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How many of the side quests have unique stories and rewards compared to how many involve collecting 10 buffalo asses?
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C-Euro posted:Giant Bomb has a Quicklook up and I really want to watch it despite my self-imposed info embargo on this game. Should I watch it anyway? My god, that was annoying. What is the point of walking around in circles while they talk?
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Apr 6, 2012 22:34
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So is there lots of content for new game+?
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Apr 7, 2012 09:30
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None of the side quests that unlock new skill trees are timed, right?
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Apr 10, 2012 00:16
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How do people build Shulk? Once you stop fighting mechon, he just sort of sucks for everything but dealing with visions.
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Jul 28, 2012 23:21
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C-Euro posted:Dammit Desiree, I have 4 stars with Colony 9 give me the quest for the 4th skill tree already You probably killed it the first time before. Save and reload until it respawns.
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Jul 30, 2012 03:57
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:And whoever plays as Riki must speak like him over the mic or he'll refuse to do anything. You get a key to unlock a tiny area at the top of the tower. It is only worth doing if you want to complete the map or enjoy the very nice view.
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Aug 1, 2012 03:47
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wereboat posted:As far as I can tell, visions only seem to come up if the attack will seriously mess you up, like killing a dude or doing 80% of his remaining hp. You might get a vidion for a boss punching Shulk for 3k hp and almost die, but the same attack on Reyn, with double Shulk's hp you won't. I also seem to recall getting statused would trigger a vision, but it's been awhile since I beat it. When I fought the sniper face my other 2 members went after random mobs out in the open and died repeatedly, but I couldn't revive them alone. So, I ended up soloing stuff while very slowly building up the party gauge as Dunban, hiding behind a wall from the boss. I was constantly at low hp and as such, even regular attacks from the extra mobs caused visions. The boss' beam attacks kept getting visions too, which broke very quickly because I was staying behind a wall the whole time. So yeah, visions have nothing to do with the level of the attack- it is based entirely on how much damage they do vs. your current health. (It probably would have been a lot easier to just die and restart the fight, but I don't like doing that.)
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Aug 11, 2012 02:55
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New game+ would be a lot more appealing if it didn't reset all of your quests, town affinities and colony 6 progress.
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Aug 22, 2012 01:36
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Vil posted:Some additional merchants also show up for other upgrades or recruitment or something; I don't recall the details but I do recall that there were more merchants when the town was fully fleshed out than there were when it was "just" level 5 commerce. A lot of the last wave of merchants are only out during rather short time periods. The exact time is different for each of them.
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Aug 27, 2012 03:28
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Flying around Bionis in a mech would have been tits, though. It was often pretty hard to figure out how all the areas fit together.
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Jan 24, 2013 04:07
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Talk to everyone with a name at least once, do quests. A lot of quests only unlock with story progression and region affinity, so if you get stuck wandering around come back later or slavishly follow the wiki. I ground out all of the region affinities once, but I would never do it a second time.
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Feb 4, 2013 03:15
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Dominic White posted:I'd love to see a hack of Xenoblade someday that somehow fixes the problem of outlevelling content. There were SO many sidequests that I skipped because they involved barely more than breathing on an enemy to kill it. The problem is that anyone willing and able to finish a project like that is likely inclined to increase the difficulty in incredibly stupid ways.
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May 3, 2013 05:35
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C-Euro posted:Tell me your secrets, I just want this skill tree but I swear that I've completely strip-mined Colony 9 of quests. What else can I do? Talk to everyone a few times. You can get a few points that way.
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Mar 11, 2014 15:00
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Sneaky.
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Jun 10, 2014 18:35
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I've never been a big fan of blank slate protagonists. This just means that everyone else will talk around your creepy, unexpressive mute while other characters carry the story. In those situations, the main character is anything but. Shulk wasn't exactly the most interesting character (he was probably the second least interesting in the party, after Sharla), but that he had a personality and motivations at all was still a step up from a blank slate. I guess they could do it mass effect style, but how likely is that for a jrpg?
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Jun 10, 2014 20:49
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Chaltab posted:I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the game is all about, what with Machina and Nopon being shown in the trailer and... the United States colony of Neo Los Angeles appearing in the gameplay. Just because he comes in without relationships doesn't mean he couldn't form them as the game went on. It is entirely possible that he could have become best buds with someone. Well, if he wasn't a mute. Appearance select is fine, but voice select in an extensively voiced game is death for characterization. The gameplay looks great, but xenoblade was all about the setting and relationships. I'm reserving judgement on the setting, but I hope that the rest of the cast picks up the slack for the blank slate.
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Jun 11, 2014 04:57
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BlondRobin posted:I think it's a real shame that they've chosen to make the protagonist mute and silent. It is, as everyone knows, *actually* impossible to make a silent protagonist have any relationships with other characters except the most shallow and facile; in fact, literally every game with a silent protagonist in recent history (since we grew past the bad old days of JRPGs) has done pretty poorly, with poor reception. Plus, there's no way to give such a character characterization. There's no way for them to pull this off- if that's really what they're going for, then it means that another promising series of games from Japan (a rare commodity these days) is probably going to end up falling apart. He was still a blank slate mute. Any characterization came from the anime. Silent protagonists are not good, popularity does not equal quality. I mean gently caress, you are saying that sales make for a good game in a xenoblade thread.
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