I've made a big mistake
Let's turn that frown upside down
Post cute girls doing cute things!
Just sold this and the guide the other day and I feel much better. Blew 100 hours before I realized I wasn't enjoying it, but it could have been a lot worse.
>>323528308
Don't go monster hunter on me dude I think the game is bad
>>323527538
is the majority of the cast female in this game? It seems like from the screenshots i see, thats the case
>>323527538
I don't understand, you mean you bought something else instead?
>>323528308
Why do so many female MCs have the short hair model?
Even I chose it at first but later changed it after I got Alexa.
Thanks for the bunny suits telethia!
Also spoiler warning!
>>323527538
I wished the game play got better with mechas. Control scheme is brutal. D pad to cycle so you have to stop moving, b is the back out of battle button but also used for qte during battles, doing any talking during battle which could of been mapped to gamepad is another menu you have to stop and scroll through
>missed Telethia because sleeping
no more True Heroes #justBLADEthings
Trying to think of another sequel that had such a huge pedigree behind it with the previous game's soundtrack and then completely blew it.
>ONE TWO TREE FO
>no Elma bunny butt
that's f-f-f-fine the other light armors look better anyway....
>>323528712
it blows my mind how much worse the gameplay is once you get the skells
>>323528898
>completely blew it
NLA does not represent the entirety of the game and odds are you won't even get to the rap of Black Tar for most battles, and even are likely to be focusing too much on artsing to give a shit about the rap. The rest of the soundtrack is fairly solid except for music with lyrics popping up during cutscenes.
Damn, well I'm 9 hours in and having a fantastic time so far. The environments are huge and exciting to explore; looking around in and interacting with people in NLA is comfy as hell and pretty fun, and doing missions is engaging enough when I'm in the mood for that. Why are people saying it's bad?
>>323529686
Elaborate. Is it just because they're stronger?
Is there a way to organize your inventory besides the shitty filters?
>>323529840
It defaults to order picked up, but honestly man you're gonna get so much shit that trying to organize it at all would be an effort in futility.
>>323529720
My only problem with the OST is the fact that too many songs had lyrics. It was kinda unnecessary.
>>323528308
>tfw bunny suit and true hero
>chapter five
>already level 44
>>323529971
Wir Fliegen was okay.
MY only problem with the OST is the flying music cutting in as soon as you turn on the jump jets, instead of waiting for a certain altitude or something.
>>323530086
SPOILER THAT SHIT YOU SICK FUCK
>>323530118
>chapter five
>already level 44
How?
>>323528308
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>>323530235
I'm challenging EVERYTHING with overdrive and keep getting ganged up on by shit several levels higher than myself while trying to find ways into areas I really shouldn't have access to until I have a skell.
>>323529826
there are no classes in skells and your abilities are based on equipment so there's very little character differentiation. it dumbs the game down to a preposterous level
>>323530118
Actually, I didn't like the flying music at all. I hated how it cut into the default zone themes which were way better and felt much more suited to cruising about at a few thousand feet in the air.
...I also really disliked how the music in the game looped, too. For almost all of the songs there's a very audible silence between the song stopping and starting again, and that just bugs the shit outta me. Why couldn't they loop 'em properly?
Don't get me wrong I love the game, but there are some things that really bug me.
I finished this last night, wasn't really expecting to get into it but I sunk about 80 hours and it's one of my favourite games of all time.
It has some real issues though, I see why people wouldn't like it. The whole thing feels like an offline MMO, from the quest structure to the way there's no collision detection with moveable objects to the way you can melee attack something with a whole building between you and the target.
I don't remember the last time I felt so weak and vulnerable in a videogame, they really nailed that shit.
>>323530086
Where are your Cuffs faggot?
Yeah, I thought so
>Not true elmo armor
Pitiful.
>>323529720
>NLA does not represent
I think you are fine with me not greentexting half the OST. I was actually fine with the rapper on the first half of Black Tar and the production on the music was fine in general but that's the case in almost every game now.
>bad lyrics
>engrish singers
>very simple unimaginative melodies
>seriously fuck NLA
>Cauldoros was okay
Anyway the music was only one reason I dropped this game it's not like it's all I care about but following XC? Fuck me.
>>323530198
Shit sorry.
>>323530412
I'm working on it
>>323530341
It was my impression that different frames had different fuel economies and bonuses, much like classes would. Does that not lend to having some weapons over others depending on the frame?
>>323530380
Honestly I wouldn't mind if there were longer periods with no music. Or, god forbid, volume options.
>>323530693
>cruising along on high with nothing but the sound of the wind and your skell's thrusters or your party's footsteps
Yeah, that'd be pretty great. I'd dig it.
>>323530778
I can do without the party's footsteps, also. They're obnoxiously loud and follow a repetitive pattern unless I start jumping over shit.
Speaking of jumping over shit, who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to make party members never jump ever, even to catch up to you?
>hear news about david bowie
>cry for a while
>decide to boot up xenoblade x to distract me
>load in and realize that i put a red ziggy startdust lightning bolt on her face
help me
>>323527538
I'll join you OP, this game blows.
Small UI
Embarrassing music
Unvoiced dialog everywhere
Everything cool is ruined by weeb tropes
You can walk through enemies and no vibration
Offline MMO for people without a PC
>>323530954
>news about david bowie
Whu--
>the news
Oh.
