rhutton125 said:

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I finished Xenoblade Chronicles X on Switch recently. Honestly, I do not recommend it. I recommend XBC1 and 3 pretty wholeheartedly (2 is pretty anime, maybe not for everyone) but this one was just not worth the 50 hours I put into it.

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Maybe the hardest I've ever disagreed with anything.

It was a masterpiece on the Wii U and the Definitive Edition is even better.

Fairly into Fallout 76. Scratches that Fallout itch anyway. It can be a little janky though. It's multi-player although it's the most non-interactive multiplayer game that must exist. Which is the only reason I'm playing it.

Hahaha. Your recommendation may have been one of the ones that convinced me to try it (not that I need much, given my affinity for the series). I knew it was more exploration and combat than story, which is not my preference, but I figured it was worth a shot.

Unfortunately it felt like an MMO and not in fun ways. Very grindy. Story content was level-gated so I'd have to go grind side quests to get to anything interesting again. And to be fair I did a ton of character missions, but most of them proved to still be pretty generic in the end. And boy did they look generic too (Hope would be a background NPC in any other game).

Combat was decent but after XBC2 and 3 it was kind of more of the same. I knew this came first but it didn't make it any more fun. Skells were cool but running out of fuel and using all my miranium just to keep playing the game was not well designed. A few times I just let the game run to get the time-gated FrontierNav resources, and when that's the only way to advance a character quest, it's super lame. (Lin's first quest, had to leave the Switch on while I drove to work in hopes of finally procuring the quest item. Took about an hour.)

I'm not trying to convince you a game you love isn't great, but to me it was mostly not a fun experience. Sounds like the definitive edition removes a lot of the tedium but it was still pretty tedious overall, across all ~55 hours.

YouBet said:

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Fairly into Fallout 76. Scratches that Fallout itch anyway. It can be a little janky though. It's multi-player although it's the most non-interactive multiplayer game that must exist. Which is the only reason I'm playing it.

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I absolutely despised the card system. But it has been a couple of years since I looked at it last and I adore the setting so may DL again soon and take another look around. I think I had 25ish hours on it and I never once joined a party or did a group event.

I've invested more time than I can count into FO3, FO:NV, and FO4. I have had zero desire to try Fallout 76. I may try it, one day.

Just finished Death Stranding Directors Cut (the game only had like 5 different ending sequences, LOL). Great game! I'd honestly have no problem just chilling and slowly doing more post credits activities and taking in all the views... but my backlog is calling.


Started Warhammer Space Marine II last night... been on my to do list for a while and now it's "free" on PS+.

Eliminatus said:

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YouBet said:

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Fairly into Fallout 76. Scratches that Fallout itch anyway. It can be a little janky though. It's multi-player although it's the most non-interactive multiplayer game that must exist. Which is the only reason I'm playing it.

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I absolutely despised the card system. But it has been a couple of years since I looked at it last and I adore the setting so may DL again soon and take another look around. I think I had 25ish hours on it and I never once joined a party or did a group event.

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I might take another shot at it. Im not sure how it played last time you were in it, but I'm finding it pretty close to the other Fallout games. There is a **** load of quests and the map is large. Card system hasn't bothered me.

My only nitpicks are
- running out of storage space so that's forcing me not to be a pack rat. You can pay for a sub and get unlimited storage but I'm not doing that.

- due to nature of being MMO, you will sometimes run across locations where everyone there is dead because someone got there right ahead of you and the game hasn't respawned yet. A recent patch seems like it may have fixed some of that though.

- I don't know if you can't or if people just respect one another but I haven't had any issues with PVP killing. When you run across others, everyone just seems to ignore each other for the most part.

- I've done a couple of joint quests with others and they were fine. I'm always the least experienced person in group. No one is on audio or at least I'm not. I'm level 22 and there are people at 900+. My god. How long have they been playing this game?

- some player keeps nuking the same section of the map any time I end up in the same world as him. Amusing.