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| Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X impressions by Rafiki 01/27/2016, 1:45pm PST | ||||
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Rafiki wrote: WHOOPS, GOT THEM. "Gathering" quests. There's thousands and thousands of little blue crystals scattered everywhere and those are random items you collect for quests. It's impossible to know what they are before you collect them, they're randomized, have a drop rate %, and there's no indication of where particular items are located for a given quest. This is a problem, because the game gives you quests that say to find X number of items somewhere within the entire continent, and no direction whatsoever on where they could be. If it weren't for Google, you'd have to spend 20 hours running around an entire zone hoovering up crystals trying to figure out approximately where an item drops. You have a notebook that catalogs every item you've ever collected, but you couldn't maybe jot down a general location of where you found it. The writing is awful So the premise of the game is that aliens attacked earth and humanity escaped on a giant spaceship loaded up with all of the survivors they could manage to escape with, then went trundling through the cosmos in search of a new home. While nearing another planet, the same aliens attacked your ship causing it to break apart and crash land. A huge portion of the ship that contains all of the human bodies in stasis is MIA, and you become part of a team tasked with finding it. All of the people, including you, are actually an android being remote controlled by a body in stasis. That part is a spoiler that they don't reveal until after chapter 5 of 12 for no particular reason other than it was supposed to be a shocking reveal, so spoiler alert. Anyway, aliens want to blow up the stasis chamber to kill all of humanity. To top it off, in the makeshift city that exists, there's a giant doomsday clock counting down how much power the stasis chamber has. So basically you're on an urgent time sensitive mission to keep humanity from going extinct. Pretty high stakes stuff! To reinforce that, they give you dozens and dozens and dozens of quests to gather 8 Noctilium space tulips and help people find the courage to believe in themselves. Plus a mission to help a guy save a stray cat that's gone missing. Nothing is too low a priority when imminent extinction is on the line. I will say that this is certainly one of the prettiest games I've ever played and the alien landscape is gorgeous. Makes me wonder why other MMOs don't look this good. |
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Xenoblade Chronicles X impressions by 01/11/2016, 2:30pm PST  I couldn't make it more than 90 minutes into the first game by 01/11/2016, 3:43pm PST Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X impressions by 01/27/2016, 1:45pm PST Gave up on this, can't finish it by 02/11/2016, 6:16pm PST |
