Why does X's world look so much more professional and beautiful than Xenoblade 2's?

Why does X's world look so much more professional and beautiful than Xenoblade 2's?

Does Monolith have two teams?

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Despite weaker hardware.

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If this is coming to the Switch, I think it'll finally be time to buy one for me.

Why does everyone have potatoface in X

The entire budget went into making the world look and feel nice.

Switch doesnt have ennough spec.

I think its because X was more focused on exploration rather than story so they spent more time and money on developing the world, whereas 2 is pretty much the opposite.

X2 was rushed too in order to have something released on Switch's release window.

>m-muh mechs
>REEEEE CENSOR THESE ANIME TIDDIES RIGHT NOW
>MUH MECHS
>FUCK DRUMPF AND FUCK WH*TE PEOPLE!!!

Why are """people""", who consider themself Xenoblade X fans so fucking disgusting?

Monolith barely has enough staff for 1 team

Because portability meme. They had to design a game that would actually run in handheld mode.

Since Takahashi seem to want it and it's a simple port I don't see why it shouldn't.

If they do the Deluxe like they did with Kart where they add a bit more things to it what would you hope they change? Outside of uncensoring the game.

X and XBC is the A team.

XB2 was largely outsourced. Not even joking, only like 30% of the staff are Monolith Soft employees. Fucking Tri-ace of all companies pitched in a lot of dev work.

Look it up.

I don't get it. Does the X engine simply not work with the Switch? Is the console less powerful than the Wii U in handheld mode?

Are you mentally retarded? And please stop making white people look bad.

I wish they'd fix the fucking pop-in.

They expanded hugely in mid 2015, after they expanded just a few years before. They have two offices and like 4 teams.

I don't know how they would port it. They'd have to redo all the touch interface and fix the fucking font plus there's the problem with nintendo being jews about high capacity cartridges. X is like over 20gb+.

Switch is actually weaker.
Just look at how shit XC2 runs on it and it still needs to use dynamic resolution which lowers the resolution every time fps is about to take a huge shit.

The post apocalyptic town at the end of XB2 literally looks like the No More Heroes city or worse.

>Switch is actually weaker.
It's not. That's why this is so weird.

BotW has higher framerate and resolution on Switch.

The obvious reason seems to be that XB2 was rushed.

2 has pop in. It will never be fixed unless the hardware gets better. It's amazing they even got both games to even run on both systems.

The Switch is on par with the WiiU undocked, at least since Nintendo offered another mode to developers in February.

Docked the Switch, all in, is around 70% stronger than a WiiU. Which isn't a lot when you consider games are aiming for 1080p/900p most of the time, instead of the WiiU standard of 720p. Strangely, XB2 targets 720p but it also has a memory leak that forces dynamic resolution at times, so hopefully that will be patched.

Found this.

resetera.com/threads/xenoblade-chronicles-2-staff-analysis.9222/

If I can recall, XC2 uses the same engine as X. It's been modified to work for Switch's portable mode.

That better fucking be the case.
If playing docked the max resolution XC2 can get to is 720p which is the same as in X and if I remember right, X didn't need to to use dynamic resolution to get to acceptable framerates.

How does the Switch become stronger when docked? There's nothing fucking in the dock

>X had 14 map designers while 2 had 6
>No overlap at all

Probably why it felt so different

Yeah, 2 has pop-in but it just felt so much more obnoxious in X. I'd always start running through New L.A and get stopped in place by an invisible object only to find it was vehicle that popped in to existence 10 seconds after I found it.

The game stays at 720p while docked. Undocked is where the resolution scaler is applied. DF did a whole video on it and didn't find a single resolution above or below 720p while docked.

Thanks. Doesn't sound like horsepower is the issue then. Seems like the rushed game or B-team theories hold water. How do you not notice huge memory leaks in the starting area of your game?

It underclocks the CPU in portable mode to save battery power.

>the cpu

the gpu you mean.

A shared XP pool, I dropped the game on wiiu because the XP grind for extra party members was ridiculous.
I've always hated how these games want you to sink so much time on menial bullshit.
People might have been more forgiving of it since wii and wiiu had long droughts but it's inexcusable imo.
Also remove those shitty cook tatsu lmao "jokes"

The CPU stays the same, the GPU is dropped to around 40%. Devs can choose 2 modes for the CPU, one geared towards battery life and the other towards performance, but it's the same clock speed.