Oh no. Aw fuck.
Post Mims
>>323530965
>unvoiced dialogue
>implying that's a bad thing
Since this is the Xenoblade thread, I need to ask. Is the gear you get from crafting better than what you can get in the store?
What i'm trying to say is, is it the postgame gear?
>>323530954
well, there goes my night
>>323530965
the music is the "localization" teams fault
>>323531135
Your mim iswonderful
>>323531121
>>323531203
feel with me, boys.
>tfw he was my favorite musician ever
>>323530693
>It was my impression that different frames had different fuel economies and bonuses, much like classes would. Does that not lend to having some weapons over others depending on the frame?
fuel doesn't mean a damn thing except an inconvenience as far as i can tell
>>323528802
I even had the RP count update down to 0 while I was in there and I still didn't get it
I guess this is what getting cucked feels like
>>323531183
Generally.
>>323531178
It is in a game full of unreadable tiny font.
>>323531269
That's a shame because I feel that the game would be twice as cool if not for it
>>323531385
Get a real TV, then. No font-size issues on mine, buddy.
>>323531183
No, postgame gear is a light ultra infinite gear which drops off 68+ enemies that you upgrade the useful battle traits of to XX.
Good luck though since the potential augment table is filled with worthless shit getting all 5 parts with good augments will require you to grind the same enemy about 10,000 times until you just give up and say fuck it.
The crafted armor is worthless shit you use as fashion gear.
>>323531332
Am I incorrect in my understanding that light skells have lower fuel capacities but better fuel efficiency except in the case of super weapons which have static costs, while heavy skells have larger fuel capacities but shittier fuel efficiency?
Because this is my understanding as explained by another anon, that light skells suffer more from superweapon overusage over time and heavy ones suffer less?
...Or maybe the fuel efficiency had to do with flight. I can't remember the details of what he said, exactly.
>>323528407
Your taste is fucking bad then.
Get the fuck out.
>tfw the vita's DARKGOD sword is total dogshit
>Rexoskell
>kills my team off immediately
>30 minute battle of me defensive stancing and overdriving to whiddle down her health
>at 20%health she pops an evasion buff
>can barely hit,arts are debuffed to recharge like snails piss, and her two knockdown moves keep removing all my hard earned TP
>at 5% health have no more arts and she kills me
>>323529720
But I like the rap portion of Black Tar
The engrish on the other hand....
>>323532006
>Vita
>shit
influenced by real life :)
>>323531682
it was probably flight if anything
weapons always have the same fuel cost except if you have those wp.fueldown augs which aren't any different or common on light skells or anything
>>323531441
I have perfect vision and a large television. I find that if I don't sit directly in front of it and within 3 yards that it hurts to read. I had to move furniture to accommodate this. With my furniture moved and with the shitty music going, I look like a total asshole playing this in my own living room. The font isn't so small that it's unusable but it's definitely a problem.
>>323529720
I would have been fine with just the skell tracks having a bit of rap, but no, EVERY. FUCKING. SONG. IS. HIP HOP.
>>323532194
>Game stars Americans
>Jap developers feel the best way to represent this is to drown the game in nigga thug jams
I don't wanna feel this feel anymore
>finally through SHEER FUCKING DETERMINATION, A PINCH OF GRIT, A DASH OF GRACE, INGENUITY AND PERSEVERANCE, manage to scale the wall of Noctilum
>expect to see a straight shot to the red and grey area past the waterfall
>even then, looking from where I am, I'm still a level lower than that area
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A WAY UP FOR HOURS
DO I ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE FLYING SKELLS BEFORE I CAN SCALE THAT SHIT?
>The Witcher 3
Why are the overworld themes so goodnot counting NLAyet the battle themes so bad?
>>323527538
While I am disappointed in the game aswell, I don't regret buying it. It's fun to explore and I enjoy the mecha combat just because I like mechs. Overall the story and combat is far less enjoyable than the first game (and other jrpgs like this, like FF12)
What makes XCX a chore to play is not one thing, but heaps of little things that just annoy me and make the game tedious as fuck. The HUD/UI is awful and fails to present information to the player well, the game doesn't explain itself well at all, the game is far too reliant on gear and expects you to farm for augments and shit but makes finding those ingredients and enormous pain in the ass with low droprates and an enemy index that doesn't even tell you where that fucking enemy is, the online mode is awful and hurt the game and story, healing is largely reliant on rng and timed button presses which are both awful things and more problems I could list. But even with all this crap, there's still fun to be found in the game. The side quests are decent, the music is good (mostly), the world is beautiful and just making your own mech with a variety of cool weapons is fun.
I doubt I will ever play the game a second time, it's too big and tedious. Plus the story sucks.
>>323532468
what else are they supposed to play to represent LA? the only notable music to come out of there is rap
>>323532579
>Phantom Pain
>Witcher 3
>Fallout 4
It's not like I bought into any of the hype either, I knew what I was getting into, and they still didn't meet my expectations
>>323532468
Would've been nice to get Tri-ace+ and Yoko Shimomura back to record the OST for X, but whatever.
Playing XCX made me realized that story is such a huge element to making a game good.
