Monolith Soft Is Looking For Programmer With "3D Action Game Experience"

Xenoblade X remaster please or x2

Xenoblade as an IP has pretty good future, but they have to make a change in terms of gameplay. The combat, while amazing, is a way too convoluted for it to be achieve the masses sadly.

You tell someone how to play Xenoblade 2 and you might as aswell do a thesis, it's second nature by the time you are playing it and learn how to abuse it, but it's work.

I do wonder if it's not better to create a new IP, i mean, if you are going to change what made Xenoblade, why not just create a new IP that's action based

Would love to see a new IP from such a talented studio

Honestly having Xenoblade 4 be an action RPG could be really cool, provided they execute it properly and retain the prior identity of the series

@Faruko 2's combat was atrocious, and the explanation was a mess. 1 and 3 were much better, more streamlined, and better explained.
Not sure if I am misunderstanding your last line @alanahagues, but isn't Xenoblade already action-based? It's not turn-based, so what is it presently?

I see an Xenoblade article I click

You know what would be awesome? A Xenoblade Warriors game. There's so much you can pull from, especially in 1 and 3.

Weren't Monolith Soft meant to be making a medieval JRPG? Or was that just some baseless rumour?

@Coversnail It's still in development! It was never officially announced as a game for any system, but there's been a team working on it since 2018. Unsure if it's connected to Xeno in any way or if it's an entirely new project. There has been several pieces of promo art released. Heavy rumors saying it will come to the Switch 2 as a launch year title. Originally it was going to come to the base Switch but Xenoblade 3 was fast-tracked instead.

@Coversnail I personally don't think that "Medieval JRPG" actually exists. People have talked about it since before Xenoblade 2 was even released and the only reason why was because of some concept art that was floating around. It's entirely possible that the concept art was just generic recruitment art.

im pretty sure its the new ip game their working on the medieval type jrpg game they shown a few years back cause i do think its time for something new and give xenoblade a break at least.

@Axecon its not connected to xenoblade its a brand new ip.

Well then. When are we getting Switch 2 news dammit!?!?

A sequel for Disaster: Day of Crisis?

@RiasGremory Not connected to Xeno ... yet. I'm sure Takahashi's playing some sort of 4D chess with the plot connections.

@Vortexeo I believe Astral Chain was originally going to be a more medieval style game before Nintendo advised them to change, so I do agree with you.

I'm sure whatever they make it will be good. They have a great track record.

@GrailUK I think very soon personally. Even by Nintendo's standards it's getting a really tight squeeze and they could risk it being stuck up there if you get my drift (well I hope you don't actually.)

Sorry - just starting to get very bored

@Axecon i rather have monosoft take a break from xenoblade series at least for now to come up with new ideas cause 3 and its dlc shown its story had issues and was all over the place with so many plotholes that werent fully answered.If they ever do a 4th one they need to bring back pyra and mythra along with the rest of the main cast from all 3 games so they can join together and fight a new terrifying threat like from space or something like that not go vigo the carpathian route like they did with Z.X needs a sequel which everyone wants to fully find out who behind the events in that game especially since emma had concerns about the mech that runs on black matter.

@Coversnail So they've released a variety of concept artwork for hiring pushes at different points. As far as anything official is concerned though, they don't have anything specific presently in the works. The fantasy art was likely to get people on board for their support studio that works on Zelda games, but even that is just speculation, we honestly don't know what they have in the works aside from more Xenoblade at some point.

@Faruko Not everything has to aim for mass market appeal. Just turning a profit while making what they like should be enough for any studio with an ounce of artistic integrity. Honestly, I feel like the potential for complexity in 2 and 3 is wasted if anything. Most of the time, you can completely ignore positioning, chain attacks, and half the other combat mechanics as long as you have the right items and cancel consistently, and you get way overleveled just by doing the sidequests if you're not careful.

@Faruko I dunno if I agree. Xenoblade games are extremely deep, but they function well and Xenoblade 3 made a lot of progress to make the combat more accessible (and Xenoblade 1 & X are pretty damn straightforward, just have a ton of daunting depth).

I think if they do a more action oriented Xenoblade I'm okay with that, but I don't want them going Final Fantasy on us where the series has a fractured identity and insists on completely ripping the ground up and redoing the gameplay every main entry (this has been the case since FFXII some 18 years ago).

