Are Xenoblade and Xenoblade X considered action RPGs or

Cooldown combat I guess. The offline mmo comments are pretty accurate, and I like both games.

Whatever the generic mmo combat is called.
The waiting for cooldowns thing.

>>376417046
RTS RPG

>>376417046
Both are MMOs

Xenoblade is more close to turn based, because of freeze time gameplay.

Xenoblade X is more close to action-based because of combo, animation lag, and generally rewarding offense and risk taking.

>>376419316
>freeze time gameplay

What

What class should I use for my third playthrough of X? I used the sniper class the first time and shield class the second time.

>>376419561
Star crusader is fun as fuck

>>376419402
chain attacks

>>376419561
I like blasting shit with Raygun personally.

>>376419659
>>376419762
That's the lightsabers and raygun class right? I was leaning more towards that than full metal jaguar

>>376419834
go for it, that class a little slow to begin. Once you get overdrive, it's one of the best pre-built overdrive classes. Raygun and knife pair like bread and butter.

>>376419659
That's only a small part of the combat though, I don't think it's right to call it freeze frame combat

>>376420656
>small part of the combat
>chain attacks

You can get to Eryth Sea without it, but late game, it's all chain attacks. There is no point in not building it up.

>>376419561
Knife and Shield if you arent a scrub

>>376421050
How the fuck do you use two melee weapons?

>>376421197
Knife and raygun if you aren't a scrub.

>>376420972
It's probably more efficient to use the party gauge for revives/future prevention (unless you topple lock), but chain attacks are more fun to do

>>376419834
enforcer/psycorrupter/mastermined is knife and raygun

the other one switches to lightsaber/psycholaunchers after enforcer

>>376419561
I roll javelin/psycholaunchers personally

Honestly the one thing that X's combat needed most desperately was a way to switch which party member you controlled on the fly. (say, with up/down on the d-pad since they do nothing anyway). Would have:
-fixed waiting on cooldowns, making the system as a whole more fun
-made combos more varied and interesting
-made soul voice pickups more useful by giving the player a say in who capitalizes on what calls
-made literally everyone that's not the player character useful

Like really why didn't they do that?