Is this game any good? It's not cheap so I would like to

It's the best RPG on the Wii do you need to know anymore than that?

>>386221216
That doesn't mean much when there isn't many RPGs on the Wii

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Pros: Best girl is in it
Cons: She gets NTR'd so hard that her entire family feel it

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>>386221131
Pretty good senpai
Emulation > Wii/U > N3DS

Xenoblade thread?
https://youtu.be/FpZzMNz1BSk

>>386221131
just emulate it

>>386221131
I would say either emulate it with graphics mods if you have a good enough PC, if not get the Wii U or N3DS versions
N3DS has worse graphics, but portability (and no dual audio, but the dub is miles better than the sub, and just incredible in general)
Wii U for better graphics if you don't have a powerful enough PC

>>386221419
>She gets NTR'd so hard that her entire family feel it
More like entire species
Melia didn't deserve to suffer so much

legitimately one of the finest games to come out in the last decade, possibly last two

>>386224390
This. It's the first game that legitimately gave me the feelings the Squaresoft Final Fantasy games gave a decade before and beyond. Easily my favorite game of the last 15 years or so.

>>386224505
I always though xenoblade 1 was what FF13 should have been

also OP, just buy this shit and get the fuck out before you get spoiled, don't look up anything

>>386221131
It's good. Play it if you want to. Bye, OP.

The first half is far stronger than the second.

>>386221131
The world is extremely expansive, the soundtrack is nothing short of absolutely stellar, the journey feels natural and the combat feels great.
Go full dub, my man. You'll get used to the Brits and it'll actually sound better than the original once you're used to it.
STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM SPOILERS.

>>386221819
Whoa, I had a dream featuring this song just tonight

>>386224663
fuck no its not, worst part is ether mine and the story gets insane in the second half

>>386221131
It's good and bad at the same time.

The good things about it are really enjoyable, like the world design, size, story, characters, graphics, exploration and some other features.

But at the same time the bad things really just become worse the longer you play. The whole thing feels like an offline mmo with stupid mobs, stupid fetch quests busywork, rather unbalanced and flawed combat system, too much grinding etc.

>>386224831
>grinding in xenoblade

>>386224831
>grinding
Do more quests.
Fight more monsters on the way and you'll fill in the majority of quests already.
Quests and monsters are meant to be a self-fulfilling cycle.

>>386224957
don't even have to do that, just explore and you get rewarded for finding new areas. unless you skip every fucking enemy you're fine

>>386224892
>>386224957

The quests are grinding, since there are so many and they are mostly just kill x of y or something like that. You are grinding the quests.
In some places it's already a grind just to get all the quest thanks to the daytime mechanics.
Not to mention the grind for the gems necessary to beat the stronger world bosses.

>>386221131
this game is fucking amazing my dude

>>386224892
>>386224957

I get that you guys think that grinding always just means killing enemies for exp endlessly.

But the true meaning of grinding is just being forced to repeatedly perform the same actions to reach an artificially stretched out goal.

>>386225602
>forced to repeatedly perform the same actions to reach an artificially stretched out goal.

this is an extremely broad statement that can apply to anything, if you mean to say constantly finding new areas and exploring which grants EXP is grinding I have to disagree

>>386221131
Easily one of the best JRPGs of the past decade, if not one of the best ever made. Has one of the best soundtracks in a game, expansive areas, great combat, and a well-told story. It's dual audio but play with the dub, the British VO is fantastic. Unlike a large number of anime vas, Bongs can fucking act

Oh and for the love of God keep the fuck away from threads about this game, and just any form of spoiler in general.

>>386221131
It came out of nowhere and was loved by most.
Some aspects may throw you off depending of what do you expect out of it, but it knows how to make you love it

>>386221819
BORN IN A WORLD OF STRIFE

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>>386221819
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dy74NOzcS8

>that feeling of wonder when you get to Gaur Plain and explore its most secret corners to this music

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>>386225824
>tfw guar plains 2.0 sounds just as good in XC2

too bad they didn't be quite for a second and let us hear it properly during the presentation

>>386225785
AGAINST THE ODDS

>>386221131
I got really excited when i first picked this up but i just think the combat is crap. I don't know how anyone can enjoy a game that has auto attack and some button spamming to change a few combat animations and damage stats.

Why do the Japanese always have to do these things?

