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abrack

Unshakable Resolve
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Oct 25, 2017
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EZA has been giving away tickets to see Ghibli movies in theaters during Group Streams sometimes, they do have some kind of partnership.
 

Stowaway Silfer

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MrMette

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I've seen this gif before, but what video is it from?
It's from a Mandatory Update episode as far as I remember, but I can't seem to find/remember which one (I searched for it on the GT youtube channel, but maybe it's not on there or something or I missed it).
I am sure other people here will know as they are clearly much better with that stuff as I am.
 

Sephiroth

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So...

1. Ian's hair is amazing in that episode
2. Great artsy shot of Elyse in Ian's glasses
3. Ya burnt Last of Us
4. Poor Ben :(
5. Oops. Ya burnt again Last of Us
 

Negator

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Kyle trying to play Pacman 2 with the most confused and frustrated I have ever seen him.

Sounds like Pacman 2.
 

MrMette

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It's from this episode of ManUps: https://youtu.be/RnjMymqbUBA

A classic.

Edit: Ugh, looking for this episode made me realize how much I miss Mandatory Update. *wompwomp*
There it is.

And I had the same thing. I realized how much I miss the Elyse and Ian Combo. I still love most Easy Updates as well, but I actually really loved that "newsshow" with the weird jokes and them interacting in silly/weird ways.

But what can you do. Still plenty of good content to watch for me at EZA now as I don't have the time to watch everything as is anyway :), so it's all good.
 
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Hasney

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Has there been any mentions about Frame Trap delays again or the like that I've missed? Sitting at work with new headphones and nothing to listen to.

Sorry, I mean FRAME TRAP WHEN?
 

Hasney

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I just got my dispatch notice for Xenoblade 2 so I should have it tomorrow. This should get me going for the game!
 
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Ben sold me on XC2. But I'll still hold off I think and wait for a sale. I hate the character designs.

Edit: I just saw another blade design. Holy crap, I'm never buying this game.
 
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Ben sold me on XC2. But I'll still hold off I think and wait for a sale. I hate the character designs.

Edit: I just saw another blade design. Holy crap, I'm never buying this game.

Which blade? And same. I'm too turned off by the character designs, so I cancelled my pre-order. Which is a shame because I love the worlds that Monolith Soft create. Oh well. I'll look out for their next game.
 
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Which blade? And same. I'm too turned off by the character designs, so I cancelled my pre-order. Which is a shame because I love the worlds that Monolith Soft create. Oh well. I'll look out for their next game.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's this one:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935403953964982273
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404359931740161

I'm super excited about the game, but yeah that design sucks.

To be more positive, I believe it's from the same artist, another rare blade got announced and I really like it:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404780511363074
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935405385350914049

Soooo adorable.
 

Hasney

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Still in, but yeah, that ain't great.

I don't get where it's come from. The original had some good character design and so did XCX bar the wonky faces.

They invited guest artists to make the rare blade designs, it's been a huge thing for mobile gacha games in Japan and they are replicating that strategy for this game.

Regarding the main artist, it's just their style and it seems like the head of Monolith and game director, Tetsuya Takahashi, is a fan.
 

Deleted member 5086

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I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's this one:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935403953964982273
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404359931740161

I'm super excited about the game, but yeah that design sucks.

To be more positive, this blade also just got announced(by the same artist I think and they are adorable.



Oh. Yeah, those are the kind of designs that turned me off. I really liked the little bird blade, so I agree there are some good ones.
 
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I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's this one:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935403953964982273
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404359931740161

I'm super excited about the game, but yeah that design sucks.

To be more positive, I believe it's from the same artist, another rare blade got announced and I really like it:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404780511363074
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935405385350914049

Soooo adorable.

Yea, that's the one. I had largely no issue with the designs in XC1. Loved that game.
 
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I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's this one:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935403953964982273
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404359931740161

I'm super excited about the game, but yeah that design sucks.

