a44be3 No.14692192
Basically it includes two new blades
>Poppi Buster which is another version of best girl that can be used by Rex
>Telos from Xenosaga is available on NG+
>Traveling Bards will be able to exchange EXP for Poppi Parts
WHO'S READY FOR MORE OF BEST GIRL?
3f398b No.14692219
>Not KOS-MOS from xenosaga is in when KOS-MOS from Xenosaga is already in
>Fiora can go fuck herself
Yeah, how about you forget this season pass money, Takahashi ?
a44be3 No.14692226
>>14692219
Telos isn't part of the season pass, she's for everyone. Poppi Buster is.
3f398b No.14692235
>>14692226
That's hardly the fucking point. Who the fuck would ever ask for a literal KOS-MOS clone easter egg in a game that has KOS-MOS as an easter egg already ? This is lead-chugging level of retardation.
a44be3 No.14692256
>>14692219
Also lets get this shit started
Dunban > Tora > Reyn > Riki > Melia > Vandham > Rex > Fiora > Zeke > Nia > Shulk > Morag > Sharla
I think all of these characters are good except for sharla this is just the objective tier list.
a44be3 No.14692257
>>14692235
Namco and Nintendo seem to have great relations, so why not? It's not like it's Smash Brothers where it's meant to be a Nintendo fighter.
3f398b No.14692308
>>14692256
Fiora>Morag>Tora>Riki>Shulk>Nia>Zeke>Sharla>Melia
As a writer I just couldn't help but imagine what happened to Fiora behind the scene and it was the most harrowing shit. So her arc in XC1 was just great all around, and I have to root for her.
Morag is just typically the type of girl I love. Tora and Riki are a close tie. Riki is full comic relief with a surprising mature development, but Tora is just more developed overall.
Shulk is a great protagonist, weak at the right moments, courageous at the right moments. As a character he is inferior to the likes of all the roster from both games, but he wins for one simple reason - he becomes God. The whole showdown with Zanza is litterally all about him accessing his own Monado, his own demiurge power.
I can't illustrate it, sorry.
ab6100 No.14692796
>>14692257
>great relations
>bamco has only put out re-releases and multiplats on nintendo switch
Their relationship sounds like shit, can't wait to see Bamco butcher Metroid Prime 4 too. The only reason we see KOS-MOS and T-elos is because Bamco see this as an opportunity to make money off of a Xenosaga re-release.
146be5 No.14693038
>>14692796
>Bamco see this as an opportunity to make money off of a Xenosaga re-release.
Pretty much my opinion as well.
e82354 No.14693060
>>14692796
Well they made Smash and are making Metroid, I think that counts.
91f6ab No.14693452
>the 1 paid blade is a poppi reskin
For what fucking purpose?
fa59b2 No.14693591
>>14693452
so people who don't want to spend any money don't feel like they're really missing out on anything?
e82354 No.14693658
>>14693591
Well the reason for this is because Vandham is gonna be DLC
146be5 No.14694147
>>14693658
>Vandham is gonna be DLC
Wait what?
27dc17 No.14694394
>>14692192
>third pic
NO I DONT WANNA GRIND AGAIN!
>>14692256
Zeke>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everyone else
3f398b No.14694481
>>14692257
So it's namco throwing bags of cash at monolith and them accepting to put what's essentially dark pit for marketing purposes. And you're defending that?
146be5 No.14694532
>>14694394
>NO I DONT WANNA GRIND AGAIN!
Welcome to RNG hell.
3f3b55 No.14694550
>>14692235
Not wantin T-elos.
Maybe you should take your faggotry somewhere else.
3f398b No.14694554
>>14694550
Telos might have been awesome in xenosaga 3, but she has no fucking place in a game that has already referenced xenosaga and has yet to reference gears or XC1. Anyone who claps at a KOS-MOS clone when we could have had Emeralda or Fiora has an urgent need to commit suicide.
