Board 8 > Xenoblade Chronicles - information/hype topic

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working on the 2nd plant on Colony 6

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hah, this quest is these two little girls arguing who's hottest and strongest between Shulk and Reyn what

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yes that's the one I talked about when I returned to Colony 9 right after getting Sharla


currently can't progress on it since the current step I'm on requires two female party memebers with high affinity and I don't have a 2nd female party member yet

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woah I just saw this incredibly awesome flying serpent-fish at one of the islands on the Eryth Sea

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that's where I'm going next

this game has gotten really overwhelming with the massive environments, massive quests and massive amount of things to do. I just get so bogged down trying to complete everything and I'm not even trying to do half of it. there's just so much going on!

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xyzzy

just before Eryth Sea, I was sooo overwhelmed with the amount of quests I received at Frontier Village

but I just had to do them all before continuing

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haven't played since SFIII Third Strike Online came out


I plan to fix this once my hands become too damaged to fight effectively later tonight

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GuessMyUserName posted...
just before Eryth Sea, I was sooo overwhelmed with the amount of quests I received at Frontier Village

but I just had to do them all before continuing

That's the thing, I got to Eryth Sea and I was like "whoa hold the phone, I left a s*** ton of Nopon unsatisfied in Frontier Village. Better go back and complete some quests.

These past two days I haven't advanced the story whatsoever, I'm just completing a bunch of quests.

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wakamoto voiced "person" sorry chav voices you're gone


also you can deal with the rodriguez quest by running away and resetting him as he then stares at the wall for a bit contemplating reality and his place in it.

good so far but the game really needs a far more polished quest UI- hunting down npcs in colony 9, opening logs all the time to find out if sarcastic brog was in one of the 50000 quests you picked up or if it was wry brog etc

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Great, a new area, a new set of time limited quests

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oh man, Riki just learned a move called "Burninate"


best

game

ever

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man the game seems to love dropping foreshadowing all over the place

I'm pretty sure at this point it's less foreshadowing and more "telling", in fact

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precognition as a way of storytelling kind of takes the punch out of it, yeah.

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It's not even the precognition sometimes. Talk to those generics or people around town.

Like, you'll learn stuff like the squarestache general is still alive immediately just from a generic, and Desiree has some juicy stuff after the ether mines.

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Ah damn, I never really talk to the generic characters unless they have an "!".

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I didn't know about the colonel, but yeah desiree was what I was thinking of. And even that proves I was pretty slow; I'm sure some people figured stuff out just from mr. face

The precog stuff is actually almost opaque by comparison!

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brought my Wii to my friend's house to show him xenoblade

his TV only had the composite cords though and not component. Apparently Xenoblade doesn't like that because it only runs in black & white like that.


So we played it for an hour in black & white

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Somehow I doubt they'd release a game that runs in black-and-white only if you use the default cords the Wii comes with, it was probably something else


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ntsc tv + pal game maybe....?

or some option if you're running it off a hard drive (I'm not sure how importing works for the wiiz)

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I've seen a lot of component players whine about the "bad graphics," but I had never heard about it being in black and white.

Apparently for this game there's a big difference between component and composite, and the text is really hard to read with component cables. Black and white though, that's interesting.

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Component is the higher-end of the two. You're thinking composite.

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If you have third party component/composite hybrid cables, they have a switch you need to flip to switch between the modes. Otherwise, the video comes up black and white or not at all.

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Some don't have a switch actually. I would have gotten shafted by this fun fact a while back if I didn't still have the Nintendo composite cables that came with the Wii. I went into settings, switched the video output around (making it look weird temporarily) and then plugged the component cables back in. Voila.

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Jeff Zero posted...
Component is the higher-end of the two. You're thinking composite.

Yeah well, whatever man. Trying to sober up here.

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Sorry, I just used to get them confused all the time so now I usually let others know.

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You shouldn't apologize when I'm the one being a dick.

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XD It's fine yo.

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play it on dolphin imo no cables needed

hd graphicz yo




(my computer can't actually handle HD wii games : ( back to the wii i go)

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Man, just found out about gift giving. I thought raising affinity decently was impossible without playing as someone else until now

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From: FAHtastic | Posted: 8/27/2011 10:05:44 PM | #329
Man, just found out about gift giving. I thought raising affinity decently was impossible without playing as someone else until now

wait what

I'm like 60 hours in and I have no idea what you're talking about

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You can give collectables to people in your team to raise affinity. I found out after looking through the achievements.

You can also give them to named people in towns, apparently, but I haven't tried it yet.

