Sci-Fi JRPGs

I dunno japs are pretty lame with this there's basically only Xenosaga and PSO for scifi rpg from them they seem to always include some magitek stuff even Xeno/PSO are on the extremely soft end of scifi with PSO being almost borderline fantasy at times.

It's genuinely baffling since Japan is kinda known for being a tech leader.

I will forever be pissed at Star Ocean as a series for always being about getting dumped in a backwater generic low tech world for like 70% of the game.

Yeah even with anime and stuff there's very little high concept scifi stuff like Japan doesn't really have an equivalent of Star Wars or Star Trek, the closest is probably Gundam and LOGH.

The problem is that there is no template for a generic sci-fi rpg, like there is for fantasy.
Fantasy games are easier to make and more approachable for audiences, as the generic concepts are widely understood and accepted without question.

I wish there were more but yeah, I guess there just isn't a lot of demand over there. Sci-fi in general is also just more expensive to make because you have to invent designs for literally everything.

I mean there's Mass Effect, KOTOR and Fallout also scifi trpg like Traveller, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, Battletech and 40k for examples on how to do scifi with rpg stats and mechanics its not like it hasn't been tackled before it's just devs are azy and want to use their canned high fantasy setting with elves, dwarves and orcs instead of being slightly creative.

There are tons, though. Shin Megami Tensei, Phantasy Star, Star Ocean, Mother, Digimon, Skies of Arcadia, Inifnite Space, even Pokemon and all the best selling Final Fantasies. I think it's more that they obssess over high fantasy like nobody else, but a lot of those don't really matter as much. That said, Xenosaga is THE mecha rpg, so if you want more of that you'll have to be more flexible (maybe Metal Max?).

Gundam is a definite equivalent to Star Wars/Trek, though they also have stuff like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai that are their own.

Gundam is a definite equivalent to Star Wars/Trek

It's the most similar thing they have but it still isn't that similar Gundam is just about the conflict between Earth/Zeon or some equivelant for the most part and is very much a human only universe it's not like SW/Trek where they're traveling through space going to exotic alien worlds or anything like that Japan has very few space exploration style scifi for some reason.

Kamen Rider and Super Sentai that are their own.

True forgot about those I think Ultraman is the most scifi of them all though.

The difference is that no one is viewed as the owner or creator of the generic fantasy stuff. There is no generic sci-fi template you can copy without being seen as a ripp off, with maybe the exception of grey aliens.
With sci-fi, you need to be more original and then put in extra effort to explain things to the player.
Using Xenoblade X as an example; the prone and the wrothians are easily recognized as space orcs and space beastkin, which makes it easy for players to understand them. On the other hand, the more original Manon, Zaruboggans and Orphe require a lot of exposure time for players to understand how they work and what they are about. This is hard to pull off well so developers are more attracted to fantasy where you can rely freely on established tropes.

The first Star Ocean made me mad as fuck for exactly this reason. I was so mad I was lied to that I couldn't fully enjoy the game.

Eh, you got your federations and empires. I'd say there's a codified image of a space opera.

Why is it always fantasy?

Coz that's what sells. They've tried scifi plenty of times but it never sells anywhere near as much as something with a dragon in it.

Why is it always fantasy?

I blame isekai shit becoming popular. Now every faggot wants to make his power fantasy about some obese NEET becoming le chosun wan and getting a bunch of sex slaves.

I wish games were like isekino

Do Japanese devs just not like spaceships and robots?

It's the opposite. A LOT of Japanese devs/artists/mangaka/etc love robots. It's the audience that doesn't like it. Japanese Zoomers and younger Millennials hate sci-fi.

The majority of sci-fi games sales come from America. Americans are the only ones who like sci-fi in large numbers. That's why games like Metroid are so much more popular in America than in Europe, Japan, Australia, and etc.

See, that just makes it more confusing. Does nobody have the fantasy of wanting to reincarnate as a badass starship captain who fucks aliens?

On the other hand, the more original Manon, Zaruboggans and Orphe require a lot of exposure time for players to understand

Ma-non are Space Elves. Long lived, physically fragile, look down their noses at humans, suck at cooking, and have expert craftsmanship. Except instead of bows and arrows they use lasers.

I'd say ma-non are more space dwarves.

There's actually a small handful of Sci-fi Isekai, but they're usually still in a more grounded setting with the tech taking the place of standard magic. True Space Opera Isekai are incredibly rare and the only 3 I know of are dogshit.

For whatever reason, the Japs don't want to fuck alien women. They're okay with elf women, dwarf women, halfling women as they should be considering the average height of Japanese women, beastling women, vampire women, and dragon women, but they can't get hard for alien women.

