Can Persona 5/Xenoblade X/Fallout 4 defeat Witcher 3?

That is - as RPG of the year? I think Persona 5 has a shot. I used to be more interested in Xenoblade X, but the previews have been eh. I was really hoping it would be more different than the original. Fallout 4 is going to be amazing, but Persona 5 just has much more riding on it. So that's my pick. What say you, SW?

Absolutely no chance. Xenoblade X by all accounts is mediocre in too many areas, Fallout 4 will be a total disaster on release (it's a Bethesda game) and the mods that fix it won't be ready till next year. Persona 5 will probably be excellent but just doesn't have the mainstream appeal to dislodge Witcher 3.

Which one of those is playstation exclusive?

Persona 5 has the best chance

Lol persona beating Witcher 3.

Nothing will beat The Witcher 3 this year, game is amazing.

Persona 5 will be MINE RPG of the year so i don't care about the "Oscar Award" The Witcher 3 will get.

I Gifted Witcher 3 to a friend on steam and i didn't even finished it

Nope. I get that Persona 5 is all the JRPG rage but nope. Witcher 3 = GOTY

Not a goddamn motherfucking chance.

Xenoblade X and Fallout 4 almost certainly will be

Doubtful, but we'll see.

Xenoblade and Persona have no chance. Fallout might because Bethesda is still better than CDPR at creating believable worlds.

Persona 5 will be better. Fallout 4 may have a chance. Not too sure about Xenoblade.

Pedigree matters, folks.

Ahem

Yes, Persona 5 will be better, hence it will be a better RPG, hence, it will be RPG of the Year.

@charizard1605: No, he means RPG of the year as in THIS year. 2015.

I know :]

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I mean, released in the west. Japan only releases don't count.

Not as far as GOTY awards go, but Witcher is the only one I don't want to play, personally.

lol keep dreaming.

Witcher 3 is the shit, lol WiiU

lol no...

Fallout 4 will i think because they'll blitz media, advertising and push presales. and build off the last game sales.

Xenoblade X will beat the Witcher for me. I might have made a mistake going from Dark Souls to the Witcher 2 but i just dont care for the Witcher, i cant stand that combat. Its looks pretty and all, but just not for me. Anyway, Xenoblade X will hold us over until Zelda comes.

Xenoblade X is quite a monstrous game. And there's tons of footage available.

I'm pretty sure if Fallout 4 does come out this year it will murder everything

Fallout 4 will have the best shot at wresting the awards from the mainstream publications, because it's the only one with the kind of large appeal to make them notice. Early Xenoblade opinions don't sound like it's going to be a GoTY candidate anyhow. Persona 5 is my most anticipated game this year, but I know the entire series has sold less than W3 or Fallout 4 are likely to do by themselves.

No worries though. Video game awards are just opinions made for fun talking points. And I'd have no issues with any quality RPG getting some recognition.

It's all personal preference. P5 must seriously screw up hard to not be better than TW3 but I can't see that as a possibility at all.

You're all in for a shock when Persona 5 sweeps the mainstream critics off their feet. Especially in today's politically correct, socially liberal climate, this game will thrive.

I certainly hope so.

Looks like Fallout 4 is gonna pack a heavy punch

Xenoblade? No chance in hell. It's not exactly getting goty reception in Japan.

Fallout 4? I don't know...maybe? I thought some of the stuff they showed off at E3 looked cool, but some of it also looked really rough.

Persona 5? What is that game? We barely know anything about it.

In light of be3 fallout4 can

probably in sales..I think it will have a larger audience and they'll push it more.

After playing an hour or two of The Witcher 3, this is my answer:

Though Persona 5 could be a game that rivals The Witcher 3 and a game that I prefer if it can exceed Persona 4 Golden's greatness.

but how long will that hype last, that's the question...

@jg4xchamp: npcs in witcher 3 don't even move from their designated spots. Why is the blacksmith still hammering away at 2am?

@mems_1224: Huh? This... Does not happen.

@charizard1605: yea it does. The npcs feel like regular npc, skyrim at least gives the illusion that they have their own lives. Also, you can't even attack npcs

@mems_1224: What are you talking about? At night people are in their houses asleep, city squares are deserted. I've been in towns when they awake and have followed them around doing their routines. They react to poor weather. I've seen blacksmiths out late as well (which could be a bug or intentional) but it's bullshit what you're saying. NPCs do keep to schedules.

CDPR has outclassed Bethesda in world building. It's not even funny to the degree either. And you can't attack NPCs because it doesn't fit with the fiction and Geralt's character.

@MirkoS77: so where does shady individual #3647373 live? What does he do besides walking around the city all day?

And I'm talking about the named npcs in the witcher 3, for the most part they sit in the same spot 24/7.

Sorry but witcher 3's world still falls well short of skyrim. I have yet to see a random dragon attack a city in witcher 3

I just want games to be fun.

If P5 were to succeed solely because of the forced political correctness themes that silly reviewers want to push so hard, then that's not really a feat regarding the game's overall quality. :P

Cant disagree more. No random dragon attacks because there are no random dragons left in that world. Didn't you play Witcher 2?

Just got my Pip boy edition pre ordered

Dengeki called it "perfection" and "masterpiece". Famitsu also said they loved the game, but docked points only for having a lot of cutscenes. Yes, that's the only complaint they mentioned in their review.... and yet this is the same magazine that gave the FFXIII trilogy very high scores. This is also the same magazine that gave Demon's Souls a low score when it came out. Famitsu scores don't mean much these days.

@cainetao11: way to miss the point. There are still other dragon like creatures and other monsters in the witcher. It doesn't have the randomness that Bethesda games do

While it's interesting to see how chaotic Skyrim's world can be when the dragons are programmed to randomly attack settlements, that sort of interaction isn't particularly deep. Yeah, dragons can kill villagers in the world (or at least the ones the game says can die), but there's no deeper story that arises from that. For instance, if the blacksmith in Riverwood gets killed by a dragon, his wife will remark how much she misses him and how difficult it is to raise a daughter on her own--right after her husband is killed, literally the second after. That dialogue doesn't change, and it doesn't change if, say, you murdered the blacksmith. To me that's very immersion-breaking, and it takes me out of the world.

While The Witcher 3 is a much more controlled world where your interaction with NPCs is a lot more limited, it makes up for this with an absurd amount of sidequests with a surprising amount of story to them. It's extremely rare that a sidequest or even a Witcher contract will be the same as another: there are unique characters for each and Geralt can choose how events unfold in even the most mundane of side quests. I think that sort of handcrafted approach builds the game's world much better than the AI interactions in Skyrim.