Xenoblade chronicles 2 thread

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>"When I analyze myself and the type of person I am, I’m actually pretty short, even for a Japanese person. Maybe it’s like this in the States, too, but the bully in school is typically big in stature, and I think I’ve sort of developed a little bit of an inferiority complex. That’s why I really like things that are large in scale, and might be why I take such an interest in the differences between small and big elements in games."
kek

>>383195472
So is Zanza Takahashi's self-insert?

>>383197951
Now we know why he made the mc smaller than Pyra

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>>383197951

At least this manlet is dealing with his deficiency in a criative way.

>When we spoke about your last game, Xenoblade Chronicles X, you told me you’d distanced yourself from philosophical themes in that game’s core story. Where do your interests along those lines lie these days?

>In terms of a theme in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, there are all of these Titans, and their lifespan is about to end. The people living on these Titans now have to find a way to continue their lives, because the land they’ve lived on is about to die. So it’s about these people’s quest to find where to live.

>Also, there are these lifeforms called Blades. They’re not human, as the title indicates — the “Xeno” part of the title, which means they’re not human. They’re unique lifeforms, and there’s this theme of how humans and Blades can coexist and learn to live with each other, and learn to not only coexist, but protect the world that they live in.

So it's literally Xenoblade X?

>>383199774
No

>>383199774
Ofcourse it fucking isn't.

>>383199980
>>383200126
I was referring to the themes of humans searching for a new place to live and them having to coexist with non-humans and protect their world with them, which were both themes in X as well.

>>383200353
I guess it does sound similar, but I don't think it will be a straight up rehash. There is also the big tree, the whale, the truth about Pyra, and the resource-based wars between civilizations, etc. Sounds much deeper to me.

>>383200353
That wasn't the theme at all. The game started with you already having found a new place, and everyone jumps at the chance to help you except the one group who remains your genocidal opponent for the entire game and never changes.

So, what do you think about the "the tree might remind you of yggdrasil at first, but look forward to discovering what it actually is" answer?

>>383200639
I wasn't calling it a rehash, just noticing they sounded similar.

>>383200786
We have no idea how the Blades in 2 will act yet. And learning to coexist in X wasn't just about not killing each other (although there was a fair share of quests with humans killing xenos or viceversa), it was also about learning each other's cultures and covering one another's weaknesses.

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>>383201383
Probably the end of part 1 and the beginning of the real plot

>>383201383
Inb4 it turns out the three's Frontier Village and the "Divine Architect" is Riki

>>383199013
>Now we know why he made the mc smaller than Pyra

It's amusing in context

>>383206220
That's just a coincidence, remember his other games.

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I want more pyra art. Maybe xbc 2 will get it's own direct?

>>383207016
Wouldn't be surprised if we got a series of tips videos like XCX got after Mario's done and released.

>>383195472
>Lastly, I thought Xenoblade Chronicles X was a wonderful game, and also wonderfully different from Xenoblade Chronicles. But it feels like Mario Kart 8, in that it was constrained by the Wii U’s limited audience. Any chance we might see it come to the Switch?

>Thank you for that feedback. I think we’re currently completely focused on creating Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and even after I go back to Japan, I have a mountain of tasks that I need to overcome. But I would love to think about it, after the development for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is completed.

All I wanted to hear. I wont be killing myself today.

>>383195472
>Only 8 more years, till Takahashi stops fucking around with shitty linear shonen garbage and goes back to true sci-fi space opera

>>383208070
It'll probably be more like 3 since the next game will be built the same way.

Why does this game look like a shitty Tales game, though? And why are the battles so slow now?

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>>383208589
>since the next game will be built the same way.
[citation needed]

>>383208732
22 posts in, took a while this time.

>>383208732
>And why are the battles so slow now?
Because the new system ties Art recharges to autoattack and DOESN'T start every battle with all your arts fully charged PLUS you need to charge another meter by USING arts tied to your autoattack in order to be able to change Blades, and each Blades only has 3 normal arts and one talent arts. In Xenoblade Chronicles X, it was entirely possible to shit on an entire mob by cycling through one combo of your eight arts right at the start of the battle, and then having that combo ready again for the next encounter, while here, every encounter requires X amount of autoattacks in order to launch a combo that can't be more than three arts deep before being allowed to change to another selection of 3 arts eventually.

>>383208834
Use your brain, anon. They're not going to make a another new engine for a sequel on a platform with the same technological limitations.

>>383209080

So are even shitty trash mobs going to take 20 minutes now?

>>383209080
>every fight in x was resolved by a single sequence of attacks and never required you to wait for cooldowns
lol ok

>>383209297
They're probably going to last about the same, we have only seen the start of the game, and there is a lot of customization and leveling for drivers and each blade. Also auto attacks do a significant amount of damage now.

>>383208732

The art style is what really puts me off. Everyone looks so bland.

