all right, i'll be sure to do that. thanks for the information.
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Xenoblade |OT| Sorry I Kept You Waiting!
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all right, i'll be sure to do that. thanks for the information.
You're not supposed to.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
So I finally got the final (I'm assuming) character. The game has only been hinting at it for the past 65 hours...
You're probably underleveled to fight the caterpillar at the moment. Named enemies are much harder than most bosses.
You're probably underleveled to fight the caterpillar at the moment. Named enemies are much harder than most bosses.
But you will remember their names... and maybe be reminded of FF6.
ipitydatfu
Member
yeah avoid that one for now
Good thing Xenoblade never does that!
Where did you get stuck.
It's possible if you don't do any side quests. I, however, just finished every single quest that's available to me in Colony 9 at this point, hell yeah
Yeah the difficulty kinda spiked at that fight for me too, wiped 3 or 4 times until i got the right group(Sharla heals ftw), same with some random mobs after him. Probably didnt help that i skipped many sidequests from Frontier Village and Alcamoth before? I dunno. I just decided to do more sidequests like back during my time with Colony 9 and Bionis Leg after i was done with the fortress. :lol
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Armor spoilers
For the 7th character, at the start they will be getting hit quite a bit. I think after a while you can buy some armor in a shop that is focused on speed. This armor set has inbuilt gems for agility and attack speed. Like Dunban, 7th benefits tremendously from more agility. 7th is not meant to tank damage directly like say Reyn. With max agility bonus and attack speed bonus from the armor set I was talking about you should be seeing a lot more success with them.
I can't actually remember if you get max agility and attack speed from the speed armor set alone, but you can use a few gems to fill it out as I believe that armor set gets you close to the max at least. Hopefully this will be helpful to you.
I can't actually remember if you get max agility and attack speed from the speed armor set alone, but you can use a few gems to fill it out as I believe that armor set gets you close to the max at least. Hopefully this will be helpful to you.
It's possible if you don't do any side quests. I, however, just finished every single quest that's available to me in Colony 9 at this point, hell yeah
I dunno, outside of challenges I only did sidequests I found along the way and only died like 4 or 5 times from bad luck/poor ally AI (omg stop spinning in a circle shooting fire and res me). At some point I got over leveled (dunno how either based on what I previously said) and then stopped everything completely and did the rest of the game under leveled. But I am pretty sure
Dunban/Shulk/Riki
I'd use Dunban all through there honestly, controlling him as well. You will breeze through it.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
I keep getting my ass kicked(before
)
Help =3
prison island
melia is on her way to the tomb and we are atracked by the bird people assassination squad.. and I have tried both with and without shulk... yea I know but was attempting useing shulk for Speed and light heal
Help =3
The cut off point for
Alcamoth
Managed to finally get some free time tomorrow, so I can finally play this game again!
I am so closed to passing this game, I should be able to pass it tomorrow finally. Can't wait to see the ending! But I'm gonna put some serious time into this game so I'm gonna do some side quests first so the final boss would be a lot easier to battle.
The last boss was way too tough for my liking.
I am so closed to passing this game, I should be able to pass it tomorrow finally. Can't wait to see the ending! But I'm gonna put some serious time into this game so I'm gonna do some side quests first so the final boss would be a lot easier to battle.
The last boss was way too tough for my liking.
Do you get some kind of obvious warning like
"Alcamoth is about to get nuked, go clear your quests NAO!"
Wyndstryker
Member
I think I had Dundun/Riki/Shulk. They were literally incapable of hitting Dunban, I just had to focus on trying to keep aggro off everyone else. Team is really good at topping as well.
Yeah Dunban is pretty good at tanking, and once you get that AOE spinning attack, it makes getting early aggro on more than one monster much easier.
45 hours in, level 49.
completed some quests and leveled my guys high enough to beat the boss
game sure likes to keep introducing questions, that's for sure.
got my first heart-to-heart since the very beginning of the game too. 45 hours in. looking forward to more, but i need to switch up my team again. it's been sharla/dunban/shulk and
/dunban/riki for a while, and everyone has a pretty high affinity towards each other. reyn probably needs to be in a party with riki or something, or i just need to get riki to give reyn lots of gifts.
completed some quests and leveled my guys high enough to beat the boss
at the bottom of the mountain region
game sure likes to keep introducing questions, that's for sure.
got my first heart-to-heart since the very beginning of the game too. 45 hours in. looking forward to more, but i need to switch up my team again. it's been sharla/dunban/shulk and
melia
In what reality is this possible? For 35 hours of work, I get paid about SEK 6000 ($900). Do you think the reviewer was paid $900 for his review? Nope. Would it have been great if he instead spent 100 hours on his review? Sure, but who's going to pay for it? "Oh, but reviewers are gamers and love playing games!" Maybe he does. It's still work. This is all ignoring the fact that 35 hours is more than enough to judge the quality of the game.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
What level were you?
EDIT: NVM.. DId it
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Accepted a side-quest for someone and they said "For great Justice.... I always wanted to say that"
Other than the last sentence, this succinctly explains why paid reviews are unlikely to be informative on the value of games that will be played longer than about 20 hours.
The last sentence is simply false. For example, most MMOs lose subscriptions because of the stuff that happens after the 35 hour mark. Most e-Sports type games only gain in value as the playtime increases (because the player gains competence, and the metagame perpetually evolves).
