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AZWification on 07 February 2015
DialgaMarine said:

 I have a Wii-U... I just have zero desire to buy any games for it... Not sure why. I would love to play games like SSB and this, but something about the console just throws me off.

I can buy the games for you if you want!



                
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EpicLight on 07 February 2015

The map though is primarily continents you are exploring, not JUST areas in a video game. If it can be compared to a scale, it probably looks as if the map zoomed out is what it actually looks like as a photo taken in Space looking down on the continents, given how expansive the continents are.



DialgaMarine on 07 February 2015
AZWification said:
DialgaMarine said:

 I have a Wii-U... I just have zero desire to buy any games for it... Not sure why. I would love to play games like SSB and this, but something about the console just throws me off.

I can buy the games for you if you want!

 lol I truly appreciate the offer. I have to buy SSB, seeing as I got my own Lucario Amiibo. :P





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AZWification on 07 February 2015
DialgaMarine said:
AZWification said:

I can buy the games for you if you want!

 lol I truly appreciate the offer. I have to buy SSB, seeing as I got my own Lucario Amiibo. :P

You really need to! Smash WiiU is a very fun game, and much better than Brawl in my honest opinion!



                
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sc94597 on 07 February 2015
vivster said:
sc94597 said:
vivster said:
So that map confirms my suspicion. It's not more open world than the original was. Well at least it's more open world than DAI.

How does it confirm your suspicions? What in the map tells you it will have loading screens and artificial barriers? All of the barriers look geographic to me. In the real world continents tend to be separated by oceans and if they do connect it is by an isthmus or a mountain range creates a barrier. That is what we see here.

Multiple clearly defined areas all with a single chocke point(or more if they are connected with more areas). All areas are marked with mountains as barriers meaning you will not be able to access them through any other point as the clearly marked choke points. I'm assuming the black void is water and even if it is technically possible to travel to other areas via water, there won't be much to do on the water and I doubt it is intended.

That is not an open world as I define it. It's a random collection of seperate areas that are connected i.e. the exact same thing XC did.

Of course you could pretend that I'm just being ignorant and that this particular game will make everything different. But as someone who has played a lot of open world games and a lot of pseudo open world games it's very easy to see in which category that map falls.

I'm not saying that the game will be bad or that open world is the pinnacle of game creation. All I'm saying is that I was right from the beginning about XCX being open world to be an overstatement.

So are parts of the real world not open world? There is only one way I can get to South America by land (from North America.) It is through a choke point called the Isthmus of Panama. Or I can traverse by sea, or I can fly. All of which I can *likely* do in the game as well. You have no reason to believe, based on the map, that the mechs can't fly over the water (reaching the other continents in other ways than through the isthmus or mountain pass.) This is something that you couldn't do in Xenoblade Chronicles, which invalidates your claim "it is not more open-world than the original was."  From what we can see on the map, there is at least one separation (the two north continents and three southern continents) that isn't land-based. I'm assuming that implies that flying is required to get to these continents, and seeing how flying works in the trailer, it isn't based on some linear path of point A to point B. 

Anyway, what makes a game "open-world" rather than "linear" has just as much to do with the order in which tasks can be completed. You can't gather this from a map. 



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walsufnir on 07 February 2015

Damn. I thought i was over Japanese games but this looks almost too good. It looks totally amazing, in my opinion.
But why the hell is all of this Japanese, Nintendo...



sc94597 on 07 February 2015
walsufnir said:
But why the hell is all of this Japanese, Nintendo...

Because it is releasing in Japan in three months and not in NA/EU for probably at least six months. 



sc94597 on 07 February 2015

As for the open world. Here is just one analysis of how I might go to the ice continent from the grassland continent. 

The grey areas are coasts. So I assume I can fly from any one of them over the water. And go in any direction I want to get to the ice continent. 



Conegamer on 07 February 2015
sc94597 said:

As for the open world. Here is just one analysis of how I might go to the ice continent from the grassland continent. 

The grey areas are coasts. So I assume I can fly from any one of them over the water. And go in any direction I want to get to the ice continent. 

Very interesting indeed! Looks to be some other buildings in that area too. 

Might I ask where you got this high-resolution image from, and if so do you have one of the whole map?



 

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sc94597 on 07 February 2015
Conegamer said:
sc94597 said:

As for the open world. Here is just one analysis of how I might go to the ice continent from the grassland continent. 

The grey areas are coasts. So I assume I can fly from any one of them over the water. And go in any direction I want to get to the ice continent. 

Very interesting indeed! Looks to be some other buildings in that area too. 

Might I ask where you got this high-resolution image from, and if so do you have one of the whole map?

I took a screen cap of the youtube video when they zoomed in on the grassland continent. Then I cropped it to the portion I wanted and upscaled (to 200%) in MS paint. 

For an example, see 13:37 in the YouTube video when they zoom in on the swamp continent's map. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpzCdnCFNM