It's weird, man. I don't understand how close-minded Nintendo fans can be sometimes. Not intended to disrespect anyone here, but the amount of Nintendo fans I've come across who swear allegiance to Nintendo legacy IPs and therefore they won't even at least try Xenoblade is quite a lot.Same here. Most of my gamer friends are JRPG fans and they still won't try Xenoblade. I feel like I've been shouting from the hilltops about this game forever.
XC3: This character's name is Noah because it's a Biblical parallel and a callback to the codename of one of our earlier titles
I'm getting really tempted to do the same after I finish Future Connected.
Interesting. It'd make sense for Melly to be antagonistic towards the party then if they are trying to upset the balance of the world by forming their own faction. Curious to see why they adopt the name Ouroboros. It likely signifies their goal to the break the endless cycle shown in XC1 and XC2 that seems to be gearing up for a third round in XC3. In this case, it'd be thematically cohesive to have them come from both the XC1 and XC2 races, as they are functionally trying to prevent the struggles the first two games depicted from reoccurring.Looking into it further, I'm pretty sure that Ouroboros is actually referring to the party. Party members from both sides have the same kind of "meter half full" symbol on their weapons when they're with their respective armies, and then have the ouroboros-like one after striking out on their own.
Technically Melia only comments that "Ouroboros abhor this world," so we don't know for sure how antagonistic she is just yet. Nia's line... well, let's wait for some additional context. =P
Not sure about this one. I like the new designs, but there isn't much harm in Maybe one or two over sexualized characters. Throw a dude in too for good measure.
“You will steal our names and sell them as NFTs”
"You Will Consider Taking On And Won't Forget Our Names"
You have 7 month until release, but there's also the potential of franchise fatigue, additionally when factoring in TTGC and FC, so I'd say if you want to play XC3, just do it. I assume "not finished" means you have at least started, so you own the games? Then just play them after. Perhaps XC3 would even make you want to revisit the other games?
It would make some sense to have "princesses" of a sort of both groups in the party. It's common enough in JRPGs to have a princess/prince type and Xenoblade is no different (Melia herself in 1 and Morag/Zeke in 2)
Noah gives a long, passionate speech about friendship to his friends and then turns around and starts cussing out the enemy
Just like in the Bible.
I was going to read the Bible once, but then someone spoiled it for me that Jesus dies at the end.Just like in the Bible.
And like most places, when staff don't reprise their role they still have a team hierarchy. Like with Xenoblade 2 there were definitely people who stepped into new roles, but I bet a lot of them will have the same roles for 3.
Could be. I mean, anything is possible. It's all theory crafting and speculation at this point really. Though on a side note, having Melia and Zeke as examples of princess and prince characters respectively is kind of hilarious, since they're nothing alike. Melia is more traditionally princess-like, while Zeke is Zeke.
Mio: "I have finally realized that this conflict is pointless. We're all killing each other, spilling blood for nothing! This world must change!"
People said the same with XB2 sooo, nothing to worried?
There's perhaps a bit of franchise envy from some who see Xenoblade getting so much attention while other franchises stagnate, which adds to the general feelings of resentment among sections of the Nintendo fanbase. Arlo touched on it in his video summarising the Direct. He admits that, while he's happy for Xeno fans, he does get jealous it's had so many games on Switch while games like Pikmin 4 remain mere whispers.
I'll be honest, back on Era, I prevented myself on making a thread on praising the cutscenes in the Xenoblade games and wanted to say it probably has one of the best if not the best animated cutscenes in the Jrpg genre, maybe even video games in general.
I'm imagining going back decades to tell my Gears/Saga playing self that someday people would be jealous of all the content I'm getting
It is probably obvious and has already been discussed but I was noting the title of the three xenoblades on a graphic level. The first seems to refer to the ether and the High Entia
while in the second the flames of Pyra and Mithra are clearly seen.
In the third there is a strange fade effect that should refer to this scene from the trailer and probably the role of the protagonists and the flute.
(From the official site Noah is also an “off-seer” who mourns for soldiers who’ve lost their lives on the battlefield and Mio is a soldier of Agnus and an off-seer like Noah.)
. or was told to watch less smut
TBH, I would not mind them giving Xenoblade a rest to try something different after 3, or them working on a sequel to X instead (never played X, so I don't know how much of a connection there is between it and the numbered entries).
It’s Reyn time.
I play a lot of JRPGs and also have a fairly low tolerance for the level of anime tropes/excesses of stuff like the designs of Xenoblade 2 or Shining Resonance/Refrain. I don’t really blame any genre fans for looking at that stuff and deciding not to bother, it’s not like there aren’t other JRPGs to play instead if you want to avoid that stuff (although it’s near impossible to avoid it entirely), it seems perfectly understandable to me. If Fire Emblem Fates had led with ‘now the female lead is a maid class!’ rather than the trope being buried as a secondary character I’d have skipped that too. I did try XB1 and XBX though as at least that stuff wasn’t front-and-centre with the marketing and cut scenes.Same here. Most of my gamer friends are JRPG fans and they still won't try Xenoblade. I feel like I've been shouting from the hilltops about this game forever.
I have played both XC2 and Torna before playing XC1 and the connection wasn't something that bothered or damaged my experience. Even though they have it, it's not like it's mandatory to have played the other games. It felt much more like a bonus for people who played all games so far (and I expect 3 to be the same)
Since there’s no e3. I think it’s best we don’t go in thinking a direct will be in their usual June Time.