No point in doing a bunch of sidequests if they all consist of boring plotlines and shitty drama between boring one dimensional characters.
The biggest fucking disappointment was the lack of action scenes. XC had such badass scenes while XCX is just "Watch people stand still and talk" simulator.
>>323532923
> XC had such badass scenes while XCX is just "Watch people stand still and talk" simulator.
Seriously, there were two mecha combat cutscenes. I almost got hype when you go to the Lifehold Core. I was like "aw yeah, big ass mecha combat zone"
then I fought like 4 mechs and landed on the core.
fucking gay
>>323532923
>No point in doing a bunch of sidequests if they all consist of boring plotlines
The sidequests aren't even as much about the characters as they serve a purpose for world building and expanding the game's lore, though.
The game's issue is that it relegates what could be considered important information to said sidequests, and the first impression you get from them is pretty awful since early on they're really basic collect this/do that fetch quests with what seems to be derivative dialogue built on top of it.
Then again, all the side quests really had better and more interesting plot lines (even if, sometimes, some endings fell short in comparison to others) than the main story. Not that hard to do, but still...
> can't farm tickets now that telethia's dead
> can't take enough RP off of Yggdralith
I want him back.
i just got some sort of morigan batwing hat is there a whole set for the costume or should i aim for the bunny suit?
>>323532591
i'm rolling over the game with loot alone gear means shit as long as you keep some alt for element bullshit. you don't need craft,sockets or even shopped item and that's the true problem
>>323532564
Yes, the Skell flight module is required, both for the story and for accessing certain locations.
Like, I don't think you can get to the floating island in Oblivia or into Cavernous Abyss in Sylvalum without it either.
>Level 58, soon to be 60
>Only now starting to use and make augments
>Still don't know anything about how overdrive works
I got a lot of learning ahead of me, don't I?
>>323532591
>>323532923
>Be an Open-World game
>Create your own MC
>Has an Affinity system
>Can't Waifu/Husbando anyone
YOU HAD ONE JOB MONOLITH!
>>323534061
That's normal.
sicne 60 is the cap for the player, but not for enemies, you have to find ways, such as those systems you listed, to make up the difference.
But before you hit the level cap, the obvious solutions of leveling characters, arts, skills, and acquiring better equipment, are a much faster and more straightforward method of raising your power level, so you just do those instead of the tedious augment crafting bullshit
>>323534062
I forget, what else does affinity do? Is it only for unlocking affinity missions?
>>323531847
>Your taste
Bad
>My Taste
Good
It literally plays like an offline MMO
>>323534061
As you buff yourself or teammates, or make hits against the enemy, the counter increases. As the counter increases, cooldowns quicken, attacks deal more damage, and enemies resist everything less.
There is a colour combo system in place, where you may get additional effects such as increased experience, increased appendage damage, a TP bonus, increased Overdrive time, doubled point increase you the counter for the art you use, bonus time to stay in overdrive... Gotta experiment a little to see what happens.
Oh, is this last thread shitposters that was so dumb he could make the difference between soul challenges and soul voices?
This should be entertaining
>>323534473
Which weapon movesets are good for keeping the counter going?
>>323534497
...?
>>323534326
what's bad about that? if anything it plays like what every mmo wished it could do: no lag half action rpg where positioning isn't totally fucked by lag. side hits, back hits, elevation damage boosts actually work as intended.
you can't even make an argument for any other game. the system here is beyond anything any other jrpg/wrpg has ever done. literally if there was a balance patch for skills and weapons the game is perfect.
>>323534554
ANything with high hitcountworks well. Dual guns can get an instant 20 counter with a green buff into zero zero. Part of the reason ghostwalker blossomdance is so good.
>>323534570
We had a thread earlier with a shitposters extremely dedicated at showing his complete ignorance. He got wrecked multiple time but kept coming with more and more retarded arguments. It was quite a sight.
>>323534640
Would Photon Sabers be good for keeping the counter going? They're my favorite melee weapon at the moment. And what would be a good ranged weapon to go with it for Overdrive?
>>323534554
Dunno about others, but I've got a Mastermind build. I spam green arts, specifically Repair and Smooth Recovery to get the counter to the 30-50 range. Smooth Recovery is very much dependent upon having living teammates though as the bonus has to do with how many are affected. I also use Secondary Accelerator and focus on only immediate reuse bonuses for speed.
Another strategy is to use offensive debuff arts for TP regain and recasting the Overdrive for 3000 TP.
>>323534637
>what's bad about that? if anything it plays like what every mmo wished it could do: no lag half action rpg where positioning isn't totally fucked by lag. side hits, back hits, elevation damage boosts actually work as intended.
This is what an offline MMO does. No lag and whatnot.
>jrpg/wrpg has ever done
In what regard? Souls combat is heavily skill based. Witcher has stronger dialogue and plot. The game has sections of fetch quests, combat is fairly hotkey-like where you just have a rotation and isn't very reactive.
Can someone tell me where the guy i need to eavesdrop on is? Is it tied to a certain time of day?
Its the mission where the xenos are picking a political candidate to represent them.
>>323534795
You can get essence exchange, so if you know what you are doing you can keep OD forever. I use a entirely melee skillset so i can't really help on ranged.
