Hello…? Is this thing on? Am I all alone?

The wind blows

I hope remake Murderess looks good.

Hello. Sorry it took ten years, but we picked up the signal.

How did uncontrollable end up coming into being? They use it as a boss theme, but the lyrics are about a couple breaking up. That's just a really weird choice to make if you are commissioning a battle theme.

it's just a repurposed KLK song anyway

I need a bigger gun!

Remember:

Kill the cubs and don't take a shower.

I don't need your life advice, I wasn't taking showers anyway.

Uh, chikapffft, uhhh, YEAH!

Really, if you are paying attention to what NPCs in the world are saying, they tell you the answer to all of these.

I love to coom and I love the female character design in Xenoblade 2.

I STILL think is the absolute worst entry in the xeno series.

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I agree with you but this is a videogames board

ONE
TOO
TREE
FWAH

1. I can't see you
2. I can't hear you
3. I can't see you
4. I can't hear you
whoaaahhaa whooaaahhh hoo-oooo
woo woo wooo

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE IT'S ALRIGHT

Not every time, but the ones where you make choices blind don't penalize you.

Which one?

Left.

There was a time where you can not go back.

Crystal pubes. imagine the groin bruises trying to fuck her

KOSMOS obviously

what does the censorship look like?

Elly

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I hate all the people in the game so no.

They gave everyone a massive bulge. The remaster is basically tales of androgyny.

Not to sound cliché.
But this world suck!

I distinctly remember the blue wire NPC talking about it everytime you leave NLA and I know theres someone talking about a bomb in the garage area.

What's the best guide to set everything up?
Also can you unlock the framerate?

Reminder, the rap artist was hired just because he was black and wrote a bunch of nonsense because he thought it was funny and the Japs ate that slop up.
youtu.be/yJWAuVjKGOQ?si=i4oKVjbhP7HTCZky&t=52

Blue wire guy is in the hangar, and so is the bomb guy for the Manon serial killer mission.
There also are missions like the Orphean magic water one, where saving the guy seems like a really bad move, especially when you know the game can give you bad endings. But missions like that one don't penalize you for making the "wrong" choice outside of making you feel bad for losing an npc.

SHOW US LIGHT FOR NOW
SHOW US A SIGN FOR WHERE WE CAN GO

Is it perhaps the Helicopter dialogue thats near the NLA entrance then? Theres definitely something there, the water thing just seemed really obvious to me that there was a good chance of finding another source on such a weird planet.

My very first tyrant fight, as Uncontrollable was playing in the background - that was when I knew I was playing something special. That feeling hasn't changed. What a game

Doesn't he work on a lot of Sawano's music?

Its quite annoying how you can barely hear some tracks. Direction is quite spotty, hope they fixed that.

if they just fucked with the models a bit I don't care. unless it's overtly tranny propaganda

Helicopter dialogue is in the skell hangar. There is an info conversation next to the tents at the east gate, but i don't recall what it is about.
The point with the water one is that there is no conclusive info on the matter, like there is for the other examples.

Does he still do song work? As far as I know he and his fat mammy wife opened a soul food restaurant. Here's a clip from 6 years later.
youtu.be/iSsMApaAZm4?si=-iIl8x6wmXflr30_

etika would've been so happy...

I'm curious, what actually changes if you don't pour it on him? Do you not get the strange Orpheans that appear later?

youtube.com/watch?v=3IvvDVQaxIQ

A bunch of japanese and chinese people in the "american" ark

City is called NEW LA

German OST half the time

let's be honest here, Elma's pet project had NO idea what the fuck nationalities were and Elma herself would 100% mistake Australia's geographical location if questioned about.

SHOW US LIIIIGHT, FOR NOW!
SHOW A SIGN FOR WHERE WE CAN GOOO

Nothing as far as i know.

I hope the additional content gives us more opportunities to gaslight Elma.

Didn't they once say that XCX on Switch was impossible because it only worked on Wii-U thanks to a bunch of code exploits or something? Regardless I can't wait to explore Mira again.

Nothing else since the game's original release has given me the same sense of awe as finally acquiring the flight module and taking off from the middle of NLA only to trigger the tyrant perched on top of the jagged rock formation high above the city and being one-shot by it.

The extra long hair is clipping city, so left

censored

LMAO

Xeno 2 is absolute garbage. It really solidified the point that most people vare more about coomin than gamin

GET ARMED, DON'T LOOK BACK
SHOOT THEM WITH YOUR GUNS

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Xeno 2 feels like a passive aggressive shitpost. People complained that X wasn't shonen anime haremshit enough, so they just went overboard on purpose to make a point, but people lapped it up instead.

yfw Xenoblade X will run better undocked on a launch Swich than Scaret and Violet do docked on an OLED Switch

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Got ton of experience in doing open ass games in past 10 years.

Bunch of literal code monkeys that barely graduated from 3ds.

Guess. Nintendo can give monolith to pokemon, but GF is pure ego.

yeah... hope he did a backflip at least...

What updates and qol do you think we'll get? I wonder if they do an Elma amiibo now that Xenoblade has a series.

Bigger text
Better FoV and less pop in
Better sound mixing or at least volume controls
Cameo Cross voices from 2 and 3 to match the Shulk and Fiora voices from the original
Bonus XP for characters outside the party so they're not massively under levelled
Being to swap party members through a menu rather than having to find them in NLA

The last two points are what I'm hoping for the most. The party swapping and levelling systems sucked ass in the original and put me off doing a lot the character specific quests.

Better FoV

Why would you expect that?

Is Elma gonna be a xenoblade 2 blade or an actual alien?

All I really need is a separate audio slider for music and voices

How do you get this?

tfw we're finally stuck on a successful console

Sorry I meant draw distance.

For me it's Noctilum before you get the mechs

ONE BY OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE

oh its a cool looking weath...

Honestly i did missed that on other games.

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At least the story in 2 was good. 3’s completely falls apart after saving mio

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Are you guys ready for online?

god this
if i could have sex with pre-skell noctilum i would

What's the online in this game? Is it actually true online like you play with other people real time? Or is it more like the semi online where people upload their chars or something and then you can use them as companions or whatever like a pal system.

2's story starts 80 hours in and hinges on 1 nostalgiawank and the world design becoming corridors.

XCX > XC3 > XC1 > XC2

And Eunie's the bus

x >= 2 > 1 > 3

Do not reply to me.

Just online missions and super bosses

I respect your opinion :)

Both but the real time stuff is just missions/bosses not going out into the world together.

its sad aint it? nintendo made three xenoblade games on switch while sega cant even finish their story in pso2 ngs after many years.

You can play special online missions with other players.
You can hire other players characters as party members
You can fight giant boss monsters with billions of HP while other players do the same in their game and try to kill it with your combined damage
There are live monster culling and collection quests that count multiple players progress together

Gears > XC1 > XC2 > Saga 1> XC3 > Saga 3 > Saga 2

Fuck I missed X, it goes inbetween XC1 and XC2

ok marcus phoenix

I only respect Jack's strength.

