Xenoblade Chronicles Coming to Switch 2020

[SecondAmendment]

Been wanting to play this classic but can't into Wii. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is one of my favorite jRPGs, and I hear XBC is possibly better.



Head to 39 min mark for XBC announce.

 

[deuxhero]

More observant people have pointed out one of the cut areas appears to be included now.

 

[Rahdulan]

I don't know. Obvious technical levels of difference aside it looks pretty soulless now.

 

[Tiger]

Been wanting to play this classic but can't into Wii. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is one of my favorite jRPGs, and I hear XBC is possibly better.



Head to 39 min mark for XBC announce.

No possibly about it. One of the best games I've ever played and I'm not a fan of Jap RPG games generally. I played it emulated on Dolphin with the HD texture packs. You'll have a blast.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

I all ready own a copy on Wii and 3DS. But fuck it. I'll buy it a 3rd time. Hope hope XCX also comes to Switch. I liked XCX as well

 

[Duraframe300]

Not sure what to think about the more anime art style, but if they add content its hard to say no.

I'd also want XCX down the line. Still at the top for me in terms of open-world exploration.

 

[Talby]

Who cares, just port over XCX, the only game in the series that matters.

 

[Perkel]

Who cares, just port over XCX, the only game in the series that matters.

If you like pointless fetch quests everywhere.

I finished XC and played a good part of XCX and XCX is a fucking mess.

XC manages to get interesting hook for story and manages to offload typical jrpg tropes with amazing art direction, music, pretty nice combat system and few weird stuff that keeps you going.

XCX on other hand has also interesting hook for story but it fails to do as above. While world might looks amazing, atrocious music, pretty shit gameplay, uber shit pacing and retarded fetch quests kill the game. The whole quest structure is such a mess that it deserves topic on its own. Like you take some sidequest and you are completely locked off from doing anything else. If by chance you will take quest to find some monster part and that monster is very hard to find then yes you will be spending hours upon hours trying to find that monster part and you have no option to not do that shitty quest as every other quest is now locked and you can't continue story.

I would love to see XCX with new music, cut down in half leaving main story intact and focusing only on sidequests that matter.

 

[flyingjohn]

Who cares, just port over XCX, the only game in the series that matters.

If you like pointless fetch quests everywhere.

I finished XC and played a good part of XCX and XCX is a fucking mess.

XC manages to get interesting hook for story and manages to offload typical jrpg tropes with amazing art direction, music, pretty nice combat system and few weird stuff that keeps you going.

XCX on other hand has also interesting hook for story but it fails to do as above. While world might looks amazing, atrocious music, pretty shit gameplay, uber shit pacing and retarded fetch quests kill the game. The whole quest structure is such a mess that it deserves topic on its own. Like you take some sidequest and you are completely locked off from doing anything else. If by chance you will take quest to find some monster part and that monster is very hard to find then yes you will be spending hours upon hours trying to find that monster part and you have no option to not do that shitty quest as every other quest is now locked and you can't continue story.

I would love to see XCX with new music, cut down in half leaving main story intact and focusing only on sidequests that matter.

Not to mention the mechs are directly fucked by the pacing.
It takes hours to unlock them and they aren't amazing enough to warrant that wait.

 

[Puukko]

Emulating the original with HD textures is always an option.

 

[Duraframe300]

XCX has amazing pacing (though you have to get into it and you can absolutly fuck up the pacing for yourself.) and the whole *You have to finish the quests thing to continue the story* Perkel is talking about is fake news.

You are limited to 20 simple quests, yes. But those *simple quests" are liiterary just fetch quests.
You can take on as many normal missions as you want + current story or affinity mission.
Taking on fetch or normal quests absolutly DOESN'T lock you out of story missions.

 

[Jenkem]

Xenoblade X is the best one and storyfags shat on it because it focused on exploration and gameplay... and now instead of porting X to the switch so more people can play it compared to Wii U they make a SECOND PORT of shitty storyfag xeno 1

 

[SecondAmendment]

I didn't like XBCX other than the graphics. I don't get the appeal at all. It didn't engage me emotionally at all. Playing it for 10 hours or so was a total chore. It had an interesting setup but poorly designed systems such as combat and progression. The alien design wasn't very strong, either.

I'm glad people find it fun, though. Hopefully it leads to them trying XBC and XBC2.

 

[Abu Antar]

I might pick this up. I played this on an emulator, but sold my copy. It doesn't have the best combat, but it felt like a chill game in general. We'll see.