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Xenoblade going to be released in europe
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I started the game last night. Can already see that the battle system is far more involved and less boring than FFXII since you have to take into account positoning, aggro and all the arts do status effects. Think I'm going to enjoy this. Also the sense of scale is amazing!
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I spent 5 hours wandering around the opening area and trying to kill the big worm in the first tunnel. I usually hate sidequests but this game handles them really well. Also the battle system is great. While FFXII required no input from the player, once you set up gambits the CPU works everything out for you, (hell I beat it with one hand literally, I had a broken hand at the time) there's actual strategy required for the battles in this game. Positioning of your characters and the correct use of skills so that your aggro doesn't increase too much and you inflict the right status effects is hugely important. It means with the right strategy you can take on harder enemies if you play well. Also health is returned quickly after a battle and there's no magic points, only a cool down system meaning there's no need to use an osmose spell to make battles even more boring or run around in circles to regain MP like FF12.
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Yes but the lack of input made the game really boring. Once you went into a new area you would change your gambits in hte first 5 minutes to suit the enemies in the area and then that would be you set for the next 60-90 minutes of boring dungeon crawling, the CPU your gambits managed the rest easily. It was a case of watching the long drawn out boring battles play out before you. It might not have been so bad if it wasn't for the enemies taking so long.
Boss battles worked a lot better but they were few and far between. Also I found that they could all be easily beaten by looking at the HP gauges (I found this was all I was concentrating on during boss battles and healing when appropriate and then using esuna when the boss did a status effect attack. This worked for every boss.
Xenoblade is basically FFXII but it fixes everything that was wrong with FFXII so that it now works properly and even battling the insignificant enemies is fun. It's just a far, far better game. FFXII had potential but also a lot of problems for me. Xenoblade built itself on that potential and is a much better game.
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The quickest way to grind is to do quests. The exp you get is much bigger than for just killing monsters. It's a game were 1 or 2 levels can make a massive difference. So far I've found that if I do enough quests in an area I'll be fine for whatever comes up.
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Agro relates to who the monsters focus their attacks on. It's very important because latter on any character other than your tank, Reyn at the start, are very flimsy so you want to have enemy agro focusing on your tank all the time. It means someone like Shulk or Sharla can do massive amounts of damage but this also attracts enemy attention which is a bad thing for such flimsy characters which means you really have to think about how to balance the damage you do and agro or using skills that reduce agro.
Talent gauge is just as you auto attack your skills fill up and become available.
It's really not that tough once you get it.
The chain attacks continuing with b is a random thing but increases with characters affinity for each other which you increase by doing the events scattered around the map.
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Cheers Retr0, just a couple of other questions-
Is that the yellow gauge beside the exp bar? I thought all the skills were time based or does this just refer to your special skill in the middle?
What does the Ether stat refer too? I'm gathering it's like magic but I dont see where it fits in.
It's been too long since I played it. I think ether is just magic attack or defense stat.
Not sure what the other yellow gauge for, maybe for levelling up talent arts?
Talent gauge really is just the time it takes to do talent arts.
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I found if you are keeping up with sidequests you'll level just fine but I know people that had awful trouble until they stopped ignoring them. Side Quests give the best experience so are worth doing. And yes there's a big difference between levels but I like it this way.
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Well I started this game and first year on the same day, and it was looking uncertain as to which I would finish first, but I finished it today. Good god though I was 114 hours in and level 81, and I got complete sidequest fatigue when I realised to do any of the quests involving high level monsters I'd have to grind. I think the game could've done things a bit more linearly as, although at the start I liked the little sidequests, by the end you're just sick of "Kill ten of these and run around this place to pick up 5 of these," the powerful monster quests became the only ones I liked doing.
Amazing game though, I'd say best of 2011 (or 2010) but I didn't play much else.
Ending was great but a tad confusing with some parts. I somehow don't think I'll be willing to start the new game+ for quite a while though....
And Riki is now in my list most hated characters.
Now onto The Last Story!0 -
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And herself is due in 6 days which means my 2 weeks off for the new baby can be sprinkled with awesome gameplay 
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