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b00moscone on 30 November 2015

https://youtu.be/0nk79b821kU

GameXplain's XCX review.



 

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bigtakilla on 30 November 2015
spemanig said:
bigtakilla said:

True enough, I'm excited for the challenge. Its been a long time since we haven't had handholding. People seem to forget that Xenogears was pretty obtuse in the player learning of its game mechanics as well.


I wouldn't call that a good thing. Xenoblade 1 didn't have this problem, and it was a complex JRPG too.

I wouldn't call it challenging at all. There's nothing difficult about reading a manual. There's also nothing fun, engaging, or immersive about reading a manuel, hence the issue.

If one decides to read the manual instead of going through the trials and errors of figuring out the mechanics for ones self (yet again as I had with Xenogears). I find it hard to believe the people that this will appeal to will have to read a manual to get its mechanics.



Conegamer on 30 November 2015

84 seems a bit low. I blame Cloud and in part Curl.



 

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b00moscone on 30 November 2015

84 meta? That's it. Done with meta. Done with this world.



 

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bigtakilla on 30 November 2015
Conegamer said:
84 seems a bit low. I blame Cloud and in part Curl.

Certainly lower than I wanted, but around what I expected after watching numerous youtube videos. I actually didn't expect 70 to be the lowest score.



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Ultrashroomz on 30 November 2015

Hmm 84, a bit lower than I expected...



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forest-spirit on 30 November 2015

I do hope that you can figure out things yourself if you just spend enough time with the game. With a game this vast the complexity adds to the exploration part and therefore is a big plus for me, except if it's totally impossible to learn2begud without external help.



sc94597 on 30 November 2015
spemanig said:
bigtakilla said:

True enough, I'm excited for the challenge. Its been a long time since we haven't had handholding. People seem to forget that Xenogears was pretty obtuse in the player learning of its game mechanics as well.


I wouldn't call that a good thing. Xenoblade 1 didn't have this problem, and it was a complex JRPG too.

I wouldn't call it challenging at all. There's nothing difficult about reading a manual. There's also nothing fun, engaging, or immersive about reading a manuel, hence the issue.


Did it not? Even in my third playthrough I was reading the in-game manuals on gems, gem-crafting,etc.  The manual is a requirement to enjoy that game just as much as this one. From the looks of it the issue with Xenoblade Chronicles X is just that it has more of the complicated systems, how it is demanded of you to learn about them seems no different. 



yvanjean on 30 November 2015

This is an old-school RPG experience, The game probably require patient and love for the genre. Put, this game in the hand of a reviewers that doesn't like the genre and it's doom to displease. But, I was always worried that Monolith Soft was trying to build a world that was even bigger then the original Xenoblade. I would much rather get a shorter more streamlined experience and somewhat smaller world then a stretch out experience that feels more like a chores at time then having fun playing a video game.



forest-spirit on 30 November 2015
sc94597 said:
spemanig said:


I wouldn't call that a good thing. Xenoblade 1 didn't have this problem, and it was a complex JRPG too.

I wouldn't call it challenging at all. There's nothing difficult about reading a manual. There's also nothing fun, engaging, or immersive about reading a manuel, hence the issue.


Did it not? Even in my third playthrough I was reading the in-game manuals on gems, gem-crafting,etc.  The manual is a requirement to enjoy that game just as much as this one. From the looks of it the issue with Xenoblade Chronicles X is just that it has more of the complicated systems, how it is demanded of you to learn about them seems no different. 

While I did get the hang of the crafting system (atleast I think so) without help I didn't realise the characters could give stuff to each other until I was close to the end. If the game ever explained it I totally missed it. But I didn't mind as I enjoy discovering new elements like that. Well, as long as the game is good that is.