This post has been edited by Rei7: Jun 14 2017, 05:40 AM

Hopefully, just like BoTW which had the update post release, the game support Japanese dub with English subtitles

feel like getting a SWITCH just for this game

My wallet is ready

I dun get it. why all 3 regions cover art for the selected artbook are different??

The world(titans and all) intrigues me. Would love to get it when it's released

Xenoblade 2 Direct on 2017-11-07 22:00 (GMT+8)!

This post has been edited by alphasp: Nov 3 2017, 09:31 PM

Special Edition = Collector Edition?
Saw SG is selling at SGD 189

Xenoblade 2 TVCM

I'll just leave this here

Kotaku

Not looking forward to that voice lol, but I'm downloading the Japanese voice over dlc nonetheless.

Can't wait for waifu :3

how many of u guys have pre-order this? launching next week right?

I would love to get the steelbook, but the other stuff not so much. RM599 for special edition is just way too much IMO. This looks like a really great game, I did play the first game. Did not finish it, but liked it very much. Luckily it doesn't have any ties to the previous games.

Anyone hype for this release ? Although I don't really like the main char design.

Some retailers have released the game earlier

some of us have already beaten it lol
Heavy arms got the game several days ago

This post has been edited by Convael: Nov 30 2017, 04:29 PM

PAL version, right? Waiting on the NTSC version for convenience.

Expecting 90 hours of gameplay time. So fast finished?

It has huge amount of content and areas to explore , if you do everything I assume it will rack up to 100 hours +


A few reviewers said they have beaten it in roughly 40 hours

I am barely 2 hours in the game , love it . But the performance is kind of wonky , especially on Docked mode

Hoping there's no serious framedrop on hand held mode. Getting my copies later after work.

The game still look　mighty fine on your hand , unfortunately it is kind of choppy and blurry in the open world combat and hectic areas

Also the resolution on handheld mode tend to drop down to very low , at this time I can't determine the exact numbers it sure ain't 720p .
The docked mode seems better , on the other hand.


In general I love the settings a lot, traveling among the sea of clouds remind me of the good old Skies of Arcadia.
I suggest wait until they officially release the game , because the japanese voice over DLC isn't available until the actual release date

This post has been edited by Convael: Nov 30 2017, 07:16 PM

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kos-mos-re...noblade-2.8830/

Kos-Mos returns to Xenoblade 2.



Already about 20 hours in XC2. Enjoying it very much so far. Image quality can be questionable at some times: on certain parts of Alrest it's beautiful, on the other parts, it's pretty bland. Frame drops and resolution dips most prominent during battle: I can induce framedrops by tagging an enemy and then run away, and resolution dip happens most assuredly during the Driver Combo sequence.

Got the game and patched to 1.1. Will wait for Japanese dlc to arrive. Any idea when?

they say it will be released as day 1 dlc , so probably tomorrow or Saturday - our time

What’s the jap dlc supposed to do?

It's out now at least for AUS region. Japanese voice over instead of English dub.

Ohh.. free dlc?

still waiting for my copy.. impulse sunway haven't even received their copies yet grrr...

Yeah it's free.

Oh ya Kah? Was kinda hoping to walk in and purchase later today..

Anyone who is playing can explain the top right screen to me during combat? Can't seem to figure it out.

rather than trying to explain myself (and probably confusing you more), just check blade combo section from the previous xb2 direct
https://youtu.be/0Hb0KmH2WBQ?t=13m31s
i've linked the correct timestamp there

Got the EU copy of XC2, downloaded the JPN voice-over free download pack from the US eShop, works the same.

No idea if the same applies to its DLC. What I usually do is wait until I completed the game enough to decide if the experience is worth it to get a DLC. I was impressed enough with BOTW, to get its DLC (although I end up didn't playing it that much after that ). Will decide later once I finished XC2. Already 35 hours in and in chapter 4 of the game and it's been a blast, some sections are even better than BOTW, frankly speaking.

The combo system is pretty expansive. Blade combos, Driver combos, Affinity MAX combos, Joint finishers, Arts canceling, ........ and then there's the importance of positioning in the game while executing these Arts.

Even while I'm at chapter 4 already, the game still puts out tutorials when introducing new game mechanics. Without spoiling anything, one of the main characters in my party has yet to unlock the potential of its Blade, and from the setup screen alone it's intimidatingly complex.

