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chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I like that Poppi's justification for how she speaks is that everyone else is using too drat many extra words.

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chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

PJOmega posted:

I've been playing Guilty Gear. I think Sol Badguy might not be a good dude.

Look if your daughter married your rival and you got stuck being the grandpa raising their idiot son, you might be in a bad mood, too.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

IcePhoenix posted:

Today I spent over one million gold (so far) pumping textiles into my blades while I watch youtube. But on the plus side I'm pretty sure that when I actually finish Mythra's affinity (I have to kill two more unique monsters) I'm going to hit Ultra Instinct immediately.

I've now got a mental image of Mythra wearing a million scarves like a toddler in a snowsuit.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

"These aren't the people who attacked your guards, Morag."

Except for all the guards I murdered while trying to find out who was murdering the guards.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Am I missing something about chain attacks? I keep loving them up and not getting the kill with them due to the wrong orbs being cracked or broken.

Also I was losing it in chapter 4 at Muimui and Bana's emergency slides into an orb that is clearly going to be piloting a super robot.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I think there is certainly something to that higher chance of rare blades at the start of a chapter thing. I just got the fourth party member and crushed a bunch of cores with them (rares and one legendary, burning my stock of boosters as well) and got Perceval, Floren, and KOS-MOS along like 3 generics. I wish there was a way to keep the base skins for upgraded weapons though, since KOS-MOS's basic guns look cool.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

PJOmega posted:

Hahahahahaha.

Oh ffs Xenoblade.

Hell, I wish they would let us sort by accessory type. Nothing like scrolling through pages of poo poo to see if there is a better version of the item you have equipped.

At least it's only one item type rather than what X had.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Centzon Totochtin posted:

Why can we skip the second part of the blade summoning animation but not the first part

Why does the slot machine slowly pass by the 7s?

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I'm going to tell everyone in this thread's friends and relatives that they like anime. Also terrible UIs have nothing to do with whether or not something is anime.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Wasn't the opening cutscene of Xenosaga 1 like an hour long?

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Momomo posted:

I think it's more important that Nia walks around in that awful mustard yellow outfit. She's my favorite character, but I really wish she had better fashion sense.

You don't get to be Torna's naptime specialist without wearing your pajamas all the time.

Also it's disappointing how nobody ever talks about how cool Morag looks.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I think this is a case where trying to make internally cpnsistent explanations would make the whole thing fall apart, so it's better not to. The effectively immortal beings not having the implicit task of being a historical record is a neat wrinkle, though.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I'd absolutely play a game with Morag as the lead. Hopefully there will be at least a dlc story for her. I'm hoping Torna squad also gets one, so I can get more of Malos failing to not yell at people.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I just noticed that characters have different swimming animations. Most do a breast stroke, but Mythra does a normal front crawl and Nia and obviously Dromarch dog paddle.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Cooking with Morag and Brighid is the best show.

Somehow I've got 50 hours, maybe a few of them idle for various reasons, and have only just started chapter 5. This game is really dense with side quests, areas that are way bigger than expected, and trying to figure out how to get to the drat Fief of Forgetfulness.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Calaveron posted:

I mean if you already had two titty girlfriends and then another one with an unintelligible accent went and did that how would you react

Hey they're probably okay with it.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Okay I have been unable to figure these out for a while now.

1) How do I get Perun's affinity up?
2) How do I get to the Fief of Forgetfulness?

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Barudak posted:

Its temporary, once taken off Rex the blades return to their original driver and you'll get it I think at the start of the next chapter.


Either youtube it or suck up my terrible explanation. During low-tide, get on the bridge that exits Alba Canavich. There is scaffolding that goes under the bridge, take this down. On the side of this scaffolding closest to Alba Canavich, there are square building looking this jutting out from the walls. Jump onto these all the way down, then stay on the ledge until you find a tunnel leading downward which terminates in the Fief.

