Xenoblade 2

>A NEW JOURNEY TO FIND ELYSIUM BEGINS NOW…

>In the latest entry of the Xenoblade Chronicles series, a new hero will seek
out Elysium on an immense journey through a brand-new world.
>immense journey
>IMMENSE

FEATURES:
• Executive Director: Tetsuya Takahashi (Monolith Software Inc., Executive
Director from Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles X)
• Character design: Masatsugu Saito
• Music:
• Yasunori Mitsuda
• ACE (Tomori Kudo, CHiCO)
• Kenji Hiramatsu
• Manami Kiyota

>Zohar is back

This game is a sequel to Xenoblade, so of course it's going to live up to that game and perhaps even surpass it. We haven't seen anything yet.

Yes but will it feature Melia Suffering?

The default armor on the MC is goofy as fuck.

THIS

MOM SAYS IT'S MY TURN TO HAVE THE MONADO

Reminder

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It's very distracting and sticks out like a sore thumb

Is that Hebrew writing on the green part of his blade?

The Monado in XB has Chinese symbols. Perhaps this one is going with Hebrew writing, which is visible when activated and opened up.

How can Melia compete against this Robutt?

Hopefully they make the combat worthwhile in this one, other than just spamming the same combos over and over

where does he even hide the sword

>Is that Hebrew writing on the green part of his blade?

A return of shallow judeo-christrian references? Just like in my 90s jrpgs?

>tfw your attention was diverted when the monolith logo showed up so you didn't see it
>tfw seeing this and thinking MML3 was finally happening again only to realize it's just Xenoblade

Xenoblade is good and all, but it still hurts

>Trusting Capcom to do anything good with Mega Man
I shiggy diggy

>Saga Zohar symbol
Oh boy. What could this mean?

Poor wave existence can't catch a break.

>Zohar gets niggerrigged into a crude perpetual energy engine and wave existence gets trapped in it
>now whatever the fuck this means

Also how the fuck did Abel even manage to wander into a high security testing lab to become the Contact in the first place? Someone got fired over that I'm sure.

Of course, her race has a way longer life span than humans, you'll see her constantly mourn the death of the rest of the team and perhaps being the guardian of Shulk's kids and their own kids..

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After X I lost all interest in this series. The side-quests are some of the fucking worst with that collecathon shit. You spend almost as much time collecting blue orbs as you do actually DOING stuff.

Anyone notice how the MC looks at the Bunnit on the rock in the trailer?

Characters never did this in XB or XCX. It's a nice touch.

Thank god Xenoblade's the kind of RPG where whatever armor you equip actually shows on the characters, first thing I do is get the shota naked and then buy the first piece of relatively normal looking armor I can find.

looks like he has a grapple hook

Melia turned to stone waiting alone for generations

I'm completely 100% totally pretty much confirmed that this isn't related to the original XB and they are just using the name like a Final Fantasy, i hope this isn't the case, i don't want Xenoblade to become the FF brand of nintendo

>you remember the cuckening of Melia

>BTFO by Shulks Robowaifu

I'm telling you, this is from an alternate world where rather than wanting a replacement mum that ends up his waifu, Abel wanted a waifu AND a sword.

i dont care just give it actual Story and pacing like XC and dont make it a wannabe MMORPG with literally no Story and 1000 fetch quests as required replacement BUT YOU CAN HAVE A ROBOT COOL!!!1 XCX shit

sorry for the kind of unrelated post, but /hbg/ ignored me like always, so please respond Sup Forums
how do i use XCXGecko to uncensor the outfits that got changed? there are no options for it. do i have to find custom codes somewhere?

After Gears/Saga failed twice basically, I think he doesn't want to go and try that again.

X was actually fun to play and didn't need a story to drag the player through the world - simply exploring was enough to keep most players engaged. I love XC but Christ if it wasn't a chore to play at times.

Welcome to Xeno.

Why did she suffer so much?

>Oh boy. What could this mean?
Well since the MC of the previous Xenoblade kinda became god, how about the MC from Xenoblade 2 ending up as the being known as wave existence in the other Xenos?

>Story
>Story
>Obvious phoneposter is also a shitposter
No big surprise.

So did she and Reyn get together?

Leave everything to Riki!

Can we talk about the characters in X for a second?

They all seem to get a bad rep because of how boring Lin, and more so Elma, are, but I think some of the other characters are pretty alright.

Especially Boze, he's by far my favorite. I love X, but I love it for the amazing exploration and world building, not the story. Doing Boze's affinity missions, I almost feel like he's way to good of a character to be wasted on X.

Anyway, what were your favorite characters in X?

>Phoneposter
He's obviously a Proneposter, user.

