Mister Wolf
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The areas will be big like X just not connected to form one continent
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Tetsuya Takahashi interviews with TIME
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The areas will be big like X just not connected to form one continent
Number of places to explore and visit =/= overall world size. XCX's open-world was absolutely humongous but "only" consisted of 5 different biomes and NLA.
As long as overall, you can spend as much time exploring or discovering new places than in Xenoblade X, I'm cool with that. I don't care if it's a true open world or if areas are disconnected. But I haven't seen enough of the game to be reassured that it will be the case. And the fact that it release in less than 6 months, when we already knew the scale of X months before launch, doesn't help.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Xenogears remake when? lol, that quote about Square approving him gave hope.
Dark Cloud
Member
It's Nintendo I wouldn't worry.
Humdinger
Member
Thanks, guys.
That's encouraging. What drew me to the series was the reception X got, in terms of how much fun the exploration was. So hearing that "exploration will have even more decisive role" in 2 vs. X is good. Exploration is the main draw for me, at this point. Not too keen on the boy meets girl story, but I understand his desire to do something different.
TheMoon
Member
"I want to tell a story about friendship and love and well fuck everything is dying so tough luck RIP dark souls of friendship etc etc"
zenspider
Member
Really? I feel like you make your own pace in XCX. It's an open world game where the narrative and main questline supports exploration - there is no false sense of urgency.
I never even heard about troubled development, let alone that being reflected in the game. It's crazy polished for a world that big. Source?
TheMoon
Member
There's no source. There was no "troubled development." Your take is spot-on.
AquaWateria
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Its cool we are getting a full fledged JRPG on Switch.
Its nice to see Nintendo have their own Final Fantasy.
Its nice to see Nintendo have their own Final Fantasy.
Not to mention better (recently) if you like games with good overall balance and writing.
Dark Cloud
Member
Yeah. Great Nintendo bought them. We would've never had Xenoblade.
TheListOfToddicho
Member
I loved reading this interview. Did you see that story about how Nomura came on board? That was really cool.
AquaWateria
Member
Yeah I always through the Xenoblade series were better than the recent Final Fantasy games, but that's just me.
Dark Cloud
Member
Square has some nice guys they let Nomura work on Xenoblade 2.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
I want XCX on Switch more than XC2.
Edit: XC2 is still a day one purchase, I just really loved XCX and would love to play it again with a resolution bump, better draw distance, etc.
Edit: XC2 is still a day one purchase, I just really loved XCX and would love to play it again with a resolution bump, better draw distance, etc.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
God I just can't wait
Astral Dog
Member
I thought X was far shorter than the first Xenoblade, in part because of the plot progression and travek system.
This game is going to be huge and last awhile.
http://nintendoeverything.com/takahashi-on-xenoblade-2-visual-style-more-exploration-than-x-no-multiplayer-side-quests-more/2/
In this other interview, Takahashi talks about wanting to see another Baten Kaitos game.
In this other interview, Takahashi talks about wanting to see another Baten Kaitos game.
Why do you tempt me so, Takahashi?
Someone powered through the story. And this explain the other comment now.
TheMoon
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Dat irony. In a thread about an interview where ...questions were asked.
This was posted here weeks ago in a dedicated thread, iirc. N-E is very late with that translation.
Neoleo2143
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I mean, most of the rad stuff we love the Xeno series for is in the Side content. Powering through the main story is defeating the point.
TurnipFritters
Member
There absolutely is. XCX endgame spoilers
There is literally a giant timer ticking down through the whole game, and then once the story acknowledges it's down to a critical level, you're forced to... do an affinity mission with what's his face where he's like "I'm a weakling please help me level up by beating up some boars" before you can continue on with the story.
It's ultimately not different than most RPGs, but that particular required affinity mission really stuck out to me as being horribly placed in terms of pacing.
X is far, far bigger in terms of content than any other game Monolith soft made.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
What ever happened to Yasuyuki Honne?
James Scott
Banned
You're forced to do a lot of filler just to get to the next main story sequence.
It's pretty rough, likely that they couldn't find a way to make you explore the world by your own volition
TheMoon
Member
He's running MonolithSoft Kyoto, the asset support studio.