Respectable

Unh Unh Yeah

That's cool. Sucks that I'm sure as fuck not actually buying this for switch + paying for a switch online subscription.

It's the only area meant for non-skell exploration

me 2

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Sawano just does whatever he thinks sounds good and doesn't particularly care about the meaning of the lyrics.

THIS DAMN WEATHER. SOMEBODY FIX THIS!
I hope we get the Future Redeemed weather manipulator in the post-game because for the life of me I could NEVER get the right weather for that one Tyrant in Cauldros to spawn.

Favorite party members?

For me it's that cunt Murderess, that autist L and that clumsy slut Mia

Dagger/sniper autist here, you guys aren't metafags, are you?

People call XB1 combat MMO lite.

Next game have honest to goddess MMO features.

Kinda funny.

Wife tier: Alexa
Bro tier: Doug, Phog, L, Frye, Yelv
Daughter tier: Lin, Hope, Celica, Mia
C.O. tier: Elma, Nagi
Rival tier: H.B.
Everyone else I just use to clear their quests.

What's the meta? I was a dual daggers and dual guns fag or whatever it was called

phog because he's just like me (social retard)

Will he ever stop excelling?

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There're lots of good options, but the easiest is probably longsword/dual guns.

Oh shit, I forgot about HB. Fuck Mia and replace her with the wannabe Korean fag

Cool game. I got the secret best mech, and will never play it again.

combat is doodoo, but fortunately easily exploitable
terrible music
inb4 some contrarian says its actually ironically good and whatever stock music they had floating around

Is this thing on?

Are a WAOOH WAH-OH fan or a YEAH UHN UHN enjoyer?

juan too tree foh!

it's not that bad but not being able to lower the music volume does get bothersome, only reason I ever wanted a remaster. inb4 there isn't an option (again)

What, you want to hear the dialogue during story cutscenes?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Photon Saber/Dual Guns is what I always end up playing. The photon saber arts were so cool that I never ended up using guns for actual damage, so the only worthwhile ranged weapons were dual guns for all the evasive and support arts they had.

no I just want to run around the fucking world without the same tracks playing for the 500th hour

They only said it was an expensive port. Retards though it was impossible and that the wiiu had some dark magic hardware that was better than the switch.

They clearly cut corners instead of spending the money required to properly do it.

Xenoblade 2 could pass as satire of JRPGs. It has the most fucking blandest characters, stories, and settings of any JRPG I’ve ever played. The only reason tendies treat it is as the second coming of Christ is because it’s the only Nintendo game with a budget over twenty bucks. At least the first Xenoverse tries to tell an original story despite how boring and bland everything else is. And X is just fun as fuck despite how stupid everything else is. 2 is just plain bad

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How so?

It has worse lighting and they just upscaled the textures with AI

Monolith is kinda a crazy studio. They make their own games and port all their old games in the console life cycle while also helping other studios to make their games. There are developers that take 10 years to make one fucking game.

Looks pretty similar to me. I'm just happy they fixed the weird clay faces from the original version. By the way, I always thought it was weird how XC2 had so many XCX faces. Never made any story sense

They've also been poached for BOTW and TOTK. They're an incredibly efficient group even if they aren't pushing boundaries.

Why would it be AI? it's only been 10 years, they probably have the original textures

Every time I ask you the smallest of things, you get mad. Just ignore

worse lighting

No, it's ambient occlusion.

I thought the Nopon were the worst bunch of greedy jews, but then XCX happened

hear this

realize that I'm playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2

I'm not on New Game Plus

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Looks pretty similar to me.

Exactly why you know they didn't spend much on it, but it is a bit worse visually.

they fixed the weird clay faces from the original version.

They did not. They look more clay like!

That's how you upscale textures. They're too shitty to be uncompressed and the game's file size hasn't changed much.

They did not. They look more clay like!

I don't think so. They look more cel-shaded anime like. Less potato-retarded like the original lmao

It's just two different art styles. You might be retarded.

They made her lighter.

Clay is rough compacted dirt. Her face looks kinda like that now, it's more angular and rigid now, it looked more fatty and soft before.

What, the character? I know they're different.

YEAH
YEAH
YEAAAAAAAAH

why did they fuck up Elma like that

This game is more fun than the rest of the series solely because of Overdrive. If the other games had Overdrive they would be way better. Hell 2 had Overdrive and that was infinitely more fun to figure out and perform than chain attacks. God I hate chain attacks. My only wish for the rest of the Xenoblade series is to drop Chain Attacks and do Overdrive forever

I also love Murderess and L. They have amusing personalities and spam purple soul voices.

She's like Chinese or something now. I don't know what kind of mystery meat she was before but her more expressive face really suited her VA and this new one doesn't. She animates and looks more demure now.

I did get fucking tired of the chain attack system in XC3 despite loving the rest of the combat. I think that's the problem with the combat in that game. You can just stall until you boring chain attack

I like dual swords with psycho launchers. The combo gets both virus and fatigue, letting you take down enemies much above your level. Raygun would work too, but i like psycho launchers more.

fucks sake I just wanted a higher resolution and online play

looks nothing like it

first they whitewashed alvis... now they whitewashed elma

I just did the Elma person heart to heart. Nagi and Irina are Elma people too. Celica isn't.

bigger head, rounder face.

Come on anon.

I always thought those models were kinda ugly. Got over it but they were still ugly. I don't mind the changes overall but the lighting is worse. I was hoping they would have learned since the XB1 remaster but it isn't a dealbreaker.
I really hope the game's map and tracking stuff is better.

Whitewash her butthole next.

They definitely learned from the XB1 port, that was waaaaay worse visually compared to the original. It's better to just 1:1 if possible in my opinion, and this is close enough.

They were supposed to look like Tanaka art. At least Xb2 KOSMOS do look like his artwork.

I don't like how they changed her from delicious brown to bioluminescent.

How are they gonna improve the "Tatsu is good" jokes this time around?

*"Tatsu is food"

theyre actually going to turn him into food for chapter 1 and he will be missing from the rest of the game (characters will still talk and respond as if hes still there)

Most of them look quite derpy, but Elma was one of the few that looked good.

Imagine thinking nu-metal is a good fit for a JRPG lmao.

It pops up as a moral choice and doing it instantly levels the affinity for the rest of the party.

Add various minigames where Tatsu gets abused.

I was told that this was the Skyrim of JRPGs. Is that true?

yeah the rim lighting is fucked up in this

No, that's Fantasy Life

Well, it revolves around exploration and side quest chains more than the main story, which mainly exists to introduce new locations and mechanics. I wouldn't say this makes it Skyrim.

