Improvements You Can Expect in the Next Xenoblade Game, According to its Director

Twinfinite writes, "Many people who have invested hours into Xenoblade Chronicles X may have succeeded saving the human race from extinction, they have explored the entirety of planet Mira, and they have defeated the Ganglion menace, but they might now be asking themselves, 'What's next?'"

[Yi-Long]

I just want them to include the Japanese voices again, like they did in the original game (Xenoblade Chronicles), and obviously they shouldn't be doing the self-censorship again.

[glassgannon909]

no thanks, id take a good battle system over voices in a language most of us dont understand.
the pseudo mmo with aggressive qte's shit wont cut it...
whats worse is the qte's dont even do anything awesome, theyre just a necessity to keep your health or other stuff up...

[Philface]

Qte does more than restoring your health it gives specific buffs according to the situation it was triggered by. (See: soul voice)
Also it rises affinity level between the characters. Soul voice is not only coming from your character but also from team members. It is also important to check your stance towards your enemy for some attacks. The battle system is actually pritty complexe.

[Pookandpie]

The battle system in Xenoblade is actually pretty great.

Soul Voices were a solid addition to actually keep you on your toes during combat. I'd actually like it if they took something similar to XCX's combat but then made it so that all attacks don't teleport or home in (if you played it, you know what I mean), making positioning even more important.

Or they could do something like Xenosaga Episode III's- or mix the two. So long as it's nothing like Episode II's, I don't care lol.

[n4g0006]

Graphics Upgrade!

[Kalebninja]

They need to just make a new battle system, i mean if any changes happen they need to be big because obviously people aren't buying it for a reason.

[Pookandpie]

"People aren't buying it for a reason."

Yeah, there's plenty of reasons, but I'm confused as to how you conflate any of them with the battle system. The Wii U has a horribly small install base that's notorious for ignoring games not featuring Mario - there's a reason. Gamers who enjoy JRPGs have literally no reason to jump to the Wii U since there's pretty much only Xenoblade CX on the platform- there's another.

The battle system can use improvements, but scrapping it and making another from scratch seems like a bad idea (I can't be the only one who remembers Xenosaga Episode II, right?). Xenoblade's combat had nothing really wrong with it, and it's the balancing aspects of XCX that are worse off than anything else; poor tutorials don't help, either, as you're not even properly told how Overdrive works in the game or its manual.

[Kalebninja]

I said the battle system because that was my issue with it, its boring as hell and if a game is going to be as long as xenoblade it should be enjoyable to fight. This is probably one of the few JRPGs I've had this problem with it feels like an offline mmo.

[Yi-Long]

For me that reason was 100% because they butchered out the Japanese voices.

[Segata]

XCX sold better in Japan than the original and in the US sold over 200K on launch day.

[Kalebninja]

Just because it sold better than the original doesnt mean it sold well. it sold 200k at launch but since then its only made it to 330k in the US and 750 total which isnt something to boast about.

[Big_Game_Hunters]

Pretty ignorant statement you've got there.

[Kalebninja]

How is what i said ignorant? its been out in japan since april and out in the west since december and hasnt hit a million in sales. Its one of the worst selling wii u exclusives, even Captain Toad and Wii Party outsold it.

[blawren4]

Peopel are buying it, what are you talking about. It's never going to sell multi million as a niche title, but a million has already been reached or will be easily.

[Kalebninja]

the games been it a while in the WEST and Japan and hasn't reached a million, calling a game a niche title is just another way of saying not a lot of people want to play it. And we've clearly seen that it's not because of it's genre since other RPGS have been selling 5-10+ million. So a game thats suppose to be big not reaching a million after several months on the market isnt selling well.

[blawren4]

Did you seriously imply that a game isn't selling ic a game doesn't sell 5 million copies? On 13 m install base.

[Neonridr]

I am happy to hear that they are already talking about another one. Means the franchise is still in good hands.

[Darkfist]

just dont try to make the map bigger, oh and voice acting in side missions

[tigner]

I'm have the firm belief this game was grudgingly released on the U by Nintendo....they'd rather it had been released on the NX like Zelda U.

there's going to be a re-release of this game on the NX...

[Big_Game_Hunters]

I would rebuy a 1080p, 60 fps. No pop in, no jaggies. version of the game.

[Big_Game_Hunters]

First things first they need a new 3 D character modeler. The designs themselfs are great, but 3D adaptations not so much.

Second some interfacd issues like the microscopic text, it was actually impossible to read during offscreen play, like actually impossible.

Third, battle system changes, I love the battle system but obviously it needs to be adjusted every entry to keep things different from the last.

fourth, more story.

5th, More linear areas, Open world is great but it would also be cool to have story specific dungeons like Xenoblade had.

Not going to mention graphics because with a new entry and new hardware the graphics will obviously improve drastically like XB to XBX.

[blawren4]

Good list of upgrades. Definitely the small text(and pop-in) was my only real gripe with this game, both of which could easily be alleviated with stronger hardware of the next console.

[beggda35]

As long as there is another one in a few years I'm happy. Let him decide how to make it better.

[iplay1up2]

I just bought an 4K Vizio 60" model M60-C3 on clearance at Walmart for $698, its sold out online but here in So Cali I found one at a store 50 miles away! Same TV at Best Buy is 1,400! Anyway Xenoblade X looks fantastic on it!

This TV according to CNET has one of the best reviews on this TV for lag time on a TV of this caliber it is "virtually non existing. Check your walmarts and see if they have this TV, its an amazing value!