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Ist sehr ruhig geworden. Wie steht´s?

So I finally started the next Trails-game, finished all that came before this one. Money has always been scarce in these games (until the end game), but Cold Steel reaches a new level of giving you nothing. Even when I finish those field trip missions, all I get are AP points, but no money. The first money I received was vom a mission where I had to tutore a rich boy about the history of orbal technology, got 2000 mira, lol.

It means I barely can buy anything, even have trouble just buying the newspaper. Am I missing something or am I in an early part of the game where that's supposed to be like that? Just now I had to ignore a new set of armor for everyone because I couldn't afford a single piece. Just feels weird.

thx

I played for an hour until I arrived in the first underground dungeon. Anyway, my issue is that the game feels like it's running terribly slow.

I set all settings to the highest option, resolution to 1080p which is my native resolution. My PC should haven o problems (5070 Ti, 9900X, 64GB RAM).

But turning the camera is slow and the framerate feels like it's choppy. Controller input also feels super laggy.

This cannot be right, so I hope someone can tell me how to fix that. thx

We just got the latest wave. When can we expect the next wave to be announced? Is it one wave per year or more or less? thx

As I'm nearing the end of the 2nd route of SMT5, I must express how deeply disappointed I am in this game's story. In short: It's a total nothingburger.

But while the story itself feels uninteresting and random, what irks me the most is the protagonist. He quickly takes the center position, gets to fuse with the Aogami, becomes THE fighter for Bethel, and even is chosen to renew the world itself.

At NO point in the game do we find out anything about the protagnist. What he thinks, what he wants, what his upbringing is. We don't know why everyone regards him so highly. Heck, we learn so little about this world that it's even unclear why we should care about anything. Everything in this game feels so shallow and surface-level, like someone flinging around biblical terms without knowing what to do with them. I often hear people criticzize Neon Genesis Evangelion for only using biblical terms because they sound cool, but holy shit, the way Evangelion uses these terms at least carried meaning for its story. In SMT5 it's just god this, angels that, demons that. It doesn't help that gods like Zeus behave like cringe fuckboys instead of respectful deities.

I LOVED SMT4 and Apocalypse to a lesser degree, too. These games had a story to tell and characters that mattered within their story. It felt like I was truly exploring an ongoing plot that developed smartly over time and brought me to an exciting, interesting culmination of everything. In SMT5, things just happen from one scene to the next, with nothing in-between, no explanations, no build-up, no nothing. And now that I'm near the end of the game again, I'm again asked to renew the world and still don't know why this mute girlish boy is chosen to do all that. But the bigger problem is: I don't even know what I'm doing it for. Tokyo isn't even real and apparently the world outside of Tokyo doesn't even exist! But it's never explored! Why are people going to school and all, what do they think about the rest of the world, do they only walk inside Tokyo without a desire for other countries? IT'S NOT TOLD.

Anyway, that's my ranting criticism for SMT5. I wanted to like the game, but it fumbled its most important part, its story, worldbuilding and characters. The simple, fast combat means it was easy to finish the game, but that's not good enough for a JRPG imo.

Anyone else's opinion on the game?

Hey,

I made a quick video talking about a few things that immediately struck me while watching the newly revealed Xenoblade Genesis-trailer.

Interestingly, there's something in the trailer that might relate to Xenoblade X: In one of the landscape shots, there's a region that looks like Sylvalum, those long, curved structures. Am I crazy or does it really look like that?

However, I have no idea how parts of Mira could end up in a world that is supposedly set in a time AFTER Mira's destruction.

Vorweg: "Mach es doch selbst" würde ich gern, bin dazu aber aus verschiedenen Gründen nicht in der Lage.

Hi,

als jemand, der das Thema Zelten schon lange im Auge hat, komme ich immer an einen großen Punkt der Frustration: Wildcampen aka freies Zelten in der Natur ist in Deutschland unter hohen Strafen verboten. Das stört mich aus zweierlei Gründen: Erstens bin ich der Meinung, dass jeder Mensch das Recht haben sollte, in der Natur zu übernachten. Zweitens sollte das nichts kosten, sprich, man sollte nicht gezwungen sein, auf private, Bezahl-Campingplätze ausweichen zu müssen.

Einschub: Ich rede nicht von Zelten in Naturschutzgebieten.

Wäre nicht ein sinnvoller, für alle Parteien zufriedenstellender Kompromiss, wenn Deutschland einen offiziellen "Zelten-Führeschein" einführen würde? Wie beim Auto-Führerschein muss man eine Schulung durchlaufen, eine Prüfung absolvieren und dürfte dann zelten wo immer man will. Vorteile: Zelter dürfen endlich "wildcampen"; die Natur ist geschützt, weil jeder weiß, was man beachten muss; UND der Staat hat zusätzliche Einnahmen.

Gibt es kein Interesse an sowas? Hat man sich in Deutschland einfach damit abgefunden, dass man nicht frei zelten darf wie in anderen europäischen Ländern? Vielleicht ist dieser Thread mal der Stein des Anstoßes für jemanden, der sich dafür engagieren will.

Hey,

just got this video done. Hope any fellow Xenoblade-fans here appreciate it and maybe even post their own questions they'd like to see answered in future Xenoblade-games.

