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Tales of Zestiria pops up in Steam database

Dr. Buni

Dr. Buni

Member
I have only played that Tales of released for the SNES, so I have no idea what to expect. I might buy it when it is released, depending of the price.
 
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dmcAxle

Neo Member
Awesome news if true.

I'd buy Symphonia Chronicles if they bring that too. Or any Tales game.

Things started looking good at the end of 2014, and it'll get better. 2015 will be the year of Japanese games coming on Steam.
DON'T GIVE UP!
 
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4Tran

Member
Almighty said:
I have been arguing that for years. It is nice that the whole "PC gamers don't want JRPGs" argument is getting debunked. Still a ways to go, but it is happening faster then I thought it would have when I started arguing for more JRPG ports to the PC.
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The idea that PC gamers wouldn't be interested in JRPGs doesn't make much sense to me. CRPGs have been popular on PC since the beginning of video games, and JRPGs are largely an offshoot of CRPGs in the first place. At the very least, PC gamers are going to be interested in the kinds of game mechanics that won't show up in modern CRPGs.

Rayge said:
Hah at PC gamers thinking this is actually going to come to Steam. How about that Halo in the registry months and months ago... Yeah. As for a 'Japanese Movement' there's really not that many titles from the country coming over to the platform. Where's the new Guilty Gear, Blazblue, the Atlus games, the NIS games. You know, all the ones that make the library of consoles far superior to what the PC offers.
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I don't think that anyone in this thread is under the assumption that this Tales game is necessarily going to show up on PC. What we're mostly commenting on is that it would be welcome there and that this is a lot less unlikely than it would have been a couple of years ago.

Of the major Japanese developers, we already know that Square Enix and Sega have committed themselves into making the PC an important platform for their releases. Another developer joining them wouldn't be surprising.
 
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Thoraxes

Member
You have my ENTHUSIASM Baba-san.

I would LOVE to play this game at 4k on my PC. Easily the best news I've heard in a while!

Please come through!
 
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Zia

Member
The C-tier JRPGs and old-ass Valkyria Chronicles have done gangbusters on Steam so I can't imagine how successful this will be.
 
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MUnited83

For you.
Rayge said:
Hah at PC gamers thinking this is actually going to come to Steam. How about that Halo in the registry months and months ago... Yeah. As for a 'Japanese Movement' there's really not that many titles from the country coming over to the platform. Where's the new Guilty Gear, Blazblue, the Atlus games, the NIS games. You know, all the ones that make the library of consoles far superior to what the PC offers.
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Can't tell if this is some sort of parody post. Microsoft had a reason to cancel the PC ports. Bamco has exactly zero reasons to not release this on PC. It's coming.
And lol @Blazblue. Go check how many Blazblue games are on PC on 2012. Then check how many are on 2015. It's quite close to catch up with the most recent release.
 
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Lulubop

Member
BernardoOne said:
Can't tell if this is some sort of parody post. Microsoft had a reason to cancel the PC ports. Bamco has exactly zero reasons to not release this on PC. It's coming.
And lol @Blazblue. Go check how many Blazblue games are on PC on 2012. Then check how many are on 2015. It's quite close to catch up with the most recent release.
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it is
 
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koutoru

Member
Well, with the PS4 slowly getting more popular in Japan, it was only a matter of time before Namco would have to learn how to develop games for an x86 platform anyway.

If this is legitimate and it does end up on Steam, hopefully the sales will encourage them to focus more on Western PC audience. Their games are originally developed on PC anyway, why not give it a chance?
 
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xzeldax3

Member
In the past couple years, everytime a Japanese game gets announced that it is being ported to PC I always feel shocked. I never thought in a million years that games like FFXIII, Valkyria Chronicles, Naruto, Legend of Heroes, MGS, etc. would be on Steam. It just makes me so happy

Now where is my FFXV PC announcement?
 
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Nyoro SF

Member
Dimentionalist said:
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There's plenty of things they can do. To say I'm disappointed with Namco Bandai EU would be an understatement. It's almost like they're just pushing it away because it's old. That being said, it's fans not producers that move companies so I would still not stop campaigning for an eventual full rerelease of Vesperia.

I sincerely hope whoever is in charge of that Twitter account is not in charge of deciding which games get the publishing nod.
 
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Nzyme32

Member
Jathaine said:
Disingenuous? No.
It simply means that "lots" doesn't mean the same thing to you that it does to me. I just don't think this is enough to go on and I want to wait for more. Good to know but not enough to get hyped over.
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I think it is. SteamDB simply lists what activity there is via Steam. That doesn't mean a listed game is a certainty to be released, sure, plans change, things get delayed / cancelled as demonstrated by those that don't release. But then you're talking about dozens that haven't released despite being listed vs 1000s that have. By all probability, chances are high that it releases but obviously not a certainty.
 
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kaioshade

Member
I hope this is true. will definitely be there day one. PC version could also smooth out the framerate of the PS3 version, as i heard it could get rough at times.
 
BasilZero

BasilZero

Member
Now that I think of it, kinda odd Zestiria is the one that will come out first on Steam.

I thought if anything it would be Vesperia since it was on Xbox360.
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
BasilZero said:
Now that I think of it, kinda odd Zestiria is the one that will come out first on Steam.

I thought if anything it would be Vesperia since it was on Xbox360.
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Its not to weird, its the newest title. We may see the game come out on Steam the same time the PS3 version hits NA, finishing work on the PC version during Localization seems like a pretty good use of resources if you aren't intending to do a simultaneous release. The PC version is unlikely to push major numbers in Japan, but an English world wide release on the PC has the potential to outsell the English PS3 release.
 