>>386221131
only good wii game. play with classic controller.
also, combat is garbage so don't expect depth. there's a fair amount of it in planning ahead of time through gem crafting though, which is actually surprisingly deep. also the way you could have characters give eachother attributes through bonding was a really nice idea. shame p5 didn't do something like that. ost is incredible. most of the game is just running around and uncovering the map so if you like games like castlevania then this'll be right up your alley. it's also one of the ugliest/prettiest games I've ever seen, sometimes at the same time. very strange, but absolutely worth checking out. rough around the edges but does so much well. it's basically a walking contradiction, and it's kind of crazy it even exists.

>>386221131

Pros
>above average plot that keeps you hooked throughout
>characters are all fun and likable (aside from Sharla but she's the obligatory titty monster so whatever) with very good dubs
>Areas are interesting for the most part (the music helps)
>Post game content is enjoyable with 5 secret bosses and a couple of secret unlocked areas later on
>An amazing soundtrack if you like orchestral or even just instrumental stuff

Neither/Both
>Enemy variety is good for the most part but gets somewhat stale
>The graphics are doable for the time it was released and I personally really like the non-anime art style, however they could do with some polishing. It will probably look horrible the first time you play it (if you're not emulating) but you get used to it
>The battle system is probably the thing disputed the most. A lot of the time it just comes down to mashing buttons in a certain order and some find this boring (although I'd argue that the interesting part of battling comes from leveling up arts and skills and using the right people for the right job)
>The side quests are mostly tedious with just a few interesting ones sprinkled throughout.

Cons
>It's kind of a ball ache to 100% especially if you're going for the achievements since one involves getting 999 affinity coins which requires multiple playthroughs
>To add to this the affinity system is very tedious, which is unfortunate since the heart-to-hearts are really good for the feels
>Some areas have large bodies of water so you end up spending a while doing nothing but swimming occasionally, especially if you want to 100% the maps (one area in particular is especially grueling)
>The new game+ is one of the worst I've seen in a game. It's basically a trivialized version of the first playthrough
>Best girl gets shit on repeatedly

>>386225672
Not the exploring, but the quests themselves. They are all so similar and there are so many, too many. The quests conveniently cover almost any enemy in any area at least once, giving you an excuse to grind.

But it's the same that happened to world of warcraft. Each expansion would just have you solve hundreds of quests, each of them just lasting a few minutes and conveniently placed right next to other quests.

It's funny that people can't see that they are being tricked into grinding by some shallow stories.

>>386225975
Nips have a thing for games that play themselves

>>386225963
WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT

>>386225963
WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT
>>386225975
>and some button spamming
And that's where I stopped taking you seriously. Don't spam your arts, a few of them, especially Shulk's are quite situational.

>>386221307
kek

>>386225987
>one area in particular is especially grueling
The map gets auto-completed once you discover all locations in an area. You don't have to manually map it out.

>>386221131
Good soundtrack, but the game itself is mediocre.

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>>386225824
>Territorial Rotbart spots you

>>386226076
Just having the basic attack allocated to a button probably would have been enough for me to stick with it as i thought pretty much every other element of the game was great, but every time i went into a battle i just felt like i could put the game down and watch it unfold

i really enjoyed it. the plot is pretty typical anime-shonen but i think it's presented in a way that is entertaining enough. the base game is really long, and even if you skip all the side content (which I did since all the side quests are boring as hell) and just blaze through the main content, it's like 50-60 hours.

not a huge fan of xenoblade x, unfortunately. i'll have to see if xenoblade chronicles 2 is going to be any decent.

>>386221131
If you can't emulate it don't bother the game looks like total shit on native resolution.

It's an ok game, a step down from previous Xeno titles

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>>386226262

>>386224892
You're right but i don't know how you can beat Jade/Gadolt and Lorithia without grinding a little.

Overrated trash like most JRPGs

>>386226320
By gitting the fuck gud.

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>>386226262
>he's back in XC2
>monsters no longer show if they are aggressive or not

RIP newcomers

>>386221131
Pros:
Decent story and characters

Scenery porn and music create great atmosphere

Large, open world that actually works and is fun to explore


Cons:
Combat system is not the most deep

Sidequests are boring fetchquests most of the time

Random collectibles scattered throughout the world

>>386226378
no

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>people praising the story

Wat? The story was embarrassingly simple.

