Thread 715213712

>Monolith Soft, the well-known studio that made the popular Xenoblade Chronicles series, is working hard on what looks like a vast new RPG for the Nintendo Switch 2. Sources say that the Tokyo-based developer is hiring a lot of new people, which means that the production of its next big game is at a critical point. People in the industry are talking about this project, but the name and other details are still a secret. It will push Monolith Soft's storytelling, design, and technical skills to new heights.

>Hints about this new title have been coming out steadily, with job postings and role descriptions showing how big and ambitious the game will be. Monolith Soft is looking for people to fill a lot of different positions, such as application programmers, 3D CG designers, modeling technical artists, and project managers. This kind of large-scale hiring usually happens near the end of production, when studios are getting ready for launch, polishing gameplay, and finishing assets

Isn't that the Takahashi-led game they started recruting for last year?
It's likely going to be a couple years at the least before we even see anything of it, and I'm not expecting it to be a Xeno- game at all.

It's not going to be a Xenosaga remake, so I don't care.

I just can’t understand why are anons so obsessed with making xeno games posts

>>715214609
We're thirsty for more Xeno or a new Monolithsoft RPG

I feel like the Xeno series should move on past Blade. I mean 3 games is a good run but we need something new.

>>715215129
They can just reinvent Xenoblade with the next Blade game

>>715215129
Xenogun, A first-person shooter RPG?

>>715215129
We just started.

I wouldn't mind going back to space stations like with Saga. We really need more space station themed jrpgs.

What would you call the next Xeno series? I like Xenosoul.

>>715216182
Xenomorphs

>>715213712 (OP)
That pic is ugly as sin.
Hope the game they're working on has no online shit.

POWAH RENG

Everyone tries to add another suffix to 'Xeno' but they all sound shit.

Blade, Saga and Gears sound good. I genuinely dont think there is another word that would sound good. Like actually good.

it's obviously xenoblade 4

>>715215129
no, every xeno sub series was supposed to be 6 games. There are big world/lore elements they kept vague in 3 on purpose for the next game(s)

>>715218709
I think there's plenty of random nouns that would sound good after you got used to it.

>>715218709
XenoTrigger
XenoCross

>>715222146
>XenoCross

xenoblade x is xenoblade cross in japan

>>715216182
xenotrigger
xeno cross

>>715215129
They advertise it alongside Mario Zelda and Splatoon so I'm pretty sure its meant to be a long running franchise at this point.

There's not going to be Xeno-somethingelse, unless they switch publishers again. Which would either require nintendo selling them off or the staff all leaving monolithsoft for another company.

I just hope the group can talk about things without having to go to a campfire to do it

>>715218709
Xeno Warudo!

Xenoblade 3 was trash

>>715226339
The rest of the class is talking

>>715221698
Name them

>>715226908
Lmao seething

>>715214609
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>>715227212
You say that as if it wasn't a prereq to visit this site. We're all Aspies down here, Billy Boy

>>715216498
XENO SEXOOOOOOO

>>715216498
Kirby will be in MonolithSoft's next game

>>715213712 (OP)
Where the FUCK is FEAR 4 YOU DIRTY JAPS

Xenogears HD would fit right in alongside something like Triangle Strategy. Even the camera control is similar

>>715228090
Monolith Soft doesn't have the rights to Gears, retard.

>>715228137
I'm just saying that if they did a joint venture with Square Enix, it would work

>>715228090
It would be too based desu. That being said, it would be easy to market and would sell to tendies on name alone. "From the mind that brought you the Xenoblade games..." etc.

>>715228256
Nintendo keep tabs on rest of stuff and SE kinda have bad blood with rest of staff.

Not saying it can't happen but not only SE have quite bad track record recently,but also monolith not working on it would raise ton of redflags due unfinished status. Saga plot already got absorbed onto blade canon and now they are redoing perfect works.

>>715228248
It's never happening. At this point gears is a draft of a draft of the story they want to tell.

>>715230153
>now they are redoing perfect works.
XC3 is already the end of PW

>>715213712 (OP)
It’ll be a Fire Emblem game out of nowhere.

