Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Wins 'Best RPG' At Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards 2022

Best Scenario: Pokemon Violet?

LOL!

Best indie should've been Chained Echoes, just sayin~

As for Xenoblade 3 getting being the best rpg of 2022, congratulations to it. I personally can't get into the Xenoblade series, but I do understand the appeal.

2022 had so many awesome rpgs. Legends Arceus totally revamped Pokemon and it is just ludicrously enjoyable to play. Legends Arceus should've been nominated over Scarlet/Violet. Also finally getting Persona 5 Royal was a huge asset to the switch and outside of Nintendo, Elden Ring was a smash hit. 2022 was great for rpgs, how does one pick?

@Eagly even articles are no escape from your essays

elden ring should have been rpg game of the year it deserved it... this clearly was a biased award show..

@Aurumonado True, I think some plot points make a bit more sense in Scarlet.

@johnedwin Except it literally won game of the year beating XB3 in same category. Bias? No. Inconsistent on their decision metric? Hell yes.

Well, with only three to choose from, then yeah, I guess it wins easily, even coming from a person who disliked Xenoblade 3 in a lot of ways. But when you see stuff like ‘best character: Arven’ with hecking Kirby being an option, then you lose all my respect quickly xD Whatever the awards are worth, that makes the entire thing look like a joke. Best scenario for pokemon? Will you be here all week?

@johnedwin Listen, it got every other award under the sun in every other award show. Just let us have this one.

Well, at least this block of awards recognized Xenoblade Chronicles 3's excellence. However, no matter the list, some of the nominees usually leave me scratching my head....

I still largely dislike any categorization of RPGs that don't look towards a subgenre.

@Eagly This should be put on the back of the box, easy money!

I got as far as seeing Pokemon Scarlet/Violet was nominated for Game of the freaking Year, and read no further.

These awards are a joke.

Kills me that Live-A-Live gets no recognition, but I've gotten more than used to that, I suppose.
Please. Someone. Play it. I need to rant more about it!

I strongly disliked XB3 in many aspects, but good for those that liked it. I would have definitely picked Elden Ring over Xenoblade 3.

@Bobb honestly, the moment I started losing interest in all these awards was probably when I learned that creators/studios/companies have to go out and submit their stuff for consideration. I guess it made sense for, say, the Oscars circa 1929 but much less so for Keighley's TGA that debuted in 2014. If your dedicated "staff" can't even pool the medium it signs up to rank in the information age, then all the talks about them barely playing/watching any of this (as has been alleged about the Academy's feature animation nomination, for one) and mostly going by hearsay level familiarity... don't sound all that farfetched to say the least. But most of it is probably just the same old bias that all of us have, too - just don't get any perks and/or salary for sharing.😆

Xenoblade 3 manages to have echos of 1 and 2 reverberate through it's music, it's graphics and gameplay whilst doing it's own thing. It's genius how this reflects the story which, in typical Xenoblade style has layers of plot twists and touches on the profound. Yeah, well done X3, totally deserved.

@CoastersPaul Totally! Live-A-Live was magical also! But playing Octopath 2 now makes me realize how stellar XBC3 truly is. Can’t wait for more DLC!

As much as I liked Legend Arceus/SV, nominations for Game of the Year and best Scenario? And it even won Best Scenario?

Whilst Xenoblade Chronicles 3 definitely deserves its award there are a few I strongly disagree with.

For starters Pokémon won best scenario? That alone makes me not take this award publication seriously. Then there's best graphics for Elden Ring over the other nominees is a joke, Sonic winning best action adventure over God of War 😂, God of War not even in the game of the year nominees but Pokemon Violet/Scarlet are? No love for triangle strategy either.

And to top it off the game with the most awards Heaven Burns Red is a gacha mobile game.

Having Game freak nominated for the most valuable creator shows how ridiculous these awards can be. I'm still glad Elden ring and XC3 get some proper credit.

