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Xenoblade X focuses a lot more on open-world exploration and great sidequests (of which many feed into one another and have overarching plots) while having a weaker main storyline. Some people who love the main series have a distaste for X and vice versa. On the other hand, there are plenty who like both X and the main series.
Combat wise? Probably, it's very similar. Otherwise...The main thing that sets this game apart from the others is its exploration, and how it handles the idea of having high level enemies everywhere. Xenoblade Chronicles normally flirts with the idea, and it can be easy to find yourself in a place where everything can kill you with a thought. In Xenoblade Chronicles X, this is the entire game, so exploration often involves seeing how much you can cheeze your redonculously high jump to get around high level enemies. Pro tip: Hearing based detection doesn't work like it does in the mainline series, so hearing based enemies will attack you no matter how slow you're moving if you get too close. All in all, this is both a pro and a con depending on how you look at it.
In a sane world, you still wouldn't be. Sadly, the game turning into something lacking any curatorial vision, discretion, or identity will be very good for selling copies, so it will probably happen.
This is actually fixed in the Switch version, because everyone win xp, not just the one active in your party, so you can take more liberty with trying different teams without being punished.
Assuming that Sakurai’s 2021 project is different from SSB, I think planning or development probably started in 2023 or 2024, so I’ll say that anything after early 2024 would be ineligible here.
I wonder how the smash fanbase would react to a genhin rep.
Probably get very weird about it.
i think we oversell a lot of characters chances
Almost certainly the new game will have its own website like all the others. But it's highly likely that any news or updates will be reposted onto Nintendo Today as well. I mean, it's kind of a slam dunk to put it on the literal daily news app. Basically, I think it'll be both.
Sometimes the opposite since Smash is unpredictable in some cases.
exactly.
We probably do alot because of characters like Sora, Steve, Banjo-Kazooie, Sephiroth, and how Sakurai has talked about characters who were notably requested like Sans, Dante, Shantae and Dragonborn.
I mean technically it was supposed to be since it was announced for the Switch like 5 years ago, but I imagine the Switch would have a hard time handling that so that may be what's taking so long and making Genshin on Nintendo systems a possible Switch 2 thing lol
I would be fine with a Genshin rep, but i have to admit i don't like the Genshin fanbase one bit, but the game itself is fine.
The anti-Genshins also get pretty bad, which was what I was referring to.
Yeah, those type of games are huge nowdays, it would make sense to add at least one, i guess it depends if Nintendo is interesteed or not at the moment, which is hard to say.
Yep, i'm sure we'll get at least one or two characters that most people didn't saw coming, not necesarily another Piranha Plant, but something like a Rune Factory rep, Legend of Mana rep or Borderlands rep that isn't particulary expected by most people.
Although it technically already happened since Fire Emblem Heroes has two tracks.
I do not want Gacha games or games that focus on microtransactions represented in Smash Bros.
I don't wholly disagree on principle but I think dying on this hill would be foolish with how common microtransactions are in the industry. Feel like it's inevitable that we eventually get a game represented in Smash that doesn't perfectly align with your ideal ethics toward consumers... I mean, depending on who you ask, Nintendo themselves have already breached this trust. Even Smash itself depending on how we define microstransactions.
Dr. Mario is already in Smash Bros.
I do not want Gacha games or games that focus on microtransactions represented in Smash Bros.
I don't completely disagree with you, but…we've had DLC in Smash since 4, and I don't think that's about to change for the next game.
I do not want Gacha games or games that focus on microtransactions represented in Smash Bros.
And people want Dr. Goomba Tower despite being from that. :VDr. Mario is already in Smash Bros.
Dr. Goomba Tower is probably one of the least weirdest. How the heck is Dr. Mario World the latest and only game to feature and bring back Baby Wario of all characters, since his last appearance on Yoshi's Island DS?
I personally don't see anything wrong with a character from a live service game, gacha game, or online-only game joining if the game is popular enough. Jinx, Sylvanas, or Aether/Lumine joining Smash Bros. wouldn't be any different than characters from non-live service game joining. At the end of the day, they'll just be from a live service game instead of a traditional game, that would be the only real diference in-game.
Genshin having an EoS sounds very far-off, but I think it's likely it'll get an offline version like what happened with Mega Man X Dive.
I mean it's definitely likely a ways off and likely to get that, that's just my general personal opinions on gacha game characters, though a lot of the big names in the space have kind of already proved themselves as long running endeavors like FGO and Granblue lol
Because they're afraid of having to add a Baby Waluigi into the mix.
And Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. We can add that to the list of games that got an Offline version.
I think the main thing is that Smash Bros is partly an advertisement for a lot of video game series as well, particularly third-party titles. So effectively advertising a game that is a gacha like Genshin Impact is just iffy to me, it's like if something you enjoyed started advertising gambling sites.
Basically my thoughts. No hate towards anyone who likes Genshin, I just don't jive at all with the way the game is set up and the kind of experience it provides.
Sure but FE and Pokemon both have ongoing gachas right now. Granted those both came long after both were added to Smash and they're not the sole identity of the series but the door's already been busted open from the inside all the same.
Fair enough.