146be5 No.14694736
I want to know more about the upcoming story DLC
b8c5f3 No.14694768
>>14694554
Doesnt square hold gears hostage still? If it does, you wont see gears characters ever, instead you would have a better chance seeing cloud or noctis or lightning, none of which I ever want to see in xenoblade. Though I would say the same as >>14694394 fuck grinding for telos and I cannot tell if its a new weapon she has or just the axe made to look like a sythe.
>>14693658
>Vandham
I know its 2's Vandahm, but if it was actually revealed to be X's Vandahm I'd have a nice chuckle.
3f3b55 No.14694957
>>14694554
T-elos is is clearly the superior choice because we have never had a chance to have her in our party before unlike the characters you have mentioned.
Seriously? Why would anyone prioritize characters that they have already played when they can have one that they have never played before.
ab6100 No.14694994
>>14693060
That's just a paycheck for Bamco, call me when they make a Switch exclusive, just 1, they had 3 for the first year of the Vita, so far none for Switch at all or on the horizon, it's laughably bad support. Metroid Prime 4 is apparently being developed by a studio made up of ex Star Wars EA devs, yeah, no thanks, MP4 is going to be butchered something chronic, wouldn't surprise me if it ended up being compared unfavourably to Other M.
My point is that Bamco's support for the Switch is lazy, just about cashing in as lazily as possible, Think about it this way, if there's a re-release of Xenosaga trilogy you will get the original Xenosaga 2, not a fixed version based on the ds remake.
>>14694394
The patch said something about giving an increased chance of rolling T-elos.
>>14694554
>square-enix will let nintendo reference xenogears
Haha.
I'd honestly rather Ghirahim or Fi, just because they already are physical embodiments of a weapon.
14ba10 No.14695004
>>14692235
>Calling TELOS a KOS-MOS clone.
Your the actual fucking faggot. Guess you have never actually played Xenosaga episode 3 then. Anyway the Poppi Buster is a reward from paid DLC mission. Telos is free for everyone and not part of any season pass.
75752f No.14695198
>DLC paid is based on worse poppi
Well fuck you too Monolithsoft
64a8bd No.14695344
>>14694994
>ex Star Wars EA devs
That's wrong though. The studio rumoured to be working on MP4 is formed by ex Lucas Arts Singapore devs who were working on Star Wars 1313, an ambitious project that list funding halfway through. Nothing to do with EA.
146be5 No.14696464
>>14694994
>The patch said something about giving an increased chance of rolling T-elos.
So we'll have a chance in our life to get her unlike Kos-mos?
319001 No.14697823
At the beginning of Chapter 7 and still can't get over how much I love and disdain this game. When its good, it's great and when it mediocre its sleep-inducing. I've never played a game that is this good and mediocre at the same time. I often find myself in vidya limbo where I don't want to play anything else until I finish it, but don't want to finish it because sometimes the game can be so painfully bland. It feels like a Skinner box where when it's rewarding its top notch, but when it doesn't pay out it's like watching paint dry.
Also how come nobody has ripped the models and made CG porn yet?
ff705a No.14697826
>>14697823
there's not enough electra porn
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>>14697826
there is not enough porn in general. This entire game is full of untapped porn potential.
b8c5f3 No.14699065
>>14694994
>Star Wars EA devs
Now now, we cannot judge based on just that, especially since its really well known that EA loves to meddle with its dev teams. that said, I'd be more afraid of bamco dlc up the as and back again.
3f398b No.14699655
>>14695004
I have played Also Sprach Zarathustra, nigger. And I still think making Telos a rare blade in XC2 is a lazy fucking job tweaking KOS-MOS's model that's already there. If you're going to reference Xenosaga again, why not go for Ziggurat? Albedo? A Testament, why not? Nah, just Telos, they'll eat it! And you're fucking eating it.
3f3b55 No.14699994
>>14697823
Am I missing something about this game? I am liking the story but the progression in this game is terrible. It is killing my urge to play the game.
There is no point in exploring the world because the enemies do not drop anything good and you do not find anything good either. Which kills the point of having a large world to explore. Unless you like getting more lootboxes, which I do not. The problem with the lootboxes is that it is so tedious to open them, if I could open fifty of them at a time then they would be actually good.