Thanks. I totally missed those little buildings jutting out.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I wonder if for the inevitable Switch iteration of Smash they will add Rex and Pyra individually or as an Ice Climbers style pair. I mean if Shulk made it in the last one at least one of the pair is likely to here.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

nessin posted:

I see the tradition of implementing lovely half-assed mini-games into RPGs is being kept alive in Xenoblades. How necessary is it to play Tiger Tiger and keep Poppi built up, or can Tora safely be taken out of the party early and not have to deal with the mini-game at all?

My understanding is you only need to bother with Tiger Tiger if you want to make Poppi and Tora into god killers, but otherwise they are perfectly serviceable at a base level.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Pretty sure Cunning Saggie is a unique monster, which require significantly more to take out. You can tell if you're fighting one because the music is different.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Xarbala posted:

I think it's kind of funny, having been spoiled by the thread about Four and her lack of presence in the plot after joining the party. In the start of Chapter 5 if you talk to her she basically says "I'm just hanging out with you guys out of curiosity, tbqh."

Lady's just a spectator with a front row seat and while it's a shame I can respect that.

She and her wife are cool and also excellent chefs and that's all I really need out of party members.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Amppelix posted:

That is a very real possibility. I've also seen people claiming the accents to be exaggerated and obviously faked, etc, which I think is a pretty clear sign of never hearing an actual British person talking besides maybe on BBC.

I recall hearing that a Hellsing dub got criticized for having fake English accents when none of them actually were. I guess Americans are used to the exaggerated fake British accents our actors put on to portray any character who is not obviously American.

How comparatively unexaggerated Pyra and Mythra has grown on me. You can still feel the poor direction, but the two sounding fairly ordinary I think distinguishes than a bit.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

kirbysuperstar posted:

I will never understand what gives people this impression.

Moreover I don't know how anyone could take even one look at this one and not immediately think it is incredibly anime (which it is and that eules).

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

This would probably be too big an ask, but it would have been fun if they'd pulled more US regional accents for the blades, too. Like there's the Texan common boys and Dahlia is apparently a southern belle, but like bring in someone from Boston or Brooklyn. Imagine a Minnesotan Pyra.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

That's a rude thing to say to my chatty friend Kora.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I'd rather they hire a UI designer first. And a therapist for that UI designer.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

You call it a F2P interface, but X's was just as bad. I think in Monolith's case they are just constitutionally incapable of making an interface that isn't a hot mess.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Barudak posted:

This quest blew my mind. “Oh yeah i had to hire mercenaries to avoid being murdered by her mercanaries, but hers are dead now so besties forever”

War has changed...

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

X had a better soundtrack, not that this one's is bad or anything.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

ajkalan posted:

I just wish Jin didn't look, speak, and act like a Sonic the Hedgehog villain.

I mean I guess Sephiroth is like a Sonic villain (not named Eggman, who is the best).

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Centzon Totochtin posted:

What's the quickest way to improve trust

Cram cheap steaks in their faces, unless they like steak, in which case use something they don't like. This makes sense.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I was amused by, at the end of chapter 5, Mythra being kind of an rear end in a top hat to Jin. "Why are you like this? Oh right! Your dead girlfriend."

Also yeah, that boy definitely needs a hug.

chumbler fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jan 14, 2018

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I really appreciate the clever brilliance of the unique-enemy track's lead-in. Rather than a slow ramp-up or a fast-paced start, it's an absolutely chaotic riff that just perfectly captures the sense of "what the hell is going o-OH NO. NONONONO".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cNmgwQHgR4

Uncontrollable's still better.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I'm telling myself that's what happened with X as well.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I wouldn't ask my friend Rex to hide his girlfriend.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Yall just can't handle Mythra.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Why does Tiger Tiger have to be so hard? Even on easy mode I can only do stage 1 with a decentish score.

Also Tantal has cool music.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Put Morag in smash, capcom.

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chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Having just finished chapter 6, it will be a crime if there is not some dlc story where you get to play as the Torna crew or get them as blades. They all chew the scenery so much and it's great. It's really something when Malos looks like the normal guy.

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