Yeah I remember them not saying anything about the resolution going lower while the game struggles to run at 23fps in the Torigoth area.
It's just that I'm pretty sure I've seen it go lower than 720p on docked mode while in moving around in Torigoth. I think I might have to start taking some screenshots and start pixel counting if I want to be sure.

It's clear XC2 was rushed because they still have to patch in shit like new game plus and other features. You could tell the devs were wanting a 2018 release date but Nintendo probably moved it up to holiday so cash in on their closing financial quarter.

Hoping if it comes it features a few QoL improvements here and there, and drop rates to be fixed. I'd also appreciate if the online mode were scrapped because hackers really fucked it on the WiiU.

>Global Nemesis spotted
>Wow I can't wait to grind some of those things that help you get endgame gear!
>...oh wait, no, hackers have killed it in 20 minutes

And that was the entirety of Xenoblade X from April 2016 to when I checked it again in November

Well, good luck. Until it's patched it's unlikely to perform differently.

Because Monolith realized they couldn't squeeze out open world turds in quick succession, so they went back to boring and generic JRPG fantasy.

1 game was made somewhere between 3-4 years

the other game was made in 2 year while the studio was helping in other 2 projects. guess why one has more polish

Change up the gathering missions
At the very least let you have the information in which grid you can find certain itens

Exactly. XB2 is a fucking disgrace to the series and the shilling for it is laughable.

Holy fuck.

So this is literally Japan's equivalent of Mass Effect Andromeda.
How the fuck does this game get worse?

hello eric

Reminder that XB2 has the most hated
>story
>writing
>characters
>artstyle
>gameplay
>exploration
>combat
>music
In the series. It's the FFXIII of Xeno.

cant be XIII when the game is actually good and only numales cry about the character design

>402184176
>Niggers are STILL trying to start an EBIN FRANCHISE WAR XD
Fuck off

Can we actually talk about X in this thread or are we just going to start some stupid shit and pretend that xc1,xcx and xc2 are perfect series?

Also I want a good build with knifes outside blackbane and ailment spam

It's first party, so they won't have to pay for their own fees.

It comes down mostly to data steaming capacity. Xenoblade X works on Wii U because they can steam data from the Disc in addition to the data they can stream from the harddrive. Combined the Wii U dramatically outperforms the Switch in this regard. Which means larger world with more stuff in it at one time.

Switch however is generally on par with or superior to the Wii U in most all other respects. This is just a case where in this very specific scenario the Wii U is more capable than the Switch.

>Most hated music
Nah. While plenty of other aspects about 2 are questionable, the music was just great

Only exploration and artstyle seem valid there

The consoles arguably less powerful than the WiiU based on evidence we've seen
>Splatoon 2 has a much smaller main square than 1
>Negligible graphics bump is allowed by dropping the games resolution instead of frames
>Adaptive resolution generally being used to achieve "improvements" over the WiiU at the cost of it looking like Netflix is streaming your fucking game
Im seriously so fucking glad Nintendo didn't learn about this shit until after the WiiU, I hate adaptive resolution so goddamn much

Even if you like X's music how the hell can you possibly say that it wasn't questionable?
People have been railing the music since the game came out.

You can play Xenoblade X without the data packs so the game plays 100% from the discs. The load times will be worse but the game is still playable. I don't see how Switch can have this issue if they have cartridges that are faster than discs.

>XB2
>X
Get it together

Oh Im retarded my bad.
Yea X2's OST was really good.

>but the game is still playable
Watch this
youtube.com/watch?v=qaYfIdZ-_a0

XCX without the data packs is literally unplayable. I got the game 3 days early and it was fucking hell

BOTW has EITHER better framerate or better resolution
Consistent FPS in tablet mode
Or 900p but locked at 25 on TV mode

>People ignoring how much of a buggy unfinished X was until a year of DLC and fixes came out
What did he mean by this?

They literally do, but the true answer is that the worlds in 1 and 2 are more like a series of individual levels put together, while X is a proper cohesive open world.