>>323527538
So have i anon.
I'v put so much time into this game.
My family is starting to worry about me and i just drag my wiiu to my friends house so i can play it there.justfuckinggivememydropsdesu baka senpai
>>323535451
What drops are you looking for senpai?
>>323535080
>isn't very reactive
easiest example is using the dive to dodge big hits. almost every monster has one kill move which can be either tanked with res up, evade up, or invul. the meme builds ignore that for unresisted damage, which is fine because everyone should be able to finish the content.
but since you mentioned Souls combat i just got trolled, Souls is clearly a jrpg because it has stats and levels and inventory. you baited me fully have this upvote, next please tell me about the greatness of witcher's combat
![Kirbytstest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Tm0K4ke.jpg "Kirbytstest[1].jpg")
>paid 35 dollars for an 8 hour game
I didn't regret any of the other kirby games, maybe because i was younger, didn't keep track of play times or anything like that or maybe older games were harder or had more content. Maybe coming after Kirby SSU or The Amazing Mirror is just a super tough act to follow. If nothing else, I wouldn't have fallen for the "download your games so you can play theme wherever and whenever" meme
>>323535610
Literally everything!
A quest sends me to get X of Y off a Z and it takes me 2-3 fucking hours even after setting up a grinding route.
Do i just have shitty luck or something?
>>323535731
>paid 35 dollars for an 8 hour game
That is not terrible value as long as you enjoyed it.
And yeah Kirby games arent long. Only going for 100% can increase the playtime a bit.
Games are generally fucking easy too unless its something like True Arena in Superstar Ultra.
It was always Nintendos most casual series.
>>323527538
I feel the same, the combat is still fun, but there is 0 drive to play. Compared to XC the setting is bland, so far all the dialogue has been exposition and I don't have an end goal or fuck. Even a goal to play at all, I'm not some massive narrativefag but when playing this game it just makes me wish I was playing a real MMO instead of it. Waste of 80 dollary doos
>>323535774
Don't do "basic" quests
If a quest asks for enemy drops, odds are you can buy them with tickets at the BLADE console in the barracks
If you're on the quest that wants a Spherical E.M. motor, you get one as a quest reward from Murderess' recruitment mission.
Spirit Wands can be found in Sylvalum Waters
If you're doing an "off the record" quest, then you're just SoL. better get use to going into the menu for that return to Skell option.
>>323535941
I probably would've still bought it, but att least one of the following would've been true:
>I wouldn't have gotten it day one
>I wouldn't have play full price
>I wouldn't have downloaded it
It gets my goat that i can pay half that for an e-shop title that will last me twice as long, but oh well
>>323532591
you're either shit or complaining about endgame
if you're complaining about endgame I agree, it's grindy as fuck like holy shit
if you're complaining about main story then literally git gud
Other devs should really take note from this game world.
A world like that with some more hubs and cities mixed in would be perfect.
Ending sucked ass.
The affinity quests were pretty decent, only played to the end because I wanted the cheats for affinity so I could actually play the other 2/3 of them, and then the cheats were shit.
Post game is nothing but grind, not killing 60 small enemies for a small drop rate so I can actually fight the 60+ tyrants, or wait 20 hours to get enough money to buy something that doesn't explode in two seconds.
The twist halfway gave me good hope for the story, and then nothing happened until space cats, you can't even get a space cat in your party.
Spent 70 hours after chapter 5 waiting for the next good bit and it never came, even the follow up Prof B mission was shit.
Mechs were cool for an hour before the combat became wait 60 seconds to kill enemies.
Thank fuck for people on eBay, if only I could buy back my time
>telethia dead
what are you guys talking about I haven't played for a while
It's not a real buyers remorse thread without an obligatory Starbound post.
>>323535724
>witcher's combat
are you joking witcher combat is a joke.
>you baited me fully have this upvote
The reddit meme.
>Souls is clearly a jrpg because it has stats and levels and inventory.
Its as much an RPG as Xenoblade Chronicles X is one.
>easiest example is using the dive to dodge big hits. almost every monster has one kill move which can be either tanked with res up, evade up, or invul
I know i have actually PLAYED the game, even those options aren't very reactive.
>>323536108
>you can buy enemy drops with tickets
FUCK ME SIDEWAYS HOLY SHIThow do i get these tickets?
>>323536458
Leave your console on overnight while connected to the internet, should max out on tickets. You can buy drops but not shiny blue stuff, still have to dance in circles for that
so does the telethia come back or is it gone for good
>>323536394
Global nemesis.
>>323536458
Squad tasks. I usually get 2 per enemy on slaying tasks. You get something like 17 if others complete a task you haven't touched at all, and I've gotten up to like 27 once a task I'm pretty sure I was the sole contributor to was completed.
Some super rare items go up to over 100 points but usually they'll be something like 30-70. If you've got a few hours under your belt already then odds are that you've simply picked up some tickets from freeloading off of others.
>>323536639
Double fuck.
I have a shitty maple syrup land connection.
Oh we I'll try this anyway
>>323536707
I don't want to know the answer to this questionIt's like the Ur Dragon, right?
>>323536395
I should, but Starbound was the first game me and mygfplayed together.Then I mentioned Terraria, we sunk in four times the hours and Starbound's been collecting dust since.
