are some rudimentary commands like focus or spread out.

though I'm glad that Shulk (me) has the healing ability.  No waiting on a Eugene who's too busy being a fucking asshole.

[Bebpo]

The real reward for sidequests is getting the town to 5 star so you get the best trade items and final hidden weapon quests and stuff.

The exp doesn't hurt either.  If you do all the quests before heading to the final boss you're destroy him but if you don't you might have to grind to beat him.

[demi]

Now that you guys have Xenoblade you can skip Last Story cause that game is dooooooooooooooodooo

[EmCeeGrammar]

I think Nintendo is shipping them in late april....

[demi]

lols. Thats what happens when you rely on Nintendo.

[cool breeze]

The real reward for sidequests is getting the town to 5 star so you get the best trade items and final hidden weapon quests and stuff.

The exp doesn't hurt either.  If you do all the quests before heading to the final boss you're destroy him but if you don't you might have to grind to beat him.

ugh, do you have to do every sidequest to get to 5 star? even if I wanted to do them, I think I'd have to jump between different times of day to find the right person to talk to.

[EmCeeGrammar]

I'm sure it'll be a nice box.

[Bebpo]

The real reward for sidequests is getting the town to 5 star so you get the best trade items and final hidden weapon quests and stuff.

The exp doesn't hurt either.  If you do all the quests before heading to the final boss you're destroy him but if you don't you might have to grind to beat him.

ugh, do you have to do every sidequest to get to 5 star? even if I wanted to do them, I think I'd have to jump between different times of day to find the right person to talk to.

Honestly I wouldn't bother with the sidequests.  The pacing of the game takes foreeever and yeah you have to keep doing sweeps through every single town at night/day at every star rank to make sure you found them all.  Plus a bunch are timed so you can't even wait until endgame and then do them all.  Just do the ones you come across if you want as you play through the story.  The best part of the sidequests is they make you fully explore every area and sometimes take you to places you didn't even know existed because they're a bit hidden.  But yeah, just do what you want.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

these characters never shut the fuck up uguu

[demi]

They're british, its what they do

[MyNameIsMethodis]

i'm british and im not annoying 


i wish the game had the option of putitng the little arrow for the sidequests you wnt to do

[Freyj]

The real reward for sidequests is getting the town to 5 star so you get the best trade items and final hidden weapon quests and stuff.

The exp doesn't hurt either.  If you do all the quests before heading to the final boss you're destroy him but if you don't you might have to grind to beat him.

ugh, do you have to do every sidequest to get to 5 star? even if I wanted to do them, I think I'd have to jump between different times of day to find the right person to talk to.

Honestly I wouldn't bother with the sidequests.  The pacing of the game takes foreeever and yeah you have to keep doing sweeps through every single town at night/day at every star rank to make sure you found them all.  Plus a bunch are timed so you can't even wait until endgame and then do them all.  Just do the ones you come across if you want as you play through the story.  The best part of the sidequests is they make you fully explore every area and sometimes take you to places you didn't even know existed because they're a bit hidden.  But yeah, just do what you want.

Exploration is the best part of the game anyway, with or without sidequests leading you there.

[cool breeze]

I like exploring and finding ream level monsters knowing that I'll return later and and wreck their shit.  I don't like "go back to this cave you were just in and do these monotonous tasks;" Xenoblade seems to be doing a lot of that.  Quick travel makes it a whole lot more bearable but if it gets annoying or confusing I'll just move on.  It's just weird for how progressive this game is (relatively) for it to have a quest log bordering on broken.

everything else is great.  well, combat isn't great, but it's good enough.  just overall it's great.

also, the music is nice

[Bebpo]

The battle system is pretty good for being realtime.  It's like FFXII with a little more depth imo.  It'll open up more later on when you have to pick your crew and their active attacks.

[cool breeze]

It's fine and all, but I'd like more control.  Either pausing the action to issue commands, defining behavior, both like dragon age, or simply assigning attacks (or combat styles) to L2+Dpad.

[magus]

if anything the battle system gets worse,after you get sharla and level up her healing skills a decent amount any single fight becomes trivial

[demi]

Why would you use Sharla? lol. She is doodoo.

Riki

[magus]

i'm sorry demi,i didn't know you were a furry

[AdmiralViscen]

What does this play like?

[magus]

FF12 with less control over combat but more big empty plains

[demi]

FF12

Any MMO on the market

[Positive Touch]

will suck dick for this game

[MyNameIsMethodis]

this game runs p good on dolphin. i can run it at 3x with no AA and only getting frame skips every once in a while or some frame drops.

i like the game, its fun, but don't know how long it can be fun and interesting. it seems like just from 4 hours of play I have almost all of the basic starting moves now i just get more monadno moves? I dunno.

[Positive Touch]

runs like shit on my laptop that can always run regular pc games with the highest settings on :'(

[MyNameIsMethodis]

you probably just need a different revision of dolphin.

http://adf.ly/1489522/www.mediafire.com/?db98sp7id6ui0m5

try that one

[AdmiralViscen]

This looks kind of interesting

Is it gonna bE super rare in Three months?

[demi]

Yes, buy it now

[cool breeze]

This looks kind of interesting

Is it gonna bE super rare in Three months?

It's only sold through gamestop/nintendo.com, so it will probably be hard to find eventually.

Last Story is supposed to have limited quantities too, but I'm not interested in that one.
 

[Bebpo]

This looks kind of interesting

Is it gonna bE super rare in Three months?

Most likely.  Small print run.

[Tasty]

Look what came in the mairu~

[EmCeeGrammar]

A Chrome coaster.... dude. 

[Tasty]

TBH of all the Google stuff I bought the coaster has turned out the best. It looks great (the clear plastic really helps) and it actually serves a somewhat useful function.

[ferrarimanf355]

Pirate ass mutherfuckers. Repent! Got mine today.

Got mine, but I'm too lazy to get my Wii out.

[cool breeze]

its cool how huge the fields are for world buildin n shit but man oh man the movement speed is slow.  frequent quick travel points help, but even so it's minutes of holding up on the analog stick to get places.

what's really cool is seeing a gigantic lvl 70 monster, getting a flashforward saying you gonna die if you don't run, and then running.

[magus]

its cool how huge the fields are for world buildin n shit but man oh man the movement speed is slow.  frequent quick travel points help, but even so it's minutes of holding up on the analog stick to get places.

what's really cool is seeing a gigantic lvl 70 monster, getting a flashforward saying you gonna die if you don't run, and then running.

welcome to my pain! i think the worst of all is when i wanted to see what was at the other side of the lake at the beginning of the game and i had to look at shulk swimming for 5 minutes sllllllllloooooooowwwwwwwwllllllllllyyyyyyyy
there are gems that make you walk faster but they just gives you a measly 20% increase,you won't even notice it