Also the only way to get good skills is to open cores which is tedious and not fun, unlike in XBC X where you explored to find new monsters to kill and harves their parts to make mods.
ab6100 No.14700067
>>14695344
Better but still Bamco.
>>14697823
https://www.models-resource.com/nintendo_switch/xenobladechronicles2/
Step 1 is done.
>>14699065
Fair enough
>bamco dlc up the arse
It never ends does it, fuck Bamco.
23362b No.14701088
Now that the new quarterly release is out, I'm just dropping by to remind you that XB2 sold substantially less than 1-2 Switch and ARMS.
8c38ad No.14701146
>>14701088
Is a party game and something that received shitloads of marketing outselling a niche JRPG meant to be surprising?
de1a24 No.14701160
>>14701146
Well the flash tier party game selling for $60 is surprising.
4dbd9f No.14701295
Fucking Choco covering telous boobs or was it precensorship decision not sure.
dcbf6b No.14701305
>>14701146
not to mentions 1-2 switch was a launch title so people would buy anything on the system at that point just to warrant owning it
319001 No.14701385
>>14699994
I don't agree with your complaints about the maps, big complex maps is never an issue in a JRPG. The more maze like the map is the better, but its all undermined by fast travel. That said, I do reluctantly broadly agree with the rest of what you said. I use the term reluctant because its hard to put my finger on the exact problem and I doubt my own analysis is entirely correct.
As an aside, I'm starting to think that game designer and players thinking of games in terms of operant conditioning is a terrible way to do an analysis. What questions players and designers really ought to ask should be in a context of challenges and solutions because it is those engagements that are truly substantive. Thinking of things as "carrot on a stick" leads to only lazy game design and habituates a lazy player base.
Regardless, there is definitely a pacing problem. I think a bit of the problem of pacing is that the sidequest is not balanced for your current level when you first receive them and the ability to fast travel breaks immersion. The former leads to wanting to utilize the latter and the latter leads to huge immersion breaking events. It just kills the momentum when the plot is trying to say you are stranded or the story is trying to impress upon you a deadline but you can magically teleport out of the danger to do a side quest.
In fact, there is a ton of seemingly pointless busy work. For example, the whole minigame of raising a regions development level seems like just an excuse to buy every item in every shop just so you can raise your Mercenaries rank. Yet the Mercenaries minigame is just a way to raise the level of your blades outside of combat. the above reminds me of a cell phone game and is just a huge time sink. These time sinks seem like endgame dailies in an MMO.
As for your point about meaningless rewards, many of the items are in limbo and are virtually vendor trash but is still necessary to hang on too for various crafting and sidequest. Pouch Items seem pointless outside of unlocking skills and I never invest in Aux Cores items and I just don't really care about accessories. I am sure that as with all the systems in this game I am just not yet realizing the utility of them and making the game harder by not exploiting them but the game also does a terrible job of explaining its systems. Yet, while I complain about these things I still really think its overall a good game. I appreciate that it doesn't hold the player's hands on everything and at times is actually forces you to think about problem-solving that complexity is born out of its systems being poorly defined.
>>14700067
Theory & Praxis is my favorite atm.
8c38ad No.14701477
>>14701160
Being bad doesn't have anything to do with the amount of dumbasses buying it.
146be5 No.14702111
>>14700067
>Models are out
16fc83 No.14702175
>>14700067
This is gonna be fun
16fc83 No.14702396
14f366 No.14702554
>>14702167
Hopefully they forget some uncensored models in game files.
146be5 No.14703600
New gameplus is great I finally got to playing it.
3f3b55 No.14704186
>>14701385
I don't have an issue with maps being big and complex, I actually prefer them that way.
The problem I have is that there is no real point in exploring them in XBC 2. In XBC X there was a huge incentive to explore, which massively increased the enjoyment of exploring a large world with a lot of secrets.
