So i got out the calculator and did a whole bunch of tests for various speeds and walking/jogging/sprinting speed, and this is what I end up with.

Map is claimed to be 400km/sq

Map with that size is then, 29km wide by 14km tall, so we can calculate, from the direct line speedrun, that:

Claimed Doll speed (Boosting) 116.4204 mph / 187.3605 kmh 
Claimed Doll speed (Standard) 75.1009 mph / 120.8633 kmh

Sprint speed   (Predefined distance ingame) 1.25s A to B = 25.88 mph / 41.65 kph (12.94x speed of walking)
Run speed      (Predefined distance ingame) 2.22 A to B  = 14.58 mph / 23.46 kph (7.29x speed of walking)
Walk speed     (Predefined distance ingame) 16.18 A to B = 2 mph / 3.21 kmh

Based off of the claimed map size versus doll speed in relation to that map size, we can calculate the following for land based doll movement.

Doll Run speed      (Predefined distance ingame) 1.15 = 28.2 mph / 45.4 kph (14.1x speed of walking)
Doll driving speed  (Predefined distance ingame) 0.2s = 161.6 mph / 260 kph (80.8x speed of walking)

What we can do is compare point to point distance on a beach, both in the water boosting, and in the wheeled vehicle mode along the same stretch, the results are that the driving speed is the same as on-water boosting, which means that the speed of 187.36kmh based on a map size of 400km/s, is wrong, and the true speed is actually somewhere around 160km/h, which means that the top to bottom distance is really 7.4288 miles / 11.96 km, thus we can work out from that, that the true width is then roughly 25.2km, making the total map area actually 301.392.

If we take the entire claimed 400km/sq map of XCX and blank out the land then pixel count, we find that only 14.7% of the map is actually land, meaning that the true map size is 14.7% of the claimed 400mk/sq, thus XCX's map playable land is 58.8km/sq (if it were infact 400/sq km)

But if we take the actual map size of 301.39km/sq and apply the same 14.7% land mass calculation what you end up with is a playable land mass of 44.3km/sq, when you consider that GTAV is known to be 30sq miles / 48.3km/sq of playable area (including underwater areas), you see that if you count land-only playable area, GTAV is basically the same size.

It's still impressive, but nowhere near as big as people are clammoring to claim it is. as for their claim of 400km/s, likely at some point or another they allowed you to map-loop (go off the top and enter the bottom), but later on added the barrier walls around the extrimities of the map, thus pulling it's overall size down to 301km/s, however even if they had left the map loop in place, the area beyond the barrier is still just water, so the overall land size would still be around 44km/sq.

I still maintain though that the world feels smaller when you're actually playing, because it is designed really quite barron, the open areas don't scale well with the actual size, in part because of the running speed, and in part because the geometry is low poly when scaled next to a normal player character, when you get a doll the world feels "correctly proportioned", and in turn, ends up feeling 5x-7x smaller as a result.

Oh, and one last thing that bugs me about the ops video, the guy talking claims that the doll in XCX is covering a mile "every couple of seconds". to do that, the doll would need to be travelling at the following speeds:

2 seconds: 1800.0000 mph
3 seconds: 1200.0000 mph
4 seconds: 900.0000 mph
5 seconds: 720.0000 mph

When in actual fact, the doll, boosting, covers a mile every 36.21 seconds.

Check feedback for Devil's Third and Fatal Frame V. For Bayonetta 2 I mean comments in the internet, not awards.

Well the only thing we know about XCX is that it has beautiful environments, kick ass music combined with a few wtf moments and the fact that is a frikking huge game. How could we possibly talk about story and presentation yet when we have not been able to play it just yet?

But if that is getting you skeptical of it, that sucks for you.

If we are to assume that on Mira a person travels 50% faster than on Earth (due to lower gravity as has been stated) 

So i got out the calculator and did a whole bunch of tests for various speeds and walking/jogging/sprinting speed, and this is what I end up with.

Map is claimed to be 400km/sq

Map with that size is then, 29km wide by 14km tall, so we can calculate, from the direct line speedrun, that:

Claimed Doll speed (Boosting) 116.4204 mph / 187.3605 kmh 
Claimed Doll speed (Standard) 75.1009 mph / 120.8633 kmh

Sprint speed   (Predefined distance ingame) 1.25s A to B = 25.88 mph / 41.65 kph (12.94x speed of walking)
Run speed      (Predefined distance ingame) 2.22 A to B  = 14.58 mph / 23.46 kph (7.29x speed of walking)
Walk speed     (Predefined distance ingame) 16.18 A to B = 2 mph / 3.21 kmh

Based off of the claimed map size versus doll speed in relation to that map size, we can calculate the following for land based doll movement.

Doll Run speed      (Predefined distance ingame) 1.15 = 28.2 mph / 45.4 kph (14.1x speed of walking)
Doll driving speed  (Predefined distance ingame) 0.2s = 161.6 mph / 260 kph (80.8x speed of walking)

What we can do is compare point to point distance on a beach, both in the water boosting, and in the wheeled vehicle mode along the same stretch, the results are that the driving speed is the same as on-water boosting, which means that the speed of 187.36kmh based on a map size of 400km/s, is wrong, and the true speed is actually somewhere around 160km/h, which means that the top to bottom distance is really 7.4288 miles / 11.96 km, thus we can work out from that, that the true width is then roughly 25.2km, making the total map area actually 301.392.

If we take the entire claimed 400km/sq map of XCX and blank out the land then pixel count, we find that only 14.7% of the map is actually land, meaning that the true map size is 14.7% of the claimed 400mk/sq, thus XCX's map playable land is 58.8km/sq (if it were infact 400/sq km)

But if we take the actual map size of 301.39km/sq and apply the same 14.7% land mass calculation what you end up with is a playable land mass of 44.3km/sq, when you consider that GTAV is known to be 30sq miles / 48.3km/sq of playable area (including underwater areas), you see that if you count land-only playable area, GTAV is basically the same size.

