Played some more of Darksiders 3 and Xuan Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains. Not much to add here.
Started couple of other games. Started Tom Clancy’s The Division with friends. I played a little bit of it a while ago, and while I liked the world building and the gameplay loop, but game started feeling repititive. Now playing with friends, so hopefully won’t have that issue. Played a few missions and so far so good.
Also started Hard West on Switch 2. It’s a turn based tactics game in wild west. It has couple of interesting mechanism, like luck. Each time someone shoots at you, your luck reduces (depending on distance, cover etc), and when your luck is down the shot hits you. You can also shoot people through cover. There is also an area map, where you can do a few things (depending on the campaign)
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
I finished Xenoblade X just in time to not benefit from the Switch 2 upgrade! I ended the game with 99% survey completion because the last boss I needed to kill required me to farm too much Bonjelium; the problem being that minerals are the one type of material you can’t get with material tickets. I’ll grind whatever is necessary, but I draw the line at waiting for the items to come in slowly over time.
About the finale:
spoiler
I expected the big triangle in the sky to be a ‘final dungeon’ and wasn’t looking forward to it at all, because indoor areas were never any fun in the game. Why does the camera get so sluggish in that environment anyway? But to my surprise, the finale was a new open area to explore, playing to the game’s strengths! I liked it a lot and luckily I was a high enough level to not get attacked by everything.
I’m not a fan of the ending itself, though. The game made Mira seem like a special place, Professor B hints towards that and the fact that every species can communicate despite their different languages. Because of this, I thought the planet would make it through the final events after all, but it was destroyed and we go somewhere else. This makes everything we did feel kinda pointless. All we got in the end was the friends we made along the way but we’re still starting over. Worse than before, because we don’t have a city or anything to build a new one with. The ending is just not in the spirit of the game and doesn’t really address anything that was left open at the end of the original version.
But overall, this is my favorite Xenoblade, though that’s always been hard to say. The series tends to frustrate me because every game does something exceptionally well and is the worst in the series in some other way.
Replacing Xenoblade as my main game is Visions of Mana, a game I was surprised to find in my Steam library a few months ago. I thought it was still on my wish list! The Mana games on the SNES have been a big part of my early years and Visions always looked very gorgeous. I’ve only played a little bit, but I like what I’ve seen so far.
Monster Hunter Wilds got its latest (and final?) update. I’ve only tackled the new side quests so far and they brought back egg carrying for a Monster Hunter Stories collab quest! That was always my least favorite quest type, but they reworked the mechanics to make it much better, tolerable even. Next up is Arch-Tempered Arkveld, the first 10-Star quest. I’m scared…
I’m finally out and about in Fallout 3. I forgot how stressful it can be to be in a Bethesda city with everyone always talking. The desolate wastes suddenly feel a lot nicer~ I also have to get used to Bethesda physics again. I jump-scared myself by stepping on a skeleton and somehow launching it into my face…
I’d love to hear you expand on that
What’s the issue with each 1, 2, and 3?
@slimerancher@lemmy.world is this the type of discussion that is allowed or should be in its own thread?
Yeah, this is fine. Create a new thread if you want to ask from whole community, for one to one, replying to the respective comment is perfectly fine.
This is completely subjective, of course, but I thought:
1 had the best world, but the worst side quests.
X had the best exploration, but the worst characters.
2 had the best combat, but Gacha.
3 had the best side quests, but the worst world.
There’s more I could say, but I limited it to the best and worst of each when directly compared. There’s a really good game we could piece together from these four!
I agree about Xenoblade X ending, wasn’t a big fan. Personally it’s my least favourite Xenoblade, for me Mechas changed the balance of the game, and made character stuff obselete. Of course I could always skip the mechas, but I don’t like to make games difficult for me when there is no need to.
Which isn’t to say I didn’t like the game, I just liked the other games much more.
Yeah, I think it’s the final update for MH: W, at least the base game. They are working on the expansion now.