>that game you spent years being hyped for that came out and was just okay
>not shit, not amazing, just okay
what's her name, /v/?
everyone game post 2012
>>339635685
i told you
>>339636130
every* ^^
I no longer feel hype.
>>339635685
I spent an entire week playing XCX nonstop from waking up and going to sleep.
I got my fill.
>>339635685
Fuck you, man, I was about to open a thread about it.
It's a 7/10 at most.
Why are there so many stats and menus for everything? Shit could have been thousands of times simpler since there is a lot of useless crap.
They tried to make a super hardcore game with MUH STATS, but it was too much for them.
>>339637423
>tfw finally get a Skell
>tfw Skell combat has a 1/10th of the depth on-foot combat does and is all about spamming moves and trying to make the other guy die before you do
Don't forget the fuckingcamera
>>339636872
Same here. One day I think I spent 11 hours in one sitting. The game was great but it didn't save the wiiU for me.
Fuck ares 90
>>339635685
Skyrim
>>339635685
The Ratchet and Clank reboot. I hoped the series to go back to the roots but all I got was ok but nothing great like the first games in the series.
Bummer.
>>339635685
Skyward Sword
>>339639754
Inb4 shitstorm
>>339638815
Why couldn't Skells have been more of a throw-back to XBC arts usage, with some extra mechanics on top? I still think the whole "jam 8 fucking weapons on every single joint" is a terrible concept.
>>339635685Star Ocean 4
I didn't know the game existed a week before I bought it and I got +100 hrs into it. Fucking loved it.
![(G_P) Giant Robo 01(720p 10-bit)(6F30D024).mkv_snapshot_21.54_[2014.11.29_18.59.13].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qlB0aQh.jpg "(G_P) Giant Robo 01(720p 10-bit)(6F30D024).mkv_snapshot_21.54_[2014.11.29_18.59.13].jpg")
>>339636872
Same, I can't remember the last time a game hooked me in such a way.
>>339637423
Giving the player statistical information about their character is never a bad thing. If you don't understand what all of those numbers and words mean, then ignore them, but don't try to argue that simplifying information others may well find useful is ever a good idea.
>A hundred hours into it
>Just about to start chapter twelve
I'm almost free bros
>>339635685
Fallout 4. It isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be but it certainly isn't good either.
>>339636872
Yeah same here, except I got a bit more casual in week two
60 hours in week 1, up to 250 by February
>>339641546
Haha, NOPE there are post-game missions!
>>339642075
>Spent years being hyped for
>Fallout 4
>>339642343
the best kind
>>339642343
Do you mean actual story missions or just basic shit like 'kill the Telethia for no real reason'?
What's with you OP? You don't have to make a bait thread everytime you want a Xenoblade X thread
>Favorite weapon combo
>Favorite Party composition
>Best continent
>Lao did ____ wrong?
Post em
Photon Saber/Sniper Rifle Unlimited Overdrive master race here I roll with Murderess, Mia and L, Noctilum is GOAT and Lao did everything wrong
>>339641318
Optimizing menus, getting rid of shit that doesn't add to the game and presenting everything in a pleasing to read way is also part of making a game well.
Xenoblade X has menus everywhere when a simple tab, mixing screens of getting rid entirely of things would have been the best choice.
Add to that the fact that they used the smalles, more annoying font ever and you get bad feature.
>>339642526
Photon Saber and Ray Gun
HB, Yelv, Boze
Sylvalum
Everything
Why the FUCK were there no sound options? I wouldn't have minded the dub so much if it weren't twice as loud than the rest of the audio in the game.
>>339643245
I thought the music overpowered the voices.
>>339639553
>Mutiny for just team leader
Fuck it if i mutiny it's for Secretarial position at the very lowest
Getting hyped for games just makes things worse.
>>339635685
WHY IS THE FONT SO FUCKING SMALL FUCK
>>339635685
Dead State. Kickstarted it, knew about it even before the kickstarter. It came out. Was a competent game. Not offensive to the senses but pretty clunky and less ambitious than I hoped.
>>339635685
I bought a Wii U and modded it for XCX. After Xenoblade and all the trailers about XCX I was pumped, think I sat up and played for 26 hours when I downloaded it.
