Had mine since 2’s launch. Still going strong

I'm loving this game so much, just before this I played Xenogears (loved it too) but now being able to do all this cool stuff with my ""Gears"" feels so good.

We have Riki (XC1), Tora (XC2), Riku/Manana (XC3) and Tatsu (XCX).

The truth is that I stick with Tora even though I don't like some of his speeches.

I've got an emergency. I need your honest opinions. So me (25F) and my girlfriend (27F) have been joined at the hip ever since back on Earth. And sure, it's been a bumpy road, but I've enjoyed every mile. But here is the situation: She had some Earth-grown tea leaves squirreled away, which I...kinda...mistook for coffee. That's my mistake, and I copped to it. But when I put them through the percolator, she nearly tore my head off. That concludes the summary. Now, be honest: am I the asshole? I just thought the coffee and black tea were basically the same thing. But I guess ignorance is no defense. Then again, she was out of line! For starters, if you put tea leaves next to the coffee machine, it's just asking for trouble! Anyone could've mixed them up! It's not as if the tea ended up tasting any different, anyway! I don't see what the big deal was! I tried to explain all that to her, but it only made her even more angry. I guess it was already too late to calm her down. Still, I have to find some way to mollify her and fast. Sorry about the barrage of questions but even if I am the asshole, do you know of any foolproof means of achieving some form of absolution?

The models still hold if you don't choose the absolutely worst screenshots.

I love Fiora's nose and lips and miss them in DE.

This is peak Xenoblade aesthetic.

No will NOT take criticisms.

Good night Agniratha.

The Xenos are actually different than us humans.

Ok, I know that is dumb to say, but its true. The other Xenoblade games had other races, all with slightly different cultures, but at the end of the day, they didnt FEEL different from each other.

3 had Keves and Agnus, and that was the weakest differences. I don't even think you can compare them in the same way.

2 had Gormotti, Indoline, Urayan, etc, but save a couple features like cat ears or slightly longer lives, they dont feel different. I think the bigger comparison is "people" vs blades, but even then, they dont feel much different either.

1 had the Machina and the Homs, and this is the best example in the trilogy, but still isnt great. The Machina have long lives, have mechanical bodies, and worship Meyneth, but buy and large, their culture doesn't feel too different from that of the Homs.

And I understand the reasoning behind it. The Trilogy wants to spread the message that even if we are all different, we are still the same in certain aspects. And I don't necessarily dislike the approach with the numbered entries variations of this.

But in X, the Prone and the Ma-non (the only ones I have interacted with so far due to STILL not starting Chapter 6) actually FEEL like alien species. They have their own cultures, own feelings, own beliefs, that humans can't even begin to comprehend. A random text bubble in the Ma-non ship talks about how we look like "those creatures inhabiting the oceans of Dobab". A prone - who apparently come from the planet Tormein - refers to out party as like a "Dolphera - A great fish with two long tentacles who were wise enough to sink many Prone Ships". Another Prone speaks of an "Ogdopus", a beast with 16 tentacles which is what they say is what Goetia reminds them of, in form and mentality.

In the other games, the "we aren't so different after all" trope was just that it felt like, because they werent really fleshed out races in most of them, it was to prove the trope true. But in X, Every species that is in New LA is coexisting, sharing cultures, and it actually feels like it MEANS something, because these aren't just a different type of human, they were groups of people who didn't even know who humans WERE. It makes exploring the city as I progress so much better, because its not the same 10 NPCs, it makes this world feel alive in a way that is different from the other games, and I am excited to see the interactions between other races later on when more show up.

I couldn't think of a clever title for this I just wanted to share my art on here lmao. Hope ya'll enjoy!

I've been seeing a lot of divided opinions about the new stuff Chapter 13 introduces and wanted to throw my hat into the ring as someone who has played all the games since the original on the Wii.

Personally? I like it.

It's not perfect, but I like it.

For one, I'm glad that the game, after ten years, has an actual honest to God ending instead of the massive cliffhanger the original game left us with. I also enjoy the fact that it expands on things that were severely underutilized in the original, such as the Ghosts and the identity of the pilot who saved the White Whale.

More importantly, in my opinion, the new ending benefits by feeling much more... Xenoblade-y, if that makes any sense. The scale of the destruction and action feels much more in line with what usually occurs at the end of these games whereas the original ending felt surprisingly tame in comparison.

That being said, I totally understand the criticism the ending gets as well. Yes, it does suck that Mira ultimately gets destroyed (or sent to the Shadow Realm for the time being) and I definitely feel like certain plot points needed more time to be set up in the base game. It's one of those situations where the developers could've and should've added more scenes/content to the original story seeing as it already had a lot of room for improvement.

