Dead Prince
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fuck. put this in me so hard right now.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X: new info from Famitsu (map size, battle system, characters)
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Probably 100 hours to beat the game is more realistic. Maybe 300 to do absolutely everything, and maybe with multiple play throughs. This is great regardless. Definitely bang for your buck. That's what I call a game worth $60
WhiskerFrisker
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300 hours will become 600 with the way I play. I'm ready.
Yeah, pretty sure the 300h is for literally everything... every nook and cranny. I doubt Takahashi played the game @ 100% several times during development.
Besides, don't forget developers always love to exaggerate with completion times and such... Besides, every player don't necessarily play the same as everyone else, nor is 100% completition mandatory or anything.
Besides, don't forget developers always love to exaggerate with completion times and such... Besides, every player don't necessarily play the same as everyone else, nor is 100% completition mandatory or anything.
I don't know about you but in Xenoblade I played with all the different characters anyway. With 300 hours of gameplay here, you're probably going to want to switch it up from time-to-time; see which party works best. In games like Tales of, I usually pick the main party and the other members never get used the rest of the game, but Xenoblade wasn't like that for me. Each character offers something unique and the affinity system encourages you to use them.
I really hope you're right because the moment it'll launch in Japan in April I'll be anxiously waiting for a release date in NA.
Please, please, please NOA...
Don't mess up....please.
Yep. I hope for some unique side quests as well, even if it's only a small portion of the whole.
With such modest expectations I'm sure Monolith Soft won't disappoint
I didn't even reach 150 hours when I had beaten all the content in Xenoblade. Sure, he might have taken his time to double check for bugs and so forth, but he probably knows all the secrets unlike us. 300 hours seems like an insane amount even for testing purposes.
nintendoman58
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I really don't want to say: "so it's like Skyrim with Mecha", but honestly that's kind of what I'm getting from this.
The story will probably still be a big part of the game, but I imagine that you'll have a lot of the world to explore from the start, and that you may not necessarily need to progress through the story as much just to simply reach new locations.
This and with dual audio, please.
They have shown footage with 4 players in the party back in the November Nintendo Direct. It had Cross, Elma, Lynlee, and Tatsu.
Edit: Thinking back on it, they also showed it in the footage from last February as well...
Wouldn't that be a waste of famous voice actors talents? If it were just for grunts?
DaSorcerer7
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Dark_castle
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So, the structure is now a true open world where you can wonder off to anywhere you wish right off the bat?
I hope it won't be too open, as I like my JRPG to be more linear in progression until near end-game.
I hope it won't be too open, as I like my JRPG to be more linear in progression until near end-game.
Maybe the main story will be dictated by how much of New L.A. is developing over time and how much you explore in Mira.
Also, as long as the common fetch quests unlock more unique side-quests like Xenoblade all will be right in the world tbh. I found that with the grindy sidequests you gain notoriety of being helpful to others so it makes sense that other people start asking you about life choices or to reach the Edge of the World for a Pellet =D
I really loved how they implemented sidequests in Xenoblade =/
Also, as long as the common fetch quests unlock more unique side-quests like Xenoblade all will be right in the world tbh. I found that with the grindy sidequests you gain notoriety of being helpful to others so it makes sense that other people start asking you about life choices or to reach the Edge of the World for a Pellet =D
I really loved how they implemented sidequests in Xenoblade =/
"Scan your Shulk amiibo to make your main character look like Shulk"
The Treehouse footage showed that there is a bunch of battle and party specific dialogue (just like the first game), so it's not just grunts.
I really don't think it will be exactly like Skyrim. At least not at first. I'm going to guess that you are limited to certain areas at least at the start of the game. Once you get the mechs you can probably travel further. Then later in the game there will probably be some kind of upgrades allowing you to travel to even harsher environments maybe even out to space. Doing this I still think they can keep a solid story going. I'm hoping it's more like FF XII in that there are lots of cool places to explore if you choose to, but there is still a linear progressive story in that the game is pushing you to specific areas that are mandatory.
