Current Events > XC2 has some of the worst quest design I've ever seen in a video game

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Exclude Ursula from your party for 30 hours doing the same 3 merc missions over and over to unlock all of her story scenes

Really good design there!

I don't want to do anything else because what's the point of doing anything if Ursula isn't in my party. So I'm just keeping the merc page open all day until I complete this stupid garbage. Not even halfway to maxing these stamps out

Why does she even need these lessons anyway she's already perfect the way she is

Oh you
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I thought this would be about legitimate design flaws with the game, but that's expecting too much from MarthKoopa.
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I never got Ursula but they are legit complaints. Fuck merc missions
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Solar_Crimson posted...

I thought this would be about legitimate design flaws

How is designing a quest that asks you to repeat 3 missions without even a repeat function so you have to set it up EVERY TIME you do it, with a specific party to minimize the time spent on it, OVER AND OVER AND OVER for 30+ hours to unlock story scenes, and not allowing you to use the character in your party, NOT a design flaw?

This also ties into the stupid Gacha RNG where you could drastically reduce the time required... but, by the time the RNG would give you the blades to accomplish that, you'd be done the quest anyway.

Why isn't this just... one or two mercenary missions per step of her questline...? There is no good reason to have the player do these lesson missions more than once each. HUGE design flaw

i also like how they managed to somehow make the sidequests WORSE than the first game

honestly fuck XC2 and everything about it. worst game i've ever played to completion
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It took me ~150 hours to finish Ursula's quest

I still have flashbacks in my sleep
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I kinda just faded out of playing it... but I was in the middle of doing Ursula's missions so it may have had a hand in quitting. A lot of design choices feel like they were made to make the game as annoying as possible.

To complete Reiko's questline I have to level up her field skills

To level up her field skills I have to complete her questline

HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE

TheMarthKoopa posted...

To complete Reiko's questline I have to level up her field skills

To level up her field skills I have to complete her questline

HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE

There are certain places later in the game with low enough requirements for her to actually level up the field skills. Then you have to go back to the earlier places to do the higher requirement stuff. It is pretty frustrating if you don't know about them ahead of time.