His art just doesn't look good on 3d for some reason. Not that it matters anyway because he doesn't work for monolith anymore. One of the reasons why they are remaking the faces now.

Hear everyone talk about how annoying Tatsu and the food jokes are and how he's the worst Nopon

Play game

The retarded food jokes are done to him by everyone else

He's completely inoffensive aside from one scene

This Nopon has been slandered, I'll see you all in court

Big feathery appendages typed this post

No Nopon is innocent

No, this game is good.

Which reminds me that choco didn't got contacted for XB2 fan book, they thought that official status would put him out of reach.

He got pretty bummed about this..

I don't remember any characters from this game other than elmommy (popular enough to get a cameo in XC2) and the potato face girl who wants to cook tatsu.

Everybody else was bland af.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You should at least remember L.

Joy-con boyz bros...

Lao is the best character in the game and it looks like the remaster will expand on him

turns out that is not xenoblade cross but rather xenoblade 10.

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Americans call this game Xenoblade ECKS

wtf

i want to order romancing saga 2 via amazon since i'm not sure if my local super market has it

the chances of a collector's edition happening and on amazon are high.

Sorry but Nintendo troonalizers are ordered to systematically destroy any potential religious reference in these games. Even the word "cross" is too much for them.

I hope this re-release leads to more fan art being made. XCX is such a cool game, it deserves way more love than it got when it first came out.

A lot of the optional party members are more interesting than the main cast, but could be you never met them, or did just one quest for them.

Why is that retard striking a pose instead of facing the enemy

It doesn't help that it takes forever to max out their affinity

Well yeah, X is often used to designate the unknow.

Plus the fact that you need Elma and Lin in your party for all of the story and a large chunk of the affinity missions. I really hope they remove the autistic party restrictions and the game will simply pretend that you have the correct members in cutscenes.

He's facing the real enemy.
(You).

His actions result in Cross losing an arm and he almost gets the entire party killed at another point.

NOT TO SOUND CLICHÉ
BUT keep saying it

The problem is that it has a different appeal compared to a typical jrpg, or the other xeno games. One of the reasons it failed is that it was bought by people who wanted a linear story driven experience like XBC1, and the people who might have enjoyed it as an immersive open world overlooked it as a generic jrpg. If they manage to market it to the right audience, it has potential to be immensely popular.

AI upscaling

“We have decades of know-how in creating the best gaming experiences for our players,” Furukawa added. “While we are open to utilizing technological developments, we will work to continue delivering value that is unique to Nintendo and cannot be created by technology alone.”

They are talking about generative AI not AI upscaling.

Well, game plays like some sort of MMO but nintendo never marketed as such.

i thought it was due to the static or baked lighting

I think the main reason it failed is because it was on the wii u. It'll probably do numbers similar to 1 and 3 on the switch.

Robot, Cross can just get a new arm.

Everyone made it out fine anyway there's no problem

Tatsu has done nothing but try to help Elma's group and they repay Tatsu by trying to put Tatsu in pot and cook and eat Tatsu whole. He even gave Lao food at the end of the game. Tatsu doesn't even look that much like food

Tatsu doesn't even look that much like food

This is how you know this poster is a Nopon.

Ports in general rarely sell that much, nips more than often ignore for example.

Also, game is nowhere close to klaus trilogy meaning that people going pester online about why stuff is different or why certain characters aren't around.

But this makes me wonder how Monolith going handle Xenosaga.

Yeah didnt Nomura do the Torna characters? Judging by black cloak guy hes come back

It's Elma's theme.
Kind of like "You Will Know Our Names" refers to the protags, not the unique monsters.

XB2 had ton of artists, monolith had to outsource most of game because zelda. Key staff was doing the usual but lot of stuff was pretty much throwing crap and see what sticks.

For example, they send request for blade character, guest artists more than often did girls because they enjoy drawing girls, they didn't had time to properly filter or ask for another design.

But Nomura was specifically requested do to torna characters tho.

Elma owns a tiny tiara. When she thinks she is alone, she wears it in front of the mirror and pretends to be the princess of mankind.

Just want to bring up that XCX implies that Telethia the Endbringer and the Orpheans’ Ovah were both originally on from the world of the Bionis before ending up on Mira somehow, do you think DE will further explain this?

She does anal btw.

It doesn't. It implies Telethia and Ovah are from the same world. You then make the leap that they are from Bionis because XB1 also had Telethia.

I thought Nomura was a He/Him.

Theta scene in the game also specifically mentions the “ocean” of another world, sure it could be nothing, but it could also be a significant reference to the endless ocean making up the Bionis’ world, and what other place could have Telethia and an ocean?

Xir pronouns are Has/Been.

It's cute how desperate you people are to keep the games separate when Takahashi has explicitly stated they aren't
Just a few months left now

Telethia aren't like nopons that just exist anywhere. They are literally zanza's immune system.

Yeah about that marketing research mr harada...

what are nopons anyways?

Zohar's chosen people

lil guys

Samaar made them as a joke.

Jews

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We unironically don’t know, they appear to be native to the Bionis in XC1, Mira in XCX, and Alrest in XC2, but don’t appear in the Architect’s chart showing how life evolved on Alrest. Miran Nopons explain that they are native to Mira, unlike every other race in XCX who are all native to other planets and became trapped on Mira under strange circumstances. In XC3 Nopons are exempt to Aionios’ rules of 10 year lifespans and soldiering. Riku, who was dropped into Aionios from the original world, is explicitly immortal and ageless in Aionios and various other Nopon are also implied to be ageless, with their ages being listed as “???”. Furthermore, although other Nopon in XC3 have ages listed, Riku and Manana also seemed to be unaware of how natural reproduction worked and what babies were until the explanation in the City (although Riku was probably just pretending since he remembers everything from the old worlds including presumably being Riki’s son and the knowledge of what a family is), leaving it unknown how Nopon reproduce or how new Nopon come about in Aionios

Why were the nopon in 2 the only ones who were explicitly horny?
They made titty maid robots. Or was Tora's family just freaks.

Nopons are never the center of main story conflicts

They profit from wars

They are everywhere

They talk like retards on purpose

Merchants

There is literally a nopon religion that try to sacrifice nopon children to a demon in Xenoblade 2

Furry jews

It was just Tora's family.

Kind of close to endless mental slavery

believe media controls you if you don't act

Xenosaga is never getting remade, get over it already

GHOST WALKER
PRIMER PRIMER
ZERO-ZERO
OFFENSIVE STANCE
RISING BLADE
BLOSSOM DANCE
PRIMER
PRIMER
GHOST WALKER

I for one welcome the second coming of Skwakler to put the Nopon menace to rest.