The game was good but nothing close to great. My Wii U has been collecting dust since I played it back in December.
>>339635685
This is one of my favorite games on the last decade tbqh familion
the game's entire focus was the overworld and mechs which more or less delivered
I was satisfied by it, I didn't mind the okay story because that's not what I wanted to play it for
It was still great unless you are having
>>339643840
you bought it for that only?
You know there's a library that exists right?
>>339643459
>tfw everyone just tells you to shut up
>>339635685
This is one of the best games I've played in years. It and rocket league are my GOTYs with a slight nod to this.
>>339643557
Are people STILL whining?
Jesus fucking Christ
The story didn't deliver massively, but that doesn't mean we are suddenly going to ignore the best game in the series that doesn't need to rely on story
All the other games relied heavily on it and the gameplay never mattered and would bomb if the stories shit
But Phantom Pain is different, the actual game is GREAT, it didn't need it's story, which was still interesting
You fucks set the bar too fucking high while ignoring the good shit
I think I finished the main story in 60 hours or so, and it really doesn't leave a lasting impression. You're stuck with two members, one of which comes with the most annoying fucking nopon possible, and half the chapters are basically tutorials.
It wasn't until I focused on the city missions, recruiting aliens and got to use party members I didn't despise with a passion that the game really took off for me. 220+ hours so far, pretty happy with the purchase.
>>339644427
>4 games of extensively convoluted yet charmingly campy story that people love, with great gameplay segments and set pieces in between
>5th game is an open world unfocused mess with none of the charm of the previous games, samey gameplay throughout the whole thing and no real ending
If you can't see why people would be disappointed you're literally retarded
>>339644427
Kojima pls go, your game was half-finished shit, which might have been a good thing since 40 more hours of extracting random shit may have driven players to chuck their TV through the window.
>>339644190
I don't like any games on Wii U except for XCX. I waited a long time and looked forward to XCX ,150$ wasn't that much. I also thought I could try out a few games while waiting for Zelda but it's all shit
Downloaded/tried games like monster hunter and bayonetta 2 but they're boring and bad in my opinion. I have no wish to play games like mario or other cartoony shit
>>339635685
It's honestly one of my favorite games. It has some clunky design choices but I can't remember the last time I experienced so much joy when exploring a world. I can put aside some of the clunky design and barebones plot because everything else is just so god damn good.
>>339644656
Yeah, the sidequests are definitely the crowning glory of XCX by miles and miles.
>>339644656
I think that is the biggest problem with the game- the main quest is so disapointing, that the sidequests literally steal the show. They should have just axed the main quest completely, put that time and money into upping the production values of the sidequests even further, and then just made it an open ended exploration/quest driven RPG with multiplayer. Seriously, do that, and toss in some MP dungeons and raids, and you have a PSO killer.
>>339644917
>Monster Hunter and Bayonetta 2
>boring and bad
How can one man's opinion be so awful?
>>339644917
I remember when I was 14 and hated Mario because it was gay cartoon shit
>>339639304
The camera's fucking great though, and it has a bajillion settings. You can even play in first person (which is a pretty great way of taking it the environment).
Now, the (non-existent) sound settings on the other hand...
>>339636872
This so much. The hours melted away when I turned that shit on. I cannot remember the last time I did that for a game. I just sat in my chair all day exploring and shit. This game was amazing.
>>339645348
The camera's fine aside from the fact that indoor areas will lock your camera to move slow as fuck
>>339644104
That picture is fucking awesome.
Reminds me of the old phantasy star games
Xcx was one of the first games in a long time to really get me hooked and playing more than 10 hours a day like i did in the old warcraft days.
>>339635685
I loved that game but it was hard not to be crushed by its overwhelming wasted potential.
>>339645426
It was like that for me too. But then for some reason I just completely lost all interest at around chapter 10. I just stopped playing. I did TONS of sidequests too and had like 150 hours too. The game just stopped feeling fun after the flight module, and that was after already feeling like I was having less fun after getting the Skells. Is there any way to make Skell combat not boring?