That's the Zaruboggan.

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It's the audience that doesn't like it.

Just say women. Robots are a chick repellent. That's why Gundam has have bishi males just to get women interested.

They are way too quirky goofy and social to be elves. They share similarities with dwarves and elves, but they are minor and superficial. If you had a fantasy setting where elves or dwarves collectively acted like the manon do, the audience would be confused and weirded out.

japanese men are extremely soft and effeminate themselves so that has to be part of it.

Does nobody have the fantasy of wanting to reincarnate as a badass starship captain who fucks aliens?

That is literally Cobra.

That's part of the issue. Even in the West where Sci-fi is popular, it's still pussy repellent. But that doesn't explain why American men like robots and space weaponry and space colonization so much more than the Japanese or European males.

Japanese women make up a far larger percentage of fandom than do Western women. They love cosplaying as cute girls and a good chunk of fanart and porn is made by Japanese women. Hell, Bayonetta was designed by a Japanese woman who wanted to make a sexy female character to play as. But for whatever reason they have issues self-inserting as female ayys but have no issues self-inserting as a Medieval half-dragon half-elf girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Really, all the ayys in XCX buck the trend of sci-fi alien races just being alts of regular fantasy races. Wrothians don't really behave like beastlings, they behave like the pre-WW2 Japanese. Prone don't behave like Orcs, they behave like well meaning 60 IQ Africans. The Nopon act like their last name ends in -berg.

Monolith did a fantastic job designing the ayys.

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Don't forget the Orphe, who are the most original of the bunch.

Americans are the last vestige of the west which retained its lust for adventure and colonialism mostly due to westward expansion still being somewhat fresh and romanticized in the American consciousness. Asia never really had this type of culture to begin with and Europe has been thoroughly pussified and beaten down due to the world wars and cultural stagnation.

Needs rape correction

That could be it. I wonder if Australians and Kiwis have the same taste for sci-fi. We know Canadians do, but they pussify the crap out of their sci-fi.

I'm pretty sure Latin America also has a taste for sci-fi, but they don't produce a lot of vidya. The only notable Venezuelan video game is sci-fi, for example.

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She's dead, Jim. She got Dagahn killed with her retardation too.

I like how Dagahn is barely sentient and can still see that Ryyz is fucking up.

All the Ganglion we see in game get killed

We never capture any of them, not even Luxaar

Huge missed opportunity

Is she really though? I always thought it was strange how after the fight they just leave her discarded mech just laying there for the remainder of the game. No body went to check or confirmed her death or anything.

There was a fuck huge explosion. I would be surprised if there's any remains left.

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This is a joke, yet it perfectly captures part of why this game just hits. It's the fantasy of going through the daily grind of being an elite anime soldier. God I wish there were more games like that.

Japanese are incapable of understanding Sci-fi, let alone write it well. Their idea of good sci-fi is naval ships in space and toy robots swinging lightsabers at each other.

It's massive wasted potential that Goetia didn't get a stern over the knee spanking.

The real insane thing is this is the only Xeno franchise game where major spoilers other races aren't of human/earth origin:

Maybe Latin Americans get into sci-fi via wacky ancient alien theories.

I'm pretty sure it's their 12.5% Spanish Conquistador blood speaking to them.

What's the Xeno series timeline again?

That might not be true

Orphe are Chozo.

The armor they make for Blade is straight up Samus' powersuit.

There's no real timeline. 1 and 2 take place at the same time in parallel universes with 3 taking place some indeterminant time afterwards in another parallel universe that's a combination of 1's and 2's.

X is in an alternate universe entirely, one based on our timeline with the US still existing up until about 2 years before the start of XCX.

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Takahashi confirms that he wants to make Xenoblade X2.

Fuck me, they even kinda look like chozo.

who cares? the game is going to be censored

Australians

low population basically makes their output of any form of entertainment extremely insignificant

Canadians

cultural clone of the US even if they don't want to admit it.

Latin America

too poor and dysfunctional also can't into technology

In any case, I find it super interesting how isolating xenosaga felt after you learn the Gnosis were just messed up humans and they're compeltely alone. and the blade trilogy is all self contained on earth with fucked up evolution experiements, But then X shows up, and it's a whole spectrum of different races that are as fantastically different as possible on a planet full of huge megafauna That are also invasive galactic powers.

I love XCX so much. It's not perfect, but it's my favorite game of all time. It speaks directly to my soul.

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We're going home, bros.

It's pretty wild that a game like this almost faded to obscurity. I hope it finds its audience on the switch.

it just needs a competent PC port

I think it would've been better served being a launch window title on the Switch 2. If it came out a little bit after Prime 4, it would've helped sell consoles, and it would've been more notable since people would still be on their new console honeymoon.

