[Jonnyram]

Jonnyram: I'm hurt D:

But you're not even keeping up with me :(
I wanted to talk about the whole Schwann thing!

[kiryogi]

But you're not even keeping up with me :( I wanted to talk about the whole Schwann thing!

I'm there now! You know I spent 4 fricken hours in the Heracles?! XD Hard modes a pain :lol @ Secret mission 15 now actually.

[Case]

Very nice impressions Himuro, I cant wait to play

[Jonnyram]

I'm there now! You know I spent 4 fricken hours in the Heracles?! XD Hard modes a pain :lol @ Secret mission 15 now actually.

:lol

Good luck! That one I got first time, thankfully. 17 drove me nuts, though.

[Firestorm]

fucking Scamco aaasghhhh
Just went by EB and the CE was delayed until Friday >=(

[RBH]

fucking Scamco aaasghhhh Just went by EB and the CE was delayed until Friday >=(

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[Junpei Heat]

OMG I love this game.

This game is great. I'm about 2-3 hours in so far,I've fought two bosses which weren't too bad,I have a 42 hit combo and I already have a full party. The battle system is good and apparently it gets deeper as progress through the game which is radically exciting. One thing I definitely noticed is the abundance of those voice chats. Within the first hour or so,I've been through about 5-6 of them but this isn't a complain they're rather enjoyable and I laughed a lot. Oh and Estelle <3 The entire cast so far is great.

And I have 2 achievements!

[Himuro]

OMG I love this game. This game is great. I'm about 2-3 hours in so far,I've fought two bosses which weren't too bad,I have a 42 hit combo and I already have a full party. The battle system is good and apparently it gets deeper as progress through the game which is radically exciting. One thing I definitely noticed is the abundance of those voice chats. Within the first hour or so,I've been through about 5-6 of them but this isn't a complain they're rather enjoyable and I laughed a lot. Oh and Estelle <3 The entire cast so far is great. And I have 2 achievements!

I have no achievements lol

[Papercuts]

Hopefully I can get this by Saturday, this was the worst possible time for the game to come out for me.

[Firestorm]

On the way home I was listening to last week's 1up Yours. Shane says that between Infinite Undiscovery and Tales of Vesperia, Vesperia's the one you should pick. He also said IU's graphics are better than Vesperia so take that as you will..

I'm still pretty annoyed about the CE. The associate said the game sold pretty fast today. He had two copies of the regular edition left in the drawer they keep pre-orders in.

[Teknoman]

Right, just sticking out my head here .... so if megaflamathon erupts that'll be the last time i add rumors to GAF period ... Had a Square meeting today, Infinite Undiscovery, units and so on. Right after vthe official talks were over i pitched a repress of FFVII, FFVIII, and FFIX. The company i work with had arranged for represses of those titles in the past and i was certain the units i would need would please Sqaue in doing such a re-run. Long story short, they declined in doing a re-run. Price was not an option, they were not interested. In short, all three titles were in a locked deal as a downloadable [shock horror]. Here comes the juicy part, supposedly not just for PSN.

As long as I can finally play and beat FFVII without paying too damn much, im good.

[2DMention]

There's a demo? I'll give it a try. I'll most likely be picking it up over IU.

[Jonnyram]

There's a demo? I'll give it a try. I'll most likely be picking it up over IU.

Warning: I hated the demo, but I love the game. The demo just made me irk at the retardedness of the event, but once you actually get to know the characters, it's a lot more enjoyable. Also, the difficulty is pumped artificially high in the demo, since they give you a bunch more skills to try out than you usually have at that part of the game. You might get a decent idea of the battles at least, but without a tutorial, you might miss a lot of that too.

[Robobandit]

The demo was especially annoying since they were throwing around a bunch of unfamiliar terms.. I don't know why they didn't build the demo based on the opening segments of the game.. it would have made more sense and have made people want to play more when the full version was released.

The part they chose was totally out of context.

[Teknoman]

Also is "Fighting of the spirit" in the soundtrack at all?

The demo was especially annoying since they were throwing around a bunch of unfamiliar terms.. I don't know why they didn't build the demo based on the opening segments of the game.. it would have made more sense and have made people want to play more when the full version was released. The part they chose was totally out of context.

Really. I still dont know what a blastia is (I am buying the game though. The demo was just for me to check out the graphics, battle system, soundtrack, and VA).

[Big-E]

Have only played an hour so far but I am enjoying it. Liking it so much I think I will wait before buying infinite undiscovery.

[B.K.]

I wish I'd preordered the Premium Edition. I didn't think it would be so rare. I know a few Gamecrazy stores. I'll go buy them, since they're supposed to be carrying it. I don't think anyone goes to those stores.