XBC 2 seems like it has traded in open world goodness for lootboxes, mini-games and a passive click every half-hour to make progress with your idea cloud. It is a terrible trade.
Personally I don't really care much about immersion so that is not much of issue for me personally, but I guess it is a problem for some people.
146be5 No.14704365
>>14702554
We can only hope.
319001 No.14704428
>>14704186
I don't mean immersion in the sense of "being there" but in the sense that it removes the urgency of a story event. for example when the Kingdom of Tantal is supposedly going to self-destruct in three hours and you can just fuck right off and do side quest Or how you can literally teleport out of a dungeon at any time. It just screws with the pacing. Ideally, the fast travel gimmick should be locked behind a mid to late game event. Like for example the party getting an Airship in a classic Final Fantasy game. The quality of life stuff opens up near the end game to reward the player.
6f37d1 No.14704446
>>14704186
>Loot boxes a in game mechanic that requires real world money to open.
>Gacha type game mechanic similar to loot boxes that DOES NOT require real world money to open.
Stop talking shit anon. The Core crystals are annoying but they are not loot boxes and the most fun thing about XBC2 is exploring the Titans.
6f37d1 No.14704452
>>14699655
Who the fuck wants Ziggy the depressed cyborg. Fucking neck yourself.
146be5 No.14704492
>>14704186
How are they comparable in anyway?
3f3b55 No.14704918
>>14704428
I get what you mean and I still don't care. I just don't care about that stuff. I prefer the quality of life stuff over immersion.
I am not saying that you are wrong to want that though.
>>14704446
Your ignorance is funny.
Both lootboxes and gacha can be free or require real world money. The usually give them to you free if you grind a lot for them. While offering the option to pay to get them immediately.
The main difference is that gachas only give you characters while lootboxes can contain a whole bunch of other things as well.
I will admit that Core crystals are closer to gachas than lootboxes, I should have called them gachas.
The positive side of core crystals is that they are free and easily earned ingame, the negative side is that opening them and checking what I got takes too long. If I could open them with one click and see the full stats of what I got on one page then I would not complain.
>>14704452
How is what comparable?
On a different note. The Poppi Buster is kind of neat since you can equip it onto anyone (other than Tora) withou the need to transfer it.
146be5 No.14707730
>>14704918
>The positive side of core crystals is that they are free and easily earned ingame, the negative side is that opening them and checking what I got takes too long. If I could open them with one click and see the full stats of what I got on one page then I would not complain.
That's kinda of the point.
6d51a6 No.14711895
d42447 No.14713264
>>14707730
The point is that they are supposed to be annoying to open?
7583ac No.14713318
>>14694994
I don't understand why Sqeenix is still so weird about some things with Nintendo. You would think they'd be more willing, especially with that Xenogears 20th anniversary blitz they've been doing.
6d51a6 No.14713343
>>14713318
I'm expecting SE to do a Xenosaga remaster to milk old fans.
c099cf No.14714872
>>14704452
Ziggurat is by far the best character in Xenosaga. He has an entire game dedicated to his backstory. He is the one who utilizes the transhumanism theme the most. He's the worst victim making his way to protagonist status when literally everyone else is handed a place in the protagonisty team because they're SPECIAL.
Even thinking of shitting on Ziggurat is cold hard proof you know nothing about Xenosaga.
fe199a No.14715661
>>14699655
>Ziggurat? Albedo?
>not allen
fe199a No.14715759
6d51a6 No.14717947
>>14716477
> Kos-Mos doujins.
As do all men with taste.
adf880 No.14720887
>>14716477
>I would have liked if the games focused on him instead
i would go with pic related
adf880 No.14721277
>>14700067
>Step 1 is done.
>use blender to see model
>doesnt show any textures
anyone know why?
6ed33f No.14723085
>>14721277
I don't think models and textures are the same thing. Once textures are made can we have pic of older Poppi forcefully kiss loli Poppi while loli Poppi is surprised and confused?