Dark Cloud
Member
We're never getting Baten Kaitos 3 😭
TurnipFritters
Member
Maybe it'll come back as a f2p smartphone game
Astral Dog
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No i trued to take my time to explore, do sudequests and stuff, it took me about a month of playing every day while Chronicles was like three(!) And felt like i was orogressing way sliwer
Xenoblade Chronicles had a big main story though, and was way better recieved
in terms of pure content and assets but i was talking how the world is designed and how you progress , there is no reason to worry Xeno 2 us going to be a step back
Because the story in itself is a bit smaller doesn't mean at all that it's any shorter.
OrbitalBeard
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Oh, it's not just you. Not even close.
It's less about making the side quests better and more making their existence better known. Since a lot of the story progression is tied to a raw percentage of exploring the different regions, it's easy enough to avoid a good chunk of the side quests in the first place when you can do more menial tasks to fill it up, like Tyrant hunting or finding secret locations. If those side quests were more visible from the start, I really don't think you'd be seeing as many complaints about the storytelling in the game, even if it won't ultimately "fix" the main plot.
There's, what, only two alien races the main plot has you meeting automatically, out of eight larger races, on top of all the one-offs that crop up along the way, like Celica (a party member, at that!) and Professor B. That's a lot of stuff that can be missed.
MonolithSoft didn't show us all the different locations on Mira until a specific trailer near release. Until then, we only got mostly Primordia footage.
To be clear, i love Xenoblade X. Its probably one of my 5 favourite games. However the pacing is something that could use an edit. Its mainly minor quality of life stuff, for instance being able to call your party via a smartphone/communicator rather then having to search for them across the city would be a huge change for the better.
Changing the Affinity system so that it gave your squad a bonus when characters with high affinity were together would be better then locking missions behind an afinity grind.
The final thing would be to make sure to include some of the better side missions on the main path. XCX's main path makes too much content optional and it means that the main path can sometimes lack context if you are just rushing through it.
In terms of the FF games from last gen onwards, I've found the Xenoblade games to be better tbh. FF has gone from being an 'event' series to a bit of a b-tier one for me.
Sora the Cat
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I want this game so bad. But I'm still a little worried about the battle speed tho, it feels a little slower than the first Xenoblade, I don't know, I can't tell exactly what it is but it felt odd when watching the gameplay from E3.
Yeah, I'm pretty OK with XBC being a more story driven series and XBX being world/exploration driven with a bit of online added in, that would be perfect.
Was quite surprised at how fast this turned out, though.
The Hermit
Member
You wanting more XCX instead of XC and hating Retro's second best game (Tropical Freeze) makes me think you are bizzaro me.
It's not especially.
It "feels" that way because now you have to chose between moving and auto attacking. There's more strategy in positioning and timing of attacks.
Then, you need to charge arts with auto attacks whichare not available at the beginning of battle, also making it look like slower.
Not to mention they almost only play with Rex which is equiped with 3 slow weapons.
Watch Nia, she's much faster.
The last points can change depending on your skills/arts (most likely), character, weapon and so on.
It's not best case I think, rather it's a very realistic scenario.
In any case I don't see them developing numbered Xenoblade each after the other with nothing inbetween.
I think another contributing factor is that Rex looks like he is moving extremely slowly in combat mode. Kind of a mismatch in the animation.
Indeed, forgot that, it certainly doesn't help.
I wonder if they'll speed that up and/or if they'll have skills for that (most likely there should be afew skills which increase running/attacking speed).
Dark Cloud
Member
Are they not updating the Twitter? It's been disappointing.
TurnipFritters
Member
Both Xenoblade 1 and X had augments that increased your attack speed (well, the attack cooldown speed), and Xenoblade 1 had augments that increased how fast you moved.
I'm talking about the Japanese release, obviously. Once the game is out, you could see spoilers everywhere. My point is, don't worry about the size o variety of XC2 just because we only saw one Titan (opening area), like the guy I was responding to. We'll get an "exploration trailer" soon enough if the game is releasing this winter.