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You did beat this game, right /v/?
>>318419607
No, not even close. Played for a few hours then quit never to return to it. Could not for the life of me bring myself to like the battle system. Fuck auto-attack.
>>318419607
yes, started out in the game trying to do all the quests and shit. then around the 20 hour mark, got bored of the quests and just focused on the main story.
game ended up being way too fucking easy. especially because of the tripping mechanic.
still kinda fun though. hopefully the quests are much better in the second game but so far im hearing its pretty much the same stale shit.
>>318419607
Isn't this just Single-Player WoW?
>>318419607
hoy, 100% my nigga
Yep. Got a bit boring at the very end, but still a great ride.
No, i got to sharlas mentor boss fight(forgot his name), realized i am only on the level of the little monster he spawns, i played the game with shulk, sharla and reyn and i didn't want to learn how to play the game completly different
I beat the 3DS version
I hated the collect quest and I hate that they are still a thing in X
>>318419607
No. I don't have any interest in ever doing so. The battle system is just so horrible. I must have tried playing the game like 3 times and dropped it each time. The furthest I got was the part where some kid rides a motorcycle over a bridge but disappears and you need to find him.
How different is X? It seems like the world is more interesting, at the very least.
>>318419769
this tb h
>>318420227
Then don't do them. I only accepted them and just walked over the blue crystals I found in my way, and that's it.
Yeah, played a ton until Agniratha, stopped for awhile, then came back and went until lorithia. I think I went and beat it like a year ago.
I really liked the story, characters, and lore, but fucking hate its battle system. Gave up after a couple hours and watched a lets play.
>>318420336
I hope those type of quest aren't tied to affinity quest.
I don't really get why people hate the battle system so much. It was hard to get into at first, but once I really got the hang of it it really grew on me.
>>318420170
>i played the game with shulk, sharla and reyn
casual scum
I find it funny how everyone says "Fuck the auto-attacks". It didn't even feel like you were autoattacking since you were always using arts and moving around.
After Xenoblade, I tried playing The Last Story. Now THAT is bullshit auto attack. Manual mode just gives the illusion that it isn't automatic.
>>318419607
I got past Machina village and stopped playing for some reason. I plan on finishing it eventually though.
>>318420810
>I find it funny how everyone says "Fuck the auto-attacks". It didn't even feel like you were autoattacking since you were always using arts and moving around.
That's called MMO combat.
>>318421040
No, that's called Hotkey-based combat, popularized by some MMOs. And in MMOs like World of Warcraft, abilities have global cooldown, meaning that you cannot use every ability at the same time, thus making everything slower. Not to mention casting times.
Yes.
That is why I won't be playing XCX
I got to dickson and gave up. He was a way higher level than my party and my party was a way higher level than any enemies in the surrounding area. It would have taken hours to grind, and I know the final boss would just be an even higher level
>>318421263
Dickson is easyZanzais another story
I'm working on it. I have the sequel pre ordered but I'm not touching it until I beat this.
>>318421330
Dickson was most certainly not easy
Vision attacks that you have no way of blocking, even with monado arts are bulllllllshit
I was even desperate enough to go and get monado armor, but the quest just wouldn't show up even though I was in the right place
Of course, 320 hours, every affinity chart with 5 stars, every possible sidequest, all characters at lvl 100, beated every superboss and i got genuinely down when i realized there weren't nothing else to do in the game. Favorite game all time, even over OoT.
>>318421461
>I was even desperate enough to go and get monado armor, but the quest just wouldn't show up even though I was in the right place
Ah, I guess it would be a pain in the ass without the armor records. Luckily I already had that leveled up decently
>>318421584
It's a shame, I loved everything about the game up until then, especially the combat. I even liked playing as Shulk who apparently everyone hates
>>318419769
Auto attack doesn't really do much. You need to use the skills to get anywhere.
Not yet. I've just entered Prison Island 2: Bionic Boogaloo so it's probably not THAT far.
>>318419607
Well of course. This past Thanksgiving actually. Zanza is the best theme hands down.
>>318419607
Yep, 100%'dthe 3DS versionFUCK Black Liver Beans
I did finish it yeah. After a 2-3 month hiatus.
Can't say the same about Witcher 3. Just could not go back to that after Phantom Pain came out.
>>318421826
>Implications
https://youtu.be/G_n9lMS3ahw
>>318421816
>Prison Island 2: Bionic Boogaloo
Nah you're pretty close m8.
