Playing Xenogears for the first time! 17 hours in and I’m loving it so much. It’s already made a case for being in my top 10-15 favorite RPGs of all time. Every bit of it continues to impress me - it’s incredibly cinematic, bursting with wild ideas, interesting characters, creative-varied gameplay and a super fun combat system, deep world-building and lore, great aesthetics and art work, and just… has such a “cool” factor to it. Plus mechs!!!
Ok I'm 9 days late to your comment, but if you haven't gotten to it, disc 2 is heavily criticized for its instant flip on storytelling. I won't highlight how so you can form your own opinion, but just a heads up. Me? I loved every bit of it, and I enjoy most of Takahashi's works, even if they get released totally incomplete in the bigger picture. I suggest having a good look at the Xeno wiki when you finish, because there's a *TON* of unexplored lore that will fill gaps and give broader context. And yeah, Plus mechs😁 Xenoblade Chronicles X is one of my alltime favorite games, because its massively open-world, character/class creation, and in and out of Gear-ish mechs at-will (even in combat.) It's a shame, because it's a Wii-U game with lore for a sequel, but became a one-off that Takahashi confirmed will never be re-released (map function relies on the controller.) Depressing, but such is life.
@@SteelBallRunner I'd be happy if they only beefed up the texture resolutions and finished the story. Shouldn't have a hard time fitting that onto a blu ray at all.
Man, nobody ever puts Threads of Fate on these lists. Threads of Fate is one of the best PS1 games and a sequel was even teased in the true ending. I was so mad for so many years that it never got a sequel. Now, I've just given up hope completely.
Rogue Galaxy is a certified hood classic. I played it/rented it so much in high school that after the 5th rental the dude at the counter was like "keep it, man". I hope that dude gets everything he ever wanted in life.
Man, that Dragoon soundtrack gets me every time, hit especially hard in the intermission. I would actually love to see a prequel for LoD, the whole journey covering the Dragon Campaign would be awesome. So many other good choices in this video too!
A list that includes LoD, Lost Odyssey and Xenogears? Man I thought it was a list of my top 10 at first lol I wish all of these got sequels. I would so eat it up
I argue that rather than a sequel, that The Legend of Dragoon deserves a remake & prequel. There is so much that happens before the events of the game that it be worth playing through especially with the prior Dragoon Spirit Holders in the Wingly Dragon Campaign War. With a remake it's obvious so much they could improve upon to truly make it better. A better translation, consistent & improved voice acting, updated graphics, better stat balancing for characters like Rose, give Shana & Miranda actual cool additions & not have the exact same stats,(seriously it never made sense why Miranda was as weak as Shana especially since she was a trained warrior unlike Shana prior her joining), different weapons designs visually, bigger inventory capacity, easier inventory sorting management.
So true, they had (have?) so much lore to work with. They even vaguely teased a possible sequel on the ~fin~ screen. Remaster has been a no-brainer for a long time, and I'm sure Sony hasn't heard the last of it.
The fellas are back! Love seeing Thousand Arms on here... so forgotten. And of course Xenogears!!! I'd throw Vagrant Story on there, if you include it as a JRPG.
I remember that Microsoft actually wanted to turn Lost Odyssey into a full franchise, because it was impressed by its sales in both Japan and US. However, due to the some conflicts between Mistwalker and Microsoft that didn't happened and the title didn't get the sequel. Great video as always!
Ugh, Takahashi.... what'm I gonna do with you man...😑 Rant incoming!! The Gears and Saga have almost more back and concept lore behind them then the games themselves. I... "appreciate" the Blade games, even if the storytelling is a bit off-cue of the central lore itself (why the worlds are the way they are.) Also, not having mech combat while alot of enemies themselves are/have mechs was kind of a bummer coming from the prior Xeno games. What's most depressing to me is the treatment Blade-X got. I think there was a latent bias because A: It came out late on a system that was almost a commercial fail, and B: it was nothing like the other Blade entries. It's one of my alltime favorite game, and I can write essays about it. Character creation, classes that could be hybridized, seamless, HUGE open-world with incredible music, mechs that you could customize, take out into the world, explore, fight in and out of them in combat, gigantic enemies to take on. If it had come out on a more successful system, it would've been an instant classic. Too bad that a chunk of its gameplay relied on the cntroller screen, and Takahashi said "it would be difficult to remaster/port" which is Japanese for hell no. A real shame, because like with all his other work, there's a depressingly large amount of lore that was never touched-on.
Awesome video! I really enjoy how you show little clips and moments from the game as they completely give me that "Oh yeah! I forgot about that!" moment. Those are the little things that make me want to replay a game.
Love both those as well they’re super charming. When I went back to revisit Brave Fencer Musashi last year for our retrospective I had a lot of fun with it
Since you didn't mention it in the video Lost Odyssey can be played via backwards compatibility on any Xbox back to the original VCR Xbone and is available to buy digitally and for pretty cheap too. I bought it at release and recently replayed it this way and it works great since it gets some additional graphical filtering and faster loading times.