I usually play my characters overpowered, (mostly by grinding their levels), but this time, I left it as it is by going through the main quest with a few side-trips for the side quests without leveling up. Reason being, I'd like to train myself with the timings of the combos, positioning, and Blade switching (already filled my Blade slots with the three Blades from the Core Crystals I wanted). The hit timings somehow reminded me of the time I played Vagrant Story on PS1, and those were fantastic good times.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Dec 1 2017, 04:48 PM

Good to hear that it’s great... just no spoiler pls... there’s still 2 weeks before I can play...

Already streaming the game every night for 2 nights now, each playtime around 9-10 hours each. Even so, I've had up to 800+ views of people watching, even when they know it's spoiler-y, they cant help it but kept watching.

Wow thanks. Didn't know about the driver combo thingy as well. 8 hours in and I'm still finding something called hustle hyacinth.

Finally got my copy of the CE from GH after badgering them for 1 month+

How much?

@excel_saga confirmed US version hv hard cover art book.

RM 549

🙏🏻 Thx 🙏🏻 bro. Enjoy while I’m still waiting for mine hahahaha

This post has been edited by tenakira: Dec 1 2017, 09:35 PM

guys, bear in mind.

the CE is kinda heavy, carry carefully. The box I carry now have some dent on the side!

Mostly from the weight of the hardbound artbook I guess

kinda cheap. i saw most of the game shops selling at rm599.

Dunno how much Amazon sell now. A few of us here grabbed it for 82USD + shipping + tax; wind up ard 113USD... that’s the cheapest but gotta wait 2 weeks la... that’s the downside

19 hours in the game now.. just arrived at 3rd location.

the blade bonding is really random. if this is an mmo, that can surely be the P2W part lol

Random and time consuming. I think I made at least 60 common and 5 rares pull.
60 common got 5 rare blades
5 rares for 2 rare blades.

This post has been edited by calintztan: Dec 4 2017, 10:14 AM

wow your luck must be better than mine.. i never got any rare blades from common stones. as for rare, 8 stones resulted with 3 rare blades.

Finally got my collector edition and pro controller after stuck in custom for few days.


This post has been edited by alphasp: Dec 6 2017, 11:54 AM

Where u get it from? Amazon? So fast...

Amazon Japan

I finished the first one yesterday and the story is really really good.
Hopefully the 2nd one is good as well.

I bet I can only get 3 Rare Blades from these

The gatcha/lootbox mechanism lol but free :3
Consider it a mechanism to keep you playing till you get the blade you want lol

Finished. Clocked in around 147 hours. got Poppi's Third Form, without tickering with any of her internals. Only managed 18 unique Rare Blades, tired of the fucked up RNG rolls on the Core Crystals I got. Beaten the game with Rex/Tora/Nia in their purest ATK/TNK/HLR forms. Tied Mythra (not Pyra, coz I like my bitch bitchier instead of "pretend-cute" ), Wulfric and Nim (although on the final battle, only Mythra is worthwhile with enough damage inflicted on the "final boss") to Rex, and Dromarch/Dahlia (big boobs Dolly Parton bunneh), and Floren to Nia in non-blade form (would return back post-game to test out the Level IV Nia+Pyra/Mithra Blade Specials later).



No turning back now. Fail this and back to the title screen.
I failed three times before succeeding in fact. Serious Neon Genesis Evangelion vibes. Lots of WTFs but less brutal WTFs than what Evangelion does. The kind where you meet your Maker/God/Creator/Architect and question Him/It the biggest mindfucked question of all: "Why am I here, and where did I come from?" and He/It spews strings of jargon that half-make-sense and half-make-believe .



Post-game title screen. Elysium/Heaven isn't "that far off" after all.

Had to spoiler everything, too many whiners complaining these days. Returning back to Alrest tonight to finish all Merc missions, side quests, unlocking affinity charts for Blades, and fighting those crazy high >Level100 enemies. I'm sure I missed a couple of unique enemies on some of the maps/Titans as well. And also leveling up to 5 star all the "lands".

