We're almost 2 weeks away from the release of XC3, have you finished XC1 & XC2 yet?
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We're almost 2 weeks away from the release of XC3, have you finished XC1 & XC2 yet?
Yeah, I also finished Xenogears and it now has my favorite plot and some of my favorite characters in the xeno series
Looking forward to XC3 literally just being Xenogears 2
How long is Gears? Could I beat it before 3 comes out?
It's a pretty long game, like 55-60 hours long
I'll probably hold off on it, then. Even as a NEET I get through vidya at a slower pace than most.
Just watch a let's play, Xenogears has a good story and a great cast of characters but the gameplay is fricking miserable, it aged like milk and that's with it being clunky and slow even by PS1 standards, nobody without nostalgia for it can honestly stomach it.
I'm afraid I'm an autist who thinks playing a game is always the best way to experience it since it's, well, a game.
It’s fine. If you played FF7, you should be able to stomach it. I think it aged better than FF7 as well.
The dialogue/translation is far better than FF7’s but I think I still prefer FF7’s gameplay. Plus FF7 is mostly a complete game
FF7 is a fine game, gameplay wise, not the most complex or challenging RPG in the world but still enjoyable.
So about as long as XC2 then
I didn't know blanca was in xenogears
This is still pozzed right?
>Looking forward to XC3 literally just being Xenogears 2
Xenogears was pozzed though...
Playing FC to finish
Dude, I haven't even finished Xenogears.
Finished both years ago. Have been meaning to do finish a second playthrough of 2 and get all the bosses in 1 and FC. But too much grinding.
Finished all of the blade series except for Future Connected. I'm actually running out of time, so maybe I should get on that.
It's pretty short, you can beat it in a day
Oh, good. Thanks anons.
FC is pretty short so you can definitely do it before X3 comes out
Of course, I’m also about to beat Xenogears for the first time. Good game although disc 2 is really a let down
Started playing this yesterday, any tips for a newcomer?
Upgrade your gears when you can, it’s the number 1 thing you should spend your money on
Good to know, thanks
Upgrade your gears whenever you can and use Bart's Wild Smile skill once at the start of every boss battle to cheese most of them
>people in threads asking if they can beat at least 1 or 2 before the game comes out, some even asking if they can finish Torna
>I could play all beat all of them before 3 releases
I'm too far gone, aren't I?
They're probably wageslaves
I feel like I no-lifed 2 when it released and it still took me about 2 weeks just to finish the story.
I don't understand how can some of you finish these games in like 3 days.
If you skip cutscenes, sidequests and know how to break the gameplay wide open, Xenoblade games don't take long to replay (except X because material grind is real for end-game gear and you actually have to go out there and explore if you want to progress the story). I sped through the entirety of XC2's NG+ in one weekend (even got every NG+ Blades and S-ranked their charts).
I beat both when they came out. Are there any good plot summaries on youtube, though? My memory of major plot details is a bit hazy.
There are many
Nope.
Was gonna replay 1 DE emulated, even had it all set up and saved after getting control of Shulk. 2 I planned on just reading a summary of, just didn't like 2 much. Instead I got the urge to play Rimworld again, lost frick knows how many hours and only stopped playing a few days ago.
Not really sure I'm gonna bother with 3 at release or not now, I have other games I want to play and honestly, I kinda wish 3 didn't have it's date pushed forward.
I have too many games I want to play to start 3 this year. Only one I'm playing on release is LiveALive. Gonna save 3 Hopes, Soul Hackers 2 and Xenoblade 3 for next year.
I finished XC1 finally after playing through it halfway years ago on the Wii U. Future Connected seems really boring as I don't care much of Melia's character so I skipped that for now.
I loaded my XC2 file from 3 years ago that was at Chapter 4, 35 hours in and have been enjoying continuing from there. I forgot how frustrating the Blade management system and all the fricking sub-menus are though. I'm really looking forward to finally playing Torna too.
In conclusion: I'm probably not going to be done before XC3 is out. Also X is still the best of the series.
No, I dropped 2 after Rex said "Let's teach them a thing or three" for the millionth time
So why not have the Jap dub?
So you're saying you're done!?
If in battle dialogue made you stop playing, I don't know how you made it through one, or plan to make it through 3
people are such damn hypocrites. Repeated dialogue is charming and lovable, and always becomes a fondly used meme, except when it is Xenoblade or whatever is targeted for hatred, then it's magically a bad thing that deserves criticism.
>Do a barrel roll!
>Wolves hunt in packs, Arisen!
>I am Ferdinand von Aieger!
>Metal..Gear!?.....
>Look! Listen!! Hey! Hey! Listen!!
>Omae Wa Shinderu
>ORA!ORA!ORA!ORA!ORA!
>I have a bad feeling about this!
>>Look! Listen!! Hey! Hey! Listen!!
People meme that because they hate Navi, though. Terrible example.
Nothing turns me away from a game faster than constant, incessant quipping.
You can turn battle voices off you know
DOUBLE SPINNING EDGE
I like your attitude.
OVERLOOAAAD THUNDEER BEEEEEEEEAAAAAAM
I honestly wish these games were better translated. I know next to no Japanese but even I can tell what they're saying in completely different from what's in the sub.
Story wise, not at all, the games are very cohesive in terms of main plot between translations, its usually just names (a lot of which are way better like Amalthus' change), and in Xenoblade 2's case weird shit like "Amantatober" that makes no sense. 3 seems to be better in that regard.
Waiting for leak.
Waiting for Queen Nia to make my face her official throne.
It isn't Nia
Substantiate your claim
this guy looks like a stupid idiot
it's the scarf
his military uniform looks much better
That will end up being his character arc. He thinks he knows everything when in fact he's actually moron.
>arc climax consists of his glasses breaking for character development
>he no longer adjusts his glasses when pointing out the obvious
i'll take it
>Taion
>The Aion
Opposite for me, I'm expecting him to he the game's Citan and already know way more than he lets on
eunie is the local bicycle
cucked
hanged from a tree
meds
I hope he has a good character arc, I actually think he looks cool.
His Ouroboros has a few design elements in common with Citan so he likely knows way more than he lets out.
He's the student of the totally not insane blade dude who tries to laser him in the release date trailer, so I think his character will be he first to get an arc
Black person.
he looks like a fusion between Joker and Phoenix from Valorant
I need to go back and finish Future Connected. I'm gonna assume it will have some sort of tie-in to 3
Have sex.
>Well actually we're ga-
Wrong answer.
what is sex?
Noah chest erotic
Is Vandam the reincarnation of Satan? You have these perfect and innocent and pure kids like little Adams and Eves, and all of a sudden, he influences them like a snake in the Garden and all of sudden they get exiled of their proverbial Gardens and are forced to brave the world by themselves.
Vandhams are agents of dimensional stability. Guernica is simply returning balance to the Aionios by making people straight again.
Guernica is just trying to weed out the crackshippers and the harem self-inserters that latched on from XC1 and XC2 respectively. He wants to see love flourish untainted.
Speak English
Except that the Garden of Eden was a wonderful place devoid of suffering and pain, Aionios is nothing but suffering and pain.
Xenoblade's parallel to Satan is L'cirufe, some weird thing who is randomly found walking aimlessly in Noctilum.
