Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the superior game. You may not like it (mainly because >much anime antics), but this is what peak JRPGs look like.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the superior game.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the superior game. You may not like it (mainly because >much anime antics), but this is what peak JRPGs look like.
its better than 3 for sure
What makes you say that?
3 has the best gameplay so far ill give it that, but the story is so fricking boring. it has a few cool ideas, like the whole city section, but all the main characters except noah and mio just arent nearly as well written and enjoyable. the game tries to make all 6 into up-front main characters, but it doesnt work when theres 2 other characters right next to them that are actually decent. the "endless now" thing is just weird as a theme, i get what theyre saying to the player about waking up, getting off your ass, making something of yourself in the world, and leave something for the future. except, they portray it horribly and mobius are shitty villains. basically, mgs2 did it better.
>3 has the best gameplay so far ill give it that
You spelled Torna wrarong.
>3 has the best gameplay so far ill give it that
3 is total shit.
>wait for CD
>pop interlink 3
>go ham
>combo when boss is at near 0%
>play out 3 minutes of overkill
When 4 comes out you will say 3 was superior and forget 1 and 2 exist like you did with 3 and 2.
No, I won't.
I thought 2 was better than 1 when I finished it. I hated the concept of the "endless now" in 3 and that in effect made things really boring. XB2 didn't have those narrative constraints.
I can't stomach the gameplay from any of these games. I have nothing but hatred for any game that needs to take control away from me, just to tell the story.
At that point there's no difference between this and a westoid visual novel.
Xenoblade just seems like the kind of game that would pull out a lot the "won battle, lost in cutscene" bullshit a lot, is that true or not?
It does that quite a bit, but we're supposed to love it because the characters are so wacky and quirky.
Basically every major story battle in 2 ends that way until the final third of the game. 1 and 3 aren't so bad about it.
I think it’s not actually that common, but it feels that way because the times where it does happen are against important characters.
just call it a movie game moron
The thing is that the gameplay between cutscenes isn't even good. The battle system is trash. It's a JRPG made for people who don't like JRPGs.
>It's a JRPG made for people who don't like JRPGs.
how so?
Every gameplay element of traditional JRPGs is missing or changed in some way.
For example, in traditional JRPGs you control your entire party. This is a huge part of what makes the genre different than other genres where you only control one character. But in Xenoblade you only control one character and your party members are controlled by AI you have extremely minimal control over. Why this change? Does it help? Taking control away from the players doesn't seem like a good change to me. But this change is made to accommodate the battle system, because we can't have a simple turn-based system, so instead the game has a weird cooldown-based action system. It's a total downgrade from a turn-based game that lets you control your party members but it's a way of streamlining battles for an audience who can't put up with turn-based games. In a traditional JRPG you'd also have HP and MP with items that replenish them, making a form of resource management as you progress through an area, but all of that is taken away because you get fully healed after every battles. There's no resource management to do. There's very little to react to in battles too, you just do whatever your build is and hope your build wins. The first game had visions to react to but that's gone in later games. Even dying has no impact because you just respawn a few feet away with nothing lost - hell, sometimes you actually GAIN from dying. For example, at the end of chapter 4, Morag joins your battle at the start of a boss battle; but if you die, YOU STILL HAVE MORAG. You don't even have to win to actually have the character in your party.
>It's a JRPG made for people who don't like JRPGs.
Really? I like JRPGs and love Xenoblade because of the adventure, the scope, and the grind. Something like FFXV felt like an Ubisoft game. Didn't feel as grand as previous FF games when it just ends in a whimper. I love nu-Persona for what it is, but that series doesn't feel like classic JRPGs. Xenoblade and Dragon Quest feel like the JRPG series that attempt to feel like classic JRPGs when most games today feels either incomplete (FFXV or FFVIIR) or they just rip off Persona's design.
acgay, you are a Black person
Xenogames have never been about gameplay starting with Gears.
Is there a point to playing NG+ for this game or should I just move onto 3? I already got all of the base blades and did their quests.
NG+ adds more blades, but only one of them is really worth using. If you got the DLC blades, then they're the best of the best.
>gatcha
>field skills
>merc missions
No, it isn't the best anything.
It just gives me a different feelings than most games
I mean, yeah. Not like the others are bad, they're also God tier. But you instantly know where the SOUL is.
its garbage
It's a little better than X, but only because X doesn't even have a story, otherwise 2 would be dead last.
>gacha system
2 loses for that alone