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Tales of the Tempest new screens
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Adam Blade
WWKC
whoa...GoldenEye 007
Member
Would be a great injustice if some publisher didn't localize this for the US/West markets. I'd play the hell out of this.
Chris Michael
Banned
The screens are so small. :/ Oh well. Looks good. I wonder if Namco will bother to make another Tales game for the DS.
The fire in the last pics... :lol
That's actually a great idea.
The fire in the last pics... :lol
PolyGone said:
That's actually a great idea.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
amazing how good it looks when low res pics. luckily they're about the same size as the DS screen, so it shows how it'll look on it. I really hope this comes to the US.
LanceStern
Banned
I can't wait to see how beautiful this will look in motion. And on a DSLite screen nonetheless!
Moor-Angol
Banned
Nice graphics.
I'm glad to see some 3rd parties start to show good graphic engines on DS. First S-E, now BandaiNamco.
Who's the next?
I'm glad to see some 3rd parties start to show good graphic engines on DS. First S-E, now BandaiNamco.
Who's the next?
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Which Tales of team is doing this one again? (I'm assuming it's the Rebirth team)
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
(I'm here....)
Extremely awesome
Just wait for videos to show action battles and we shall proclaim a winner in the FF3 vs TOT battle. DQM, Zelda, Chocobo beware...TOT is here
Farore, thats a fanbook that you get pre-ordering and this for the card...and its normal ds price 5040Y!
The battle system is indeeed rebirth's 3 lines but with some tweaks (and only 3 characters). For example we saw that you can attack monsters in another line than yours...
Battle skills looks flashy flashy as they have to be...overworld seems to have improved too:
Oh, the pixelated fire...should be moving so it looks bad in a pic but I hope better when animating. I hope the battles are 60fps (should be...), 30fps maps and probably 5fps overworld.
There is VA. We had the names in the last scans. But probably they'll voice battle skills...maybe something more if they can get more than the opening FMV.
Edit: About the team behind...uhm, Team Destiny are behind Tales of Destiny remake, Alfa Systems is with ToW, the port team is porting ToP and ToD2...I don't think Team Symphonia is behind this, looks like another Namco Internal Team.
Extremely awesome
Just wait for videos to show action battles and we shall proclaim a winner in the FF3 vs TOT battle. DQM, Zelda, Chocobo beware...TOT is here
Farore, thats a fanbook that you get pre-ordering and this for the card...and its normal ds price 5040Y!
The battle system is indeeed rebirth's 3 lines but with some tweaks (and only 3 characters). For example we saw that you can attack monsters in another line than yours...
Battle skills looks flashy flashy as they have to be...overworld seems to have improved too:
Oh, the pixelated fire...should be moving so it looks bad in a pic but I hope better when animating. I hope the battles are 60fps (should be...), 30fps maps and probably 5fps overworld.
There is VA. We had the names in the last scans. But probably they'll voice battle skills...maybe something more if they can get more than the opening FMV.
Edit: About the team behind...uhm, Team Destiny are behind Tales of Destiny remake, Alfa Systems is with ToW, the port team is porting ToP and ToD2...I don't think Team Symphonia is behind this, looks like another Namco Internal Team.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
I was translating a little from the article...
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060825/tot.htm
The new skit system is the camp. It seems to be done in the overworld, both optional and obligated ones.
Then they put some skills for each character, the usual sword skills and animal conversion for the main character, the red-hair girl has spread and such, forest has axe skills, the blonde-girl nurse and such...
This town is where Caius and his foster-father lived but after some incidents, Caius has to travel the world.
This is the Black Forest where they meet Forest (rofl) and Tilkis, it seems they join forces here.
Naliss and Janna are two big cities (compared to Caius' village).
Ok, well...this was really just a bump
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060825/tot.htm
The new skit system is the camp. It seems to be done in the overworld, both optional and obligated ones.
Then they put some skills for each character, the usual sword skills and animal conversion for the main character, the red-hair girl has spread and such, forest has axe skills, the blonde-girl nurse and such...
This town is where Caius and his foster-father lived but after some incidents, Caius has to travel the world.
This is the Black Forest where they meet Forest (rofl) and Tilkis, it seems they join forces here.
Naliss and Janna are two big cities (compared to Caius' village).
Ok, well...this was really just a bump
charlequin
Banned
This looks sweet. I hope Nintendo pays for it in order to trick Hometek into bringing it over!
Looking at these new shots confirms my previous conclusion that it's not quite as nice as FFIII, but still quite nice graphics from the DS and it looked pretty smooth in the one preview video they released so far.
Looking at these new shots confirms my previous conclusion that it's not quite as nice as FFIII, but still quite nice graphics from the DS and it looked pretty smooth in the one preview video they released so far.
MasterMFauli
Banned
Most beautiful NDS-game ^^
fly high ~ayunite~
Member
Looks good, hoping for a English release.
Teh Messenjah
Member
Looking great, the Tales series hasn't disappointed me so far.
Not...really.jarrod said:
There are a number of RPGs on PSP that look quite a bit better than this (including a few of low quality). Brave Story looks much better than this and the (long off) FFVII spin-off title Crisis Core looks damn near as good as Kingdom Hearts 2 on PS2.
