Poll of the Day > Xenoblade 2 is genuinely the best JRPG ive player since Vesperia

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Wow! Got this last month, and with the DLC stuff, I STILL have stuff to do. This game has seriously been keeping me from writing. Its goddamn dangerous.
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Have you played Trails of Cold Steel / Trails of Cold Steel 2 yet?
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hey friendly reminder that you are wrong
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There is rather a lot. Some of it is obnoxiously and needlessly grindy, like grinding trust and Ursula's blade quest, but it's a thoroughly fun time. I should really get the expansion pass, though I may wait until September for that.
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Have you played XC1 and XCX? If so, how is it compared to those?
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Judgmenl posted...

Have you played Trails of Cold Steel / Trails of Cold Steel 2 yet?

Is it similar? I bought the first game last year but i'm waiting for the other games to get cheap enough before I buy them so I can just play and not have to wait.
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So you like scantily clad anime girls and pretending that you're "playing a video game."
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SilentSeph posted...

Have you played XC1 and XCX? If so, how is it compared to those?

It's definitely more similar to XC1 than to X, such that I kind of consider X to be a spinoff. Overall, I don't think I'd say 2 is as good as 1, but 1 is one of my favourite games ever, so that shouldn't be taken as reflecting poorly on 2. It is still a very thoroughly enjoyable game.
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adjl posted...

SilentSeph posted...

Have you played XC1 and XCX? If so, how is it compared to those?

It's definitely more similar to XC1 than to X, such that I kind of consider X to be a spinoff. Overall, I don't think I'd say 2 is as good as 1, but 1 is one of my favourite games ever, so that shouldn't be taken as reflecting poorly on 2. It is still a very thoroughly enjoyable game.

I liked 2 a lot more than I liked one. The gameplay is just more fun. I also found that it was a lot better at getting you into the game where with 1 it just threw too many things at you so quickly and poorly explained that I was overwhelmed and just didnt do any of it.
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Ah, I really want to play it, I loved XC1, it was one of the best RPGs ever made, and... XCX was...alright.

But I already have BotW on Wii U so XC2 is literally the only thing I'd buy Switch for right now.
Once Octopath Traveler and Bayonetta 3 are out, it'll make more sense to get one.

chaosbowser posted...

adjl posted...

SilentSeph posted...

Have you played XC1 and XCX? If so, how is it compared to those?

It's definitely more similar to XC1 than to X, such that I kind of consider X to be a spinoff. Overall, I don't think I'd say 2 is as good as 1, but 1 is one of my favourite games ever, so that shouldn't be taken as reflecting poorly on 2. It is still a very thoroughly enjoyable game.

I liked 2 a lot more than I liked one. The gameplay is just more fun. I also found that it was a lot better at getting you into the game where with 1 it just threw too many things at you so quickly and poorly explained that I was overwhelmed and just didnt do any of it.

The things it did better, it did a lot better, especially having significant, meaningful sidequests instead of the fetch quest spam XC1 had (which I didn't mind because I saw it as an excuse to wander around the gorgeous world, but it did make it hard to find the few awesome quests among the rest of them). I didn't find that the world was quite as fun to explore, though (although it's still awesome), and I didn't like the characters nearly as well as I did Shulk and Co. The anime tropes were also a bit heavy-handed (particularly the costumes for female Blades), which I wasn't a huge fan of.

A lot of that is pretty subjective, though. As far as more objective critiques go, they're very comparable games and I'd heartily recommend both.

streamofthesky posted...

But I already have BotW on Wii U so XC2 is literally the only thing I'd buy Switch for right now.

Odyssey is also a must-have. A lot of that hype gets dismissed as people just being excited over it being the only good game on the system, but it is genuinely one of the absolute best games I have ever played. I can't remember the last time a game gave me such a consistent sense of joy and fun from start to finish. If you've ever enjoyed a platformer, definitely give it some serious consideration.

streamofthesky posted...

Once Octopath Traveler and Bayonetta 3 are out, it'll make more sense to get one.

Realistically, there isn't much reason to wait that long. Xenoblade's out now, Octopath's out in a week, and I have no reason to expect Bayonetta 3 to be canceled, so it's not like you stand to lose much by grabbing it now. At best, Bayonetta's a couple years out and the price will have dropped by then, but even then I don't imagine you'd save more than $50 or so. At least, that was my rationale for picking mine up on launch day, even though my library consisted exclusively of Zelda and Snipperclips for several months and I didn't touch the system again until Mario came out.
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adjl posted...

streamofthesky posted...

But I already have BotW on Wii U so XC2 is literally the only thing I'd buy Switch for right now.

Odyssey is also a must-have. A lot of that hype gets dismissed as people just being excited over it being the only good game on the system, but it is genuinely one of the absolute best games I have ever played. I can't remember the last time a game gave me such a consistent sense of joy and fun from start to finish. If you've ever enjoyed a platformer, definitely give it some serious consideration.

I'm just not a huge fan of platforming (and I prefer 2D platforming anyway) nor open world games...Xenoblade does it so well that I love those games in spite of it, and XC1 was still very linear in reality (just w/ lots of stuff to the side) which is probably why I liked it so much.
I'm sure if you like platformer type games and open world, Odyssey is amazing. But I don't think it'd be for me.

adjl posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Once Octopath Traveler and Bayonetta 3 are out, it'll make more sense to get one.

Realistically, there isn't much reason to wait that long. Xenoblade's out now, Octopath's out in a week, and I have no reason to expect Bayonetta 3 to be canceled, so it's not like you stand to lose much by grabbing it now. At best, Bayonetta's a couple years out and the price will have dropped by then, but even then I don't imagine you'd save more than $50 or so. At least, that was my rationale for picking mine up on launch day, even though my library consisted exclusively of Zelda and Snipperclips for several months and I didn't touch the system again until Mario came out.

Well, there's also the issue that I just got PS4 the end of last year and quickly built up a ~15 game backlog that I'm only halfway through (some for other systems, most for PS4) now.
I'm thinking of getting Switch around Black Friday if there's a good sale, and hopefully by then will be mostly through w/ my backlog.

AloneWeStand posted...

So you like scantily clad anime girls and pretending that you're "playing a video game."

So every JRPG?
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I hate how 2 takes so long to "give you the reins."

I think I stopped playing for a month when I first got it and decided it was awful in the first couple hours of gameplay. The combat gets a lot better, but it takes like ten hours of play to get there.
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Revelation34 posted...

AloneWeStand posted...

So you like scantily clad anime girls and pretending that you're "playing a video game."

So every JRPG?

https://media0dk-a.akamaihd.net/27/75/c86a61a15d02b05d4420a6500712c7c5.jpg
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what is wrong with her hands
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AloneWeStand posted...

So you like scantily clad anime girls

You don't?

Digimon posted...

what is wrong with her hands

Shes, like, a rabbit lady or something.
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AloneWeStand posted...

https://media0dk-a.akamaihd.net/27/75/c86a61a15d02b05d4420a6500712c7c5.jpg

My question still stands.
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PK_Spam posted...

Digimon posted...

what is wrong with her hands

Shes, like, a rabbit lady or something.

Dahlia's weird. 0/10 would not baeblade.
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