No. I'm guessing 83-85.

That reviewer didn't like Xenoblade Chronicles either and it was an amazing game (in my opinion, obviously).

OP: No. I predict XCX meta around 82.

I wouldn't be surprised if it gets a metascore of 75 or lower.

Not sure. Gameplay looks better, but story seems lacking. So it could go either way.

Well I think it will be 90+. That's all though.

Game looks amazing to me visually but from what I've read I'm thinking around 77-84 score.

I think most of the development time was getting the game to run on wii u hardware, not much time for polish to get the gameplay right and maybe the hardware forced a few compromises that reduced the quality of gameplay.

Still want the game though but may wait for discounting.

I doubt it unfortunately. It's still gonna be superb though.

Probably not. I'd be surprised if it breaks 90 on metacritic.

Based on what I've seen, I think it'll end up in the 80-90 region.

Probably the upper part of the range.

I think Xenoblade Chronicles X will likely get a metascore in the 80s for two main reasons:

1) There are higher expectations given the Wii game's success. For reviewers (particularly in Europe), Xenoblade Chronicles came out of nowhere and was something of an unknown quantity.

2) Despite being a very different open-world game to The Witcher 3, Xenoblade Chronicles X will suffer from not being enough like Witcher 3.

A third possibility:

3) The overblown negativity from Nintendo's E3 effects reviews of their 2015 line-up, logic along the lines of "This is probably Wii U's swansong, and it's not Zelda, therefore lower score."