>>339645198
Monster Hunter has to be one of the most awful games I've ever played, it's equivalent to Dark Cloud on PS1. Bad maps, horribly gameplay, awful and close to non-existent characters and side-scrolling towns. I got told it was like Dark Souls but better but o boy did I get a laugh.
Bayonetta 2 is a linear DMC game where you just spam buttons and run a bunch of levels with score. I don't give two shits about muh waifu piss as well.
Both of the games doesn't appeal to me in the slighest, and thankfully thanks to modding I could try them without paying $30+
>>339642524
Actual story missions. Some affinity missions also require you to have completed chapter 12 IIRC.
>>339641318
It's not that there was too much information, it's that the information was presented like shit. The menus are poorly organized. In Xenoblade OG, if you hit select it tells you exactly what every stat means. It's fucking insane that Xenoblade X doesn't have that.
>>339639754
Bloodborne was really good though
>>339644917
>not playing Tropical Freeze because its cartoony shit
literal autism
>>339646321
There's a manual that's accessable at any time giving you detailed explanations of almost every mechanic in the game.
>>339642526
>Longsword/Dual Gun meme build
>L-Nagi-Rotating slot for Phog/Mia/Alexa
>Sylvalum
>Lao did most of everything wrong and was a whiny, stupid baby, but that moment he literally stabbed Luxxar in the back was fucking awesome and makes me wish he'd come back as a more reasonable and balanced person in an eventual sequel
>>339646046
>Dark Cloud on PS1
>PS1
Hueh
HUEH HUEH
Dark Cloud was a PS2 game, and it was a damn fine game at that. Dark Cloud 2 was better, though it had more noticeable flaws.
>bad maps
Fuck yooouuu. There were a couple of bad AREAS in each map, but the maps themselves were fine and having bad areas actually shook up the combat a little bit. 3U's biggest flaw was failing to improve upon underwater combat from Tri significantly.
>horrible gameplay
Yeah, nah. The combat is fine. It's based around having to learn your restrictions, and then apply your knowledge of what you can do to your knowledge of what the monster can do. I'm willing to bet you only played up to Great Jaggi and gave up there.
Monster Hunter and Dark Souls are entirely different beasts with a handful of similar concepts, in particular those being: understanding enemies, understanding self, and the weight of your attacks punishing you if you fuck up. In a way, if you're in Dark Souls for the combat, yes, Monster Hunter is better by a fucking mile. But if you're in Dark Souls for the RPG, the zeldavania, the lore, and the bullshit IWBTG segments, then it's not guaranteed that you'll enjoy Monhun.
>Bayonetta 2 is a linear DMC game
Not played DMC so I can't make a comment on that, but it's not fair to take away points based on comparisons to other games.
>where you just spam buttons
Sure, if you're playing on easy.
>and run a bunch of levels with a score
Like a game. Is there something wrong with that?
>muh waifu piss
?????????????
Do you mean the plot didn't engage you? Because honestly I don't think that's why people should be playing Bayonetta.
>>339644917
>buying a WiiU when you don't like cartoon graphics
Are you fucking stupid?
>>339646046
Monster Hunter is one of the best Co-operative experiences currently available in games. It is very technical and takes a lot of skill to play well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfAF_FLEVfA&feature=youtu.be
Bayonetta 2 has some amazing combos and high level technical gameplay you can do. It also has some really cool boss fights. I never heard of anyone playing or thinking of that game in any sort of waifu way either, so I dont know what that comment is about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcihhXg8j_o
>>339646762
Not him but I understand what he means. Also no the manual isn't nearly as accessible as the old XBC menus. You have to bail out of the menu, then spend the time loading it up, then have to look for the section and hope the right info is in there, and with certain things it straight up fails to explain them satisfactorily. It took me ages to figure out that Barrier is a damage reduction by percentage and not a limited damage negation or damage reduction by reducible number. Furthermore it's not entirely clear exactly how powerful certain buffs or auras are at different levels.
Being able to hit select then scroll through the individual stats to figure out EXACTLY what they meant from the same menu was a gift from the gods in XBC.
>>339645348
I just need an option to turn off the shit-tier music entirely.