>>318421826
>Having an opinion different than my own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roRsBf_kQps
>>318421816
Yep, that's the final dungeon.
>>318421461
You mustve been really low level then. I was at the same level as the enemies in the dungeon and Dickson was easy as shit even a cutscene triggered showing the party injured even though I beat his ass in. I was using Shulk Dunban Riki.
Zanza was hard because I was 5 levels below him and that's when the accuracy nerf kicks in.
SPIKE IS THE STUPIDEST STATUS EFFECT EVER. WHY SHOULD I BE PUNISHED FOR BEATING ASS?
posting best quest
>>318422316
Yeah I fucked up my playthrough, never did any sidequests (unless it involved exploring an entire area) so I was always underleveled
But oddly enough I never had any trouble with Lorithia who some people say is the hardest battle
>>318422316
Spike is fucking annoying because as far as I can tell you don't get any indicator that an enemy has spike on except for your party members taking damage, and it can be kind of difficult figuring out what the source of the damage actually is in this game
About to get off Fallen Sword
No idea how far i am but I'm hoping I can finish by Friday.
I'm recently being sidetracked trying to get Riki's 4th skill tree. Fucking annoying as shit, only just got 2star affinity with the area.
I did zero side quests and almost no hearth to hearths except Melia's because I wanted to ''max her out''.
Fuck you Monolith, I am getting your next game tomorrow though.
>>318422889
I'd say that's a little more than halfway
>>318423115
>tfw
>>318422442
I was underleveled ever since Valak Mountains for the same reason. Once I got to the point of no return, I went back to Gaur Plains and grinded until the recommended level for the final fights. Didn't really take that much.
>>318419607
yep. even 100% it.
>>318423236
;_; Why desu
The high entia king is allowed 2 wives even.
I'm playing right now, just arrived at Colony 6
>>318423236
>Melia with heavy armor
Guess if anything, Xenoblade Chronicles showed the power of the robowaifus.
>>318423494
Leave before the spoils, you fool!
>>318423236
Damnit
At least they were friends right?
>>318423494
>>318423710
Fiora dies.
>>318423494
Dunban is evil
>>318419607
I got to the giant tree city, I don't know how far into the game that is.
>>318423549
she looks the best in one of them
can't recall the name but the drops came from one of the superbosses
>>318423965
Not very far but Frontier Village is one of my favorite towns in any game
I'm close. Level 74, just beat the enemies in the arena
>>318423949
Metal Face is your father
>>318421878
>FUCK Black Liver Beans
AH GOD, I HATED THAT BULLSHIT.
>>318424134
I need a trigger warning for this shit
>>318423494
Riki buttfucks Fiora right in the pussy.
Also Reyn is a bitch beta faggot.
>>318424235
YEAH Reyn time
No I kept getting distracted by the roughly 16 billion sidequests
I'd play it again if I could get the dolphin version to work or they released a Wii U version that didn't have negative x8 anti-aliasing
I bought it because I didn't think I'd enjoy it. Ended up enjoying myself a fair bit.
Still, haven't finished it. Think I'm in the ether mines. Decided to just get and play X instead.
>>318419607
Yeah, I beat it 3 days ago.
Game was shit, X looks to be even worse.
>>318424575
>I bought it because I didn't think I'd enjoy it.
what ?
>>318424575
>I bought it because I didn't think I'd enjoy it
>>318424134
>someone spent hours grinding affinity to take this picture
>it was fucking worth it
Just yesterday.
I enjoyed it thoroughly, with two caveats:
- The plot kind of turns into "generic JRPG" towards the end, losing most of its uniqueness.
- I managed to beat every boss after the point of no return except the second form of the final boss. WHY THE FUCK would they design the final boss so that you can GET to its final form, after plenty of bosses and mini-bosses, and still be too weak to beat it?
I haven't focused much on side-quests, I think I'll try to 100% it someday but not now.
>>318424575
>I bought it because I didn't think I'd enjoy it
People don't seriously do that, right? Ironically buy games they think they'll hate just to feel miserable?
>>318424672
>>318424702
>>318424903
I was not a fan of the gameplay mechanics. But people on here kept telling me I had to play it to actually get the idea.
And because I am mostly motivated by spite, I decided to get it so I could play it, not enjoy it, then complain on here. But I ended up enjoying it a bunch. I like being proven wrong.
>>318424903
Not him, but I have bought games I didn't think I'd enjoy - heavily discounted obviously - just to give them a chance to surprise me.
