BassForever
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Is there any reason to not dump all your materials into shop expansion? Do materials do anything else worth saving them for?
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Tales of Xillia |OT| - Teach me about Bazongas!
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Doesn't really sound like it. No equipment upgrades anyway so the most I can imagine is to turn them in to complete a quest and that's probably not there either.
I only invested in upgrading the weapon and armor shops for the materials that have the 2x multipliers. If it doesn't have it then I didn't use the material. You can sell the materials for gald I guess.
Yeah the actress seems fine but her recordings sound like they were compressed into something equivalent to an MP3 @ 96kbps.
The high frequencies are all filtered out and the sibilants are completely crushed. It's especially glaring considering every other character sounds fine.
Either the actress had very poor microphone technique or the sound engineer had a bad day at work =/.
I also thought Graces f was meh; but I'm loving Xillia. It's more comparable to Vesperia than Graces.
Sold! Picking up a copy today. Need another RPG as I'm nearing the end of FF13. Thanks!
Shouta
Member
As I recall, no. But some quests will ask you to give items, I think? It's been awhile since I played Xillia 1. There's more reason to do so in 2.
Gald is the big thing though. Regular money drops aren't enough to keep your gear up to date so selling items is important if you want to stay upgraded.
BassForever
Member
Yeah everything currently has 2x multiplies so I dumped it all. Seems like you could get over powered gear if you waited
WhereAreMahDragonz
Banned
How's the story? That's my only big concern, gameplay looks rad.
Picked this up yesterday, like I do with all Tales games (on platforms I own). Won't get a chance to play it for a little while because of Dragon's Crown, but I'm very much looking forward to it.
I still consider day one Tales PS3 purchases as votes for localization of the PS3 version of Vesperia, regardless of how much they say it will never happen, hahahah.
I still consider day one Tales PS3 purchases as votes for localization of the PS3 version of Vesperia, regardless of how much they say it will never happen, hahahah.
I can never do it either, tbh...
Man... I dread when I start to play the game.
It's going to be Growlanser 2's Carmaine all over again...
I'm ~5 hours in and so far the story and dialogue are miles ahead of ToGf and TotA
WhereAreMahDragonz
Banned
Awesome. TotA was fabulous so this is refreshing to hear.
chickdigger802
Banned
Does the maps ever get more linear or are they all just large bland maps with a pile of monsters wondering around?
I didn't think TotA was fabulous though so we might not have the same taste, don't get your hopes up!
But seriously it's mostly a matter of pace for me... And ToX succeeds so far in that regard.
Phew! I was honestly starting to think I was doing something majorly wrong. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one having trouble.
Black Door
Banned
Really? I've just been stopping my characters at least three or four character widths away from the enemy and using the walk button to creep up on them. Blue X every time, and every time I've run up to an enemy, I get the exclamation point
I got my shipping confirmation with DLC code (which I've redeemed)
Tracking so far says:
So hopefully since there has been no tracking update in a while that it's between France and England. If so, it should get to Scotland in time for Friday delivery.
Fingers crossed anyway
Tracking so far says:
So hopefully since there has been no tracking update in a while that it's between France and England. If so, it should get to Scotland in time for Friday delivery.
Fingers crossed anyway
Honestly, it's not that bad. There's something weird about her voice and I'm not sure what because I had the volume low, but it's distracting at times. It also doesn't seem to be a particularly good performance either but I'll save judgment for when I've played more than an hour. Anyway, it's just plain bad, nowhere near SO4/Arc Rise Phantasia/Chaos Wars bad. And it's just one character, the others are fine so far.
lol. I love the wildly differing opinions on Abyss's story.
Pressing O makes you walk. After I learned that, it was easy.
Yeah. I noticed that enemies will hear you coming if you run. I forgot about the walk button though so I was trying to precariously tilt the stick just enough to walk, with no success.
Lavalamp1138
Member
Kotaku put up a video under their "Learn to Run in Circles" tip. Master the art of 2-person duck-duck-goose!
