Everyone's excited for Xenoblade X DE now, but I still clearly remember how much Xenoblade 1 fans hated the Wii U original for being different from 1. Said hate became less prominent once Xenoblade 2 released... because then they went on to hate Xenoblade 2 instead. - ThreadSky

gbaspgamer.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Everyone's excited for Xenoblade X DE now, but I still clearly remember how much Xenoblade 1 fans hated the Wii U original for being different from 1.
Said hate became less prominent once Xenoblade 2 released... because then they went on to hate Xenoblade 2 instead.

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emmyisonbluesky.bsky.social•6 days ago

OG xenoblade 1 fans were just weird, they all left after realizing the series loved xenoblade as a whole instead of their headcanons

zoomzeta.bsky.social•6 days ago

"the series loved xenoblade as a whole". What? You mean players or Monolith Soft love this franchise?

emmyisonbluesky.bsky.social•6 days ago

monolith soft

gbaspgamer.bsky.social•7 days ago

So much of my early experience with the Xenoblade fanbase was just Xenoblade 1 fans hating everything that isn't Xenoblade 1 and it's really no surprise why I didn't like this fanbase for such a long time. They can still be pretty exhausting, actually.

weirdawareness.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thats a fair amount of fanbases tbh. Thats why I dont hang out in online spaces with fanbases. I usually just keep it between friend

(I need to try the Xenoblade series though. One of my friends will fangirl about it for hours)

gbaspgamer.bsky.social•7 days ago

Xenoblade X turned out to be a very, very important game to me, so seeing so many people being like "It's not Xenoblade 1 >:(" was not a fun time at all.

freelywillynilly.bsky.social•7 days ago

I finished 2 not liking it as much as 1 but after a quick replay it ended up being my favorite, so I think I dodged becoming an annoying Xenoblade 1 fan.

Excited to play X the first time with the DE version nevertheless.

thaliarchus.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’ve bounced off the other Xeno* games (though by all accounts they’re good) but I’m nevertheless curious about this one because you can ride a giant robot (after many hours of gameplay).

killingangel.bsky.social•7 days ago

i think people just wanted more of the same and got mad when it wasnt

but 2 made a lot of people realize X wasnt trying to copy 1 and was its own thing and to judge it on its own merits

i rly think the reception will be kinder this time

awesomejess.bsky.social•7 days ago

I feel like the last 15 or so years of gaming have been JUST people hating on the new game, unless it's nearly free of any mistakes, bugs, errors, anything like that, when the games before weren't really held to the same standards.

zoomzeta.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, but then 7 years, 1 DE and 3 came along, and now X is coming for a comeback. Suffice to say, time has been kind to this franchise.

thewoodmasta.bsky.social•6 days ago

As they should

demurer.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hope now with DE coming out, people will realize that X was one of the most important games to come out in the 2010's

thenbexperience.bsky.social•7 days ago

I think maybe those people just don't like the series. They kinda enjoyed that one Wii game though

benjammin105.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nobody hated 3 when it came out though. Progress

frishmous.bsky.social•5 days ago

I was introduced to the series via Chuggaaconroy’s playthrough of XC1, later when I had a Switch and he had started his playthrough of 2, I stopped watching so that I could buy the game and experience it myself.

I didn’t have the chance to play the game on Wii U, but I’m excited to on Switch.

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