I agree about the combat so far. I'm sure it will get more intuitive as the game goes on though! I'm only about half an hour in.

I'm told you're given new systems on a regular basis, so it'll get better. Also, @wariowoods, there's supposed to be a tutorial in the menu, you should probably check that out if you need help.

Well, I got my artbook. The staff at the mall's Gamestop is much more professional than the jerks at the other one. :3

I may have to play this on a bigger TV. I can barely see most of the text on my screen. But I understood enough that i'm now busy looking around Colony 9 and completed some of the Collectopedia.

i just got the game and love it xenoblade and last story are the only amazing rpg wii will have
i mean you had good ones but not amazing ones
good rpgs
tales of symphonia DOTNW
arc rise fantasia
paper mario(hated this one but some people like it)
marumasa
rune factory frontier

I kinda have to agree with you there, except that Tales game wasn't even good IMO.

it needed lots of inprovements but i still really injoined it

Tales of Symphoina was good. Nuff said. Baton kaitos was the last good RPG I've played on a Nintendo console!

I'm getting more accustomed to the battles and starting to feel the way it works, but still not quite confident about some of the details. It does help to just get into the flow of things and keep moving from battle to battle, since that powers up for team for the chained attack.

New question

I've been using the Japanese audio since I greatly prefer those voices, but I noticed that they're babbling a lot during battles and there aren't any subtitles when fighting. Am I missing anything useful?

No you are not missing anything. They repeat way to much. Kind of annoying.

not really anything useful no, but you are missing Ricki's comments that I always found hilarious.

I liked the Combat, since I played FFXI, but I still don't know what's going on. All this info on the screen. Btw wth is a break? Just kinda confused atm. Also I can't read the text well either. I am going to have to move the sofa closer.

I tried playing some last night, but it experienced an error before I could save... Oh well.

I haven't opened my copy yet. I can't put down Kid Icarus: Uprising and now I just bought Plants vs. Zombies which is insanely addictive.

I was thinking though, especially since people are kind of complaining about the combat, wouldn't it be amazing if a Zelda game had the world of Xenoblade. Combine the combat of Skyward Sword (and all the other elements that make a great Zelda) with the enormous, invisible wall free world of Xeno and you might just have the greatest game ever conceived.

Put down the 3ds slowly. Back away and fire up the Wii. It misses you.

I'm having a hard time as well. I really want to get into it but don't have a couple of hours to set a side at the moment.

Personally, I want Monolith Soft to work on the next Pokemon game. Give us a big world to traverse with the pokemon on screen (maybe even big ones that we aren't ready to deal with just yet), real-ish time gameplay (hopefully with a pause system for item menus), an encouragement system, some sort of quest system (at least more little story events). I could see it being pretty damn good.

Same here. You walk into town and the game goes, "Here's a couple hundred thousand things you can do!"
And I was all like, "Oh, it's gonna be one of THOSE games..."Sigh

Just so you guys know, you can save a lot of those quests for later, and just focus on the main story for the time being. Just stock up on the quests so you know what you can and can't miss, then move on. You don't have to spend hours upon hours doing everything in an area, and in fact, I highly recommend against doing that. You'll burn yourself out that way.

I think all pokemon fans have been wanting a game like that for a looooong time. I just don't see it happening any time soon.

@Tech, Lol, I know man, I know. I might play Xeno tonight. Maybe.

Now that I know wtf I am doing the combat is way better.

Is there anything Important I need all the collectibles for? Or can I sell a few to buy better equipment?