TurnipFritters
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I'm not sure if they've mentioned anything about it yet. However based on the Direct trailer from last week, it seemed to me that Drivers/Blades are an accepted part of the world and not, like, Stands or Personas.
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Releases December 1st 2017
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I'm not sure if they've mentioned anything about it yet. However based on the Direct trailer from last week, it seemed to me that Drivers/Blades are an accepted part of the world and not, like, Stands or Personas.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
I don't know if it's been directly mentioned at all, but people would probably be confused by Nia riding an invisible cat.
HackTheSlash
Member
Lol good point.
I thought maybe there would be some humour to be had with others seeing Rex talking to 'himself' or sword.
Transfer screens to your computer. Problem fixed!
LOOK OVER THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE, IT'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE
I never failed to engage the thrusters during that part.
It's just a bummer because I actually like looking through my screens on my Switch, so I'll have to keep copy/pasting "sets" back and forth.
I think I'll copy/paste everything up through Super Mario Odyssey, put it in a separate album folder on my PC, then on the Switch delete all of my Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart 8 screens, which is around 1,500 shots combined.
Then if I ever want to look at the MK8/Splatoon 2 screens on my Switch, I can copy/paste the Xenoblade collection into a second album folder on my PC, and then copy/paste the first folder back onto the SD card.
Hmm... I think that'll work.
I spent hours of flying from the edge of Cauldros back to NLA instead of Fast Traveling just to hear this song while flying. Don't take this away from meeeee.
Can't wait for them to unveil all the other guest artists and guest voices for the gacha blades. Bet they all end up looking better than the actual main characters.
Lol, yup.Can't wait for them to unveil all the other guest artists and guest voices for the gacha blades. Bet they all end up looking better than the actual main characters.
Can't wait for them to unveil all the other guest artists and guest voices for the gacha blades. Bet they all end up looking better than the actual main characters.
You take that back, Nia looks awesome.
At the end of the day, they're all animeCan't wait for them to unveil all the other guest artists and guest voices for the gacha blades. Bet they all end up looking better than the actual main characters.
How about u disappear?^_^ X is AWESOME
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
I never figured out how to get them to stay in overdrive which is why it was mostly just me in it once I figured out a setup to quickly build the required TP.
My primary complaint with Overdrive though is that it's an individual mechanic as opposed to a party based one like Chain Attack.
I just liked having the party combine their skills to down enemies while passing turns and encouraging each other.
Can't wait for them to unveil all the other guest artists and guest voices for the gacha blades. Bet they all end up looking better than the actual main characters.
Seeing that there are rare blades with unique designs makes me excited to find them. I didn't know guest artists were designing them so that makes it even better.
I honestly never got far enough into X to really say whether or not i liked it.
I remember thinking that a lot o the early game combat just felt unnecessarily slow. Things seemed to take forever to die, and the need to wait for arts to 'charge', while 'deeper', seemed to grind the pace to an even slower crawl.
XC2 seems to return to the more quicker, snappier pace to XC, if the rumour/discussion that the reason why current foes in the shown demoes seem to take so long to kill is because they have had their HP values boosted to demonstrate combos, among other things.
Otherwise, I really hope combat isn't as slow as its as in XC:X.
I remember thinking that a lot o the early game combat just felt unnecessarily slow. Things seemed to take forever to die, and the need to wait for arts to 'charge', while 'deeper', seemed to grind the pace to an even slower crawl.
XC2 seems to return to the more quicker, snappier pace to XC, if the rumour/discussion that the reason why current foes in the shown demoes seem to take so long to kill is because they have had their HP values boosted to demonstrate combos, among other things.
Otherwise, I really hope combat isn't as slow as its as in XC:X.
Rex's design clicked the moment I saw he's a deep-sea diver. The heavy boots, the wetsuit, the bulky pants, the helmet-hood — it all makes sense now. Well, "makes sense" in an anime sort of way.
Pyra has a very striking design... I just wish they'd tone down her proportions and give her some pants. It's a design that'd raise an eyebrow from anyone not immersed in videogame culture 24/7. That being said, I really like her color scheme, textures, glowing accents, etc.
I wouldn't mind seeing "Rex & Pyra" as an Ice Climbers-style pair in Smash Bros.
That'd be interesting, but I don't know if people would necessarily go back to the open world just to find 'new' blades. Especially if the content is going to be released after a majority of people would have likely finished the game.
I can see there being DLC packs being released for 'famous' previous-title characters, though. Granted, the series is still so 'young' - Monolith likely isn't going to touch anything that is from Xenosaga or Xenogears with a ten foot pole, although (Xenoblade Chronicles X spoilers)
given how similar Elma looked like KOS-MOS, there's always a bit of an homage element to it
Re: the story: does anyone know if Soraya Saga is involved at all? Or at least what she's been up to?
Well, I've warmed up to this game even though I have some issues with "Otaku-Bait" character designs like the one Pyra has. Anyway, It seems like this XC2 is a fully fledged experience with a complete narrative like the first Xenoblade with all the bells and whistles. Day one for me.
Perhaps one day Monolithsoft will remake XCX featuring a complete narrative, that has a definitive ending, that's faithful to Takahashi's original script for the game. Apparently he wrote a great deal of content for the script and a lot of it probably didn't make the cut.