>>323536715
>Global nemesis
I know but what do you mean by dead
like is it gone or what
>>323536894
As in they killed it, and when enough squad tasks are completed, a new global nemesis will pop up. It may be Telethia, it may be Yggralith.
Global Nemesis DOES have a persistent health bar for all squads available, and once that health bar hits zero, they die, they go away, and the process starts anew.
Did that Orphean just had anOrphean sister? And he wants to bang her?This game gets better by the second!
>>323537078
Can you fight a global nemesis with story characters or does it have to be other players?
>>323537136
You can take your current party or scout from your squad. Even be invited from your squad.
>>323537136
you can fight them with your own party members.
What's a good mob to farm for drops? Just any 64+? Or is there a specific area/tyrant that works better?
I need more potential/evasion for my memes
>>323537135
>>323532591
Posting the picture of the same retarded anime girl won't do good for your stealth shitposting, anon.
>>323527538
More like your parents have.
>>323537294
Humans may be a bad influence. I'm amazed nobody has tried to bang a worthian in my game yet.
I dare anyone to find a game with a worse shoehorned online element
keep in mind that the story was gutted, characters were sidelined and the main character took a backseat due to its very existence
>>323537657
What proof or citeable material have ye to suggest that it's the online's fault?
>>323535140
>>323534473
this game looks just like San Andreas!
>>323537791
the actual main character was removed in favor of a created character that is not voiced during cutscenes and basically just stands there while elma and lin lee do 99% of the talking
>>323537657
it's functional and not forced i don't see much problem. story as we saw in interviews was garbage though we dodged a bullet there
>>323538060
What was the story like?
>>323537281
Unless you think you're getting 700+ evade, no you don't need more evasion.
People use the Decoy buff to dodge attacks, not the actual evade stat, at least when fighting on foot.
You actually CAN get a skell to the 700+ evade necessary to reliably dodge superbosses
>>323537791
http://segmentnext.com/2016/01/05/xenoblade-chronicles-x-tooka-u-turn-in-development-story-characters-world-included/
>>323538037
character customization doesn't impact story elements. you just want excuses to whine about not getting edgy dark space katana antagonist
>>323538141
I'm just sick of that headless prick stomping me even when ghost walking. Figured some evade would help
>>323538060
The online missions are so fucking easy and boring and none of the online elements are fun except for the nemesis bosses but those aren't really anything special.
How exactly do the interviews indicate the story would be garbage? It couldn't have been any worse than the abortion of a story that we got.
Is this the Xeno thread?
>>323538037
forgot the whole part about the character creation being there in order to have the whole scout console thing there
>>323538060
are you kidding me? all I could think about before launch was "holy fuck I can have a murder squad of me and 3 other friends in mechs? that sounds fucking awesome" and instead we got some shitty thing where you can just add their avatars to your party so they're AI controlled, which you basically can't even do until you beat the story so what's the fucking point of even having it
>>323538238
All of the villains in XCX are garbage, Black Knight couldn't have been any worse than those shitters.
>>323538238
>>323538149
>It was going to focus on pre-made characters instead of avatars and was not going to have an online multiplayer element! However, when the developers were at about 50 percent in development, they decided to completely rewrite the story and remake the world as well as introduce a new setting.
eat my fucking cum you retard
>>323538381
You can do that at chapter three, man, and the actual squad missions aren't AI at all.
>>323538238
because le flapping mouth slug man was so good
>>323538358
yes
>>323538514
yeah you can, but you basically are locked out of affinity missions and story missions with anyone besides elma and lin lee in your party
>>323538358
Maybe
talking to tatsu at the barracks
>one two three MEH
So he hears the shitty music too huh
>>323538714
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3yG_20r338&feature=youtu.be&a
>>323538714
I think the daytime music is fine
>>323538358
I don't know
>>323538747
your video is not funny
>>323538747
I don't know what this is but it's annoying and I shut it off after about 10 seconds
>>323538775
>WHAHHAAAWHOOOOAAAAAA
>I CAN'T SEE YOU
>I CAN'T HEAR YOU
how can people actually like this crap
>>323538962
jury is out on whether I legitimately like it or if it's ironic
the night time "music" can get aids
>>323538962
>>323539027
NLA music is trash.
I'm surprised someone paid to have it recorded.
I liked all the musicbutI understand why people would have issues with itand Irespect that
>>323539083
Manon ship is pretty alright
But sylvalium is the best idle music and ganglion skell the best battle IMO.
>>323539136
>I liked the night time hub music and skell battle music
>>323538471
That still doesn't really change anything, Elma, Lin, Irina, Gwin, and so on all remain premade characters that show up in a story that focuses more on THEM than YOU. Adding a customizable player avatar doesn't mean you have to change the story, just relegate them to a more out-of-focus position, which is what they did mostly. By this logic, the story was changed for reasons other than the customizable player avatar. Possibly that they felt that the new setting would be a more enjoyable one? Who knows.
Furthermore, what reason have you to believe that the customizable player avatar and the online component are anything more than loosely linked? Nothing was really stopping them from letting you make a custom character for online stuff only, or taking the pre-made characters out for a spin.
