>tfw there will never be a Xenoblade game with the mechs,

>>386649887
You're getting a railroaded shonen LN plot and you're gonna like it.
http://www.wahmmo.com/why-xenoblade-chronicles-2-has-a-character-designed-by-tetsuya-nomura/
https://mynintendonews.com/2017/06/15/tetsuya-takahashi-shares-a-message-about-xenoblade-chronicles-2-with-the-fans/
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/06/25/xenoblade-chronicles-2s-executive-director-says-like-work-much-smaller-projects/
Just the facts of a post-Nutendo Monolithsoft.

>the art style is generic as shit
Still has better faces than both past games.

>>386649887
Mecha games are dead, Monolith is just going to pander to smashfags from now on

When does Xenoblade Chronicles get good? It plays like a single player MMO, albeit with a compelling world and story.

>>386649887
i want more XCX too, so many questions that need answers and now im wondering how a more interactive MP would work, i mean with the fact that the players roam the world freely together exactly like an MMO. I wonder if in the next X game we get to be on one/some of the other white whales that made it.

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>>386650118
Maybe from a technical standpoint but Xenoblade's style looked way better. Pic related is a fanservicy design just like the monado girl in XB2 but Fiora looks good beyond just being a scantily glad girl. Her voice, personality, and design are all very charming. XB1 just had a much more cohesive design and world to it, it felt much more real and everything had a distinct, consistent style that XB2 seems to have lost. XBX faces were definitely worse than XB2's generic anime faces but XBX still had a generally consistent and unique tone and style while XB2's character designs all look like nasty generic shit.

>>386650163
>Monolith is just going to pander to smashfags from now on
This. They're forced to abandon their long-time fans to pay the bills. No more mechas forever, just sword harem and whiny shota. Forever.

>>386650457
>XB2's character designs all look like nasty generic shit.
Good thing it will fit right in with the games plot and gameplay then!

>>386650245
if you are in that mindset, never. It is MMO-esque but I personally really like the combat, it's more enjoyable than most standard turn-based fare. XB and XBX both feel like "single player MMOs" when it comes to combat, if you can't stand it, it never changes so just stop.

>>386649887

The story sucked.

>>386650245

It already is good. Focus on the story, it's all you need.

>>386649887
i stopped on chapter six i was really close to a mech but got bored of trying to max out every class. and fuck the debuff class, its lame as fuck early game.

>>386650665
That's why I said it would ideally have the story quality of Xenoblade, not XBX. XBX is better in every way except for character design, music, and story, it's fucking infuriating if the 2 games mashed together it would be perfect.

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>>386649887

I really wish they had delayed it by a few months and given all of the characters a little more development/love.

I liked what we got, but I wanted more. The SIDE CONTENT is what made the game so great, imo.

>>386650457
And they both look like utter shit in-game, the block hands specially from XB and the faces in X were just awful.

Fuck that, when are we getting Xenoblade Chronicles X on the Switch? Seriously nintendo I would have fucking bought the switch if you just ported over your goddamn Wii/U library. The fuck is wrong with you god damn dumb mother fuckers.

>>386650793
I would be down for that as long as the mechs don't dumb down the gameplay as hard as they did in XBX.

>>386650695
I did the same thing but you should keep playing, the skells are awesome.
>>386650810
I disagree, I thought Xenoblade characters looked fine in-game considering the time it came out and being a wii game. I was fine with them but the characters in X looked distractingly bad and they didn't have the excuse of technology, just poor design.

>>386650793

You're right, my reading comprehension this early sucks. XBs story was amazing.

>>386650873
>when are we getting Xenoblade Chronicles X on the Switch?
Never.

Monolithsoft abandoned their old games because casual linear "games" with seasonal LN plots pays the bills. See >>386650046.

Thanks smashfags/ironic weebs.

>>386650910
Yeah, as cool as the skells were it was kind of lame how combat basically became "wait for super long cooldowns and then just mash all abilities". It's weird that they made ground combat so fucking good but once you get the skell you are seriously gimping yourself if you don't use it. Sucks that they'll probably never improve skell combat and we just won't ever see mecha again

>>386650923
when i fix my gamepad i'll totally replay it then.