I just hope the Switch 2 is backwards compatible and XCX Definitive Edition gets some sort of love (like a performance patch or something) on the Switch 2. I would hate for XCX to be released in the twilight years of a console and die yet again. Especially since it has online elements.

Despite the urgency of finding the Lifehold, the game manages to have this comfy atmosphere where you're basically just doing the daily grind of your job as a cool anime soldier.

There's already a pretty vocal buzz over it, so hopefully that translates to success.

Would that be realistic? The reason they didn't port it before was that they weren't confident in their familiarity with the switch architecture. Porting it to a brand new console might too difficult to make in time for the launch window.

It will be the biggest Switch 2 release

Wouldn't they be Luminoth then?

It doesn't matter as long as the console is powerful enough. The Switch is barely more powerful than the Wii U and XCX had to be built to make maximum use of the Wii U's architecture and hardware. If the Switch 2 is even 50% more powerful than the Switch (it'll probably be twice as powerful if not more), running XCX would be significantly easier.

Does anyone have the webm of Elma gaining affinity points when you let aliens die?

Xenoblade is much more popular now than it was 10 years ago and the switch has a massive install base. It won't sell as much as 2 & 3 but i can't really see it failing.

I don't know about that. No Xeno game has broken 5 million sales even if you count the rereleases and remakes. XCX is also very sci-fi meaning it'll sell well but not break sales records just like Metroid.

Zoomers just don't care for sci-fi as much as prior generations. It's a sad state of affairs.

There's dragons in sci-fi though, because sci-fi is a fantasy genre

I heard all the mechs asides the fat mechs and the secret mech are all shit. I want to main the cover mech though.

Make a game series called "Star Ocean"

Games are all set on a standard fantasy planet, or maybe a couple different planets at most

No gameplay related to space travel or exploration

Always wondered what the fuck they were smoking

maybe because sci-fi has been steadily reduced into jewish schlock to the point of being a self-parody of itself. The sci-fi pushed in school is

TRUST THE SCIENCE

propaganda, so of course kids are getting tired of it and dismissing the entire genre altogether.

No it won't. That'll be Splatoon 4.

It's much safer to main, as wrecking a fat skell will bankrupt you. The light frames are safer to explore in as they are much more affordable.

Feels like they chickened out. Like they wanted to make a proper sci-fi RPG, but the bean counters screeched that the chart says it wouldn't sell.

I hope they show the CaC soon. I remember the originals being pretty aight.

Star Ocean has to be one of the most infuriating series ever as a scifi fan.

I forgot about the upkeep costs for skells. I never even finished the main story because I kept running around doing the sidequests which were seemingly never ending.
That reminds me, will they uncensor the Lin bikini that caused a huge tism back when people still pushed back against censorship?

I never ended up liking the gameplay too much but the setting and aesthetics were enough to keep me going, and I wish the rest of the series was nearly as good in that department instead of going full generic harem anime. Give me cool ayy lmaos and let me pilot the cool robots and I'll be happy, simple as.
You can kit out most skells to be pretty strong with the right stuff. Light frames won't really be the gods of death that the heavier ones can be, but the great evasion and accuracy are handy to have around too, and the better fuel economy is a godsend earlier on, and still useful later in fights where you'll want to fly mid-combat.

That reminds me, will they uncensor the Lin bikini that caused a huge tism back when people still pushed back against censorship?

Shut the fuck up.

13 years old

out of 10!

Any ga buidhe porn?

she's also a robot technically so go wild

It really is a shame how few games, and other pieces of media dare to attempt original aliens. I like how this game has several species that aren't just humans with extra knobs.

Yeah, and I feel it's even rarer in JRPGs

That's because the modern sci-fi book industry is completely corrupted by leftists. It was the first major medium to be infected with SJWs/wokeists.

She's cute, what's the issue?

10+ different sentient alien species

All of them are bipedal, stand upright, and are at most vaguely human shaped

Xenoblade Chronicles X Remastered

Subnautica 2

Metroid Prime 4

2025 is the year Sci-fi is revived.

Models were supposed to mimic Tanaka artwork and obviously didn't worked so well.

What's your favorite xbx meme or fandom joke/shitpost?

It's a shame monolith booted out Tanaka (or he choose not to be an internal artist and stay freelance), they finally got his work right in 3D after XSI/XCX with XC2's kos-mos

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I don't remember much about the actual story but right now I immediately felt an intese desire to kill this little shit.

Japan jumped from isolated Fuedalism to full industrialisation in a heartbeat.

