Wouldn't be short I would think but a new IP may be the most likely thing team 2 could be working on. Takahashi already said an X port would be difficult, and Xenosaga Definitive probably is wishful thinking on my part. Ultimately it's Nintendo that greenlights Monolith's projects so guess it comes down to what they're in the mood for, lol, Takahashi prob does have quite a bit of collateral though considering team 3 works exclusively on Nintendo IPs.
People really seem to love Torna and Future Redeemed, often more than their base games.
no, we want JRPGs that are worth our time. if that means it's 10 hours 100 hours, then so be it. but making long-ass rpgs just because is a great way of making them shit
This is the mindset that created all modern Ubisoft games, so I'd want Monolith Soft to make games the lenght they feel like they need for their ideas rather than making them long just because.
I wasn't even talking about No Man's Sky:
we need to stop repeating this "Takahashi said porting Xenoblade X would be difficult". It wouldn't. It just takes more time and maybe needed another spec jump to make it actually worthwhile (and allow them to upgrade some stuff vs just porting it) to be more in line with improvements made to XenobladeDE
I mean that's what the DLCs are for
in what world would we even need to say this out loud?
I'm currently petitioning for game length discourse to be criminalized under law globally.
I just needed to vent about space travel because I find it to be really dull as fuck among all kind of other traversal so the combat better be good to justify it.in what world would we even need to say this out loud?
if we're talking about monolithsoft games and space travel, the one default assumption is that you're piloting a flying mech in some form or other.
I'm currently petitioning for game length discourse to be criminalized under law globally.
My favorite game of all time is an epic rpg of the grandest scale possible and is only a 15~20h game.
Not really. The DLCs are cheaper and you can tell. These DLCs are shorter but actually have even fewer high quality cutscenes. They also reused a lot of areas and similar-ish combat.
It also helps that it wasn't restricted to a sidequest progression like Torna.
That whole statement should just be ignored for any current speculation/wishful thinking/dreams as it's so old as to have no real relevance to anything anymore (XenoDE was announced right after so they were obviously planning for that when he answered that question while focusing on numbered Xenoblade titles with direct connections). What he was saying then has no real bearing on whatever they might be doing now with Xenoblade 3 including its expansion out and the slate entirely clean.
Nope, they have 3 teams, 3rd only works on Nintendo IPs, 1st turns out the numbered entries and X and 2nd's only output was XCDE which went gold before May 2020 at the latest as Nintendo curate 1st party releases sitting on some titles for up to.a year.
the "too expensive" interview is from 2018, the "only xenoblade pitches" interview is from 2019. if we must cling to those two quotes, they still predate the release of XenoDE in 2020. that's what I'm saying. those two quotes really should not be held on to like they are still.
Whatever relevant pitch was greenlit in 2019 is what the XCDE team would be working on next/now, they don't wait till a project's finished to make pitches, gotta have something lined up to go perhaps even while another dev cycle's ongoing.
I'm 99.8% confident that I want it to be
now you're telling me things I've posted myself here
all it takes is one interview with one off hand comment for whole narrative to form and endure for years
I mean, yes? They have nothing announced to be in dev, their entire official slate is clear and their last batch of DLC for their last major game came out over half a year ago. There's simply no way they won't be announcing a new project within the next year.
a new project in late 2024 or the first half 2025 seems pretty feasible yeah.
I would've expected a new IP before Xenoblade 3 released, but with them saying that Xenoblade will continue and how Nintendo wants to grow the Xenoblade brand, who knows anymore.
well my guess would have been that with XB3 and the FR DLC, it'd be the perfect time to put a slightly longer gap for the fourth game starting a new trilogy. Especially to give time to properly put a narrative framework that'd pan accross multiple games.
the problems I think are holding back Xenoblade (combat complexity) are the parts easily jettisoned. even Xenoblade fans wouldn't mind ditching them
I don't really see that as an issue tbh, that's why I'd rather they try a new franchise to try a lot of other ideas that wouldn't necessarily fit with Xenoblade rather than drastically change what fans expect out of the franchise.
well they already did that and worked out well. the one aspect people complain the most about was the lack of deep story (and conclusion). the world and music weren't the problem. people identify the Xenoblade games by their storytelling first
Some of us actually play it for the combat (at least partially) ¯\(ツ)/¯
As a Xenoblade fan I'd absolutely mind if they ditched combat complexity
I find the combat alright. more that it gets lost in itself than being anything engaging
Now that there's a trilogy of three story charged games, obviously people will identify them for that reason mainly.
