>People believe this will release this year LOL

As much as I loved past xeno games the protagonist in this one looks fucking terrible and his design is trash

I mean, they seemed pretty far into it with the first trailer, but the music just being finished or maybe even still being recorded tells me 2018 is the date

>>377278950
can't be worse than shi*n uz*ki

Why do they even develope it at all? Xenoblade Chroncicles X sold a bit over 800k copies and didn't make a profit, how can they imagine things turn out different with much fewer console owners while the userbase stayed the same?
They should have made another title for 3DS.

>>377279465
>didn't make a profit

How do you know this? Why do you just say random bullshit you don't know? If there is a sequel there was clearly a profit made

>>377278950
Well you can always play as whoever else is in the party, i spent most of my time in the first one as Riki.

>>377278950
aw, you're just being xenophobic.

>>377278950
Cant be worse than Shulk and Xeno X didnt even have a canon protagonist design

>>377279452
what did they say? it's the biggest ost in history or something? sounds ambitious.

>>377279634
>shulk
>bad

(you)

>>377279654
nah just the biggest one mitsuda's been involved with, the game has roughly 240 songs if we go by mitsuda's posted image of compositions. Compared to like FFXIV which has over 300 songs and more coming this june with stormblood

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>>377278950
Saga and beyond have terrible 3D models. They look fine in concept, but when put to 3D they turn out shit.

>>377279541
>If there is a sequel there was clearly a profit made
That's really the dumbest thing I heard on /v/ all week.

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>>377279902
If they bothered messing about with shader systems I reckon they could've made the artstyle look great. Instead they just hired the Gears and Saga artist again for X without bothering to change how they render it in 3d. Why even hire them if you're gonna do that?

>>377279975
nah the dumbest thing is saying a game didn't make profit without knowing the budget of the game, you're just projecting your failures onto me

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>>377279902
what? saga 3 looks great

it's actually a fucking miracle how good 3 is in so many ways considering the development history of xenosaga

I hope that after Xenoblade Chronicles 2 they made a Xenoblade Chronicles X-2. I have this theory that either this is going to be a massive four or six part series, sort of like what they were trying to do with Xenosaga before it got canned by publishers.


I imagine if X-2 or X-3 came out it'd end with the universe being destroyed by the activation of the phase transition experiment facility, and before you say that is not possible because earth was destroyed go back and watch the cutscenes and you'll see that there is absolutely no mention of the facility being in orbit around earth.

I imagine the timeline would go something like this:

Xenoblade X -> Xenoblade X-2 -> Xenoblade X-3 -> Xenoblade Chronicles -> Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - > Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Sans X-3/Chronicles 3 if it ends up being just a four part series.

>>377278876
It MIGHT release in Japan this year, but after the long gap for the localization of X I really doubt it makes it west so soon.

>>377280373
>absolutely no mention of the facility being in orbit around earth.

except for it orbiting the earth?

>>377280870
Feel free to prove your statement that it was orbitting earth.

>>377280995
earth is in the background, don't know what to tell you

>>377281090
A blue planet with no discernible or identifiable land masses that are similar to ones on Earth != Earth

>>377281245
then why did we go through the milky way

>>377280373
To me it seems more like them going the Final Fantasy route at this point where the games have some of the same elements but aren't really related.

>>377279465
>Xenoblade Chroncicles X sold a bit over 800k copies and didn't make a profit
It's not a game with a AAA budget you know.

>>377278876
Should i play the first one? I was curious about it but finding out the combat system is the "character attacks automatically while you select special moves" kind pulled me off a little

Should i play it with the Wii U gamepad or is it better with wiimotes?

>>377281671
yes

doesn't matter

>>377278876
What even is this meme? Everyone here is saying this with zero sources yet fags still believe it. Nintendo JUST said a few says ago it will be released this year. What the fuck

>>377282210
Shitposting for the sake of making "SWITCH NO GAEMS" ring more true. They do the same with Odyssey

>O-one of the Galaxy games and BotW were delayed, so it's gonna happen again I'm sure!

>>377282210
ya reggie also said XCX would release in 2014 literally 2 weeks before E3 showed it coming out 2015

>>377282463
XCX being one of the largest open world games to date.

>>377282524
ok and?

what makes you think XC2 won't have a huge world like the previous 2?

>>377282463
Yeah but that's a different game so

>>377282578
For starters its a sequel to XC1 which was a fairly average sized game as far as open worlds go.

>>377278876
why it wouldn't?

>>377278876
I don't. I think Japan Early 2018, West late 2018.

Despite the poorer graphics ,I unironically think the character models for Xenoblade Chronicles 1 was this series' best job on character models, especially art style wise.

>>377280373
My theory is that Takahashi has been smoking again and Xenoblade Chronicles X is actually Xenoblade Chronicles 10. The man is insane enough to pull it off.

>>377284279

Give us a story equal to the first game and a world equal to the second game and we have a masterpeice

but yeah the aesthetics are a huge step down

>>377281671
yes.

gamepad. wiimote is unbearable.

>>377278876
i dont, if it comes in the next years i woudnt mind. I already own a switch so no worries there

>>377284398
Most of the armor sets in XC were hilariously stupid

>>377279879
that's an MMO. doesn't count.

It'll either be the December game for them this year or the March game for them next year.

>>377284608
that's part of the charm.

besides, to an alien, our uniforms/armor might look retarded.. why do people wear ties and blue jeans? it's dumb.

