By Furious Francis, editor in chief
Xenoblade was one of the best games released this year period. Boasting a heavy 92 average on metacritic with countless perfect review scores, Xenoblade was the best JRPG to come out this generation. But many US gaming publications are leaving it off of their overall game of the year considerations (Gametrailers, IGN, GameInformer, to name a few), instead opting to crown it Wii/Wii U game of the year. In other words, a cop out. Xenoblade deserves to be in every ballot for game of the year, what Monolith Soft did with the ancient Wii hardware was nothing short of a miracle. The Wii was not liked by many gaming outlets, the shunning of Xenoblade in Game of the year results has me to believe Xenoblade is getting the shaft because it's on the Wii. If Xenoblade was on the PS3 or 360, do you think it would have received more overall Game of the Year nominations?
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I loathed the voice acting REYN TIME and the graphics were awful.
I enjoyed the gameplay though and the open world was cool.
People claiming it's the best RPG this gen though are sadly mistaken.
But because you didn't like it we must all be mistaken??
You can come down off your high horse anytime now..
Never said any reviews were wrong.
Never said I was better than anyone else.
Pretty sure my comment starts off with I really think...
You know? something called an opinion?
First off, nobody said it was the best RPG this gen, but sites are claiming it is one of the best RPG's this year.
I understand it is only your opinion and I respect that, but making a statement that says if anyone thinks this is one of the greatest RPG's is wrong takes it from being an opinion and turns it into an insult.
I wasn't trying to be rude to you on my first comment, so I apologize for it coming across like that.
I've seen many people claiming it to be the best RPG this gen and "in my opinion" they are wrong.
I wasn't trying to state it as a fact nor insult anybody here.
If you enjoy the game then great good for you.
"I wasn't trying to insult you on my first comment"
Well okay then. I wasn't trying to insult Xenoblade fans lol after all I do think it's a good game.
edit: Apology excepted =)
Like, if you say "I like blue", people here will say "do you think that because you like blue nobody can like red?", "oh, so because you like blue, it's the best color of them all?", "stop being a snob and saying that everybody has to think like you" and whatnot.
But in this last phrase of yours, unfortunately you are actually saying that everybody is wrong just because you have a different opinion. You could've said "I don't agree with them", "I think there are better games", or things like these, but saying that people's opinions are wrong just make you really look like a snob.
No doubt best RPG of the year The Last Story..
You can state what makes a game so special without the cliche attacking people bs.
If your audience is jrpg/rpg gamers, since that is really the only type that would even be here. That was a useless slight against hd gamers, and makes you look like a new nintendo trolls alt account.
Raff's comment sounded sincere to me and I certainly wasn't offended, even though I consider myself a hardcore gamer with zero interest in this game.
I would buy a lot of HD remakes from the Gamecube and Wii on my Wii U.
other than that the rest of the game was pretty cool.
I really liked the voice acting too. The all European cast made the game that more different. Very few times have I run into a game with real British/English accents and I do wish other games use more legit-brit people in their voice work.
It's mainly because it's a wii game that no one really took a look at it. The only 2 games I played on the wii this year were both Xenoblade (being the best RPG I played this year) and The Last Story. Xenoblade would've easily won game of the year for me, why? It was something new and hit that nostalgic jrpg sweet-spot that I used to have back in the day. I simply had a better experience and more fun playing Xenoblade than Mass Effect 3 (which is less of an rpg when compared to 2) and Journey (Compared to Xenoblade, Journey should've been called "The Trip"). ME and Journey aren't bad games at all, I just consider Xenoblade better because of my personal tastes.
I'm still gushing over this game. It was that good, IMO.
But I am just not a fan of the wii
What? Skyward Sword was awful, it insulted me as a Legend of Zelda fan.
There are some gems in the Wii's library, to be sure. But you're delusional if you think, for some reason, that developers by and large worked HARDER on the Wii because they couldn't just get by on graphics.
Fun fact: The term shovelware came from the Sega CD.
A lot of great Wii games besides the classic Nintendo franchises went under the radar. So far under the radar that most gaming journalist don't even know that they exist. No doubt these games would have been noticed had they been on an HD console. That's the sad part.
xenoblade looks AMAZING in true 1080p hd at 60 frames, and so do 90% of wii games, I have not turned my wii on in years, i buy the games, rawdump them and play them on pc!
the drive you need is a lg gdr 816
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
(watch in 720p or even better 1080p, it looks even better actually on your pc!)
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
maybe they will make it in 1080p for nintendos next console
xenoblade is the best game i played since ocarina of time. it really is that amazing
if you haven't played it you really are missing out
1080P
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering
Welp, you get the idea.