I always thought they were much funnier than nopons, they should have been the mascots

Have played multiple builds including the metashit ones and that combo you mentioned.
Sniper is funny because at some point you get to shit out so much damage in a single hit without ever needing to approach enemies and can get a lot of cheap kills on shit stronger than your level. Only problem is that it falls off really hard and there isn't much else sniper does well.
Knife is basically an universal support weapon for anything gun-focused, and Ether focused on that matter which happens to be the best attribute in the game.

Got a soft spot for the launchers, they are honestly garbage and astral protection is not worth sacrificing the slot but man do they look cool.
Gatling gun is also nice, pairing it with shield really doesn't allow you to explore its full potential, it's literally the strongest gun in the game in terms of raw DPS.

What's that?
All I am hearing over here is
HELLFIREHELLFIREHELLFIREbulletstoHELLFIREHELLFIREHELLFIRE
Ygg runs with this shit are just retarded you really click one button over and over again while support does everything

Gatling gun

Speaking of these, I just started playing XCX a few weeks ago and was using Gatling gun + shield class for the longest time but some stuff I never got about the gameplay. Were you suppose to which to a shield to get its benefits? Liking switching to shield when the enemy is about to attack?

Astral protection is pretty good for infinite overdrive builds. It provides insane survivability when you can just spam arts. It doesn't boost dps, but living forever is more useful against stronger enemies. They also inflict virus with tacit censure, boosting survivability even further.

replaying this now on cemu for the first time since release
what should I do. I'm thinking of going photon saber first but then again I want those dual blades ah but long sword could be fun this time

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Pardon my french, but this planet fucks.

But Elma is single

I know really, and it's not even about overdrive here, astral protection is really great but it makes you wonder why are you not just killiing the enemy quickier with another gun, stunlocking it with the rifle, giving yourself 100% evasion with ghostwalker, you get the point.

Unless I want to tank, which brings me to this post
No you don't have to auto-attack with the shield iirc. Gatling is not a very fitting weapon for defense at all, however guess what happens if you combine psycho launcher's aura and shield's buffs. Congrats you cannot fucking die anymore, but you are also doing 0 damage so let the AI play that.

Do something you haven't done before. Also, remember that you can play as Elma as you wait for your character to unlock better skills.

biblically accurate overdrive

Lol that's awesome.
I remember grinding for so long to get these throwing disk weapons that shoot like a million disks as the skell auto attack.
Disassembled everything with that.

Those sound like end game concerns. Defense is nice for most of the playthrough as high level enemies are always around. Launchers also get a really amazing damage skill in Gravity Lunge.

PRIMER
PRIMER
GHOSTWALKER
STARFALL RONDO
STARFALL BLADE
STARFALL BLOSSOM
STARLIGHT DUSTER

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Wheres the other 2 operation rainfall titles getting a switch release?

Oh yeah diskbombs, those are funny.
On ground I love how much fucking damage and hit count Gatling shits out, especially AoE. It's instant max overdrive if you are fighting multiple enemies as long you start with a green art.
Mind you, Hellfire is only second to Blossom Dance and that's because the latter ignores attribute res.

Not an endgame thing, in fact defensive stuff only becomes relevant when you are fighting enemies above your level who can oneshot you.
Before that it's just... don't equip shit that gives you negative res against what the enemy uses, like walking into chapter 9 fight with a weakness to thermal.

X is an amazing experiment in trying to make an actual cool 90s Sci fi mech rpg come to life, if only the combat was not MMO trash and the story didn't shit itself it would've been the GOAT. It was as close as we got though.

Think about it. We have no video game Evangelion. We have no video game Raxephon, Legend of Galactic Heroes or Gundam (that isn't just merchandise gunpla equivalent trash). There's no awesome Mecha/Human Space Opera RPG with sick combat, amazing Sawano soundtrack, explorable space and worlds, and a good deep metaphysical story.

We had games with elements of the above, but none of it ever came close to a full vision.

XCX and Xenogears was as close as we ever got.

But Elma can always use her other body as a sex doll. Oops is that a spoiler?

Lol no, the Wii U version has character self-shadowing and the Switch version doesn't.

SLIDING MOTHERFUCKING SLINGER

The Switch reveal trailer literally has major frame drops. It's gonna run like shit on the Switch. This is definitely made to be a cross-gen title that only runs well on Switch 2.

Is XDE going to attract more shit posters and dumbasses than xb1 DE?

Well, I know what build I'm going for in my next playthrough then!

I really liked the combat, it was fun.

t. didn't play 13 Sentinels

yeah but who cares

So I don't sound like a dumbass in future posts is there a universally agreed acronym for xenoblade x definitive edition? I can't call it Definitive Edition since that's already taken.

You better if you plan to play the Switch game, because Gatling will be used for optimal DPS runs against the stronger global nemesis. It literally never falls off.

Thanks OP, going to dust off my Wii U, hope it still works.

Trash Talk

Anon Babble will always be full of retarded coomers who praise Xenoblade 2 because it is a low IQ weeb board.

How would you rank each xenoblade game going outely by the amount of shizos they attract online in forum or Anon Babble style threads and posts?

classic

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Only Tora's family were degenerate hornballs in 2, and it's not like they were the first either since X had a Master Roshi-level pervert caravan chief and the two Nopon sages that lusted for the MC depending on if it was female or male.

Lin is really asking for it.
Good thing we have our lord and savior H.B., fucking immortal tank who will just keep reviving your sorry ass.

the proper saga tier order is 1>2>3 (3 is shit)

If tora came from a long line of robosexual coomers how the hell do they continue the bloodline?

Didn't the DS games retcon 1 and 2?

Womb upgrade for Poppi

The robots don't mind polygamy.
Although I am not sure about the nopon wives.

That's just gonna open even more speculation on who poppi's child is in xb3

Going by riki he's milked dry and then some.

Was there ever any question?

Let us bite this hand that threatens us!

Besides passing on his seed did shulk have a more of a legacy in XB3 than Rex? He mentored more people and taught useful mechanical skills to riku.

Cross - "Keep moving! We can reflect on our battles later."
Phog - "You mean when I cry myself to sleep remembering?"

Do you think any of the op strategies from the original Wii U game will be nerfed in DE?

It remains to be seen but I see some changed of course though they can't fix all of them and DE may even bring about new exploits.

Maybe ghost walker? Having a single skill make you immortal is just silly.

Photon saber+dual guns
Knife+Gatling gun
Knife+sniper
Knife+Raygun

All good all fun

At the very least I expect them to fix the ones which were the result of literal glitches, nothing more.
Not much point in "balancing" a PvE game whose most broken builds are only understood and executed by a handful of dedicated autists. The average XCX player can't wrap their head around basic Overdrive, let alone know how to exploit it.

Doubt, but I wouldn't mind nerfing the shit out of Core Crusher. It's the biggest reason for why you can do so much damage along with appendage crush trait/augment.
Decoy is also a problem, on paper it's fine to get a fixed number of hits you will always evade but this is Xenoblade X, you can build yourself to basically skip cooldowns all the time.