It's still impressive, but nowhere near as big as people are clammoring to claim it is. as for their claim of 400km/s, likely at some point or another they allowed you to map-loop (go off the top and enter the bottom), but later on added the barrier walls around the extrimities of the map, thus pulling it's overall size down to 301km/s, however even if they had left the map loop in place, the area beyond the barrier is still just water, so the overall land size would still be around 44km/sq.

I still maintain though that the world feels smaller when you're actually playing, because it is designed really quite barron, the open areas don't scale well with the actual size, in part because of the running speed, and in part because the geometry is low poly when scaled next to a normal player character, when you get a doll the world feels "correctly proportioned", and in turn, ends up feeling 5x-7x smaller as a result.

Oh, and one last thing that bugs me about the ops video, the guy talking claims that the doll in XCX is covering a mile "every couple of seconds". to do that, the doll would need to be travelling at the following speeds:

2 seconds: 1800.0000 mph
3 seconds: 1200.0000 mph
4 seconds: 900.0000 mph
5 seconds: 720.0000 mph

When in actual fact, the doll, boosting, covers a mile every 36.21 seconds.

Well, Devils third is just plain bad. Are you telling me that a meta score of under 50 deserves to be talked about fondly? (No, meta score isn't the final say of good or bad, but with a score around 30, it's a pretty damn good indicator).

fatal frame got shit on because it's download only in the US. Meaning those with an 8 gb wii u can't even play the game. Add in the fact that it didn't get above stellar reviews, and it's certainly not something people will go out of their way for to talk kindly about.

bayonetta 2 got internet hate, but many games get internet hate, not just Nintendo exclusives. Last of us, Uncharted, call of duty, assassins creed, fallout, doom, Titanfall, watch dogs, Destiny, and even major peripherals like the Microsoft Kinect. Once again, there is no conspiracy against the wii u, stop acting as if there is

I tested in game, there are three stages of walking speed, standard, run and sprint, the standard walking speed based on a difference calculated by the height of the characters comes in at 2mph, give or take a fraction, which puts the running and sprinting speed to more or less the same as the average, healthy human on earth, the only area where gravity augments the players abilities is with jumping, where a character can jump 4x their height, which calculates down to .3% earths gravity, again give or take a fraction.

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. 

So i got out the calculator and did a whole bunch of tests for various speeds and walking/jogging/sprinting speed, and this is what I end up with.

Map is claimed to be 400km/sq

Map with that size is then, 29km wide by 14km tall, so we can calculate, from the direct line speedrun, that:

Claimed Doll speed (Boosting) 116.4204 mph / 187.3605 kmh 
Claimed Doll speed (Standard) 75.1009 mph / 120.8633 kmh

Sprint speed   (Predefined distance ingame) 1.25s A to B = 25.88 mph / 41.65 kph (12.94x speed of walking)
Run speed      (Predefined distance ingame) 2.22 A to B  = 14.58 mph / 23.46 kph (7.29x speed of walking)
Walk speed     (Predefined distance ingame) 16.18 A to B = 2 mph / 3.21 kmh

Based off of the claimed map size versus doll speed in relation to that map size, we can calculate the following for land based doll movement.

Doll Run speed      (Predefined distance ingame) 1.15 = 28.2 mph / 45.4 kph (14.1x speed of walking)
Doll driving speed  (Predefined distance ingame) 0.2s = 161.6 mph / 260 kph (80.8x speed of walking)

What we can do is compare point to point distance on a beach, both in the water boosting, and in the wheeled vehicle mode along the same stretch, the results are that the driving speed is the same as on-water boosting, which means that the speed of 187.36kmh based on a map size of 400km/s, is wrong, and the true speed is actually somewhere around 160km/h, which means that the top to bottom distance is really 7.4288 miles / 11.96 km, thus we can work out from that, that the true width is then roughly 25.2km, making the total map area actually 301.392.

If we take the entire claimed 400km/sq map of XCX and blank out the land then pixel count, we find that only 14.7% of the map is actually land, meaning that the true map size is 14.7% of the claimed 400mk/sq, thus XCX's map playable land is 58.8km/sq (if it were infact 400/sq km)

But if we take the actual map size of 301.39km/sq and apply the same 14.7% land mass calculation what you end up with is a playable land mass of 44.3km/sq, when you consider that GTAV is known to be 30sq miles / 48.3km/sq of playable area (including underwater areas), you see that if you count land-only playable area, GTAV is basically the same size.

It's still impressive, but nowhere near as big as people are clammoring to claim it is. as for their claim of 400km/s, likely at some point or another they allowed you to map-loop (go off the top and enter the bottom), but later on added the barrier walls around the extrimities of the map, thus pulling it's overall size down to 301km/s, however even if they had left the map loop in place, the area beyond the barrier is still just water, so the overall land size would still be around 44km/sq.

I still maintain though that the world feels smaller when you're actually playing, because it is designed really quite barron, the open areas don't scale well with the actual size, in part because of the running speed, and in part because the geometry is low poly when scaled next to a normal player character, when you get a doll the world feels "correctly proportioned", and in turn, ends up feeling 5x-7x smaller as a result.

Oh, and one last thing that bugs me about the ops video, the guy talking claims that the doll in XCX is covering a mile "every couple of seconds". to do that, the doll would need to be travelling at the following speeds:

2 seconds: 1800.0000 mph
3 seconds: 1200.0000 mph
4 seconds: 900.0000 mph
5 seconds: 720.0000 mph

When in actual fact, the doll, boosting, covers a mile every 36.21 seconds.