>>386651018
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oNwqkfHbcxk
>the fucking state of jewtendolithsoft

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One of the biggest issues with XBX's story is that it does not pace itself AT ALL.
>never do pic related's side quests
>because of this I talked to him literally like once early in the game
>40 hours later he makes his big sacrifice and it's super dramatic and I'm supposed to care or even fucking remember who he is
>this is perhaps the biggest story moment in the game
never seen a climax botches so hard

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Does anyone know if armor still changes visually in XB2 so I can at least make the protag look like less of a puffy-pants mickey mouse shoe faggot?
this goddamn nigger better not replace Shulk in the next smash or get in over Elma

>>386651440
No it doesn't. Remember Takahashi has all but forgotten his original audience, he abandoned them for smashniggers and ironic weebs.

>>386651267
>>never do pic related's side quests
they are required to advance the story

>>386651267
>>never do pic related's side quests
Impossible, they're all mandatory. Even the silly one where you play match-maker for his squad member.

Bump again.

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>>386653472
>>386652705

>expecting a xenoblade thread to get much traction at this time of day

I'm sorry dude, it just doesn't happen.

>>386651440
We don't know, ignore this guy>>386651541

>>386649887
>drastic gameplay improvements like in X
What the fuck did X do that was an improvement in any way over XBX, let alone a drastic improvement? What a fucking retarded opinion

>>386653941
over xenoblade rather

>>386650457
Melia > Fiora

>>386653941
Exploration-wise: running, higher jump, no fall damage, more open world design, mechs.

Combat-wise: giving every class the chance to heal by triggering Soul Voice, Overdrive, mixing-and-matching weapon builds, locking on to specific enemy parts to gather materials and disabling attacks.

Utility-wise: putting all non-named NPC quests in a single location, dividing the world into sectors and tying an objective to each one, making all collectibles and unique monsters respawn simply upon skip traveling.

Just a few off the top of my head.

>>386652024
>>386652074
Either way my point still stands because I genuinely did not remember doing them at all.

>>386649887
It hurts bro, but this the price you pay for not having Iwata. Iwata was the only reason, Monolith was allowed to be ambitious(spend money). Kimishima will never allow a franchise to do what it wants, only stuff that sells on brand value and can be use to milk their toys and paywall locked content.

This is why XC2 is the most generic, shitty, uninspired, shonen linear JRPG, tales-spin off cash grab Monolith has ever shitted. Nothing other than marketing bait can be used to describe the garbage that is XC2.

>>386655151
8/10, I like your corporate fanfics, can you share more?

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>>386649887
>tfw no mechs in XBC2

>>386655151
>This is why XC2 is the most generic, shitty, uninspired, shonen linear JRPG, tales-spin off cash grab Monolith has ever shitted. Nothing other than marketing bait can be used to describe the garbage that is XC2.
I hope your wrong, but I somehow know in my heart this is the truth.

>>386655263
You don't believe me? Why don't you take off the fanboy goggles and look at the Metroid threads. Kimishima is the only reason Nintendo is turning into Capcom/Konami.

>>386655480
I'd rather believe the developers themselves about Xenoblade 2 starting development as X was wrapping up, which was when Iwata was still alive.

>>386655267
why is she so fucking cute

>>386655480
Samus Returns looks good. Are you ACfag? You sound like him.

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>>386649887
Switch is piece of shit and do not deserve real Xenoblade.

>>386656630
>Switch is piece of shit and do not deserve real Xenoblade.
The Wii and Wii U were also pieces of shit.

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>>386656630
It's just a different artstyle.
t. XBCX fanboy

>>386656630
nigger even if you think Switch is underpowered (it is for a console, overpowered for a handheld) it's objectively stronger than Wii U. If XB2 looks worse (which it probably will) it's due to the shitty new artstyle and incomptency.

>>386655108
No it doesn't you stupid fuck, a storywriter expects their audience to have a normal human memory and you clearly have some kind of disease.

>>386656630
So this is the power of an uninspired cash grab, whoa

>>386656630
Same grass assets. Why not recycle the sky as well?

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>>386657396
They need to handle two modes thanks to retarded "PLAY ANYWHERE LMAO" doctrine.
So they cut the corners here and there.