For me, it's Photon Saber + the gun literally doesn't matter
Melee combo all day every day.

This is why I like DGs, because they have good support skills. Photon saber is the most fun melee weapon by far for the melee combos and it looks sick

In my experience, least to most:

Anon Babble

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Wider internet

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xc1's schizophrenics

Mostly the autists that make it their life's mission to talk about how much they despise the DE artstyle. Keep in mind there's a difference between disliking and going full retard on the differences
Along the same vein the tards that somehow thought xc1 wasn't anime

xcx

Mainly leftovers from the retards that thought "Xenoblade isn't anime", don't see it as much nowadays but it'll probably pick up soon

xc2

At one point you couldn't step 5 feet without someone screeching about the character designs and how it was too le anime and refusing to take anything else about the game into account. After that slowly diminished though you had some hair-triggered 2fags left over that only played 2 and only did so for the coom that shit up the other games. Anything vaguely critical was a trigger

xc3

On one hand you have the retards screeching about "pre game censoring" because the game had a different tone than 2, and also that one faggot who typed everything in broken English. Sometimes I feel like he's a falseflagger but after going as hard as he did he probably counts anyway. On the other hand you had the Twittards thinking everyone with "ambiguous" gender was nonbinary. Took the fucking art book for them to see what everyone else was telling them all along about A (Anima/Animus) and even then the wiki didn't compromise for a week. Then in the middle you also have the sperg who always lost it whenever someone theorized that the blue light could be Kos-Mos and went on threadwide meltdowns
My meager pattern recognition skills only developed around 3's release so mention any other ones I missed

I didn't learn about how OP knives or ghost walker are until I was against vita, and Holly shit I was missing for most of the game.

Ghostwalker should straight up be removed from the game.
There is no fixing an art who has no cost, can be spammed from secondary cooldown, gives you invincibility during the cast animation, gives you invincibility after it, contributes towards ranged combos, and gets the green overdrive effect of doubling count for your next art + refresh timer.

They could easily fix decoy by turning it into a debuff that makes the target miss the next x attacks. It's still very good and has essentially the same function, but can't be reliably exploited without also stacking debuff res down.

Another issue I remembered - How long will it be until hackers start entering the global nemesis fights and nuking them in seconds, leaving nobody else able to get the rewards?

Knife single handedly makes ranged builds work. It's the dual guns of melee weapons

That's underselling it, knife alone has black bane to hit for insane damage, it heals the whole party, it gives TP and buffs, it has a OHKO strat that works on everything but bosses, how can you even not break the game with knife?
Dual Guns cannot do that, they just give you evasion and more damage.

What fun shit can you do if you have a large online group in the same playsession of xbx?

Knife is an enabler, it doesn't solve the game by itself like dual guns do. Black bane builds require using your ranged weapon to stack debuffs and using it as a support weapon obviously requires you to use your ranged weapon for dps. Ghost Walker makes you win the game, it is in a tier of its own.

Global nemesis desu
Optimal builds take a lot of time but they are plenty fun, see if you can consistently kill both, it really only takes one group of people who are powerful enough and keep playing it.

About right on Ghostwalker, what makes you win the game there is reducing its cooldown to nothing with overdrive and equipment. If you couldn't use it all the time it wouldn't be that good, since a lot of enemies can instantly eat all the hits with a single art.

I did. It's also great. It's also a visual novel with some light top down gameplay that's very easy.

You know what I meant.
I want a game with the visual flair and exploration of XCX, Sawano soundtrack or equivalent, a story and cast that's not cringeshit and is at least on par with a good Gundam because I know I dream too big for LotGH or Eva, I'm foot combat like ME3 and Mecha combat like Armored Core or ZoE.

Why is that so impossible to have?

Do you think they’ll add more raid bosses? So that there are more than just 2 global nemeses to fight?

Will they make Ga Buidhe sexier?

You can't keep asking Monolith Soft to do the impossible.

I don't get if you like or hate her design from that comment.

I want new crossover raid bosses like Mythra and Malos' Sirens

Raid Boss: Bionis

Raid boss: Xenogears

More like "The entire game before you get the mechs".
XCX's dirty secret has always been that the game actually gets worse after you get the mechs. It gets EVEN WORSE after you get the flying pack.

I hope Sawanokino returns as the composer for XCXDE

New craftable Siren and Aion skells in X DE

New time attack missions to grind

Even more materials required

Imagine….

Worth a switch online sub for this game only?

…I kind of have to agree there, it’s amazing just how much of the world is open to you even on foot, my experiences using Elma’s Shadowrunner and trying many times and eventually succeeding reaching places like Mount M’gando in Cauldros and Lake Basel in Oblivia right after Chapter 3 are the most memorable parts of the exploration event years later, it just wouldn’t be the same to do that with skell or flight access

It sucks. When you get to Cauldros there are actually these buildings that teleport you to the upper areas of the zone and you can run across those massive catwalks. It's actually an insane area. But by the time 99% of people get there they'll have mechs/flying mechs and just completely ignore that aspect of the zone.

Flight module should've been a post game reward. Land exploration with skells isn't that game breaking in my opinion, as early on the penalty for getting wrecked by overpowered enemies is so high that you still prefer on foot exploration in unknown areas.

I sunk 50 plus hours into the game on its launch year, and All I did was platform around Noctilum and Primordia.

It'sa parkour civilization

Fundamentally this is almost 1:1 besides the sky textures and the character assets/lighting on them, higher res textures in close-ups, and maybe less dark contrast on the lighting. I can straight up say that it's entirely the character assets that are a make-or-break deal for veteran players, and most others won't care.

Chose FMJ path my first time through

Get shadowrunner

Realize I can get anywhere I want if I'm careful

Game becomes a stealth game where

That, fucking around wth air overdrive and my first night in Sylvalum will forever be some of my biggest Xenoblade memories. X really is underrated

(Me)

*Where you have to look for areas you can recharge TP/Reapply Shadowrunner

Pressed send too early, whoops

which one?

Ga Buidhe is already Gato Sexo incarnate

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youtube.com/watch?v=PGUCHW6SYlQ
Actually, even without flight, skell physics can be manipulated enough to let you reach places like the Divine Roost and Floating Reef without flight, despite them clearly being intended as flight-only locations

Proof? Also will she get censored on switch? It be weird if that's the version where you can remove her facemask

Censored, so passing a second time.

Good thing Hope’s mission is available as soon as the whole world opens up! It forces you to go to Cauldros, and since I didn’t realize there was a way to just swim to a low-level entry point to Cauldros, I crossed the entire length of Sylvalum with Hope to reach Cauldros instead…. Right after Chapter 3
Stupid, but truly unforgettable, I’ll never forget exploring almost the whole of Sylvalum that early on

Same thing happened to me. It gave me flashback to doing Reynards escort quest in Dragons Dogma.
It's also the only pre-chapter 5 mention of mimeosomes.