It's less that they don't prefer fantasy over scifi and more that they do not acknowledge a difference

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you forgot doom dark ages

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all intelligent life will evolve into bipedal upright form, its justs superior

Gaslighting people into believing that there is a sidequest that starts of goofy and lighthearted, but ends with graphic descriptions of people getting skinned alive and pulled apart limb by limb.
There of course is no such content in this game.

Subnautica 2

Below Zero went in the wrong direction in so many ways, I have zero faith that it's not going to be shit.
I'd like to be proven wrong though.

Saitom is also freelancer, but feels like staff want keep him around for future titles. Actually lot of people that worked on designs and mech design are freelancers including Choco.

And Death Stranding 2

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I hope one day Sega stops being gay and brings back Phantasy Star.

yeah but monolith was looking for an in house character artist to be the face of the company (or at least the xeno series)

Aside from the playable characters being the muttiest looking motherfuckers imaginable, Subnautica 2 seems more like a return to form than something in the same vein as Below Zero.

His characters in 2 looked so good. I love his Shulk and Fiora.

Good luck surpassing those two.

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Yeah. Haha.

I don't think moe artstyle is befitting of xeno games, personally

I love Murderess!

Getting ambushed by 30 different megafauna as soon as you get the flight module

Either Maymay or Tanktop Master.

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Paimon being emergency food.

I can't wait to see what she looks like in the updated artstyle. I hope she gets a massive amount of porn as XCX comes back into the spotlight.

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Saitom improved a lot between games, and models actually look excellent specially expressions.

But let's be honest, those two are main reason that people even care about games outside of usual circles.

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Zaruboggans

Space jannies.
Doin it for free even
Or else
Also won't Orphe be elves with all their nature bullshit?

Paimon

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Seeing the little affection heart pop over her when you choose to defend the Manon or say something cheesey and heroic are what really won me over with her.

she'll do the most criminally destructive things to get what she wants, but loves see you be a beacon of morals

wrong game

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XCX Definitive Edition announced 1 day ago

We got a half year's worth of fanart in just 36 hours

We're so back XCX-bros

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Reminder XCX was voted worst Xenoblade game

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That's a jannie.

But they're all voted the worst...

I love her voice, especially during combat.

Japan can't make good scifi races, all they do is humanlike/demihuman type stuff which fit better in fantasy.

She's one of the top 3 best girls in the entire Xenoblade franchise.

3 chads won!

You mean like Star Trek and Star Wars?

robots. how do they fuck?
I need an in depth anatomical explanation on how the fuck mims work like are they androids or synths

Deliver the Pizzza

Wax the Delivery Skell

Bake the Nopon

Do NOT behold the glory of Freshly Raisen Crust

Stock the Oregano

There really isn't. The best you could say is that they share the same multiverse inside Takahashi's brain.

Missing Xenonauts, which unironically could potentially be a better prequel to Xenogears than Xenoblade.

You tell me.

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I would unironically play a pizza delivery minigame in XCX

they also have food and eat food and stuff so they aren't just basic bitch androids either. how fully functional is that dick

There's a questline that starts with one of the female BLADE members asking if her boyfriend can get her pregnant, so they CAN do the deed. They might not have any baby batter, but they at least got the equipment.

they put a lot into acclimating to a new planet enviroment, so the mims probably have those functions to develop digestive bacteria or something.

Pregnancy does change diets, so simulating it would make sense. Would they need to simulate sex for it, or just send a signal to the female mim body to switch modes. Just push a little remote when she doesn't expect it and she has to stay pregnant until they;re satisfied with the data.

This cutscene honestly fucked me up.
I had no idea you were a robot up to this point.
And I did some quests for the Mim center.
I was not paying much attention to the point, but man the world design is top tier.

X is a gem to replay because of how much is actually foreshadowed. Replaying the early chapters and paying attention to Lao and the people around the Mimeosome Center makes it all make much more sense. There's not a single plot twist in X that isn't foreshadowed.

Even the thing with Lao makes sense. I used to hate that twist and thought it was contrived until my second playthrough.

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Can we all agree Boze is the worst party member?

annoying and sanctiminious and you have to agree with him for affinity hearts

quests are tedious ganglion hold infiltrations

shitty meme electric spear build is his best build

stands out as butt ugly even in a game known for its ugly character models

Dune?

Nope not there

We should eat Tatsu by the way.

Can we all agree Boze is the worst party member?