You're making a huge assumption that EVERYTHING was changed for the online component alone, when in reality it's far more likely that as they were overhauling the game they decided to tack on an online component because they thought it would be neat or it fit.
>>323539136
>and i respect that
Who the fuck do you think you are?
>>323539175
>HELLO
>IS THIS THING ON
>I NEED A BIGGER GUN
seriously how
how can anyone think this is good
>>323539304
Cheesy charm?
>>323539304
>black tar
No my friend, ganglion skell.
http://youtu.be/HvqlfTGywwM
>>323539231
you know the director guy whatever the fuck his name is wants to make an MMO right
we'll probably never actually know for sure if half of the fucking dev cycle was shit canned for the sole purpose of adding an online element, but I'd bet my fucking computer that it was a huge reason
>>323539304
Good and enjoyable aren't exactly synonymous. They just hang out together a lot.
>tfw 70 hours in
>still in chapter 7, just got my skell 5 hours ago
Fuck the Sidequest Board of Immense EXP Gain, that shit has turned me into a raging monster. The story quests involve me instant killing the big bad, and then doing laps around my team while waiting for them to finish up killing the minions.
>That Goetia fight where I got 25 laps in before Elma, Lin, and Lao managed to finish their fights
>>323539231
>Elma, Lin, Irina, Gwin
They are all boring as fuck. Gwin literally has no reason to exist. Why are his affinity missions required to progress the story? they are completely inconsequential and are never referenced in the main story.
Elma, Lin, Doug, Irina, and Gwin are garbage. The main cast should've been the side characters, most of whom are actually interesting. Nagi should've been required for the story missions instead of fucking Elma and Lin.
>>323539401
Honestly, I kind of wish he would make an MMO. That would be so great. The QTE component and secondary cooldowns really make battle a lot more involved than one might expect from average MMOs.
>>323539453
>TEN
>TEEN
>TEEEN
Holy shit that got an unexpected guffaw out of me.
>>323532031
Same. Black Tar is my favorite battle theme, followed by Uncontrollable. I purposefully start battles with enemies to hear the skell theme.While also training up low level teammates, having them all die, and then sitting there and tanking hits for about 10 minutes until I've gotten my fill of it
What kind of armor should I be putting everyone in?
Also,I'm getting bored with samurai gunner it also feels weak,is the galaxy dude class the one on the bottom good?
>>323539718
Uncontrollable is such a bizarre song to use for Tyrants. Black Tar's lyrics are at least somewhat about fighting. Uncontrollable is about a couple making up after an argument. Why the fuck would they use that
>>323538554
all you have to convince us is meme. get real kid, we aren't you roomate we don't have to brofist every of your farts
>>323539785
Put AI in treasure sensor gear since they do fuckall for damage anyway outside skells
>>323539864
>kid
also how do you bro fist the air, that's pretty crazy
>>323539874
Gwin and Lin sometimes shit out extraordinary damage out of nowhere, and I can't for the life of me understand where it's coming from.
>>323539864
Luxaar was easily the worst villain in any xeno game by far, and one of the worst ive seen in any game in a long time.
>>323539951
Gwins probably using offensive stance
>>323532923
>The biggest fucking disappointment was the lack of action scenes.
probably because they actually put the action in the gameplay like other games should
>losing/winning fights in cinematics
if this shit happens more than once or twice in a game i drop that shit like it's hot
I'm a Galactic Knight, and have stayed one since I got it. Is there a point in switching classes for anything other than getting Hell Hound? I can kill enemies 20 levels over me with meh equipment and Overdrive. Starlight Rondo chunks enemies so hard that I don't feel like I need anything other than Hell Hound for the extended duration.
>>323540009
Not him but is offensive stance that good?
>>323539956
What was his "old one" anyway?
In fact I just looked it up assuming it might have been some kind of Samaar killer, which it is but was that explained in the game? There was that whole battle at the start between the two alien races but it seems like the Samaar (and by extension the Ganglion) were there to protect the Earth while the Ghosts wanted to destroy it? And then the Ganglion (presumably the good guys) saw the chance to finish humanity off? I don't remember the game hinting at anything like that, I always assumed the Ganglion were the ones who were there to blow the Earth up from the beginning.
>Lords of the Fallen
maybe ive played too much dark souls, but i cant stand it
>>323540196
Yes. It should be on every build you can stick it on IMO.
>>323540281
>was that explained in the game?
like many other things, no it was not.
I guess the answer is to buy the sequel that's never going to happen
>>323540183
skills are not bound to their class
and since neither are weapons once you hit 10 at the end of each tree, neither are arts
>>323539718
Shit I do this too, especially with Uncontrollable. I'll aggro any nearby enemies once the tyrant is almost dead since it keeps playing even after you kill it if you're still in combat.
>>323540608
I just doubleclick on the mp3s
>>323540486
I know they aren't, which is why I'm aiming for Hell Hound. Just want to know if there's any point in not switching back to being an Ultra-Jedi after I get it. The rest of my build is pretty solid, since I can keep up my melee combo indefinitely, and Rondo + Blades deals 1/2 of any level 60 and under enemy's health.
Should I switch and get Offensive Stance? Don't I need to equip a different melee weapon to use it, or can I just use it with my Beam Sword once I hit rank 10?
