What the fuck were Monolith thinking? The ending was perfectly

>>388628878
Blame Nintendo for forcing them to put in a silent custom character and chop up the story to get it to release. We could have had a true successor to XC

>>388629160
I think the silent custom character worked to a certain extent. We didn't have Shulk making bullshit decisions because of 'muh Fiora'. Having said that, it's a shame our avatar couldn't influence or shape the game based on our decisions.

>>388629160
XCX was a story about Mira and the people making a life on it. You being just another refugee instead of THE CHOSEN ONE fits within that story.

They were thinking that Mira is some sort of purgatory and the entire population of NLA is dead.

>>388630680
Proof? That's mighty depressing if true.

>>388629917
we're not sure the old mc was the chosen one though, the only significant thing I ever recall hearing about him was that he had a girlfriend whose last name was sakuraba.

Not like your "just another refugee" wasn't a chosen one of sorts anyways, you end up railroaded into the all-star super team that does most of the big important shit because you're also artificial and almost certainly related tangentially to the J-body project

>>388630680
>>388631020
I don't think so, mira's implied to have some purpose or goal related to saving and protecting people and getting them to get along (personal note here: celica's theme, which is thematically associated with her desire for everybody to get along and survive comfortably in peace, plays when it is uncovered that something is auto-translating). concept art for mira also happens to show two towers on or near mira's north pole that are suspiciously sloped quite like the lifehold, and most likely are lifeholds themselves fromt he lifehold technology's original creator givent hat mira's purpose is to shelter and that everybody's still alive somehow; I theorize that there are therefore other lifeholds on mira built by whoever designed the tech that downloaded copies of NLA's people and is sustaining them in the lifehold core's abscence. More interestingly, this would imply that whoever originated the lifehold technology are also the ones who made mira.

You want more of my theories? Takahashi loves to do end and rebirth of world cycles in his shit, and the Samaar were said to arrive "from another plane" "at the dawn of the cosmos" by Luxaar, so I think mira is some kind of shelter intended to survive the death and rebirth of the universe intact.

>>388631546
>I think mira is some kind of shelter intended to survive the death and rebirth of the universe intact

I love this theory so much more than "hurrr it's purgatory and they're deeeeeeadddd"

Thanks anon.

>>388628878
They were thinking sequel bait, nothing that strange about it. The question is if and when they'll make it.

>>388629917
this
nintendobabies cannot play as anyone but the "chosen one"

>>388631816
Apparently it sold about 1.5 million copies. Does this justify a sequel? It wasn't as well received as XC, even though it was a brilliant game in its own right. I hope for a sequel, but I can't imagine we'll ever see one.

It's not meant to be entirely conclusive, you fag. It's meant to have the player question what the fuck is going on and come up with their own ideas, like this guy did: >>388630680

It's not "a cliffhanger", it's not "sequel bait", it's just open-ended. It's also made in a way that you can still play the game after beating the main story line.

>>388632264
>that cloaked guy walking up to Lao on the beach at the end is not sequel bait
C'mon.

>>388632264
>It's also made in a way that you can still play the game after beating the main story line.
But the ending pre-credits roll was already set up to do that. Finding the lifehold was a primary mission, but not the only mission. The day-to-day running of NLA and infrastructure building were still ongoing before finding the lifehold.

>>388631978
>>388629917
But you do play as the chosen one. The MC is inexplicably more powerful than everyone else in BLADE even in the beginning

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>>388631759
I take most of what I theorize from concept art, what video series linked has to say about it, and my own personal notes taken from the names of the soundtrack songs and/or when they are played. Guy has a pretty shitty mic that has a couple videos hard to watch, but some good shit man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_qVCyhZS0&list=PLfKq4rzetPkzY8dYoz2oHQ-s113KBPojF&index=1

>>388632549
You're just one of the very few members pulling his/her weight.

