I will always love Gears as a formative experience in my gaming past. My love of Saga as a spiritual successor kinda waned pretty quickly. I'm not entirely positive I ever finished it. I remember being close to the end and getting pieces for like a Voltron-esque super robot, but for the life of me I have no idea how Saga 1 actually ended, and I never bothered getting the second or third. I did eventually by the second one recently for my fiancee, but the third game I would have to sell a kidney to get at this point and I'm not sure it's worth the trouble, because she didn't even finish the second game. May have to stick with emulation on that one

I adore Chronicles, but in two attempts, I've made it 60-70 hours in and quit both times. Seems like it heavily over-stays its welcome, or has some severe pacing issues. I love the story and characters, but get too burned out grinding up levels, trying to fill out codexes, and trying to rebuild that damn town, and having to go back to old areas to kill monsters that were too high a level the first time, or collect quests that weren't initially available, or were available but took forever to complete. It's an interesting set of ideas, and if you only had one game to play for a couple of months, it'd be great. But with such better paced games available, and so many good games in general available these days it's hard to justify the slog

And XCX is not an option for me since I never owned a WiiU. And I almost hate to say I can't get over the pervy fanservice nonsense pervading through all aspects of XC2, I have a hard time imagining myself uniaronically enjoying the game without having a few beers in me to get through the groan of camera angle booty shots, and an unnecessary amount of skin and male-gaze pandering... Maybe someday I'll buy it cheap and used and give it a whirl, but I won't hold my breath. Not a lot of aspects of it intrigue me at least, so I don't really feel like I'm missing out anyway. So it's whatever