How does it compare to the previous Xeno games? I see a lot of autists once again calling it a prequel to Xenogears
>>323539506
>can't do the story with Nagi, Yelv and the Christophs with Murderess tagging along in her wheeled coffin
>>323540486
>and since neither are weapons once you hit 10 at the end of each tree, neither are arts
I never really understood how all this works, I reached level 10 with the top-right class (Duelist I think?) which I'd assumed would unlock all the longsword arts for my other classes if I had a longsword equipped but then I made an Enforcer and still only had Enforcer arts.
i like the subtle change of gameplay when you change team members and they call out different things. i wish npc had a way to change their class thoug too much psychruptors around there.
>>323540879
You should max all the classes at 10 then go to drifter for maximum flexibility and that sweet sweet extra skill slot.
>>323541026
Does maxing out a class mean I can use that class' skills without needing the weapons? Like, could I use Offensive Stance with a javelin or beam sword?
>>323540995
Arts are tied to weapons. Skills are not. At level 10 in a class you can use its weapons whenever as any other class
>>323540879
Offensive stance requires a longsword. Dual guns are better than launchers as support and combo finishers though.
>>323541112
>At level 10 in a class you can use its weapons whenever as any other class
>Arts are tied to weapons.
That's what I thought but even with a longsword equipped I was limited to using my Enforcer arts. Did something just go wrong?
He actually did it the mad man
>>323540992
Best 7-man part would've been
>MC
>Elma
>Lin
>Irina
>Murderess
>Boze
>L
Maybe some more xenos instead of Murderess or Elma. A good Wrothian or Ganglion or something. Or, maybe, a party consisting entirely of Xenos.
>>323541158
Alright, so I should finish a class that has good support-arts for guns, and then go Drifter with beam sword + support? I'm not really feeling the damage with any of the other melee weapons.
>>323541334
You can do crazy damage with a bunch of weapons if you build for it. Longsword is the meme build because it requires so little prep.
>>323541334
Try the memesword build of longsword and dual guns with blossom dance, true stream edge, zero zero, primer, ghost walker and offensive stance.
Also I hear Raygun pairs well with beam sabre. Just watch out for beam reflecting mobs
>>323541291
>>323541367
Fuck off Andrew you cunt.
>>323541456
I've seen some crazy sustained damage. The one video I saw of a tutorial on how to perma-OD had the guy dealing roughly the same amount of DPS as me in OD, while he was 20 levels higher and using longsword.
>>323541514
>Beam reflect
This triggers me, and I don't know why. Miiverse post, maybe?
>>323532564
I feel you, man
>>323528397
>there are people that spend 100 hours in a game not knowing if they are enjoying it
wow
I got a helmet with potential up (raw) and potential plus (%)
I can upgrade one of the two to XX
which one do I pick
>>323539506
Nobody should have been "required" in the story.
The game could have still featured the main characters in cutscenes without literally forcing you to put them in your party. Many big RPG games have done that in the past.
It's lame how you're forced to use Elma and Lin for so many quests whether you want to or not.
>>323541560
He was probably just using the arts without any real damage boosting. Stacking potential with longsword can be ridiculous.
The one change little change that would've improved the game 100 fold is to record little grunts and snorts to play whenever you have "side" characters not talking in quests. It's fucking weird watching my MC just bob his head while having Irina and Boze stare into his soul. They could've at least had some standard animations to play during those scenes.
>>323542152
Particularly weird when every voice, including the party members, has four movement grunts, plus a bunch of emotes also have sound. Many of those could have been used in conversations with no issue.
>>323542358
Wouldn't take more than a week to program and bug test. If they planned it early on, it would've added only an extra 3 minutes to the programming of any of those cutscenes.
I still find it funny having Boze, Nagi, and Frye stare into my soul while I ask Manon for their 3 sizes.
>>323527538
>buying Wii U
You don't say...
>>323542503
Party members are always fun.
>Nagi approves of you conspiring to murder him
>Phog approves of you being underage
>Elma wants to kill all xenos
I kind of wish they did like the previous game and had some of them say a few lines if you had them in the party for certain quests. There are a few spots where they'll respond to NPC dialogue, but you can easily play the whole game and never see it.
>>323542775
>"I'm dead inside"
>Heart pops up over Elma's head
>Full atheism fedora
>Heart pops up over Hope's head
>"Men's underwear is more comfy than women's"
>Alexa, Hope, and Irina get hearts
>"Genocide everyone"
>Elma approves
>Be lewd
>Elma approves
>Be rude to everyone
>Elma approves
They're all bad influences on me. Poor Percy, the heart-shaded basket ball star of the stars, he never had a chance to escape.
On the plus side, he's going to get a mad strong harem one day. Fucking everyone is after his dick.
NOW IT'S TIIIIIIIIME TO RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE
Why did they make dual pistols so much better than all the other guns?
Seriously, there's no reason to use anything else, ever.
So should I just skip this? I cancelled back when all the censorship news dropped and it's already kind of cheapened because of it. Was going to buy used but it just seems like it turned put a lot worse and just less significant of a game then people thought it was going to be.
>>323543675
Ghost Walker, TP generation, and no one uses their ranged weapon for damage anyway.
