Exactly what I was thinking. Im playing God of war for the first time and honestly I'm just taking my time and enjoying the game 😊

9 months geez very impressive...imagine if that was the standard for reviewers.

well said, completely agree!!

Agreed

I'm sorry i din't take my time with it i just couldn't help myself 😭

Preach 👏👏

Happy gaming wife, happy gaming life indeed!

Agreed. She has a great energy. Love their chemistry as well.

Yeah a great pair here

have you played gears?

@@jac1011 Yes.

Have you started yet?

For real. If I ever hit 60 hours on an RPG I slowly lose interest no matter how much I was loving it before lol

That is really surprising to me that it took her that long. On the Wii version (where each side quest took way longer due to having to use the wiki to find everything), 100%ing everything plus doing EVERY achievement (which added two days to my playthrough hunting the last obnoxious ones) only took me 150 hours, and that's including also having to get back to Sword Valley on NG+ to kill my last unique monster that I accidentally gated myself out of. I feel like that is absolutely the highest you could really go with the game, so I wonder if she just left the console on while on her phone/doing other things and the time ticked up considerably because of that?

@@Jordan3DS I am surprised you got all that done in 150 hours, I have the wii version and I did the same thing, Mind you I kept away from guides so I often spent hours upon hours trying to figure a quest out. There were some to this day I never did figure out and I have about 311 hours on it I believe. I got almost everything fully done though. Fully finished the colony etc.

​@@Terron29 That 150 hours probably could have been 140 hours or so, but I missed a unique monster at Sword Valley (I screwed up and forgot when you lose access to Sword Valley, then saved my game before realizing I couldn't go back), and so I had to start a NG+ run to get all the way back there and beat that bastard. After that I STILL didn't have Happy New Year, so I had to sit there and switch the time for two real life hours until I got it. If I had beaten that unique monster in the first run and started grinding Happy New Year sooner then it would have been quicker. Also god damn, 311 hours! That sounds like a lot of walking around and enjoying the vistas/figuring out quests, lol. Did you have any collection items that gave you a headache when you just couldn't find them? I don't like DE as a port of the game, but I will say that it only took me 80 hours there to do every quest and beat every superboss thanks to the new quest tracking feature.

@@Jordan3DS yup very much so, I was too damn stubborn to look up help and I believe I fully finished the collectapedia but there were a few that I didnt find for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaages, Had no idea where they were, Obviously I knew which region as the collectapedia tells you the region but man it was a pain. I was just lost so much of the time and like I said there were still a few quests I didnt get done. I remember trying to finish some quests for so so long until eventually I gave up and settled for what I had manged to do myself. Looked online only to realize some of those quest monsters were not appearing or that I defeated them before I had accepted the quest and they didnt respawn so that I needed to keep resetting or whatnot to get them to respawn and I lost it. Never played it since lol. Still love the game though. thats 100 or so hours ill never get back wandering aimlessly though hahaha

Same man, I didn't even finish XC but it made me want to play other games, played final fantasy 9 start to finish and now half way through 10, must also finish XC

What made you lose faith? DQ and Pokemon have kept my attention for the past 13 or so years, I haven't even started on stuff like FF, Persona etc so there's an absolute ton out there to work with.

DE is objectively worse than the Wii version, though. It's way buggier, has an uglier/less unique UI, worse facial animations in cutscenes, ugly filter effects over the graphics at specific points, reduced lighting effects in certain spoilery scenes that I won't mention, and they horribly butchered the visual design of the final boss fight. Unless you're someone that absolutely loves anime graphics for whatever reason, then the Wii version is still the best way to play the game. DE just feels like it was incredibly rushed and didn't have the same level of love or care put into it as the original release, and I'm sure that COVID probably didn't help, either.

@@Jordan3DS what you on mate? This version absolutely knobs all over the wii version

@@Jordan3DS I haven't played the DE so I can't really judge, but looking at the footage in this video I'm inclined to think you're right. By coincidence I'm playing Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii right now, and I'm struck by how cartoony they made the characters look in the DE. The cutscene at 11:36 looks like it's from a DS game. As you mentioned, the UI is one of the most bland I've ever seen; I'm baffled why they didn't just reuse the original because there was nothing wrong with it. The one plus is they seem to have improved the map system, though it's hard to tell from the brief footage seen here.

