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midrange on 10 November 2015
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exdeath said:
midrange said:

I intend to try once the pc version comes out (It'll be free and on stronger tech). However it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that the game was very very far from perfect. Gameplay videos, reviews, and screenshots are things we can use to judge a game. 


Screenshots and gameplay are what I judged Xenogears on back in the day and dismissed it as "some too bad ass for himself 7eet azn dude fighting in robots action game".  This was coming from the disappointment after FF7 and the start of the earliest days of the decline of gaming into mainstream pop culture lowest common denominator appeal as well.

I played it during 7th gen for the first time and was blown away with the most incredible story I've ever experienced in any form of media.

Along the same lines I understand what todays "gamer market" wants.  They want guns, explosions, and call of duty.  So when I see a niche Japanese studio game getting boring crappy reviews, it's a must play for me.  It's probably good and one of those games that doesn't really get started until 40 hours at which point most reviewers and "gamers" would have given up in an hour even after skipping all the important story cut scenes and intros once they find out they cant just faceroll and blow everything up the moment they have control.

I dont care how big the world is or how bad ass the fighting is. I'm really concerned with the story after the devs said they focused more on action instead of story compared to XC.  Is this game going to make my neck hairs stand up or make me question human civilization and culture and life itself like Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade Chornicles did?

lol we ended up going into devils third not xenoblade X.

It started with someone claiming that Nintendo games like Xeno X get judged harshly for being Nintendo exclusive. He mentioned Devil's third as another example. I responded by stating that people determined that D3 was just bad through screenshots, gameplay, and reviews, not because they were blindly hating on Nintendo.

I've played xenoblade chronicles, I know not to judge a book by its cover. I'm just tired of people thinking that there's a conspiracy against Nintendo and it's games.