Absolutely not

annoying and sanctiminious and you have to agree with him for affinity hearts

He's principled, sure, but he's also accommodating to others after his affinity missions. His moral arc is learning to chill out and start showing consideration for people of other ideologies.

quests are tedious ganglion hold infiltrations

Tedious

Anon, they're incredibly quick and easy.

shitty meme electric spear build is his best build

He gives you Vortex which lets you do Skyhigh builds. Webm related.

stands out as butt ugly even in a game known for its ugly character models

Fair, but he's also a 50+ year old weeaboo. We don't like him because he's easy on the eyes.

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It's a strange thing.
Xenoblsdee never has minigames.
blade1 didn't at all.
X didn't from memory.
2 had Tiger! Tiger! but that's also just poppi upgrades.
3 had none.
Xenoblade is like the only JRPG to not have a ton of minigames...and no one seems to ever complain or gripe about it.
It's bizarre to think about.

strange journeychads where we at

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Another demake for the ninkiddies

The demake tablet!

Xenoblade is like the only JRPG to not have a ton of minigames...and no one seems to ever complain or gripe about it.

Mainline SMT, I think that only Nocturne has something

Enjoying that Horizon:Zero Dawn remaster over there, bub?

Probably not gonna happen. But it'd be nice if they do reprints of formula. I'm not shelling 200 for a kit

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I think its because Gundam in Japan is losing a lot of new fans for some reason and has been since the early 2000s.

from like SMT2 up to around Soul Hackers/Persona 2 there were always casino games and codebreaker. SMT2 had Russian Roulette for some fucking reason.

THERE'S A CHANCE WE FOUND OUR WONDERLAAAAAAAAAAND
AS WE REACH TO THE PROMISED LAAAAAAAAAND

most western sci-fi games are just space wizards too.

The wind blows hard in December

This plays walking past a rabbit

Does this mean it's going to have better music this time? I will say, completely unapologetically, that the soundtrack for XCX was the sole deciding factor for why I chose not to buy it.

enough about TLoU1 HD REDE version 1.2.5.
Glad Nintendo puts out real games.

In Isekai, the medieval fantasy setting is far easier to pull off because of the delusion that the protagonist can use his "knowledge" of the modern world to get an advantage over everyone else. With sci-fi, your average NEET would be an even bigger loser compared to the rest of the setting.

Gundam's been on the recovery popularity-wise in Japan between G-Witch and the new SEEDshit

The problem is that there is no template for a generic sci-fi rpg, like there is for fantasy.

The idea of templates come from the fact there's a ton of fantasy RPGs and a lot of them borrow from Tolkien, so the pattern is obvious.
Sci-fi RPGs in contrast are very rare, and while I think there're plenty of works that server as template, there isn't enough samples to identify a pattern, like we can with fantasy.
Also sci-fi covers a lot more settings and concepts than fantasy. The Matrix and Star Wars are both technically sci-fi movies but entirelly different. I'm aware of sub-genres like cyberpunk and space opera, but again, sci-fi sub-genres are a lot bigger and unique than fantasy sub-genres.

he doesn't need a bigger gun

It's still using the old rendering tech so it's going to be a bit disappointing visually either way, going to have to wait and see if they make an X2 and carry over some of the designs from the original to see what this game could have looked like.

I feel like Star Trek is a really straightforward, easy template for Sci-Fi JRPGs if they feel like following it. Like Xenoblade Chronicles X in feel and structure is surprisingly close to something like Star Trek Deep Space 9, and I'd say Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey captures the feeling of Star Trek The Original Series really well too.

Phantasy Star is a bit scifi, but sometimes it leans more towards technology being something that they don't really understand, but ancient remnants are so commonplace they still just use what's around. If it had a lot more detail, Phantasy Star 2's setting in particular would stand out on that, because the population itself is bordering on becoming Wall-E tier useless and stupid.

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So...you're saying we need more Pizza then in our space fiction.
Fully agreed human poster like I.
This was NOT brought to you by the Manon Gang, such would be slander.

Will Elma's swimsuit get censored in DE?

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Lin Lee will be the new standard for swimsuits and the edits will have been done in house so those decrying the changes will be in the wrong.

So...you're saying we need more Pizza then in our space fiction.

Not really but yes, I rather have pizza than something like curry(like in they had in Xenosaga).

skyrim with gundams

I never played any of the others but XCX might be my all time favorite game of all time

Combat is completely different and it's a third person game but you can alter the camera to make it first person

like others anons said everyone else doesnt like spaceships and robots since they have shit taste
waiting another Macross anime and game where you can fly anywhere and fight
giant robots, even bigger robot ships, giant space elfs, giant elfs wearing power armor ect..
feels amazing hope someone have been saying all the pics

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No rabbits in XCX. That's a XC1/2 thing.

It's even wackier in X, though, since you can hear it walking past a random beetle.

Or just a tree, or some ruins, or even a flower.