Say goodbye to this beauty.

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>>386657602
>Say goodbye to this beauty.
S-stop it

>>386657602
This. Sad to see a series die for cheap profit. We're never seeing a real Xeno game ever again, just ironic weebshit.

>>386655391
We commend you for staying redpilled instead of denying the corporate sellout that is """""""""""Xeno""""""""""""blade 2. While the fanboys enjoy their linear shonen LN tainted by the hands of Neo-Nintendo, we're just sitting back and lamenting the death of a development team that once had dignity and integrity.

>>386653872
>ignore the guy who is generally agreed to be correct and has tons of facts backing him up because I said so
Can you be any more of a blind shill?

>>386658187
Too late anon.

This is a Xeno funeral thread now. We know how much it hurts to lose something close to us.

Here's the trailer for this sellout trash. Embrace the cringe.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjpao-nD5YU

>>386658296
>ignore the guy who is generally agreed to be correct
By who? You're one of the most annoying fucks in these threads.

>>386658296
I will donate £50 to a charity of your choice if you prove you aren't samefagging, because it seems really obvious that you're samefagging.

>>386658296
Holy fuck cringe

>>386658751
>>386658679
>deluding yourself into thinking that anyone raising concerns over Xenoblade: the Shonen LN is just one person
The state of XB2 apologists.

>>386658864
Considering you raise the same "concerns" in the same way and using the same words, with the same images..yeah, I'd say you're samefagging in these threads. You're concern trolling.

>>386658864
>literally uses the same wording all the time
Nice try, samefag-kun.

>>386651018
Literally every link in >>386650046 are the developers talking about how they're making the kinds of games they want to make, but go ahead and speculate endlessly on how they're lying and actually don't want to try something different.

>>386658985
Making the kinds of games they want to make doesn't matter if they don't make the kinds of games he wants them to make.

He is literally an entitled child.

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>>386651018
Takahashi has said he's open to the idea of porting XCX, but only after development on XC2 is complete. It's entirely possible. I for one would fucking love to play through it all again, especially on handheld providing they somehow scale the text size.

>>386659367
I'd like an extended port, but I guess it's likely to happen only if a third party handled it, like the Xenoblade port on 3DS

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>>386659367
>I for one would fucking love to play through it all again
Play in on Wii U then, faggot.
Stop begging for ports, imbecile.

Any more theories on the story yet or are we still in a drought of info

>>386659786
>Not playing on Cemu with mods

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>>386659786
>hey I would play that if it happened
>begging

Is English your second language, anon? You seem to have picked up insults from 12 year olds and Disney villains.

>>386659912
The Cemu build is nauseating for XBCX.

Not even memeing. It made me physically ill, the stuttering and the hot/cold brightness. I got such a headache playing it.

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>there will never be a team member this competent, logical and intelligent again

>>386650245
I dunno why people complain about it "playing like a single player MMO" all the time. The combat presentation is the same but it has more strategy and customization than nearly every other JRPG in existance.

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>>386660123
Goodnight, sweet prince.

>>386660123
>>386660348

>you will never fuck h.b.

why even live

>>386660348
I thought /v/ was memeing when they postws that pose

>>386659849
Nothing new since the full site launched. Some guy wrote up an image.

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>>386659367
Concept art like that really hyped me up for mad cutscenes with good cinematography, voice acting and music like in XC, nothing exciting was ever done though.

>>386660625
There were a few great cutscenes in the game, imo. Most of them were in the trailers, though.

>>386660625

Shame that most scenes in X were just the MCs standing around talking at each other, with no animations and little direction

>>386660625
>getting meteor shower weather during that cutscene
Isn't Eryth Sea stuck in permanent rain between the emperor leaving for Prison Island and the events at Prison Island themselves? Or maybe it only lasts until you enter Prison Island. Either way, neat.

>nothing exciting was ever done though
I liked when Nagi went "nothing personnel, kid" with Overdrive in a sidequest.

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booted up XBCX for the first time in a while. God damn I fucking miss this game, had an absolute amazing time with it. I hope it gets ported to Switch so more people can enjoy it.

