If anything it's underboobed.

The game has too many serious flaws to be underrated. The biggest one is the low quality of most quests, for example "The repair job". Such primitive and stupid kill X find X quests with no additional information are not state of the art anymore. In a modern RPG, quests need to be meaningful and offer great innovative gameplay. Affinity missions lock you out of the story for many sometimes very boring hours and kill the freedom that a modern RPG should offer.

Another one are that gamepad features are forced on the player and do not provide extra value. If played with a more convenient and more fluid Pro Controller, the game misses central features and you need to switch between controllers all the time.

It is still a good game but even the original Xenoblade has a better and much longer story, better music, better art direction, better world and character design, better character switching and more freedom when to continue with the story.

Both Xenoblade games lack content density because the world feels empty and does not allow real interaction. The world of Xenoblade X feels smaller than the world of Skyrim (despite being actually much bigger) because there is almost nothing in it, no cities, villages, castles, (almost no) caves, underworld.

What makes the original Xenoblade great is the deep non-stop story telling which makes easy too skip side quests and overlook the flaws butte the story in Xenoblade X is hidden.

My rating for X would be a 7.5 / 10 while the original Xenoblade Chronicles would get a 9.5.

I'd say more like over rated. It's not a bad game, but if it were released on Xbox One and PS4 instead of Wii-U, it would have been over looked and buried by other, bigger budgeted games. The Wii-U helped it's cause be having nothing like it... so it stood out.

Yes...

Because none of us have been playing "Elder Scrolls" since "Daggerfall".  

Apparently somebody missed the fact that "Skyrim", "Witcher 3" and, "Fallout 4" can literally all fit within the world of "XCX" together with shoulder room. 

I'm not making any outrageous claims that it's the best of those three, but "Xenoblade" definitely stands out as a sandbox RPG on its own merits - not just as something different on the Wii U. 

The game would have been better received if it would have been released at the same time in the rest of the world, Nintendo fu$%ed it up. Why does Nintebdo spend the money to make a high budget exclusive game and then treating it like its nieche in the west?

imho is the other way around, but i cant really tell for sure.... I am an atheist

Overrated by nintendo fan(boy)s
Also the battle system is complete mediocre, look at similar robot game (Gundam Breaker), that's how you should do robot battle, Action.

User warned -RavenXtra

And that makes it better than those... why?

Xenoblade is big, sure. But many of you here consider it the best thing since sliced bread and the only argument that's brought up is that it has a massive map. How does it make it good, when the map is mostly barren and only serves as a battleground with barely anything unique to find other than monsters? That, or people mention that it has unmatched art direction. Which I really don't see. Ni No Kuni, for example, had much better art direction. And so does Zelda U. And when it comes to the other parts of its game design, it may have some interesting ideas, but the execution feels archaic on most accounts. That's not mentioning the very badly designed user interface. 

Don't get me wrong. I am currently playing the game (Don't believe me? Add me: NNID = Hynad81), and it's still quite fun and mostly a joy to explore. But for all it does very well, it does something bad on the side. For me, it prevents it from feeling as good as the greats that came before it. 

Give me a break. This is overrated, that is underrated, blah blah blah. Just play the games you enjoy and don't think so hard about critics or scores. Games are totally subjective anyway. The scores have no meaning to your personal experience at all!

All games you mentioned have serious flaws as well and serious bugs on top. Xenoblade X plays easily in the same league as these games in terms of quality.

But XCX is not as mainstream and more complex as Fallout or Witcher and it is always hard for a niche game to be recognized by mainstream media.