The moment you see the Monado can't cut Metal-face you know the entire plot

>>386226320
Don't know why jade would be a problem

Lorithia was a bitch but I used an all ether team and kept managing the team by calling them in

>>386226457
Simple? Perhaps it was, but I think what most people are praising is the presentation of the story. The story was told well enough that you forget that it was pretty generic for the most part.

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>>386226093
>>386226130
BLOSSOM DANCE

>>386226457
it was simple yeah that doesn't mean it's by any means bad

>The moment you see the Monado can't cut Metal-face you know the entire plot

lol what, that entire thing is misdirection, it's one of the few obvious as fuck spoilers there to distract you from the real shit

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>>386226401
>>monsters no longer show if they are aggressive or not

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>no more British dubbing

fuck you Nintendo

>>386226631
2 is NoE and has british dubbing though?

>>386226659

oh shit does it

thank the lord

better than X

t. quit X 2 weeks after release with first in over half of time trials and first kills on superbosses

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>>386226457
the story is above average for JRPG standards, it's nothing to praise, but it does the job

>>386226659
its heavily influenced by NoA they can't do anything without their permission, it's not the same studio that did voice work for first one
it's shit and they're using american voices with some random low tier brits they find in america not the brits based in uk with actual good acting and theater experience

dont get your hopes up basically

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>this song that always managed to perfectly sync itself in every cutscene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhCCI8khCW4

the soundtrack in this game is too good

>>386226457
please explain how the fuck knowing that means you know zanza/dickson

>>386226693
They might be FFXII-ing it by having Bongs and Burgers together. Hopefully if Burgers are in the game we get stage actors instead of anime voice actors.

>>386226749
>the story is above average for JRPG

No it isn't, it's Tales of... tier.

Shallow and passable, missing out on the few good opportunities it had to be interesting.

Fiora comes back and nobody gives a shit that she is a fucking robot now, no introspection about what it means to be human.

And then the power of friendship trash starts.

>>386226828
>>386226798
so far I've noticed 2 British, 1 Scottish, and 2 American so it seems to be a hodgepodge

>>386226868

>Tales of tier

okay the story isn't great but it's not THAT bad

>>386226808
the cutscenes where A+ in terms of directing, they were always on point with both the music and the camera angles. I don't know what the fuck happened in X with that terrible sound mashup that always covered the dialogues

>>386226868
it's no xenogears, but XC is noticeably better than tales of stories

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>>386226457
>The moment you see the Monado can't cut Metal-face you know the entire plot

>>386226913
>I don't know what the fuck happened in X with that terrible sound mashup that always covered the dialogues

NoA, not an issue in the japanese version

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What was his endgame?
Did he actually turned into a bro in his last moments of life or it was just him being a faggot till the end?

Post favourite track, lads
https://youtu.be/J4uoZuGy4AY

>>386226913
X would honest to god be the better of the two if the story wasn't so fucking poorly done.

>>386226812
The moment Dickson starts giving you info on Telethia you know he has been bullshiting you and knows far to much to be just some random guy.

If you know what the Monad is in Gnosticism and the fact that you are fighting on the corpses of two gods tells you how the game is going to end.

>>386227026

Probably this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anuAekXi13M

too bad it only played once the entire game and the battle is also cut short halfway

Also yeah, XCX was an improvement in gameplay but basically a downgrade in every other aspect

>>386227025
power of a god/Zanza's buttbuddy
he was my fucking favorite character, his undying resolve despite all the time he spent in colony 9 with "friends" was extremely admirable

i want to FUCK meyneth

>>386227063
no? he was a traveler and it made complete sense, even the fucking nopon know about them

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>fell for the "3ds version isn't compromised" meme and got the 3ds version
>looks like dogshit

>Birbfu
>Dundun
>Heropon
>Reyn
who's best character /v/?

>>386227025
he literally just wanted to fight forever, when he loses he is secretly proud cause Shulk is almost a son to him, even thought he didn't want to get attached, he couldn't avoid it

>>386226659
>directed by a shit-tier american VA
No thanks.

>>386227026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75YyJ9FQnMI
Best area, best music, best moment

>>386227189
>fell for the "3ds version isn't compromised" meme

everyone here warns that the 3DS version is the least good version

>>386227313
source?

