| sc94597 said: Oh I wasn't disputing your claim that the world area is 301 km nor that the land area is even much smaller than that. Just that in comparison to Skyrim (which tends to be the metric these days) it takes a similar amount of time to travel across just three of five continents along a short path in XBC:X that it does to travel across Skyrim along an average path. Considering that our brains (at least mine) accomodate for changes in speed when determining world scale, this allows some people (not all) to get a sense of how big the world is relative to other games. This of course says nothing of world density, which you noted in your other posts, but I think that is a matter of different design philosophy and the intent of the game. |
Overall it's a good game, if it wasn't I wouldn't have called it my "best game of the generation so far" when it launched, (isn't anymore, in my opinion). but my main drive to play it as much as I did was to get a Doll, then once I got one, it was unlocking the flight unit, once I had that, there was next to no reason to continue playing as you aren't really rewarded to keep pushing forward anymore - sure theres higher level monsters roaming the world that you can try to kill, but even if you do, you just reach a point where you no longer care to.
And when you reach that point, you look back at the journey you took to get there, and it just ends up feeling like one big grindfest, much like pretty much every MMO. In part because the storyline itself is really forgettable and the personalities of the characters in the game just don't fit well together, you never feel like you really give a shit about any of them, and without a form of attachment towards them the story just floats on by as an anouyance between completing a mission and starting the next.
I guess i'm hard on it because i want, badly, to love the game, because I see the potential it could have had, but that potential being wasted and so many poor design choices becoming glaringly obvious as you play that I feel like the games a bit of a let down.
The worst part is the combat system, honestly, your immediate instinct when in a fight is to run behind a boulder, fence, building or tree for some cover from the enemies attack, but it does nothing, so long as you are engaged in battle mode the enemy can attack you regardless of your distance from them, or what obstruction is between you and the enemy, once you realize that, the battles just become quite dull, because theres little to no reason to even move much anymore.