Another proof these awards are just about money and marketing, because nominating Pokemon Scarlet for so many categories, when the game is total garbage just proves enough! Even Gamefreak was nominated?! That’s a joke! It’s like because parents buy kids soda and kids loving it because they don’t know any better, nominating soda as the healthiest drink.

@CoastersPaul Live A Live was the best game of last year for me, it was perfect in almost every way. It's terrible it doesn't get more recognition, I agree.

Glad it won something, XC3 seems to have been snubbed by every previous award show thus far. Honestly it deserves best soundtrack by a mile, I fail to see how it hasn't been recognized for that. Everything other category I can see as a competitive toss-up (RPG, story, GOTY) because of contenders like Elden Ring and GOW Ragnarok

@Eagly YESS!!

Pokemon getting best scenario and best character hahahah sure. Heaven Burns Red for best music? We've not had a western release for that at all have we?

@CoastersPaul I agree. Live A Live was one of the best games I played last year, along with XC3 and the Switch port of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. I presume it went somewhat under the radar since it is technically a remake.

shocked Famitsu didn't give pokemon game of the year like they always do, the year Famitsu gave pokemon GOTY over Persona 5 they lose all credibility

@Aurumonado i could only see Pokemon Scarlet/Violet winning best scenario because of the Arven plot, his quest to save his ill Mabostiff must have really resonate with everyone plus -spoilers-he is related with the main antagonist of the game)

@KBuckley27 did Famitsu really give GOTY to Pokemon, the year Persona 5 was released? are you not exagerating?

@UltimateOtaku91 have you seen Arven plot and his quest to save his ill Mabostiff? this is more impactiful then a predictable let save the world, i am the choosen one, i can change my destiny plot as shown on Xenoblade Chronicles 3, everyone relate to someone doing everything to save your family/pet in Mabotiff case

@Arawn93 @johnedwin
Having played both Elden Ring and XC3, I kind of get it. I think Elden Ring deserves Best Game, but although it had a lot of RPG elements, it's not really what I would think of when thinking about that genre. Action RPG almost feels like it should be its own genre.

@Eagly i played the first Xenoblade Chronicles and found it gameplay pretty unagaging

@Giancarlothomaz serious 2016 they gave Sun and Moon GOTY over Persona 5

XC3 was amazing until the end where it bombs so hard. I just hope they do something to make up for the awful ending with the DLC. I feel like it was one of those why did I play this games when it ended.

Pokémon and Game Freak getting nominated for anything at all is absolutely hilarious.

Not gonna lie....Famitsu has about 0 credibility for me.
Glad to see Elden Ring and Splatoon though

Does "Rookie Gane" mean a new IP? Because FromSoftware and Namco are no rookies. Kirby and Splatoon being in the same genre is sus, and Sonic Frontiers winning over God of War speaks maybe to regional bias. I understand it winning over the eventual Game of the Year as that approach (whereby GOTY precludes your also winning your genre category) is a way of honoring more games and preventing sweeps. (I still disagree with that approach for a couple of reasons.) The graphics award seems to heavily favor resolution over art style which is not my choice but is defensible. What is the difference between acting in a video game and voice acting in a video game? Motion capture?

Neat, good for them. Too bad I personally found the combat to be too repetitive at some point and just abandon it.

@Giancarlothomaz if you think Xenoblade 3 is about saving the world then you didn't play it

@philwhite Did you not get the ending? It's one of the smartest in video games. Instead of making you sympathise with complex villains like other xenos, it makes seemingly cartoonish ones only to show you as the player that you're likely just like them. If you're smart it makes you see that part of yourself. The ending challenges you to think, reflect and change for the better.

@bernardtullassa Not what I got out of it. Time loops and rewriting the past is dumb.

Fair enough. I didn't think they did any time loops or rewriting the past. It's an interesting one to discuss but I don't know how to do spoiler tags.

@Eagly SPOILERS -

Right, so he changes the future? By allowing time to continue. Nothing about the past is changed. And time doesn't loop, it's just allowed to continue. I might be missing what you're saying here?

@Giancarlothomaz at least Xenoblade has some voice acting to go along with those scenes