#Xenoblade chronicles x insidia a tv#
(I do get hands-on with them for future reference, though, and I still love older games that came out 30 or so years ago.) Most of the movies, TV dramas, novels, and games I pick up are made in the West. (I think this is easy to see when you notice that FPS-style games sell only around 100,000 copies or so in Japan, as opposed to 10 million worldwide.) This may be a surprise to hear, but I don’t have very much interest in “current” Japanese anime and games, and I don’t play them, either. “Japanese tastes are unique compared to those in the West, so if you focus solely on gamers within Japan, you’ll always find yourself running into this problem. As a result, you can only create things scaled to make money within Japan alone, and it becomes this negative spiral.” I think this is probably due to differences in cultural tastes, but in the current situation, it’s difficult to take content created in Japan and have it accepted in the West. But lately, I’ve started to wonder about whether this is really just because of budgetary issues. “It seems to me that building the entire world of the game itself (making it open-world) is considered one must-have element for Western RPGs nowadays, but that just can’t be done in the current Japan scene. “Except for a subset of titles, Japanese RPGs are budgeted so they’ll make a profit off sales within Japan alone,” says Takahasi. He prefers Western games to Japanese ones Our hope is that we can start by creating the core system, then expand on the story and thematic elements in our future project.”
We decided that trying to balance that with an epic theme-laden story would pose difficulties. Given that we at Monolith Soft had no experience with developing HD titles, our goal with this project was to experiment with and implement the assorted tech skills we needed for HD game development. “We deliberately distanced ourselves from having philosophical themes intertwined with the core of the story. “The design focus for this game was on map exploration and character builds during battle,” says Takahashi. “So there’s no problem at all if you’re walking or running around the game map, but since you can also fly through the air at high speed, we used the data packs (which are handled as additional content) to load part of the game data from storage instead of the disc, in order to make it more comfortable to play.” The studio intentionally distanced itself from the sort of philosophizing it’s known for “Open-world games are often designed with the idea that they’ll be installed on hard-disk media, but for this game, we tuned the engine to its very limits to make it playable without installation (something which I think is pretty innovative),” explains Takahashi.
#Xenoblade chronicles x insidia a install#
Xenoblade Chronicles X‘s free, optional data packs exist because the Wii U doesn’t let developers install games I had a chance to ask the game’s executive director (and studio Monolith Soft founder) Tatsuya Takahasi a few questions about the game, his thoughts on Japanese gaming, and what he’s hoping to do next.
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