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[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Fights look like they'll be fun

 

[SarusGray]

I actually liked some of the environments, I'm shocked. Combat looked cool, but nothing interesting was really shown.

I'm kind of concerned that our first two party members are slut demon and angel baby, but whatever, it's anime.

just because she shows some skin doesn't make her a slut

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smh

 

[Tizoc]

So a stripper and a cute shotaro boy get on a boat

Looks good IMO, this was in development during the time when PS3 had a bigger userbase than the PS4 in Japan hence it's cross-gen. I think any Tales after this will be PS4 only though.

 

[Femto.]

What? And not have her show the holy trifecta of boobs, midriff and legs? I'm ashamed of you. Do you even animu jrpg?

Don't let my anime avatar fool you!

 

[CielTynave]

That guy steering the ship was totally a

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hellion. No way this isn't in the same world as Zestiria.

 

[AwShucks]

Might be my first Tales game.

 

[Soriku]

I hope this isn't too too solo character action stuff. That's not Tales. Are we expecting something that's not a normal party adventure? Because I'd immediately turn pessimistic. Of course, the all important question of "would it look okay if this group of people did a few hundred skits together?" must be addressed!

Brah there were party members in the trailer. I don't know why people always say this when a new Tales is announced lmao. Like clockwork.

Anyway I wish the graphics were better (style really needs to change at this point), I'm not a fan of the kid's design, and I wanted them to go back to sideview battles (camera and effects look like Zestiria) but the story and setting seem interesting and it's good they're bringing back blood.

 

[PfantzyPantz]

The environments in the gameplay part at the end of the trailer look pretty good to me. Very happy everything looks like it's 60 fps.

I prefer the heroine in her brown clothing in that scene compared to what she's actually wearing. Hoping that's a costume you can choose. And there's a child character :x Hopefully he's not whiny/annoying.

.

Pls be good

 

[Pyros_Eien]

Looks great, not much of a fan of the PS3 thing though, probably will drag down the game a decent bit on PS4. Might just wait for a PC version for 60FPS(which hopefully doesn't require a patch this time, but who knows). Dark haired Milla looks great, kid looks meh but we'll see his story sounds kinda interesting if I understood the stuff being said correctly.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Got damn

 

[Soriku]

Dat claw + sword combat

 

[aitakute]

I wonder why they decided to go with cross-gen. I'm sure this one will sell better on the PS4 than PS3 even in Japan

 

[Atlantis]

just because she shows some skin doesn't make her a slut

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smh

Okay.

 

[zxcv11223300xi]

It looks good!

 

[Crocodile]

So she's a werewolf and not a vampire? Huh. Well I hope you can go full wolf and just go ham on fools. Looks a bit "edgy" but I'm hoping this is a good "edgy" and not a bad "edgy".

 

[Shun]

Please be chain capacity please be chain capacity please be chain capacity and not suck.

I will even take Graces 2.0 and not Zestiria. Please.

PS3 is love, PS3 is life.

 

[Mediking]

B-Bayonetta-san... in a Tales game... YES!!!!

 

[silva1991]

Why do I keep expecting cel shading in their new games? ToV was the last pretty looking game from them.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

I wonder why they decided to go with cross-gen. I'm sure this one will sell better on the PS4 than PS3 even in Japan

Except the PS3 install base is considerably larger in Japan

 

[Trojita]

I hope the Werewolf theme sticks unlike the Dragon theme of Zestiria.

And I hope this game isn't half-assed.

50/50 chance.

We'll flip a coin for it. If it's heads, the game is half-assed.

 

[kenji_sama]

Asbel 2.0, is that you?

 

[cw_sasuke]

It's like they aren't even trying anymore.. The last 4 main games looked all very similar. I really hope once the series makes the real next gen jump to PS4 they will try harder.

After seeing 7R, DQXI and Ninokuni 2 this just looks boring. They need to go back to that Vesperia style again.. I mean just thinking how good it could look on PS4, think NNK2.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Tales team needs to jump on the UE4 bandwagon. Besides that, looks fine for what they were going for.

