Xbox RPG fans are in heaven for February 2025 with insane lineup

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Pirate Yakuza and then Avowed for me!

Thanx for protecting us from us lol

With four bangers to choose from the sensible choice is to go with the one that’s on Game Pass and thus avoid the need to spend any more money. So Avowed it is, then. Hope it’s good!

A lot of these nothing articles as of late.

Just waiting on Lunar Remastered Collection in April myself

All hail the backlog...

Well, Avowed will be on GP, so I will check it out. But none of the games get me excited.

I don't really count Monster Hunter games as RPGs.

I also found myself completely bored with Western-style RPGs for like 20 years now. They're all so grim-dark. I can't even remember the last one I actually enjoyed... maybe Morrowind, but I definitely did not play that for the story but rather because I was able to enchant a shirt I named "Holy Crap, a Flying Cat!" which maxed my jump stat for 2 seconds and allowed me to jump 2/3 of the way across the island in a single leap (and then required me to sleep off the fall damage for like 4 days straight).

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, on the other hand, looks like a friggin blast.

KesStephenson said:JRPG and action RPG are not mutually exclusive. There are more action JRPGs than turn-based JRPGs. And don't forget that tactical-strategy JRPGs, both real-time and turn-based, are very popular in Japan as well.

The early western western computer RPGs were turn-based because they were based on table-top RPGs, DnD in particular. The early JRPGs were based on visual novels and their combat mechanics featured real-top action mechanics. It was not until the Wizardry Series was localized in Japan that turn-based JRPGs became popular.

Western Final Fantasy players generalized that the turn-based mechanics of early games in the series were a characteristic of JRPGs. If western players had been better exposed to the action RPG games of JRPG pioneer, Nihon Falcom--the Dragon Slayers and Ys Series among others--they would have realized that JRPGs cannot be characterized by their combat mechanics.

DrDaveWatford said:The smartest choice is probably to play the games launching into Game Pass first. By the time you get to the other ones you wanted to get, they'll have had a price drop.

i like rpgs, but i would play non of them.

I decided to skip KCD 2 this time. I want to start and get all achievements on KCD 1 (150 hours or more) so I'll do that at some point before the summer (hopefully) and then get KCD 2.

I will get Civ 7 and then Avowed. These 2 are a must 100% achievements for me.

Then, of course, Yakuza Pirate in Hawaii. Looks incredible. Wanted to get 100% achievements on Infinite Wealth but probably won't have the time for it. So Yakuza Pirate looks fun.

Monster Hunt Wild, of course. Can't wait.

Hyped for avowed and a return to the pillars of eternity universe

KCD2 is not on my radar. The first one was ambitious but technically shoddy, the load times were abysmal.

Avowed is yet another example of Obsidian copying Bethesda's homework.

And Yakuza / Like a Dragon is suffering from franchise fatigue. There's been like 5 games in the past 2-3 years.

Have not seen Monster Hunter and I'm not interested either. The only game from this month that I'll consider getting is Tomb Raider.

Breath of fire collection where are you?

Great lineup indeed

I'm waiting for Avowed. Come to think of it, one thing I like about it is his non-megalomaniac Triple-A dimension, as the devs says.

I'll try Avowed since it's on GamePass. But I'm not spending money on the others or, if I did, I'd get 'em on PS5 over Xbox.

MelodicVirus118 said:Man if New Vegas was an example of Obsidian “copying Bethesda’s homework” then I’d suggest they spent time correcting all of Bethesda’s wrong answers along the way and should probably just do all of Bethesda’s homework for them in the future. I don’t know if Avowed will be good, personally I haven’t been impressed by anything I’ve seen but it could be. All I know is Bethesda never managed to make a Fallout game as good as New Vegas. What Bethesda seems to make are ambitious messes that never quite seem to fit together and often have individual parts at war with one another like with Fallout 76. This failing, of course, isn’t limited to Fallout games, it’s pretty much their MO.

I would argue Bethesda hasn’t done anything impressive in decades (unless an impressive mess is what we’re looking for, they do seem pretty good at that).

Can Obsidian? Well there’s still hope I guess. I mean probably not, but there’s hope.

MH Wilds seems to have a smart evolution of their core formula going on and I am interested to see if the core fanbase loves it and if it can draw in new fans. I expect they’ve done little to alleviate the grind though the more open world game play replacing discrete missions may actually do a lot to hide that feeling from the player of running the same route for a fourteenth time to get a 4th Chimerawhatsits left pinkie toe and craft their very ugly yet functional helmet that will finally boost their uberflippin buttdrop skill by a marginal degree.