Oh wow didn't realize that.
Gintoki313
Banned
EDIT: Nvm, I just looked up what the DEX stat does and I don't think I really need that on Alvin. I really need to look up what all the stats do.
empressdonna
Member
Just saw (via facebook) that patrick seitz is in this!
Can't wait now to hear his character in game
Can't wait now to hear his character in game
Cornbread78
Member
So did anyone else d/l the easter egg from PSN with the items and free money to use? Does it really help?
Between Vesperia and Graces, the former is the more well rounded and overall higher quality game that I'd first recommend to people. If you're playing for the battles and mechanics you may enjoy Graces more, though.
Vesperia is also basically a refinement/progression of the Symphonia and Abyss formula and Graces switches it up quite a bit.
Vesperia imo.
Same. Except mine has less French place entries said it left st genis yesterday. Can't wait.I got my shipping confirmation with DLC code (which I've redeemed)
Tracking so far says:
So hopefully since there has been no tracking update in a while that it's between France and England. If so, it should get to Scotland in time for Friday delivery.
Fingers crossed anyway
Jack Cayman
Banned
Waiting for my copy to arrive any minute now... Day one copy, I will post some impressions later.
solid mike
Member
IIRC, Milla's hair falls under a Japanese style category called 'ahoge'.
Dragoshi1
Member
Got to Milla's town, but dang it, the area north of it is crawling with things that utterly DESTROY my currently Lv13 team.
I've fought every single monster/enemy up to this point, invested heavily in weapon and armor shop expansion, have the best gear for all three characters, and even completed every possible sub quest.
Why is my team being destroyed so badly?
I've fought every single monster/enemy up to this point, invested heavily in weapon and armor shop expansion, have the best gear for all three characters, and even completed every possible sub quest.
Why is my team being destroyed so badly?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
When there's a lot of stuff happening, the framerate dips quite a bit. According to kayos and others, apparently this version seems to have more slowdown than the JP version which is really weird to me. I wonder why that's the case.
As for the enemy encounter rate, that's more due to the maps than anything else. The maps are larger, and thus there are more enemies on the field because they couldn't find anything else important to do with the fields. That's typically what happens in RPG map design whenever fields get too big and they don't really put much in them. You see that even in older ones. I could write paragraphs on games with good map design and games with bad map design, but this isn't the place for it.
Now you know how a few of us felt about the maps in general. Unnecessarily big for the sake of spectacle. If you have to make a larger map, do it for a playable reason. I don't like when games decide to up the ante on their larger maps if there isn't a reason to do it. The Calm Lands in FFX actually did it well, for instance.
Didn't see this answered, but slower enemies are much easier to use his vanish move on than weaker enemies. As the game goes on, you'll increase his speed stat, which makes it easier, but typically, you want to use it just as the enemy is about to strike you. Watch for when they're about to animate and just do it.
Jude's broken
can beat the game with him solo
gets a speed nerf in the second game
zzzz
Vesperia.
Not to mention that you can actually run up, deke them out, and run in a circle behind them. That's what I usually do. But yeah, enemies will hear you if you run up to them, so it's best to walk up to them most of the time.
You went to the wrong area. You're supposed to go to the exit to the northwest, not the northeast.
That exit you took was an optional area and you don't have to go there until later in the game and even then it's optional. You can use it to level up and grind materials if you want to, but you should really go to the northwest exit instead after getting all the elemental stones.
BassForever
Member
So far I really enjoy playing as Alvin and Jude, Milla I don't really get how she works. I get that her spells double both as standard attack artes and spells but I can't seem to get the spells to work when I play as her and the AI never seems to use them linked or not linked.
Also with Alvin should I always be holding circle to charge or are there reasons not to?
Also with Alvin should I always be holding circle to charge or are there reasons not to?
Charge changes up Artes to make them different/stronger. Also changes up Link Arte sometimes.
Milla has Shift which allows her to use Spirit Artes as a castable spell or a magic attack. For spells you have to hold the button. AI uses them depending on who she's linked to.