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It's a sad day when the common masses prefer yet another generic shounen anime protagonists than someone more refreshing as far as protagonists go. Even more so when said shounen protagonist has more chances to get in.
True, but I think it has less to do with Elma but more about X being on the Wii U.
Yeah...there's a lot of stuff that doesn't exactly click with me with the larger -blade series. There's a lot of good stuff, like Shulk, Fiora, the music of course, some story beats...but man, X was so much more up my alley.
It's less that they necessarily PREFER him as much as they don't know enough about Elma to like her more then Rex. XCX, as much as I love it, didn't sell anywhere NEAR as much as XC2 because of how the Wii U flopped (Switch port please). It seems like most people like other characters from XC2 more then Rex anyways, it's just that if theres any XC2 rep its gonna be Rex
You CAN, but characters who were given a lot of depth in the main story seem generic and pointless because it assumes that you've finished the main game before Torna so it doesn't spend much time developing then more. There's also a couple "giant flea from space" moments that seem utterly pointless but are major callbacks (callforwards?) to the main game
Thanks for the link. I'm so sick of hearing in the main thread about how X isn't going to get a port or sequel every time I bring up Elma in my DLC predictions.
Man, I want to show this to the entire Smash fanbase speculating about the DLC characters.
Mmyeah. I honestly feel like I'm in the minority, in that I got into the series with the original back when it first came out here in Europe, liked X (though I only really came around to after my replay early this year), was wary of 2 the moment I saw it because of the terrible character designs and ended up pretty much disliking if not outright loathing it (although I'll admit there are some good things about), and then loved Torna again. 2 to me is just something where I barely understand why people like it.
I currently have about 240 hours in my second playthrough of X, and I already did pretty much everything the game really considers for 100% completion. Every segment, every party member mission, every basic mission. . . I honestly wouldn't even know what else to do to get to 300 hours.
Which they don't, since Monolith had already came out and said they're interested in doing a sequel, and even if a port isn't in the near future there was something good to be taken from that interview: Takahashi revealed that he still goes back to playing X every now and then, revealing that he does like the game. And of course, let's not forget Elma being sufficiently advertised as DLC in XC2.
Yeah but even IF Monolith or Takahashi likes the game, what about Nintendo themselves? If they ARE the ones picking the DLC characters, most likely for advertising purposes then that that almost sounds like Elma has no chance unless there's an announcement of a port.
That's honestly the biggest thing going against Elma right now, with no Xenoblade title in the near future (because Monolith Soft is working on their new IP. Nintendo may not want to give Xenoblade a chance of a rep right now if they're trying to advertise characters
Iwata was very impressed with the game so Nintendo overall probably doesn't want to forget about it. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo funds a port of X, I mean, it's almost guaranteed to sell more copies than it did on the Wii U with all the new Xenoblade fans. Porting can't cost as much as the initial game's entire development.
Half my time spent in XCX was literally just running around NLA because it was so much fun. Also, I'm on my third playthrough, and over all my playthroughs I've put in 500 hours into the game.
No, please do continue on.
It is true alot of people trashtalk Xenoblade X for the sake of it, but I feel one of the bigger reasons people where dissapointed in it, was because they had the mindset that it would be like the original Xenoblade. If you have this mindset X most likely is not the game for you and the original Xenoblade laid the bar very high.
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I only really use Rex in Xenoblade 2, because of how Insane crit healing is with Mythra (applies to Torna to)I also do wanna say that I don’t hate XC2 either.
I liked it quite a bit, I really just think it STRONGLY disliked the voice acting of Rex mainly, and I really didn’t find the outfits for most of the female blades appealing...I didn’t CARE to much and I wasn’t like offended or anything but I was just like hmmmm y no clothes
But that said I loved nia, morag, zeke and Pyra and Mythra.
They were all so cool to me but Rex just kinda bored me...I honestly didn’t usually use him in my party when I had the option.(Also how could you not when you had the option to ride on dromarchs back like cmon)
So I really do want another rep in SOME Xenoblade fashion, but my fear would be that it would be a “you can only control Rex, with Pyra/mythra acting as like the Pokémon trainer” which is what I think we would mainly get, if Rex was the sole rep.
However, some Xeno is FOR SURE better than none
tbh the fanservice bothered me mostly because of how inconsistent it isI also do wanna say that I don’t hate XC2 either.
I liked it quite a bit, I really just think it STRONGLY disliked the voice acting of Rex mainly, and I really didn’t find the outfits for most of the female blades appealing...I didn’t CARE to much and I wasn’t like offended or anything but I was just like hmmmm y no clothes
But that said I loved nia, morag, zeke and Pyra and Mythra.
They were all so cool to me but Rex just kinda bored me...I honestly didn’t usually use him in my party when I had the option.(Also how could you not when you had the option to ride on dromarchs back like cmon)
So I really do want another rep in SOME Xenoblade fashion, but my fear would be that it would be a “you can only control Rex, with Pyra/mythra acting as like the Pokémon trainer” which is what I think we would mainly get, if Rex was the sole rep.
However, some Xeno is FOR SURE better than none
Oh, I could go on. The world in 2 just doesn't really manage to feel alive. This is partly because the various areas are completely disconnected from one another, but also because the NPCs don't have any kind of personality or depth to them. Contrast that to the way that NPCs were handled in 1 and X, where the Affinity Chart was wholy dedicated to keeping track of NPCs, their personalities and relationship, which could all actually change as you progress with sidequests. And this doesn't even mention the sidequests that actually flesh out your party members.
Actually, Roc isn't really male. The game doesn't count him as either male or female for merc missions, and his gender in the game file is listed as. . . four. Just the number four. Make of that what you will.
I always felt that X would've probably gotten a better reception if they had just kept the game's Japanese name for the West, "Xenoblade Cross". Although that admittedly might've still been too close to the original. Xenocross, maybe?
It's funny; me and my friends call it Xenocross anyway. It's snappier and makes sense since it's its own "Xeno" thing. Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade, Xenocross...
And that's an interesting conundrum.
I feel like it was named Xenoblade in a large part because of Nintendo. It seems like they want to build Xenoblade Chronicles into one of their tent-pole JRPG franchises along Fire Emblem and Pokemon. The best way to build up a brand? Slap that brands name on anything with a connection to it
I completely agree. It's clear that they're rolling with specifically Xenoblade over just the Xeno prefix. I don't think that's bad, necessarily, and I have a hard time saying it was the wrong move at the time. It's just interesting to consider the possibilities of what could have helped public perception of the game, especially in a post-XBC2 world.
No, trust me, I see it too. Every single character prediction video on YouTube was saying that Rex & Pyra just HAD to be in until this happened. I'm not gonna run down a game I've not touched much of but it really got super wearing hearing about the same five characters over and over and over while plenty of others (Elma) were straight up ignored.
Well XB2 is the game the mainstream is now the most familiar with (its imo similair to what Awakening did for Fire Emblem), while X was on Nintendo's least successfull console and the original Xenoblade was boycotted in the US
Wii version or New 3DS?
Wii version. As an European it was rare to find, because it was an RPG, but the US had to wait till 2012 to get Xenoblade localised and it was Gamestop exclusive.
