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[MurkyZebra2417]

Quick question for those upto Alcamoth

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will I still be able to do the sidequests once I've gone to High Entia Tomb? That's not the cut off point, right?

Yeah, you should be able to still do them.

 

[harriet the spy]

damn, still didn't get my copy from game, and i live in a big city on the east coast. was shipped a week and a half ago.. :/

 

[Reveirg]

Haha i felt the same way too but as you say it's a good thing.

My only complaint so far is that the map on the top right is not very informative (as you usually need to have a sense of a bigger scale than that),and bringing up the full size map takes some time and some needless button presses.

Indeed. In fact, the overall loading time for every menu is kind of a letdown. You'd think after making such big efforts to eliminate loading times for areas, they wouldn't make menus that take 2-3 secondes to pop up O_O. I feel changing equipments for the whole party is going to become tedious.

But once again, these are only very minor gripes

 

[CruxisMana]

Quick question for those upto Alcamoth

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will I still be able to do the sidequests once I've gone to High Entia Tomb? That's not the cut off point, right?

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I believe the game gives you a warning before that point occurs, like when you move the residents back to Colony 6.

According to others, it also doesn't happen until much later in the gamel.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Love the main boss music. So epic - (avoid the comments because of potential spoilerz) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7XVMNNZI8 =

 

[Dead Prince]

i don't know what's worst - not getting the game in the mail today or buying a california burger from Burger King and come home and it's a regular whopper.

 

[Diffense]

I have a question about a Colony 9 "Challenge 4" quest from a Nopon:

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He asks me to kill the Wallside Gwyrny(?) in Mag Mell which I already did before getting the quest.
But the game didn't auto-complete the quest and the monster didn't reappear when I revisited Mag Mell.
Is there another one in Mag Mell or did I stumble on a situation that'll prevent me from completing that quest?
Did anyone else run into this?

 

[Toma]

Hit the

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Swamp area

last night during day time. Thought it was rather unimpressive and rather boring area after the awesomeness of the last big one. ...then it

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became night

:-o Totally out of the blue for me.

I have a question about a Colony 9 "Challenge 4" quest from a Nopon:

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He asks me to kill the Wallside Gwyrny(?) in Mag Mell which I already did before getting the quest.
But the game didn't auto-complete the quest and the monster didn't reappear when I revisited Mag Mell.
Is there another one in Mag Mell or did I stumble on a situation that'll prevent me from completing that quest?
Did anyone else run into this?

I feared that might happen to me too since I also killed him off before. But he respawned for me after a certain time. Just try visiting that point later I suppose.

 

[cacildo]

 

[CruxisMana]

I have a question about a Colony 9 "Challenge 4" quest from a Nopon:

Spoiler

He asks me to kill the Wallside Gwyrny(?) in Mag Mell which I already did before getting the quest.
But the game didn't auto-complete the quest and the monster didn't reappear when I revisited Mag Mell.
Is there another one in Mag Mell or did I stumble on a situation that'll prevent me from completing that quest?
Did anyone else run into this?

Unique monsters respawn eventually.

 

[Sennorin]

Damn, I guess I´ll start up the game again. Already played 3 hours today, but playing at night is more fun. Gotta explore that Eryth Sea some more

The only thing I can think of to complain about so far...no way to disable the battle chit-chat, no online co-op, no keyboard support for button assignment of each skill. Yes, 25 hours into this game, and I really like it.

I see, to find faults in Xenoblade, we have to make up stuff that didn´t belong in there anyway

 

[SecretMoblin]

I have a question about a Colony 9 "Challenge 4" quest from a Nopon:

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He asks me to kill the Wallside Gwyrny(?) in Mag Mell which I already did before getting the quest.
But the game didn't auto-complete the quest and the monster didn't reappear when I revisited Mag Mell.
Is there another one in Mag Mell or did I stumble on a situation that'll prevent me from completing that quest?
Did anyone else run into this?

It will reappear. Wait a while, save/load, whatever, but it will reappear.

 

[Toma]

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They are not innocent... they drop loot after all. Does not qualify as peace loving since god made them to be fought and looted. Its their divine purpose!

 

[Diffense]

Unique monsters respawn eventually.

Thanks.
I had that experience with others like the

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Verdant Bluchal (?)

but since it had been such a long time since I beat the lizard I started to wonder.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

The transition in

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Satori Marsh

between day and night is so amazing.

