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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 releases July 29th
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This sounds good to me.
Sorry to be a pain but are you playing in handheld or docked? Curious how well the image quality/dynamic scaling holds up?
I'm 100% for emulators but emulator talk of a game that hasn't been officially released should probably not be allowed, its the same for Yuzu and Ryujin's official communities on Discord and stuff. Too often its dumbass pirates giving emu a bad name and why there's so much trolling on the other side of things when emu threads are made.
From what I've been seeing around the internet, the folks that are currently playing it really like it so far.
It seems a day or two ago we had people updating us with their thoughts on the game but it's all fallen silent and the thread devolved into people talking about review scores.
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I've played the first 2 chapters and I'm not gonna lie I don't really see the comparison with Xenogears. I don't even mean that in a necessarily negative way and obviously am still quite early in the game but I don't think it's any more Gears-like than the first 2. If anything, I'd describe it as a sort of blend of XBC1 and 2's respective strengths.
I'm playing mostly docked. I did a full playthrough of Xenoblade 2 and Torna recently and the scaling seems to be better than on those games. But I think they applied some tricks to improve performance, because you can see some artifacts sometimes. I'm not an expert so I'm not sure exactly what was employed but between the two I prefer the performance and image quality in this game, even if perhaps it's not as detailed.
Is there an option to rewatch cutscenes? XC2 had an option at the title screen that unlocked more cutscenes as you progressed.
Thank you! This will spare me from taking 4,000 screenshots as I play, knowing that I can always go back for key moments, lol.
Sure thing. I was just paraphrasing one of the other people in this thread. I'm glad to hear it brings together the best of both worlds, that seems to have been at the core of this game's design document.
So I made the mistake of watching this Xenoblade Chronicles X video from Digital Foundry:
youtu.be
This game looks incredible and I had no idea. Never played it back during the Wii U era. Why the hell hasn't Nintendo brought this to Switch? I swear it looks better then the new stuff in a lot of ways including scope of the land itself. Even seems to perform better lol and that's on old hardware. Weird. Now I want this on Switch so I can play it.
Also currently working my way through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (and eventually Torna) and I'm excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
Xenoblade Chronicles X Wii U Tech Analysis/Frame-Rate Test
Is this the most technologically advanced Wii U title we've seen to date? John takes a closer look at this beautiful title.Read our full article: http://www....
youtu.be
This game looks incredible and I had no idea. Never played it back during the Wii U era. Why the hell hasn't Nintendo brought this to Switch? I swear it looks better then the new stuff in a lot of ways including scope of the land itself. Even seems to perform better lol and that's on old hardware. Weird. Now I want this on Switch so I can play it.
Also currently working my way through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (and eventually Torna) and I'm excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
Has Nintendo ever put the second game on sale digitally? I'm working my way through the first game now and enjoying it.
get ready for it to be more if you ordered from nintendo, not optimistic about a day 1 delivery
So I made the mistake of watching this Xenoblade Chronicles X video from Digital Foundry:
Xenoblade Chronicles X Wii U Tech Analysis/Frame-Rate Test
Is this the most technologically advanced Wii U title we've seen to date? John takes a closer look at this beautiful title.Read our full article: http://www....
This game looks incredible and I had no idea. Never played it back during the Wii U era. Why the hell hasn't Nintendo brought this to Switch? I swear it looks better then the new stuff in a lot of ways including scope of the land itself. Even seems to perform better lol and that's on old hardware. Weird. Now I want this on Switch so I can play it.
Also currently working my way through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (and eventually Torna) and I'm excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
The game is the most polarising in the series and would need a lot of tweaks to make it play well. They might do it if 3's sales justify a high effort port but the energy is likely better spent on just making a new game
Xenoblade X's world design is GOAT level.So I made the mistake of watching this Xenoblade Chronicles X video from Digital Foundry:
Xenoblade Chronicles X Wii U Tech Analysis/Frame-Rate Test
Is this the most technologically advanced Wii U title we've seen to date? John takes a closer look at this beautiful title.Read our full article: http://www....
This game looks incredible and I had no idea. Never played it back during the Wii U era. Why the hell hasn't Nintendo brought this to Switch? I swear it looks better then the new stuff in a lot of ways including scope of the land itself. Even seems to perform better lol and that's on old hardware. Weird. Now I want this on Switch so I can play it.
