Earnestly posted:

Quick question, is this game gonna suck?

Lessail posted:

I haven't kept up with much on the game but is it gonna be a plot point that rex can't emote at all???

bef posted:

What I don't understand is how Nintendo OK'd some of these designs. Surely they know kids are gonna play, how is giant free-floating titty lady anyway ok? It's a bit absurd

Neddy Seagoon posted:

You joke, but they pretty much have already. Once the Vita finally dies in Japan (let alone being already dead and buried everywhere else), the Switch is the best option to develop for for all the little studios that can't afford the obscene budget for 1080p/4K graphics.

Internet Kraken posted:

lmao I forgot that character was even in the game. I can't even remember her name. She doesn't do anything interesting before dying.

All the villains in that game sucked so much.

Zore posted:

oh good another goddamn slapfight about 'anime'. that always ends really well and has lots of great discussion.

More importantly, have any of the reviews confirmed the Nopon is a permanent party member? That's probably my only dealbreaker atm. Some of the implications in the earlier interviews were throwing up red flags.

TurnipFritter posted:

Regy Rusty posted:

Any more detail you can give to why you feel this is the case? It's a bit disappointing to hear but on the other hand I've loved most of the Tales games I've played so it's hardly a dealbreaker.

It does make me wonder what exactly the secret sauce was that made XB1's plot work so well for me.

mabels big day posted:

Hey you know how one of the best parts of Xenoblade was that all of the character's actions and motivations generally made sense and they never really acted like out of character idiots for the sake of the plot? Well, I wish that was in this game too.

Slime posted:

Nia has a normal speaking voice where I'm from. It's hilarious seeing people talk about it because if I heard her in a shop or a pub she'd blend in perfectly well.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

Is there really no way to just open up a map screen, beyond just making the minimap bigger? Is there any way to scroll beyond my vicinity in that mode?

EDIT: gently caress, no, found it, I see, it's...okay, it's in a weird place but I found it.

Infinity Gaia posted:

Hey, to those of you far into the game, how do the sidequests trend? Closer to the original or to XCX? It's kind of a dealbreaker for me if the sidequests are bad, it's the primary reason I couldn't bring myself to even beat XC but nearly 100%'d XCX.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Did you miss the part where she adds Her flame abilities aren't derived from fire?

Calaveron posted:

Now someone explain Poppi

katkillad2 posted:

There would definitely be some benefits to that, I'm trying to find favorite pouch items for blades and nobody has made a list yet

Caphi posted:

I'm hoping that if you switch languages and use the cutscene viewer I'm told exists somewhere in the menu it uses the language you've set it to so I can go rewatch and compare and stuff, so if true what really matters is my mood for barks.

Sensual Simian posted:

What are the boosters for when opening cores? Should I automatically use all boosters or only 1 or....What the gently caress is a bravery booster and why should I care?

Lakbay posted:

That's a relief for me because I really don't like playing Tiger! Tiger!

Tae posted:

I think you misunderstand, I mean is there any incentive to use other blades than the main character blades (Pyra, Demur).

Internet Kraken posted:

No its pretty bad. Like, even if you think all the voice acting is perfectly fine, lines being repeated extremely frequently is obviously a problem. Also none of lines sync up with the actual models mouths which creates a huge disconnect.

IcePhoenix posted:

Is there a "level cap" on weapon arts? I can see myself trying to max out a bunch of them because I want to use way more than three blades per person but it seems like it'll be an awful grind if I do.

Ciaphas posted:

Any particularly good money making methods discovered yet? I’m in ch4 and salvaging & trading collections has been kinda hit or miss and slow besides.

Louisgod posted:

Are there no loving blue orbs/crystals in this game??

DLC Inc posted:

is it possible to utilize roles like Tank on Rex or Nia? so far I only tend to get Healer/Attack class Blades on them. Not sure if each character only gets bonded with certain kinds of Blades.

Tae posted:

Did you forget how long it took to get all the party members in XB1?

abraxas posted:

One thing that really bothers me about this game, especially in big battles that take a bit of time, is loving loot despawn. What is this and why is it a thing? They already have the technology to make my character hover up everything around him at the end of a story battle that goes directly into a cutscene. But when I'm fighting Largey McBigHuge out in the country and he drops a rare core or two and then I have to fight his twenty adds and don't immediately think about running around like an idiot and picking everything up, poo poo will just despawn. And welp, hope you didn't want those cores/accessories/bunch of money that the big guy dropped, here's 10 gold from the useless add you killed in 3 hits. Same with waiting around a bit after the salvaging scenes play (which, with a bunch of Salvaging Mastery Blades equipped, take entirely too loving long btw). I got a call yesterday just as I finished up a QTE to salvage and when I looked back at the screen a minute later all that was left were two monsters 20 levels below me and a chest.

I really don't think this is a needed feature.. why is it even a thing in this game? Don't even get me started on loot just loving off into the cloud sea or falling off random ledges because hey, why not, it is totally your fault after all that this guy attacked you on awful terrain. If it was just for the gold I'd say screw it, who cares, but if legendary accessories or random other assorted poo poo (especially the drat cores) just disappear into nothingness I get a little bit pissy.

Dirk the Average posted:

I do want to say (Chapter 4) that holy poo poo was the whole abandoned factory badly designed. First, they give me Mythra instead of Pyra and tell me that she's dogshit underground (and oh boy are they correct), and then send me on an entirely underground/indoor mission! I was more or less begging for the game to give me Pyra back because my combos were all built around the fire element instead of the light element, so not only was I saddled with a blade whose level 3 combo barely broke 10k due to being indoors (I assume?), but I could only combo Mythra with Mythra. As soon as I got Pyra back, those same 10k combos were hitting for around 40k or so and absolutely annihilating groups of enemies.

So what am I missing with Mythra? Once she's available as a party member, Pyra just seems better to me in every way. It probably has to do with Pyra's affinity chart being almost maxed out while Mythra's is still ranked low, as well as poorly optimized chips and aux cores (I actually didn't realize that the aux cores/chips weren't shared until after Chapter 4).

I also don't know why at the end of the abandoned factory when the Torna people were escaping, that Mythra didn't just orbital ion cannon the boat as soon as it hit the ocean. Surely that would make the threat from Jin a lot lower since his lackeys would lose their main mode of transportation?

Andrast posted:

Do you need to keep her out or can you change blades after getting the gold affinity and still have it?