Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition

@Dezzy @Heavyarms55 Well put regarding the clothing talk. I agree with everything you guys have said. I think we can end this specific discussion now.

@NintendoByNature Yeah, but one helluva game!

@Dezzy Walking across those bridges in Makna still makes me feel dizzy when looking down, lol. Yeah, Satorl Marsh was really beautiful with all the colors and shimmering lights.

I always wanted to try baten Kaitos but at the time i was just so much more interested in other games back then. I think i started that game once but never got very far. I remember it looking really pretty and colorful. I just wasn't getting the card battle system i guess. I recently played through KH re chain of memories and at first i hated the card battles. I mean i really hated it! I just kept saying why the hell did they make it like this? Ugh i just wanna play it like a regular KH game. Eventually it finally clicked for me and i understood it better. I managed to finish the whole game and now i don't hate it but it's definitely the weakest entry in the series.

As for xenoblade I've never fully completed the game but i plan to this time. I'm putting every other game on hold until this one is finished! Now scuse me i gotta go jam to engage the enemy! Killer track no?

I’m still doing all the side quests as a means of exploring everything.

But to avoid burnout I might change tack. Are the Colony 6 side quests worth doing?

@JoeDiddley
I always would just treat the sidequests like any old open world game. Do them if you need a break from the main story. Some are timed though and you can be locked out of them at a certain point. I just go ahead and make sure I've got them all finished before entirely leaving whatever town I'm in so i don't miss any.
Plus I'm ocd and if i leave anything unfinished i go nuts! You do get better weapons and armor from side quests than anything the shops are selling mostly.

@Zeldafan79 I’m finding them addictive so far.

But with my eye on it being a long game I will keep doing them purposefully whilst they are a pleasure not a chore.

@Quarth Works for me.

Also those bridges in Makna are horrifying and I'd never be able to cross one in real life... unless there was something trying to kill me that's even scarier.

@Heavyarms55 Well, there are some terrifying monsters in Makna, especially around Frontier Village, so the bridges are maybe safer after all.

Baten Katios. Dang, that brings back memories. My roommate junior year of college played that game. Took him the whole year to beat it lol We used to mess with him for playing it because most of us would just play Smash or Guitar Hero together, and he would just squirrel away in his room to play this weird-looking RPG.

I'd jump in on Baten Kaitos, but JaxonH already explained it pretty well. Just have to say, don't look up the story, it's spoilerific, one of my favorite moments in gaming was from the original.

Finally started the game earlier and hope to play more this evening. That was a HECK of a well-structured opening that ropes you into the action pretty quickly. I took some of my time and picked up many of the sidequests in Colony 9, though I won't be too bothered about finishing the ones that aren't timed. Unless I want a break in the main story and the objective(s) are along or aren't far off the beaten path. I had to quit right as things started getting really interesting again. Turns out that the Mechon WEREN'T exterminated....

@NintendoByNature As long as you can swap the game without any issues. At least you have other games to play lol. I'm pretty late to the party too, by release date standards.

@Tyranexx supposed to come tomorrow thankfully. I dropped off my mangled copy today. So hopefully I get a copy that's in decent shape tomorrow 😋

@NintendoByNature Let's hope the new copy also isn't obligated to fight other JRPGs in the mail along the way....

@Tyranexx at this point, and having to wait; I might fight off that contender myself just to get my hands on the game lol

@NintendoByNature I legit just pictured your avatar charging in with the Monado to fend off Cloud from the FF7 remake. XD

@Tyranexx lol, hmmm if it were THAT game, im honestly not sure which I'd prefer hahaha. Then again, I don't have a ps4 anymore, so.......XC it is!

@NintendoByNature It would be an epic battle for the ages...over your wallet!

@Quarth That is true. But like, the exact same bridges IRL would still scare the crap out of me.

And on the topic of bridges in Makna, I swear the AI in the original didn't derp them so badly. But I had Sharla and Reyn just jumping to their death over and over while I was playing yesterday. I get the feeling they don't much like Melia. XD

@Heavyarms55

They'd be scarier if they actually moved. The fact that they're fixed completely still makes them feel really solid and strong!

@Heavyarms55 LOL! 😂 Well, the AI isn't perfect in the game. I understand that Melia and Shulk are still pretty useless if not used as the party leader.

@Quarth Not from what I have seen. But there are some arts they learn that you really don't want equipped while the AI is controlling them. Like Melia's art where she slashes her own health to heal someone else.