>character that was never implanted
You mean implemented?
Yes, he was, he simply was slightly more demonic-looking in his beta art than in the final design which is why I chose to show that, he still fulfills the exact same role Satan does in the gnostic doctrine, he's a being of light who guides humanity through random acts of enlightenment, he's essentially X's response to Alvis/Ontos, who represents the Father of the Holy Trinity.
He has absolutely nothing to do with Lúcifer in the final game.
Yes he does, but X is not a monadist game like the main series, it is gnostic, research the differences between the abrahamic Satan and the gnostic Satan.
I love how you neglect Lúcifer most important character trait because it doesn't fit your narrative lol.
>he's a being of light who guides humanity through random acts of enlightenment
Sounds more like Elma than anything. She even fufills the canonical role of serpent whose intervention gets humanity expelled from paradise - paradise on this case being the old earth.
Man the X plot found in the artbook sounded so much better than what we actually got. What a letdown.
I think x was originally going to have a very different setting but Nintendo meddled a bit I think with having a customizable avatar among other stuff. I think NLA was originally going to be built up visibly change the more quests you do like colony 6 instead of the permanent state of WiP it is in the final game.
They'd only been on planet for a few months, it's not like you build
New Los Angeles
with a couple hundred people in 3 weeks.
Given the parallels with the Noah's Ark myth, I'm more inclined to believe Guernica is supposed to represent the dove, as he's the one who reveals the promised land to Noah.
I still hope he ends up being punished Rex
this guy is going to be so fricking based
He will die a true hero. Then his daughter will go around punching holes in clone children to honor his legacy.
who's she having sex with?
My dog
silly anon, she's not white
She's taking Valdi as her prize.
Valdi is meant for pure girls like Fiona and Juniper
The only thing Fiona is for is bullying
where is her nose
>fiona
But why? What is wrong with her original name?
Mashiro is too Japanese and Nintendo wants to get as many people to buy the game as possible.
Persona is one of the few exceptions because its almost always set in a high school and Japanese terminology is more authentic to the setting and people go in with that understanding.
>What is wrong with her original name?
She's from Agnus, a nation consisting of Alrestians. In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the Alrestians had Western names, unlike the Alrestians in Zenobureido 2.
Yeah and xeno 2 is a shining example of perfect localization so let's keep following it. And if anyone criticizes it let's just say "well but it was this way in 2" as an argument. Makes perfect sense.
Yeah you should keep it consistent with the naming scheme of your previous localization for the game related to the new aspect you are localizing.
>consistency is more important than improvement
>if a previous work is bad every subsequent work must also be bad to keep it consistent
Words to live by. Frick improvement.
Can you explain what exactly is bad about the localization? 90 percent of people that complain about 2s localization are people that are angry that its not 1 to 1 to the Japanese when it comes to the names.
>>Can you explain what exactly is bad about the localization?
>using Rex's shitty scream 4 times in the same cutscene, without any kind of variation
>replacing Tora calling Rex "Aniki" for a generic Rex-Rex, completely missing the point of Tora looking up to Rex like a brother figure
>Morag was meant to have a very deep almost male like voice, which is why Tora was confused finding out she was a woman
>terrible lipsyncing in certain cutscenes (Zeke saying he's the Zekenator)
>terrible voice direction in certain cutscenes (Rex screaming "PYRA!" as if she was far away when he was actually holding her close to him)
>characters using the worlds "awesome" in the most inappropriate context possible.
I could go on
Sounds like you have a problem with the voice direction rather than the localization. Also the jap dub is available day 1 without dlc, so why complain? You can have the true Xenoblade 3 experience and feel superior.
voice direction is localization, moron
>"dude stop complaining about the dub you have another option :^)"
not the fricking point of the discussion. You wanted some genuine criticism of the localization and you got them.
I don't even fricking know what you're trying to say, mate
To some extent that's true, but localization more so refers to changes in the script. You could argue that getting different accents for each region is localization in that sense. (Personally I don't think its related to voice direction though considering that voice direction is more related to the context of scenes or areas rather than preserving a game while also managing the cultural gap)
Lipsynching and shitty performances aren't related to the script or content itself, but poor voice direction.
Kingdom Hearts is the only jrpg that comes to mind where they actually bothered to fix the lip synching for the english dub for the cutscenes where the higher quality faces were used.
the direct showed that they actually bothered to change the lip-syncing for the english dub in XB3 as well
I think FF7R did so.
Xenoblade 3 is also doing so to some extent, mainly for the stiff cutscenes where they are using some AI or other tech to move the mouths to the lines.
https://mynintendonews.com/2022/06/25/xenoblade-chronicles-3-features-different-lip-synching-for-english-japanese/
Didn't they do this for Xenoblade DE?
Yeah it was in DE too.
Yeah, Boss Rex or just plain “Boss” would be much better.
The lip sync and and voice direction are obviously bad, but I don't think the actual localization of the script (as in, changes to names and the translation choices made concerning the dialogue) is bad in the slightest.
The only actual localization thing you mentioned was Rex-Rex instead of calling him big bro. This is explained by the fact that Nopon often use the first 3 letters twice as a sign of respect, i.e. DunDun for Dunban.
Morag is a little more problematic, but it is incredibly difficult finding a voice actress that can suitably do a deep male voice in the UK.
The rest of them are voice direction problems which have been tackled in this game.
The voice direction problems got tackle since Torna. Which also has the same voice director for the base game who also did FC and now is doing XC3 as well with XC1 voice director and some other voice director.
>replacing Tora calling Rex "Aniki" for a generic Rex-Rex
Aniki is even more generic and it never translates well into english. Everytime I hear a character call another "Big bro!" I cringe. Rex-Rex works far better considering how Riki called Dunban Dundun already.
Localization isn't directly translating every single thing or it sounds like shit, Nipponese is a very different language. Case in point, every time 仕方ない gets translated to 'it can't be helped' sucks dick.
Also all your other points are voice direction related, not localization. I will say most of the name changes were superfluous and unnecessary.
>I'd rather have dialog that means something completely different than directly translate it because it makes me cringe
(you)
Take a bath and shave the neck beard weeb.
I agree with him. Japs can't write. People wouldn't like FF6 as much with a literal translation.
Weebs are pathetic. You are too stupid to learn the language so you complain about this type of shit.
If you ever learned anything about the language you'd realize directly translating it into cutscenes results in stilted ass dialogue when it needs to be spoken and not subbed. YWNBJ
>I'd rather have dialog that means something completely different than directly translate it
Well, yes. If it's dubbed, there have to be changes in order for it to be taken seriously. If characters speak English, it makes sense that their vocabulary and dialogue reflects how Anglophones would phrase things. Secondly, some things have very direct or specific connotations in English that they either lack in Japanese or are exotic concepts to the Nipponese, but not to westerners. A grail is a cup; the Holy See is Roman Catholic, etc. Lastly, names in Japanese often have connotations that would be lost in translation, so giving characters a new name easier to decipher (or pronounce) and/or give a more familiar feel to the setting, or even the opposite, can be done without sacrificing the original intent. It's also great for recognizability. Try googling Gura, Invidia, Ira versus Gormott, Uraya and Torna. Or Homura versus Pyra. Some changes might be questionable, but I don't think the end product is bad in the slightest.