>>383209408
>and never required you to wait for cooldowns
Yes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGUaVZN2ttw

>>383209408
I'm not saying EVERY fight was like that, but at least some where, especially late game when you had access to more varied and powerful arts. Xenoblade 2's system doesn't allow ANY fight to be dealt with quickly because now every fight requires you to rely on autoattacks at first, and autoattacks are complete trash damage-wise compared to Arts.

>>383195472
The models for the new game's characters we have seen so far directly contradict the assertion that the Wii U was responsible for how ugly the art direction of that game was. Don't get me wrong, the Wii U is basically a toaster based game console but I guarantee the Wii U wasn't responsible for those hideous abominations of characters.

>>383209603
Fuck off.

>>383209626
Hell, even in Xenoblade some fights could be expedited quickly by simply starting them with Backslash, a thing that's impossible now because you'll need to wait for 4-6 auto-attacks before being allowed to use Backslash. And I do mean WAIT for them since you're incapable of moving and autoattacking at the same time.

>>383209626
>enoblade 2's system doesn't allow ANY fight to be dealt with quickly because now every fight requires you to rely on autoattacks at first
We don't know that yet, we have only seen the start of the game and it's to be expected that at least some blades can learn skills that let you start with one or more arts out of cooldown.

>and autoattacks are complete trash damage-wise compared to Arts.
Autoattacks do more damage now too.

So each blade has it's own model, voice and personality? That is ambitious as fuck.

>>383209626
>late game lets you oneshot things
Gee, what a rare event in video games. I'm sure this game will have no ability whatsoever to speed up fights, because the last two games sure gave you no options to do that. There sure wasn't an enhance arts menu already shown in the stream.

>>383209771
lol ok

Just beginning to play the first game on an emulator, am I in for feels? The title screen music is making me sad.

>>383201383
X handled a diverse ecology a lot more maturely than most games trying to bank on the multiculturalism fad, come to think of it, though I suppose it's to be expected when that's an actual theme rather than an attempt to cash in on specific audiences. I honestly wouldn't mind another attempt at that rather than what seems to be just another instance of fantasy races "learning to work together". Obviously we don't know if it's as generic as it sounds yet but I'm really not looking forward to the story or anything writing related in XC2. All I'm hoping for is large, semi-retired environments as good as the first's if not better. If X was an indication of anything it's that MonolithSoft can do some stellar world design.

>>383210074
Not to an unusual degree. You should avoid these threads if you don't know the plot though.
And if you're emulating use a code to reduce the xp rewards to like 50-75%.

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>>383197951
>I'm actually pretty short, even for a Japanese person

>>383209925
What's the point of enhancing art if they still require autoattacks to charge up? Even if their cooldown were reduced, they'd still require some autoattacks

>>383209884
Rex's other blades they've showed off didn't seem all that different from each other though. Doubt it will be all that impressive

>>383208070
Sci-fi space opera is a garbage genre and Xenogears was shonenshit too while Xenosaga was just trash in every aspect
Writing was only the strong suit of these games because they were not very good at anything else, maybe music excluded
At least X's fantastic world and exploration (along with anything not to do with the main story, really) saves it

>>383210413
Are you fucking kidding me? They looked very different.

>>383209080
why tie arts to buttons? You may as well make it an full on action game.

Xenoblade X combat was perfectly fine, why dumb it down?

>>383210362
We don't know that yet, we have only seen the start of the game and it's to be expected that at least some blades can learn skills that let you start with one or more arts out of cooldown.

>>383210236
That's really bad advice, you can only really play around with the combat system when you're over leveled in Xenoblade because if you don't know what you're doing and you're under leveled you will get shat on pretty quickly. Obviously if you're already familiar with the combat that's probably a great way to play the game if you're doing all sidequests but for a newcomer that's not going to be fun at all.

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>>383210486
Not really. Only Pyra looked different, the other two looked like slight alteration of the one on the right in pic related.

>>383210362
They could make it that arts wouldn't reset as fast outside of combat. So the charging up would be saved from previous fights. Just like you could do with the Party Gauge in the previous game

>>383210236
>And if you're emulating use a code to reduce the xp rewards to like 50-75%.

or maybe he should just play the game as intended? I hate retards like you.

>>383210731
I hope the early-game not-plot relevant Blades don't get completely fucking outclassed by later game ones, some of them looked very cool.

>>383210486
While they did look different, I expect only the blades tied to the plot or special optional ones will actually speak.
>>383210667
Oh please. It's been standard advice around here for years. You get way too much xp in that game unless you ignore all quests, and that penalizes your other point gains while making combat for 95% of the game completely mindless.

>>383210731
>No character/armor dressup

It's like they took all the good things of XCX, and threw it all away. Oh wait, that's exactly what they did.