>>386227025
this motherfucker right here, a great example why the story/writing is so good he literally nearly looks into the camera and says he's gonna betray you, but the game is written so well/he's so cool you wave it off or forget about it

>>386227189
The thing is that the original also looks like shit. 3DS version is the least shitty looking port on a weaker system ever.

>>386227189
Bruh the 3DS version is like a last resort option.

>>386227394
>but the game is written so well/he's so cool you wave it off or forget about it

If you're an idiot sure.

1. Clearly has unique character model
2. Has far to much knowledge for some random guy living in your town
3. Keeps popping up in places he shouldn't be

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>>386227205
Is it really a question?
It's Dunban

>>386227674
>1. Clearly has unique character model
like every named character in the game?

>2. Has far to much knowledge for some random guy living in your town
His job is traveling around the world and gaining knowledge

>3. Keeps popping up in places he shouldn't be
Guy was a veteran and resident of colony 9, had every reason to counter Mechonis like Dunban

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XCX HIJACK LOL

>>386227674
What I wanna know is why no one in the colony defence forces realised that Dickson had been an old man for as long as the colonies had existed

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>>386227859

>>386227674
>1. Clearly has unique character model
You just went full retard right off the bat

>>386227859
Can't wait till it's inevitably revealed she's the reason Humans and Ganglion are on Mira in XCX2

>>386227863
He would obviously change his form periodically

>>386227026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mAn_aJ1k_w
Into Deadlands (Day) is probably the thing that really hits me. It's really closely tied with Eryth Sea (Day), though.

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>>386227859
>you want a resolution to the story
>you want a sequel that actually explains what's happening
>Fuck you have Xenoblade 2 instead

>>386228040
I wasnt super disappointed with XC2's reveal but yeah i'd prefer XCX2 instead.

>>386227026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMrvVpD0zG4
You never really get to experience how good this track is, since obviously you're busting your balls trying not to die
Other than that all of the night tracks are top tier

>>386221131
its alright

>>386227913
Why was X so full of memes? I know everyone bitches about the changes in the Skell names and the BLADE corps, but most of those were pretty good changes, these memes seem not too good.

But I like them.

>>386228040
Not waking up to the announcement of XCX2 was incredibly dissapointing. XCX had a lot going for it as a series, but instead we're getting Xenoblade turned into Nintendo's Final Fantasy.

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>>386228040
>that one scene in the lifehold right before they leave where she says "It's a long story, why don't I tell you all over a meal?"
I don't know if we're just meant to assume she told everyone about her past and we didn't get to see it, or if she's just bullshitting and never intended to tell us anything.

Either way I'm still mad they didn't make better use of different species. Hopefully Xeno2 lets you pick alien species to create avatars for, maybe with different starting areas and missions before you gain access to other species locations.

>>386228292
she just told them what Lyn says in the epilogue. Also something interesting not everyone picks up on is Elma knows you're a Jbody, she only pretends to forget to tell you you're a MIM. She's trained Yelv before and it was her job to train you, that's why she immediately wants you on her team despite you not doing much. The rest of your party members know too, recall when Elma tells Lyn she brought in another one of "you know whos"

Reminder that XCX2 is going to be an MMO

http://nintendoeverything.com/monolith-soft-looking-for-an-action-planner-with-knowledge-of-online-games-medieval-fantasy-settings/

>>386228454
>medieval fantasy

yup sounds like XCX2

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>>386228182
The reason humans ended up on Mira is because the Ghost fucked up both the humans and the Ganglion (Growth)

I feel like the VA does a lot of the work for Xenoblade. Dunban's a hot-blooded older brother which is pretty cliche on it's own but when you shift the focus to 'older' (which the VA definitely does by making him sound refined and confidant) he doesn't come off as cliche. "Meathead best friend" is also a lot more endearing when he's a Brit and so on.

>>386224738
>worst part is ether mine
Thank god, I stopped playing for a while when I got to Ether Mine, and I just finished it recently. I'm glad that it's only going to get better from there. Roughly how far through the game am I now?

>>386228631
>Roughly how far through the game am I now?

lol. Also get out before you're spoiled

>>386228439
>Jbody
Remind me please.

>>386228763
MIMs with no original humans controlling them, just AIs. pretty much just tools/weapons

do the Yelv side quests