>>388632549
No they are not, Doug, Elma, Lao are clearly supposed to be veterans that you don't reach until later
Just because you can kill stuff in the gameplay doesn't mean the narrative supports it too

>>388632735
But other BLADEs in sidequests comment on how strong you are

>>388632897
Still you are not the chosen one in the narrative
You could say that you are better at fights than nameless npcs in every rpg game ever made

Trying to get into this game after playing endgame of FFXIV feels really boring. The characters are so damn bad, along with the quests and whatever it tries to make you feel for the people. Recently did a side mission where you get some guy for a boss fight added into the party, and he instantly got clobbered

>>388628878
>lol planet is magic
>Lao encounters some fag in black
>sequel coming? nope
Th-thanks Takahashi you fucking hack

>>388633129
The other party members in this game eventually degrade into mildly effective meat shields once you make your build more and more OP.

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>>388633198
Not just some fag in black, but a motherfucking testament.

>>388629917
>You being just another refugee instead of THE CHOSEN ONE fits within that story
You are the only one that seems to be doing anything tho, do you see any other people running around mira doing stuff? fucking no.

>>388633331
Xenoblade X Pied Piper for smartphones to tell his story when?

>>388633461
What? There are tons of BLADE members all over Mira during sidequests, not to mention the ones at base camps from all divisions. Plus other players' avatars, who in-universe are also other BLADE members.

>>388633003
The fact that MC is so much better than everyone else with no training whatsoever means it's another special snowflake Mary Sue just like all JRPG protagonists

>>388633716
They are all stationary statues that are magically there.
You are the only one that does any probing, or reconnaissance, or hunting, or scavaging, or blue shiny gathering, everybody else is just standing there like an idiot until you talk to them because only you have the capability of independent thought in the whole base.

>>388634141
>They are all stationary statues that are magically there.

You gotta suspend your disbelief when playing a video game like this. Just think of all the shit you do as additional reconnaissance.

>>388633747
>with no training whatsoever
The gameplay is the training. It's not like everyone else has been doing BLADE work for years, only two months before you at most.

>>388633747
It's not 'no training whatsoever' though, you're pretty shit at the start and with each quest as you get less bad at the game people comment more on how you're not shit

>>388634640
But other members of BLADE are stated to be military veterans, unlike the MC.
>>388634927
people praise you from the very beginning though

>>388634975
Since the MC was in one of the pods in the first place, he was either military personnel himself or one of the J-Body androids like Yelv.

>>388629160
>Blame Nintendo for forcing them to put in a silent custom character

source?

your ass

>>388630680
Technically, all people is dead, anon.
They are just mimeosomes and their real bodys are dead.

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Why's she so pefect, lads?

>>388633325
The only fun in the game if you're trying to challenge yourself is making an infinite maximum overdrive character before level thirty then smashing your way through things thirty levels and several stories higher than you as hard as you can. It's a fucking thrill.

>>388636380
ugh

I miss X. I really hope it gets another game in the series. Except without the online, that was a miss.
And without the avatar.
You know, just make another normal Xenoblade with X's world, atmosphere and music

>>388636380
>>388636481

>can't unsee the ! on her armor as a vulva slit and an asshole

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>>388628878
I am an Elma person!

>Sequel never
>The dozens of questions and plot threads will never get resolution

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>>388636380
Elma is just best girl in general.
She even chose to be delicious brown as her mim.

>>388628878
Do you think her pubic hair is crystalline?

>>388637146
Does she reply to the 'tell her you're an elma person' differently if you're either male and female?

>>388637492
No matter your gender I'm pretty sure she just gets upset because she's not a pet.

>>388628878
XCX-2 is coming after XC2, we'll find out what happens.

>>388637470
yes, her asshole hair too.

>>388637470
Eww
I bet she doesn't polish them too

>>388637470
We can only hope. Just imagine what she could do to your penis, with her wealth of knowledge and skills.

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>>388637492
I don't think so.
Though I know the scene with the Definian chick at the end of her story has two different outcomes, because she turns into the opposite gender your Mim is.

>>388637670
Interesting. What does girl 'human' Erio look like?

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Just gonna dump some Elma ass in this thread.

>>388637758
>will will never have an Elma pet
Why live?

>>388629917
Expect the original MC wasn't the chosen one so you have no idea what your talking about.

>>388637836
I'd rather be Elma's pet.