[Ermac]

Has anyone's Amazon CE order's shipped yet? I'm thinking about just cancelling mine and going to Walmart tomorrow and just buying the damn game.

[SailorDaravon]

Almost everyone who ordered from Amazon is apparently fucked; almost no one's order has shipped, and multiple people have reported that they've called amazon, and amazon basically took waaaaay too many orders, and basically have no idea when or if they will be getting anymore. They also apparently did not base it on order date, since one guy got his shipped yesterday when he ordered on the 23rd, but there's a ton of us who pre-ordered on the 11th and 12th, and it hasn't shipped. Buy.com had it listed for a while and some of us ordered from there, but after ordering it goes straight from being in-stock to back order, which is listed as basically "we have no idea when or if we will get more." There were three copies on ebay with BIN's for $99, I went back maybe an hour later and they're all gone. What the fucking hell is this? I'm seriously not buying this game if I don't get the CE, this is just complete fucking bullshit. It could have been handled better at retailers, but it's mostly Namco's goddamn fault for announcing this like 2 1/2 weeks before release.

[kiryogi]

Almost everyone who ordered from Amazon is apparently fucked; almost no one's order has shipped, and multiple people have reported that they've called amazon, and amazon basically took waaaaay too many orders, and basically have no idea when or if they will be getting anymore. They also apparently did not base it on order date, since one guy got his shipped yesterday when he ordered on the 23rd, but there's a ton of us who pre-ordered on the 11th and 12th, and it hasn't shipped. Buy.com had it listed for a while and some of us ordered from there, but after ordering it goes straight from being in-stock to back order, which is listed as basically "we have no idea when or if we will get more." There were three copies on ebay with BIN's for $99, I went back maybe an hour later and they're all gone. What the fucking hell is this? I'm seriously not buying this game if I don't get the CE, this is just complete fucking bullshit. It could have been handled better at retailers, but it's mostly Namco's goddamn fault for announcing this like 2 1/2 weeks before release.

Dammit. Might have to resort to Ebay.

[FateBreaker]

For the guys who beat the Japanese version (or people that know period), once you beat the game, and you do New Game+, can you carry your existing monster book over so you don't have to re-Magic-Lense the ones you originally found?

[SailorDaravon]

Dammit. Might have to resort to Ebay.

That would be nice if it existed on ebay; there's literally no copies, they're selling immediately. I actually no one guy who is actually F5'ing ebay. It's pretty fucking crazy. It's at the point where I would literally pay $100 to get a copy right now; it's probably going to wind up going for more than that very quickly here.

[kiryogi]

For the guys who beat the Japanese version (or people that know period), once you beat the game, and you do New Game+, can you carry your existing monster book over so you don't have to re-Magic-Lense the ones you originally found?

If you decide to buy the option to carry it over from the Grade Shop, yeah. But I guess since it's come down to it, gonna have to pay a fortune for it. Dammit Namco.

[Darkman M]

Almost everyone who ordered from Amazon is apparently fucked; almost no one's order has shipped, and multiple people have reported that they've called amazon, and amazon basically took waaaaay too many orders, and basically have no idea when or if they will be getting anymore. They also apparently did not base it on order date, since one guy got his shipped yesterday when he ordered on the 23rd, but there's a ton of us who pre-ordered on the 11th and 12th, and it hasn't shipped. Buy.com had it listed for a while and some of us ordered from there, but after ordering it goes straight from being in-stock to back order, which is listed as basically "we have no idea when or if we will get more." There were three copies on ebay with BIN's for $99, I went back maybe an hour later and they're all gone. What the fucking hell is this? I'm seriously not buying this game if I don't get the CE, this is just complete fucking bullshit. It could have been handled better at retailers, but it's mostly Namco's goddamn fault for announcing this like 2 1/2 weeks before release.

Same thing happened with SCIV i ordered the LE edition from Amazon and my order status changed on the day it was suppose to be delivered. My Amazon order for Tales CE still hasn't shipped but it still is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I ordered this bitch on the same day they started taking orders which was on the 9th i think. If my shits not here tomorrow ive lost all faith in Amazons competence.

[kiryogi]

Not sure but, again and again, in Gamestop online at least, we trust. :/

[FateBreaker]

If you decide to buy the option to carry it over from the Grade Shop, yeah. But I guess since it's come down to it, gonna have to pay a fortune for it. Dammit Namco.

What is the Grade Shop, exactly? And what else can this be applied to (items carry over, for instance?) ?

[SailorDaravon]

Same thing happened with SCIV i ordered the LE edition from Amazon and my order status changed on the day it was suppose to be delivered. My Amazon order for Tales CE still hasn't shipped but it still is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I ordered this bitch on the same day they started taking orders which was on the 9th i think. If my shits not here tomorrow ive lost all faith in Amazons competence.