>>377284559
I'd say the aesthetics are a step up, the low poly in XC1 did not work well towards some of the stuff in XC1, especially texture close ups and character design

>>377284640
still a game

>>377284398
that's xenosaga III

>>377284451
>We keep switching off back and forth between Xenoblade Chronixes () and Xenoblade Chronicles X-2 / X-3
>Get to Xenoblade 8, start seeing weird connections
>Get Xenoblade 9, it ends in a way that leads directly to Xenoblade Chronicles X
It would be a work of art if he pulled it off.

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GIANT ROBOTS WHEN

>>377278876
I want an average sized but memorable map desu, fuck Mira and his infinite landmass of nothingness

>>377284759
yeah, but it takes on a different meaning when it's meant to hold tons of players like that in that genre. unless this is going to be an mmo type thing too.

sure hope not.

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>>377284807
>I want amusement park experience
there is like tons of open world games which suit your taste, go play them
I need scale, you can fuck off

>>377284807
fuck that, one of the best things about xenoblade is the scale of environment

I really hope there aren't skells in this game, they completely took the fun out of exploration in XCX

New Baten Kaitos when?

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why did they have to ruin the artstyle? 1 looked fine.
also, anyone else notice you still have the exact same chicken running animation from the first?

it looks like they're going back to their roots more, but I just hope not too much. xcx definitely made some improvements.

>>377284904
don't worry. it'll be big and empty. just like botw.

>>377284904
Yes, and xenoblade chronicles did it perfectly, dont even remember one single good thing about Mira
>>377284870
No you

>>377285027
considering the previous xeno games had worlds filled with content I doubt it

BotW isn't empty by the way, stop projecting MGSV onto everything

>>377285035
Mira is phenomenal, Nocilum alone is a feat of world design

>>377285090
no, you're right.
it's filled with korok "puzzles"

joy

>>377284978
I want my potatos back
>>377285035
you first

I think the characters look fine. It's good to have a different look every game imo.

I'm actually worried about the world design. The trailer didn't show much so can't judge it really, but what we saw looked bland.

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>>377285191
>I'm actually worried about the world design.
I guess they left juicy bits for E3 or such, world so far was quite generic aside of huge beast later.
I also worried about equipment designs, X was just so good in that regard, I want more of that please.
cause so far it's just one big pants character and few other bits

>>377285119
Ignoring those the world is still filled with a lot of stuff to do

inb4 you discredit the shrines/towns/camps for some arbitrary, idiotic reason

>>377285191
We did see the world undulating as the dragon moved while you were on its back, that was neat

It probably will....In Japan.

I am not expecting a translated version until like mid to late next year.

>>377278876
The latest financial meeting at Nintendo said it's still releasing in 2017, but I still don't believe it.
Every bit of information is saying this year. My only theory is that they only announced it really late in development unlike XCX being announced at the proof of concept stage.

>>377285534
Which armor set is that?

>>377285191
anyone else triggered how the protag's walk speed doesn't sync up to their animation?
it's only slight, but it's enough to bother me.

and I doubt they'll fix it. I really hope when you stand on a slope or something, character's feet conform to it too. the first didn't do it. not sure if xcx did.

>>377285656
Unless Nintendo was smart and got the translation team to work in parallel.
Can't believe so many Japanese games only get translated after the JP release.

>>377285767
Keep in mind XCX was rewritten 50% in to be more gameplay oriented

>>377285912
they don't care.

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>>377285767
>My only theory is that they only announced it really late in development
that's quite common for some jp games
>>377285813
Orphean stuff, don't remember the name

>>377285965
>that's quite common for some jp games
XCX got announced when they only had the gameplay and world design "done". It was announced before they even had a name.

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>>377286072
Well I know that, I just saying that it's still quite common thing to happen
all our questions will be lifted in less than a month anyway, whatever time it takes just keep gameplay, world and equipment designs as good as they were at least, please Monolith.
also robots

>>377285859
>the first didn't do it. not sure if xcx did.

XCX did it so I don't see why XB2 wouldn't. There's already little things like the MC turning his head to look at the Bunnit to the right of him in the first shot which neither Xenoblade or XCX did.

>>377284762
What would be insane is if the next game after 2 was 9. And it keeps going 1-5 in order and 10-6 in reverse order. Bouncing from one order to the other.

Will that whale be able to hear my song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnpXCaOSA4

>>377286197
I really like homura's armor design, hopefully there is more like it

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>>377289391
I just can't wait when they'll show off gameplay and equipment system, please don't be a letdown.

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>>377279783
I'm not even going to give him a you, but Shulk's design is top-tip-tier.
tho only beaten by Dunban

>>377290218
his clothes are just as big of a mess as Rex's, at least Rex looks decent waist up

>>377280373
>Boss rush makes you go through every planet of the solar system and then the Moon before facing Zanza
>Hurr durr it wasn't the Earth you guys!
Beside, Nopons folklore D I R E C T L Y references the events of Chronicles, X obviously takes place after Chronicles chronologically, be it in an alternate dimension or otherwise. What's most likely is that the forever expending godless universe Shulk created eventually lead to the birth of a new "Earth" (provided Alvis started the Universe from "zero" and as close as possible to Zanza's original universe/"real life", it's possible that eventually a planet Earth and humans would pop on again), and that Earth got destroyed by the Ghost/Samaar war (fuck, maybe the war was fought because one faction feared the new Earth would give birth to a new Zanza one day that'd destroy the universe again)

>>377286915
I'd play a Xenoblade 9 that tells the story of the French arc and ends with them sending the mysterious transmission from that one sidequest in X, and a Xenoblade 8 about Elma learning the fate of Earth and running away from the Ghosts to warn us of the incoming war

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lmao she said it again
she said she'd eat tatsu
hes not even food
L
O
L

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>>377292986
can you imagine tatsu popping up in XC2? the outrage would be unreal

>>377278876
it WILL release this year