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Time : The Best RPG of 2015 Is Only Available on the Wii U
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KZXcellent
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OT: Didn't jump in this cause I found XC to be super boring. May jump on it before Dark Souls III comes out.
OverturePT
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Personally I think I'd still put the Witcher 3 above it, but I've invested 80+ hours into Xenoblade already. Very fun to explore, gameplay wise it has been and incredible ride.
tenderbrew
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I think it's definitely up there. It's definitely one of the most interesting open worlds in a year where open worlds were a copy-paste nightmare.
Tyreese Victoria
Banned
Pretty reasonable opinion to hold. Xenoblade itself was the second coming of cocaine. It's fans are the chosen gamers, of which legend foretells will be the ones to challenge Archangel Infernia to the promised game in the dying times.
It's only fair that its sequel is considered GOTY material.
It's only fair that its sequel is considered GOTY material.
Little Monser
Banned
I'd love to play this game but unfortunately I don't have a lot of TIME on my hands...
Sneaky Gato
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While I haven't has the time to fully go through it yet the author of this piece, Matt Peckham, and Tom Chick recorded a two hour long Podcast here detailing their thoughts on the game. Full warning that there may be spoilers there as I have yet to finish it. While Toms review is still forthcoming I think he liked the game.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
"Hands down" means it's not even close. I'm sure XCX is a fine RPG, but there's been some solid competition.
good one! had me laughing in the rain.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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Nice to see this game get some attention. It's too good to go ignored.
FalsettoVibe
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Better than Witcher 3?
E_Darkness
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They wrote PS3 wrong.
Yakuza 5
nckillthegrimace
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Astral Dog
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Ugh system wars.
I was actually kinda confused what game they meant.
Xenoblade X is overrated.
I was actually kinda confused what game they meant.
Freeman76
Member
Personally i agree. Loved bloodborne but it wasnt quite as good as demons/dark 1 for me. TW3 was bloody amazing and i loved every minute, and somehow i just cant put either above XBX, the game just oozes charm and playability. Its personally special as it reminds me of PSO quite a bit, and ive never quite found a game to scratch that itch since the dc/gc days.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
I'm not the biggest fan of RPGs but XCX has grabbed me. If I hadn't downloaded Xenoblade on the Wii U eShop I probably wouldn't have cared. I didn't even finish that game in the end.
Tried getting into Witcher 3 but the combat just sucked, so hard. I enjoyed the characters and quests, but every time I needed to fight something, I just started caring less and less.
Don't really have much to criticize about XCX, after a day's worth of playing. Wish the map could be used and navigated on the TV, but other than that, I'm loving it.
Tried getting into Witcher 3 but the combat just sucked, so hard. I enjoyed the characters and quests, but every time I needed to fight something, I just started caring less and less.
Don't really have much to criticize about XCX, after a day's worth of playing. Wish the map could be used and navigated on the TV, but other than that, I'm loving it.
Conkerkid11
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Good thing the same TIME author didn't put it on his top 10 list because he was too busy publishing it before the game's release.
Lumpy Onion
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Haha I chuckled at this. I love the soundtrack too.
Great choice. I've never played anything like it before. I don't always know what I'm doing but it certainly is something else indeed. The digital manual is pretty good, but even then I feel like that "I have no idea what I'm doing" dog at computer pic.
I bet Carl Sagan would have liked this game. It reminds me of the imagined worlds he talked about in Cosmos.
I dunno. I'm like 10 hours in and I'm not really feeling it (Eh? See what I did there!?)
I mean, it's a good game. It might even be great. But it's a exploration heavy RPG with a really cool battle system. Other than those two cool things, is it really that amazing? Doesn't seem like there's a whole lot going on in the world of XCX. Not that that's bad or anything.
I'm not a religious zealot for The Witcher 3 like some on this forum but it seems to have a lot more going on than XCX. And when you count Fallout 4 and Bloodborne, it really doesn't become a clear choice of XCX > everything else. There's no "hands down" here, for me at least.
I mean, it's a good game. It might even be great. But it's a exploration heavy RPG with a really cool battle system. Other than those two cool things, is it really that amazing? Doesn't seem like there's a whole lot going on in the world of XCX. Not that that's bad or anything.
I'm not a religious zealot for The Witcher 3 like some on this forum but it seems to have a lot more going on than XCX. And when you count Fallout 4 and Bloodborne, it really doesn't become a clear choice of XCX > everything else. There's no "hands down" here, for me at least.
Disaster Nebraska
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From what I've seen, Xenoblade X is a faithful update to the classic JRPG structure. It's still full of those tropes but does it really, really well.
I mean, let's not pretend that Witcher 3 is anything revolutionary. It's a faithful update to the classic WRPG structure. Bloodborne is a faithful update to the Souls structure. Fallout 4 is a faithful update to the Bethesda structure. Different strokes for different folks.
This has been a year of damn fine games, but there hasn't been much that really struck me as revolutionary, and that's okay.
I mean, let's not pretend that Witcher 3 is anything revolutionary. It's a faithful update to the classic WRPG structure. Bloodborne is a faithful update to the Souls structure. Fallout 4 is a faithful update to the Bethesda structure. Different strokes for different folks.
This has been a year of damn fine games, but there hasn't been much that really struck me as revolutionary, and that's okay.
Chie Satonaka
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SictorVullivan
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PeakPointMatrix
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I'd love to pick it up based on the visuals and scope I've seen, but I remember watching combat gameplay that looked really monotonous and braindead. Someone please tell me it's otherwise, it looks like a beautiful RPG to sink my teeth into. I've never played a Xenoblade game btw.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
But I can play Trails in the Sky: SC on PC, Vita and PSP...
That's your first mistake if you believe people will take a Platinum game as a reason to buy a console.
No one buys Platinum titles
Little Monser
Banned
Who?
Silver-tongued
Banned
you monster
The author of the article appeared on Tom Chick's podcast for a lengthy discussion on the game.
EDIT: Whoops, Sneaky Gato got there way before me!
EDIT: Whoops, Sneaky Gato got there way before me!
timetokill
Banned
Simon Parkin said much of the same in his list of Best Games of the Year for the New Yorker:
Simon Parkin said:
