Xenoblade Chronicles X is the biggest game of the year...

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Tachikoma said:

sc94597 said:

The 6 m/s (or 21.6 kph) estimate I gave is actually less than your measurement of 23.46 kph run speed. So we can discard the 50% faster runspeed I guess. I just never thought of 6 m/s being an average run speed of a human on Earth for long distances. Still using your result of 23.46 kph that gives us 11.7 Km. 

Which is pretty much in-line with the direct line measurement for the 301km/sq overall map size, since the route you need to take on foot is not direct, as a result of the land shape and obstructions along the way.
Additionally they run on landmass only, horizontally, which does not account for the large band of water space on the left and right of the map, which can be accessed before hitting the barrier.

Oh I wasn't disputing your claim that the world area is 301 km^2 nor that the land area is even much smaller than that. Just that in comparison to Skyrim (which tends to be the metric these days) it takes a similar amount of time to travel across just three of five continents along a short path in XBC:X that it does to travel across Skyrim along an average path. Considering that our brains (at least mine) accomodate for changes in speed when determining world scale, this allows some people (not all) to get a sense of how big the world is relative to other games. This of course says nothing of world density, which you noted in your other posts, but I think that is a matter of different design philosophy and the intent of the game.