Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles X - OT

This game has been delayed by a full year once already. Do you really think they'll delay it again?

It's already been released in Japan,so i don't think it will get delayed.

At this point we should assume that the game is getting delayed to be a NX launch title for America. [/sarcasm]

I see it coming out this fall as there is a lot to translate but I trust they get it as soon as possible.

Guys, Nintendo doesn't delay things just 'cause it can. Zelda wasn't done, Pikmin 3 wasn't done. If E3 comes and goes without any mention of a XCX release date then I'd pack your patience parachute, but until then don't worry.

Seems weird that they would have a dedicated Direct (short as it was) if things weren't progressing on schedule. According to that Iwata Asks a few days ago, there's tens of thousands of spoken lines, far more than XC, so I'm not surprised that Treehouse were joking about how long it's taking.

Here's my only question for those who might actually know now that the game is out in Japan...
Does Cross speak AT ALL? I know he/she says stuff in battles but what about cutscenes? DOES HE SAY/SHE ANYTHING?

Didn't Nintendo/Monolith Soft recently confirm that XCX is still coming out 2015 in the west? I'm expecting a 2015 release probably from September-November.

Yeah, they confirmed it in the Iwata Asks from last week.

Not for the first 6 hours, at least. Totally silent. It honestly isn't handled any different than, say, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, or Persona. You get various multiple-choice options during gameplay, most of which are full sentences - far longer than the basic Yes/No. I'm sure it'll be like Persona where your character's personality will come out in the options you're given.
E.G. In the beginning of Persona 4, a character introduces himself to you after he crashes his bike into a pole. Your options are:

• Nice to meet you too.
• Are you okay?
• Is your bike okay?

Man, I wish some of Nintendo's story-based studios would catch the Bioware bug and wise-up.

I'd say that Fire Emblem If is coming out in 2016 in the west because of XCX. I also don't expect Bravely Second in the west this year either for the same reason (unless SE decided to do the localization themselves, which I doubt would happen). XCX will release in 2015. It's their biggest Wii U game this year by far.

I do wish that would've been possible. The one problem is that, unlike Mass Effect, you can choose your character's voice. That's - at the very least - 1000 spoken lines, times 8 for every voice option, times 2 for female voices. That's a LOT of voicework - some by very prolific VAs that cost tens of thousands of yen already just saying random stuff like "UUUNGH!" and "FAIA GURENEIDO!". Bioware solved this problem by giving you less choices.

Well, I mean, less voices, more choices. Inquisition had 2 voices for each sex, so 4 total (in English, at least). Xenoblade was linear main quest-wise. I don't really remember any choices in the side quests either. Are they adding some of that in in XCX?

There's nothing yet suggesting major storyline shifts, but you get choices throughout the story. He didn't really get far enough to get any major sidequests, but just in the first 6 hours of bumbling around (probably about 2 hrs if it was in English), there was at least 10 different story options. In one example, on an encounter with a seemingly hostile alien race, you can choose to lower your weapons to see how it goes, or to shoot first and ask questions later. Also, in Tots' intro scene, there's apparently a really snarky option and he reacts really great.

Anyway, Famitsu rated Xenoblade X 34/40 (2x9/10, 2x8/10). For reference, Xenoblade's score was 36/10 (All 9/10).
Some interesting quotes from the 4 reviews:
"Deep and long story, tough enough difficulty and highly user-friendly systems remind of [sic] old RPGs in a good way. The huge open world is packed with a countless number of stories."
"Things like the world setting are explained carefully and cut-scenes appear often."
"The combat [...] tempo is good, and battles are highly strategic. The story is carefully made, but there is a strong feeling of just watching a movie."
"The word 'grand' describes this really epic game precisely."

Er, isn't the reason that there's tens of thousands of spoken lines because they had to hire multiple voice actors for Cross?

I think if e3 packs up and goes home without a release date on xenoblade we should anticipate 2016. But for now, it almost seems impossible to delay it with the lack of titles on the horizon and the inevitable change coming late next year with whatever transformation nintendo is going through for both online and possible nx issues.

Then again, e3 last year showed me titles I hadn’t even heard of before which I almost all wanted, so e3 could be a great surprise.

Definitely agree with that. I think we're likely to get a relase date at E3. That mini direct was proof they don't intend to tell us before the relase of Splatoon, and then E3 is like two weeks later...so yeah. 2016 would be a bad choice, especially since the game is already done. At least they had the excuse with Zelda because it won't be finished. Sure translating a game of this scope will be a huge task...but nowhere near as big a task has trying to fix their image after delaying TWO of the THREE biggest titles of "2015".

Here's some interesting reading from Japanese player's reviews:
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/05/05/xenoblade-chronicles-x-n...

Everyone expecting X to feel like a sequel to Chronicles should take note.

There's no spoilers there, but if you're that worried about them, here's the TL;DR:
The first two chapters are the "tutorial portion"; then the game opens up into a massive world with complete freedom. The game focuses less on the main plotline than its predecessor, but the side stories and quests are much better as a result. Combat is very complex and very good.

While I am enjoying the story in Xenoblade 3D greatly, I feel like exploration is hindered. I can't do it whenever I feel like it, lest I be massively overleveled. I'm currently at Prison Island, and Metal Face was a complete joke at level 48. It seems like X will satiate my taste for exploration at the same time as my need for difficulty.

Also not mentioned there is that the level cap is 60. This is balanced in that levels don't matter as much, EXP isn't given out like candy as it was in Xenoblade, and you have two separate things to level: an "inner level" and a "class level".

It'll definitely be 2015 people. They be insane not to have it out by Christmas, given how much things sell over that month and given that we know the game's been finished for a while. They could easily spread the workload with voice acting to get it finished quicker.

From what I read it seemed like they were saying the main plot was only a little bit smaller? At least that's what I got out of the Iwata Asks...

Regardless, this is similar to how Mass Effect 2 worked compared to the original, so I'm entirely fine with this. I'd go so far as to say most RPGs should rip off Mass Effect 2's loyalty missions.