I know the story and characters are awful (regardless of how desperately they tried to tie it back to 1)...

I know the story and characters are awful (regardless of how desperately they tried to tie it back to 1), but how does Xenoblade 2 live up to the exploration and monster killing of the previous two games?

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You're not allowed to explore because of field skill checks

>wow what a bog area time to explo-
>you need ice mastery level 6 bro

>I know the story and characters are awful
1 is certainly better, but if you stop comparing the game to 1, and just take it as a fun adventure it becomes much much better. The story and characters are fine, you just have to get invested. The game has flaws but that doesn't mean its worthless

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I think it would be hard to make a case for Xenoblade 1 or X having better characters than 2, characters in the later game are deeper, have more development (at least 1 chapter dedicated to a party member) and has more complex and interesting villains. If you also play the DLC the comparison isn't even fair.

>but how does Xenoblade 2 live up to the exploration and monster killing of the previous two games?
The world is big and beautiful, but X still is the biggest game due to being a proper open world RPG. The gameplay is by far the most varied thanks to the absurd amount of different Blades that they put in the game and that you can set to every character, also it has even more systems than X and the combat becomes very fast and dynamic in the later parts of the game and in the DLC.

I think you may be remembering something wrong, not even 1% of the entire world's surface is behind skill checks. It's the same with X.

You'll burn out after 8-10 hours.

I got more than 500 hours out of it, and I will certainly repay it in the future.

How good is X? I've got a hacked Wii u, played it for a bit but you're just kind of thrown into the fights not being told how they work so I put it off until I learn how it works. Cool mechs desu

How

There is pretty much no exploration. A lot of it is gated by story segments and once you hit a certain point of the story it's a FF13 tier hallway walker. This game only has merit if you're a coomer on the spectrum. Without tits this game would have no fan base behind it.

There's so much content in this game, if you want to level up all the unique Blades they're around 50, every one with their own quests, not to say you have to play the game again in NG+ to get the exclusive extra Torna Blades. I think I got like 430 hours in the main game and 60 from Torna, so it may not be more than 500, but around that.

Character design aside, the gameplay, plot, music and character development are solid, probably the best in the franchise, and specially in the DLC. But I agree that an horrid character design can ruin a game, we see that often enough in western games.

I loved this game but hated the gameplay, I recommend playing on easy so you'll have to spend as little time with it as possible. I like it in different ways compared to the first. They're about equal.

X is very good, you need to read the electronic manual though game doesn't explain anything

The music is amazing.
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I understand taste is subjective, but the gameplay felt more like Dance Dance Revolution than actual combat. The plot was typical Japanese convoluted nonsense God shit with no logical reasoning behind any thematic elements of the story. Music obviously wasn't that good because I can't remember a single damn song. Nothing iconic. And if this game has the best character development in the franchise then that's absolutely sad.

>I think you may be remembering something wrong, not even 1% of the entire world's surface is behind skill checks. It's the same with X.
He's a shitposter

>i should hate story and characters since more than half of Yas Forums threads are "story bad"

I can agree with the music, it wasnt bad but I really only remember counterattack and the final boss song

The song itself is okay, but these developers have no sense of direction in their world building. What story does this song tell?

"Ok so the player is walking through a wasteland. What does this sound like?"

"LOUD BRASS INSTRUMENTS AND DRUM FILLS BEHIND SICK GUITAR LICKS!!!!"

This shit is almost as retarded as the characters themselves.

ANY CRITICISM IS SHITPOST BECAUSE IT TRIGGERS UNGA

Yeah, we should also love the Last of Us 2 because Yas Forums hates it.

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what criticism its just ANIME BAD or half-assed comments like that show they never touched the game

>factually wrong
>criticism

>Ok so the player is walking through a wasteland
Wasteland filled with giant monsters and enemy soldiers

you literally cant go past certain areas to progress the story if you dont meet certain skill checks, its fucking stupid as fuck consider how retarded some of the unlock conditions are for certain skills

>3 minutes between each post right as the thread slids into the second half of the catalogue
What a blatant samefag
If you wanted a XB2 just say so, OP

I am pretty sure, that OP only saw those meme .webms with "baka hentai mc" and dancing

Exploration is practically similar to xenoblade 1 as far as I remember. Monsters are neat but theyre agro range is so damn huge. Just doin side quests in the first area was a fucking chore becaise while doing jt id agro a monster 20+ levels above mine from a mile away.

>I am pretty sure
So you don't have an argument then.

That's a sad state of the world when every zone could be described as "_____ with giant monsters and enemy soldiers". That's one of this game's biggest problems. There is no creativity. It's a bundle of code that makes an enemy entity exist in the world copied and pasted into 15 different environments with directionless music blasting over the top of it. It's low effort quantity over quality bullshit and that's exactly what makes it all so forgettable.

Also a massive bustling city.

I wasn't even chatting shit. There was SEVERAL times I got cockblocked when i tried to explore outside the main story path by a field skill check. This shit was ny biggest complaint 2 years ago.

>ANIME BAD
Nobody in the thread said this, you're using it as a smokescreen like all XC2fags.

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that's the only "criticism" of XC2 that ever gets posted on Yas Forums with any regularity

So forgettable you talk about it on the daily for 3 years
Oh it's just Xfag

>you literally cant go past certain areas to progress the story if you dont meet certain skill checks
There's only one mandatory skill check and it's in chapter 9 if I remember correctly, and you can get it with your story Blades.

Both of my posts imply, that OP got no idea what story is, since he never played the game. Understand now, baka?

No, again, it's all a smokescreen to cover any criticism.

>Xfag
And here's smokescreen number 2, the boogeyman card