I recently played Danganronpa 1 and 2, and while they both have massive problems I'll never stop nagging about at the end of the day I still somewhat enjoyed myself.
>>318424831
Probably after hours exhausting all the gifts.
Having both Shulk and Melia in the party sucks due to both having shit AI.
>>318423494
colony 6 is actually colony 9 and they're made of bits broken off of the mechonisspecifically it's balls
>>318419769
FUCKING THIS
They made such a great world with great music, all ruined by a garbage MMO battle system. I wanted to like it so much.
>>318419607
Yep, already in 2011
>>318425285
I never had any problem with Shulk's AI as long as you tell him what to do during visions
>>318423494
Colony 9 actuallyhas the best music
>>318425645
That's not Gaur Plains and the Refugee Camp.
no I got stuck on the stupid lorithia fight in bionis and just stopped
started using my USB for other things now I'm too lazy to put xenoblade back on it
>tfw nothing will surpass this in X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZyHLLQ5e8
I did, think Ive put 230 hours into it.
>>318426338
but uncontrollable already did
>>318426338
>tfw Sawano is a talentless hack
>>318419607
I just bought it.
It's going to be a mad dash before christmas; I'm getting the limited edition.
>>318419607
ya, but I never cleared any of the really hard content like that level 99 demon king dragon
>>318421878
>Black liver beans
that shit must have like a -2% chance of spawning, and there are like only two good spots to look for them. The only thing that gave me half as much trouble was that rare flower you need for one of the colony 6 quests
>>318426338
>1:04
>start chain attack
I CAN FEEL IT
>>318423236
Hey Mellia I'll be rooting for you, until he gets his real girl back that is
>>318421483
Same here. I'm actually missing a few affinity links here and there, which are a pain in the ass to find on your own. But I'll get round to finding thise eventually
My 300+ hours span across two regular playthroughs, a near 100% NG+ save and several hours of an underleveled run. Needless to say, love this game.
>>318419607
It's only like 50 or fewer hours. If you didn't finish this, finish your life.
>>318427149
Sharla is all over that Reyn time though
>>318427149
Completely abandons Melia once she meets Seven
>>318426338
>Exploring a new area I just got to
>This starts playing
I would say something along the lines of there never being a more genuine terror, but those fucking spiders exist.
>>318427149
>SharlaxShulk
???
>>318426837
>Level 99
Try Level 120
I stopped when I entered the heart.
game should have ended after mechonis.
>>318427342
>>318427243
Way to reading compression, he was obviously saying that Sharla was shipping MeliaXShulk until Fiora came back and then she went "yep, your chances are dead girl".
>>318427373
ya I know, but I never beat the dragon and hes a much more realistic short term goal
>>318427331
>That one fucking giant spider that crawls over the ledge you're on in Gaur Plains
or
>Those 3 fucking giant spiders that crawl onto the roof of the temple in Satorl Marsh
>>318427342
Funnily enough in one of the early scripts she was going to be the melia character to fawn over shulk.
>>318426338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnY7L8ucCk
This was better, it really made the cutscenewhere Dunban was about to murder Metal face
>>318419769
Same here, it's one of those games you either love to death or hate.
>>318427517
Ohh i remember that scene now, sorry
>>318427692
I actually thought it was just bretty gud
>>318427331
>find the altar on Guar plains
>oh cool a red collectible
>gaint spider crawls up from the chasm immediately after
>>318427779
>Run away
>It one hits you
>>318427779
>kill it because combat is piss easy MMO combat
>>318427552
>those three spiders on the temple
I bailed out of there as fast as I can. Holy shit I wasn't ready for them.
>>318427902
>if I post misinformation enough, people will believe me
>>318424134
Why do the developers hate Melia so fucking much? Too far, man.
>>318419607
i beat ur mums pussy m8
>>318423494
Riki hooks up with Sharla.
Riki also betrays you
>>318419607
No I've gotten to the part where Sharla joins your party like 4 times and every time I get bored and quit the game.
Most recently I did it on the 3DS and quit because the shitty graphics and terrible field of view started to get on my nerves and I have no desire to play up to getting Sharla on my PC for a 5th time.
>>318428017
Melia had a hard life
>>318423494
Colony 6 is just Colony 9 but upside down
Santa is actually Colony 0
>>318428724
I see what you did there.
That's qte.