Good.
Good.
This is the way things aught to be. Yes.
Glad we have reached an agreement fellow human.

Mira does NOT fuck around
It's serious business. Adapt or die.
So adapt your Pizza..or die.

I suddenly remember that one side quest where you drug a manon politician to prevent his pizza based economy and pizza tax plans.

One of my favorite things in XBCX was how many normal non-tyrant enemies had unique animations and setups around the world. Like you would just stumble on generic enemies doing a really goofy scene that they had never done in any other area.

Like somewhere in Sylvalum, they just had some of the saltats stacking on top of each other, surrounding one that had none stacked on top of it, and they were just honking at that one. Wandering in on a weird hazing ritual like that was awesome.

Whoa, you go big guy.

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Glad Nintendo puts out real games.

LOOOOOOOL

LIES
SLANDER
FAKE NEWS!
This NEVER occured.
If it did it would have been glorious and much better for all.

he cute

It was a political election sidequest. Dan-on Trump almost won because of his commanding hold over the Ma-non vote, but on behalf of the Demorpheans you drug him so they can win.

13 years old, inside and out

What did she mean by this?

Honestly XCX DE is coming a lot sooner than expected. I thought for sure it'd be a launch window title for the switch 2, but seemingly it's before that.

I think it's clear that Switch 2 will be backwards compatible though.

SchizoTheory:
Originally Switch 2 was supposed to come out by March with a new 3D Mario. But they're having difficulty with optimizing exclusives for this next console, so they delayed it to like May or something. XCX DE was originally meant to be out in May as a cross generation title, but got pushed up after the internal console delay because Nintendo wants to pad out their financial report even just a little; would make sense why XCX DE was just dropped on twitter and not a direct.
XCX DE will be 60fps up ressed on the Switch 2.

Thoughts?

you're a schizo alright.

the juice is ripest when young.

No. They aren't going to re-do an entire soundtrack for a remaster.

Inside of her Mim and out of it.

She's actually 13 inside and 3 on the outside. Her mimeosome was made when Earth was destroyed so her physical body has been stuck mid-puberty since she was 10.

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Just rip off 40k that everybody understands already while dialing back on the grimdark

Also for Elma?

40k is one of the less well known sci-fi franchises, though. Star Wars, Star Trek, and arguably even Metroid are more well known.

no you niggerfaggot now stop spamming this screencap

What are you talking about? Lin isn't censored in my version of the game

Earth was destroyed so her physical body has been stuck mid-puberty since she was 10.

Nobody tell her

Her mim is her physical body and she's permanently stuck in puberty because of it. The Lifehold is broken so their mims are all that's left of their souls/consciousness.

There IS the illegal mim alteration center below the city, but considering she's a goody goody two shoes she's going to end up being a 40 year old loli.

Anon
That was my point. Her body is gone. Forever. So she's stuck like that till the repauir parts run out and they all die. Or gets junkered in combat beyond fixing.

Stop lusting after Ganglion. Humans should only lay with humans.

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Post sexy furry tiger ninja alien girl, you know the one. Fucking criminal that she wasnt a party member

Splatoon 4

we have one Wii U game still not brought forth...
Splatoon Re-Tune

She has a name.

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Its a weird name and didnt remember it, sorry. And also thank you

Yoshi's Woolly World

Star Fox Zero

PM Color Splash

LoZ WW Remastered

LoZ TP Remastered

Mario Tennis Ultra Smash

Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival

Devil's Third

Mario Party 10

Nah, the DNA database is still in order, they can grow new bodies if they want, it's the memory/soul databanks that got trashed so we don't know how they're operating ther Mims.

So now that we're finally going back to Mira,

I never left though.

you forgot that Mira's their lifehold now. The planet will bring them back as many times as it wants

I've only played the game through 4 times already. I kneel to your dedication.

Nobody's going to miss your pirated nsp anon.

Planet Mira is limbo and it is sentient.

Humans are being given a second chance to co-exist with other things in the universe.

L'cirufe is an anagram of Lucifer, he is trying to make humans get addicted to wealth and consumerism again.

Is she the proto nia?

The Wrothians are, in fact, the first race of cat people in Xenoblade.

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why are niafags are so obnoxious?

I like ga buidhe's outfit how her right breast is getting groped by it

2 had salvaging, I guess

It's unlockable, craftable armor you can equip to others but it's locked behind resources you can't get in the original anymore because no Reward Tickets and no Global Nemesis. Same with Elma's true armor.

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Thank gor for XDE then. Hopefully they make Ga playable too.

Ga Buidhe's armor is unobtainable, what are you talking about. There's the outfits of L, Celica and TrueForm Elma, the fundoshi+bandages and the bunnysuits as craftable armor. Ga Buidhe's isn't accessible.