Didn't quite enjoy the battles, until i started doing some reading to understand the battle mechanism and now I enjoyed pulling the combos

Overall it's quite fun

This post has been edited by Eddx: Dec 12 2017, 04:39 PM

Understanding the battle mechanics is important to take down high level bosses. Bosses like Thanatotitan Andraz and Tyrannotitan Kurodil in Temperantia (head here to level up super fast, all enemies here are tough as hell!) or the Gladiator Orion and Artifice Orion at the cliffs of Morytha. Or any of the unique monsters in every levels in the game (they have unique names, and re-fight-able after they're dead when you can resurrect them at their grave markers).

A lot of people only concentrate on Blade Combos Level III or IV, or Chain Attack Driver Combos. I see the most damaging combos come from arranging your party lineup with characters that can do Break-Topple-Launch-Smash sequences in a row, WHILE the enemies are weaken with elemental effects (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Ice, Thunder, Light, Dark). Lining up these elemental effects in sequence (top right list while in battle) also seals the enemies from doing things like toppling, blowdown, or launching you, as well as linking them up to produce element orbs that can burst to increase damage multipliers.

Damages like this:



I've only managed 4 elemental orb bursts in a row so far with damage totalling upwards of 2.5 million, need to tweak party lineup to include everyone that can chain-burst those orbs. Which in turn need to level them up in their Affinity Charts to do significant enough damage to inflict that kind of damage.

The battle sequence is like a puzzle game, with branching results. Just need to find the most efficient branch with the most damaging result. At level 79 at the moment, and I even avoid low level enemies because they can just be killed with a simple Anchor Shot and a Special, no fun in that. Combo-linkers is where the excitement is.

3 rare core, 3 rare blade in a row lol. Soon it will be hard to get the rest rip..

sifu
wanna ask for opinion
eu or us ver better ? (I myself prefer the jp that come with ch language, but 300 is expensive to me so thinking to get 1 eng ver)

for long term purpose, is us e-shop cheaper than eu ?

http://eshop-checker.xyz/

Just finished the game and spent like 6 hours reading stuff on the internet about the ending and connection to the first game.

Really love the game.. only left a few side quests. And 4 rare blades left to get. I guess the end game will just be completing the side quest, get all the blades and trust to max, max dev for each town, kill all the mini bosses.

Hoping the story expansion next year will extend the ending. That would be awesome. A long shot? Maybe, but if it's not related... Meh

so I just bought Switch because of this game... and I didnt regret. This game is good!

fighting Bosses is so fun!

I don't regret getting this game .
The game is good ( far from great ) but that's about it .

Xenoblade 1 is still my personal favorite among the blade series . And of course nothing ever came close to Gear and Saga 1

I was spoiled by all the God Tier jRPG like ToB , DQ11 and P5 last year


P/S : The only god tier aspect is definitely Mitsuda-san 's musics , no doubt about that

This post has been edited by Convael: Jan 2 2018, 12:12 PM

ya, its good but far from great but its worth to purchase a Switch for this and.. hate those little annoying thing like getting Rare Blade from Core Crystal and field skill

The best part about the game is getting emotionally connected with the characters even the bad guy character is pretty good. By far it has one of the best character development all rounder. All your companions and even rare blades has a story and you feel connected. Those heart to heart shorts are good and hilarious. Persona series doesn't even have those. Your persona companions lacks any sort of character development outside of the main characters, unlike Xenoblade 2 blades which has a dedicated side quest, heart to heart moments.

If you didn't finish the game yet and also finish the first Xenoblade, then can't say you fully experience the story, as it is pretty much connected, which kinda leads to the future of Xenoblade 3

Also the Xeno series seems connected in a lot of ways. So many connections in each series it's really fun to have a convo and speculate together. Also come on la, each game is it's own game, pointless comparing something that are totally different. We can literally compare to no end.

Personally if you compare the first game and XC2, 2 did a lot of good things all around, and the only thing that is lacking is that epic ending from the first game. But for me 2 had a lot of good characters developments that if you just compare it to the first game.. you might find the 2nd one a lot better and more enjoyable. 1 lacks in any replayability as well, while the 2nd game you can still do a lot of stuff after finishing the game.

Now i just look forward for the expansion pass, totally gonna buy it as soon as the story expansion is released. Which is around Fall's I think. Hoping it gives a more conclusive and extended ending to the series but that's a bit of a long shot probably.

This post has been edited by Rei7: Jan 2 2018, 06:32 PM

The Comparison between the h2h scenes from X2 and Persona is completely unfair in this case .