931d36 No.14724223
Just got the game, up to Chapter 3, had a few Blade questions. I heard that I shouldn't give Rex any rare Blades because of some story ability he gets later, but there's no problem with dumping common Blades on him, right? Also, the Common Blades are obviously randomized, but is it possible to use up the Common Blade pool to make the chance of getting a Rare higher?
4eef9d No.14724744
>>14724223
I don't think commons and rares share any sort of pool, you're better off increasing some stats instead. I know somebody posted a video about how rare pulls are determined, but I'm also sure there's a google doc or something with all the important charts.
931d36 No.14725707
>>14724744
Okay, thanks. Didn't want to fuck something up I couldn't fix later.
6d51a6 No.14727328
>>14724223
Don't use all the rare blades on Rex and be sure to give them to other party members so the chances of getting rares goes up.
3956ab No.14727376
Is there any hope for xenoblade 1 to come to anything? I don't own an n3ds because I waited until it got games and it never did, and I don't think my laptop will ever run dolphin even shitily
Is there any hope for a rerelease on switch someday or will I just have to wait till I'm 65 and the nanocomputer chip in my eyeball can emulate it
4eef9d No.14727395
>>14727376
If you own a regular Wii and and SD card, there's a significant chance you can just hack it and pirate it. If you don't own a Wii, I'm sure you can find one super cheap somewhere.
adf880 No.14727405
>>14723085
>I don't think models and textures
the zip has the textures in it, but i dont know how to activated them in blender.
6ed33f No.14728353
>>14727405
You might just have to screw around and see what happens. All else fails make a back-up.
000000 No.14728715
>>14701088
>Xenoblade 2 is now the best selling Xeno-game of all time
Best timeline
705074 No.14729744
>>14728715
SJWs on suicide watch.
266d26 No.14729881
>>14728715
That's a shame, it's a pretty shit game.
705074 No.14729899
>>14729879
>>14729881
>Two (1)s come in to complain
Is cuckchan down still?
266d26 No.14729922
>>14729899
>help I don't feel pointlessly smug about sjws any more
the game is shit. XBC and Xenogears are still far better. If only the market reflected this.
266d26 No.14729986
>>14729980
>implying that 8chan has a problem with thought terminating cliches
you're just an sjw newfag from cuckchan and reddit, now go back to resetera neofag.
705074 No.14730249
>>14729999
Those are some nice digits.
6b9ee7 No.14730269
>>14729999
Wew. Black cunt destroyed.
000000 No.14730504
>>14729879
>>14729881
Go to bed SquEnix, FFXV sucks
000000 No.14730510
>>14729922
>t-the game is shit!
>n-nobody agrees with me though
Ok anon
>>14729980
>high sales of DLC-encrusted
>DLC-encrusted
>Xenoblade 2
3b5282 No.14730521
>>14701088
>1-2 switch
2.29 MILLION
How?
266d26 No.14730527
>>14730504
>>14730510
it's a lot less suspicious if you have a real ID, nintendo shills.
3b5282 No.14730545
>>14730527
Jesus man, why the salt?
Couldn't the game actually be good?
266d26 No.14730557
>>14730545
I wish it was, but so far it seems to be selling on switch steam alone. Lack of games of the type resulting in quick adoption despite its numerous flaws and shortcomings.
adf880 No.14730560
>>14729999
welp, you cant say no to those digits.
000000 No.14730906
>>14730527
>if you have a real ID
>if you have a real name
>if you have a real trip
No
adf880 No.14730949
>>14730906
never trust a zero.
6d51a6 No.14737759
57674f No.14738261
>>14730557
What? It is good though.
Fun battle system
Fun characters
Corny but entertaining story
Gacha a shit though. Requires a deal of metagaming if you want to go completionist.
Still, pretty solid overall.
6d51a6 No.14738548
>>14738261
It was a pleasant surprise.
705074 No.14739316
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Apparently Pyra and Mythra's VA is British. She was just putting on an American accent. It was also her first game. She apparently steamed the game for a bit and these are some highlights.
727117 No.14739346
I got so many decent units on the wrong people. What should I prioritize next-time I get an override protocol?