If it gives you a delivery estimate but says not shipped it has NOT shipped; this is the exact scenario all of us are in. There were people where it said the delivery estimate was today, obviously didn't get it, and amazon's telling them (on the phone) that basically you're probably fucked. I've only personally seen 2 people say that their amazon order has actually shipped or arrived, I think pretty much everyone got screwed. I tossed an email out to them, I'll post if I get anything interesting as a response, or if my amazon or buy order actually ships or I get an update on it.

[kiryogi]

What is the Grade Shop, exactly? And what else can this be applied to (items carry over, for instance?) ?

Eating dinner right now and in the middle of ToV itself, I'll type up a list a bit later. But basically, it has options you can purchase for use in your next playthru with the grade you've earned. Like, transferring items, titles, gald, raising difficulty, lowering xp, raising xp bonus. Stuff like that.

[Darkman M]

If it gives you a delivery estimate but says not shipped it has NOT shipped; this is the exact scenario all of us are in. There were people where it said the delivery estimate was today, obviously didn't get it, and amazon's telling them (on the phone) that basically you're probably fucked. I've only personally seen 2 people say that their amazon order has actually shipped or arrived, I think pretty much everyone got screwed. I tossed an email out to them, I'll post if I get anything interesting as a response, or if my amazon or buy order actually ships or I get an update on it.

I hear you im thinking this is mostly Amazons fault they ship to people who ordered on the 23rd over people who ordered it weeks ago? Thats total bullshit they should have been shipped on a first come first serve schedule and why take all these preorders if you can't supply them.

[Himuro]

The item/weapon synthesis is so addicting.

I mean, not only do I have to get materials to craft them, but weapons and stuff have their own specialized skills so I get to go ocd and concentrate on skills too!

omfggg

Addicting

[FateBreaker]

Eating dinner right now and in the middle of ToV itself, I'll type up a list a bit later. But basically, it has options you can purchase for use in your next playthru with the grade you've earned. Like, transferring items, titles, gald, raising difficulty, lowering xp, raising xp bonus. Stuff like that.

Oh, OK. Cool. Thanks for the help!! :D So the higher the "grade" at the end of the game, the more you can...purchase...for New Game+? I'm off to play some more myself, so don't worry about immediately responding or anything. I'm just asking these questions because I just realized I didn't Magic-Lense the first boss (ugh, how did I forget), so if I ever wanted the Achievement (not sure if I do), then I'd have to replay -- which is how this question originally arose.

[Ermac]

If it gives you a delivery estimate but says not shipped it has NOT shipped; this is the exact scenario all of us are in. There were people where it said the delivery estimate was today, obviously didn't get it, and amazon's telling them (on the phone) that basically you're probably fucked. I've only personally seen 2 people say that their amazon order has actually shipped or arrived, I think pretty much everyone got screwed. I tossed an email out to them, I'll post if I get anything interesting as a response, or if my amazon or buy order actually ships or I get an update on it.

Yup. Mine hasn't shipped, though it's telling me the delivery estimate is the 28th. Which is now today.

Fuck.


Edit: Check out what Amazon has to say: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E1BNZU

[Jonnyram]

Grade shop - only costs 10 for each of your item and monster books.
There's a full list here in Japanese: http://www26.atwiki.jp/vesperia/pages/23.html
I guess I'll translate it quickly if people want.

[kiryogi]

Oh, OK. Cool. Thanks for the help!! :D So the higher the "grade" at the end of the game, the more you can...purchase...for New Game+? I'm off to play some more myself, so don't worry about immediately responding or anything. I'm just asking these questions because I just realized I didn't Magic-Lense the first boss (ugh, how did I forget), so if I ever wanted the Achievement (not sure if I do), then I'd have to replay -- which is how this question originally arose.

Pst, whats your gamertag :D

[Jonnyram]

Grade shop translation (spoilered, just in case, for touchy people)

Increase max amount of each item you can carry to 99 - 400
Carry over items to next game - 500 (doesn't carry key items, but does carry attachments)
Carry over Gald - 1000
Carry over titles - 500
Carry over Item Collector - 10
Carry over Monster Collector - 10
Carry over recipes - 10
Carry over cooking levels - 50
Carry over world map - 300
Carry over synth level - 10
Carry over battle record - 10
Carry over battle artes - 1000 (all chars, including counts)
Carry over skills - 1000 (all chars)
Carry over Yuri artes/skills - 350
" Estellise - 350
" etc. for each char - 350 (cheaper to just get the two for 1000 if you want all these)
Increase max HP - 500 (HP+20% - but if you get to lv200, you don't need this anyway as it has reached max by then)
Decrease max HP - 10 (HP-20%)
Increase max TP - 500 (+20%)
Decrease max TO - 10 (-20%)
Increase amount of Gald collected by 2 - 600
OVL Gauge fills 2x speed - 1000
EXP x 0.5 - 10 (other exp modifiers don't work with this) - you need this for one of the achievements
EXP x 2 - 1000
EXP x 10 - 3000
Grade x 2 - 3000
Skill SP1 - 3000 (all skills take up only 1SP!)
Item drop rate up - 1000 (x2 multiplier basically)
Technical Battle - 50 (base EXP becomes 1, but bonus EXP is x5 usual amount)
Unlock Battle Rank - 50 (unlocks "unknown" difficulty level)
Unlock Skit Player V - 1000 (unlocks skit player V on Namcot island)