>>388637590
No Xenoblade Dogma Souls X is coming before that.

http://gematsu.com/2017/08/monolith-soft-hiring-ambitious-new-project-different-brand-image

I'm genuinely excited about this

>>388637881
Fair point. She'd always be your alpha, what with being a more advanced life form.

>Lao wakes up in Elysium
easy

>>388628878
What does alien Elma smell like. She looks like she would smell very clean and fragrant

>>388638003
Have to admit, I'd love to see them attempt a medieval fantasy world. Darks Souls proves gooks can do medieval well, without resorting to animu nonsense.

>>388638003
God you people are so god damn stupid. Those pictures they posted are just art examples from their employees, NOT indicative of the content of a new game. They had totally unrelated art posted when they were hiring for Xenoblade X as well.

>>388636897
you will get a tales spin off with shittier slower combat catered to kids with a "Xenoblade" title and a "2" patched in and you are gonna like it

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Who did you faggots lie the most.

>>388638261
It's either mideval fantacsy or sci-fi mixed with mideval fantasy.

Either way it's an "ambitous" project focused on pushing boundaries not regurgitated typical shonen JRPG stories catered to pre-teens

>>388638474
Like* the most! Everyone knows that lie was Lao

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>>388638474
Celica, easy

It hurts

>>388638474
Lao didn't do nuffin

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>>388638474
Mia

>>388638656
Takes Rock's giant dick on the daily

>>388638474
Top 5:
Celica
Elma true form
Alexa
Hope (mainly because of her VA)
Murderess

>>388638816
I once suggested they go to the toy store, was not prepared

I'm so sorry rock

>>388638474
Nagi obviously

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>>388638528
Here, add this to your collage.

>>388638474
Gundam Whore easily.

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>>388638474
Mia is pretty cute.

>>388632072

Damns thats pretty good considering 10+mil WiiUs in the world.

>>388631816

Frankly I don't care, the true xenogame was Xenogears and nothing has come close to it since. Hilarious how a team full of amateurs in the mid 90s could pull that off.

Blade was fun and X had interesting gameplay. I can only hope this new one learns from both.

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>>388629580
>it's a shame our avatar couldn't influence or shape the game based on our decisions.
>He thinks saving the lives of 40+ NPCs throughout the game isn't shaping the game through your decisions.

>>388639002
>dislaying controls in the UI
>displaying skell fuel in the UI
>displaying descriptions beneath Arts
>using a map handicap
>using time

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>>388638474

Boyonetta

>>388628878
My thoughts exactly. I was told in advance that the ending sucked, and I just didn't understand it why people say that, I liked it...until the cutscene after the credits.
That is the prime example of how you can ruin everything with just one scene.

>lmao everyone was dead all along xD
>it's just the planet, it's "special", I ain't gonna explain shit :^)

Yeah fuck off.

>>388639216
>not having the option to purge all subhumans
>choice

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>>388638474
Alexis shares my love of big robots and she's also a big dork

>>388639216
>let him shoot the Manon
>
>Elma liked that

Hoping XC2 will have amazing sidequests. Don't want anything related to waterplants and pizza though

>>388639601
Those were awesome quests though.

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>>388639228
>Can't handle all the information on screen.

>>388638474
I liked Alexa and Hope the most.

>>388639002
>not turning off most of that shit

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>>388639827
What's that? You want MORE stuff on screen?

I want to see all the Manon dead!

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>>388639228
Not that anon but sometimes keeping that stuff on can host interesting results

>>388639962
>VERY fast cross moving at incredibl hihg speeds

>>388639921
They have such a good theme though.

>>388639893
>>388639728
>>388639002
Looks BADASS

>>388639962
Can people leave messages around the world a la dark souls?
I'm playig this on cemu in grorious high resolution with their garbage blurry postprocessaa removed and replaced with proper aa.

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I feel like every time I see an XCX thread, I get the urge to play it again.

Ah well, time to boot it up.

>>388640229
No, they just appear like every 30 minutes in like troves.
Most of them are annoying.

>>388640229
>Playing a stolen version of the game
>Thinking it's like Dark Souls
PC 'gamers' are always so retarded.