Also currently working my way through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (and eventually Torna) and I'm excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
the world design is sublime in it, but yeah the UI and overall UX of the game would need a decent overhaul.
It looks awesome. How does the storytelling/cutscenes compare with the other Xenoblade games?
I have (obvious) gripes, but it was the most fun to travel around, easily. A new shot at ITS style would be the best. It deserves better than the WiiU.
the focus is completely different, the story isn't told particularly well/quite basic and the cutscenes are nowhere near your normal xenoblade quality.
Heaven forbid people want to talk and bring light to gross sexualization in a game at the cost of spoilers. Also the post was properly spoiler tagged, so...
lmao
So, Xenoblade X, more than any other Xenoblade game, is one you play for the gameplay and exploration. It's one of the best open world games ever made when it comes to exploring everything and filling out your map. It is quite genuinely a fun game to aim for 100% completion, which can be said of only maybe a couple other open world games ever made. The game even keeps track of this by dividing the entire map into hexagons, with each space on the map representing a sidequest, optional boss, fast travel point to activate, or item cache. I've filled out the map 100% twice, the first time took me over 150 hours and the second time took around 120 hours, and I had a blast doing it both times.
The sidequests are really good. There's a bunch of neat lore that gets dropped in them, they vary wildly in tone from comedic to straight up horror, and they intersect in really neat ways. Some sidequests have multiple prerequisite sidequests and interlocking side plots, which lets them have some recurring characters/groups/places in neat ways.
But the main story is kind of not good. It mostly just meanders about because the entire plot is basically "we gotta find the ship where all the humans are stored" and...that's it, that's the whole game. It has some interesting hooks, but the main story literally ends right as it drops a huge "wtf" plotbomb on the player for a cliffhanger that is highly unlikely to ever be resolved.
The main character is a silent protagonist player avatar, and while there are a few hints in some sidequests that there is something more to you than meets the eye, this also goes unresolved.
There's some that aren't.
I have no performance issues at all in Chapter 2 with the high resolution mod you can download directly from emuSAK. The game is running almost flawlessly with Yuzu.
Only issue I've seen are missing effects on husks.
Also, after adding a 32gb page file in addition to my 32 gb of RAM, I can play with no crashes. Just played for 3 hours straight, with only very occasional slowdowns here and there after 2 hours of play.
Using Special K for HDR works perfectly and does not impact performance at all.
3090 ti
I7-10700k
32 GB RAM
Game installed to SSD and page file on SSD
Not my issue with it, as mentioned multiple times. Okay, sorry, being less antagonistic with this. I just didn't expect it in a thread outside the leak thread. That's all. I expect people to discuss it, and will probably join in on that specific thing…after it's released!
Take it to the spoiler thread. 🙃
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Alright thanks for the feedback on Xenoblade Chronicles X. Some interesting details I didn't know about the game. I do have a copy of the Wii U version should I ever want to check it out for myself. In the meantime I'll focus on the main series available on Switch.
Do we know how many chapters are in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 yet?
Do we know how many chapters are in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 yet?
Plus other feature like reworking affinity missions. Some kind of phone menu for party selection so you don't have to find individual characters.
They'd also need to rework more side missions into the main story path
Edit: X is also my favourite Xenoblade game but it's the type of game where you will love it if you love the world and you'll know about 30 mins in.
You put up with a lot of it's a place you just like existing
yeah, it would require a lot of work, the gamepad as a second screen was very integral to the game.
I'd also like them to fix the fact that vehicles just pass through you in NLA
It is very funny how the scope of the game means that certain things just sort of fall apart if you poke at them. Like how nothing in the game that moves has any collision detection (this is probably for the sake of the robots just as much as it is for performance).
hahahaha yeah, i bounced of the game the first time i tried it after an hour or so a couple of years back. Finally returned to it this year and ended up putting 150hrs into it- the world exploration sucked me in- and the Skells were amazing.
Yeah thus far it goes X > 2 > 1 for me. And X is leaps and bounds ahead of the other two.
3 seems like it's going to be amazing, but beating X will be hard. Bordering on impossible. Ouroboros are not mecha lol.
EDIT: IF YOUR EYES ARE DRAWN HERE FIRST, DO NOT READ THE POST ABOVE!! MASSIVE SPOILER
Think you have the wrong thread here….
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Can you remove this, it's in the wrong thread and clearly a spoiler.
I hope you haven't gone to sleep because you NEED to remove this. You're in the wrong thread.
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