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bigtakilla said: What pointless features did Blade X have? And in what way is it needlessly grindy? |
Useless and overly complicated features: A half baked tacked on multiplayer mode. Skells. Arms Manufacturers. Probes and Mining.
Needlessly grindy parts: Having to collect specific collectible items in order to get certain augments. Xenoblade 1 had this problem with collectible items to an extent, but at least you only needed them to complete some missions. There's nothing fun about running around the map praying that you finally find that 1/200 drop you need to finish your augment. Needing to mine a holy fuckton of miranium in order to afford your skells. Miranium is time based, and only drops on an hourly or so basis. You can't just leave the game on overnight to get your miranium so you gotta play a ridiculous amount of hours to get your good stuff. I know that mining and augments are only two things, but they made the post game content stupidly grindy. If you want to 100% Xenoblade X you need to spend 200 - 300 hours playing it, with 150 of those hours being doing pointless menial tasks. Having to talk to everybody in order to improve a town, but not knowing who you haven't talked to yet. Needed to complete certain unspecified tasks to unlock certain party members, and heart to hearts.
Xenoblade 2 fixes so many of the issues with XCX. Items are now dropped from farm/salvage points and you can improve the drop rates by using blade skills, or better salvaging cylinders. Getting new unique blades is easy if you have boosters, and rare core crystals. Heart to hearts appear without any hidden requirements. You still have to talk to everybody in town to improve a town, but now there's stars over their heads. Leveling up a blade just requires putting their favorite item in your pouch with a ton of refills. So far there's no skells, and no miranium.
Playing XCX feels like playing a Monster Hunter game without the ability to cut tails, capture monsters, etc to improve your drop rates. It's just a huge grind late - post game. I mean don't get me wrong, I still liked XCX and intend on going back to it one day, even after my 150+ hours. But X2 is just a massive breath of fresh air.
Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 06 December 2017
