Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition Thread

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Given that the game is launching in just over 3 weeks i'd thought i'd start a thread about it.
Nintendo UK just released the latest trailer for xenoblade and i'm so freaking excited! :love::love::love:


anyone on this forum going to play it when it launches? what are you thoughts about the remake?
 

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Isn't this that game you declared GOTY as soon as it was announced with nothing other than CGI trailers to go off of?
 

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Isn't this that game you declared GOTY as soon as it was announced with nothing other than CGI trailers to go off of?
Probably, also it's a game that has been released already. So it's just a repeat release. I guess it can win GOTY again 🤷
 

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Hard pass. I just tried Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii after letting it age on the shelf for a couple years, and I immediately gave up after 2 hours. It seems like the worst kind of JRPG. Endless fetch quests and undecided about whether it wants to be real time or turn based. It reminded me a lot of FFXII.
 

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It's coming out a few days before my bday, gonna be just the right gift for myself. Very excited to hear the new music in full!
 

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Hmm, I'm going to pass on this. I've already played the Wii original to completion. Good times. But I know it's a 100+ hour game, and I'd prefer spending that time playing something new rather than something I've for the most part already have. Besides still have the remainder of Trials of Mana and all of Saga Scarlet Grace on my plate.

Will continue interest in Xenoblade X port tho.
 

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Hmm, I'm going to pass on this. I've already played the Wii original to completion. Good times. But I know it's a 100+ hour game, and I'd prefer spending that time playing something new rather than something I've for the most part already have. Besides still have the remainder of Trials of Mana and all of Saga Scarlet Grace on my plate.

Will continue interest in Xenoblade X port tho.
fair enough.

Future Connected is a new story though. people are expecting it to be similar in length to Torna: The Golden Country DLC story from Xenoblade 2.
 

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Isn't this that game you declared GOTY as soon as it was announced with nothing other than CGI trailers to go off of?
This is indeed that game he declared GOTY as soon as it was announced with nothing other than CGI trailers to go off of.
 

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Bruh, the game's been out for literal years.

I know Yoshi can be unreasonable, but this isn't that bad.
It's a joke about how, back in 2017, he was calling Xenoblade Chronicles 2 his GOTY, claiming he had played it despite the game not being out yet.
A bunch of people called him out and he shifted goalposts, as he will, redefining "I played the game" as "educated prediction".
And then by the same token he continued to criticize games he hadn't played either because other people liked them or they weren't Nintendo's.
Here's the link:

 
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Hard pass. I just tried Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii after letting it age on the shelf for a couple years, and I immediately gave up after 2 hours. It seems like the worst kind of JRPG. Endless fetch quests and undecided about whether it wants to be real time or turn based. It reminded me a lot of FFXII.
I want you to know, that the fetch quests are almost entirely skippable side nonsense, and you can blitz past them. I also want you to know that if you do, and you encounter an enemy 6 levels too high, they put your hit ratio down to ~5%, so if you happen to make it to the final boss 6 levels too low, it's effectively unwinnable, even if you survive the fight for literal consecutive hours, you still hardly put a dent in because your attacks just don't land. And then you have to give up, and reload your previous save file (which is not even close to right before the fight) and backtrack out to grind up 1 level against random enemies so that you can actually beat the game.

And also Shulk sucks.

I'll probably play the remake anyway, I like this sort of combat system, so I enjoyed XC despite those two glaring flaws.
 

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I want you to know, that the fetch quests are almost entirely skippable side nonsense, and you can blitz past them. I also want you to know that if you do, and you encounter an enemy 6 levels too high, they put your hit ratio down to ~5%, so if you happen to make it to the final boss 6 levels too low, it's effectively unwinnable, even if you survive the fight for literal consecutive hours, you still hardly put a dent in because your attacks just don't land. And then you have to give up, and reload your previous save file (which is not even close to right before the fight) and backtrack out to grind up 1 level against random enemies so that you can actually beat the game.
That's why you should head out with the Heropon in the lead. Just spam those status effect AoE's til they proc, then slap some more on and watch that HP plummet. Seriously, stacking different damage over time status effects is really, really good in this game. Won't help you any in the early game, I know, but the moment I got Riki, the other two party member where basically just there for support (aside from those times you need the Monado).
 

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That's why you should head out with the Heropon in the lead. Just spam those status effect AoE's til they proc, then slap some more on and watch that HP plummet. Seriously, stacking different damage over time status effects is really, really good in this game. Won't help you any in the early game, I know, but the moment I got Riki, the other two party member where basically just there for support (aside from those times you need the Monado).
Yeah, but I didn't know that having blitzed the game, and also Riki is unbelievably annoying. Not mechanically, mechanically Riki's awesome. But dear god, the character is awful.
 

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It's a joke about how, back in 2017
i thought jokes were supposed to be funny?

and you guys shouldn't become comedians if you haven't been able to come up with any original material in literally 3 years

What's really funny is the way you guys whine about the amount of arguments you all have with me. Well maybe you guys shouldn't keep throwing shit back in my face if you don't want those arguments to start in first place...
 
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Yeah, but I didn't know that having blitzed the game, and also Riki is unbelievably annoying. Not mechanically, mechanically Riki's awesome. But dear god, the character is awful.
Riki not annoying
Riki is Heropon
Heropon Bestest!
 

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That's why you should head out with the Heropon in the lead. Just spam those status effect AoE's til they proc, then slap some more on and watch that HP plummet. Seriously, stacking different damage over time status effects is really, really good in this game. Won't help you any in the early game, I know, but the moment I got Riki, the other two party member where basically just there for support (aside from those times you need the Monado).
Hmm, that's good to know. This is definitely the kind of game I want to cheese if I get around to playing it.
 

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Hmm, that's good to know. This is definitely the kind of game I want to cheese if I get around to playing it.
Oh yeah, Riki is straight up the best character in the game. Average stats, but highest base HP and his arts make him very versatile. He can steal items (and later AP/XP), he has a heal, he has all 4 DoT status effects, can cause break and topple by himself, and a bunch of other really useful abilities. There is no reason to not have him as lead player-controlled character at all times, or at least in the party.

Downsides are you don't get him until a fair bit into the game and he has a cutesy speech pattern you'll either find endearing, or more likely, very annoying.
 

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This is basically what FFXII should have been and the Definitive Edition looks to make it even better. I'm wondering what Future Connected is going to do storywise considering everything in XB2
 

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This is basically what FFXII should have been and the Definitive Edition looks to make it even better. I'm wondering what Future Connected is going to do storywise considering everything in XB2
Best guess, they'll sat Monado like 43,000 times more. Unless XB2 has an effect, and then they'll say Aegis a few times.