> Getting Ursula onto Nia?
> Getting Damage based blades onto Zeke (like Gorg and that gothic spear girl that gets stronger over time)?
>>14739316
Considering brits can't usually do a yank accent- damn good on her. Had me fooled.
8ba723 No.14739409
>>14739316
>An Arab/Jewish looking girl is the new face of Britain
the absolute state of the United Kangdom
727117 No.14739483
>>14739316
Just looked up some of the clips on Twitch.
> Scottish Mor Ardain guards may have been the Voice Director.
> Unnaturally long lines are due to lip-flaps.
> Could have a rotten poker face and Pyra is confirmed for Smash in some capacity, or awkwardness trying to deny it normally without being too hard/soft to lead to speculation.
>>14739409
Thumbnail doesn't do justice, she's white. Now Jewish on the other hand, who knows. There's so much jew-blood in the UK that most non-jewish white people still have some. Hell, one of the soccer team fans are called "The Yid Army". Combine that with the roman noses, and the mongrel state of the UK, and it's hard to pin down anyone's bloodline.
I'd still feed her pork if you know what I mean.
63ba91 No.14739545
>>14737759
>mfw finding talos
>>14739316
>she uses glasses
cute
6d51a6 No.14739792
>>14739316
She can do it well due to her folks being from the US.
6d51a6 No.14740408
>>14739545
>mfw finding talos
Same here.
8ba723 No.14740547
>>14739483
>she's white
That brown eyed girl is some sort of swarthy mystery meat admixture. At least she is not an Anglican. Maybe Italian or Greek, but not a natrual born inbred British girl.
63ba91 No.14740580
>>14740547
>That brown eyed girl
it could be worst, like defective blue eyes.
6d51a6 No.14740805
>>14740547
Well she is technically American due to her parents.
8ba723 No.14747633
>>14747554
the face is fine but overall that sprite is way too busy. Its trying way too hard to be off-model. I may work as a single frame in an animation because the additional frames would provide more information and context to the viewer. It currently stands to be simplified and caricatured.
548224 No.14747796
>>14739483
>> Could have a rotten poker face and Pyra is confirmed for Smash in some capacity
Fuck i hope so, that shit would sphincter slaughter sjweebs.
705074 No.14749072
>>14747796
Hopefully down+b switches between Pyra and Mythra.
4eef9d No.14751062
>>14749072
If they're willing to spoil Xenoblade 2 (which given the Fiora trophy is possible) then she'll probably just be a set of alternate costumes like Alph to Olimar or Zero Mission Ending Samus to Zero Suit Samus.
5513d7 No.14751728
>>14751062
Mythra isn't a spoiler. She was heavily featured in marketing before the game came out. Anyway, you'd be playing as Rex, anyway, with Pyra/Mythra following him around, just like in the game. That's why I think you'd be able to switch between them mid fight. Just like the game.
705074 No.14754242
The update's been out for a while. T-Los has the most insanely high drop rate I've seen. Got her from my first legendary crystal. She's a dark greataxe type. She has a passive that boosts her power up to 500% every time she (or someone else in the party, though the description doesn't say that) is downed, so it seems like she's made for trivializing super bosses.
6d51a6 No.14757514
>>14754242
I've not found her yet.
705074 No.14758325
>>14757514
You have to be in post game or ng+ fyi.
e5c34f No.14765516
The story DLC is coming out this month right? Maybe the expansion will finally be worth buying.
705074 No.14765730
>>14765516
Is it? How do we know that?
Also, T-elos's ass is lewd as fuck.
e5c34f No.14765798
>>14765730
Wasn't it announced at the same time new Poppi and Telos were but we were getting them now and story next in the next month.
6d51a6 No.14766982
e44a4d No.14768735
Spoilers for the upcoming DLC
Dataminers found some things
Set in the Aegis wars
No driver-blade combat, you control characters, blade or not, directly
New blades, including data for Malos
Shulk and Fiora appear as blades
Inb4 Rex is Adam's descendant
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6d51a6 No.14768900