>>388640229
>>388640396
And they're going to disappear once Miiverse closes down in November, unfortunately.

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What was bollocks was the fact you can't add searchlights to your skell and use them to explore darkened areas. Or use them as a way to repel/attract certain enemies.

>>388640229
A tad offtopic but:
I recent got the Loadline version of the game in parts, hoping to play the decensored version.

You happen to have a guide on making this shit extract and aplying said patch? There's not much out there on it other than I know I need the loadline version.

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Threadly reminder that the Samaar Federation is a federation created at the end of Xenoblade 3, after the discovery of the Zohar in Xenoblade 2, and they use the Zohar to take their entire civilization into Imaginary Number Domain / U-DO and then go back in time to the beginning of the old Universe to prevent humanity from destroying it with the Phase Transition Experiment, but their rule over the Universe leads to the massive war that destroys Earth and leads into Xenoblade X.

>>388640804
That's pretty fucking cool

>>388640804
Don't lump trash like Xenoblade 2, with actual Xeno games like X.

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>>388628878
modelkit when
figures when

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>>388640718
I should play again, i was able to cheese getting the True Hero achievement when that hacker was killing the Global Nemesis for a while and stopped playing after that.

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>>388637758
Is it time?

>>388640770
Nigga you can download a patched looadine version, is what i did.
There should be guides on cemu leddit.
You use cheatengine to change breasts to DFC or milkers.
/r/cemu/comments/5q25fu/introducing_xcx_10ct_a_rough_cheattable_port_of/

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>>388628878
I'm an Elma person!

>>388641235
>CheatEngine
don't you need to reset them every load transition though?

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>>388641194

I wish we got more Xenoblade X merch in general.

>>388641235
Also I did find a Mega download for the EU unsub and uncensored version, but that shit was too big for MEga to let me download and i'm too much of a brainlet to understand how a MEGA VPN works

>>388641025
lol

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>One unknown hero at NoA made sure that the hardest to make Ayylma armor was uncensored on Lyn.

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Reminder that progens are the most beautiful and majestic indigens on Mira. Killing them should be a crime, really.

>>388641673
truly the best

>>388635675
Not him but we don't know if Nintendo forced them. We DO know though that original XCX was supposed to have a defined character instead of custom character. They've admitted that mid-way through development they cut the character and made him a CaC because they decided to implement online elements really late.

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>CEMU fags will never know the joys of Treasure Deals.

>>388641556
>>388641456
blease respond

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>>388641785

I wanna commit a crime!

>>388642020
Never used them. What are they?

>>388642020
That's fine, we have cheat engine to give us every possible item with any possible trait. But the best aspect is allowing us to modify breast characteristics on all the characters.

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>>388642223
>Needing to cheat

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>>388641673
I wish Ayylma's hair didn't black her ass

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>>388642142
N-no.

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>>388641262
When she rejected me I knew I'd never be satisfied until I saw her broken.

>>388641456
How bout you read the fucking link nigger
No, you set it to what you want and save the game.
There it's changed forever.
>>388641556
Use megadownloader fgt

>>388642757
Sounds cool. Also thanks for the suggestion.

>>388642331
I take "cheat" over wasting hours of my life grinding anytime.
CE truly is a godsent, the amount of time it saved me was stupendous

>>388642412
>Billions of wasted conceptual art 1000x better than anything from XC2

I really want to know what the fuck happened to Takahashi after XCX. He didn't truly beleive those Amazon Japan reviews were genuine did he?

>>388642331
>you will never been molested by Goetia

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>>388642935
You sound extremely morally bankrupt. You both sadden and sicken Hope with your scurrilous behavior and refusal to repent.

>>388642875
No, not cool. It sounds P E R F E C T.
Also get the graphics pack for cemu, use the 4k one(2160p) since it doesn't lower fps over 1080p lel. Then get the AA removal from that same github, then higher resolution shadows.
Then you get reshade and fix the godawful colors and visuals of this game and apply fxaa or smaa(fxaa is passable since you are rendering at 4k and at that resolution fxaa actually works).
ALso i hope you have an nvidia gpu, cemu devs are incompetent and never changed the emulator once since release so it only runs on nvidia since their cards are inaccurate when emulating and as such have higher framerates.