Why would a high tech place have a lot of fantasy about high tech? Obviously they go in the opposite direction. Many Japanese don't even want to use new tech and still use shit like flip phones.

DE

on the fucking Switch

Whats the point lmao

Who knows what they'll add into the DE. The original X had a ton of shit cut but never got added, even adding some of it would be nice but maybe they're just saving it for another game.
I think Tatsu was likely the most ready to be mad playable character, he had soul voices in the JP audio files.

reposting because i copy pasted ther wrong fucking image
it probably won't happen in XBDE but i really want the different xenos to get playable members. imagine having a trasheater in the party who casts from voltant, so they convert debuffs, hp or poison hazards into attacks or back into hp/buffs

people already focusing on the ending hint of expansion, frankly I just want more story and character stuff throughout the game in general. even if it lacks voice acting, anything is better than the flat swathes of nothing you can get stuck with as the game goes from 0 to 100 in the span of one cutscene transition once the plot remembers it exists again

how's it going.
friends.

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Is it really only Star Ocean, Xenosaga and Phantasy Star as sci-fi jrpgs? I feel like there were more that I'm forgetting.

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that would be a fun idea.
metaphorically speaking

Arguably elements of SMT are sci-fi interwoven with religious horror and mythology. Especially Digital Devil Saga. Rogue Galaxy was a world-hopping adventure despite its fantasy trappings, certain Final Fantasies like VIII and XIII, certain parts of Live A Live.. But yeah, genuine futuristic stuff in full, with complete dedication to it? That's pretty extremely limited, and even Star Ocean arguably treads the line into fantasy more given how much Star Trek influence is there of running around on worlds with swords and pseudo-magic.

Man these things were unnerving. Finding one in that one cave.

bump

Tech leader? Maybe in the 90's

nothing close to Star Wars Star Trek

Gundam and LoGh anre both opera that supersedes both of those other franchises on essentially every metric. You’re talking out of your ass.

bust assumption I have is

Just woke up from a dream about this game where they made Skull customization as in-depth as Armored Core 6 with the whole liveries and paint textures.
If we got that I’d be ecstatic but we won’t EVER.

I think part of the issue with Gundam and LoGH is that both are war stories.

You can see some influence from Gundam specially in SRPGs - just look at Camus/Zeke's design in the original FE Gaiden, he's straight up Char. And of course, there are the long running licensed SRW and Gundam G Generation games. But generally the games you'd see inspired by Gundam were action games.

Like look at Metal Warrior's intro
youtube.com/watch?v=5rtTZh7F9m0

"United Earth Government" = Earth Federation

"Dark Axis" = Zeon (in Zeta Gundam, there was an "Axis" Zeon even).

So uhh anyone got a link to the uncensored iso of XCX?

Maybe on next game.

war stories

They're more political stories if anything and I'm pretty sure the main creator of Gundam mentioned this. The wars are usually a backdrop(and to sell toys). Basically much like FFXII. I'd even put Star Wars on the same level but I think what saved Star Wars was they actually showed off different space tech, space, various planets, and races. I think its just a Japan problem of "humans first, everything else dead last".

iso

These haven't been used since 6th gen, their all random file types now. Second, you have to make your own apparently. Hope you're ready to download 2 20GB files just to make patch your own game.

I was in love with how many voice options it gives you, despite it still being 2 less than what the JP version had. But I wouldn't say that the face customization was very good, you did get a few pretty diverse base faces which was nice but almost no real way to customize them beyond hair (and which hair options you had depended on which face you picked for some weird reason)

All I hope is that the X Remaster fixes the atrocious pop-in of the og WiiU game.

it's crazy how every third cutscene shows Elma being thanked by Nagi as being the reason they're all there or her knowing shit she's not telling anyone about like when she first sees the PSVita

Oh cool this pollen effect for the weather is pretty nea-OH FUCK

Prone are Monolith's version of Predator

This game was a fucking borefest when it came out. The pacing was way too slow. The side quests were god awful. The writing kept repeating plot points for no reason other than to draw out the runtime. The interface was a clunky mess.

Oh and the music in NLA made me want to tear my ears out. Hell the music mixing in a lot of scenes were so bad that you couldn't even hear the dialogue.

Why do so many people hold it in higher regards to other big games like The Witcher 3?

Looking back, XCX's story is really just.

