Just thinking today: it would be a wonderful thing if Namco and Square-Enix could merge for one game. Namco could provide the Tales feel, characters, storyline, etc., while Square-Enix could provide…well...all they're really good at lately is throwing craptons of money into games. But that would be nice!
The Tales of Series is a better soundtrack and a substantial visual upgrade from being the ultimate modern-era JRPG.
I finally managed to order a copy of Tales of the Abyss 3DS online today after having seen my preordered copy disappear into the hands of someone else multiple times after missing the retrieval date thanks to my too-lazy to get it in time sister.
Searched for it everywhere in stores, but I didn't realise it was so rare that even some online stores are already sold out.
I just finished Graces on the Wii for the second time, so I'm really looking forward to trying my hand at Abyss.
@Silent:
I finally managed to order a copy of Tales of the Abyss 3DS online today after having seen my preordered copy disappear into the hands of someone else multiple times after missing the retrieval date thanks to my too-lazy to get it in time sister.
Searched for it everywhere in stores, but I didn't realise it was so rare that even some online stores are already sold out.I just finished Graces on the Wii for the second time, so I'm really looking forward to trying my hand at Abyss.
It seems to have became very common here in the UK. I guess they reprinted it?
New Tales game will be announced at Tales of Festival in June.
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As long as they also announce Tales of Xillia International Edition or something like that.
Also, here's the concept art for the new Tales game:
Looks like they liked the direction they went with xillia, the style of these concept art reminds me extremely of the xillia concepts.
To be fair I've never seen what Vesperia enviroment concepts looked like so maybe it's just the style of the art team.
for those that got the trophies. At what level were you guys when you got the final boss on Chaos? Played through on that setting through most of the game and got creamed when I got to it. Even on Evil got pwned XD
Apparently is wasn't mentioned before but find of related, I watched the movie Tales of Vesperia : First Strike, and it was pretty nice.
Released in 2009 in Japan, I don't know how I missed it before.
Really well done and interesting, it's a prequel to the game. Definitely worth seing if you enjoyed it.
Of course if you don't own an xbox or can't read Japanese, it's kinda hard to play it…
(well there's an ongoing project for a translated PS3 version but you'd need a cracked PS3 for that… or you can follow the script if you're really hardcore)
Anyway, the movie will get an US release in June 2012.
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http://mynintendonews.com/2012/05/14/new-tales-of-is-a-mothership-title/
Apparently the next Tales of game which is to be announced on June 2nd will be a "mothership" title
http://next.tales-ch.jp/ here is the official page with a countdown.
Finished to the credits of Graces today. Damn that last dungeon took forever to go through (about 5 hours or so) still got the post game stuff to do. Question. What carries over to New Game + ?
Anywho. Loved the game, easily the second best JRPG on the PS3 (Only Nier I enjoyed more) kinda disappointed how dull it got in the third quarter of the game, simply going back to explored places and then Telos. Loved how a lot of those side bosses in the last dungeon were named after other Tales Of Games.
! only at the end of the game did I realise the box-art and manual art are both based on the post-game story. lol
Loved your rundown. I might get it today.
@All:
As long as they also announce Tales of Xillia International Edition or something like that.
Also, here's the concept art for the new Tales game:
http://blog-imgs-51.fc2.com/y/a/r/yaraon/vlgame051985.jpg
I totally came. :wub:
for those that got the trophies. At what level were you guys when you got the final boss on Chaos? Played through on that setting through most of the game and got creamed when I got to it. Even on Evil got pwned XD
New Game +, you have to get 10x damage 10x exp from the grade shop. I was about level 80-85, and tbh Chaos was easier than Evil since Chaos grants you better criticals. You can also sweep up all the "In 60 seconds" trophies with the 10x bonuses. I'm working on a platinum…just gotta grind through the last few time consuming trophies.
Not sure I would recommend 10x Damage–makes some of the basic fights more difficult than necessary--but definitely at least 2x damage. Once you get New Game+, you can level up to the mid-100s very quickly, and you still have a shot to fight the final boss when you want. Spam arcane bottles and hourglasses and you'll be all right, though I was still barely able to take him out.
Hang in there, Kierkegaard.
Not sure I would recommend 10x Damage–makes some of the basic fights more difficult than necessary--but definitely at least 2x damage. Once you get New Game+, you can level up to the mid-100s very quickly, and you still have a shot to fight the final boss when you want. Spam arcane bottles and hourglasses and you'll be all right, though I was still barely able to take him out.
The easiest way to get the trophies mentioned are with the 10x +. Yes I've died countless of times, and not just with bosses, but I honestly haven't had a battle last even near 1 minute yet in my whole playthrough.