They really did a lot right given the time frame. In the sub, the blades all have Japanese names while drivers and normal people have English ones. This is localized over by giving the blades their American accents and normal people European ones.
I do kinda wish they kept the blades' JP names though, as it reflects how the Monado had kanji indicating it was from a past time. If even just Malos and Pyra were still Metsu and Homura it would've been neat. Absolutely a nitpick though, the original vision is kept perfectly.
to ne fair “aniki” here is more of banchou-styled “big bro”, deep reverence like how Tora rationalized it in en dub “twice the Rex”. Its kind of a shame theres no real better way to convey it beside going full mafia lingo in equivalent (unsuitable), with how the nopons in 2 are huge weeb/mechgays
Morag's voice is a complete non issue, and awesome has more uses than your 3rd grade education leads you to believe. Tota thing has already been addressed.
A lot of the issues behind Xenoblade 2's localization wasn't because of any issue with the localization team or the VAs used but rather because the whole localization had to be done within the span of 4 months or so due to the insane dev cycle of the game.
Xenoblade 3 doesn't have this issue because they had twice as much time to work on the game and didn't have to rush a localization near the end of development either, hell all the voice work has been finished since last year which is why the were able to do English lip syncing as well.
Well, a trilogy has to remain consistent. At least they kept the main party Agnisian names the same between versions by using names that work in both Japan as well as the occident.
Cute and Fiona.
Beat 1 on 3DS and watched a LP of 2. Bought Mythra's statue and can't be bothered with FC. Might get 3 depending on reviews.
>have you finished XC1 & XC2 yet?
Yeah but I need to finish Torna still.
i started emulating X for the first time a few months ago and frankly I think it’s my favorite blade game now
i’m not even done with it yet lol
>Most male characters in X look fine
>Most female characters look awful
thats something i noticed and no one ever mentions
people always say all characters look bad but like you said most of the male faces are fine (not great, but not bad either). its mostly the female faces that are bad
X was developed by gays and you can tell
That troony reviewing the game after playing for 30 hours saying there's no lewd designs similar to 1 and 2 better be a lie.
Can they even talk about something like that past the first chapter
>That troony reviewing the game after playing for 30 hours saying there's no lewd designs similar to 1 and 2 better be a lie.
I'm pretty sure the review Embargo is up yet.
I have finished 1, 2, Gears and Saga 1. I at the second last dungeon in Saga 2, and still early on in blade X. I think if I pushed, I could be done with Saga 2 before blade 3 comes out.
When will they release the review scores? I’m so anxious to see what they say. I want 10/10!
Finished 1 and Future Connected, playing 2 NG+ since I beat it in 2018.
>level 72 beating up level 5 bunnies
Why the frick do they keep your level and shit, I just didn't want to have to regrind blades
In ng+ you can lower your level at the inns. You’ll still be pretty overpowered because of the weapons so you might have to downgrade those as well
I want to protect this cat
Her Ouroboros form has a fat ass
:3
I wouldnt date a girl with no nose too
slightly more relevant version
>ywn have a group bath with your bros and your bros (female)
Why even live?
Its been quite a while since ive seen censorship bros... are they dead?
Bold of you to assume they were ever alive to being with
Damn that's some deep shit
You can't level down apparently but you can entirely ignore the bonus EXP.
Yes I binged 1 and 2 though I didn't do all the side quests, mainly from 1. I like the games but they were extremely frustrating to play, especially 2 with its field skill nonsense and stuff. Hoping 3 fixes all that
Should I just blaze through the story of XC1 then do the affinity quests later or are the essential for a good experience on the game before playing 2?
A lot of people complain that doing too many quests over levels you and makes the game too easy. I don't think you should rush these games just to fully enjoy them, but you can if you want.
What? You can overlevel in that game? I thought you could level down?
In the original, you could not level down. Switch version you level down tho
I've played all Xenogames except Xenogears. I should kill myself.
Not replaying 1 and 2 but instead doing my first playthrough of Xenogears. Just got to the Kislev sewer and I'm absolutely loving it so far.
It only gets better after that, and Kislev is the worst part of the game. Hold on, it might get orgasmic for you.
No ill pass of that moron weeb shit, i camt even endure the famous firat game with the OH I CANT KILL THAT ROBOT THAT RAILED MY WAIFU BECAUSE IT HAS A FACE
looks like shit but at least Eunie looks nice so I might play it
the game has a Black person, shame
What are the chances that I'll like Xenoblade 3 if I liked 1, loved X, and disliked 2?
Very high, according to the people who have played the review copies the tone matches 1, and going by the Direct it is clear they are implementing several things from X like the more open-ended map design, the class system and the rectuitable team members.
I guess it depends on what you disliked from 2? The previews said the tone of the game is more serious like 1, arguably even more dark than 1 was.
I just finished XC1 and it was meh. I liked the setting and characters, some points of story were alright, but combat system was simply not fun. Auto-attack was a bad idea. Plus there were too many side quests with shitty rewards. It felt like playing some mmo from early 2000.
Is the XC2 any different or should I stop at this point?
>page 9
>astroturfed post
like a clock
Combat in 2 is better if you learn it properly and as is the quests given. The story is worse in some aspects and better in other aspects.
2 has the better third act by far
Oh certainly, wasn't a fan of Zanza despite how much foreshadowing there was. I wish Dickson was a much better character too
>Dickson
I am still so fricking mad.
I didn't really like 1's battle system. 2's is a LOT better. For starters, you can cancel your autoattacks to make them faster, and your cooldowns are much faster.
2 is better than 1 under every single aspect, it's the only game of the trilogy worthy playing
It has no reyn
>No dunban
No
>Can't play naked through the entire game
Haha no.
I'd like to see more flesh mecha cat girls
Where do i get xc x undub for cemu?
Favorite characters from XC1 and XC2
Dunban and Melia
Zeke and Nia
Reyn and Melia, Zeke and Pandoria.
Egil and Shulk
Malos and Rex
You know you can combine shulk and Rex to form Shrek lux. The ogre shines brightly!
Dunban and Reyn
Zeke and Morag
Melia and Alvis
Nia and Rex
Shulk and Kallian
Zeke and Mythra
Riki and Jin get honorable mentions
Melia and Dunban
Brighid and Jin
I’m going further
Grahf and Citan
Ziggy and Jr
Reyn and Melia
Morag and Nia
Shulk and Melia
Zeke and Malos
Melia, Shulk
Rex, Pyra, Mythra, Morag
>1
Melia, Dunban, Riki, Reyn
>X
Elma, Alexa. There were so many unlockable characters, jesus.
>2
Nia, Mythra, Zeke, Morag, Theory/praxis
>Torna
Addam, Lora, Haze
You haven't said it explicitly but it feels like you're asking for a boy and a girl from each.
Melia and Egil in 1.
Klaus in 2.
Whether Pyra/Mythra is one character or two is a bit of a gray area. If she's one character, then her. Otherwise, Lora.
>Melia and Riki
>Zeke and Poppi
So far Taion and Sena are the two I'm most interested in from 3.
Riki, Reyn
Nia, Poppi
Question Mark is my wife
Does anyone here draw xeno requests?
Shulk being Alvis' driver
What?