This looks great for a DS game, but it's still not even close to even Dreamcast levels of quality.
Again, Brave Story isn't 3rd party and Crisis Core isn't even an RPG.dark10x said:
No it isn't, yet it still overall looks better than any 3rd party PSP RPG. I guess Tales of the World PSP might look better (though it too looks sub-Dreamcast) but that's really more a focused fanservice dungeon crawl.dark10x said:
what is going on in ds rpg threads lately? :lol
what's that shitty psp rpg that came out a while back? blade dancer? well, it looks like a bad dreamcast game. which puts it definitively beyond ds's ken. not that "BEST-LOOKING THIRD-PARTY NON-ACTION RPG ON A HANDHELD" is an honor much to be coveted. good lord. why not limit it to rpgs in which the female lead is wearing a flower in lieu of pants.
what's that shitty psp rpg that came out a while back? blade dancer? well, it looks like a bad dreamcast game. which puts it definitively beyond ds's ken. not that "BEST-LOOKING THIRD-PARTY NON-ACTION RPG ON A HANDHELD" is an honor much to be coveted. good lord. why not limit it to rpgs in which the female lead is wearing a flower in lieu of pants.
There's actually plenty of actual 3rd party PSP RPGs on market (Legend of Heroes, Tales of Eternia, Astonisha Story, etc)... just nothing that stacks up to Tales of the Tempest, Final Fantasy III or Dragon Quest Monsters Joker though.dark10x said:
Clearly this isn't a hardware issue, rather it seems to be a developer issue. The only high end PSP RPGs we seem to be getting are coming from SCEI rather than 3rd parties...
Tales of Eternia could be argued, as the 2D visuals are very nice looking and more attractive than the rough DS 3D. Legend of Heroes looks better too, actually (and the upcoming port of the LoHVI looks MUCH better). I don't even know what Astonisha Story is, however.jarrod said:
It's nice that Falcom themselves is finally doing some PSP ports. The port of Gurumin, for instance, is really nice. It looks suprisingly close to the PC version and plays great.
Falcom's upcoming LOH6 port is actually probably the first 3rd party PSP that stacks up to the DS' best. Gurumin again though, is an ARPG/adventure game.dark10x said:
Bandai's LOH "translations" look like shit in comparison though, they're more like early SS/PS1 efforts visually. Astonisha Story is an PC/GP32 port btw.
Magicpaint
Member
Looks great, I like what I see. Camp fire skits? Lol, interesting...
Caius skills are nothing original so far, save for the Juujinka one, meh, I think Forest or Tilkis might be my main character for use in this game.
Plus this is actually using the traditional TP system, so no signs of the Rebirth Force Gauge/Rush Gauge system here...
Caius skills are nothing original so far, save for the Juujinka one, meh, I think Forest or Tilkis might be my main character for use in this game.
kurosaki Ichigo said:
Plus this is actually using the traditional TP system, so no signs of the Rebirth Force Gauge/Rush Gauge system here...
Seriously jarrod, stop being high. Pixel pixel crap and horrific geometry gussied over with celshading does not look better than the vast majority of PSP RPGs. Now, gameplay wise you'd certainly have a case - most PSP RPGs so far are crap - but uh, visually you be smokin' teh rad hashish man. Put that shit down.
Magicpaint
Member
Amir0x said:
Actually, I'm with jarrod on this too. Aside from Monster Kingdom, most PSP RPGs just look strangely unappealing to me, I prefer the more vibrant looks of Tales of the Tempest and Dragon Quest Monsters.
Jiggy37 said:
How much about the character do you know to form such a strong opinion about them? Or are you talking about just their looks?
Magicpaint said:
I don't care if you're with jarrod or not. Unless you're blind, visually and technically most PSP RPGs are in the next stratosphere. DS 3D RPGs are like the 600lb broad that is wearin' makeup. She tryin' her best, but she is still a ****ing elephant. Similarly, DS atrocious 3D comes out at every corner - rooted so firmly in the N64 era that any devs best bet is to try to paint it over with some rudimentary cel-shading technique. COLORS. Please don't look at the pixels
And no, I don't care about vague-ities like "appeal" - because that's just a veil to hide behind the truth.
Magicpaint
Member
Amir0x said:I don't care if you're with jarrod or not. Unless you're blind, visually and technically most PSP RPGs are in the next stratosphere. DS 3D RPGs are like the 600lb broad that is wearin' makeup. She tryin' her best, but she is still a ****ing elephant. Similarly, DS atrocious 3D comes out at every corner - rooted so firmly in the N64 era that any devs best bet is to try to paint it over with some rudimentary cel-shading technique. COLORS. Please don't look at the pixels
And no, I don't care about vague-ities like "appeal" - because that's just a veil to hide behind the truth.
You think strongly worded posts like this is suddenly going to make me think: "OMG I'm so blind!?!" Well, think again. Not everyone holds their standards for visual appeal the same way you do. Technically, I'm pretty sure most PSP game have the edge, but that's not the way I see looks; I CAN tolerate a few pixels if the art and overall look is appealing over something that just looks odd, flat and uninspired. You either accept that or not, but don't tell me I'm blind because I disagree with you, that's pretty petty.