Thought this would be a good time to pose these questions with a new Monolith Soft-game being closer to announcement than ever.

Indominus and Scorpius, too.

No sight of the Hypsilophodon, unfortunately

Hey,

I was thinking about this (for me 100% hypothetical, as I am not a parent) scenario and I feel like there's an easy popular answer, but a difficult personal one.

I'm sure the popular answer would be "ofc a parent would die for their child, what sorta question is that?!". But on a personal level, I'm putting myself in certain scenarios (a lava pit, a lions enclosure at the zoo, etc.) and I feel like it shouldn't be expected to just nod and die that way because of what's popular and what's not.

It's relatively easy to sacrifice yourself when it's a quick death, like, a criminal tells you "I'll shoot one of you in the head, the other one gets to live". I can see how a parent wouldn't hesitate in that scenario. Your child gets to live, you get quick peace.

But then there's other scenarios, less clinically clean deaths. Like, let's stay with the lions enclosure. Your child fell into the lions' enclosure. You could jump in and hoist your child to the outside. But then the lions would get you. And if you've watched some documentaries, you know: Lion's will start eating their prey while it's still alive AND they start eating from your genitals, because that's the softest entry into the body. So you know: If you jump into the enclosure, you'll die a slow, incredibly painful death, being eaten alive from having your genitals being torn apart.

Since this is still about "your child", some might still reflexively answer "ofc I'll sacrifize myself!", but I feel that when you truly think about it, it becomes a super difficult choice to make. And beyond that: Would it be fair for society to give a parent shit for NOT choosing such self-sacrifize? Imo there are situations where it's okay to accept that your child will die, because the alternative self-sacrifize is asked too much, even from a parent.

If the lions enclosure-example is not to your liking, imagine any other scenario where only you or your child can survive and the awaiting death is not a clean, quick one. If any psychologists and/or sociologists could answer, that'd be great. Thanks.

Hi,

so I thought it'd be super interesting to read a story where our everyday real life is actually the hell that people typically think of when they use the word "hell". Except hell isn't some lava pit underground full of souls and tortured ghosts, no, hell is exactly what we're going through in life: having to get up in the morning, being forced to work to make a living, pay taxes, get sick at times, suffer from broken hearts, watching a bad movie, burning some food, etc..

And the protagonist in that story would somehow become aware of this being the case and now he/she tries to convince others of this fact and try to find a way to escape hell. Because accepting this life was a lot easier BEFORE finding out that it is actually hell, construed to have people suffer.

Is there anything like this out there? I guess it would be a fantasy novel or something like that. THanks!

I'm just trying to find the exact day when Europen shops start pre-orders. Maybe that way we can figure out a time frame for the next wave :/ It's very frustrating having to check every day when the new wave might become available here, sigh.

I'm checking websites every day, but nothing so far. Why is it taking so long this time? :/

Hey,

so I have to fight Sigmund, the Scarlet Ogre, sigh.

The fight went okay, I first killed the 2 monsters with Tio's Genesis-water attack mostly. But when it was his turn, it became difficult. Between constant need of healing, I could only so few times actually attack. And then he has his special that basically requires the use of Tio's super block. Except that didn't work when, after fighting for 10 minutes, Sigmund decided to do his special attack TWICE IN A ROW. :/ Had no chance to revive anyone.

So, if any of you have a cheap strategy for this guy, I'm all ears. I'm using the original team plus Noel and the police guy as support. Ellie is loaded with silver and black quartz, Tio is mostly blue quartz, Randy and Lloyd are a healthy mix, with Lloyd being capable of casting Mirage to raise evasion.

Thanks

So I'm nearing the end of Trails to Azure and while the first half of the game is piss easy, in the 2nd half it's like: Regular enemies are still piss easy, but bosses tend to be nasty unless you don't have a specific setup or luck on your side.

Regardless of whether grinding is even possible or not, I think that JRPGs should be designed in the way that when you have zero trouble beating regular enemies, the next upcoming bossfight should be doable without much trouble, too. More challenging boss battles that require elaborate setups should come in the form of optional super bosses. Making a story-boss an unsual hurdle that might even prevent you from continuing the game just sucks.

Agree or disagree?

Disclaimer: I haven't yet finished the game, I'm tasked to go to the Azure tree which I reckon is the final finale. So pls avoid spoilers for that, thanks.

So ever since the end of chapter 4, the game has been in "THIS is the end, THIS is the GRAND finale, NOW everything counts!"-mode. And it's been like that for the past 10 hours or so. Except, when a game begins this vibe, I expect it to end "soon", yet I'm being sent from place to place, with dramatic twists and revelations everywhere ... and it STILL goes on.

Where I'm right now is the worst, because the fight against White Aion felt like a good final boss fight, took me everything to beat him. And the cutscenes were nice, too. Except AGAIN: "The princess is in another castl" aka there's STILL more to come. sigh

I won't do a whole review and I won't complain about how extremely "shounen" this game is. But the pacing is just terrible and I wish the game didn't spend 3.5 chapters on filler-ish missions, then throw a chain of dramatic endgame like situations at you.