| Hynad said: That's just what I see when I read your comments. You seem to blind yourself to what other games have done in favor of Xenoblade. When everything it did was done in other games before it. Xenoblade is linear in the same way classic JRPGs were. The plot doesn't unfold in non-linear way. You are still asked to go to pre-determined parts to get the story and the game move forward. Exploration is open, but so is it in DQVIII and many other games in the genre, be them older or of the same generation. You just like the way it was put together in that particular game. So do a lot of people. It still doesn't mean it reinvented anything. |
No I see you overrating other games which have been critically slammed in order to make a point that you can't make. And then you scream bias without ackowledging your own. I'm the one making actual arguments, you are not. Being the first to do something is NOT the same as being the one to reinvent a standard. The Iphone wasn't the first touch screen smartphone, but it reinvented the standard of phones toward touch screen smartphones. Likewise Final Fantasy wasn't the first JRPG, but it reinvented the standards of the genre.
It makes me wonder if you even played Dragon Quest VIII or Xenoblade if you are going to compare it to Xenoblade. They are very different games with very different focuses.