Melia starlight kicks Nia
Say what you want and maybe it'll come
euine and noah nude in the public bath with mio acting all embarressed
>Reading comprehension
Should I beat 1 DE? I left it at around getting Dunban, will I make it before 3?
Yes you should! Also you can probably wait on getting xenoblade 3 since I'm sure there is going to be a lot of things from bugs to oversights that will make playing through the I itial build not as good. In xeno blade 2 for example it originally didn't come with an easy mode for tiger tiger! As well as the infamous "remember me!" Bug
I did the same my first playthrough, but my second one I managed to beat it and it was fun. At least get to Prison Island, if it still doesn't hook you there then it never will.
>Noah is going Iron Man mode in the trailers, blaster arm included
What the frick is with that?
It's different form of his sword.
Isn't he is just supposed to be a random trooper?
Where's the power coming from?
The main six characters are referred to as "special forces" of their respective nations, and the fact that they've managed to live to 18 (almost 20 in Mio's case) is probably meant to be a testament to how strong they are
Aren't they special forces mostly because Noah and Mio are Offseers, and the others are their personal guards?
Maybe. Eunie says them being SF is why they have an Offseer when they first fight eachother, and not the other way around
His blade's special ability is to turn his sword into a smaller sword
I tried playing X2 but I dropped it when I encounter some dude with a turtle and the japanese "humor" kicked in. I really gave it a shot man, but I'm just too old for this shit.
Zeke is unironically one of the best characters in XC2. Filtered hard.
Probably, I didn't play further than that to find out. It wasn't a good first impression but I'll keep playing if you say it gets better.
Zeke is awesome though. They do have too many gags with him at first, but it ends up being for a reason.
The game deliberately tried to be a bit of a shonen anime with all the tropes that come with it since the team wanted to make something a little more light-hearted than their standard. Zeke gets introduced as a joke character, but he's pretty great and they ease off on the gas of comic relief once you start getting to Indol.
The only moments I liked about XC1
The beginning of the game before meeting Juju
When Dunban joins the party
Melia's arc
The Machina beach
The fight against Egil so that he does not destroy Bionis
The final part and everything in between I hated it
How important is rebuilding colony six or doing the alcomoth quests?
Not very. If you want to beat super bosses and max out your characters they are but if you just want to beat the game they're totally optional
I got Dolphin set up nicely with XC1 but since I'm getting a Switch in a few weeks I'll hold off on playing it till I can get the DE.
The DE lives up to its name as Definitive Edition
Are they going to pull the same 4kids tier localization bullshit again?
I'm playing 2 right now and a huge chunk of the original names is a throwback to japanese mythology and for some reason Genpei war specifically but i want to cry bloody tears just by looking at subs, what the literal frick
Many of the English xenoblade 2 names are also mythological callbacks usually to similar myths in western cultures
The worst thing with xenoblade 2 localisation is how all over the place the sources they use for the naming are (Greek, Zoroastrism, Gallish, Taoism).
While the japanese mostly referenced japanese myths (Benkei, Yoshitsune...), Taoist stuff (Byakko...).
I actually think the variety fits with the world EN builds. Each country having their own mythos and people is conveyed. Dromarch is a gormotti blade and the name is from a welsh myth.
I still would've preferred it to be true to the original vision but it's still enjoyable to me, the different accents are very nice.
I just want the subs to fit with the japanese va. Ideally games should make subs based on the japanese text and not on the english dub
At least based on this, it wouldn't be much worse than XC2.
I heard nowadays Nintendo want to streamline the translation to fit the original narrative (hence why there was a rumour about they decided to restart BoTW's English localization last year).
But I think this is rather tricky because Xenoblade's localization already has their own "lore" by using a different accent for each background.
I've finished all right; if you know that I mean.
No XC3 is going to be my first Xeno game
Cute boy
>children carrying full size weapons in live fire training
Melia no
Bro she's 10
Spanish is one of the ugliest langagues on the planet
Spanish from Spain is too rough sounding. The way they pronounce the 'J' almost makes it seem like they are puking. I don't like it.
Latin American Spanish is more soft, sounds like singing. It's a lot better imo.
Finished 2 last week. I was trying to do as many of the blade quests as possible, but got burned out and decided to end it. I'm playing Torna right now. This must be what crisis core fans felt. I'm enjoying the characters and the interactions. I like the changes they made to the gameplay as well. Yet, in the back of my head I know how it plays out. These characters I'm growing fond of are gonna meet terrible ends. It's not fair.
soul vs soulless
did Saitom just copy and paste her face from the promo art?
No, he can only draw on face.
soulles
soulles
Why did he draw her breasts bigger in the first one lol
I really love Saitom’s sketchwork pieces. I think his style stands out a lot better when it isn’t as clean as the official renders. The XC2 art book is a pretty clear example of that
Another example
so the voice director who did XB1 (Mark Healy) is back for 3 since the XB2 one did such a fricking shitty job. no wonder the voice acting sounds great this time around.
lmao they fired him
I guess using the same voice line of Rex screaming 4 times in the in the same cutscene didn't go well with the higher ups....
fun fact, the XB2 voice director also did future connected which is also why the voice direction in that game sucks donkey ass. thank frick they got rid of him.
I liked Nene
They didn't, Jimmy Livingstone was the voice director for XB2 and he's also credited in that screenshot
Thank fricking god. The actors themselves were fine in 2 (mostly), but the voice direction was abysmal.
2's guy was Jimmy Livingstone, who also voiced Captain Padraig and the other Ardainian soldiers.
They may have brought back 1's guy, but they didn't forget him.
>Fixes Alexandria
We need more designs like the blade girls from 2 in 3
I'm glad the actual design looks so much better than this
That looks terrible.
give her breasts and then she'll be fixed
no breasts = ugly
Anyone have the alternate "DIE" version of this reaction image?
Thanks, I was actually looking for your version
>Playing Xenogears for the first time
>Get to the part where it's revealed Elly is literally a God-given mommy gf for Fei
Ok this really is Takehashi's fetish right? all the love interests in Xenoblade are mommy gfs too including Mio now.
No Sodomy
No Tribadism
No Orgies
One Man, One Woman Only
Final Destination
>comes out of nowhere
>magically forces main couple into bondage
>tells them to have sex
>dies
What did Takahashi mean by this?
FASTER
FASTER
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
FASTER
It's already been reduced to 2 frames
Did I stutter?
Truly spectacular. Thank you, anon
Shes so fast i cant even sense her!?!
M-My eyes can't keep up!
H-HAYAI
If you're not Japanese you shouldn't play JRPGs
I’m Finnish
If you're not gay you should stop acting like a homosexual.
Finished X1 and X2 skipping 3 since it's soullless.
WOTAH
The ear wiggles really just gets me
Can I go ahead play XC3 without play XC1 and XC2?
no, it's a sequel to both
Yes, you very likely can.
The Devs and previewers have said you can. You may miss a lot of references though
Yeah, definitely.
Don't do it, though.
For the first 75% of the game? Sure.
Just know that you'll be totally lost when shit hits the fan in the final act and Takahashi unleashes his autism.
No you trend surfing homosexual. Play the other games, you dont NEED to be a part of every new hype thing.
You'll be worse off for it.