Hot alien ass shows up

Fights, runs away

Hot alien ass shows up again in a mech, blows up and dies

Hot alien ass shows up

Fights, runs away

Hot alien ass shows up again in a mech, blows up and dies

Ugly slug alien shows up and fights, dies

HOLY SHIT PLOT TWIST HOOOOO PLOT TWIST

Game ends

Tatsu's wife is super cute

What's something you'll do different for your new XCX run?
I classed as sniper and collected gear for the photon saber but I felt like a faggot minmaxxer in the end so I want to avoid that. I also want to try using more generic skells like the Lailah.

No Lao

Has to settle for bid barb

Also not for you

bid

bird*

Post credits scene with Lao will finally be explained

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Fellow Macross bro...incredible there is no other game out there like Macross 30. Sure it doesn't have an open world like XCX but I can at least free fly the robot around. I implore anyone who likes XCX to give Macross 30 a shot (there are guides for non-nip readers)

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WTFH was this faggot's point again? I have not played Y in ages and it felt forced as all fuck.

Sure thing. I'll watch it as soon as an official US release comes out.

Lady Klan is the best :3

I almost kinda don't want the added extra content. I always thought the mystery of Mira was one of those things that's inevitably going to be ruined if it's explained. It's cooler thinking that somehow someway there was this strange planet out there waiting for humanity all along, as either some gift from God or something scientific.

Gatekeep X at all costs and opportunities. I don't want to see unworthy creatures playing my favorite Wii U/Xenoblade game.

I'm doing an Autoattack build. Got some tips in a thread that apparently the best build for it would be longsword for offensive stance and dual guns for ghostwalker but I hate ghostwalker so I'm probably gonna avoid it unless they nerf it

II'm not to sure. I feel like I've tried every class seriously once and don't really know if should try to find a new way. I'll still get all classes oo max so maybe I'll try new stuff on the way. I'll still likely end up doing Knife + Raygun though.

You don't NEED Ghostwalker its just for a lot of late game stuff its the easiest way. Without you'll usually need to make a bunch of Res augments to match the enemy you're fighting, or min max your party to maintain a constant Overdrive. You can also try all your party being in skells except you for the defensive buff. There's lots of ways to be defensive its just that Ghostwalker spam is so much easier that most people just do that one out of laziness.

I'll watch it as soon as an official US release

Don't know if you were shitposting (Fuck Harmony Gold) but Macross 30 is a PS3 title. I really doubt it will ever be rereleased. You can emulate it if you have a good enough PC, otherwise you'll have to get a hardware PS3 to play.
But yes a lot of the Macross anime titles have finally hit streaming services in various countries outside Japan this year so if you want to watch it legally it's a great time to start. And if you're poorfag it's trivial to pirate like gaijin have had to do for decades, just nab those bunnyhat subs for SDF on nyaa and get going. Sorry maybe you were trying to make a funny joke I just like sharing my love for Macross.

Anon, UC Gudam’s writing is leagues better and far beyond anything ever conceived in Star Wars. It’s not even a debate. I don’t know why you’re trying to out it off as a dead franchise compared to a children’s space fairy tale.

he was around during the first war between humans and pokemon and represents unity between them. His name is AZ, beginning and end.

That's really fucking dumb.
Why does he live so long?

The Mira origins may not need to be fleshed out but the gay black knight tease certainly deserves to be wrapped up.

It's a kid's series about evolution taking place so quick one animal becomes a more advanced animal because you make them fight a lot.
A human living 3,000 years makes perfect sense in that cartoonish universe.

Lao wanted to Minecraft
Lifehold won't let you minecraft
destory lifehold!
oops, the part of the lifehold storying everyone's mind was already broken.
Lao's mimiosom anf consiosness are fully in tact ona beach despite being destroyed a chapter before.

forshadowed by language barriers suddenly not being a problem on mira, and Dr. B encountering a strange resisting force when trying to travel to the mira of the future.

you fucking idiot.
read the post better.
But still good review for others.

shut up retard. It being a kid's series doesn't mean it shouldn't have sensial logical plot.
No other human lives 3k years, yes it needs to be explained somehow.

I miss phantasy star. NGS is dogshit.

a reaction image isn't an excuse to go completely off topic and get mad when people don't give you the benefit of the doubt that you can't remember what thread your in.

mate I very much specified I hadn't played Y in a long time.
Please read.

They genuinely only made one decently good addition in over a year and it's fucking animu faces. I'm tired of this fucking game.

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It was the first major medium to be infected with SJWs/wokeists.

Thats the first Im hearing of this, go into more detail on this.

again, I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you meant to say you hadn't played X in a long time. Since this is a Xenoblade X thread. and going into a xenoblade X topic and replying to xenoblade X post about Lao from Xenoblade X to ask a question about the pokemon character in the reaction image without specifying you were talking about a completely different subject from anyone else is just dumb.