Xenoblade Chronicles 2

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:laff: I tried them. I took out one on a hill and then a next one tried to run up, team was close to beating that one and then another 3 ran up. there was too many, I had to dip. Ran back up the hill only to see a huge one sleeping at the top. This place is fukked. They also throw a stench on you that I think attracts others to the battle. I need another rare blade. Have to go lowkey again.
 

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the word of mouth on this game is crazy

i might just have to believe the hype at this point

I only played for like 2-3 hours so far but it's dope as fukk. The combat system is deep as hell and makes you pay close attention to what you're doing. There's still a couple things I'm fuzzy on but over all I got the hang of it.

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Shouldn't it take less horsepower to make the game look good on the small screen than the big?

Why's it look so much worse handheld? I only played like 20 minutes but noticed it looked way grainier handheld.
 

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Shouldn't it take less horsepower to make the game look good on the small screen than the big?

Why's it look so much worse handheld? I only played like 20 minutes but noticed it looked way grainier handheld.
It's not the horsepower/hardware, it's the game itself. It needed more time to cook to get the visuals up to par. They wanted that 2017 release date, so they sent it out without optimizing handheld mode. It's pretty embarrassing for a first party title to look this bad when Nintendo is known for making the best looking games for their hardware. They're still working on it now, so they can always patch it up to make handheld mode look better but right now it's awful. It runs at the worst resolution of any game on Switch (in handheld).
 

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This guy only talks about the poor performance of the handheld mode. Are these people retarded? It's like they play a game and come across one bad thing and then focuses all of their energy on that one bad thing. You could still play the game in docked mode. Don't like some folk's tendency to over exaggerate a single issue. It's irrational.

 

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Battle system is deep as hell. It's the story that is convoluted as fukk.


I couldn't finish x Chronicles x, but I'll surely be playing this once I finish Mario and Zelda.

It should all piece together at the end, or close to it. Right now I'm feeling the effects of not gaining more and more experience. In this new area there are nothing but slightly higher level beasts than me. It took me like 10 mins to be some fukking frog. And its weakness was lightning which I don't have atm.

i haven't beaten the final boss but when you get to him it's basically stated that all the bodies were done off. There was no way saving them. So they had to preserve the memories or something like that in artificial bodies and come up with an entirely new way of making the artificial bodies act as actual human bodies. I haven't played it in a while so I think I got some details mixed up.
 

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Just finished chapter 2 and around 10 hours in.

Finally got to open up the combo system against a more formidable opponent with the chapter 2 boss. Was hitting combos left and right and kind of washed them actually :pachaha:

The poor image quality and frame drops are hindering my enjoyment of the game. Never thought I'd say something like that but performance gets so bad in handheld mode during hectic combat. You don't get to enjoy the full spectacle of the blade combos cause frames are dropping everywhere in handheld mode. So disappointing. Really hope it gets sorted soon cause the game is really fantastic outside of the performance. The characters are awesome, I love the dub fukk the haters and the battle system just keeps getting better as the game goes on
 

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This guy only talks about the poor performance of the handheld mode. Are these people retarded? It's like they play a game and come across one bad thing and then focuses all of their energy on that one bad thing. You could still play the game in docked mode. Don't like some folk's tendency to over exaggerate a single issue. It's irrational.


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So the story, characters, lore and world in this game are incredible. I'm about 11-12 hours in and the game has done a great job of helping me understand the names of people countries and things without shoving it down my throat(:dame:) to memorize it. Games with names like this I usually forget who is who and what countries what but wit this game I'm following right along. The world feels grounded, everyones motivations seem realistic and the groups and countries and locations are all interwoven and make great sense in the overarching themes of the world. It's also done a great job of leaving questions open on certain things and dropping slight hints at answers to come or other potential mysteries. I can honestly say I can't wait to find out what happens next.

The combat system starts simple but gets very intricate. More so than I expected. I'm almost 12 hours in and just got a tutorial about a huge part of it :mjlol:

From accessories, to bonding with blades, choosing what abilities to upgrade, which blade to equip on which party member. Learning the combo system between the blades where you can chain elemental combos off the characters. So you have to say trigger level 1 fire special, then a combo guage appears showing the paths you can take to the next elemental special, wait for another character to have it trigger, and build to a level 3 combo smashing the enemies. This process was hard to get a hang of but really satisfying.

Then they have another combo system about chaining attack types, like if one character does a break then you can do a topple attack, then someone can do a launch attack, then a smash attack, which sounds simple but can be quite difficult.

Now they add chain combos into where you can trigger 3 specials in a row :wow: Never mind the enemies build resistances to your combos then you have to use chain combos to burst there resistance for even more damage.

Plus the skill tree and affinity levels up the strategy even more. It's so insanely deep I practically had to study last night and intentionally found higher level enemies just to practice til I learned it inside and out.

Game is just :wow:
 
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