Seven Hells, I did it.

[yogurt_21]

Is it really that rare? I'm also going to buy a PS4 eventually just for Tekken 7. Sure there's some other console exclusive stuff that I'll most likely play (Bloodborne & FFXV come to mind), but without Tekken that thing is useless to me lol

I've built 2grand + PC's just for one game. Half Life 2 was one of them.

 

[Flogger23m]

I'm wouldn't mind buying a console for a single game, but I can't really afford it. $300+ online before tax can be put to much better use. If I had more money to go around then I'd certainly do it. But I'd rather upgrade my GPU to play a bunch of new games than buy a console for 1-2.

 

[alucasa]

I'm wouldn't mind buying a console for a single game, but I can't really afford it. $300+ online before tax can be put to much better use. If I had more money to go around then I'd certainly do it. But I'd rather upgrade my GPU to play a bunch of new games than buy a console for 1-2.

Except I haven't been able to find a game that is like Xenoblade Chronicles X right now on the market. I don't see anything similar in upcoming games, either.

For me at least, it was quality vs quantity.

P.S. 30 hours into the game and still in chapter 4.

 

[kenkickr]

Hangonaminute, so you bought a whole console just to play one game?!

This is how i picked up my PS4 just to play MLB The Show since the 2k series was dead and MVP baseball was WAY past it's prime. I did enjoy The Show 15 but I never thought I'd get into anything else but boy was I wrong. Enjoyed the hell out of The Last of Us and after grabbing the Nathan Drake Collection I'm pretty excited about Uncharted 4. I think the only PC game that's gonna get me off the PS4 is the upcoming Doom, unless Intel offers it in their store like how I picked up a "free" Fallout 4 for the PS4.

 

[alucasa]

The last of us, yep. It was one hell of a masterpiece.

The last scene where the guy was carrying her out of the hospital... Oh, Gods. I was totally feeling the character.

 

[Drone]

Back in the day (mid-late 90s) I got an old Pentium with crappy 8 MB graphics (or something) just to play original Tomb Raider (never really cared for PSX). CD was scratched as hell lots of FMVs refused to play but otherwise game was playable. Sometime later I finally got a better pc (for work) and to play Tomb Raider 4 and 5. Man, that was an awesome time.

 

[alucasa]

Finally decided to proceed to Chapter 5... and OMG. What a crazy plot twist..

Spoiler

Because the humanity did not know how long it'd take for them to find suitable terran planet, they developed highly sophisticated humanoid units to replace themselves while their bodies remain in stasis. Their consciousnesses are connected to each machine.

Now here is the shocking part. Majority of population do not know that they are in fact controlling machines and location of their actual bodies are unknown to them. When they crash-landed, the lifepod where their actual bodies were stored in stasis fell apart and crashed elsewhere.
The lifepod is apparently running on battery and they'd "drop dead on spot" when power runs out.

So, in short, everyone's a machine.

Anyway, it seems each chapter progression develops the city bit by bit, enabling more characters to interact and more quests to appear. Some quests also have invisible deadline where you must complete before certain chapters end.

 

[alucasa]

I have now beaten the main story. I am at 70 hours now.

I still have a shitload of side quests to pursue and have done only 1/10 of affinity quests which are basically story quests of individual characters. There are 16 characters you can recruit, so there are 16 arcs of affinity quests. Each character has about 2 or 3 affinity quests. I have done only few of them so far since they take quite a bit of time.

I beat the main story in order to access a certain character named "Mia". She becomes available at Chapter 11 (12 is the end) and I chose to finish it since I got caught up in heat of its plot. I had to finish it...

Anyway, I still a fair amount of things to do. I still can't beat half of monsters in the wilderness. There are level 99 monsters. At the moment, I am able to take on only level 55 elites. It will require a fair amount of grinding to get it done.

I also want to swap out companions. Lin and Elma aren't my favorites but I had to hang out with them since they are story characters. H.B. is my favorite guy though. Now that the main story is over, I have no reason to hang out with them but I will need to train two other characters.

 

[yogurt_21]

so 1 story playthrough was 70 hours? maybe peaking at 100 once you grind to the level you want?

that puts you at about $3.50 an hour. Go for a couple more playthroughs and you could get it to ~1$ an hour.