Sometimes, in a story driven game, the ending is very important for the lasting appeal it has on you. And for every 60 hour game a review has to conquer, there will be a dozen two hour shovelware titles. If a company / site has any integrity with their reviews, they will stress the importance of playing an entire game and pay for it.
jump_button
Banned
So it ok for film reviewer to not see the full thing? I'am not saying they should do every thing just the story
most game sites do rank a game on story, if they don't see it all makes it pointless to try and rank it
I think your comparing apples to oranges.
There's a lot of people who say that Deadly Premonition is worth playing through. I got as far as partway into the first chapter before throwing my hands up and refusing to put up with the awful shooting.
I've yet to find any story in games that requires 30+ hours to go through worth it if everything else is bad. Even if the storytelling is the focus, you still have to play through it, and if the gameplay elements are subpar or worse, I don't fault anyone for giving up.
Should it be noted in reviews as to when this moment occurs? Absolutely, but I feel that it's still an honest and informed analysis as a review done by someone who did absolutely everything the game has to offer.
Is that the one where a couple of Guard Units accompany the boss?
If so: I'm not sure if it was intended, but
if you die in this fight, you get reset right in front of the room, while the other Mechons aren't reset. If you kill some of them they won't respawn and it gets a lot easier.
You probably need higher affinity for Colony 9 still. It says between 4 and 5 stars are needed but its actually a specific amount that is higher than 4 but under 5.
I walked all over Colony 9 town, during the day and the night, and i dont see any more quests from NPCs, i even checked the few soldiers in the mine but nothing too. How else can i get to 5 stars?
I bet im missing some dude that only show up in some corner at 2am or something.. bah.
If your affinity chart is missing some connections, you can't get certain quests, thats why you should always talk to every named npc at least twice. run through the colony and talk to everyone, especially betty, jackson and that artist guy + all people from the military district.
I can't remember 100%, but I had the same problem. talking to all sorts of people solved it.
I'm pretty sure i talked to every named npcs at least once to add them to the affinity chart, but if i have to talk to them again to unlock some possible quest...
Just got melia. Read the guide and i still don't understand what im supposed to do with her lol.
cheap way to level up lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBg1kP9CxXY
cheap way to level up lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBg1kP9CxXY
Very basic rundown:
Using her summon skills (Lightning, Water, Fire at this point) will cause her to create an aura. These will give you a buff centered on Melia. When you release an element, it does an attack on the target and removes the aura. Sometimes you want to keep the aura up, sometimes you just want to attack.
Lightning - Boosts Ether, when released does large damage to single target
Fire - Boosts Strength, when released does medium AoE damage plus blaze DoT
Wind - Boosts Agility, when released does medium AoE damage
Water - Healing over time, when released leeches HP from target to Melia
There are others that you will earn as Melia levels up. Be sure to look at your Tutorials for more detail. Not all of them come up automatically.
Around a third of the way, maybe.
So I'm at the (post 7th party member spoilers)
I'm considering replacing Shulk with the new party member, and using a main party of
. Any advice on how I should be using the 7th? I'm leaning towards the Attack specialties, but if its not working out too well I may switch to the Speed stuff.
Hidden Machina Village and exploring around the Fallen Arm.
I'm considering replacing Shulk with the new party member, and using a main party of
Melia/Dunban/7th
I've had the last character for a while now, but I've lost the will to keep going. Sorry guys. =\
It's nice that the battle system finally is where it should've been all along (with skills, gems, and equipment actually meaningful and rudimentary character builds starting to emerge), but that's about all I can say.
I realized the little bit of fun I've had here and there is far outweighed by all the other crap I find significantly less entertaining. I think 60 or so hours is enough to know that I can shelve this with no hard feelings.
It's nice that the battle system finally is where it should've been all along (with skills, gems, and equipment actually meaningful and rudimentary character builds starting to emerge), but that's about all I can say.
I realized the little bit of fun I've had here and there is far outweighed by all the other crap I find significantly less entertaining. I think 60 or so hours is enough to know that I can shelve this with no hard feelings.
You're pretty close to the end! You should just rush through it, the insane ending outweighs a lot of the negatives imo!
No seriously, I laughed so hard through the ending I had to rewatch it on youtube to see the stuff I missed, it's that great. I am talking like laughing so hard I literally cried
You poor soul.
Oh god I have 10 level 85s on WoW
fucking seriously? i thought that was the half way point. i thought i was just a little bit past the half way point
(mumkhar fight just happened)
For me, playtime wise, that was around half way for me (what you just completed). Story wise, I felt like the area you're coming up do was around the half way point
as it takes on a completely new story arc, and pretty much closes most of the first primary story arc
Like I mentioned above, I think the literally half way point is much later because of story events. Even just playtime wise, you might spend a lot more time playing after
Sword Valley
quest for various Monados
14 hours and 30 minutes in and I just beat
in the
.
Wow, what happened afterward was awesome. I totally didn't expect to get
in my party.
Since I started the game, I haven't played as anyone but Shulk, but now since I have
, I figured i'd main him for a bit. Wow. When playing as someone else it's almost like playing an entirely different game. It's truly incredible.
Right now i'm using
, Shulk, and Sharla. Is that a good combination of characters to use? So far it's working pretty good for me.
Xord
Ether Mines
Wow, what happened afterward was awesome. I totally didn't expect to get
Dunban
Since I started the game, I haven't played as anyone but Shulk, but now since I have
Dunban
Right now i'm using
Dunban