More insight from Famitsu’s Xenoblade Chronicles X reader survey
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Famitsu held a reader poll for Xenoblade Chronicles X in one of its most recent issues. 1,257 people participated in the survey, and voted on topics such as the game’s difficulty, amount of content, and more.
Kotaku translated a number of questions several days back, but we’ve gone ahead and gathered up additional data – largely because the results were quite interesting! Continue on below to see what players thought of the Skells, squads, overall rating, and more.
Q1: [Respondents chose from pre-determined categories for elements they expected from the game and what things they liked after playing. Multiple choices were allowed.] Many players expected “World setting/Story” from the game, but “Exploration on the field” received the most votes for being good after respondents had played the game. Players were dissatisfied with the position of the main character and the degree of emotionalism of the story, so “World setting/Story” received harsh numbers in the latter question. [Note: respondents were able to choose multiple points and Famitsu expressed the results in a weird way. For example, it doesn’t mean 8% of the respondents thought the story was good. It means story had 8 percent of all votes when a single respondent may give 0-10 different votes. The percentage doesn’t tell how much players like each element. Rather, it shows how much they like each element in comparison to other elements.]
Q9: Collectopedia items are important for completing quests. It is intended that players share information of collectible items, so there are basically no hints for getting the items. More than 40 percent of the respondents thought that having few hints wasn’t much fun.
Japanese gamers share thoughts about Xenoblade Chronicles X in new Famitsu poll
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In last week’s issue of Famitsu, the magazine published a report on feedback for Xenoblade Chronicles X. Players shared thoughts on game length and difficulty, branching story, amount of content, size of the world, land variations, favorite Skell, and online concept.
Kotaku has since compiled the different results into various graphs. You can check them out in the gallery below.
Note that 1,257 people participated in the survey. Results were collected between May 29th and June 5th.
Xenoblade Chronicles X executive director wants to focus more on story for his next title
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In a guidebook for Xenoblade Chronicles X, fans left various feedback about the Wii U RPG. Players noted that they wanted a more passionate/rich story, the UI was a little difficult to use, and the battle system had a bit too much going in.
Xenoblade Chronicles X executive director responded to all of the feedback, and thanked fans for everything they had to say. He also said he agrees with most of what was mentioned.
Other feedback left by fans:
– Letters are too small
– Inviting other party members was tedious
– It would be cool to be able to go into out-space
– Fans more lively online features in Monolith Soft’s next title
Takahashi concluded his thoughts with the following:
“Being several years behind others in the development of an HD title and taking into account Monolith Soft’s company size, there are just some thing that we could not achieve, which couldn’t be helped, but in order to move on towards the next step, there was no avoiding this. And that is the truth.”
Monolith Soft on Xenoblade Chronicles X, sharing dev insight and open to helping other Nintendo teams
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Nintendo interviews haven’t stopped pouring in from E3 2015. The latest one comes from Game Informer, who chatted with Xenoblade Chronicles X director Tetsuya Takahashi and Nintendo’s Genki Yokota.
Topics include:
– Why Los Angeles was chosen as the main city for Xenoblade Chronicles X (New York was considered)
– HD development
– Working on first-party Nintendo games and being open to helping out with Zelda Wii U
It’s a pretty massive interview, so we’ve only posted a few excerpts below. You can read the full discussion here.
Takahashi on Xenoblade X, next game in development, wants Monolith Soft to grow, more
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GamesBeat has published a fairly lengthy interview with Monolith Soft’s Tetsuya Takahashi. Takahashi talked about Xenoblade Chronicles X in-depth, confirmed that his next title is in the works, expressed interest in expanding Monolith Soft, and more.
We have a good chuck of the interview rounded up below. The full discussion can be read here.
On being anxious about getting Xenoblade Chronicles X out in North America…
Takahashi: Yeah, although there’s still quite a lot left for us to do. We’ve announced a release date and everything, but all we can see is a looming deadline.
On how Xenoblade Chronicles X is a deliberate successor, and if Takahashi wanted to make the story more closely grounded to reality…
Takahashi: The simplest answer, probably, is that I felt like, after working on a fantasy setting, it might be nice to try something new. Science fiction is a great change of pace. It’s a really interesting flavor.
On the challenge in bringing an RPG franchise to HD for the first time…
Takahashi: Probably the biggest challenge for us comes in the planning stage, where we have to think about how we’re going to use these limited resources — I’m talking mostly about time on the schedule — to create all the assets in such a huge world. What order do we need to take tasks in to accomplish them all in the most efficient way? There’s a lot of tech that goes into expressing the open world concept as well, making sure that it’s a seamless experience from one end to the other. That’s probably the biggest challenge.
Takahashi says it takes about 30 hours to get a Skell in Xenoblade Chronicles X
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Xenoblade Chronicles X has a feature that allows players to obtain and fly various mechs known as “Skells”. Just don’t count on gaining access to a Skell right away. Speaking with IGN, senior director and chief creative officer Tetsuya Takahashi said that it takes about 30 hours before mechs become accessible.
He said:
“The reason we decided to do that was because the scale of the game changes once you get a Skell. We wanted to make sure that the initial difficulties you might have had maneuvering across terrain or trying to figure out how to reach a certain spot would be something you had a full sense of before you got the Skell.”
“We didn’t want people from the very beginning being able to be to zip towards the exact opposite end of the continent. We wanted people them to have the experience of knowing that distance first hand by running it. Once you do have the opportunity to control a Skell, it really does change the feel of the game. And we feel like these are gradual steps that ease you into that process.”
“When people hear 30 hours of gameplay, they might be reacting to that number a little bit. But I think that something that’s going to be familiar to MMO players is the idea that 30 hours is not necessarily a really long time if you think about the total gameplay time that might pick up. Now, certainly in traditional JRPG terms that may feel like that’s quite a ways out, but I think that we’ve designed the content in such a way that it feels fast as you’re going through it.”
Xenoblade Chronicles X launches in North America and Europe in December.
Nintendo Treehouse @ E3 2015 – Xenoblade Chronicles X (day 3)
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Xenoblade Chronicles X – first video with English voices
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