In my first playthrough many boss battles would last up to ten minutes…so for me it's worth it, and with the 10x experience on, you surpass the hardest boss quickly.
The easiest way to get the trophies mentioned are with the 10x +. Yes I've died countless of times, and not just with bosses, but I honestly haven't had a battle last even near 1 minute yet in my whole playthrough.
In my first playthrough many boss battles would last up to ten minutes…so for me it's worth it, and with the 10x experience on, you surpass the hardest boss quickly.
If purely for a trophy run, then I'm inclined to agree with 10x damage. If it's a question of keeping the basic game from being frustrating, I wouldn't go that high on the damage modifiers. But yes, the XP Bonuses are a must.
[edit]In retrospect, I guess you could zoom through most of the game on 10x damage on lower difficulties and crank it up for the time trophies with Arcane Bottles and Hourglasses. Eleth Break doesn't count against those trophies, after all. So, yes, you're probably right.
Like I said, I played through Chaos more often than Evil since landing any sort of combo usually results in a 1 hit k.o, and mostly I was answering Cyber-Robin's question on how to beat the game on Chaos or Evil. Grinding for those two trophies on the first play through is a bitch…and waste of time imo.
The Zhonecage helps a lot too for grinding if the 10x bonus is too much, or if you really wanna go for them on the first play through...
Off topic question, has anyone noticed the extreme sexual innuendoes during the skits in Tales of Graces? I find them hilarious, but some are quite shocking...notably the MalikxSophie hints.
looks like the UK is gonna get a special editon version of the game:
Guess this is to make up from it being delayed from March to June to September to November and now to August.
Wow, lucky chaps. Though I bet in Japan the game had it's own custom PS3 xD
most likely it did. Anywho. Teaser for next Tales Of…. game
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/05/21/next-tales-of-teaser-commercial/
We didn't even get half of these in Europe I don't think :/
We probably won't see anything until E3
If the amount of time I spent waiting for anything beyond a single blurry screenshot of Graces is anything to go by, it's going to take a while to get anything worthwhile.
@Silent:
If the amount of time I spent waiting for anything beyond a single blurry screenshot of Graces is anything to go by, it's going to take a while to get anything worthwhile.
I'd stopped playing tales games when graces was announced, but I know xillia was barely over a year from announcement to release, so their turnaround's been pretty good lately at least.
The press cycle is usually fairly short from announcement to release (at least with Bandai Namco) but they always tease out their features with Tales very steadily, as opposed to other games where you tend to get 2-3 info dumps over the 8 weeks before the street date.
finally managed to get all of the Title trophies and the Eleth Mixer one. Amazed that it was quicker to max out the mixer than get them all (Hubert was a real pain.)
New Tales game is Xillia 2.
Real time weapons shifting with three available weapons, and apparently you make decisions in the story, which will be great if they actually give them real consequences.
Hopefully the main character won't be a self doubt filled moron, had enough of that in Graces.
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Train ? Clocks ? Guns ? This looks strangely modern.
Even the hero looks more mature than the usual ones.
I'm really curious about this Tales of now.
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Main character looks like a detective. A sort-of magical(you can never tell with Tales) detective in a slightly noirish setting?
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I have always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find I reek of discontentment; it fills my throat and floods my brain. Sometimes I fear there's no longer a dream but only the discontentment.
Great. Now they just need to get part 1 here.
And I thought they said this was a new game in the series? Not related to any of the others?
Ehh, not super excited about this. The weapon switching could be interesting, a way to deepen the fighting mechanics a bit toward the DMC/Bayonetta realm, but as is typical with Tales Of, it'll probably end up fairly half-assed, as will the story branching. I'd just like to see if the actual meat of the gameplay is a bit less bare than it was in Xillia.
A few additional Tales of Xillia 2 bits were announced on day two of the Tales of Festival event. Here's what Famitsu.com reported:
- We detailed the game's new selection component yesterday. You'll be asked to make selections which will change the course of events – for instance, choosing to face off against a guard, or choosing to back down. These selections will be timed, Famitsu.com reports.
- Heroine Elle is an "energetic and active girl." (Note: This is a pretty typical description for an RPG heroine, so it doesn't really tell us much.)
- Lulu, main character Rudger's cat, has a boss-like existence amongst the cats in Rudger's neighborhood.
- The special Dual Shock 3 for the game's "X Edition" version was designed by Daigo Okamura, character designer of Xillia 2 (he was also art director and sub character designer on the first Xillia).
The second day stage also had talk sessions with Tales series voice actors, skit performances, and a live stage performance by Me, who sang three songs, "With You Ver.me," "Sukirai" and "Hontouso." Visit Famitsu.com for a full report.