I ended at level 86 or so. I finished most of the quests in the game, but since I had one party for a majority of the game I wasn't ready to do the bullshit gifting to get everyone to max affinity.
Also, fuck those super-bosses. I beat the weakest one but the rest wrecked my shit so hard. That dragon is ridiculous unless you use Melia and kick him.
>>318419607
I beat both versions
>>318427331
>>318427552
>>318427779
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YUIleDjcyM
17:40
>>318429458
>Not knowing how to topple lock
Ayy lmao
>>318429797
>Implying
It's just boring as fuck and would take literally an hour.
>Topple a boss
>They do spike damage
>You don't have a decent healer in your party
Thank fucking god for Monado Purge
bought it when it came out. hated the ff12 combat. shelved it and sold it for like $80 a year later.
Been replaying it recently, managed to beat fucking Reckless Godwin at the same level instead of like 10 levels higher than that asshole, felt good.
>>318429994
>Enemy is immune to Monado purge
>Has a counter attack spike
Fuck you lvl 78 dragon, and forcing me to get Anti-Spike gems
>>318426338
Bionis awakens is the best track though
>>318425534
He's really bad at standing in the right place for his Side and Back attacks
For some reason Seven doesn't have that problem at all
>>318430104
Don't remember that one so much, ended up beating it first time. Same with the boss just after him.Zanzaon the other hand fucked me over big time
>>318427074
I swear, once you've got most of your party's skills and shit setup late game, you always get a chain attack ready at that exact part of the song
>>318427552
I tried fighting them last time I played, right after managing to kill the fucking Lizard inside the ruins without being overleveled.
I didn't even manage to kill one spider, christ it's like fighting three bosses at once
>>318427058
It was that fucking Sirius Anemone, right?
>>318419607
>"beating" games
I love this meme.
Did you even kill the level 120 superboss?
>>318430104
That asshole took me more tries than anything, especially since I was like 4 levels below him and I was refusing to go making gems for hours. Managed to get him down with some INSANE burst on a chain attack.
Well it's in my backlog
>>318425451
>They made such a great world with great music, all ruined by a garbage MMO battle system. I wanted to like it so much.
MMO style really spoils everything it touches.
Loved the first dozen hours of Xenoblade and FFXII. Then the combat kills any further motivation.
>>318431190
I think the constant VA, and talking between the characters put Xeno above FFXII, XC felt a lot less wooden than FFXII, but letting anybody equip any weapon was nice
Gadolt. The others. ;_;
>it's been on the Wii-U VC in Europe for months
>NoA refuses to do the same for us because of the dodgy and downright crooked GameStop exclusive deal
>refuse to pay 50-60 bucks for a box with no cover art or manual
>computer is a toaster, can't emulate past PS/N64
>>318419607
I'm currently at Agniratha. Got spoiled on a bunch of the major plot twists, though some of them were my fault.
>>318431438
The battle VA in Xenoblade is funny for a while but holy fuck it gets annoying
Hey /v/ is Wonderful 101 any good?
Im still deciding if i should buy a Wii U or a PS4
>>318431764
don't use the dub you moron
>>318432001
Best game on the Wii U, not memeing
>>318419607
lol nope
>>318431616
Just get a Wii and softmod it to have USB Loader GX.
>>318431764
>>318432050
>Year of our Lord the Bionis +2015
>Not choosing to fight against the odds
I really like the combat desu
Button mashing is retarded
>>318419607
Working on it.
>>318425451
It's not like you're just going 12345678 repeat like most MMOs man. XC's combat actually has some depth to its control scheme. I found Reyn to be far more enjoyable to control than Shulk was.
>>318419607
FUCK YEAH I DID
>>318427149
I really wish Sharla had more offensive options than she did.
>>318433585
I swear they gave her the worst talent-art possible.
The people designing the gameplay must have hater her almost as much as the people who wrote the story hated Melia
>>318433867
At least the gameplay people liked Melia, she was fun as fuck to play
>>318433259
I actually liked Shulk, because of muh monado and muh vision
He felt like he could actually save someone, and that shit was fun.
>>318432001
It all falls down to whether or not you can tolerate or even enjoy the controls, and have the determination to push through some of the great and many of the awful nonstandard gameplay sections.
>>318433935
Too bad the guys working on the party AI hated her too
>>318433867
She became more bearable once you got stuff that reduced the cooldown but yeah who the fuck came up with that?