*Technically*, the Mimeosome Maintenance Center is right there next to the Blade Barracks from the start, and you can get a field skill to level 4 and receive the corresponding Off the Record, which mentions mimeosomes, before then

You know, Murdress, in the end I guess you could really call our adventures the Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition

The real edition was the house Effinger we restored on the way.

my switch got banned, how much will i miss out on without online features?

New Side Quest

Written by Soraya Saga

Please meme it true.

This is a really sweet story.

Kinda but not really. The only real thing you'll miss out on is easier ways to grind materials for post-game gear, but you can still beat the entire main game and most of the postgame offline no problem

I think most people will play offline because of emulators and also I don't imagine a lot of people have a switch online subscription running which means there will be people who won't bother subscribing just for this game.

Isn't offline how 99% of us played it anyway? Through cemu.

i played it day 1 on Wii U

Yeah but you're gay.

Did you play it in Japanese? It’s fucking hilarious.

Yep.

That was the one thing it improved aside from the sky apparenltly.

if only the combat was not MMO trash and the story didn't shit itself it would've been the GOAT.

Fucking this. It could have been a system seller.

Judge me if you want, but X is just a special game to me. It has a special place in my heart.

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99% of people who played this game played it on Wii U, with online.

Not a lot of people use emulators for failed consoles. Switch emulation is huge but Wii U never was.

Same
Same, but that Thai ladyboy was tight as hell

nobody likes xenoshit

It was right there all along…

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If you're a severely autistic weeb with an infantile sense of humor, sure. To a well-adjusted adult, it's all extremely cringe.

Not a lot of people use emulators for failed consoles

That's what people use it the most on. You're gonna buy a wii u for one game unless you're stupid. Especially when the emulator works great.

Meant NOT gonna buy.

I can't be bothered setting up cemu online, I'm just going to inject the fucking bunnysuit

Most people don't play Wii U games at all, emulator or not. And the percentage of players who use emulators in general is extremely small.

Judged but same.

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I looked away and looked back and forgot which was which

source?

I kept thinking the Wii U version was the newer one when I watched the comparison videos lol.

Shoot the manon SHOOT IT

2:04

Dayum that chorus

Gets you in the mood for some pizza..

Elma was such a 10/10 but then pretty much everyone else looked retarded
fair trade-off though

Yet another Wii U game is rescued from it's Wii U shaped coffin, even Kirby and the Rainbow Curse might be getting a Switch port due to the trademark renewals. Meanwhile Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD are still being left to rot on Wii U.

for me its:
youtu.be/TfQfOYHpa1k
wish they used this track more, i think its only used like twice lol

It's funny how PC gamers get made fun of for wanting ports, since they want those since they last forever on the platform and they don't just want to emulate them. But when Nintendo gamers beg for ports between systems just so they can rebuy them no one points this out.

There was already a Consul L in XC3.

MOVE OUT! DEPLOY THAT PIZZA!

Nothing beats seeing the crimson aura for the first time.

My meager pattern recognition skills only developed around 3's release so mention any other ones I missed

X on release had daily shitpost threads where people shit on the music and faces.

And also that one FFXV autist that is having a melty RIGHT NOW in the SV/XCX comparison thread.

We've truly come back to the heydays of 2015.

Wait wait. FF15 predates X? What the fuck. My brain fucked with my memory or something

No, it came out about a year after X, but it didn't stop Barry from developing an inferiority complex towards X

Wasn't the guy Linposting XVfag?

You wouldn't fuck a xeno right?

Will they remove 50% of the filler BS?
I liked the world, but the massive amount of busywork turned me off

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I (male) wouldn’t mind being fucked by Gi Zang

Who wouldn't?

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It's my moral duty to implant our traits into theirs.

I bet she sucked off Luxaar more than once.

the nopons greatest hero

Yes, exactly, imagine the tag teaming!
Screw Ga Jiarg, I’ve always been advocating for Gi Zang to be the potential Wrothian party member in an X remake or sequel, he looks cool and was a likeable and memorable character with a top-tier storyline across his quests

NO TATSU THOSE WERE FOR THE MIMEOSOME SPERM BANK!

the hooded figure is actually otharon

It's Powell

The Masketta Man now looks like a member of Organization XIII
All members of Organization XIII were designed by Tetsuya Nomura
THEREFOR, the Masketta Man is Malos

Don't the nopon!

It's someone who recognizes Lao, so can't be Malos.

Like a 99% chance it's the Japanese guy that Elma fucked.

The actual protagonist of the story that was having his own adventures offscreen

Yeah, if this really is wrapping things up then him appearing makes a lot of sense.

how did a 1st party ninty game get away with this

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i better be able to put this outfit on lao in definitive edition

i'm a OVER THE RAINBOW fan.

The menu ui is so terrible and there are a billion outfits that the censors simply didn't bother checking them.

Did we do this thread today and I missed it?

cat looks worse I admit

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hire legendary series artist tanaka to do character designs

normies complain about them

instead of improving the models to make the artstyle pop better with the new artware quickly smear every single character with kawaii uguu-ism from xenoblade 2 instead

abhorrent decision

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make cute brown tomboy

ruin her by making her obsessed with giant robots

tanaka's designs looked great in xenoblade 2 just look at that melia its basically a 1:1 3d rendition of Elly, they should have just made X more cell shady instead of just doing a face lift of every character modifying the mesh to be more anime

ruin

so what was lin’s skell fanfiction?

because you were sperm when star wars came out and didn't notice the reference

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Both at the same time.

ironic

if we get to finally pilot Siren in xenoblade x DE I'm gonna fucking ejaculate

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She does anal btw.

Thanks for reminding me.

Gears (Potencial máximo)>>>>Blade>=Gears>Saga

shows up to confront god

god's in the middle of fighting the protagonists from the previous game and dies soon after

I will never stop laughing at this. I can't beleive no other JRPG did this bit sooner.

Will they let him do something before he dies this time?

Nothing of value is lost.

I watch a youtube gameplay of this game. It has mech in it, but it looks like the mech combat is just turn based?
Someone that play this game can explain what the gameplay feels like? I know it's not armored core, but is it at least play like Phantasy Star Online?
I would just play Front Mission if it's just turn based mech combat.

CERO didn't have the will, patience, time nor skill to grind all the materials needed to craft those outfits.

I don't think I've seen one of these in nearly a decade.

It has mech in it, but it looks like the mech combat is just turn based

Think you watched Xenogears on accident

Is it safe to say that Xenoblade X is the biggest game Nintendo has ever published?

Don't be stupid it can't be that lo...

the comic was first posted to Anon Babble's Anon Babble (video game) board circa October 31st, 2010

fuck

Best Xenoblade game, make sure you do your part to gatekeep it.