>X
>DLC
Didn't it also come out ages ahead in Japan too? If that were to have happened Japanese players would have gotten the brunt of it.

We got the patched version right away, so retards think that was the original game.

Yes NA got all of the DLC and fixes for free.
I imported and played it in runes

So it was never broken in the west, then?

>>Splatoon 2 has a much smaller main square than 1
That's not proof of a systems power whatsoever

April in nipland vs December everywhere else

Evereywhere else got the DLC for free, nipland had to pay for Yalv, Alexa, HB and Boze

>resetera
lul cuck

XCX did have dlc and they even announced it a week before the game came out

Those are the only party members with anything close to personalities I feel like

All I see are load times being different and pop in. Aside from that the game is 100% beatable from start to finish without data packs. Switch should be less of a issue because it uses cartridges instead of discs and has more RAM to store information than Wii U.

Most pointless dlc ever. THe only decent characters were HB and Yelv and the mechs were shit

There was a lot more than character DLC. Quite a few missions and skell designs were DLC too.

Hell there wasn't even a fucking sort option for items when the game came out.
There was a HUGE laundry list of UI fixes and improvements.

>buggy
>unfinished
How so?

The game also had much, much stronger larger areas. Compared to tiny ass places like Mor Ardain (including the town & industrial complex), & many of the late game locations. Uraya, Leftheria, & Gormott are the only places that feel similar to the size of any given area in X or 1.

>People "ignoring" the fact that Xenoblade X launched in that state
>When it didn't launch in that state for them, at all
No shit?

HB was the best character. No wonder he was DLC.

Alcamoth was a load of fucking pointless empty space, dude. Having to walk to the round plaza things on the upper side of the city was hell.

WiiU is stronger you retards, even in stupid docked mode

There was a super common delete all your save data bug when the game came out.
Text would overlap so you couldn't read anything NPC's said ever if they had more than one line.
There was the hilarious affinity mission bug which didn't get fixed for 3 months where after completing an affinity mission it didn't register it was complete so it was stuck, which was an issue since you couldn't accept more than 2 missions so you were permanently locked out of doing any until they fixed it months later.

Theres probably a lot more but its been 3 years, I just remember it because nips were review bombing the shit out of it on amazon because of all the stuff.

>Docked the Switch, all in, is around 70% stronger than a WiiU.
pfft you're retarded kid

Huge ass areas worked the best in Xenoblade X because of the amazing feel of sprinting and jumping without any fall damage. It's fucking retarded how jumping stops your momentum in Xenoblade 2.

Nothing will excuse the soundtrack. Crap music doesn't belong in video games.

The amount of misinformation in this thread is hilarious. Its like a circle jerk of people lying to each other except everyone knows its lies they just cling to them anyway for some reason.

>Points to a handful of Sawano songs and Lyn's potato face endlessly
B-But it was Rex's turn!

At least we have autorun in 2.

Care to point out which ones?

you can autorun in X as well

I know, and you can sprint as well. Jogging to any place in 1 was an absolute pain, so 2 is a step on the right direction.

You can autorun in 2?

FIX THE FUCKING MUSIC. OH YOU CAN FLY? HERE'S A NEW SONG, I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT STARTING OVER EVERY TIME YOU LAND.

1 > X = 2

Because that was the focus: it was made for vistas, everything was made for the vistas and the atmosphere that comes with them.
Exploration was the core theme of XBX where XB2 has a stronger story and narrative and characters. Apples and Oranges for me, but I hope that MS's A team gets better at optimizing for Switch so they can start to bring this level of aesthetics to XBX2 and XB3

Yes, press Y while you're running and you'll keep on running. It's a bit shitty to turn properly afterwards, but once you get the hand of it, it's pretty nice.

I listen to a handful of Xenoblade X tracks every week. You just made me listen to some right now.

youtube.com/watch?v=cKnCRtYyxSk

handhelds holding back games again.

>he took the bait
You're an idiot.

Why do people seem to ignore that the games have different focuses? I think both of them look beautiful anyway.

That must be the most cherrypicked pic I've ever seen in my entire life.
Who exactly are you trying to fool?