I arrived there during the day and thought this place is horrible and I want to get out of here asap.

At night I was in awe. The music change helped a lot as well.

 

[Toma]

The transition in

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Satori Marsh

between day and night is so amazing.

I arrived there during the day and thought this place is horrible and I want to get out of here asap.

At night I was in awe. The music change helped a lot as well.

See post 7171, Hi-5 for being at the same point in the game! Now stop playing until monday since I need to write a termpaper.

 

[BocoDragon]

Xenoblade has it all. The fact that it has achievements on Wii is hilarious.

Nintendo can no longer feign ignorance of them when Wii U comes along..

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

See post 7171, Hi-5 for being at the same point in the game! Now stop playing until monday since I need to write a termpaper.

Wow, didn't even read that post.

I'm sure the same applies to everyone in that place.

 

[Mojojo]

Quick question for those upto Alcamoth

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will I still be able to do the sidequests once I've gone to High Entia Tomb? That's not the cut off point, right?

I am in the next "zone" and I can still do the alcamoth timed.. Someone told several pages before that you can keep them for a long time.

 

[Nocturnowl]

The transition in

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Satori Marsh

between day and night is so amazing.

I arrived there during the day and thought this place is horrible and I want to get out of here asap.

At night I was in awe. The music change helped a lot as well.

I had the exact same reaction, it is in fact still my favourite location thus far just for the trippy lighting and music at night. The point i'm at now has a similar kind of "superior at night vibe" Location spoiler

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Snowy mountains at night that is

 

[Twilight Princess]

You can disable ui clusters in the settings menu. I pretty much just leave the mini map on.

 

[Reveirg]

You can disable ui clusters in the settings menu. I pretty much just leave the mini map on.

Very good to know! Great, I'll leave them up for a while until I'm accustomed to the shortcuts and buttons. There are indeed a lot of customization options in the menu, very nice.


By the way, what's an affinity coin exactly?

 

[Franchuzas87]

Yeah, I made one too.

 

[Chanser]

Very good to know! Great, I'll leave them up for a while until I'm accustomed to the shortcuts and buttons. There are indeed a lot of customization options in the menu, very nice.


By the way, what's an affinity coin exactly?

You spend them on skill links in your skill trees.

 

[slaughterking]

Oh noes (Colony 9 sidequest spoiler):

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I ruined Emmy Leater's career. I didn't intent to do that. I swear, Emmy!

 

[Twilight Princess]

Very good to know! Great, I'll leave them up for a while until I'm accustomed to the shortcuts and buttons. There are indeed a lot of customization options in the menu, very nice.


By the way, what's an affinity coin exactly?

It let's you use/equip teammates skills, under skill tree menu.

 

[cacildo]

They are not innocent... they drop loot after all. Does not qualify as peace loving since god made them to be fought and looted. Its their divine purpose!

Lol! To be fair, i think the animals stole those itens from innocent people!

Xenoblade has it all. The fact that it has achievements on Wii is hilarious.

Nintendo can no longer feign ignorance of them when Wii U comes along..

I cant point names, but i remember some other wii games also have achievements...

Oh wait, i remember one: THE INCREDIBLE HULK. I liked that game! The achievements were called "feats"

But there are bigger games with achievements on wii...

 

[squall23]

Wii Sports Resort had achievements so I don't really know what the big deal is.

 

[slaughterking]

Metroid Prime Corruption had achievements, too. You could even share your achievement tokens with your friends.

 

[meppi]

-The UI is too big! There's a LOT of stuff going on the screens, and that's a shame because it blocks the incredible views on the landscape.

That can easily be fixed though.

I have everything turned off in the options, so certain HUD elements only pop up when appropriate. Like when entering a battle or when you level up and such.

Love playing it like that since you can take in the locales fully without anything blocking your view.

 

[D23]

holy shit.. bionis leg is huge!! my jaw dropped to the ground! the music n everything..

i fucking love this game

 

[vitacola]

DISASTAAAAAAH!!!! had achievements too

 

[wrowa]

Oh noes (Colony 9 sidequest spoiler):

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I ruined Emmy Leater's career. I didn't intent to do that. I swear, Emmy!

From what I hear you either ruin her or she goes crazy. Both options aren't quite optimal!

 

[slaughterking]

From what I hear you either ruin her or she goes crazy. Both options aren't quite optimal!