>Ignore the series up until now
>Be the homosexual who asks if they can start with a later game in the series
It's okay if you miss out on the initial hype train for this game anon. In fact, Xenoblade games are better discussed after years have passed anyway.
Leaks when?
>still no edit of Norf as fat consul
CAM ON NOAH
He better end up being the fat kid they couldn't save
CAM ON. BREAK THE FAKKIN CYCLE OF FATE WANKERS
>finally got around to going through xeno series
>got through xenogears about 5 years ago
>got through saga about 3 years ago
>got through XC1DE, XCX, and XC2 literally two days before XC3 was announced
>got bogged down with real life stuff
>finally got through Torna yesterday
>completely free to play XC3 on launch
feels good man
XCX is still easily my favorite, such a perfect game
>XCX is still easily my favorite
based
>such a perfect game
cringe
>game is exactly what I want in a mech JRPG
>somehow this is cringe
I don't get it.
I didn't finish XB2 because I got stuck on the Jin and Malos fight and gave up, also I don't care much for Rex, but ws tolerating him just to get through the game.
XB3 looks WAY better.
Dont worry anon, it has journalist mode for filtered gays like you. AI enhanced auto mode too.
>YOU SUCK AT THE GAME HAHA
Frankly I was too lazy to powerlevel or grind, I feel like I was simply underleveled for the fight. It had nothing to do with being bad at the game, granted I probably wasn't using the right blades or being autistic about my team set up. The game was boring to grind levels, like even the combat wasn't very fun.
Yeah as I told you, they added an auto mode at release for shitters like you, so you can cheat the game and achieve nothing and still claim you beat it.
Enjoy, that's the new type of JRPG people like you wanted.
>Implying this hard
I didn't say I wanted anything, but you really just assumed a lot about me simply because I struggled with an end game boss fight. You're so cool, anon. I bet you have a big dick because you beat a JRPG and I didn't even though I clearly said I was underleveled and probably wasn't utliziling the optimal blade set up, but yeah I totally wanted a babby auto mode that wins the game for me.
Ah, right a lot of time has passed so Rex would be dead. It'd be cool if he somehow gained immortality or was alive somehow. I wonder if we'll see flashbacks of Adult Rex with Pyra or Mythra, like maybe the old cast.
There's no shame in admitting you'll use auto mode anon, there's a reason they implemented it at launch in XC3.
Every previewer has said they used it to powerlevel and skip trash and only do boss fights. You'll 100% do the same.
>Use auto mode
>Power level while playing a different game
>Beat two games at the same time
There are fools on this site who do not know the power they can wield
There's no shame in admitting you're a raging homosexual.
From the looks of it, some of the 1 & 2 cast will play a role in the DLC Story. My current guess is that the main couples of each games are gonna make your party of 6. So you’ll get Shulk, Fiora, Rex and Pyra and they’ll get their own respective Ouroboros forms. Then maybe some of the other legacy party members will get Hero roles.
Interesting that they use Monado REX
I mean the OG monado doesn't exist after the main campaign and thus if 3 is a true sequel then monado Rex would remain. Also this is what they probably meant by future connected
>only in 2024
>Shulk, Fiora ouroboros
Cute
>Rex and Pyra
If there's no Mythra, I won't play it
So where is Rex in this universe/world? Is he actually LE EVIL BAD GUY, or is he dead? I figured we might see Adult Rex, which would be neat since I imagine he looks like Adam, and Adam was a CHAD looking motherfricker.
Rex is most likely dead and the only characters we think are returning are Melia and Nia, two characters with extended lifespans
Their lifespans aren't THAT extensive. It's clearly not them
This
Flesh Eaters live what, 500 years at most?
From what i remember even Rex would live longer since he's Aegis driver
Ages ago.
>He didn't beat Future Connected
Not gonna make it.
I not only completed Future Connected, I killed my frame rate by collecting all of the Ponspectors beforehand
Also Melia was basically alone with Shulk the whole time why wasn't she hopping on his dick
She wasn't able to take the hint that the whole trip alone with him to a secluded far away place was a legit romantic move from him to woo and bed Melia specifically because he realized what an amazing woman she was and how much better she was compared to Fiora's demanding and hard-to-put-up-with demeanor. Any chance that Shulk had to capitalize upon the scenario was destroyed by their sudden dire situation with the Fog Beasts, the chaotic political climate with the survivors, and the fact that Riki's kids stowed away and served as permanent wiener blocks for the rest of the adventure.
There were too many massive plants around
>have you finished XC1 & XC2 yet?
Last year
I expect day one yuzu
I need to know if they brought back that garbage affinity from XC1
Yes:
>Affinity
>Village development
>Field Skills
>Gems
>Food
ecc.
are all back.
I hope to god Field skills aren't level based
I think they work more like in X
Thank god if that's the case
Tied to hero characters level grind
Monolift Soft once again ruining a good game with their unfun grinding
It's a JRPG, that kind of thing is expected. For what it's worth,
that previewer there in that post apparently said that Xenoblade 3 respects your time way better than 1, 2, and X
No more time limited quests?!
2 already got rid of those for the most part
You know, when I played through XB1, I never even realized there were time-limited quests. I thought that clock symbol meant that you could only find the person at a given time of day. It never became an issue, though, since I cleared most of them pretty promptly.
I don't think they said anything about that. Xenoblade 2 only had like 2 missable time limited quests though and 1 warned you so they've always been good about that.
Other than fast travel we get a boat but who knows
Hopefully less abundance of kill x amount of enemies/cook X amount of dishes/harvest x amount of materials sidequest and affinity chart nodes to fill out. 2 was ridiculous with them on Blade charts.
I don't mind as long as it's not all endgame shit, like needing to find all the secret locations for the third tier of a field craft. Shit sucks. If you really want to lock some stuff until the end, put it behind an item or upgrade you can't see in the menus until you get it.
Did they give me a fricking vehicle to travel in so I'm not running everywhere?
Why are the Aegises called Holy Grails in Japanese kek. So out of place and dumb.
Because originally the game had many Christian references but the localizers thought westerners would get offended by that so they changed those.
Even with the context of the Christian references, the Holy Grail has always been a divine object that grants wishes only due to the fact it housed the divine blood of Christ i.e it is man made object divine. The Aegis in contrast is a legendary weapon of divine construct that had taken many different forms according to its wielder which is very fitting since the Aegises were divine constructs to compile data on the emotions and tribulations of humankind and the wielders of the Aegis would resonate and change their forms.
I suppose it might make some sense if you view it from Klaus' point of view as he is their father (therefore his blood) to humanity (the disciples of which now worship him). A stretch to be sure but makes some sense. Not a very multilayered symbolism but symbolism nonetheless
>the Holy Grail has always been a divine object that grants wishes only due to the fact it housed the divine blood of Christ
Black person, the Holy Grail is not the dragon balls.
Stop weebing.
I'm literally Catholic, we have communions that have us pretend we are drinking out of the holy grail which housed the blood of Christ to symbolise his forgiveness of humanity.
I'm just saying, I find it much cooler that the Aegis of greek mythology works and are treated the same as in XC2.
