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| Hynad said:
I think I have already explained my stance on this well enough. But this better convey what you meant. I still don't see the game the way you do. I have played a lot of JRPGs. I never stopped playing that genre since the original DQ back in the NES era when I was around 8 years old. That may be the reason why I see things differently from you. I don't know. I enjoyed the scale of the world, and felt it handle the exploration aspect in the way I have always loved in JRPG. Something I always miss when it's not as present as it was when I first played that genre. But that feeling, I got it when I played Ni No Kuni, Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia, White Knight Chronicles... I all felt those games did teh JRPG genre justice, and brought back what I liked so much about them when I was younger. |
My first JRPG's were on the NES, SNES, and original Game Boy so I don't see how that can be a huge difference in how we see things. But I'll just sum it up to a difference in priorities. Maybe we are looking at different things within these games and have concluded differently due to that. I still have to say that there is no experience similar to Xenoblade's in the JRPG genre, and when I played the game for the first time I never got a sense of nostalgia, other than a few thematic similarities to Xenogears/Saga I suppose. It felt like something new. Out of the games you umentioned, WKC is one that gave me that feeling as well, but I didn't finish the game because I couldn't really get into it past about ten hours or so. In my opinion, the closest thing to Xenoblade, in all aspects, was Final Fantasy XII (which I originally hated, but has now grown on me.) Even then though, they are very different games and only seem to have surface level similarities (semi open-world, real-time combat reminiscent of MMORPG's, side-quest system, meeting different races in their homelands, etc.)
Despite all of that, Wyrdness' original point still stands. It would be difficult to recreate something that will do everything like Xenoblade and it will take a large budget and a good developer to emulate it. So HollyGamer shouldn't be so sure about the following.
" Tthis game is doing well, i bet another studios will imitate it, there is a lot big publisher especially SE or From Software who will gladly make this kind of game if big company like Microsoft or SONY finance the games development,"
