There actually is a "ship" of sorts that bears a striking resemblance to those in Xenosaga.Xenoblade 3 ends with a massive Ark to another dimension and it looks like this
Same character designer, yeah. But the mechanical designer for Saga was Junya Ishigaki and for Blade X was Takayuki Yanase. So it looks like the similarity isn't due to sharing a designer, sooooo a deliberate choice on Takahashi's part?There actually is a "ship" of sorts that bears a striking resemblance to those in Xenosaga.
IIRC Xenosaga and X shared at least one designer, so it could just be down to that, but the general shape is quite similar.
Yeah, I dunno if L = Wild Ride is really a thing, I just tossed it in there because I've seen it come up a few times in other people's theories, and it has come to my mind as well. It's just important to remember that concept art often doesn't resemble what is thrown into a final product since that's all it is, a concept. Obviously Mira isn't anything like the Mira concept art either. So basically, who knows. XD
Fire emojii is right
A tie-in to X would be a big twist, so naturally it wouldn't be mentioned before the games release
The twist is Takahashi doing the same thing twice. Then again, people think he's trying to recreate perfect works
I think what they're "better off" doing is subjective and Takahashi's gonna do what Takahashi wanna do
As connected as the numbered titles are, they're still pretty distinct entities from one another. The stories they tell are very self contained, especially compared to past Xeno games. The series is still structured not unlike Final Fantasy, but with an underlying myth arc tying everything together for those that do play all the games. Even with 3 more prominently featuring returning characters, I still expect it to work as a standalone story first and foremost, as evidenced by the way that they keep presenting things in a way that returning players will immediately identify connections but without any explicit confirmation.
That's one explanation to account for the strange goings on with planet Mira, and the inability for seemingly advanced technology to not be able to escape it or scan it correctly. But it doesn't account for Mira's other quirks. Like native living hive organisms (that can form a multicellular sapient being when joined together) that can interact with and download digital data, or being able to download and broadcast a literal collective unconscious to their robot puppets (the memory units of the white whales life hold containing everyone's consciousness was destroyed in the impact... The countdown timer was meaningless).
The other is that Mira itself is more advanced technology in the form of a planet that is simply blocking them, and also performing other advanced technological functions.
Oh and just by the by..... Here is an interesting contemporary event that was going on around the time XbX started production.
Mira (supercomputer) - Wikipedia
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Mio was the one inflicting spike damage.
nah, I don't like the idea of replacements. I want my cake and to be able to eat it. especially when they taste different
That kind of "surprise" could be ruined if Takahashi says it outright...
It was noted in FC that the Telethia were keeping the rift and Fog King at bay within Alcamoth by consuming the ether they produced so I saw that scene as an indication that the Telethia were on the move to neutralize the growing rift while Shulk and his companions kept the Fog King distracted.
It's kinda funny, because the Telethia in Xenoblade X is one of the things that we knew for a fact came from another world. In the quest A Fated Choice, you learn a little bit about the history of the Telethia and the Ovah and Orphean race:
I don't think it looks much different than the one in XB2.
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I sure won’t be disappointed in the least if that’s not the case, I think we’re just having fun entertaining theories with the clues that we are finding in XCX and environments on XC3 and the crazy shenanigans Takahashi usually fabricates. It’s part of the fun Xeno-fans always have with new games… if the game ties someways with Mira in the end of the plot or on the future of Aionios, fine. If not, it’ll be fine too…
You’re making this a big deal…if it happens it happens. If it doesn’t happen then it doesn’t happen. There’s nothing to be disappointed about lol
I figured as much, but I'd rather lean towards toning down excitement just in case. I've seen this happen before with other communities and I don't want to see it repeat with Xeno. Glad to hear though that my worries were misplaced.
By micro twitching, I assume you mean the subtle head bobbing?It looks better due to couple of reasons I think. New tech from Monolithsoft I fear.
But first, the models themselves. Eyes are more sculpted and less flat on 3 models. The lashes are fully modeled on the eyes.
It‘s running on an updated engine for sure. They fixed the depth of field. It looks great now with no obvious haloing like in Torna. I also notice characters all have a more cell shaded look to them but not quite fully cell shaded. Materials still retain most of their respective textures but it’s more cel shaded than 2 but not fully like BOTW or Astral Chain.
Finally, subtle but I think important update as I just got done watching some second tier cutscenes from previous games just to make sure. The lip sync is much more detailed here (less robotic and puppet like). The older games have mouth flaps move like a sock puppet lol.
One more subtle but very important detail to note is the iris movement. They twitch this time. Like micro twitching. There are no movements like that in the previous games. New animation tech I think
for their cutscenes. XBDE already showcased it beautifully but now with enhanced environments and modern particle/lighting effects it's going to shine
Maybe I'm wrong but I thought she was having a flashback to what she see during fusion.
This is what I thought too, since it flashbacks to that weird yellow space that we see during the fusion sequences. Either way, I'm looking forward to all the heart to hearts where characters share eachother's embarrassing memories (Example: Mio finds out Noah wet the bed a lot as a kid and teases him about it in front of the others).
Keep in mind Xenoblade 2 and 3 have the same character designer, and the in-game models are an accurate depiction of his designs. They didn't "fix it in XBDE" and then "go backwards on it in 3" as much as they simply had a different character designer on DE.
I don't think anyone's saying the lack of evidence is evidence, but rather the inverse; the lack of evidence is not evidence that X isn't connected. The possibility that it could happen is what's being pointed out.
No, I meant the iris actual movement. They twitch like real eyes. The bobbing is just a canned animation for these second tier cutscenes. They existed in 2 and 1. The lip-sync and eye movements are new additions.
Yeah, I get it now. I just was out of sync with other's expectations.
I had my reply in a draft. This page was on a tab and I didn‘t bother to click “view new messages” but my thoughts exactly.
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That’s why they’ll release a port of XCX on Switch sometime after XC3 comes out. It sounds like you played XC2 before playing the original (unless playing DE was your second playthrough), so if that’s the case then you’ve already played them out of order, but despite the connections to 1 in 2 I’m sure it turned out fine for you, yes? Why would it be any different with some ties to X in 3?