>>339635685
UHH
YEAH
>>339647179
>aerial hammer
I don't see enough love for aerial anything around here aside from Dual Blades. Mostly people just parroting opinions that everything but Guild and maybe Striker is shit for kill times and that Bushido is OP, even though all of that largely depends on the weapon and the monster.
Is Xenoblade Chronicles 1 worth it? It's 20 on the eshop will I feel like I'm going backwards if I play it right after playing X?
>>339635685
I think my biggest problem with X is that the combat isn't as fun as the original's. The attacks look cool but because every character game has the same arts, they lack the personality of the original cast's skillsets. No chain attacks either for that feel good break, topple, daze. It's more complicated but I don't think that complexity actually added much to the gameplay.
>>339646762
A manual that has to be separately loaded from the game making it a hassle if you want to look something up on the spot (even xenoblade explained stats and status effects in the middle of battle) and still doesn't explain several things. There is still no excuse for a stat explanation feature not to be in the game itself especially when it's so much more complex than the original.
>>339640273
Not to mention every decent weapon is shoulders or back. I don't know why the arm and spare weapons even exist.
When will the open-world meme end?
>>339647665
It's worth it, but you will also feel like you're going backwards.
>>339647737
Low cooldowns, TP gain. Good for trying to spam for cockpit mode in overdrive.
>>339647665
Currently playing through it now, the ground combat is actually more advanced than x but the side quest system is utter trash and you will spend ages on the wiki, all in all a pretty fun game and the main story is way better than x
>>339647778
Not soon enough. we could have had the real Xenosaga Ep 0 instead of this shit
Best video game soundtrack. I don't care how goofy some of the lyrical tracks are, they're fun as hell to listen to and thematically fitting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmjFwSjoHc
>>339635685
>hey guys, how about let's make our protagonist have absolutely no personality, motivation, or character development at all!
I really hope this game taught Takahashi not to shove his special snowflake waifu down everyone's throats.
>>339642517
Jesus those animations are horrendous. I get that it's an open world game on limited hardware, but there was stuff last gen on Ps3 and 360 that was much less stiff.
>>339648329
Forgot the pic.
>>339647903
>ground combat is actually more advanced
Don't lie. If you prefer topple spam, that's fine, but X is a mechanically an improvement on Xenoblade in every single way.
>>339648449
>>339648329
She's one of the worst lead characters I've ever seen. There is no good reason for a boring, one-dimensional shitter like Elma to overshadow characters who are actually interesting like HB, Phog, Yelv, Nagi, Hope etc.
And that doesn't just apply to her. Irina, Doug, and Gwin are flat as fuck too. Its like they were hellbent on making the main cast as generic and dull as possible.
>>339647903
>ground combat is more advanced than X
No. It's not. It's more varied than X. Talent Arts make everyone feel different to play, even though the name of the game is still topple locking.
On a purely mechanical level, XCX's ground combat is lightyears more advanced than XBC's due to secondary cooldowns, both melee and ranged weapons allowing for different play in TP and aggro gain, and Overdrive simply offering more than Chain Attacks from colour matching and time extension alone.
The problem here is that all of the party members in XCX play exactly the same as Cross does, even with different weapon styles, because there's no talent arts to differentiate them and soul voices are too far in the background and too RNG-based to be relied upon for consistent bonuses except by the most advanced players. If Cross couldn't learn everyone's unique arts, it might have been a little different, but then there'd be the same old "nobody ever uses Shulk" problem again.
If Soul Voices had a little more potency in general and could be relied upon more, maybe that wouldn't be such an issue.
They really shit the bed with Skells though, which legitimately are less advanced than XBC's ground combat.
>>339647665
The combat system is solid and has a bit of a stronger rythm to it, but less depth. The story is a million times better than the story in XCX and is one of the most compelling stories in gaming. The setting is more unique and far more interesting, and at the risk of sounding cliche, the whole thing has a really "epic" feel to it.
The trade off is that the sidequests are complete ass, and despite the world being really big, there is not much reason to explore....ever.
>this is the ultimate SKELL
The pictures don't do justice. It looks like something out of a concept car show on LSD.
In a series with Id Weltall, Xenogears, Asher, Simeon, this is what they consider ultimate.