If someone did go ranged damage though, I'm pretty sure Gatling Gun is pretty damn good if you stack ranged appendage damage.
Can someone please tell me where the last one is? I'm tired of running around the industrial district
>>323543994
I remember raygun being pretty good for damage
At least until I changed to a memedance build
>>323543994
>no one uses their ranged weapon for damage anyway
I'm running a sniper+knife offense build.
Black Butterfly -> Slayonet -> Afterburner deals insane damage
Stop using Ghostwalker as a crutch, anon.
How do i write a report?
>>323530954
>Lemmy
>Natalie Cole
>Bowie
>tfw it happened within a month
>>323543994
you can do whatever you want as long as you set up your shit right
I saw someone kill pharsis by spamming side slash for 15 minutes so don't complain
>>323544160
nevermind i found him
he was only there in the evening, as if these types of quests weren't tedious enough already
>>323544275
Oh yeah, Knife gives you access to Full Specs doesn't it.
That's probably pretty good
Yeah, the game is pretty shit.
Fanboys will defend it, but I don't give a fuck, I don't like it, and I already have the WiiU Monster Hunter for an "offline MMO" experience, which isca far better game.
I could list all my gripes with the game, particularly with how the exploration was handled, but there's no point.
Anyway, I bought it and the strategy guide, how much do you think I could get for both on ebay/amazon?
>the music is bad
Tell me that the Manon ship theme or Sylvalum isn't fucking fantastic. Then tell me that Xenoblade didn't have just as many shitty filler tracks like Time to Fight (the default fucking fight theme for half the game).
>>323545483
Black Tar is just as shitty as time to fight
Mechanical Rhythm is better than either version of Black Tar
The music is really underutilised. The same three tracks are used in pretty much every Affinity/Normal mission.
>That over-the-top epic track that plays over the most un-epic standing around talking scenes...
It just doesn't work at all.
Also, this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ZWPt9Ht44
It's fucking shit. Those horrible wobbly vocals & chorus. It's just flat compositionally too. Pure crap.
>>323546132
dude I was looking for that song
thanks man
>>323527538
Same here.
I just got my first Skell after 40h of gameplay and I must say, I'm disappointed. For the most expensive game I ever bought I expected so much more.
40h, and at least 20 of those hours was getting stuck in quests trying to find a item that either would never drop from the monster or that wouldnt spawn in the place it was supposed to.
Seriously, this game is pretty much impossible without a guide.
>>323547130
It really needed notes in the collectopedia and enemy index about where exactly they could be found.
>>323546132
Tastes differ. I think it fits very well. Even if I still can't tell what language that is supposed to be sung in.
xenoblade's a disappointment because the world is massive and beautiful, but then it's grindy as fuck and it feels like your character doesn't have any physical presence
>>323529931
Does it? It seems to me it sorts by level, descending. For equal levels, precedence goes to the defense/attack.
>>323528680
OH MY GOD
>Trevor is TALKING to someone, that WHORE.
I'm guessing there's no way to change your character's appearance?
I'm 7 hours in and though I made my character look like a grizzled veteran, I get this constant impression the game wants your character to look young no matter what.
I love this game but just recently found out they removed a breast slider and now I seriously regret not buying it used.
>>323550172
There is one. You do a quest and this guy runs an illegal mim altering lifepod.
>>323527538
i got it as a gift. from my wife. but we share our money.
so yeah. bit of a waste. smash is back in the Wii U and XCX is out with likes of ZombiU and other games i'll never play again
>>323537526
>Humans may be a bad influence
Humans are by far the worst people on mira bar non, including jabba the copyright-sensitive hutt. a third of NLA spends its time frequently trying to kill you, aliums that are actively trying to help them, you again, other citizens of NLA, hey look its another quest where they try and put a bullet in you and you can't do SHIT about it, and are even given the option to forgive that because hey, who doesn't have a day where people try and put you in a bodybag? and the rest of NLA spend their time doing very important humanity-saving things like: Sell toys, coffee, build completely pointless resource-gathering facilities, not find anything and go to fucking church.
I've assumed the white whale was actually a bit like that episode of the simpsons where the loaded all the worst people on the planet into a rocket and flew them into the sun. Elma just missed the sun by accident. At least we're all trapped on Lost Archipelago.
>>323550126
I for one found your post very amusing anon even if no one else did.
>>323550589
>Humans are by far the worst people on mira bar non, including jabba the copyright-sensitive hutt. a third of NLA spends its time frequently trying to kill you, aliums that are actively trying to help them, you again, other citizens of NLA, hey look its another quest where they try and put a bullet in you
You forgot to mention they're doing it to earn credits that wouldn't even cover the costs of the bullet used to shoot you.
>i'm gonna shoot you for 5000 credits reward!!
>meanwhile i'm earning 20k per tick because of frontiernav
This is definitely the best open world game I've played in years. 7.5/10.
>>323553471
I guess the remaining 2.5 isn't there because of the story & characters?
well fuck anybody know how the fuck i can unlock all the skell super weapons for crafting? cause i just scoured much of the fucking game world and went through so many damn fucking containers and didnt find a single fucking one.
like shit where is one supposed to find all the fucking level 60 super weapons from?
like shit man what the fuck
>>323554146
I think they come from missions
