gamingeek said:

Jumping through hoops? You are doing what you are meant to be doing in the game, exploring the overworld. The hoops are minor and there is so much more to do in the game compared to just the main story it's almost ridiculous to complain about it. You can diverge from the main story in this game for hours upon hours and still enjoy yourself. In fact the story part of this game is a very small part of the overall experience.

You have barely played one ninth of the games content.

I think that my main gripe is that I don't enjoy diverging from the story in games.  I don't usually enjoy messing about with systems in sandbox games, and XCX doesn't even have systems to mess about with.  The only thing you can do in XCX besides the story is explore and take on boring side missions.  Personally I didn't find the exploring to be interesting, so no, the hoops are not minor.  When a game gates progress behind something like explore x% of a continent, that can really harm the flow of the main story if you don't go on a lot of exploration yourself.

Perhaps the game gets better once you get your mech, I don't think I'm too far off from that point.  Although I try not to fast travel too much as I feel it breaks the immersion and clashes with the fact there is this huge world to traverse, so I might still be a while off.  Maybe I should pick XCX up again after I've finished Wooly World, another game I'm not too enamoured with.

SupremeAC said:

I think that my main gripe is that I don't enjoy diverging from the story in games.  I don't usually enjoy messing about with systems in sandbox games, and XCX doesn't even have systems to mess about with.  The only thing you can do in XCX besides the story is explore and take on boring side missions.  Personally I didn't find the exploring to be interesting, so no, the hoops are not minor.  When a game gates progress behind something like explore x% of a continent, that can really harm the flow of the main story if you don't go on a lot of exploration yourself.

Perhaps the game gets better once you get your mech, I don't think I'm too far off from that point.  Although I try not to fast travel too much as I feel it breaks the immersion and clashes with the fact there is this huge world to traverse, so I might still be a while off.  Maybe I should pick XCX up again after I've finished Wooly World, another game I'm not too enamoured with.

The game is pretty much all about exploration. You have to go out and find your fun. The game world is excellent and you can go anywhere from the start. If there was a story like the original XB it would shepard you about and limit you to one area at a time.

Nintyfan17 said:

10 years ago today the PS3 launched in the United States; November 11th was the Japanese launch date.

In 2 days it will be 10 years since the Wii launched.

And Persona 5 has still yet to come out. 10 year lifespan achievement unlocked.

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

People are still pretending that Xenoblade Chronicles X was a good game?

Yes I'm sure that's it.

No one actually likes it, we just pretend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iuTBCWAQfU

This commercial played before something I did want to see.  Usually I click these things away the second the option to skip comes available, but this was... diffrent.  

Ravenprose said:

Hmm, there was no need for waiting in line for it here. Every store had a bunch of them available hours after they opened on launch day. That's when I really knew Nintendo had fucked up. It's still my most played system this gen, though.

I didn't wait in line because I preordered it online.

It arrived 8 days after the Wii U launched.

robio said:

I still put it a notch above the N64. I don't think I played more than 10 games and most of the library has not aged well. But yeah, Wii U does not make the list of my favorite consoles. I definitely backed the wrong horse this generation.

I played a lot of games for the N64 but I guess I was the right age at the time.

I was between ages 10 and 18 when I played the N64.

It came out in 1996 and I played it through 2004 when I got a GCN.

Sure I played some Dreamcast and PS2 but my friends and I kept going back to the N64 until we all got a GCN in 2004.

Dvader said:

It was ok. The worst main console Nintendo has made though.

Personally I think that the N64 was the worst main console that Nintendo has made.

My two favourite Nintendo systems were the SNES, so many amazing games and the Wii U.