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Looks like we may be getting another localised tales game announced at the end of the month.
http://www.abyssalchronicles.com/?fn_mode=comments&fn_id=906
Probably Xillia is more likely given the sorry state of the Vita.
Hopefully it's a localization with more contents than the Japanese version just like Tales of The Abyss was.
After playing Innocence on Vita, aside from the fact that the DS original was never localized either, you're not really missing all that much. There's no mistaking that its an up-rezzed version of a handheld game. Aside from the resolution it's basically PSP quality. Game is not bad but there's nothing mindblowing in it and particularly coming after Graces F and Abyss 3DS there's nothing to make it stand out other than being a legit RPG for Vita, which has no games right now.
is Tales of Xillia in America? If so I would like to get it and play it before I play Xillia 2 (provided it comes out to america.
is Tales of Xillia in America? If so I would like to get it and play it before I play Xillia 2 (provided it comes out to america.
No not yet, last I read about it they apparently received the license for it's American release, no news after that…and I'm just talking about Xillia, Xillia 2 might not even get here at all.
This guy has one white eyebrow and one black eyebrow.
I hereby dub him Pepé Le Pew.
Great stuff. Hope the battle system's as good as Graces.
And that the main characters aren't as whiny and braindead as asbel was.
Hey ppl, didn't know there was a own thread for this game series. I startet Tales of Symphonia for the wii with my GF few weeks ago and we really like it.
So as soon as we finished this one, we might think about get the other games too.
Can anyone tell me, if you can play the other Tales Games also with 2 ppl? So that you can atleast fight togetter like in Tales of Symphonia for the wii? Would be great =) Thx.
Yes, most of them have that option. Any one in particular you were thinking about?
Hey Darkstorm
No not really. Atm we are still playing the tales of symphonia for the wii, and we might get the one for the Game Cube, after we finished this one. Or an other one, depends what we finde first^^ Any suggestions, what tales game we should pick up? But it's verry important, that we can play togetter.
Great stuff. Hope the battle system's as good as Graces.
And that the main characters aren't as whiny and braindead as asbel was.
One of them is a clone of Lightning, the other one is worse than Asbel.
Hey Darkstorm
No not really. Atm we are still playing the tales of symphonia for the wii, and we might get the one for the Game Cube, after we finished this one. Or an other one, depends what we finde first^^ Any suggestions, what tales game we should pick up? But it's verry important, that we can play togetter.
GC symphonia supports two player. Let me know which consoles you have and I'll tell you your options.
the other one is worse than Asbel.
Halberd through my heart
Saracen sword through my soul
The battle system has some neat things (the partner match-up where each character has their own unique effects, i.e. tripping or knock down powers, item steal, quick heal, etc. is pretty cool) but there are some steps backward, like that they retained CC points but also brought back TP??? and instead of all those weakness elements in Graces, they still have the old-fashioned weak/resist/absorb thing that means you have to reconfig your equipment and AI member skills in every damn dungeon if you want to kick ass.
GC symphonia supports two player. Let me know which consoles you have and I'll tell you your options.
Halberd through my heart
Saracen sword through my soul
Uhm we have the N64, Game Cube, Wii, Ps1, Ps2 and a Xbox360.
Thanks for your help =)
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The battle system has some neat things (the partner match-up where each character has their own unique effects, i.e. tripping or knock down powers, item steal, quick heal, etc. is pretty cool) but there are some steps backward, like that they retained CC points but also brought back TP??? and instead of all those weakness elements in Graces, they still have the old-fashioned weak/resist/absorb thing that means you have to reconfig your equipment and AI member skills in every damn dungeon if you want to kick ass.
Kind of a mixed bag then. Can't believe they've gone back to TP though, the change to CC only took away the biggest weakness of the tales battle system.
Uhm we have the N64, Game Cube, Wii, Ps1, Ps2 and a Xbox360.
Thanks for your help =)
N64
GC & Wii you already know about. I'm assuming you'll be playing western releases, so I've only listed only those available in america(there's a few extra JP only tales games if you're interested?).
Boxed copies of vesperia are pretty rare & expensive now, but I think it's available on Games on Demand.
hmmm. I've noticed a few UK stores have put Xillia 2 up for Pre-Order already. Although not giving a date or anything. So sounds hopeful we might get this one too. (although still no word on the first one. Seems kinda silly but meh)
I'd have thought them silly to have already put the first up for preorder, let alone the second.
loll Darkstorm. You were saying about Vesperia. Zavvi have it up on their Mega Monday for £26 lol
Yeah, shopto have stock as well! Guess Namco must have done a reprint to coincide with the Xillia announcement. Will have to tell one of my friends - he's been dithering over the GOD release for ages.