The fact that Takahashi expressed interest in a Switch port makes me think they're at least in the planning stages for a sequel. Would be random to just port it and not do anything more with it.

>>386661086
Apparently they were working on concept stages for XBC2 when XBX was in the localisation stages, so they're probably looking at X2 or whatever the next Xenoblade game is right now

>>386660053
You need to play at a older build, anon. The new one is shit, because devs turned it into zelda only optimized machine.

>>386661372
Yeah the build I was playing was apparently the best build for XBCX, it's still crap. It was the March build before they went full on with Zelda.

>falling for the CEMU meme

>>386661372
X was never really "good" on CEMU, it was great for screenshots and shit but the framerate was all over the place and the bloom really fucks up all the time.

It makes for a great NLA simulator, though

I rewatched the Xenoblade 2 trailer and I think the voice acting is mostly fine, the only weak voice is unfortunately Rex's in some points, I hope stuff like the "TAKE THIIIIIIS" gets retaken before the game comes out. The Japanese voice acting doesn't seem stellar either, as of now both tracks just sound okay to me.

>>386650457
Looks like shulk in a wig

>>386661460
The stuttering only happens the first time anon. Cemu is storing all the textures in the cache. Once you beat the entire game and create the cache for most of the game the stuttering is reduced. This is more pronounced in emulating modern games than older, but infact both use a cache. It's just cemu needs gigs of ram, while dolphin needs a couple megs.

>>386649887
Just wait for XCX2 anon

>>386662152
I played 15 hours in and the issues were still prevalent, anon. It was supposedly the best build for XBCX, but I dropped it. Got it on WiiU in the end and I learned the brightness was fucked as well.

>tfw Xenoblade X soundtrack
seriously what the fuck. I think the soundtrack is the biggest reason I never finished it. What were they thinking?

is there a mod for CEMU that replaces all the battle and New LA music with something that doesn't make me want to kill myself?

>>386649887
>the art style is generic as shit

So fucking sick of reading this. Artstyle is way beyond uguu anime faces. XB2 Looks great and I can't wait to play it.

>>386662549
>Not appreciating amazing lyrics such as
>NOW WE'RE STUCK ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT PLANET

>>386662437
>15 hours

Yeah you need more time than that. You have to beat the entire game once. Then the cache will be built up. But if you are fine with Wii U go for it.

>>386662549
>is there a mod for CEMU that replaces all the battle and New LA music with something that doesn't make me want to kill myself?

Why yes, as a matter of fact. A simple google search will give you the answer. But I am moreso concerned why 3 songs out of 90, bother you enough to call the entire sountrack shit.

>>386649887
I can get the upgraded soil before accepting the "A Girl's Wings" missing, right?
The Oc-serv is kicking my ass. Didn't try the other enemy yet but I fucking hope you can get the material before the mission anyways.

>>386662549
The wind blows hard in December

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WE'LL SHOW YA!

>>386663745
It's a common material, just get it off the online terminal for 60 or so reward tickets.

>>386664207
Can't. So, is it possible to get it beforehand?

>>386664393
Why can't you? Also, sure you can get regular enemy drops before the missions that require them, those enemies are always out on the field.

>TFW everyone hates the discount Angela Ballsack designs
Saito draws good lewds.

The only ones out of XBC 2 I dislike is Rex he looks a bit too childish unlike Shulk, and Nomura's designs because it's Nomura. I just hope with Takahashi going for a lighter story it keeps a similar quality of story like the first Xenoblade.

>>386665450
>Saito draws good lewds.
Proof?

>>386666002
Saitom on Pixiv.

>>386666002
https://exhentai.org/g/721407/ccd0b5c6b9/

>>386655151
>This is why XC2 is the most generic, shitty, uninspired, shonen linear JRPG, tales-spin off cash grab Monolith has ever shitted. Nothing other than marketing bait can be used to describe the garbage that is XC2.
Oh hi John Titor, welcome back from the future! What brings you here?

>>386655391
>I hope your wrong, but I somehow know in my heart this is the truth.
Instead of your heart, you should listen to your brain: what are the odds that a plot-driven AAA game made by one of the best writers in the industry, and that's already confirmed to be bigger and fuller than one of the biggest and fullest game ever made, will turn out to be bad?