when the fuck does it get good? I just got out of the desert pit with blonde bitch boy and that was one of the worst dungeons Ive ever experienced.
>when the fuck does it get gooddisc 2
>>736281776it never does, you just have to pretend to like it
>>736281776>when the fuck does it get good?After the actual worst dungeon in the game.You're in for some shit if you thought that was bad
if you arent intrigued by whats going on in the game at that point it probably isnt for you.
I think it really picks up after you escape from kislev. the story at least, the gameplay never gets good.
>>736282072then you get to disc 2 and it REALLY picks up as they try to cram 4 games' worth of plot into 5 hours.
Hammer a shit
>>736281913I can tell from this pic alone I will hate this. there has never been a good sewer dungeon ever made. love wandering around with no indication of where the fuck I am and zero visual cues to work with either.
>>736282027I am intrigued by the plot but not if I have to perpetually slog through bad levels and slow battles to get little pieces of it. there's plenty of good story jrpgs with simple and easy gameplay that doesnt feel like a chore. I will persist with this game though because I love 90s squaresoft more than any other dev so Im "supposed" to like this game too.
>>736282245don't forget random encounters with suddenly overleveled enemies
>>736282245Silver lining is, you do get a map to keep on you to reference.Hope you're good with directions though, it acts like a real paper map, doesn't show you where you are on it.
>>736281850HOLY FILTEREDXenogears gatekeeps itself.
>>736281776Yeah the platforming in the mechs is horrible with the encounter rate as high as it is and the battles as boring as they are. There's a part later on disc 1 where you're climbing a tower and it was possibly the least fun time I've ever had playing a jrpg.
>>736282480yeah but it was kino when you realize why the buildings are sideways
>>736282596I already know the moment I stepped into the room let me skip the bullshit platforming
Every fucking day. I refuse to believe that there are actually so many people discovering Xenogears in 2026 and having issues with it.
>>736282708Ive known about it since playing it on a demo disc about 30 years ago. but the game was expensive by the time I was looking to buy it so it passed me by, and playing every single classic game ever made takes a long time so Im just now getting around to this one. sue me
>>736281776If the narrative hasn't peaked your interest you are going to be miserable as fuck trying to get through the prison section and especially >>736281913 . Do yourself a massive favor stop playing the Xeno games after you finish the Saga trilogy. Blade is just generic weeb shit with nothing interesting whatsoever, not even a scant amount of depth. Just modern Persona tier waifufag shit.
it gets good when you close the game and just listen to the ost insteadhttps://youtu.be/tQTd7V0JXBE
>>736281776I got hooked storywise during the desert showdown, gameplay-wise I don't think I ever thought it was outright bad but it was probably becasue I was playing at 4x speed
the tower dungeon is my favorite dungeon in all jrpgs
>>736281776The gameplay never gets good, but just before Disc 2 the story enters MGS2 Arsenal Gear levels of mindfuckery and kino. Stick with it anonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTWgT3_t5Jk
>>736282902>hasn't peaked your interestpiqued
>>736286039My entire life I've been using the wrong peak and no one has corrected me ever...
>>736281776>when the fuck does it get good? The moment you read "im alpha and omega"
>>736282027tried to replay it a decade ago and got as far as OP before figuring 'hm maybe it's just not as good as i thought'. i know for sure it gets more interesting later but it's kind of a slog.
>>736281776Unironically Disc 2. The schizo greater narrative of Xenogears is what makes it legendary, and it doesn't really take the brakes off until Disc 2. People meme about Disc 2 being a mess and it is but it's a brilliant mess that shines like a diamond. There are a few good parts of Disc 1 though. After the desert is the sewers which is the worst part of the game but pretty much everything after that is ramping upwards (with a small dip in a certain platforming segment)
retard if you dont like the game within the first hour just stop playing it
>>736281913The sewers are fine. The actual worst dungeon is that tower of babel or whatever where you get into encounters while trying to make jumps and then fall all the way back down after the encounter is over.
I want to play this on pc but 1337x doesnt have anything. Now what
>>736287602But the Tower of Babel is really cool aesthetically and has a great payoff. Sewers are just miserable all the way through.
>>736287775download it off sony servers then use psxtract
>>736281913>GOBBLE GOBBLE HP
>when does a jarpig get goodlmaolol evenchortle
Just play the perfect works hack with the encounter rate cut in half , the original game will probably drive you insane especially the final dungeon , that shit is heinous
>>736281776Imagine a world where more than one game in existence was actually kino. Fuck.
>>736287823I genuinely can't remember anything bad about the sewers.
A lot of the game is kind of a slog, but it adds to the overall experience when you look back and see how far you've come, how much the story/plot has unfolded, and how much bullshit you've dealt with to get there. It's intentionally trying to not be a fun road trip adventure, and is hammering in themes of suffering and lack of control spanning generations, with the payoff being self-actualization and with it the power to seize your own destiny. It's worth it in the long run, but I can see a lot of people bouncing off of it because it has a ton of "that part"s.
>>736281776filtered by one of the GOATs
>>736288639Can you remember anything about the sewers? It's a bunch of drab repeating rooms with no music you wander around in circles.
If you aren't interested after the starting village blows up you might as well just go back to watching YouTubers play whatever slop instead and leave playing games to actual human beings.
>>736288639It's only bad if you can't use a map. But there are a lot of retards here.
>>736289169No I think the combat being braindead but extremely repetitive due to the encounter rate and loading times is not playing into any themes the game has
>>736289910I remember there being fans or something you had to mess with, and the pov shots of the boss, Redrum hunting you down.
>>736281776the gameplay kinda stays dogshit the whole time.
Its so funny that the tournament mech combat is so much better than the core turn based gameplay.How do you fuck up something to feel more basic than Dragon Quest?Granted, the mech minigame controls way better than it had any right to.
>>736282708I mean, "issues". Its not like anybody gets stuck on anything. The game isnt particularly hard. Its just a drag.
>>736284019It’s amazing how speeding up gameplay makes some games much more manageable. I actually EV trained and bred Pokémon in emerald recently because I was able to play it at light speed.
I liked the Nortune arc.
>>736290594Valkyrie Profile is what Xenogears gameplay wishes it could have been
If you want to play this game without losing your sanity download duckstation and change the rom read/seek speed to 3x/4x , literally the best decision I've ever made and the game runs incredibly fast with barely any load times
>>736281776The desert pit was the lowest point of the game for me, I hated how frequent the encounters in the game are.Hold on OP, the game gets better.
>>736281776Don't forget to play Valkyrie Profile