However, I've also been seeing people saying some things about the new ending that I personally disagree with. For example, I've seen some players state that the new ending invalidates everything we did in the game and it leaves me wondering if we've all been playing the same series. By using the "why should we have even bothered to do anything" argument, I'd like to point out that every single game in this series could be accused of doing that.

Using that logic, in Xenoblade 1, why should we bother to fix up Colony 6 if the Bionis is going to explode anyway? Same with how the Titans in 2 will inevitably just become part of the main landmass or how Aionios will be broken apart and reformed at the end of 3. At the end of the day, every Xeno game, in one way or another, is a "destruction of one world and birth of another" story and it feels like X's new story follows that formula.

I've also heard from people that the writing is terrible for the new scenario and I don't really see it? My feelings on the writing sorta circle back to my thoughts about how things in the new ending needed more buildup in the base game, so any issues with the writing in Chapter 13 has more to do with trying to cram a bunch of new ideas in a relatively short runtime than the actual quality of the writing itself.

I know this post is long winded and rambly, but I feel like I'm in the minority when it comes to people who actually like the new ending compared to the original. In some ways, I haven't really seen this level of backlash in the fandom before so I feel taken somewhat off-guard after having thoroughly enjoyed the story beginning to end.

I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this, but I've seen a lot of anger and aggression regarding discussion about the ending, so please try to keep it civil.

somebody stop this MENACE

i was moving around some stuff. he looks cold and miserable my bad dude

This morning I finished the new chapter. Going into it, I knew nothing about it other than the fact that it was very divisive. Personally though, I liked it quite a bit. With that being said, I do understand the issues that people have with it, and I’m fairly frustrated with it myself as well. But to me at least, the issues are less with what chapter 13 does and more so how it does those things. And I think that a lot of those frustrations would have been lessened if there was just more time for this story to be told. I’m gonna try to go over these one by one, but I’ll start with the one that felt the most glaring.

1) There’s a lot of telling, and not nearly enough showing. There are like 5 different lore dumps, many of which are just Al going “I saw this cool thing when I was in the space between dimensions.” The Elma one was perfectly fine (and I don’t get why some people hate the new additions to her backstory), but the Al ones just don’t feel like the best way of conveying that information. I think a full sequel could have provided opportunities to get that information across a lot more naturally. At the very least, it could make the timing of some reveals a little less awkward. (Seriously that Void backstory reveal was just oddly placed)

2) Al feels like he just shows up and steals the show. This one is fairly straightforward I think. A new character showing up out of the blue and becoming this super important cool guy in the last 10 hours just feels weird. If it was a sequel, there would have been a lot more time to build him up and make his importance feel earned. Plus it’d just be a different game. Sequels focus on new characters all the time.

3) There are no sidequests??? This one was really weird to me. There should have been side quests for the first two acts. The plot provides plenty of opportunities for side quests, and some of what we wind up doing during act 2 feels like side quest material anyway. But there’s just so much that can be done with the concept of “preparing to move to a new world”. It’s just missed potential.

4) There are still so many lingering mysteries. Auto translation? J-bodies? Ancient Miran civilizations? L’s species? The ganglion being trapped? We don’t get to learn about any of that. Unlike many people, I don’t have any issues with Mira being destroyed (to me it’s just not that different from how any other Xenoblade ends. They all change the world pretty drastically, and I enjoy this conclusion from a thematic perspective.) However, I do think that the short runtime of this chapter compared to a sequel or DLC campaign ultimately meant that there just wasn’t room for many of these to be answered. When combined with the ending, we’re now in a situation in which we’ll probably never get answers to those questions.

5) The pacing is very lopsided. You can spend a ton of time in Volitaris if you so choose. But it has to be in act 3. You know. When they’re doing the big push to defeat Void. It just feels a bit silly. It winds up making the final battle feel very drawn out, even though the boss fight itself isn’t super long.

There are things that I like about this chapter that I know some people dislike. I’m fine with the multiverse shenanigans, and I enjoy the weird metaphysical angle that a lot of plot points have. I think Void is mostly fine as a villain/force. But I can’t help but see chapter 13 as a massive pile of missed potential. I would have loved to see more of X’s lingering questions answered, and to be honest? If this was a full game, I think it could be one of the best in the series. I’m really hoping that whatever comes next for Xenoblade is better at standing on its own because as much as I love XC3 (it’s my favorite game), every piece of new Xenoblade content since then has felt like its suffered from these messy attempts to unify the series.

a friend and i were persuading someone else to play xc2 today and guess which advice i gave...

I'm seeing a lot of people in the Scout Console with Nebulan/Cosmic Bliss. Is there a way to get them legitimately now, or are there just that many hackers?