Digital Foundry writes:
Since its acquisition in 2007, Monolith Soft has become one of Nintendo's most prolific development partners thanks to both its assistance on first-party projects and, more importantly, its work on Xenoblade Chronicles. This large-scale RPG series has become one of Nintendo's key pillars in the RPG space and for good reason - its robust technical underpinnings, gorgeous vistas and strong storbytelling all work in tandem to create something unforgettable and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is no exception.
NE: "Today, we're taking on the difficult task of ranking every single game in the Xenoblade Chronicles series from best to least best."
For me, Xenoblade 2 and 3 and Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth are the best JRPGs or RPGs in general ever made. Yes, they even surpassed Expedition 33 in my honest opinion. Before, the Tales series was among my favorites, but I was very disappointed with their last game, Tales of Arise. Its world has become linear and not as expansive as their previous games. Fortunately, its battle gameplay is still very good. I hope that in the next Tales game, they will expand the game even more.
Hoping for a new Xenoblade game from Monolith Soft in this year's Nintendo General Direct. And it should be a Switch 2 exclusive.
Yeah, Xenoblade 2 and 3 are amazing. I would have put Xenoblade 2 in first and 3 in second if I was ranking them.
The "worst" Xenoblade game is still better than 95% of games out there. Xenoblade 2 is my favorite rpg ever. All the Xenoblade games have incredible characters, soundtracks, voice acting, stories, world design and combat (save for Xenoblade 1 whose combat, while good, is not incredible).
NE: "We look at each Xenoblade Chronicles game's performance on Nintendo Switch and how each one would be impacted by a Switch 2 Edition or patch."
What makes it even sadder is that if you jailbreak your Switch 1, it actually runs those games better than the Switch 2. Since you can, on the fly, change the rendering resolution and overclock the device to handle it.
I’m currently playing Xenoblade X like that and it’s great, no FPS drops, and even in handheld mode, the game looks very clear. Though, I have to say, I’m still a bit divided on whether I like or dislike the changes they made from the Wii U version. On one hand, everything looks cleaner and the models feel more alive, but on the other hand, it looks less unique.
Saying X looks less unique is not something I ever expected to read. I think the character models look quite a bit better in the Switch version (not that I thought they looked bad in the Wii U version). The world and monster design are some of the best I've ever seen in video games though I'll still give a slight edge to Xenoblade 2's world design. Leftherian Archipelago is my favorite location in any video game from a visual standpoint followed closely by endgame of Xenoblade 1.
If you think the Switch version models look unique, I have dozens of anime titles to sell to you.
I was talking about the world and monster design being unique, not the character models. Guess I should have made that clearer.
Nintendo Switch 2 updates for the original Switch titles are now live, including an unexpected update for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
The lead image for this article has Kirby and the Forgotten Land in it, however the update is not released until the 28th of August.
Asphalt legends unite is now a more stable / consistant 60fps on SW2 where it would drop frames constantly on SW1.
Feels weird that a new console has launched and there's hardly any news about it on here. Not blaming this place, I haven't seen much news about it anywhere.
@CDbiggen - I don't know what news you were hoping for. The system is a better Switch in every regard. Switch 1 games are running better on Switch 2 even without patches as reported by lots of outlets including DF.
It's not going to stop the world in its tracks though, for the first time it's just a better version of a previous console, much like PlayStation for example.
Not really. It seems very dated. We are in 2022 and not in 2015. But you can play portable and nobody really thinks of graphics when talks about the switch. Nintendo should already launched the switch 2, but because it's selling high they won't in the near future...
Because of this game, I will stay away from my PS5 until GoW Ragnarok arrives on november or after finishing this game. Only 2 days left for this!!!
Is this Steam deck verified?
i feel like they had to sacrifice alot of resolution and framerate opportunities because of it tho.