Holy shit this game is ass. I don't think I can put up with this anymore.
>Holy SHIT, BASED Takahashi-sama is going to reveal the origins of Deus!>*the game*>...just let your wife do thingsInstead, she became a housewife, and let her autistic cuck husband fuck over the series forever
>>741925869Use codes. Made the game 2000% more bearable
>>741925869Just skip to XS III. It's fantastic.
https://youtu.be/jhfTuXc6Gkg >only suffering but with nice graphics, designs and soundXenosaga is not for you, go play something happy>muh mechanismIt's just an interactive movie, don't expect more, maybe try Starcraft instead
>>741925869>>741926835II is a direct product of the shit-eating nepobaby at bamco who was absolutely obsessed with juggling mechanics, meddling with the product like he did a bunch of other shit.Anon's rec to skip is a good one. But I would play at least up until the abyss, because the sight of fighting on top of warships, navigating through the gravitational trench between a pair of binary black holes, is some truly top-tier scifi shit that you almost never get to see as visuals.
>>741927190>It's just an interactive movie, don't expect more, maybe try Starcraft insteadXS is not FFX, you can actually skip cutscenes, good gameplay and story
>>741925869I had to stop there too. It felt like a huge downgrade from the start.The combat and even the graphics felt like shit.I didnt like the new faces eitherIdk how it was allowed to be that bad
>>741925869Yeah it's the only bad xeno game. I loved the first xenosaga and bought the sequel on release and it fucking sucked so bad I skipped 3 for a few years
>>741925869I bought this game just after release. Future Shop had the pre-order version on the shelf for $10 less than the normal version, I guess because in their system it assumed that the customer would have already put $10 down to preorder. I still have that disc it came with that has the movie made out of all the XS1 cutscenes. The best part of that purchase. XS2 is assgravy and I gave up a couple hours in. Shame, because 3 is great.
>>741925869You can't say you weren't warned
>>741926835That's really, really overselling XS3. Nothing about 3 is satisfying. It is all rushed.
>>741925869Just watch it on youtube, try playing 3 though.
>>741925869I gave it an honest shot and managed to get through it. It had one cool Ziggy scene that is pretty meaningless if you havnt at least read a plot summary of his fucking cell phone game. Shion's brother is also a pretty cool anime katana man despite looking like a weirdo.Otherwise I was flabbergasted that an entire game was dedicated to wrapping up Jr.'s plot. Its an ok plot but not as the entire focus of the game god fucking damn.And the gameplay is indefensible. Its kind of ok against bosses and just a total tedious snoozefest against mobs. If you do manage to get to 3 do know that there's a fucking VN you're to watch (translated on youtube) to have any idea whats going on with Shion going into it (it doesn't matter anyways since she's the worst part of 3).
>>741929490I got to Old Miltia and gave up and now I'm watching the rest on youtube now. The trash enemy fights are just so fucking miserable. I can't even bring myself to fight what I'm forced to, let alone grind out all these skill points. What fucking retard decided to make me treat every single fight like a boss fight?>If you do manage to get to 3 do know that there's a fucking VN you're to watchWhat's it called?
why in the world did they change the art style just to go back to anime designs in 3
>>741925869One of the few jrpgs that I could not bring myself to get through without cheating. I got to just before the final dungeon and could not handle how long it took to clear a single basic encounter. XS3 is a rush job but it is miles better than 2 gameplay wise
>>741929627>What's it called?This thing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Gg4-ajP9EIts pretty alright iirc.
>>741929792idk who that is on the right
>>741929490>Otherwise I was flabbergasted that an entire game was dedicated to wrapping up Jr.'s plot. Its an ok plot but not as the entire focus of the game god fucking damn.Xenosaga 2 was meant to be 2 of 6, not 2 of 3. They didn't know it wasn't 2 of 6 until later.
>>741929128Every Xeno game is rushed
>>7419300642/3 or 2/6, it doesn't deserve an entire game.
Isn't it cool how the vast majority of the game is actually the GS campaign?!
>>741930064I'm fully aware. Just taking it as a package in itself it felt like ages I spent in that stupid simulation dealing with Jr's designer baby child soldier hell. Way to tank the decent introduction he had gotten in the first one with massive over exposure.
>>741930292>GS quest finding the robot>go to 2nd Miltia>now go to Kukai>now back to 2nd Miltia>now back to Kukai>back to 2nd Miltia>back to Kukai>back to 2nd Miltia>back to Kukai
>>741930121Xenogears has a satisfying ending. Xenosaga Episode 3 has a terrible ending. It is impossible not to compare the two. There is nothing satisfying about how anything plays out in XS3. The origin of the Gnosis is the gayest, most retarded shit ever contrived. They had years to cook up something decent but couldn't manage. Making a mobile game required reading was fucking retarded.
Skipping to 3 is great, though the final boss of 2 is wonderful.
>>741930647fuck you nigga laura dern was playing a normal college girland uh nta but who gives a shit about the origins for the gnosis they're just a plot device. total brainlet take. its every characters arc being rushed and skipped over thats actually the bad part
>>741930647thw ending of 3 perfectly closes the plot threads that still existed and provided good closure and stopping points for each of the protagonists. you can call it rushed if you really want, but would it have been better to just not give a conclusive ending? shion ushering in the gnosis is due to the fact her ancestor found the Zohar and brought it back into the world, setting off the inescapable series of events that would lead to the end of the universe
>>741931178I just don't like the story beat of Shion's parent getting murdered on top of her by an unspeakable horror, that she got so sad, is what caused the Gnosis to be ushered in. I just do not find it satisfying, I wanted there to be something more to it than that. >>741930647Shion character assassinating herself by siding with Kevin, who's literally been nothing but a total dick the entire time, in the 11th hour is yet worse than unaddressed/unfulfilling plot threads. Or, I guess it's just that she's a dumb bitch, which I suppose we knew. We knew that already.
>>741931730I get what you mean, there is a LITTLE more to it than that - IE the Zohar operating on a principal of will (der wille zur macht), and at the time Shion's hereditary connection to the zohar paired with her intense desire to deny death gave her basically what she wanted. the gnosis deny death and serve as a sort of immortality, kind of, in an Obi-Wan "certain point of view" way. I think their development in Xenoblade is a little better so far, them being a corrective phenomenon that ends the universe, but it isn't that bad
>>741930647>Making a mobile game required reading was fucking retarded.It was all Namco's fault.Also XS was meant to have 3 separate arcs, we only got the first. Episode 2 is basically an entire game for the ending of Episode 1.Gears is literally a miracle
>>741927689Wait, a nepobaby?
>>741925869First one was dogshit too
>>741934429No
