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Xenoblade Chronicles X: new info from Famitsu (map size, battle system, characters)
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StreetsAhead
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Oh, so looking at the scans, there's confirmation that Nagi is the general type guy from the E3 trailer, while Guin is the blonde-guy. I imagine those two will be the ones updated today on the official website, too.
New LA is divided into four areas：Industrial Area, Housing Area, Blade Area, and Commercial Area.
Takahashi recommends the digital version for those bothered by disk loading, but says they are working on improving the loading times on the disk version with Nintendo proper.
They asked if there would be any Japanese emigration ship appearing, but were told that canonically there was one that left earth from Japan, but it doesn't appear in the story.
New LA is divided into four areas：Industrial Area, Housing Area, Blade Area, and Commercial Area.
Takahashi recommends the digital version for those bothered by disk loading, but says they are working on improving the loading times on the disk version with Nintendo proper.
They asked if there would be any Japanese emigration ship appearing, but were told that canonically there was one that left earth from Japan, but it doesn't appear in the story.
TheMoon
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Crafting was indeed a thing in Xenoblade. There was gem-crafting which you could use to fuse gems together that enhance your stats greatly. There was also a heavy loot component but that did not tie into crafting in that game.
No, this is MonolithSoft. The "it's Nintendo" thing doesn't work that way. If they had wanted to do co-op, they would have.
How often do we have to go over this. Takahashi said the script is already bigger than Xenoblade's at one point. Why anyone would worry about story not being a big element of this game is crazy to me.
Read OP. It's all there.
Aaronrules380
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I mean the crystals used for gem crafting were sometimes loot as well
Oh nice! Thanks for the translations man, and not just this time but all the other times as well. It's always very much appreciated
Thanks!
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Path Finder - In charge of data probe installation.
Arms - Assists the Arms Company in charge of the development of Dolls and their inner weaponry.
Colepedian - In charge of visiting areas and investigation/collecting materials.
Avalanche - In charge of hunting down dangerous life forms.
Inter Ceptor - In charge of exterminating protists.
Land Bank - In charge of securing resources and collecting minerals.
Testament - In charge of the search and recovery of debris scattered by the ship, as well as the recovery of items lost on the battlefield.
Companion - A Jack of all trades, from the mediation of petty fights to the search of stray cats.
Path Finder - In charge of data probe installation.
Arms - Assists the Arms Company in charge of the development of Dolls and their inner weaponry.
Colepedian - In charge of visiting areas and investigation/collecting materials.
Avalanche - In charge of hunting down dangerous life forms.
Inter Ceptor - In charge of exterminating protists.
Land Bank - In charge of securing resources and collecting minerals.
Testament - In charge of the search and recovery of debris scattered by the ship, as well as the recovery of items lost on the battlefield.
Companion - A Jack of all trades, from the mediation of petty fights to the search of stray cats.
Portugeezer
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Makes Witcher 3 look small lol
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Path Finder, Colepedian, Avalanche, Arms
Inter Ceptor, Land Bank, Testament, Companion
Wow! These are awesome!
Here are the Unions if anyone want to add to there avatar.
Path Finder, Colepedian, Avalanche, Arms
Inter Ceptor, Land Bank, Testament, Companion
Looks like i'll be a Path Finder.
What a wonderful game, waiting on the 3DS version for a replay
You were gonna correct Triblade huh? lol
theprodigy
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I wonder how long the fastest 100% for this game will be lol
TheMoon
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God damnit.
Why am I so transparent.
You do see some detail pop-in in a few gifs. Like that epic cliff-jump from the exploration trailer.
A big script =/= story driven. Most MMOs have giant scripts, even though their stories are (usually) little more than decoration. I want something character-driven, but I don't think we're getting that here.
Keep in mind that there are 8 factions worth of quests. Sticking with one for the entire game would drop the time significantly.
Are you summoning ninjablade? lol
TheGreatLugia
Banned
I could be misremembering, but I thought Takahashi also mentioned at one point that X would have a heavier or more complex story than Xenoblade's.
Nope. I am quite curious. I like learning about how these things work.
For example, in GW2 they do long draw distances by having a "picture" in the distance that transitions in, usually, seamlessly as you approach it. But that's an MMO and its instanced.
Drilbit777
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Damn 300 hours and 5x bigger than Xenoblade? Well worth the preorder, can't wait.
Aaronrules380
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Did you play Xenoblade? Because Sharla (the dedicated healer), was easily the least useful party member in it
Exentryk
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Yeah, not sure about this. Isn't Soul Voice that timed button press in battles?
ArkhamFantasy
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Im gonna play the shit out of this game.
Smoothice65
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I DO hope that there is a clear distinction in strength between a human and a mech (doll).
Not like in Final Fantasy XII that the characters can be so OP that the summons are pretty much useless (at the end of the game).
Not like in Final Fantasy XII that the characters can be so OP that the summons are pretty much useless (at the end of the game).
Smiles and Cries
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Path Finder
Colepedian
Avalanche
Arms
Inter Ceptor
Land Bank
Testament
Companion
you did a great job but Path Finder is missing now
mrmickfran
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Companion
Comedy Central?