>>388643280
I don't have a very powerful PC so I might have to hold off on that.

>>388638474
the ma-non
perfect anarchist society
bet they got wild drug-fueled sex parties erryday

>>388643363
cemu runs on a single thread and uses 20% of your average gpu.
The most important factor is having nvidia, then it's how far you can oc your cpu.
What do you have

>>388638474
S U P E R I O R

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I'm going to miss Skells in Xenoblade 2.

>>388643542
I have an nvidia card but I also have a laptop so my milage may vary.
I'll likely at least be able to run base at 720 though.

>>388637492
She just says you have brain damage.

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Who was your SkellFu

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>>388643876

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>>388643681
Me too.

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>>388643876
T H I C C
T H R E A D S

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>>388642594

Yes. Have you learned nothing from Doug? It's kill or be killed.

My favorite part is kicking an Indigen in the face.

>>388644087
>thick

>>388644229
You me treads?

>>388643681
im going to miss everything from X in 2.

>>388644534
me you treds

>>388642142
Whoa, what are those skills? I don't think I bothered using that class at all, though I was planning to get all of them fully unlocked. I stopped like an idiot when the rumors of a Switch XCX port started making the rounds.

>>388642223
>allowing us to modify breast characteristics on all the characters
source?

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>>388643681
>I'm going to miss Skells in Xenoblade 2.
The fact that Xenoblade 2 has no mechs in sight is concerning. Every Xeno game up until now has had mechs in it some way or another. Even the first Xenoblade game with the faced mechon. No mechs = no hype, at least for me.

>>388644892
>be mangaka Ken Akamatsu
>make multiple fanart of this game under fake pixiv name
>tell the anon writing this greentext that you're not him, but only a big fan of his when questioned
Yeah, he can't fool me.

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>>388641673
>requires an ungodly amount of reward tickets
>no NG+
But I decided to play from the beginning again, anyway.

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>>388643714
That sucks.
OC your cpu anyways.
>tfw piiu game looks good

>>388644682

They're arts from Psycho Launchers and Javelins. I mastered their respective skill trees so I could mix and match the weapons.

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>>388645425
X had some really fucking cool ass skills, and the verbal callouts only made them better.

These threads always make me want to go back and do another playthrough. Mira was so much fun to explore.

>>388643681
>Implying I would support Tales of Monolith Soft: A Nintendo Monetary Conspiracy

>>388645340
They look really good. Just that the system doesn't handle it too well.

>tfw tech wise Xenoblade 2 looks like an evolution of what they used for XBX
>little to no footage that isn't the translators failing to explain the game

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>>388645893
It baffles me how high resolution the textures are.
You can't see any detail at all when you play this in blurmode on wiiu

>>388646157
Well given there's not many or very little loading zones, it looks good for what it is on a Nintendy console

>>388646157
You can, if you zoom in as close as you can; but yeah it's mostly pretty blurry.

>>388646509
reminds me of ps2 games like final fantasy 12

Wasn't there a Switch version coming out?

>>388646710
No

>>388646786
Dang

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>>388646710
Just a sequel to the first game.

>>388633198
Who said there's no sequel

>>388646710
She lied.

>>388646710

Takahashi was thinking of doing a Switch port after XC2 is done.

But nothing in the works just yet.

>>388646632
FF12 didn't have good textures though.

>>388647079
Taka also wants to work on an FPS since he's tired of massive projects.

>>388647079
I think one of 2 things will happen. We'll get one on whatever is the next Nintendo console or it will be a handheld like what they did with ff12

>>388643876
Lailah a best

>>388647194
for a ps2 game it did autist

>>388647209
I fully welcome an fps game if it's something even remotely original. That said, there's nothing wrong with him enjoying shooters in his free time.

>>388646887
>sequel to the first game
It's more of a FF style entry though

>>388647479
No it didn't, the textures were almost perfectly represented at native resolution. Upscaling gets rid of aliasing but texture IQ is basically the same. It's nothing like modern games built for full HD but rendered at 720p.