>>715230753
Now say the bad part

>>715230753
Cringe

>>715215129
No need to drop the blade name, but I hope they try something different for the gameplay systems. Don't care what y even full turn based or completely action, just something new instead of iterating on the auto attack + skill bar system they've had since XBC 1

>>715230786
It’s Three Houses again but done by Monolith with a new route.

Fi and Link are just a Blade and Driver but done 6 years before Xenoblade 2

>>715213712 (OP)
Reminder that the listing for the Zelda project has never been removed while other projects have come and gone. It was listed before TotK was announced and it’s still up 2 years after release. The one for Xenoblade 3 was delisted when the game was formally announced.
https://www.monolithsoft.co.jp/recruit/
So I think it’s related to this.

>>715213712 (OP)
The only thing I care about is how big they'll make the main girl's boobs this time around

>>715213712 (OP)
Probably the only Switch 2 game I'm looking forward to, but I'm not sure if I'll buy a console just for it. Switch 2 as a hardware was disappointing to me, especially the screen after all the things testing revealed. I wish Nintendo just made switch version that is just a regular box without a screen and joycons. Un-switch, if you will. My Switch 1 literally NEVER left the dock in 7 years. Not once.

>>715232789
>Mid-size (Fiora, Elma, Mio)
>Large (Pythra)
It'll be a small or a flattie. Or they'll just double down and get some honkers

>>715233043
Monolith's games are made for TV, not handheld.

>>715232789
We're getting a flattie for the new heroine

>>715233043
>especially the screen after all the things testing revealed.
>My Switch 1 literally NEVER left the dock in 7 years. Not once.
Then why would the screen on S2 matter to you

am i racist or does the night sylvalum theme have a slight chinese vibe to it

>nintendo exclusive series
dead on arrival

I was hyped for xenoblade when it released on the wii but I just couldn't like it
the autoattack gameplay based on simply picking skill off cooldown is boring
the open world is pretty but it's empty and gets boring
and I wanted to clear all quests I came across but so many of them are just "get this rare drop from a specific enemy, so you'll have to hang around in one area killing the same enemy several times until you get enough drops"
are the sequels any better?

>>715235368
The sequels are very much the same on steroids

>>715213712 (OP)
The next project is called Legacy and is simply what they are calling them porting over Xenoblade 1, 2 and 3 to Switch 2. The one that they just started hiring for is a completely new thing

>>715231713
Funny enough, Takahashi requested the Master Sword and Fi as a DLC Blade to use since they were doing a cross promotion with BotW and put Rex's outfit in there, but they were denied for Lore reasons. Fi's only Master is Link and they didn't want to make it seem like just anyone could use the Master Sword.

>>715218709
Xenoknights

>>715233963
Then they must not want the game to sell well. Any flatter than Mio and it's a crime.

>>715235665
That's some nigger behaviour on part of whoever made that decision from the Zelda side (I assumed Aonuma). Bunch of retarded faggots who can't design a game for their lives.

>>715235665
Well, Link has always been left handed in all games since LttP, except TP in the Wii and SS because of motion controls, but then BotW and TotK made him a rightie for no real reason. Like >>715235829 said, the upper management is full of retards

>>715235665
[citation needed]

>>715235829
Nintendo is really particular when it comes to their characters and how they are presented. If you give off the wrong impression of them, you get corrected really quickly. This is why you'll never see drastic redesigns of characters that move them away from what Nintendo considers their "core philosophy". Brand protection is what matters to them and this can be a good and bad thing. It means less risks and silly things happening, but it also means that we don't have to fear Nintendo pulling a Capcom and giving a different studio full creative control over an IP for little reason and them going full retard.

I want something original
no more xenoshit part 57.5

There should be a breastfeeding minigame in the next one

>>715236385
kys

Imagine they made a Gacha game set either post-Torna pre-Xb2 or post-Xb2 pre-XB3.

They already have a gacha system.

>>715215129
All of the Xenoblades were brand new though. Like despite sharing the same story (started via 2 desu), they don't share the same vibes and gameplay at all.

>>715228090
Xenogears "HD" will 100% be made with AI. And you don't want that. At least, not right now. Give AI a century or two to develop first.

>>715235665
I need sauce on this, but if true that's a dick move.

>>715213712 (OP)
sexoblade

>>715213712 (OP)
I hope it's not some shounen brainrot like xenoblade.
But i guarantee it will be.