I wouldn't read too much into it. Japanese routinely reference religious works all the time, and sometimes incorrectly. End of the day, it's just pop culture to write a story based off Biblical texts and, if it's Japanese media, some way subversing it and making religion and god the enemy or thing to kill.
Which oddly made X2 a little interesting since it made "God" the other half of X1's final boss, but instead of being evil, he was just tired and weary and thought the people of Alrest were okay with wanting their extinction instead of salvation.
>m literally Catholic
which part of the cathecism says the Holy Grail grants desires?
That's how it's treated in Arthurian mythology and the better part of the medieval times and certainly during the reign of the Templar Knights
Things don't have to have multilayered symbolism in order to be cool. They just have to sound cool. Like having the holy grail alone is meant to grant you immortality and power much like how Rex and Amalthus becomes the Master Driver.
Though I get you, Aegises do sound far better
>Things don't have to have multilayered symbolism in order to be cool.
but that's what I like about takahashi's writing
First of all, it wasn't Klaus who named them Holy Grail, to him they're just processors, Malos named himself (and by extension the other processors) that because of his ego, it has nothing to do with what it does.
Second, they're not meant to be weapons in the first place so calling them the Aegis wouldn't make sense, even more so because the actual Holy Grail that Malos destroyed wasn't a weapon at all but in the localization it was called the Aegis for consintency's sake.
The Aegis and its various forms aren't weapons per se. Sure they could be used as weapons as Zeus did when he once wielded it, I just didn't have the right word for it which just translated into me using the word weapon. The most accurate would just be objects since the shape of the thing would mould into whatever the user sees at the best tool for them and for the Greeks, that took to the form of a shield, for Perseus, it was a mirror, for and for Zeus when he battled with Chronos with his brothers it was a disc made of pure lightning.
The holy grail when drunk grants you the knowledge of god. Turns out the grails in the game where the knowledge of god. Not the ultimate defense.
>drunk grants you the knowledge of god
No it doesn't, it grants you immortality. It has never once had connotations if granting omniscience or higher knowledge. It has always been about immortality or granting wishes that give the person eternal happiness
Why are the Holy Grails called Aegises when that name has nothing to do with them
watching some videos of 3, animations look very nice. Skills feel like they have more weight to them. I just hope the Switch performance is good. I still remember the 10 fps Malos fight from torna
The trailers might be running in 60 FPS, but I doubt you'll get 60 FPS on the Switch, maybeeee in docked mode. Handheld mode will most likely be 30 FPS, which is still something I've never gotten use to on Switch.
Already played DE and 2 both on release, slowly sludging my way through Gears and I love the game but for some reason I can't do marathon sessions of it. I'm currently near the end of Billy's arc
It was the same for me, Gears is my favorite xeno game but jesus frick the combat could get really boring.
is it even going to be possible for me to get the special edition now or should I just give up
give up
>So what’s the plan for when we fight, Noah?
>Simple. I’ll break the enemy, and Lanz will topple them-
>That’s when I launch them into the air!
>What are talking about Sena? After you topple an enemy you need to daze them to confuse them and allow everyone to pile on the enemy.
>Noah, you have it all wrong. You need to launch the enemy so that they’re stuck in the air and we can hit their weak points easily.
>That seems rather counterintuitive…
>Not until we smash the enemy back into the ground! We use the force of gravity to deal major damage!
>We do something similar when the enemy is dazed. By inflicting a large amount of force we cause a burst which forces the enemy back on their feet, dealing a lot of damage.
>Huh, it sounds kind of the same, but a little different.
>XC1
Yes.
>XC2
No, I haven't even started. I was considering cancelling my preorder, but 60 bucks spent is 60 bucks, whether its now or later.
You could always sell your copy if you got it physical. It never got a reprint, and Aegis joining Smash on top of 3 being announced only made people more feral for the handful of physical copies floating around. You'll easily get your $60 back with interest.
Yep
Finished DE last year, about to finish my annual XB2 playthrough
My hope is I can fit in a quick Xenogears playthrough to refresh on the broader plot points
Very excited for XB3. Hero System being a refinement on Blades combined with FFV's job system. The return of NPC Affinity Charts and Collectapedia. Return of Torna Camps and Camp Conversations. Combat being juiced up on all fronts, from Chain Attacks being combined with Blade Specials, Fusion Arts, Talent arts returning and Ouroboros topping it all off.
does anyone have some elma lewds?
Not a lot but here's a good one
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/97894607
This will be the unsung feature of this game, would love if this got patched into XC2.
That's really nice.
I unironically wish they copied Snoy games and made that screenshot function output bullshots at a higher resolution.
I hope you can manually turn off the HUD yourself anyway, like in X. Also I hope they fixed first person mode so you aren't at crotch level.
That’s the thing, in XC2 you can’t so even when you get cool overworld screenshots the UI is still there.
Yes,I've finished every Xenoblades years ago and replayed X and 2 5+ times each, can't wait to play 3 and I hope it's as replayable as X and 2 (don't care much about replaying 1)
I have ADHD and I got filtered by overwhelming game mechanics and tutorial popups in XC2 and I never play on easy mode I rather drop the game completely than switch to easy mode so I waste too much time reading wiki, guides, watching youtube instead of playing the game. I doubt I will finish XC2 before July 29.
Are there any DLC items which increase affinity, should I use them in early game or wait?
Yes, the DLC gives you 10 Love Sources, pouch items that give 3K trust to every Blade equipped to the pouch's Driver. I'd suggest waiting for Chapter 4 before using them since you'll be able to equip 3 Blades per Driver by then. The DLC also comes with a quest that unlocks in Chapter 7 and allows you to craft additional Love Sources, but you can only craft one at time, because the crafting recipe requires a special item in Tantal that only respawns if you don't have it in your inventory, and the crafting spot is in Argentum, so you have to do round trips between Argentum and Tantal to craft every additional Love Source.
Thanks.
>no nsp yet
WHAT THE FRICK
When do you expect it realistically? Most titles I can remember leaked in the week prior to release, very rarely on the weekend before. Like 3 Hopes was 3 days early
Cow
She's no rabbit but damn
Mio is the ugliest catgirl since Escaflowne
Nia is uglier. In before contrarian bawwwwww
>contrarian
Ganker has been a Nia board since XC2 launched, you're the contrarian here
She is the contrarian choice because Pyra and Mythra are more popular than her by a massive gap, even if she got pity for being keked she is still less popular
Replay the games
oh no no Senabros....
saitom misspelled xenoblade in mio's
>Mio is supposed to be a spec ops member
>literally the cutest and most vulnerable looking Xeno heroine
She's the oldest so if anything she's the best fighter
Couldn't out-autism Noah at his own gimmick
Sena is a 140cm tall womanlet, yet she's able to wield a giant hammer and take Lanz's massive machina wiener
What I'm trying to say is, looks can be deceiving
>Sena's delicious brown abs
I don't get it, what's the issue here?
But will it have DRIVER COMBO COMPLETE?
TOPPLE. SECOND SUN.
AWWWWWESOME.
I hope not. That shit was fricking annoying
XC1 is so damn slow, the battles take forever and I'm losing the will to continue. Do I really need to play it before XC3? I played and completed XC2, is that enough or do I need to play the DLC for that too?
Are you using Sharla?
She makes battles last significantly longer.
