The Official Xenoblade Chronicles X Thread - OUT NOW!!!!!!! Questions Thoughts And Opinions Inside!

[cyberninja45]

RolStoppable said:

cyberninja45 said:
I never thought I would be so underwhelmed by this game, there are just so many little things that are an annoyance that it is piling up on each other.

First WTF happened with the music and sound in this game? I never believed in a million yrs that I would have complained about the music in this game. Why are there these street fighter 3 like lyricals in the music who the hell thought that was a good idea what happened to just clean instrumentals. And when I thought I was becoming used to those vocals I just watched a cutscene and the vocals were above the dialogue ,I mean WTH thats just pure bullshit right there.
Another thing why are the texts so goddam small in a text heavy game? Its mind boggling to me that noone thought or cared to make them bigger, it may seem like a small issue but in a game where 50% of the time is spent reading all sort of stuff across the screen it turns a small annoyance into a very big one.

Now I only got this game a couple of days ago and I hope I am just playing the game wrong (because it hurts my eyes to read what the F*%K I am supposed to be doing) or maybe the game takes time to build up. But it seems so far that unlike xenoblade on wii where you are on an epic quest with alot of optional side quest, instead they just took the colony 6 rebuilding side quest and made it into a full fledge game with a multiplayer component. Now I hope I am completely wrong on that one but that what it seems like so far. If I am not wrong though this game just went from underwhelming to one of my biggest gaming disappoints ever.

Can somebody please tell me if the game gets better without any spoilers because I really need some motivation to keep playing this.

The game gets better if you get accustomed to the fact that it isn't telling an epic story. The main focus is on the inhabitants of NLA and their various problems, and only every now and then you push the story a little bit forward. There aren't many story missions and aside from the length of the cutscenes, they don't last longer than many of the standard and affinity quests. The multiplayer component can be ignored.

From what I have played it feels more Monster Hunterish and while I really like MH I don't think it works well with asethetics of xenoblade. What I mean is while in xeno on wii when I fought a monster I forgave the awkard/poor animations on creatures because the game was a sum of it parts you new there was a bigger stroy at play to just fighting monsters, but now when/if I start back playing this if all I am going to be doing is planting probes and fighting beast to lvl up all I would be thinking is damn why does that monster walk and turn so awkwardly, why didnt developers put more effort into it if this is the crux of the game. Unlike a MH game where the every effort was put into assuring the monster moved and behaved as fluidly as possible.

That being said this game just dropped to one of my biggest disappoints for the gen I think and I already own a wiiU so that is a hard thing to do.

I guess its my own fault for expecting something different from this game I have  been on a media blackout of this since bascially the 2013 trailer, so my expectations were probably completley different  from what others got from watching the playthroughs on the tree house.

 

 

noname2200 said:

RolStoppable said:

The game gets better if you get accustomed to the fact that it isn't telling an epic story. The main focus is on the inhabitants of NLA and their various problems, and only every now and then you push the story a little bit forward. There aren't many story missions and aside from the length of the cutscenes, they don't last longer than many of the standard and affinity quests. The multiplayer component can be ignored.

To build on this, you keep getting new affinity quests that are only available AFTER the main story is completed. The overarching plot really is more the side dish than the main course here. Understandably, that won't be to everyone's tastes.

The affinity chart was one of my favourite elements of xenoblade but thats because it worked together with everything else the game had going on I don't think it is enough to carry a game for me.I guess the best way to describe it is like this, you like zelda games and you like shooting arrows at bad guys in a zelda game cause its lots of fun ,you can't wait for the new zelda for wiiU only to find out you basically got links cross bow training 2.