Skyrim on the other hand was just go where you want from the get go.
Well, maybe the story content will actually be finished by more than 100 hours in average without putting too much work on side quests? This is a bigger game, and he said that it's less linear so trying out those things may take some time.
Gunslinger
Member
Sounds amazing but please go easy on the fetch quests.
And not happening either!
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Hopefully it's like how you put it, because from OP, it really seem as if Xenoblade X is now a fully open world, sandbox RPG rather than a traditional JRPG with large environment but linear path for progression, like the original Xenoblade.
Absolutely. Why waist resources to hire somebody famous to make grunting noises when anybody could do that? It doesn't seem to add up. To me it really seems like the custom character will have a voice.
From the moment I saw the mechs, the game has been screaming "Dragon Quest 8, after you get the bird!", to me.
This is a very good thing.
Because it is hip to waist resources.
Vincent Grayson
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Given that FFXV is probably a 2016 game, and there's precedent for Nintendo delaying stuff (Zelda U), I suspect we'll be fine.
UC4 will be cool, but that's a much smaller time investment.
Personally I kind of hope it's not exactly like Xenoblade. I love doing some free exploring. In Xeoblade I badly wanted to go to new areas and ignore that stupid arrow but the game wouldn't let me until I progressed the story.
I kind of want a little bit of both experiences. Open world exploring and yet also a linear progression that, at times, will be mandatory.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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Oh man! Huuuge world! Interesting online that isn't traditional? Bloody well intrigued! Faster battles with new healing system? Must know how that works, sounds cool! 90 tracks? Niiice! Give. Me. This. Game. Nintendooo!!
So far, the Legend will be lost in the UDraw Distance.
ArchedThunder
Banned
I really hope you're right because the moment it'll launch in Japan in April I'll be anxiously waiting for a release date in NA.
Please, please, please NOA...
Don't mess up....please.
They've already confirmed a 2015 release, so August to October really makes the most sense. It could take the same spot as Hyrule Warriors.
I don't know how many of you 100 percented Xenoblade, but it took a long time. Almost 500 quests. Defeating the super bosses, collecting every art book. Defeating every unique. Creating the best gems. Getting every achievement. Collecting items. Filling up every map.
If you did absolutely everything in Xenoblade that you could do you could easily put in over 250 hours. I'm really not surprised. Most people however will never put that much work into the game and will probably get 80-100 hours out of it.
That's what is great about a game like Xenoblade, you can play how you want really. Rush through it and maybe get it done in 50 hours or play everything the game has to offer.
If you did absolutely everything in Xenoblade that you could do you could easily put in over 250 hours. I'm really not surprised. Most people however will never put that much work into the game and will probably get 80-100 hours out of it.
That's what is great about a game like Xenoblade, you can play how you want really. Rush through it and maybe get it done in 50 hours or play everything the game has to offer.
SniperHunter
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awesome info
I'm secretly hoping for a game-breaking, for-fun unlock of the Monado that lets you manipulate time and stuff.
I finished my first playthrough of Xenoblade in nearly 250 hours, and that included finishing everything but like 2 or 3 side quests and acquiring all of the collectibles, fully exploring every map, filling in the party and town affinity charts, Colony 6 completion and leveling up all characters to lvl 99. However, I didn't kill all of the unique monsters.
Anyway, X sounds like it's going to be overwhelmingly gigantic. This is my most anticipated game of the year...now I just need a Wii U. I like what I've heard from that interview, and thanks for the translation too.
Anyway, X sounds like it's going to be overwhelmingly gigantic. This is my most anticipated game of the year...now I just need a Wii U. I like what I've heard from that interview, and thanks for the translation too.
I think a lot of you might be taking the 300 hours quote out of context. "Final check" doesn't really sound like a normal playthrough or even a 100% playthrough to me, but like an actual playtest - and when a developer tests a game, he's doing all kind of crazy stuff to test whether certain things are working correctly that a player would never even pay attention to.