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Hynad on 14 April 2015
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sc94597 said:
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. 

The standard existed way before Xenoblade was made. That standard was neglected during the last generation, and Xenoblade contributed to making it come back. But it didn't set it.

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. 

How hypocritical of you to talk about ad hominem.

You haven't made any arguments. All I've read so far is you saying that you love Xenoblade in part because of its scale, trying to pretend it reinvented a genre and set a new standard. Despite said standard having been there all along and done by other games before it. I say It brought back that standard.  You don't agree. Instead, you're trying to force your view of the game on me, and make me say things that I just don't see in that game, despite, yes, having played it (and yes, Dragon Quest VIII as well. Who do you think you are? xD).

You say I am overrating other games, yet here you are having nothing but praise for Xenoblade. Who's overrating anything, again? So, we're going to have to agree to disagree on this topic because you seem to be way too emotionally invested for me to get a reasonable discussion with you about this.