@@Troklo What's your reasoning?

@@AssociationAdmirer They also added means to find side quests easier and it tells you where to go for them on the map which is nice, but unfortunately it's one improvement in a sea of low quality changes.

I wish she had a video of her actually feeling it 😍

@@darkpassenger2852 😮😮😮😮😏

Takyon!

Love XC1 to death, but XC2 is a 7/10 for me at best, it just has way to many game design and story flaws and it felt incredibly rushed and undermanned in terms of its development.

Isnt that game about a divorcing couple?. Seems silly to play a game about divorce when you are in a stable relationship.

@@jakeryan2805 not really. Me and my wife played through it, and my sister in law and her husband as well

@@jakeryan2805 I thought it was about them learning to accept each other and restore their relationship

Agreed, it's absolutely perfect! I genuinely don't think that anyone could say anything bad about the game that's not a subjective opinion (like "I hate RPGs" or something like that), it does literally everything objectively perfectly.

I feel like Xenoblade is a game where it's really fun to put so much time into it because there's so much variety to everything that you do in it, whereas I'd get incredibly bored with Monster Hunter since it's just a semi-small world where you do nothing but fight the same boss fights over and over and over again for dozens of hours ad nauseum.

Reading this in riki's voice cause you have em as your pfp makes it better! "Heropon riki knew before playing button smashing game on machine would be a masterpiece! Sidekicks dun dun and shulk and other friends love the people that make this game on machine like others games"

Xenoblade Chronicles devs to the Breath of the Wild dev team: "Sidekicks, try hard!"

@@joserachi96 that made my smile thank you

@@Jordan3DS that also made me smile thank you

Just watch out for spoilers, I'd advise against looking anything up (even side quest help or anything) until beating the game because the wiki is covered in spoilers.

How are you liking it? I'm 30 hours in right now

You should go and play it right now, the best game of all time is waiting for you!

To this day, I still don't understand the need for it to be on the 3DS. It completely ruins the experience to me. It's one of the 2 games I had to play on the biggest TV in my house at the time and proper sound system (while my parents were gone sometimes at evenings) with FFXII. The music, dialogues and scope of the world justify the game to be played on a decent TV.

I'd add DQ VIII /XI

XC1 is a masterpiece that handles everything it possibly could perfectly, whereas XC2 has a ton of gameplay problems and the story/characters are incredibly basic and lackluster. XC2 still has very well designed and fun to explore areas and a great soundtrack, but XC1 just has better areas, better music, and handles everything else infinitely better than XC2 does.

Think I shall try the "Xeno" series thanks to ya'll.

Nice! What area are you currently on? I have a guess, but I'd rather not accidentally spoil anything for you.

@@Jordan3DS I have just made it to Melia's city. I'm side tracked with Hades right now, but when I finish that game I'm going right back to xenoblade!

Nice to see someone else mention "systems on top of systems" when praising the game, I feel like that's a detail that most people never even really think about. Every facet of the game design benefits multiple other things so seamlessly, to the point where no matter what you do you're accomplishing something, it's amazing.

@@Jordan3DS Any other developers would of buckled under the shear wait of this games ambitions. It’d be like trying to lift one of the Titans. And it released on Wii originally too! Just goes to show power means nothing in the face of imagination and determination.

It's in this remake too!

I'd just say to start it and play it at your own pace, it's not like the game is going anywhere. Even if you only played, say, 30 minutes a night, the main story is only 50 hours so you could beat it in a couple of months. Don't feel the need to marathon it or anything, it's a perfect game to pick up and play whenever you feel like it.

I prefer the Wii visuals, personally. Better facial animations, cleaner graphics, and the Final Fantasy XII inspired style is much more unique and appealing to me than generic anime people (plus, the characters just don't look right in the new style, especially Reyn and Dunban).