Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles 3

@Takoda gotcha. I still want to enjoy the sidequests. Though, I might be a little picky and choosie.

Xenoblade 3 has no limited timed quests like 1 or 2. The prison stuff is still able to be done I'm pretty sure.

@Grumblevolcano
Yay! Another reason to replay the game.

@Vortexeo
I agree. Nia's was pretty underwhelming. Though, both quests are more of a bonus to me. It's not part of the canon story. It can't be because during the final fight both queens are doing their own thing and shouldn't be able to be in your party anyway.

Approaching 100 hours in the game. Haven’t ever spent 100 hours in a single save file in any game before. And if anyone remembers me spending 55 hours on the story… that’s over 40 hours on side quests alone. Well played MONOLITHSOFT. Well played.

@TheJGG I think this wins the cake for me too on a first playthrough (129h including the post credits content)

Nice, it took me 183 hours only to master all classes on all characters. But I already wrote that. What a great game.

@Mioaionios yeah that is a fair point!

At 103 hours currently. I'll probably be wrapping it up within the next ten hours or so. Might need to leave some stuff for the post-game, but I wanted to get the major stuff wrapped up beforehand.

Battles are already pretty easy on normal difficulty. Is there any point in tracking down these random nopons that'll supposedly upgrade my weapons? The game doesn't give me any indication of where to go. I could look it up, but... eh.

@Ralizah the weapons do get better but as you said the game is already easy if you went for a lot of sidequests so the gear is only important if you go for the 100+ unique monsters

A very good analysis of the themes this game explores.
WARNING: end-game spoilers!

Man, I kind of hope the DLC isn't a sequel to the game, and focuses on something else, since I really like the ending for 3. I feel like a sequel would pretty much ruin the themes going on at the end.

@VoidofLight
I agree. That's why I think the DLC campaign will take part in Aionios' past, set during a time the main story shows glimpses of.

@VoidofLight I agree with you there man.

@Mioaionios Yeah, I'd like to see more of the past.

Since I’d really prefer some new characters to follow instead of seeing where these end up, a prequel sounds great. Can’t salvage much from that ending either way, be it good or bad.

Try BOTW....I still haven't gotten the 4 Guardian done yet.

I think the Expansion Pass image will be a tease for the DLC story. Looking back to the XC2 Expansion Pass, that expansion pass' image is of the Torna emblem on a background of an area in the Kingdom of Torna.

I am looking forward to finishing this, and will probably make completing the game my goal next week. Just have a handful of ascension quests to complete first (five or so). There's so much whining about the ending being horrible in certain communities, which tells me it probably actually does something narratively interesting or ambitious.

As for the DLC, I figure it'll likely cover material related to the Founders and the history of the City, assuming that's not explained by the little bit of story content left in the game.

I, for one, loved the ending.

@Ralizah I’ll keep my thoughts for after you’ve seen the ending. Though I personally think the final boss and everything around it was just meh but the ending cutscene itself was pretty brilliant in what it’s trying to go for. The sad part to me is that it shows how much more life could’ve been poured into these characters, especially Noah and Mio. This is coming from someone who has yet to see through most of the side quests so our perspectives are decidedly different in that. : P

As for your idea for the DLC, I was thinking the exact same thing and I’d be surprised if it isn’t at least related to that. Just seems to make sense to me.