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I'll have to do this

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Miyamoto: [cats] are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well

yeah, Sharla likes sour something or others. I didn't know about this for a lot of hours either.

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I knew about this since I saw it mentioned a few times, but I didn't know how to do it. I figured it was still a feature coming up that would eventually unlock.

Good to know I can do it now

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by the way, who's everyone using? I've got Shulk/Dunban/Sharla.

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xyzzy

Mixing around to keep it fresh, but if I had to choose, Sharla/Dunban/Shulk, swapping shulk out for Mage Girlz if I don't need Monado. Her knock down kick thingy is so good. Wish I could kick out Sharla for her but so far her + Shulk's healing doesn't seem quite enough.

Also Mage Girlz likes Dobercorgis very much, if you need to rase her and Sharla's affinity for a certain quest...

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Shulk/Reyn/Dunban form TEAM AWESOME and it kicks everyone's ass

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Call me numbers.

I mix it up as much as possible, but when I want to take down a tough boss I'll use Shulk/Sharla/Reyn or Shulk/Sharla/Dunban.

dragon22391 is right though, Shulk/Reyn/Dunban really takes enemies down quickly.

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frontier village is the worst place to navigate

worst

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yeah I skipped a lot of stuff there just to get it over with

next town's a lot better

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I don't see anything wrong with Frontier Village. I was a little disappointed that it counts as one of the X amount of locations in the game (I know the number of locations but am not sure if that's a spoiler).

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Maybe I'll find time to make it out of the Central Pit today!

of course I also promised GoG to play more SFIII with him so who knows

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So in a few words, how is this game so far? Also, do I have to crack my Wii or do anything special if I import this?

Sorry if both questions have been answered numerous times in this topic already, but I'm just lazy.

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Top 3 game on the console

and yes you'll need to modify your wii to remove the region lock if you import

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do you like Oblivion? do you like Japanese RPGs?

if yes, play it.

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I'm pretty sure wii modding requires like 2 minutes and an SD card, though I'm also pretty sure I can't explain how here.

The game has its flaws- the side quests are pretty much just "kill x" or "get 3 moosesquirrel tails" but the game has millions of stuff to do, a decent battle system, and most importantly typical jrpg teens talking like chavs. It's certainly one of the better jrpgs to come out this gen.

do you like Oblivion?

are you trying to make me retroactively hate the game

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The quests are sort of a substitute for grinding. Enemies too powerful for you? Go do some quests. There's no reason to grind.

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yeah I was pretty damn overleveled for the first long while because I was doing pretty much every quest I could find

stopped doing that a while ago though

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I've now gotten far enough in the game that I felt it's safe to enter this topic without fear of being spoiled.

Amazing game in every regard, and it just keeps on going! It's kind of hilarious how much this craps all over FF13 when it comes to being a state-of-the-art JRPG. Even the visuals are better, as long as it's not close-up. On the Wii. Heck, they don't even use pre-rendered cutscenes and they still pull off cinematography to match Square's in scale and emotional power.

Also, JRPG with a jump button and no invisible walls. You can literally jump off cliffs thousands of meters high and land at the bottom. Sure, the physics are Kingdom Hearts-bad, but I take this over insurmountable waist-high fences anyday.

One thing that keeps nagging me is all those pesky missable quests though. If there's one thing I hate it's being overleveled, so for the entire game I've had to avoid battles 99% of the time because just doing the quests and exploring threaten to make me too strong. It wouldn't be a problem if I could just postpone the quests, but you never know when some disaster is going to wipe out all those alarm clock quests forever!

Not to mention how hard it is to even FIND all of the missable quests, considering the day/night system and the fact that quests trigger other quests etc. I tell you, I've been paranoid about advancing the story every time I get to a new obvious "stuff is going to happen" point ever since I got to NAMESPOILERSAlcamothENDSPOILERS, in fear of the city suddenly evaporating for some unpredictable reason(It hasn't happened yet, and that was a long time ago).

Now with the end seemingly in sight I wonder how the heck they're going to tie up the story without making a mess. Unless there's a "to be continued".


By the way, do you guys make sure to re-talk to the NPCs from time to time? A lot of the affinity chart stuff, and thus further quests, comes from talking to characters that don't have exclamation marks after you've done something else, like completing some quest or talking to someone they know.

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named NPCs, yeah I retalk to them every now and then

though I was browsing on the Xenoblade boards, and it seems that some NPCs say some insanely spoilerific stuff, so now I'm glad I didn't talk to NPCs too much >___>



anyways woah I just got a Monado Art as a reward from a sidequest

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