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Grief.exe

Member
Are the Tales games self-contained or do I have to read up on the prior entries before playing this one? I get the impression from this thread that Vesperia was the best in the series, is this accurate?
 
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Zafir

Member
Great news if it happens. It would definitely be beneficial for the series too.
Grief.exe said:
Are the Tales games self-contained or do I have to read up on the prior entries before playing this one? I get the impression from this thread that Vesperia was the best in the series, is this accurate?
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Self-contained mostly. It's pretty obvious if it isn't. Like Tales of Xillia 2.
 
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raven777

Member
Grief.exe said:
Are the Tales games self-contained or do I have to read up on the prior entries before playing this one? I get the impression from this thread that Vesperia was the best in the series, is this accurate?
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There are few direct sequels (like Xillia 1 -> Xillia 2) but other than those you are fine with not playing previous games.
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
Grief.exe said:
Are the Tales games self-contained or do I have to read up on the prior entries before playing this one? I get the impression from this thread that Vesperia was the best in the series, is this accurate?
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Most are self contained, but there are a few that have sequels, or that technically take place in the same world (Phantasia and Symphonia are in the same world)

I would say Vesperia is the best overall, Symphonia was great, but it didn't age that well.
 
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HolyBaikal

Banned
They're unique stories, just like Final Fantasy.

Though Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia are in the same universe and part of a long running series.

Tales of Phantasia is the only game in a series that's a sequel with a different name.
And you don't have to play them in an order to understand what's going on. Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia are in the same universe, and are connected. But they're different stories.
 
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Knurek

Member
It's weird that people (people in the know even) here are saying things like "Wolfteam on PC" or "Namco Tales Studio, word!", when the first doesn't exist ever since 2003 and the later was dissolved in 2011...

I recall datschge saying many of NTS staff didn't survive the restructuring, something about Tales of Destiny designer selling bottled water now.

Still great news!
 
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HolyBaikal

Banned
Knurek said:
It's weird that people (people in the know even) here are saying things like "Wolfteam on PC" or "Namco Tales Studio, word!", when the first doesn't exist ever since 2003 and the later was dissolved in 2011...
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Oh, sorry, that's me.

Apparently people aren't like my Wolf Team jokes, either... ._.

I know that they're not called Wolf Team anymore, but I'm a big fan of Wolf Team and who they've become, tri-Ace and the people in Namco Bandai. Because Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia are games that I really respect. I'm enthusiastic about games that were made by people who were from the original Wolf Team, or people associated with them, like the people who work on Tales games today.

Wolf Team and Toaplan are two of the developers I respect most.
Even though Toaplan is Cave, now. And Wolf Team is tri-Ace, people in Namco Bandai, and Camelot.
I get excited about the legacy of Wolf Team in a way that some people get excited about the legacy of Capcom or Clover Studio or Squaresoft.

To me, they'll always be Wolf Team, in a way. Though maybe that feeling or saying that is silly.. sorry..
 
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Dryk

Member
I've heard mixed things about Tales from game to game, but Symphonia was memorable as hell and I love the battle system.

HolyBaikal said:
Though Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia are in the same universe and part of a long running series.
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I've only played Symphonia, and I never knew this.
 
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Vamphuntr

Member
Grief.exe said:
Are the Tales games self-contained or do I have to read up on the prior entries before playing this one? I get the impression from this thread that Vesperia was the best in the series, is this accurate?
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Most are their own things and some have sequels (Tales of Symphonia 2, Tales of Destiny 2, Tales of Xilia 2). I don't think there will be a consensus on which is the best one. Vesperia is usually highly regarded here because it has really high production value, lot of content compared to the recent entries and because it has a main character that is way more different than the usual JRPG character. Your main character is a vigilante instead of being an obnoxious teenage kid trying to save the world. It also seems like the last Tales of game that had this insane level of polish. Battle system is much weaker than some other entries like Graces F though.

Graces F is usually regarded as the one with the best battle system but the worse characters and plot with a really cheap and small world.
 
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HolyBaikal

Banned
Dryk said:
I've only played Symphonia, and I never knew this.
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Oh... yeah.. Tales of Phantasia takes place several centuries or so after Tales of Symphonia.

Tales of Symphonia is a prequel. There's a mana tree and an elf village and everything in Tales of Phantasia.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
jmga said:
I mean is not strange for a game to be flagged as free. Same happened to NUNS4 and is a confirmed paid game.
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It is strange because it's not something that happens automagically as part of the upload process or is even remotely common among paid apps. You wouldn't be able to find another example, Scamco or otherwise (excluding, for obvious reasons, games that were/were to be free but later became paid or vice-versa).
 
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Bluth54

Member
Chaos2Frozen said:
This... Has got to be some kind of error right?
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If a game shows up in the Steam database that means a PC version is being worked on and will potentially be released on Steam. The vast majority of games that show up in the database eventually get released on Steam since that means a Steam PC build of the game is being worked on/tested.
 
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Eusis

Member
Aeana said:
That would be fantastic. One of the only real major issues with the game is the performance, particularly 30 FPS battles in a series with a legacy of 60 FPS battles.
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I assume because of the seamless battle/world setup? Figured that'd be inevitable, surprised I didn't see many posts easily in the IMport thread, though I didn't look that hard and maybe enough were grounded enough to know how unrealistic it was to expect 30 while still being on PS3.

I do hope that's indicative of a PS4 version. But hell, even if not this is a positive step to getting stuff elsewhere period.
 
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