Xenoblade Chronicles is a Masterpiece!

[Never]

I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

I'm not that into open world rpgs or rpgs with a lot of grinding. I liked that I could just focus on the main story without pressure to do subquests or get bogged down in boring things that take to long. So far I've enjoy the pacing and plot and that's where so many games loose me. It reminded me of a MMO's in many ways. It's as if someone took a solid MMO game engine and used it to build a quality single player game with an engaging story and characters.

If I tried to do the sub-quests I would imagine the game would loose my interest quickly, but that says more about my taste in games.

But I've not finished it yet (Mario maker and new guitar distractions) and it's quite possible I won't like it as much, later on. Rpgs do tend to crank up the grinding over time and it is a long game by all accounts so, at over 20 hours in, there's probably a lot lot more to come. Regardless, it's sold me on picking up the sequel some day.