So yeah, I'm pretty hyped by XC2. Honestly, I don't care if it is a direct sequel, however the XC-XCX-XC2 and a lot of the thematic elements being similar makes me think something fishy is going on here. If it does end up being a sequel, neat, if not, I'm still along for the ride. Also, I'm not too keen on the MC's gear either but maybe he'll make up for it with character.

Boze is an asshole, much like a majority of XCX's characters.

They seemed to focus on the idea that "the last remnants of humanity" would likely encapsulate the shittiest characteristics of humanity.

Did anyone else notice how in the trailer Rex actually turns his head to look at the Bunnit on the rock as he runs past it? I know it's not like this stuff hasn't been done before in other games, but neither Xenoblade or Xenoblade X had this. It's a nice touch.

I have a feeling a lot of focus is going to go into making these characters as expressive as possible.

I hope my Xenoblade X save data can be transferred over, that way I can put some jeans and a tank top on this fucking kid.

I'd also like to put some X armour on the sword girls; greenie looks like she's wearing the green version of Elmas armour with different arm options. It's terrible. Fashion armour better be unlocked by default.

>pretty much confirmed
i meant convinced

that doesn't make sense, no other xeno game had done something like that and Takahashi calls the Xenoblade a series even though at that moment there were only 2

also holy shit guys i just reread the TIME interview and i don't know if we all missed this or completely forgot about it:

>“The design focus for this game was on map exploration and character builds during battle,” says Takahashi. “We deliberately distanced ourselves from having philosophical themes intertwined with the core of the story. Given that we at Monolith Soft had no experience with developing HD titles, our goal with this project was to experiment with and implement the assorted tech skills we needed for HD game development. We decided that trying to balance that with an epic theme-laden story would pose difficulties. Our hope is that we can start by creating the core system, then expand on the story and thematic elements in our future project.

>Our hope is that we can start by creating the core system, then expand on the story and thematic elements in our future project.

Xenoblade X sequel actually confirmed? or was he talking about making the core system in X and expanding the story of the future project now that they had the system made?

>it's going to live up to that game and perhaps even surpass it. We haven't seen anything yet.
>perhaps even surpass it. We haven't seen anything yet.
>We haven't seen anything yet.

We saw a teaser trailer, calm the fuck down.

But where's the BONG?

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>what were your favorite characters in X?
Irina is my waifu(and i don't know why) but Mia is definitely my favorite character and second waifu

Started playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS
When does it get fun?

>not the worst character in all of Xenogames ever

>not running into highlevel mobs and enjoy mobs punch her to death while walk away feeling good

user plz

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When you get a full party of three that doesn't rely on a dedicated healer.

So a party of four, then?

Likely not a sequel to XCX, doesn't really fit with the established rules of that universe anyway.

>Likely not a sequel to XCX, doesn't really fit with the established rules of that universe anyway.
what do you mean?

>monolithsoft will never buy the rights to Gears back from squenix
>we will never get episode 6 where the original humans finally find out where the Eldridge crashed and come to check it out only to be total dicks to the current population
>we will never find out what Earth's big secret is
>we will never get to see Citan being a huge dick in HD
it hurts

There isn't going to be an X2. If there was, this game would have been it. But it's XB2.

Hopefully this one will be good. The other two sucked.

>Also how the fuck did Abel even manage to wander into a high security testing lab to become the Contact in the first place?

I was under the impression that as the Eldridge was getting its shit wrecked he was wandering around looking for his mom in the chaos, then Kadomony EZ Baked him one before the crash.

Gadolt basically gives Reyn permission to plow her. I loved how Reyn hooked that guy up with some water and was happy to see him alive for Sharla. Reyn #1

>Anyway, what were your favorite characters in X?

H.B., Mia, L

I liked xenoblade for it's system heavy approach to combat and didn't feel like you were just playing the game on auto-pilot the whole time
hated the game force feeding the player typical jrpg cliche schlock story though

reminder chara design is trash

His mom/dad already died to Deus's initial attack

I always took Abel's contact with the Zohar to be the catalyst for what caused Deus to reactivate suddenly

Literally
>Don't ever speak to me or my husbando's son ever again.

Given that she is more homs than High Entia, Melia won't live too long of a life.