The persona series put the main focus on their main characters , the social links and even the side characters . And they are a lot more elaborated than the ones in Xenoblade 2 . I still don't think you should compare them , because there are more than hundreds of Persona in P5 and they already have a lot of characters which you can spend days hanging out with .

Well we can agree to disagree here , but I would much rather have a proper Xenogears 2 , instead of Xenoblade 3 . I personally appreciate the deep writing , conflicted opinions with engrossing storytelling from gears a lot more . That is not that say I didn't enjoy blade 2 , I did and I like how each individual blade has extra side quests that opens up to their own background story, again the quest writings are still shallow and frustrating though.






I do like the Blade system in X2 , particularly the designs but I can definitely tell XC2 is rushed and lacks polishing compare to blade 1, probably due to the relatively shorter development time and rushing to release before the holidays , they didn't even have a proper map system before patch 1.1.1

The massive grind for the rare blade - Gacha system ( without the microtransaction in this case ) also did not have any failsafe built into them , so you literally could spend up to 500 hours grinding the game and still won't get your last blade

P/S : The Link between X2 world and XBX is brilliant, Sea Cloud settings will always be my favorite jRPG settings. ( Remember Skies of Arcadia ? )

This post has been edited by Convael: Jan 6 2018, 10:39 AM

Yeah unfair really to compare one game to another. That's why I prefer not to compare things and take the game as is. At most just the prequel or their other games for comparison. I blame a bit on Zelda Botw, Monolith was doing those world for it on top of Xenoblade 2 game, and as far as I know they were also making 2 while making X. So most the what falls short is definitely the development cycle I guess.
I like all the games I play btw, and if you didn't know yet P5 is like GOTY for me hehe.

Regarding gatcha system, a bet a lot would be frustrated about that. But most japanese people are into that kind of game tho, myself included. They might add an easier way to get a guaranteed rare blade maybe in the next few updates, who knows. And rng is not so bad on my end always get the things I want at least. Last 4 blades for me and around 135 hours in. I'm trying to get kosmos lol, but to no avail everything else pretty good for me, most of the rare blades comes for commom cores rather than rare or legendary, which is pretty weird.

Not sure of Xenogear 2 will ever happen, but I think XC3 is more likely to happen. Will be cool of it happens haha. Or maybe a new IP would be nice as well.

I want a Xenosaga Trilogy remaster before other thing hahaha.

Open up 12 Core last night... and all normal Blade. RNG!!

How many blades you acquired? And how far in are you?

currently at Chapter 5.

Blade I have

Rex
-Pyra / Mythra
-Roc
-Wulfric
-Nim
-Sheba

Nia
-Dromarch
-Vess
-Finch
-Perun


Morag
-Brighid
-Kasandra
-Kora
-Electra

and waiting Praxis to get 'awake'

so far I am enjoying this game just hate the RNG core and field skill

Ah around this time i still can resonate with common cores to get rare blades
sometimes if rng is kind you might get it.. but damn i also kinda have like love hate relationship with rng.
Legendary cores have given me just one rare blade so far.... i have more luck on common and rare cores
Kos-mos doesn't exist for me sadly, I think it will be the last rare blade I get.

Also noticed you get Kasandra early, wish I knew about it sooner..... got her pretty late in the game.

Yeah field skill I also find it a bit of a problem. But got used to it at some point, after getting a lot of rare blades, not much of a hassle at least.

maybe because I start the game late (better late then never )... so alot of guide is on the internet now.. so by following some guide to get Blade from Sidequest

Just finished the story mode after 172 hours... Overall very enjoyable, but better get use to the combo & elemental things, you'll need it

I don't wanna spoil myself and such, so never looked into any guides when it comes to this game. Kinda like the surprise of seeing the rare blades for the first time. But yeah adter a while found out you can obtain a blade from side quest and what not, so I looked into it after having just a few left to collect.

How much would you rate this game, and what do you like the most about it?

my favorite combo is Fire Fire Fire, Fire Fire Holy. So far I have no problem with boss... always die by suddenly jumping off the cliff and kill by level 90 mob lol

I didnt check guide until Chapter 4.. so seeing

Suppose to be 5/5 stars if not for the map & other annoying issues, but still worth 4 stars. Seldom get any great story driven RPG nowadays, couldn't stop during the year end holiday season, end up didn't play splatoon & zelda at all.