Am I the only one who cheese most of the ch3 with shadowrunner?
>>339648449
>When you guys see my real body, you're going to be very surprised!
>If I hadn't come to Earth 30 years ago, I would've never got to meet all these people.
That was some of the most hamfisted dialogue I've ever seen.
>>339648412
There's actually a thematically appropriate reason for the humans to be stiff. Not so much the cat dude.
This game would've been 100 times better if it didn't have the stupid fucking Lin and Tatsu.
All they do is try and crack jokes. And it's annoying.
You know what the best part of Xenoblade Chronicles X is to me so far? The first weekend I had it, when it felt like me, Elma and one of the BLADE rookies were exploring the wastes, and things felt like we were actually helping to keep humanity afloat. I don't know what changed it other than Lin and Tatsu, maybe it was the Manon giving a sense of a buffer between humanity and the enemy faction, but it feels like the game lowered the stakes after the robot realization.
XC characters actually feel different, each one feels unique to play.
In XCX there's no reason to ever play as anyone besides your MC
>>339649295
Doesn't make any sense at all for Elma to support those decisions.
This game has trash writing.
>>339648842
The Aries is garbage compared to a fully upgraded lvl 60 skell.
Also that annoying as fuck sound
>>339649420
Elma will support any decision that comes down to waiting and observing, seeing how things play out.
But yeah a lot of the characters will gain affinity because of dumb decisions.
>>339649420
She likes when you observe before going in the fray. Probably she didn't think that Alex was such a faggotron
>>339649295
The games story should have just dropped all the other bullshit and have been entirely about humanity just trying to rebuild on an alien planet after their home was destroyed and having to do deal with xenophobia and other issues like this.
The hamfisted lifehold shit, alongside everything attached to it like the mims completely dragged the story down to the ground. There is a reason why the sidequests are better- they dont deal with that bs.
>>339649721
It's the Ares's overdrive that's valuable, as it both makes you nigh untouchable as well as reduces your cooldowns so you can spam shit for cockpit mode more.
>>339649752
>>339649803
You could kind of make a case for her supporting the first decision, but even then I don't think it'd be a strong one since it's very obvious the Ma-non are going to get shot.
But putting that aside, she continues to approve of your choice to wait and watch even after the first one has been shot. That doesn't make any fucking sense. Its completely contradictory to how the rest of the game characterizes her.
>>339649420
Elma is a funny girl
>Wants to eat giant indigens
>Prefers going commando
>Xenophobe
>Also prefers the greedy route and demands for higher rewards
>Thinks Tatsu should stop being a crybaby
>>339649978
That pic doesn't make any sense either, considering she's always friendly to the Ma-non even when she first meets them in Ch 5
Best Skell.
>>339649978
>>339649295
>taking Elma with you on sidequests
Literally why? The game already forces you to use her boring ass too much.
>>339649978
>Say you feel dead on the inside during the Lao affinity mission
>Elma lights up
>>339648412
what is funny is most of the animation was fine in XBC for cutscenes.
Dialogue scenes on the other hand were shit
>>339649978
begone undub scum
![Xenoblade Chronicles X - gameplay - 2015-12-28 18-24-10.mp4_snapshot_02.31_[2016.01.02_14.55.09].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Wgmjgfm.jpg "Xenoblade Chronicles X - gameplay - 2015-12-28 18-24-10.mp4_snapshot_02.31_[2016.01.02_14.55.09].jpg")
These fucking side quests, man. I want a sequel so badly.
>>339650640
She IS mildly autistic. Also a reason she got the biggest barracks, because she apparently isn't that good at human social skills.
She's a humanityboo
>>339652195
I'm pretty sure she has the biggest barracks since she's a former Colonel and the higher ups know she's a Ayylum, it's not autism but rather the fact she isn't a earthling and doesn't understand them well
>>339652902
yes, that's what i said.
>>339636872
This except I played for many weeks. Now when I try to go back to finish some of the last stuff I still have not done I feel like "meh" every time. I burned out on it but Since I had fun for over 200 hours it was well worth the purchase.
>>339650334
Because everyone else is a shit character.
Except Lao in the first half of the game. Who then turns out to be the shittiest of them all.
