Why does Zig Forums hate this game so much?

I think so.
Pretty sure they are simply limited to once per savefile, not playthrough.

I couldn't finish it
the combat was braindead
the story was typical jrpg kindergarten-tier writing
the visuals were good and some of the character-building systems were fairly engaging, but it wasn't enough to keep me invested.
I'm swearing off of falling for the Xenoblade meme again

the annoying gatcha shit and cringy writing are big flaws with the game. thankfully the writing gets better after chapter 3, but the gatcha gimmicks stay there the whole time

It's popular. In fact, it's the best selling game of the series.

It's just insecurity. People who played it and didn't like it get anxious when they see it ending up as a bestseller for the series thus far, so they make their bitching as loud as possible because they're worried future games will be XC2 clones, or something like that.

I'm a simple Driver with simple desires, and Mythra fulfills them all.

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It isn't hated by everyone. It fact it probably has the most amount of positive threads on Zig Forums of any game of all time. Personally for me, I wasn't able to finish it. Nothing was able to engage me fully. I want to finish it one day since I heard the second half is a lot stronger but can't building up the effort to care.

Don't know about those faggots but thinking about how this game could have been a masterpiece makes me sense, just clean the story from the anime melodrama shit and get rid of fetch quests and you have a 10/10 game

>the combat was braindead
Absolutely filtered.

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makes me sad, dunno why I got that wrong

My thoughts exactly.

The battle system is fun once it fully opens up, but and you get the hang of it, but I started getting bored with it a chapter later. Absolutely atrocious writing from what I saw (Why did a mercenary leave command of his entire group to a kid he just met?). Menus are poorly designed. Why do I have to keep checking a menu to unlock stuff? Why doesn't it just unlock once I fulfill the requirements? The whole gacha system itself is awful, but one thing in particular that annoys me is that Blades become bound to a character after awakening a core crystal? If you get one you don't want on a character, well, tough shit. Sidequests are still shit. The plot felt like it was going nowhere by the time I quit in chapter 6. I didn't like the particular anime tropes used in this game like the slepewalking thing or the tsundere or the MCs falling for each other and acting dumb about it. Oh, the skill checks were shit too, and how the game seems to enjoy wasting your time if you don't meet them or just in general.

I tried hard to get into Xenoblade 2, but it's one of those games that I think is absolute garbage and will never understand. I don't like Persona past 2, and while I don't know why people like the things they do about the modern ones, I understand what people like about them, so even if I'm not thrilled by them, I understand why people like Persona 3-5 to a degree. But I'm convinced I'll go to my grave never understanding the hype around Xenoblde 2. Probably the whole series. I liked the first Xenoblade okay, though mostly because of the music, story, and characters, I got a little bored with the later in the game when I played the DE edition recently. And I played Xenogears earlier this year and didn't really get much of the hype around it either. I understand it better than Xenoblade 2 at least, I liked the story on disc 2, even if disc 2 itself was awful.

>even if disc 2 itself was awful.
Zoomin'.

kill yourself

People have been complaining about disc 2 for 22 years.

>Blades become bound to a character after awakening a core crystal? If you get one you don't want on a character, well, tough shit. S
Apparently this isn't the case later on, never got that far myself

Thanks for proving my point.

>XC2 fags can't handle actual criticism

Literally every time.

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Wouldn't Zoomers like disc 2 because it's more movie than game? You ARE old enough to remember when people called games like Xenogears and other RPGs of the era interactive books/movies, right?

>"multiple one sentence post crying how they are "sick to their stomach" are real criticism
LOL, how retarded.

So the people that praise the game enjoy it and accept that it's not the best shit ever while the contrarians use it to post their autistic walls of text, gotcha

>If you get one you don't want on a character, well, tough shit.
You can get items that will rebind blades to a different driver and they are fairly plentiful later in the game when you get all party members and want to optimise. Not to mention that Rex will be able to use any blade freely without needing to do this.

Apparently the MC can equip any Blade later, but I don't think anyone else can. You have to use special items for them, of which there are three I think? But in NG+ you can farm them.

>You have to use special items for them, of which there are three I think?
Nah, there is a limited amount but more than enough.

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It's not the case early on either. The game tightly limits overdrive protocols because the system's meant to encourage you to adapt to the blades your drivers get, but you can find overdrives in rare chests starting in like chapter 3, so it's not like you're completely without options.

>Pointing out criticism is autism now

Where did gamers go wrong? I don't remember things being this bad in the late 90s/early 2000s. There were always rabid fanboys, but there seem to be more than ever now.

Eh, even though I liked it, there's just so much to hate that it's pretty easy to understand why so many people dislike it. Everything except the combat is poorly designed.
>Awful UI and menus
>Gacha in a single player game that also is character-locked
>Merc missions
>Tiger Tiger
>Awful character design
>So many boring activities designed to waste your time as much time as possible

>I felt like the latter part of the game more than made up for it.

That's the problem, user. A good rpg has to have you hooked early on. I can't stand it when people say "it gets good 20-30 hours in!".
The battle system being a huge slog early on doesn't help either.
Ive dropped the game twice because of how incredibly boring and disengaging it is.

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Oh yeah that's right, forgot about that.

I's a cult of rabid faggots frothing at the mouth that people could dare to like a game they don't like. Same old tiresome shit.

>I don't remember things being this bad
Exactly, you don't remember. Criticism is fine but you are such a faggot about it because you are just trying to wave your dick around pretending to be a gaming expert or some faggy shit

Because not all "criticism" is valid or relevant.
If somebody tries to autistically insits on some minute thing nobody ever mentions in other contexts, it's just a person trying to justify their seething.

Saying merc missions are a huge burden (outside of trying to get Ursula done) is just retarded, considering how many games have that exact same setup without anybody caring.

These "people" just try to fill a meaningless checklist.

>A gaming expert

You don't have to be a locksmith to recognize a shitty lock.

The definition of a flawed masterpiece, the potential this game had was huge but they fucked it up with fucking stupid fetchquests and the random blade shit. I loved the fighting system itself and the overall story was good but the cutscenes themselves were filled with cringe ass moeshit stuff. 8.5/10

I really don't get the "It gets good later!" argument. I didn't like that when I had all the time in the world, and I absolutely detest it now.

This game is not shit though, it's flawed but it's not objectively bad, it has great decisions surrounded by stupid fucking decisions.

Most of the criticisms in that image are pretty valid though. Most of them complain about stuff like the story not going anywhere, the skill checks, the high level enemies zooming in on them (which is a complaint I personally don't understand because it didn't happen to me much), and such.