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Forums - Gaming Discussion - So take Monolith Soft and out of the equation, who would you get to develop Xenosaga episode IV?

I think this is more down to the writer(s) and director than just the developer, but for the sake of the thread I'll say Tri-Ace. Resonance of Fate was an impressive piece of world building. Hook them up with a suitable writer (say Soraya Saga) and I think they could pull it off.



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badgenome said:

I think this is more down to the writer(s) and director than just the developer, but for the sake of the thread I'll say Tri-Ace. Resonance of Fate was an impressive piece of world building. Hook them up with a suitable writer (say Soraya Saga) and I think they could pull it off.

Well, I was going off of pretty much no one involved with Monolith Soft. Maybe Tri-Ace with whoever writes the stories for the Shin Megami Tensei series (I'm not talking about all of Atlus, just the writer of the series).



bigtakilla said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Are u trying to make the arguement that Yuna could have single handly killed sin without any help?

Without any help? No

Without Tidus? Yes (at least banish him)

I disagree but nontheless there is no way for either of us to prove this so its moot, only the developer can answer this.  Anyway we've derailed the thread enough, time to go to sleep. 



KingdomHeartsFan said:
bigtakilla said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Are u trying to make the arguement that Yuna could have single handly killed sin without any help?

Without any help? No

Without Tidus? Yes (at least banish him)

I disagree but nontheless there is no way for either of us to prove this so its moot, only the developer can answer this.  Anyway we've derailed the thread enough, time to go to sleep. 

How? The ritual to banish Sin has went on for a long time and had been done many times before. It could happen. It's not a maybe.



bigtakilla said:

Well, I was going off of pretty much no one involved with Monolith Soft. Maybe Tri-Ace with whoever writes the stories for the Shin Megami Tensei series (I'm not talking about all of Atlus, just the writer of the series).

IIRC, although she's married to Takahashi and has contributed on Monolith games she has never been an employee of Monolith and has been a freelancer ever leaving Square.



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badgenome said:
bigtakilla said:

Well, I was going off of pretty much no one involved with Monolith Soft. Maybe Tri-Ace with whoever writes the stories for the Shin Megami Tensei series (I'm not talking about all of Atlus, just the writer of the series).

IIRC, although she's married to Takahashi and has contributed on Monolith games she has never been an employee of Monolith and has been a freelancer ever leaving Square.

Right on. I knew she wasn't an employee, I just figured she collaborates and is part of the process. How could she not be being married to the head of the studio.

I will agree though that it would work, and the actual people at Monolith Soft are not involved though. It'd also be a good workaround to get ideas off of Takahashi.



Well I thought of a few devs but none of which I want making Xenosaga IV over what they are/should be doing.
Anyway they are Silicon Studios (Bravely Default), tri-Ace (Star Ocean, Phantasy Star Nova, EoE) and Media Vision (Wild Arms, Chaos Rings, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth).



ktay95 said:
Well I thought of a few devs but none of which I want making Xenosaga IV over what they are/should be doing.
Anyway they are Silicon Studios (Bravely Default), tri-Ace (Star Ocean, Phantasy Star Nova, EoE) and Media Vision (Wild Arms, Chaos Rings, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth).

Yeah, I think we pretty much have a winner with Tri-Ace with maybe a little help from an outside source on story. 



bigtakilla said:
XanderXT said:
Atlus. Because why not?

Although their graphics and combat system generally GREATLY lack the finer details in comparison to the Xeno series, I think they could deliver on story. 

The question then becomes would the rest of development be way to far out of their element to make a Xeno game. Is their anything they had done that is closer to the design style and gameplay mechanics?

I dunno. I only play Shin Megami Tensei and Etrian Odyssey. I just started on Persona and Trauma Center.



bigtakilla said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:
bigtakilla said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Are u trying to make the arguement that Yuna could have single handly killed sin without any help?

Without any help? No

Without Tidus? Yes (at least banish him)

I disagree but nontheless there is no way for either of us to prove this so its moot, only the developer can answer this.  Anyway we've derailed the thread enough, time to go to sleep. 

How? The ritual to banish Sin has went on for a long time and had been done many times before. It could happen. It's not a maybe.

Okay since you can't let this go...go ahead and prove it.  Prove that Tidus played no role in getting the party to the final stage, prove they could have got through each encounter without Tidus and everyone else in the party would have been there without Tidus.