[mr stroke]

I wish I'd preordered the Premium Edition. I didn't think it would be so rare. .

kinda of nice in a weird way. LE/PE are suposed to be limited so hopefully its worth money someday?(200$ ebay 10 years from now?)

[Paznos]

kinda of nice in a weird way. LE/PE are suposed to be limited so hopefully its worth money someday?(200$ ebay 10 years from now?)

Yeah it's so limited my copy still hasn't been shipped and it's somehow supposed to be delivered tomorrow.

[clashfan]

Never played a Tales but I decided to take a chance with Vesperia. I'm about 90 minutes in and finally beat the first boss. Man he was hard. I guess I'm just not good at this game. I found the game really fun and has a really charming art style. Great so far...

[Pakman]

Check your order status if you ordered from Amazon. I just checked now and my order changed to, "Shipping Soon" and says it's being prepped to ship.

[Paznos]

Check your order status if you ordered from Amazon. I just checked now and my order changed to, "Shipping Soon" and says it's being prepped to ship.

Not Yet Shipped:
1 item - delivery estimate: August 28, 2008 :(

[Pakman]

Not Yet Shipped: 1 item - delivery estimate: August 28, 2008 :(

Try ordering from beachaudio.com then. It shows they have 7 in stock. I ordered myself a second copy right before Amazon updated my status - and the stock tracker seems accurate since it was showing 8 in stock right before my order.

[kiryogi]

Check your order status if you ordered from Amazon. I just checked now and my order changed to, "Shipping Soon" and says it's being prepped to ship.

Intersting, changed my shipping from super saver to 1 day, and now it's up to this from the 16th:

Shipment #1: Not Yet Shipped Cancel Items
Delivery estimate: September 3, 2008 (More about estimates)

[Paznos]

Try ordering from beachaudio.com then. It shows they have 7 in stock. I ordered myself a second copy right before Amazon updated my status - and the stock tracker seems accurate since it was showing 8 in stock right before my order.

wow 54 dollars for next day shipping.

[Mike D]

OMG at the "play" on The Happy Place Nam Island!!!! I missed it by accident when I was there originally after I beat the game. The skit Rita, Estelle, Yuri and Karol put on is awesome. Even better was how Rita acted, and her outfit! I'm still digging around in this game - I know Rita's true "feelings" for Estelle will pop out somewhere in some hidden skit eventually. Actually seeing Rita in that alt dress made her look somewhat cute, heh. Such great extras.

[Paznos]

Amazon Order just changed to Shipment #1: Shipping Soon

We are preparing these items for shipment and this portion of your order cannot be canceled or changed.

Wow maybe I will get it tomorrow? hehe and I was about to order it from Beachaudio.com

[Pakman]

wow 54 dollars for next day shipping.

Haha yeah. I just did ground shipping ($8). I figured if the LE is this hard to get I can wait a week longer to get it. Also they accept paypal and google checkout - which is what I used.

Order just changed to Shipment #1: Shipping Soon We are preparing these items for shipment and this portion of your order cannot be canceled or changed. Wow maybe I will get it tomorrow?

Nice. ;)

[DevelopmentArrested]

Never played a Tales but I decided to take a chance with Vesperia. I'm about 90 minutes in and finally beat the first boss. Man he was hard. I guess I'm just not good at this game. I found the game really fun and has a really charming art style. Great so far...

Played numerous Tales games and got this one yesterday. Also 90 minutes in and just beat first boss.

Pros:

Great art design and music
Same old great Tales combat
Story and characters seem solid so far


Cons:

Loading times are bleh for the overworld
Some pop in

Overall, it's a very solid Tales game and RPG.

[Kai Ozu]

Love Yuri, really cool character. He's a real man.

[Jonnyram]

Love Yuri, really cool character. He's a real man.

Yuri is one of my favourite chars in an RPG. He's never an ass, and while he may be uneducated, he knows what is right (justice is the theme of the game). Plus he's neither introvert nor extrovert. He's pretty much spot on.

[goldenpp72]

yuri is very cool yeah.