Sharla is a healer type and not a bad character at all but her whole deal is counterintuitive to how to battle efficiently which is topple locking and killing them as quickly as possible. One can make sharla sorta viable in chain attacks but that requires having most of her arts being attacks which sort of defeats the purpose of having her in the party since there are much better damage dealers anyways.
How did you finish 2, but find 1 too slow to stomach, I found the combat and plot way more tedious in 2, never even finished the DLC because it forces you to do sidequests
That's because you're moronic and failed to understand the combat, it's significantly faster and more involved than 1's combat.
You don't need a healer. And if you do, Riki is way better at it.
Shulk, Dunban, and Riki (with sometimes Seven instead of Riki) will be your main damage drainers. You can kill everything in the game with them in literal seconds.
How can someone find 1 slow but 2 not? The whole thing with xenoblade 2 is combo chaining and smash/topple/launch/smash so the enemies have much more HP for just that purpose
>he hasn't even hit Alcamoth and Velak Mountain
You haven't come close to suffering
So is the fog king an oroboros
>Noah meets Mio
>they proceed to engage in a deliberate courtship bird dance
>Sena meets Lanz
>instantly impresses him because she's stronk
>Eunie meets Taion
>ew get away from me nerd
uuh anon they are all fighting first time they meet
>all this holy grail talk
The holy grail is a product of Arthurian legend, the only significance of the now considered holy chalice drank by Christ and his disciples were its symbolism of the forgiveness of sins.
Makes me think whether we'll get a Lance of Longinus in this game.
>spoiler
Persona 2 already claimed that by giving it to Hitler
Yeah yeah, Reinhard Heydrich had too in Dies Irae
Get in the bath, anon.
He really is Shinei Nouzen crossed with Flynn/Alto
Co-ed baths?
That's less "cringey" somehow
Automatically shots off the "Eeeeeeeh? THE BOYS ARE SEEING US NAKED? AAAAAAA, HENTAI! STOP LOOKING" humor X2 would have gladly pulled off.
>he doesn't want japanese tropes
why are playing a jrpg?
I want good Japanese tropes
None of those things happen in XC2 since the bath scene in XC2 was just girls talk for Nia to be comfortable about herself of someone knowing she is a flesh eater and to open up Mythra.
>expected japanese humor
>actually play the entire scene straight
Schizo theory time.
N is actually Mio's soul trapped inside Noah who died during their ouroboros form by giving his flame clock's charges to her.
I finished XC1 back in 2012 and finished XC2 not long after it was released. Didn't play the DLC for XC2 and haven't touched either game since finishing them.
Hopefully I don't need to remember any specifics to understand XC3. I have a feeling this game is going to look atrocious on my 4k tv. Haven't played a Switch game on it since I got it.
Yeah, XCDE basically looks like an upscaled PS3 game on my TV. Which isn't completely atrocious but it doesn't look all that nice.
I don't think you'll need to remember anything crazy, though they may slide in a few nods playing both will make sense of.
You're missing nothing by not playing 2's DLC (though Torna is a very nice slice of a Xenoblade game, and has a better battle system) since it only serves to fill in some details on the story that were removed from the main game.
Future Connected may be a bigger deal, but no one really knows.
>game is probably going to leak at least a week before release
>also want to take my time with the game
I will have to avoid using Ganker for at least a month.
no one will miss you
Huh, rude, you fricking Black person
🙁
I'll miss you
>caring about spoilers
None of the xenoblade games have any substantial twists or mind blowing plots that would require you to avoid the internet for a month, double Black person.
>look at me guys I'm so unfazed and cool
Who are you quoting btw?
>2 weeks away
THAT'S TOO FRICKING LONG. I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW AHHHHHHHH
I just noticed Nia does the Japanese humor dance during specials
where should I order the game from
what will have it the fastest
>Noah looks either deeply angry or outright unhinged several times throughout the trailers
On how many layers of suffering he's going to be?
I mean, pretty much every xeno trailer is like that with the MC, though.
Probably Fei levels of suffering
>getting past CERO and ESRB by using red ether instead of blood
I’m very excited
ESRB rating said there's blood in it still
>they just run those corpses over like it's nothing
Has anyone else noticed that XB3 threads that don't start with "Xenoblade 3" usually have less shitposting? It's like how XB2 threads that feature the boxart tend to go to shit. Guess certain phrases and images attract bots and discord Black folk.
same reason why if you have "steam" in your OP, there will inevitably be people starting a Steam vs EGS shitposting.
There are scripts that check for certain keywords and paid trolls go in to start shit.
>NPC affinity chart is back
frick yes
aw frick no
It's gonna be even worse this time, since nearly the whole chart is filled with Kildren that are probably gonna die, absolutely fricking your chart progression if you didn't do their quest before they got blasted.
How long until the nsp leak
5 hours
I'm in no rush to play. I'm not buying it until they confirm Eunie wins the Noahbowl.
Mio is very clearly the main heroine
>I'd really prefer if you didn't
>Gah the female species, such an enigma
You should just be glad there's no silver-haired friendzone girl in the party this time. Go play Fire Emblem if you wanna play matchmaker.
You don't honestly think that do you? You realize who is making the game right?
A hack
Never said they weren't in the game...
stop shitposting
Stop crying because fictional girl didn't get with a fictional boy
Leak when bros?
Also yeah Ive played the entire franchise
never
all switch games leak
Don't even bother until it's a week before release.
anyone know where i can play xenogears? do i emulate it or is there a way i can buy it and play it? i'd be down to emulate, just a little tired of having like 50 emulators.
i emulate it with duckstation and the xenogears 2.0 patch, its nice enough. Rom is everywhere, and if push comes to shove search reddit's r/rom pastebin megathread. They, surprisingly enough, archived shit tons of old roms
http://alcahestx.free.fr/XG2.0/xg2.0.html
>Jp voice
>minor fixed to button placement and such
but mostly jp voice. Gear is the kind of game that just feel wrong with en dub unlike the Blade games
no clue how to use duckstation. files arent "disc image", got the both disks from vims lair but they end up being .bin files. never emulated ps1 games in my life so i have no clue what to do here.
same anon here. turns out i need a bios file, which i got. everythings all good now.
just use duckstation and get the rom from vimm's lair or something
you almost never hear the dubbed voices anyway so it doesn't matter too much
yea but just the intro with the bridge bunnies shouting out random space gibberish, in en, just feel...wrong
>the cucking didnt begin in Blade, but right here and you know what happened
Man the first 15 minutes of this game were so weird
finally got to play Torna and damn its fun. They really fixed all the problems gameplay-wise and fieldskill-wise of 2 too, much more emergence-based prompt and dynamic switching. The only complain i have is with the new freestyle element combo the AI dont even bother to match your stuffs anymore, and half of the time i have to fire off a random one instead of the 16 true combos
also b***hy Mythra is fun to look at vs Addam, Lora + Haze a cute what a shame
If you take a look at the Torna combos you'll see that there aren't actually as many true blade combos as the base game. For example, 3 fire specials will end in Heat III, not Mega Explosion.
>have you finished XC1 & XC2 yet?
Just finished replaying XB1. Shame there's no NG+ for FC, even if it's only like 2 hours long it'd be fun to have the Nopon army following me for it.