I love just how much you love Xenogears. You've mentioned it in several different videos, so knowing we both think very highly of this game, you've become a good source of opinions as to which series I should play next. Definitely gonna give The Legend of Dragoon and Skies of Arcadia a try one day and hopefully finally get to play Lost Odyssey even though it will probably never be ported based on what Sakaguchi said recently.
Thank you for saying FF XIII was ok. I really enjoyed them. My son had just been born when I got my ps3 and the man trying to save his son in the first title resonated with me.
Lost Odyssey is one of the most underrated games of all time. Since it was an exclusive on the Xbox 360 and most RPGs were on the PS3 at the time next to nobody played it. Really hoping for a remaster or remake some day.
When you hit the mic! 😂 It's not a traditional JRPG, exactly, but Azure Dreams had a fairly robust for the time dating element, and also could've used a sequel. Great work as always!
I'd enjoy sequels to FFT and FFXII(Advance ones were different). I also liked The Last Story on Wii. We'll see how the new Mana game will turn out. I would have also loved another new game after Terranigma. I generally agree with your mentions. I'd loooove a new Skies of Arcadia and LoD. Also a new Mother game but that won't happen.
In the same line of Rogue Galaxy, I wish that White Knight Chronicles had a chance to evolve, but this time written by someone who knows what they're doing, and a more player-friendly droprate....
There’s some alternate timeline out there where not only did Xenogears get a completed second disc but they then made the first four episodes and episode six. I’d also love for a Vagrant Story sequel, even if it’s a spiritual sequel. That world and gameplay is just too good to leave behind!
It’s CRIMINAL that we don’t have a Lost Odyssey sequel. Hell I just wish they would re-release it again . One of the best JRPG stories out there and the true Final Fantasy 13! As a side note every time I hear even one note from a song on the Xenogears soundtrack I get immediate chills. Best soundtrack of all time and not even close for me.
Rogue Galaxy was one of my favorite games. It really needed a focus on the story, though, and some continuity checkers. It's like they forgot Jupis's name pretty much after introducing him, and the skill tree for Jaster has a dual tech for him and Kisala that references their romance, which isn't explored AT ALL in the game. We need a director's cut to explore some content that I feel had to have been cut out. And the whole idea of the intergalactic war isn't touched on at all. Just "hey, my desert planet is basically enslaved by our galactic government because we can mine supplies they need to support our armies against another galaxy, and oops we made it to the capitol planet and our general wants to start peace talks so our government is good guys now." Definitely want a sequel with a whole new cast that takes place centuries later. Maybe bring back the robot, just to have the link to the first one.
I vaguely remember playing Thousand Arms and Xenogears back in the day and they didn't click for me. I was probably just too young, but they would be ripe for a remake at this point to bring fans in to those games.
Crystalis was an amazing game! We definitely need a new version of a game like that. You also gotta give credit to a game that came out in 1990 that predicted the end of the world in 1997.
Xenogears was the ending episode to Xenosaga. It was originally episode 5 and says so in the credits. However Monolith Software and SquareEnix had a falling out leading to Namco being the new publisher to Xenosaga.
I’m in the same boat, brother. Wondering what the other five Xenogears games could’ve and should’ve been keep me up at nights too. Shit I think about the real 6 episodes of Xenosaga. I would love to go to the reality in our multiverse where the six Xenogears games actually came out
Another great video. I couldn't even think of any games that would qualify for this list that you didn't cover aside from the Saturn rpg's, and even they had Japanese sequels or were a part of Japanese franchises. Albert Odyssey and Dragon Force specifically.
Recently played Lost Odyssey and it blew me away. The music and theme, incredible. Edit - Omg and Secret of Evermore in the same list! Mind blown. Top three game of all time for me.
I love your videos. I would like to see a Child of light sequel. It was such a fun and interesting game. I always recommend it to people looking shorter game that still packs a punch.
I still remember being shocked at just how bad the localization of Wild Arms 2 was. Those segments where the lizard super villain would show up were just straight gibberish. I finished the game, but it was rough. I wonder if it ever got a fan patch?
Great video as always. Noticed other comments saying this but before we get a sequel, Xenogears needs a proper release more attuned to the original vision first.
SNK considered a Crystalis sequel for the Neo-Geo but ultimately decided against it as it would've been a huge contrast to their "true arcade experience at home," strategy.
I know it wasn't very popular, but a complete revamp of Evolution Wars would have been cool - Xenosaga deserved better imo, but i am horrible at JRPGS for some reason so those are the only two i can think of LOL great vid!
I'll settle for a remaster of Lost Odyssey on Steam. A sequel would be nice, but I just want to replay it and with 360 emulation being what it is, it's going to take a while before that happens.