The lack of release date has me worried. I'm more interested in this than Odyssey really. I mean I want both but I know XC2 would last me longer. I hope it's closer to XBC than it is to XBX. I fucking hated that game. Tried so hard to get into it and I just couldn't. But the world was beautiful though.

>>383195472
How much more generic can you get with that art style? Jesus. I thought Xenoblade Chronicles was fine. Not amazing, but fine. The graphics weren't great but the characters had some thought put into them and the portraits had some craft. Nothing amazing, but fundamentally sound. Now we have this shiny-eyed soulless shit. I hate it. I hate it so much.

Such a shame to me that XC2 is in no way related to XC story wise. There have been so many hints and nods to XC that it's actually jarring. Similar enemies. A Monado looking weapon. Titans... a divine architect. It seems like this really should be a distant sequel or something.

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>>383211134
>2d portraits mean no outfits ever

Personally I just like how the Monado 2.0 girl has big tiddies, and that SJWs will cry about it, and it won't amount to anything.

>>383211134
>No character/armor dressup
We don't know that. Character customisation has five options, one of which is almost certainly gear.

https://youtu.be/leQ0fty6PFo?t=13m

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>>383211134
>No character/armor dressup
That's very unlikely, there are like 5 customization icon per character and different kinds of ships in the city we saw. I can see the not story relevant Blades not having option for cosmetic customization, but that's about it.

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>>383211503
>and different kinds of ships
Shops*

>>383211605
I wouldn't mind different kinds of ships if that's going to be the vehicle gimmick.

>>383195472
This is probably the first time I ever vehemently hated Takahashi's game. This is the worst direction that he can go in. How the fuck can you take an amazing game like XCX, and turn it into this casualized babies first JRPG? All you needed to do was add Xenogears level story to XCX, and a little balance tweaking and some paint. Like who other than retards wanna play this garbage?

>>383211296
>is in no way related to XC story wise
We don't know that. There could be lore connection like everything Nopon related in X was

can someone post a picture of a core crystal? what's this about the shape of it

>>383211882
No, the guy said it takes place in a completely new and unrelated setting. The 2 in the title relates only to the focus on story. And I don't get what you're trying to say anout X's nopon. X too, is totally standalone.

>>383212194
it's a zohar, the one thing Takahashi never wants to make a genuine game about because of his trauma with Namco.

>>383212194
It's just the standard zohar shape that means something is important in a xeno game.

>>383212249
>setting
Doesn't say shit about the lore and universe. Like, Mother 3 takes place in an entirely unrelated setting to Earthbound, and it's still a direct sequel.

>>383212406
Setting, universe, world, etc. What I mean is, he said it's not in the same universe at all, essentially.

>>383212194
https://youtu.be/tAdGaknQA5g?t=8m19s

>>383195472
Why are you shilling your blog OP
http://time.com/4848935/xenoblade-chronicles-2-interview/

>>383212607
that's definitely not a zohar...what the fuck is that supposed to be and how will that shape be relevant

>>383212607
Fuck off

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>>383212364
>>383212363
>>383212829
The Zohar shape is the thing on Pyra's chest, not the core crystal. Takahashi doesn't say anything about the shape of the core crystals.

>>383211732
>>383211174
>>383210093
>>383209650
>>383209297
>>383208732
Has any of Takahashi's works ever recieved this much universal hatred? Fucking nobody is looking forward to it or has anything good to say about it. This shit will possibly be the first Xeno game that people will actively boycott, it's getting so bad.

Just another Neo-Nintendo failure. Xeno has truly went the way of FE and everyone knows it.

>>383210871
>it's been standard advice here for years
So have a lot of really fucking stupid things for various games. I'm just saying a newcomer has a hump to get over at the start of the game and being overleveled helps significantly.

>>383213306
What does nintendo have to do with anything? :thinking:

>>383213601
>responding

>>383213601
Stop biting the bait

>>383213601
They were the ones that raped Monolithsoft so hard they lost all the integrity they once had. It's why fans of Xenogears hate Xenoblade and fans of Xenoblade hate XB2. It's a fucking downward spiral at this point.

>>383213306
Oh, fuck off. Xenogears is a half baked mess with a decent concept and terrible execution because Takahashi desperately needed an editor. The Xenosaga games are all fucking terrible and consistently get completely undeserved praise. Xenoblade Chronicles gets shat on all the time, being called linear, ugly shonenshit. Most people on this board haven't even fucking played X if most posts related to it are anything to go by. As a whole the entire franchise is full of interesting premises and concepts completely wasted on ultimately poorly written and immaturely handled stories and dialogue. X at least had the decency to not be a chore to play.

It's obvious you're trying to start shit but someone's inevitably going to take you seriously. Just fuck off. You are literally scum.

These samefag tantrums are super boring.

>>383214079
Getting thread id's would kill like 75% of all shitposts on /v/

>>383214880
Won't happen anyway

GTFO pokebarneyfag