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ehhhh XB2 does have a separate main story but the end chapters very strongly connect it to the first

as a XB1 fan playing XB2 that stuff got me mad hype, and it's hard to imagine XB3 not continuing off of that

X on the otherhand yeah it's pretty much entirely separate, not counting the XB2 DLC that I can't imagine being canon

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I wouldn't mind playing Xenoblade 1. I've only avoided it since the definitive edition came out because I hear it was like 50% random side quests. I can probably get over it.

this isn't really true at all? like yeah there are lots of quests but you don't at all have to do them and most are passive auto-complete stuff. If you do all the sidequests you will be wildly overleveled for the main game anyways.

I personally enjoyed the sidequests because the world building is great (always love a Majora's Mask Bombers Notebook system), but I don't think it would be up your alley and as such you can skip it