Ok. I fixed it. Thanks.
Nice nice. Even at the risk of slightly longer load times, I think I want a physical copy of this.
Flakster99
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I really want this game, like yesterday. I NEED a good RPG to play on consoles, any console. This game sounds absolutely insane. Woo!
First thing that came to mind was Fantasy Life colonizing a new planet version
Gonna be pretty refreshing to be able to play as a character that at least looks older than 20 lol
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Land Bank
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Can someone add the Colopedian and Testament logos to my avatar please?
Link has had Nobuyuki Hiyama for years, it's not overkill at all.
Do I look like your slave or something? Hmmmph...
Don't know which one will work better for you. If you want them in another position, let me know
Well, its a Takahashi game in the end. As much as he might try to, the main story still will be the focus with a completely epic ending
Remember that we actually saw a big alien mech attacking some city? Who says that we wont see Mira being destroyed, and we have to save it from imminent doom since we dont have nowhere to go anymore.
I realize that would be a massive amount of work, but its been 5 years since Xenoblade ^^
Man 300 hours, about 3 times more what I spent on Skyrim... This will be amazing!!!
TheMoon
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Have you played The Last Story already? If not, do that. ASAP!
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Can we get clarification on this bit?
What are "protists?" Is this a typo and means protests which might mean fending off alien attackers (which would fit with the name interceptor)
http://nintendoeverything.com/more-xenoblade-chronicles-x-details/
They have it translated like this:
What? She's easily my most useful when going for the minibosses. I rarely play her myself though, as it's one of the only things the CPU can get right.
In terms of gameplay I found Melia to be more fun to heal with (in some situations I use both as Melia isn't a healer proper), but I never felt that sharla was useless, particularly with Heal Round + Chain Heal.
Regardless, the loss of healing usually means fights are less complicated to compensate, which is boring.
Protist reads like something that's supposed to be interpreted as insectoid. I would assume it refers to a faction of aliens (or perhaps natives).
Stealthcobra
Member
So is this considered an action rpg?
theprodigy
Member
no, the #1 rule of Xenoblade is that it is more effective to kill things quickly before they can kill you
Are we through XenoCross News Cycle yet?
Time to inject some rationality.
* 400km^2 in PR speak will mean the size of the flat plane of the world map. There will probably be a large percentage of that untraversible or empty (steep mountainsides, ocean, lava pools, poison pools).
* The size is irrelevant and incomparable to other games as both monsters and traversal method have increased in scale. Putting an arbitrary real-world number like that (and saying it's 5 times bigger than Xenoblade) is meaningless if you don't spend the whole game travelling on foot, like you would in Xenoblade. BUT it's still massive.
* 300 hours is the PLAYTEST time. This means checking, double checking and triple checking every aspect of the game and interacting with every possible NPC/enemy/item. This is work. Most of us will play to have fun. So expect average to be around Xenoblade time: 80-100 hours.
* Of course it will be story-based. It's a Takahashi game.
* Yes, Sawano is composing for it. Yes, you hate Sawano. No you have not heard the entire soundtrack. But yes if you don't like the three tracks that are already out, then you probably won't like the music. I think they are pretty awesome. This is not Ace+/Shimomura and it's not the same game so it will sound different. Sorry that it's not your ideal.
* Yes, the faces are not what you're used to. No, they will not change or be 'fixed'. Sorry that it's not your ideal.
LOL I never thought I'd see this movie gif'd!
EDIT:
Protist - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/protist
I would imagine this would refer to the space alien species that was hunting us down. So the role of the Inter Ceptor would be to hunt down those guys, like the legendary "hero".
Time to inject some rationality.
* 400km^2 in PR speak will mean the size of the flat plane of the world map. There will probably be a large percentage of that untraversible or empty (steep mountainsides, ocean, lava pools, poison pools).
* The size is irrelevant and incomparable to other games as both monsters and traversal method have increased in scale. Putting an arbitrary real-world number like that (and saying it's 5 times bigger than Xenoblade) is meaningless if you don't spend the whole game travelling on foot, like you would in Xenoblade. BUT it's still massive.
* 300 hours is the PLAYTEST time. This means checking, double checking and triple checking every aspect of the game and interacting with every possible NPC/enemy/item. This is work. Most of us will play to have fun. So expect average to be around Xenoblade time: 80-100 hours.
* Of course it will be story-based. It's a Takahashi game.
* Yes, Sawano is composing for it. Yes, you hate Sawano. No you have not heard the entire soundtrack. But yes if you don't like the three tracks that are already out, then you probably won't like the music. I think they are pretty awesome. This is not Ace+/Shimomura and it's not the same game so it will sound different. Sorry that it's not your ideal.
* Yes, the faces are not what you're used to. No, they will not change or be 'fixed'. Sorry that it's not your ideal.
LOL I never thought I'd see this movie gif'd!
EDIT:
Protist - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/protist
I would imagine this would refer to the space alien species that was hunting us down. So the role of the Inter Ceptor would be to hunt down those guys, like the legendary "hero".
Sammy Samusu
Member
Interesting, I was planning to get it digitally.
Hopefully it has great replay value.