The silver lining for me is that I can pretend that the tacky monstrosity is not part of my game. Being one blade among many, I feel like I can just leave it in the inventory and let it collect dust (if I ever find it at all). It will be the botw switch shirt equivalent.
 
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Yea, that's the one. I had largely no issue with the designs in XC1. Loved that game.

well, that's what happens when you invite a ton of artists to make designs and probably give little to no rules.

I mean, it's a blade so you can just not use it. I wonder if you can just reset your game if you get a blade you don't want or if the game is evil and it auto-saves

Oh. Yeah, those are the kind of designs that turned me off. I really liked the little bird blade, so I agree there are some good ones.

Bird blade(Finch) is one of the best ones for sure.
 
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well, that's what happens when you invite a ton of artists to make designs and probably give little to no rules.

I mean, it's a blade so you can just not use it. I wonder if you can just reset your game if you get a blade you don't want or if the game is evil and it auto-saves



Bird blade(Finch) is one of the best ones for sure.

I mean, I find the main blade design (Pyre?) to be pretty bad as well. This recent design is just a whole different category of bad though.

But really, it's mostly the overall character design framework that I find poor. I could barely remember the MCs character if it weren't for those ridiculous looking... balloon pants?
 

Holundrian

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Xenoblade C2 char design makes me feel like when Bravely Default had to change their composer from revo to ryo from supercell.

Damiani asking all the questions I'd have about xenoblade c2 that are spoilerfree, nice.
 
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Dmax3901

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It's interesting that the design of Pyra or any of these blades has never been mentioned by Ben, now I'm not trying to say he should definitely think like me or else, I'm just surprised he hasn't addressed it at all. Even if only to say it doesn't phase him.
 
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It's interesting that the design of Pyra or any of these blades has never been mentioned by Ben, now I'm not trying to say he should definitely think like me or else, I'm just surprised he hasn't addressed it at all. Even if only to say it doesn't phase him.

I want to say I've heard him mention something similar but maybe for another game?
 

lazybones18

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Oct 25, 2017
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*sees Community Showcase post for November*

woah, when did they stream the October edition?

*checks Twitch archive*

Nov. 2.....wow, don't know how I missed that. Got something to listen to at work today along with Frame Trap
 

Holundrian

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Oct 25, 2017
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Is this the first time Brandon and Ben are on FT at the same time?
no. FT rotates regularly like everything else if there's a feeling of someone not having been on there for a while it's cause biweekly + Ben made the panel size him +2 instead of 3 this year. That said the last Brandon episode wasn't that long ago purely episode wise I feel like withing the last 4? let me check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tam02i34RJ4&t=3861s

two episodes ago even
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lol nevermind that makes more sense xD you could be right on that although I do believe brandon and damiani probably were on at the same time during the 3 person panel era.
 

Hasney

One Winged Slayer
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Oct 25, 2017
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Damiani's Skyrim stories are so good. I take those games for granted since I've been playing since Morrowind but hearing a newcomer to those types of games makes me need to play Skyrim again.
 

Alucrid

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's this one:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935403953964982273
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404359931740161

I'm super excited about the game, but yeah that design sucks.

To be more positive, I believe it's from the same artist, another rare blade got announced and I really like it:

art: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935404780511363074
video: https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/935405385350914049

Soooo adorable.

i don't even know what they're going for with the first one. like, most of the blades fall into the typical fan service design, but what the hell is that?
 

issa

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The original had some good character design
Did it though? I thought they were very generic for the most part.

It's interesting that the design of Pyra or any of these blades has never been mentioned by Ben, now I'm not trying to say he should definitely think like me or else, I'm just surprised he hasn't addressed it at all. Even if only to say it doesn't phase him.
One of the earliest Frame Traps I've listened to had him speaking against #FE's design changes and I wrote him dowwn as a certain type and stopped listening to that show for a long time.
 

Alucrid

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while a lot of the female blade designs are garbage tier, can we also talk about how terrible the protagonist looks too? he's like a steampunk megaman cosplayer wearing compression shorts
 
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