I just remembered that the game doesn't explain much on its own and you were supposed to read the e-manual so I wonder if they'll include one.

I love Elma's reverse leotard.

it's very Blade-esque now that I think about it, if it wasn't a >spoiler it'd have suited her more in 2

How so?

I guess turn based isn't really the best way to put it.
But I couldn't think of another term.
I guess more apt comparison would be MMORPG combat? The one where you auto attack and spam skill while occasionally walk away from "red zones".

stop fucking spoiling the quests
what's the point of having memorable quests with meaningful but unexpected consequences for your choices if every single time you guys are gonna give people the step by step guide to robbing yourself of those memorable moments.
Fantasy Life is the Runescape of JPRGs

Yeah is closer to mmo.

Mech combat in this game sucks ass.
Though technically its set up to be the same as the ground combat, your mech cool downs are SO much longer. The moves range between useless quick attacks or buffs or big damage but obscenely long cooldowns and there's nothing you can do to change it beyond pray that RNG gives you a cockpit mode that resets them all. The synergy between the skills is way less then ground combat too so the overall order is hardly near as important as ground combat.
Essentially mech combat is using your moves then doing nothing but auto attack until they are refresh and then you do it again. Ground combat is far quicker and has a larger variety in what you use, at what time and in which order. And then you get Overdrive on top of that that makes it super fast.

ME3

not Freedom Wars

That's the version that only plays in the Nemesis bosses, shame because it is the best version.

They should have brought in CHOCO to redo all the character designs

Were you suppose to which to a shield to get its benefits?

I think that only applies if you have pic related as one of your skills. I've never tested it but there's other skills that work similarly (e.g. when wielding a melee weapon) that only trigger if you have the corresponding weapon currently selected so I'm guessing works the same but only for shields

There's multiple layers of DPS being juggled around while different actions are taken in real time. the real meta is the overstimulation of information either from how many different attacks and effects are actively happening in battle, or having so many junnk effects in passive and active abilities that you don't notice a game-breaking combo that makes an Tyrant enemy childsplay.

I wish the other Xenoblade games also had little video showcases of their various biomes if you stayed on the title screen long enough like X did
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They should have kept the original designs and updated the shaders to be more in line with ones used in 3.

this place is staggeringly huge!

lel who talks like that

tfw remember posting in /xcxg/ in 2015

sitting on the bus after work hyped that Yggralith is up and I can farm it again

Food.

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Reminder that doing the lifecore mission during daytime is just shit taste.

1:35

I don't remember that.

Phog >Remembering all this fighting keeps me up at night... What do you do, Lao?
Lao >I don't sleep well is what I do

It's a boss fight in Sylvalum. There was a big thing about it being an anit-gravity weapon

I see, I thought it would be more similar to PSO2 more action oriented combat.
I guess I'll pass this one.

If you're concerned about spoilers for a game you shouldn't be in a thread about the game.

Speaking of spoilers I wonder how soon the game might leak. I hope not to early so I have time to evacuate.

So Switch leaks usually happen once the games ship physicals right? Which happens a couple weeks before official release. It's rare to happen beforehand.
Unlike the other leaks, rather than installing the leak to my homebrew switch I will definitely dip this time because I want to be able to play online. If there was absolutely no new story I'd probably play along with Anon Babble though, I know some fag is going to speedrun to the end content.

knife/dual guns was probably my most used build. I spent a really long time trying to make a javelin build, but never got it to work

a couple weeks before

2-3 whole week early leaks are very very rare though. Most are either a few days or around a week.

yeah that's gonna help when you fuckers put alien Elma as the OP and then don't even have the decency to put the game's name in the threads subject.

Yeah suppose I'm thinking about the recent brothership leak, and ToTK of course. Knowing Xenofags though someone will definitely be dedicated enough to dump it and immediately pour through the game files (especially because there are tools out there that allow easy dumping of monolith's file structures that they use). And then they will be used as OP images. But not coming here is a fair compromise this place makes you lose neurons anyway.

TotK, maybe. Thought XBX is way better.

FUNNYROO!

tfw the regularly scheduled cooking Tatsu joke gets interrupted due to NLA being attacked

you can tell something is up because they change up her dialogue as she's about to ask you what to cook

considering it's all translated from jp and half the lines are coming from tatsu, japanese nopon do.

This is the Elma that CHOCO wanted

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Sex with Tatsu!

1 > 2 > torna > 1 de dlc > 3 > 3 dlc
Is that the order?

Tatsu food was an amazing running gag and I won't be convinced otherwise.

Tell me about Elma,why does she love human cock so much despite the fact that she´s an alien?

Good thing he was kicked out of the project, he can make that shit for mindless harem garbage like xenoblade 2, if he wants

Tamed by humanities hero a random Japanese dude.

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maybe she's like, the opposite of the ganglion people. so like she wants to be covered in human DNA all the time.

Choco is mecha design since X. He only missed first game.

Good morning saar

make cool mecha design

do jack shit with it

what was the point of siren in 2?

what was the point of siren in 2?

It's purpose was to shoot lasers and dangerous wildlife from space.

The best version will be the wii u one modded to have some of the assets of the demake

Its 3 am here, you understood what I said.

The hero was not actually Japanese. He was a spic that also happened to be a huge weaboo which is why Elma chose to make her mim light brown with a space poncho.

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No, he's right. Can't believe I'm saying this but she looks a million times better in XC2.

japanese humor

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Mia is great. Just the idea that you illegally arm a civilian and aid them in leaving the safe zone is amazing. Such a great questline

I fucking wish I knew where Doug went in my game. Dude just fucking disappears from his usual spot after I beat the game and looked all over NLA for heart to heart location.

IIRC, Doug's final H2H unlocks after beating the game. He should be by the spot Lao usually was.

Yeah, that's correct.
I wonder what would be the best play order if they actually tie X to the numbered canon.

The last 10 years didn't happen

That's so much better, what the fuck.

I like the part where she gets probed

gears sucks shit

Gears>Future Redeemed>Xenosaga 3>Xenoblade 1>Torna>Xenoblade X>Xenoblade 3>Xenosaga 2>Xenoblade 2>Xenosaga 1>Future Connected

never really watched any Etika but I looked up his XCX playthrough and just scrolling through the VOD the guy spent 2 hours just creating his character.

retard

Cemu has 'graphics packs' for that built-in, but cutscenes will stay locked to 30. Also, Someone ported the ol' XCXGecko trainer to Cemu through Cheat Engine. You can modify everyone with that, including height and BOOBS, you homosexual. If you don't have the game, the tool "WiiUDownloader" over on github will let you download it through official servers.
Not a girl, btw.

Tanaka made shulk and fiora in Xenoblade 2 and everyone thought it looked weird. Let it go anon.

i need a bigger GUN!!

