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Which is better?

Xenoblade Chronicles 126 59.72%
 
Xenoblade Chronicles X 85 40.28%
 
Total:211

XCX just shades it.



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1. Xenogears
2. Xenoblade Chronicles X
3. Xenoblade Trilogy (I have no preference between the 3 games. 1 would be the best if it weren't for the terrible pacing, part 2 and 3 picked this up significantly; but we're lacking feature-wise).
4 Xenoblade Chronicles is the weakest because it doesn't do anything better than the other games, it has a relatively weak story compared to all the Xenosagas and Xenogears, and obsolete gameplay compared to Xenoblade a chronicles X, plus the lack of Gears hurts the game a huge amount.



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Unless we see a dramatic turnaround here, I think it's safe to say at this point that Xenoblade Wii has won this poll.

In general, it seems most of us view both games positively, just the first game a bit more so.



I finished the game after 260 hours and I have only the following left to say:

 

Fell from the sky

Lived a human lie

Met some weird Mira folks

Came in all forms of strokes

Tried to shoot L from cannon

Delivered pizza’s to those Ma-non

Freed some fighter kitty-cats

Poisoned some willing, armored technocrats

Stopped a cave and tree alien fight

Forgive me for that unholy union, right

Helped clone weird bugs

Gave greedy Nopons lot of hugs

Leveled and hearted up my entire crew

Brought evil their due

Vita smashed to bits by skells

In Elma a blue, hot chick dwells

I will give all aide

For i’m the XENOBLADE

Believe!

Edit: Wrong thread :p

 



In the wilderness we go alone with our new knowledge and strength.

Nuvendil said:
I hold them as equals, but for entirely different reasons. There are areas where Xenoblade Chronicles tops X: while X's central plot (granted, the required story missions are only a small slice of the writing) while good doesn't match the sweeping epic of the original. Unless the last chapter just floors me :P. But then, side content is an area where XCX completely and utterly craps on the original. Almost all of it is tightly unified by the driving underlying narrative, giving the game a sense of unity and tasks a sense of greater purpose. And the game admirably avoids the issue of fragmentation, a problem many other open worlds suffer where the side content and central content are clearly segregated and exist almost completely parallel.

Those are examples of the sort of back and forth the comparison is like for me. Equal, but entirely different. And most importantly, both excellent.

hey..... that was one of the more insightful reads on this sight.   You've actually got me wanting to do the sidequests, and i'm not a sidequest kind of guide.  Nice.  Now heres hoping your comment is accurate.



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man, i've really got to play the original. I'm more of a story guy and am enjoying xcx. Sounds like i'll really enjoy the original. Scarily it's been in my backlog since it's release.



CarcharodonKraz said:
man, i've really got to play the original. I'm more of a story guy and am enjoying xcx. Sounds like i'll really enjoy the original. Scarily it's been in my backlog since it's release.

If you enjoy the combat, scope, and exploration of XCX but like your games story-oriented, I can't recommend the original Xenoblade enough.



noname2200 said:
The original is better in most respect. The combat system in X is better until the postgame, but after that it again falls short to X. None of this is to say that X is a bad game by any stretch, and it does a few things better, but the original has it beat.

The combat in X is good until postgame? Did we play the same game? 



My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first. 

I've gotta marginally give it to Chronicles. The setting, story, characters and music were all exceptional.

I think X has a slightly better battle system. It definitely has better side quests (some of the best in any open world game I've seen), it has a bigger world and it undeniably has more to do (I'm at 80 hours in and still feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

That setting of living on giant robots really just wins it for me though. It also has one of the most likable casts in any RPG and possibly the greatest sound track of all time.



curl-6 said:

Unless we see a dramatic turnaround here, I think it's safe to say at this point that Xenoblade Wii has won this poll.

Almost statistically impossible that you'd have a turnaround.

It's a weird fact about statistics that randomness gives you a representative figure incredibly quickly. If you have a site with about 50,000 users, you only need to really poll the first 100 or 200 and it'll pretty much give you the same percentages as if you polled all 50,000.

Very few people seem to know this.