>draw a girl
>call it a boy
looks like a regular shota to me
>tfw I thought Valdi was hot until I learned he was a guy
a-am I gay bros
Nah, probably just bi and desperately lonely, like the majority of Ganker.
I'd have sex with Milton, even if it makes me gay.
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By not living in the US. XC is not NoA's child, and they hate to be proven wrong, so they're trying to sabotage the sales.
Don't know when Nintendo will have enough of that, then try to humble them even further.
You say that but the preorders for the special edition in Europe have yet to go up
Here is the full intro monologue from the Spanish previewer.
>Fighting in order to live, and living to fight.
>That's the way of our world: Aionios.
>It's ironic that its name means "Eternal."
>Because, slowly but inexorably, this world is coming to an end.
>It doesn't matter that we haven't figured it out yet.
Alongside this line:
>"If the world holds our lives back, I will end it!"
Ending the war means ending the war.
We're playing as Torna lads.
*Ending the war means ending the world
MB
Source pls
It's more so just hype speculation, but if you listen in on the Spanish preview you can hear those lines.
Given the info we have, its very likely the war is related to the state of Aionios somehow.
Except the meaning is still preserved. Localization isn't 1-1 translating the Japanese into English because they are two completely different languages.
The point of localization it to try to keep the intent of the author for a work while still making it sound good for a different audience who will most likely not understand the cultural differences.
Rex-Rex not only has precedent in Xenoblade, but it also keeps the idea that Tora deeply respects Rex.
Tldr fake matrix world.
Boring.
Is there a way to fake a "currently playing" game on Switch? I have a friend who is currently playing it, and has put 25 hours into it.
Gameplay looks fine but I just can't get past how fricking boring the characters are and the story is not very interesting to me. The premise is fine but the villains are dumb as hell, BWAHAHAHAHA I WILL EAT ALL THE PEOPLE TO SUSTAIN MY CLOCK LOOK HOW EVIL I AM. The catgirl cries.
Pretty meh.
anon they aren't going to show the true motives of the villains from the trailers
It's not like they showed complexity of Jin and Malos's motives from the trailers, and if you were to go by the first couple of hours of XC2, you'd think Torna was just generic bad guys that want to destroy the world or whatever
>the enemies from 1 are even less than that, just faceless robot drones, with one shit talking dude
You know anon, maybe, just maybe, what we see in the trailers isn’t the whole fricking picture
>Oh no the Xord tier villain doesnt interest me
I feel like im reading the same complain in every threads. How autistic are you to repost the same shit every fricking day? Ok we heard you le characters is le boring you said it 453 times in the past 2 weeks.
Let me guess, you like Xenoblade 2?
Anyone else really dislike Pyrrha/Mythra's dub voice?
I think she gets better as the game goes on like Rex does. She really could have been more professional with the cringe stuff like blushy crushy though. She said in her stream of the game she hated it and it showed.
>Paid only $33
Feels good.
How?
Amazon's doing a thing where you can get a $10 credit for Prime Day. I also had enough to cash out for a gift card in the Upside app. I miiiiight also be apart of the Nielsen Mobile Panel and had enough points for another gift card.
How?
why are there so many dub and localization defenders here
who brought these morons into Ganker
American's have always been the majority on this website
>Americans
NoE is responsible for the localization and I think the Americans are asleep.
I sort of agree, especially now that in the Japanese XC3 one nation has charaters with western names and the other Japanese. But then again it was a bit strange how the blades had Japanese names in the first place when Morytha and the beanstalk housing Klaus seem to have been located in what used to be the USA. Does this make Klaus a bigger weeb in the Japanese version?
I mean, you're already replacing the language, which is one of the most important cornerstones of a culture.
Because people have the misconception that a localization needs to be directly 1-1 with the original Japanese in order to be good.
And people can enjoy 2s dub. I certainly did. Did it have a lot of problems? Absolutely. But I still enjoyed it nonetheless.
2 is by far one of my favorite incredibly flawed games.
>that a localization needs to be directly 1-1 with the original Japanese in order to be good.
It's a japanese game so I would hope so. What is there to gain out of stripping away part of a game's cultural identity in favor of passing it off as British?
Because there are many elements that cannot be directly translated without sounding incredibly weird to Western audiences.
NoE's purpose in localization is to preserve the original intent of the author while also making it feel right for the audience its trying to present the game to.
In my honest opinion, the localization is fine. NoE did a pretty good job in preserving a lot of the ideas present in the original Japanese. The biggest loss in my opinion was the change from Judeo-Christian terminology to Greek terminology, but that also sort of makes sense as Christianity is heavily mystified over in Japan as Greek myth is here.
there are many elements that cannot be directly translated without sounding incredibly weird to Western audiences.
What sounds "weird" to a western audience depends on the player, even between a player who's familiar with JRPGs, and someone who isn't ,it isn't going to be the same. Hell, even to a fricking American and a brit it won't be the same.
>I mean, you're already replacing the language, which is one of the most important cornerstones of a culture.
So that gives you free reign to change anything else and stop trying for accuracy to the source material?
Japanese pronunciation aside, I see no difference in using Fiorung, Meleph, Sieg(fried), or Carna over what we got. Are you seriously trying to say that the average english speaker would have trouble understanding a persons name in today's multicultural society? As someone who live in north america, I see dozens of africans, middle easterners, and indians with harder to pronounce names on the daily in my work, it's literally a non-issue.
>Sieg(fried)
it's zeke
it was always zeke, even in japan
ジーフリト (Jīfurito) is not "zeke". His full name is Siegfried Brune Luxuria
Why is it a とand not ど if it’s supposed to be Siegfried? Also, he calls himself ジーク, not ジーグ.
>weeb fails JP class
Siegfried in Japan is ジークフリート not ジーフリト
An American and a Brit would find pronouncing a Japanese name equally weird, as would the people voice acting those characters.
That's another reason why localizers often need to change names, because more likely than not they will butcher the pronunciation and the Japanese name itself is very different from what Western audiences are used to, which could lead to less sales.
And to give credit to 2, it is pretty accurate to the intent behind the source, and it even adds its own touches to give more worldbulding flair.
>An American and a Brit would find pronouncing a Japanese name equally weird, as would the people voice acting those characters.
I find that incredibly hard to believe, for the reasons I said early. The average english speaker uses more difficult to pronounce names regularly, and then wouldn't have more trouble saying a japanese name than "Morag" or "Dromarch"
It's not a matter of saying it, its more so that its a name that these people are simply not used to.
Its always the safer option to make names that will be more comfortable to these audiences while still trying to keep the original meaning of said name.
Nobody is used to Morag, Mythra, or Pyrrha. The average person is more accustomed to hearing japanese names from technology than anything Welsh, or even Greek.
Do you say Fiorung, Merefu, Neferu, Jiiku and Carna? If you can't see the gain from changing these moronic names then you're braindead.
They work in Nip but never will in English because they're different languages.
I always call Fiordung Fiorung. Don't you?
Playing DE on Ryujinx.
Good god Ponspectors murder my frame rate.
Why is Flynn SMT4 in this game
Because he's the best SMT design next to Raidou and Space Marine
Every game is improved with Flynn.
bye Black folk
These threads are boring without the shitposters squad.
>t. discord shitposter