Every Xeno thread contains two, maybe three of these things:
>Discussion/Clarification of Saga and Gears
>XC/XCX defense force gang wars
>Discussions of why Melia must suffer
>No discussion of Sharla
>Muh Zohar

sharla is literally the worst character in xc

so time for some theories:
>Alvis(the monado[the universe]) glows green when he doesn't have a human form and has a wave existence look to him
>The Zohar in the chest of the girls and in the blade glows green
>The Zohar is pulling energy out of the universe which is giving life to the blades
>a blade connected to Alvis with the Zohar develops a soul which can come out of the blade
>the overclock in this game will be...
>if the Zohar functions as a slave generator from Xenogears... i started writing this before you posted this kek
>the blade user is the one that will momentarily gain excess energy from the Zohar because the blade is unable to get any more than the necessary to operate

reminder that the chara designer does porn

XCXGecko can't uncensor. IIRC you need a loadiine version of the game with the changes made. Honestly its not worth it

You know, he's a pretty nice dude for an unknowable higher level of being that got himself turned into a fucking power plant.
You know, humans have been on the planet in Xenogears for nearly as long as modern man has existed on Earth. Who said there are any 'original' humans left?

I'm replaying XC1 right now out of hype for the sequel, and god damn this game has the best pacing of any RPG I've ever played.
It doesn't let up on the story, but stays fun and engaging the whole way through.

I may actually be enjoying my 2nd playthrough more than the first, because I actually have the patience and interest to try the sidequests.

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not to be that thirsty nigga in the thread but, panda link?

sorce?

title is literally on the page in big bold letters.

It's a movie called Expelled from Paradise. Bretty gud.

i apologize for being a lazy sack of shit, my bad.

thanks user that cgi butt looks mighty fine

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I just started playing the first one in wait for the second, is it a must to complete every side quest? i'm finding some of them kinda annoying but i don't want to miss anything by not doing them.

>The first one
But Xenogears doesn't have any sidequests until the very end of the game.

The story was shit, but the way they handled it was fine. I liked the open world aspect and not having to be strung along with it in order to get anywhere in the map.
More importantly, I hope they handle the characters the same way they did in XC. XCX had too many and with there being set classes that they each fall into plus them not leveling up with you, there was practically no incentive to actually use most of them. I hardly know anything about most of the playable characters because I cba to grind with all of them. Just have a smaller set of characters, all with unique playstyles.

I was talking about Xenoblade chronicles, sorry.

Not at all. I skipped most of them because they were generic errand boy shit.

Yes it does, most of them have no pay off until the end of the second disc though (fucking mermaid tear)

No, you don't have to complete them all. There's a select few sidequest arcs that are really good (the Colony 6 survivors in Guar Plains have some good ones, as well as some Colony 9 members and Nopon), but even getting to them can be a bit of a chore.

Also, rebuilding Colony 6 can take a LONG time, so if you're up for it, strap in for one hell of a ride.

Not at all. Whenever I was in a new area I would always explore as much as I could while doing a handful of sidequests. Once I got bored with that I would move on with the story. Trying to do them all would be torture.

so it's like repaying captain matthews' debt, except without farming orgulla for awakening manuals

No, god know. Some sidequests are more important than others since they unlock additional sidequests and completing the chain can get you neat rewards like new Monado arts or additional skill trees but thankfully most sidequests aren't mandatory and the aforementioned important ones never expire. You should only do sidequests as long as you're actually having fun doing them.

I hope they bring back personal arts in place of overclock. Melia looks fun as hell to main

Melia is only good if you use her yourself. If you let the AI control her, it never casts out her buffs so she never deals damage. That said, playing as Melia IS pretty fun.

doubly so for me as I love playing mages. too bad I missed the game while they still printed it

Melia's AI is garbage, but she's the most fun to play as IMO. Melia/Dunban/Riki is the combo I'm doing right now and it's damn good.

It's easy as fuck to pirate on Wii, Wii U, New 3DS and PC, and if you want to pay for it, you can buy the N3DS port or the Wii VC version on Wii U.

What are your guys thoughts on this, want a sequel after the cliffhanger?

Do you want to see Monolith do the Chronicles Number and Chronicles X Number series in parallel?

I want to see Monolith work on a new Xeno- name.

That would be an interesting dynamic, but as much as I loved XCX there are certain detriments that I feel wouldn't be fixed if they kept it as its own series.

It's great, I hope we get a sequel.

If you don't manage to get a certain material before a plot point in the game, you have to constantly respawn in the same area over and over until it randomly drops.

>Zohar

I keep seeing this, what does it mean?
Google says its jewish mythology.

Did you ever play Xenogears? Or Xenosaga?

I want an XCX expansion pack.

>New continents to explore and ancient civilization and lore to discover
>New alien races come to Mira
>Re-establish contact with other humans that landed on WHOLE DIFFERENT PLANETS, they come to realize what sort of lifeless monsters you are and attempt to purge you from existence.

If they could fix the massive difficulty spike and the forced grinding then I'd be all for it.