Similar to the last 2 entries, still playing this game after completed the story mode. Looking forward to DLC content, hope the next update can fix some of the issue on map as promised though.

also get 4/5 from me..

Not good
-The annoying map.
-A lot of backtrack sidequest
-RNG core crystal
-Eng voice kinda suck.. lol (doesnt feel the omhp during the cutscene)


I finally at Chapter 9 now.

xb2 is rushed yes. xb2 is short dev time, idk ~2 years is short now i guess?
not sure what's next for xenoblade series. they already spread thin post xbx with ~1/2 helping botw & ~1/2 doing xb2 (just a guesstimate). considering they're most likely doing that medieval action game right now, any new xenoblade game (be it xb3 or xbx2) will probably take more time to exist since i doubt they can split into half like what they did with botw/xb2.

That is what makes the game bad actually. The voice acting in English are really bad. Homura is not as the gentle type with english voice. Tora is just one annoying noppon in english, while in Japanese he is really cute. Lots of really bad stuff, always feel sorry for those who play Japanese game with english dub. Doesn't convey a lot of things well, and pretty much doesn't give much feel sadly if it's the english voice, and doesn't potray the character that well either.

wow Chapter 9


Seriously.. the battle system is so good but it took 7 Chapters to make it great

you can go to Nintendo eShop to download the japanese voice dlc for free.
dont need to listen to the English dub as yea it suck lol

IKR. Alot of different accent feel very funny sometimes

I have questioned some of the game designs , but the dev had much shorter time to create such a huge game , to the point I suspect they did not do a proper playtest for the game.


For example some of these tutorial and game system information had to be bought using game money , which is quite absurd . Imagine when You try to understand a certain aspect of the game system but you can't because you don't have enough money to buy the tutorial info.


Adding another layer of requirement of refining your Aux before you can equip it also completely remove the excitement of obtaining great item . You found an amazing AUX drop from a Unique Boss and can't wait to try it out after you felled the boss , but you can't because you don't have the necessary material.

The game already has enough stuff to grind for to begin with .

This post has been edited by Convael: Jan 9 2018, 08:08 PM

You have progressed really fast as someone who has started the game not too long ago O_o

Money can so easily be obtained anyway. You can make millions by just salvaging for an hour or less, even better income when you get the golden one. Easiest part to earn money by just salvaging is also reachable as early as Gormott. Haven't seen anyone complaining about not having enough money in the game. Just need to spend a little time to salvage, and they teach you how to get salvage pretty early too.

Regarding Aux material, so far no issue to refine the aux i want, even the hard one's. As long you as always collect whenever you stumble at collection points. Make it a habit of collecting stuff even when you don't need to. Even if you don't have the materials still just a little exploring will do anyway. It's part of how the devs wants you to explore the world, and also utilizing the blades with botany, agriculture, and the others.

Started the game at 29th December and I finished the game yesterday at 72 hour playtime


Pro
- Great OST
- Good Story
- Exploration
- Battle System
- Unique Blade side quest
- Very good fight cutscene
- Likable character


Con
- Core Crystal RNG
- Map
- English Dub
- Back Tracking
- Tiger! Tiger!

I fight 90% of the monster on the map and harvest all the collection point by the end Rex is equip with Avante Garde Medal and Optical Headband. Cri and recharge so OP LOL.

DOUBLE SPINNING EDGE! DOUBLE SPINNING EDGE! DOUBLE SPINNING EDGE!



edit:

I like fight with Jin

This post has been edited by danger46: Jan 10 2018, 11:14 AM

Your game time shorter by 50 hours compared to mine. I finished around 120 hours and I really enjoyed it a lot.

Lol yeah too much double spinning edge
Pretty cool tho, I use some comsumables to do that all the time. Saves time.

Regarding spoiler, I also feel the same regarding the ice thing. But i'm thinking it might be dlc related next time.

I dont want to get over level so i stop doing sidequest at Chapter 8 And I die quite a lot of time

cant wait for DLC and sequel (not sure when )


edit

I have alot of favorite cutscene from this game





This post has been edited by danger46: Jan 10 2018, 11:46 AM

IKR! and they

I'm thinking it might be explained in the dlc maybe. I really do hope so. Because it will definitely renew my interest to the game again.