>>339653705
>everyone else is a shit character.
Nigga what.
Nagi, HB, Yelv, Frye, Phog, and Murderess are fucking great. Definitely miles better than Elma at least.
>>339653843
Who cares about side characters, they don't do squat and are optional.
Except Celica, she is okay.
Also kinda like Doug for being the only guy who isn't a retard.
>>339654071
The side content is by far the best part of the game. The main quest and main cast sucks dick.
>>339654169
I think I'm mostly annoyed at them for forcing me to grind affinity.
>>339636872
This was me for the entirety of the story. Once I finished that and started aiming for the 100% survey I had to cut my playtime by half. The grind for the 1 hit K.O Telethia Skell can kill you.
>>339642419
God xenochronicles was such an ok game, I came expecting one of the best games ever made and left with an alright offline MMO
>tfw 100% completing Xenoblade Chronicles 1 took me 150 hours
>tfw I was fully dedicated to 100% complete XBX as well
>I was sure it would be as good eventually
>tfw it took me 290 hours
>turns out it wasn't as good
I plan to restart it so I can make a perfect file. I didnt use Lao
>>339657538
end yourself christie
sincere question
Why do people here still love Kojima after MGS4 and V?
these last 2 games make me wonder if perhaps this guy http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Tomokazu_Fukushima was more important than we thought
>>339657445
>>339635685Post elma
>>339635685
Total War Warhammer. It all feels so fucking lazy.
>>339659892
>>339659892
>>339659892
1/2
Xeno X was probably my biggest disappointment of 2015, that being said I didn't hate it, I just expected something else.
>>339660581
>>339659892
>>339635685
>Hype as fuck for Dark Souls 2
>Play it
>See a lot of the game's flaws and how From dropped the ball just from a few play-throughs
>Only get around ~170hrs (mostly co-op since PvP was a major chore) in comparison the my ~800hrs in DaS1
>Haven't played the game in well over a year, but recently started playing DaS1 again to co-op with a friend and the game is surprisingly active
Dark Souls 2 wasn't a bad game, it was just a disappointing game with a lot of flaws.
>>339636872
Same. Game was my entire December. Didn't stop till 100%. Was fun as hell to explore. Only open world game I've played that didn't put me to sleep.
Well, besides New Vegas.
>>339635685
Well, it's the best RPG to come out of Japan since Radiant Historia, so that's something.
>>339648842
The Ares actually looks good if you give it a decent paint job. Make the chest piece white with a red X, take off the glossy finish and make the rest as black as possible and it's decent.
The dull gray OG paint job is fucking garbage.
>>339652132
>There are people that didn't buy the sweet ride
>>339661694
>Only open world game I've played that didn't put me to sleep.
I put that on the base movement speed and jump height of the character and the fact that there's no fall damage and most everything can be climbed through mountain goating.
Most open world games has your character move slow as shit and jump not higher than a paint can, unless you get on a horse or in a car, in which case you can no longer jump and have navigation restraints, but in XCX your character is fucking sanic coupled with Mario, so the world feels all the more "open" and exploration becomes something fun instead of something tedious.
>>339662340
>When you first do a running jump
I did not expect that. You're like a rocket going to Mars.
>>339662340
>Mountain goat up to some retardedly out of the way probe early game
>Mechanical level 5 required
>>339662468
>Some weird ??? quest that doesn't even tell you it gives mechanical five
>Bunch of riddle shit
>Worst of all -
>"Fee Fi Fo Fum, there is a tyrant in Sylvalum"
>"What the fuck kind of hint is that"
>Look it up
>At a specific hour in the morning a tyrant HAS A RARE CHANCE of spawning in a specific place that then jets randomly elsewhere before settling down
>It despawns after an hour or so
Fuck you Takahashi. How was I supposed to know that without the internet.
>>339662905
>How was I supposed to know thatAsk your squad ;^)
>>339662905
>>"Fee Fi Fo Fum, there is a tyrant in Sylvalum"
Twilight Princess
>>339663210
how was the squad supposed to figure it out?
>>339663323
By asking their mom.
Anyone play this?
When I was a kid I was so HYPE for it