Man, this part of the song is so fucking badass ngl /vros.
I dont think ive ever heard another hype vocal track aside from stuff like FF13-2 and Madworld on the wii

I liked how depending on the choice you made here, the outcome is the same, but the lines and...

We missed on loli alien kino

Man

This is the X CHOCO wanted

Also here at BLADE, we fire none of the bullet.
You have no idea how hard it was to screenshot this since you had to pause menu on the gamepad at the right frame to save it.

game has multiple intelligent races

your party is all humans + one ayylmao

Look it's the FFXII syndrome again!
Well I guess L and Celica exist but ironically you don't meet their species. Celica doesn't get enough love around here, you are telling me you don't want to tap a space elf, and you DON'T play dual guns / knife for the most broken shit you could possibly pull in the game?

To be fair Celica is entirely misable and hidden away behind several quests. She is best girl though and Black Bane is hilariously OP if you build to it.

Screw Ga Jiarg, I’ve always been advocating for Gi Zang to be the potential Wrothian party member

I want both + Ga Buidhe ++ Slovity Pagus and Erio. The only reason I'm not asking for more is because working on different animation skeletons for more exotic species would be more feasible in a sequel instead of a rerelease.

Mechas, suits that accentuate every curves, massive guns, cute girls

The best kind of future.

Celica doesn't get enough love around here

The guy(?) constantly commissioning Cross x Celica yuri fanart makes up for it.

you DON'T play dual guns / knife for the most broken shit

I play dual guns / photon saber (originally DS) because they're cool.

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Never played X. Are Evasions Tanks still kings of the battlefield?

Actual evasion tanks are not bad but not the best. You need obscene amounts of evasion up stats and keeping aggro isn't easy.
However one of the most OP arts is to spam Ghostwalker which guarantees evasion for so many attacks, if you spam it non stop you are immortal most of the time.

Since I wanted dual guns too I mostly didn't use melee damage, but yeah I have seen what bullshit black bane can do.
Back then I also decided to play as Celica herself to beat Gradivus for the lulz, she is just that good. Too bad not only you will miss her, but you might also not play as anyone but Cross.

Yes but not the evasion stat, you are supposed to spam ghost walker because Decoy gives you guaranteed evasion vs. a fixed number of hits

My last run had me playing as Celica and it was pretty good. Zero Zero's not bad either and you could do pretty well with it if you focused on it. She gets ghost walker too so you could solo the whole game with her with enough investment. The only bad part is watching having to watch your OP built Cross now be the worst character ever because the AI can't play like you did.

I am losing my temper

I shall tolerate no more of this

I shall stop you cold in your tracks!

Problem with Zero Zero is that, while it is a great art, you are sacrificing Executioner damage should you choose to build for ranged attack and not potential. We are talking about an art that's top tier in terms of hit count and scaling, but it's outclassed by another art on the very same weapon.

The only bad part is watching having to watch your OP built Cross now be the worst character ever because the AI can't play like you did.

I really hope they improve party member AI. I get them not being optimal but characters literally just won't use their AoE arts at all unless they're fighting multiple enemies. Fuck, I'm pretty sure Lin doesn't use her AoE draw aggro art unless there's more than one enemy and even worse is that she'll actually start to use once she's in range of enemies that haven't even joined the fight.
It'd be nice if party members also made an effort to use the bonus effects of their arts.

And lest we forget, 00 is also one of the fastest arts in the game.
Overdrive is where animation length starts mattering

That was my biggest complaint about the game. Ground defenses without Ghostwalker spam can be pretty tough because the game is pretty much built around the idea of your whole party being in overdrive but the AI is absolutely abysmal at keeping it up. Even minmaxing how much TP they have sometimes they just don't use it it a second time so you have to give them a ton of time increases and hope it works. It sucks that sometimes it feels better to jus stick them all in skells just so you get the 60% damage reduction.

Lin uses Trash Talk against anyone but

it's an AoE taunt

If she is anywhere near a group of enemies you haven't aggro'd yet, you perfectly know what's going to happen.

well might be confirmation bias but I always had more luck with HB or whoever else had single target taunt than with her. Still that doesn't mean that I have ever seen Elma intentionally go behind an enemy to use her arts that deal extra damage from behind.

I think Elma has her own custom made AI. For example she will always immediately use Ghost Factory. Even if you explicitly give the team order to preserve TP if she has a Ghost Factory ready to go she was always use it.

I remember the exact opposite being true. AI is good at staying in overdrive but they generally won't activate it if you don't do it first or give them a soul voice.

X AI routines are weird. They just forget arts of the weapons they aren't currently auto attacking with, unless hard coded to be used asap such as Ghost Factory.

Not Elma, Ghost Factory does.
Cross with that art will do the same thing.

The Gigachad Ghost Factory on party member Elma enjoyer vs the virgin Ghostwalker spammer

No please, last time I trusted her to be smart with Ghost Factory I got gangraped by cat people.

buy 3 mechs

give them to Cross, Elma and Lin

4th party member is Irina, on foot

dump all the potential on her

remove most arts except healing/buff ones

now your mechs literally cannot die and Irina herself has +60% damage reduction always up

This shouldn't work but it does. Mech's biggest weakness is having fuck all for defense in terms of arts, but she fixes it beautifully and now you are free to spam big guns.

Mech's biggest weakness is having fuck all for defense in terms of arts

Well yeah their default resistances are way higher then on ground and its easier to min max them compared to ground too

I am aware, but if there is something RPGs teach you is that the most broken form of defense is always simply being able to recover damage. Doesn't matter how many HP you have or elemental weaknesses if you can keep getting topped off all the time, all you have to care about is meeting certain thresholds to avoid OHKO from superboses. Or you could just leave the mech and abuse the small invincibility period to dodge the big dick arts I guess.

All this gameplay discussion makes me further realize I never really figured out how the game worked. Didn't even touch overdrive until I was 150h in, and even after more or less comprehending the mechanics behind it I've never done any particularly OP shit and just upgraded my dolls to deal with Telethia.

The best part about XBX is exploring everything including all the stupid bullshit the combat system allows you to pull.
You haven't seen shit until you oneshot a millesaur at the lowest level possible because of a soul voice that forces control debuff and an art that deals 100% HP damage to controlled enemies.

reminder that intentional spoilers are a bannable offense. Mods barely enforce this, but it is.

Knife is truly disgustingly OP

BRAINJACK

SERVANT SACRIFICE

ah, ol' reliable.

Sword is still more OP due to Blossum Dance.
Really every class can do well if you grind hard enough and have a good team

Blossum hits hard if you stack potential but that cannot top literally OHKOing at lv1 with initial stats, assuming you somehow already have brainjack and servant sacrifice unlocked.
And we don't talk about black bane.

actual gameplay discussion in a Anon Babble thread, wow

XBX is a gameplay game anon. Still mainly exploration but that's playing the game and goes hand in hand with complex mechanics.