>>318433941
I usually play as Dunban so I can save Blossom Dance for chain attacks, since AI Dunban always uses it immediately and boy that shit is nuts on a 5x Chain
>>318432314
I'd say Bayo 2 is better if only because it has less sub par shooting sections
>>318419607
>Try to get this in the sale
>"Oh I don't have enough space, I'll get a SDcard for now so I can buy it..."
>"Oh I HAVE to download it to buy it."
>"SDcards don't work"
>mfw no USB
>mfw last day of the sale
Welp
>>318433956
dat Punch-Out boss
>>318433867
agreed, I mean shes not unusable like some people like to make her out to be, but for fucks sakes either just increase the cooldowns on her normal abilities or make her normal abilities powerful enough to warent a fucking mandatory global cooldown
>>318434187
You can buy it without downloading it.
If you're deadset on getting it.
>>318433935
>>318434028
I swear it feels like there was a bitter argument over who was best girl in Monolith Soft HQ, that ended in stalemate, so they tried to sabotage the other one,
>>318434181
>shulk AI
>always starts battles with half health because I'm too lazy to remove the health sacrifice art, always uses Monado Buster the very first moment he has access to it
My favourite thing about Dunban is just entering Heat Haze and doing multi-hit attacks for lots of party points because all dem crits.
>>318434214
I'm one of the few people that seemed to genuinely enjoy 6-2.
>>318429994
Monado purge lasts all of 3 seconds and by the time you can cast it's slow as fuck animation they've already stood back up.
>>318434457
Which is why you do it just before a chain attack
>>318434423
Cept' I can't.
Oh right, ordering it, sorry.
Might as well, this and the new game are a hell of a download.
>>318434440
I wish Heat Haze didn't drop aggro. Ah well I guess that's why I have Reyn around, you can always yank aggro back with Peerless afterwards.
>>318419769
JRPGs just are not that good anon.
>>318434664
I love Dunban's aggro control bullshit. Choosing which team members should be getting aggro as an evasion tank is so much more fun than just demanding all the aggro forever like a regular tank does.
>>318419607
I've had it for a year and still haven't beat it
I'm only at Valak Mountain but there's too many sidequests to make me want to continue the story.
Also, I never feel like playing it
>>318431616
Are there any details on the gamestop deal? Will it ever run out or does GS have chronicles and any related merchandise permanently in their slave dungeon?
Dunban, Riki, and Shulk is best party
>>318434861
Then stop doing sidequests for a bit. Shit gets real not long after valak mountain.
>>318431616
I just homebrewed my wii to run it off an external HD.
>>318434879
Only the Wii version of Chronicles is GS exclusive. You can pick up the N3DS version anywhere.
>>318419607
I did.I went in full autism mode and 100% everything in 250~300h. I did a ton of NG+ to max the skill points to 999 (or whatever it's called in english), killed all the uniques, did all the quest, etc... I even tried to max the affinity chart (which isn't really possible because of some choices, if I recall correctly).I can't wait to do the same in XCX. Hopefully it won't kill me.
>>318426338
In comparison, X's theme for Tyrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmdnpbmM4pc
>>318434943
Only if you are too inept to use Melia.
>>318434943
>what is Melia/Shulk/_____
>>318419607
fuck yeah dude. took me 170 hours but I did it
now trying to do my newgameplus with japanese audio and doing all the quests' alternate paths.. that.. that i couldnt do. i fucking tried, but i couldnt. it's just too much goddamn questing
>>318428017her face is too wide
>>318426612
>>318435235
not as good but, i can dig it.
>>318434028
seeriously. I thought she was so useless til i started playing her and looking up how to do that
then i almost stopped using shulk entirely. she's fucking amazing when you play her
>>318435110
Oh, well that's good, but does the wii version deal ever run out? It's kind of ridiculous that we have to deal with
>fucking gamestop
on nintendo's first party virtual store forever.
>>318435235
And now, X's theme for...Telethia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttRSjlool60
The second half of the theme, looped.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pAnsOJCdqE
I was planning to in the past weeks but I stopped at the boss fight in the Bionis's heart, I needed to grind and it just killed my motivation. Didn't help that I picked up playing the Neptunia games and that is taking my interest more.
>>318436032
>fucking gamestop
From what I gathered from /v/, they're the good guys this time. NoA didn't even want to publish the game.
>>318436486
I've never played the past games but were Telethia part of them? What were they really?
>>318437138
>Play with Neps instead of Xenoblade
What's wrong with you?