I think they just need to explain the basics of their mechanics better and allow people a more easier way of accessing that deeper combat progressively. Kinda like what they did with Future Redeemed.

I'd like to see what Monolithsoft can do with some other genres. I'm just not sure what else they're suited for. While the Xenoblade games have many strengths, precise controls, good collision detection, etc. have never been among them, so I'm not sure how well they'd do on something more action-oriented. Hopefully, new hires like this are enough to bring those elements in line with the rest of their stellar talent.

Yes - Day of disaster 2 Armageddon.

@Anachronism they are working on a new ip medieval jrpg so maybe a western style one.

Well, January saw a lot of devs lose their jobs. ☹️

Maybe someone will find a job in Tokyo.

I don't want the next Xenoblade game to be vastly different. It started out as essentially perfect. Why is Xenoblade 1 the best? The story, though they're all great besides X which scrapped it late in development. The armor which was unique for each hero also allowed for incredible gem customization. Now we just get to use 3 greens of 20 possibilities. The side story about the Giants which you only got into through certain side quests and exploration. The growing and evolving relationships and cities. The affinity chart where your characters got each other's buffs as they grew closer, not to mention the cutscenes as the came to like each other more. Not to mention how each city felt vast and unique and it was always fun getting to the next big hub. Oh and having distinctively unique races of playable characters.

Now, there's some streamlining that's nice in the newer games. It's great that the NPC quests feel like more than just fetch quests. But in general Xenoblade one just felt so much more alive as a world than any others. X was going that direction but it's weird that there were no cities in the inhabited planet.

Anyways, I hope vastly different just means it's a fantasy game instead of Sci Fi, or something like that. Because I love Xenoblade, if I wanted a different game I'd not be playing Xenoblade. But keep the basics with a good story and I'm sure I'll love whatever's next.

@quinnyboy58 I don't know. X was fine and all but the weapons and add ons and everything in between when it came to gear and Skells was way too convoluted. In the other 3 (6 w/DLC) Xenoblades if you gear up right you can beat enemies 10 levels higher, in X I had a hard time beating some enemies 5 levels lower. Not to mention the lackluster story, I know they scrapped it and a main protagonist to make the story all about the avatar because that was cool at the time, but you could tell it was rushed after they started over with the avatar plot line. Though, there is much to praise about the game like exploration, characters, number of playable characters, use of gamepad, X 2 would only be great if they had a real story and protagonist as well as more locals than the one big city. I mean imagine a Nopon hub, or any of the any of the Aliens having a city 1/2 the size of NLA. I think it would make the world make a lot more sense.

@Cheez maybe because the planet in X that their trapped on is not wat it seems even emma has stated something wasnt right about the whole situation especially wen they discovered that mysterious mech that ran on black matter which emma knew something about it but at the same time got her worried especially since after the disappearance of the pods at the end all points to a much bigger threat to the aliens actually work for and that one guy who survived at the end as well.Honestly there still things that need to be answered besides the ones that mention above like why there creatures from the first xenoblade game that zanza created here on this planet something tells me X has some connections to the other games.

Hideki Kamiya for an RPG, please. LOL

Xenoblade Chronicles 4 with a action focus?

This is super exciting news. I love everything they put out. XC is up there with one of my favorite franchises.

@Woodyshoe @Rudolf I came here to say the same thing. I don’t know about you, but I would be genuinely thrilled if they announced another Disaster game but bigger and more insane than the first.

It's time for Hideki Kamiya to join and we'll see what amazing games they'd create!

Reminder: Monolithsoft is the secondary programming team for all EPD games behind SRD. EPD does very, very, VERY little of their programming in house, and this goes back to the days of the R&D teams. This position could just as likely be for Zelda, Pikmin, Splatoon, and Mario in equal measure, and all more so than Xenoblade.

@Zeebor15 Interesting. Can you cite sources for these bold claims about EPD?

@RiasGremory I forget, is there any evidence for that besides those couple pieces of concept art from 7 years ago? Those looked awesome, but it's been so long that I stopped really expecting anything to come of them.

I'm baffled by the confusion over and hatred of Xenoblade 2s combat. You spend 60 hours in combat, don't you eventually figure it out? It wasn't that complicated.

Let's go! Whatever they're making right now, I'm all in

@mereel Me too. A new Disaster game would be great (I really liked the game on Wii).

Xenoblade X remaster, or remakes of Xenosaga but with Xenoblade's combat system?