I'm a Xenogears superfan as well but I genuinely wouldn't want it to have a sequel. I just don't like it when stories which feel conclusive in a self-contained manner get add-ons for no reason. Now, as conclusive as Xenogears feels by the end of its run, I can't deny the final "XENOGEARS Episode V The End". The thing is, I don't see how you make Episodes II to IV in a fashion which fits well with Episode V without completely reframing it to accommodate the recurrence present until that episode. You'd also be taking the focus away from Fei's dissociative identity disorder, which I can't help but see as a terrible idea. I'm not confident the plot can stand on the other Contacts' and Antitypes' two feet the way Fei and Elly fly on their shared wings in Episode V. That being said, Xenosaga managed to keep me hooked with Shion outside the spotlight for long stretches of Episodes I and II. Speaking of, when it comes to Episode I, Xenosaga's intergalactic odyssey sort of fits the bill. Furthermore, I'd rather have it as a spiritual successor than insist on shoehorning everything into the Xenogears universe, it allows them to play around with more ideas. Finally, the end of Xenoblade 2 is the only reasonable way to even imply a Xeno Episode VI. For the aforementioned reasons, it is my belief that Xenogears can and has very well done without a sequel, thanks in part to the merits of Xenosaga (which is the Xeno series I would've liked to see more of, it's a shame they had to cram so much stuff into Episode III and couldn't pace everything as initially planned, because I wholeheartedly believe in Takahashi's and Soraya Saga's vision) and Xenoblade 2, but mostly as a result of how paradoxically well-realised it was for its creators' overambitious conception. But, who knows? I would have probably said the same thing about the original Mother back in the day and I would've missed out on what's possibly my favourite game of all time in Mother 3.
This is probably an unpopular opinion: I wish "Beyond The Beyond" got a sequel. The game ended on kind of a cliffhanger that looked like it was going to be resolved in a sequel
Really did enjoy Xenogears, did play the original and as download on PS3, such a good game. Although a very similar yet even more forgotten game that needed to be this list is MS: Saga A New Dawn for PS2. As that game not only introduced quite heavy mech customization in a JRPG, it actually had the Gundam license to use official mecha as well. Would so like either of these games to get a sequel, but the current modern gaming industry would very likely ruin them for very obvious reasons.
I’ve seen all from 1980-Now I have every NTSC-U and NTSC-J console as well as tons of games what a life of gaming every game you named here is good and well deserves a sequel I enjoy RPGs I have every Super Nintendo/Super Famicom PS1 and PS2 RPGs all the memories throughout the decades
You explained my issue with Rogue Galaxy perfectly well, and it's why I still haven't been able to finish it, love the characters, setting, music, but it has too many questionable choices.
The legend of dragoon: i was there when it released and it got a big publicity campain announcing it as Sony´s Final Fantasy. They bet on visuals and FMV to sell the game but it didnt work. Lost odyssey: still waintig for it to be released from xbox. Good writting and music. All this talk of sequels makes me think: 1-the importance of reiteration: lighting in a bottel comes once in lifetime. the rest of the time we need to try, leran and improve and try again. 2- the gaming business become increasingly more risk averse and that is the reason many games and good ideas dont get a second chance. 3-that leads us to the importance of crowd funding as a tool for us to make things happen.
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It would be nice having a sequel to Radiant Historia, but it's kind of a perfect and long game as is. Love it though.
Yeahhh, I feel that about Legend of Dragoon. It was so damn GOOD back in the day. Great memories of it. Playing it again a few years back, it was still good but didnt hit near as hard. Made me want to play FFIX 😂 Kinda like Outlaw Star, it was a great show but rewatching it, some of the flaws show a bit more. Still good! Still recommended! Not quite as rabidly defended 😅
I haven't played a lot of games on this list. But I agree with the ones I have played. Legend of Dragoon 2 where they fix the issues would've been amazing. Xenogears needs a remake with the second disc the same as the first. Secret of evermore definitely had an amazing premise but you're right was not executed fantastically. Would've played a sequel though. Skies of Arcadia is super fun and I can't believe we haven't gotten another.. Who Even owns the rights?
Aren’t Xenosaga and Xenoblade the successors of Xenogears though. I mean the protagonist of the Xenoblade 3 expansion was a blatant reference to Fei from Xenogears. I know they are different stories entirely. So I get wanting a sequel to that particular story.
Rogue Galaxy is an amazing game, and while I agree in a couple cons you mention, it is a bit far fetched the one about sci-fi RPG and you can't control or ship. Even Mass Effect, coming years later, with much better engines, does not let you control your ship besides one simple mechanic. But hey, thank you again for an amazing video. Love your Broductions ;)
Not Vagrant Story! UNACCEPTABLE! That game is not just excellent but ends exactly when he becomes the Vagrant, i sequel was the more logical thing in the world and it never happen... Also, i think what Xenogears needs is a remake not a sequel.
Legend of dragoon is one of the first games I can remember playing. Unfortunately, its hard for me as well to enjoy it as much as I did. For me, its almost entirely because of the translation. I went to school for japanese, and reading the dialouge in LoD honestly doesnt even feel like english to me because of how directly it was translated. A translation mod or something would go a long way in making it better imo