Oh well, I think I'm feeling not so bad about it then.

 

[Alrus]

Not just that, it can even take up to 4 weeks for games to arrive from the UK to Belgium.
I learned the hard way myself when it comes to which shops to trust for games that I need to have on day one, or at least within 2-3 days of release.

Amazon UK only takes 2-4 days to send me games when I order from them. I don't know who you were using before but 4 weeks seems ridiculous.

 

[vitacola]

Amazon UK only takes 2-4 days to send me games when I order from them. I don't know who you were using before but 4 weeks seems ridiculous.

Probably because they often send it from their "European HQ" in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. Ordered an Entourage Season one time and it arrived the next day

 

[Hiltz]

I like this game but I hate how unnecessarily complex the mechanics and gameplay elements are for combat, gem crafting, and affinity stuff. It's just makes it all the more confusing and overwhelming.

Right now I'm around 7 hours in at

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Colony 6 with Sharla in my party trying to fight this second phase boss battle against a giant mech spider boss with tentacles on top of a rock (and he's fucking hard as hell). Nearly everyone in my party is constantly getting pummeled to death. I still have trouble figuring out how to use the Monado's foresight power in terms of knowing when you have to wait to use its powers at all if you want to avoid a devasting enemy attack. I you already used it up, then you're basically screwed as far as I can tell.

 

[wrowa]

Probably because they often send it from their "European HQ" in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. Ordered a Entourage Season one time and it arrived the next day

Bad Hersfeld loves Amazon so much they even called the street, where Amazon is located, Amazon Street.

I like this game but I hate how unnecessarily complex the mechanics and gameplay elements are for combat, gem crafting, and affinity stuff. It's just makes it all the more confusing and overwhelming.

Care to explain? All of the features are rather simple.

 

[FreeMufasa]

Haven't been in here for a while. Have NA-Gaf recieved their copies yet?

 

[Toma]

I like this game but I hate how unnecessarily complex the mechanics and gameplay elements are for combat, gem crafting, and affinity stuff. It's just makes it all the more confusing and overwhelming.

Right now I'm around 7 hours in at

7 hours? I feel like going snails pace. I am at 17 hours and just reached the

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Satori marsh

No problem with it, though. First game in a long time I am not playing to complete it, but to have fun

 

[Labadal]

I really only have two(maybe three) complaints so far with a playtime of 9:30.

1. Loot not automatically going to inventory.
2. I don't know if it is me who don't know how to do it, but I would have loved trackable side quests.
3. I like the voice acting most of the time, but sometimes it doesn't click with me.

Other than that, I'm addicted. The music, the locations, exploring and story are great so far.

 

[slaughterking]

Bad Hersfeld loves Amazon so much they even called the street, where Amazon is located, Amazon Street.

They did the same in Leipzig.

 

[Toma]

They did the same in Leipzig.

Hey! Another Gaffer living close, assuming you live in Leipzig to have this "Insider Knowledge". Amazon is awesome though. They should start selling merchandise. Think awesome trendy shirts and bags.

 

[vitacola]

I'd love some industrial selling in the Amazon Streets of Germany

 

[Torraz]

I really only have two(maybe three) complaints so far with a playtime of 9:30.

1. Loot not automatically going to inventory.
2. I don't know if it is me who don't know how to do it, but I would have loved trackable side quests.
3. I like the voice acting most of the time, but sometimes it doesn't click with me.

Other than that, I'm addicted. The music, the locations, exploring and story are great so far.

Agreed. Since I'm very happy with the jp. voice track I'd replace your 3 with not being able to concretely compare two items when equipping. Simply seeing one stat go up and one down is not enough information and still forces one to switch back and forth.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Haven't been in here for a while. Have NA-Gaf recieved their copies yet?

No. Who knows where mine is. Probably fell off a plane or something.

 

[-MB-]

Xenoblade entered the dutch all-formats chart at 3, my fellow countrymen made me proud

 

[KarmaCow]

Do you need to do all the quests to get 5 stars in the affinity chart for an area? I wasn't paying attention and started the

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Colony 6 restoration

which canceled some quests.

 

[Electivirus]

Been 3 days since mine shipped. I hope it arrives by the end of the week, but that's pretty unlikely. :C

 

[Ledsen]

So 25 hours in and I just entered Makna

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Forest

. Would you say I'm playing at a normal pace?