Perhaps one day Monolithsoft will remake XCX featuring a complete narrative, that has a definitive ending, that's faithful to Takahashi's original script for the game. Apparently he wrote a great deal of content for the script and a lot of it probably didn't make the cut.
TriggerShy
Member
I felt that the ending was pretty heavy sequel bait, so if they revist X, I doubt it'd be a remake.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
I got the impression that even if XCX ended up as story focused as originally planned, it still would have been intended to be the first game in a multi-part series.
I definitely agree with this. There being a good amount of different factions and groups is what's particularly exciting to me, opens up some pretty fun story possibilities. I can't say I consider the other Xenoblade stories particularly interesting (yea, even the original was just okay shounen stuff with characters I mostly disliked), and Xenosaga games are... Well, a beautiful mess of some great and some absolutely awful stuff, so maybe this'll finally be the modern Xeno game that has a story I genuinely like from all perspectives.
It has the potential. Don't let me down now!
Couldn't disagree more with this though lol. They're a worthless distraction to me and I hope I can tell them to fuck off. But I'm not holding my breath. UI settings, maybe, but this? Nah.
I think Rex and Pyra have good designs with her's being ruined by her stupid proportions.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Well now you've made me sad. X2 with more transforming mecha would be amazing.
I think that a remake makes more sense considering that making a sequel to a Wii U game, that only reached a small audience, might be off the cards as it can alienate potential newcomers that didn't play XCX and, as such, might not make much business sense.
I doubt that will happen now considering how game development costs have skyrocketed compared to the times back when Takahashi and co were making multi-part series like Xenosaga and Xenogears (both of which suffered from budgetary constraints even back then).
Mister Wolf
Member
There is some kind of cosmetic shop in the game. Maybe we will get some different skins for the drivers instead of individual armor pieces.
foxuzamaki
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You have to be more specific on what makes them bad designs, because there's a difference between bad design and a design you don't like, Red's design makes perfect sense, pyra's design of course is remenicient of her sword but some of it will have to do with her role in the story as well
not aesthetically pleasing, and way too fanservicey for the other.
I get that's his job or whatever (at least in the beginning of the game), but he could be a surfer by trade and run around in nothing but swim trunks and boat shoes, and it'd make sense for his job but I would still say "That's a garbage design."
Not just guest artists, but also guest VAs. I dunno how the English dub is handling it, but the Japanese side is making it sound like all these rare blades have famous voices who aren't in the normal story cast.
Dark Cloud
Member
There's a Cosmetic shop in the game, which we still don't know what they change exactly. It could change clothes for your Drivers or have color swaps of their clothes.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
Wouldn't be shocked if Adam Howden gets a cameo voicing one of them.
yeah, one thing though. That diving scene in the trailer was definitely CG right?
if the game has CG cutscnes unlike the other xenoblades it would indicate that clothes can't be altered.
However, it could just be like The Last Story when you get CG cutscenes only when things are set, and it doesn't show the characters
Almond
Member
She*
I see a lot of people bring this up, but I just assumed it's a shop like all the other ones shown where you probably sell/purchase collectibles related to that type of shop.
I really don't think were'e getting armor like in the past games. At most, I think we'll be able to get special costumes you unlock from a sidequest or something. Or you unlock "swimsuit mode" after beating the game. Plus, Rex being blue and Pyra being red are probably important to the story.
And the character design debate never seems to end. I admit I wasn't a big fan of the designs when they we're first revealed. But seeing how expressive they are and just how smooth they look has me really loving them now.
They've got a lot more personality than in the first one. And the shading/textures/lighting look so good. I love all the main casts's designs so far.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
In case anyone wasn't sure these two screenshots were from the same scene: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/910056539230150656
In case anyone wasn't sure these two screenshots were from the same scene: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/910056539230150656
It was stupid for people to doubt this was the same scene. And unlike some of the other comparisons there were more than lighting changes here (since lighting can be affected by time of day and weather in Xenoblade cut-scenes).
Yup
totally.
Btw I suspect that Rex will grow on many, once we will be allowed to discover it as a character
Dark Cloud
Member
In case anyone wasn't sure these two screenshots were from the same scene: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/910056539230150656
Very nice. I have no problems with the characters. I have no problems with Rex or Pyra. Their clothing seems fine. I'll be enjoying this game instead of worrying how everyone dresses lol.
I hope you won't complain in the future how people are always bringing the discussion about characters into Xenoblade threads since you're doing that yourself now.
DarknessTear
Banned
Couldn't play it longer than an hour and I blame Sawano.
Dark Cloud
Member
I'm glad you're keeping up with my posts 😂
Uh, BURN!?
I'm talking about him as a human being, with behaviours, opinions, acts, lines, and so on.
I wasn't talking about his design like...AT ALL??
The comment I was quoting wasn't taking about design neither, but technical improvement of the build compared to the previous one, and I moved from that to the character as a character, not touching the design that is the "crucial" aspect of that kind of reiterated critic
Not just Sawano. Being on the WiiU (tainted console no one bought) and having a big open world with MMO quests all over and a custom character instead of DEEP TAKAHASHI STORY (TM) are big turn offs too.
I don't know what you mean with that. You know that you can subscribe to threads and see when something new is posted in them, right?
Dark Cloud
Member
Woah, really? Lol
HackTheSlash
Member
I noticed this morning that Best Buy Canada has the special edition listed finally.....annnndd theyre gone. Sold out. Hopefully they get more in stock for those who want the SE.