I'm pretty sure tales team has a pretty super low budget compared to the rest of the Namco Bandai divisions

 

[Gaogaogao]

that baby/ dog/ child thing already looks terrible

 

[Shun]

Asbel 2.0, is that you?

Please be Asbel 2.0 to spite all the heretic Graces haters on this message board.

Asbel is not the worst. Graces was great. Cheria da bes.

Of course it's similar how are they going to afford making their next game. Reuse assets while you can so it funds your next console game...

 

[SarusGray]

It's like they aren't even trying anymore.. The last 4 main games looked all very similar. I really hope once the series makes the real next gen jump to PS4 they will try harder.

After seeing 7R, DQXI and Ninokuni 2 this just looks boring.

Tales isn't that big of a company right? I'm sure they'll make the leap soon, but I'm pretty sure this was made for PS3 first once again.

 

[texhnolyze]

Yeah, I have a HUGE concern regarding the kid.
I hope he's (or she?) not a whiny, annoying, or super pure kid. Grown up kid (like Edna) would be cool.

 

[Nowhere Man]

Those werewolf designs are badass! And it runs at 60fps thankfully, even if it is crossgen. I just hope the story and characters are better than Zestiria.

 

[Soriku]

Asbel 2.0, is that you?

That was Sorey. Asbel 3.0 now.

It's like they aren't even trying anymore.. The last 4 main games looked all very similar. I really hope once the series makes the real next gen jump to PS4 they will try harder.

After seeing 7R, DQXI and Ninokuni 2 this just looks boring.

I agree the visuals are really lacking.

 

[Lucentto]

They really need change art styles for this series or something. Compared to all the other JRPGs coming up this game looks bland as fuck.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Please be Asbel 2.0 to spite all the heretic Graces haters on this message board.

Asbel is not the worst. Graces was great. Cheria da bes.

 

[Jolkien]

I think I saw some slow down during the very short battle we see in the trailer. Hopefully this is fixed. Can't believe how much the performance tanked in some fight in Zestiria on PS4 for how the game looked. And apparently the PC version had the same thing.

 

[SarusGray]

I hope its better than zestiria, I was bored the whole time playing it unfortunately. I couldn't get use to the new combat that well. Prefer the old way but let's see how they do it with this one.

 

[raven777]

JRPG trend of having young boys

 

[Inuhanyou]

I think I saw some slow down during the very short battle we see in the trailer. Hopefully this is fixed. Can't believe how much the performance tanked in some fight in Zestiria on PS4 for how the game looked. And apparently the PC version had the same thing.

Shoddy porting.

Luckily 60fps is a thing from the start this time. Xillia was the last game to accomplish that, and that was only in battles. I wonder how this game will run on PS3

 

[Atlantis]

We have to wait until they reveal whatever gimmick this battle system has to really form an opinion. A cool combo is a cool combo, but it's not really something that tells us anything.

 

[Pancake Mix]

Looks great, not much of a fan of the PS3 thing though, probably will drag down the game a decent bit on PS4. Might just wait for a PC version for 60FPS(which hopefully doesn't require a patch this time, but who knows). Dark haired Milla looks great, kid looks meh but we'll see his story sounds kinda interesting if I understood the stuff being said correctly.

PS4 version will be 60 FPS, we've seen two in-game trailers already. No timing issues this time since the game is being built cross-gen from the start. I know cross-gen isn't great but Japan is the primary market and it beats mobile or handheld. Let's just be happy it's on PS4 (and PS3).

Also, there'll be no need to get a Western dev to port the game to PS4 this time, so it could return to exclusivity.

 

[thestopsign]

I like the lead character design. I'll be keeping tabs on this. Tales of Zestiria made me realize I miss the series even though it apparently was a bit divisive amongst fans; I enjoyed it enough.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

JRPG trend of having young boys

JRPG trend of initially fooling me into thinking said young boy was actually a girl.

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No joke, until this post I thought first pic was a girl.

 

[Spotty Ren]

It doesn't look bad, and I like how she fights, and she looks more interesting than the last few main protagonists.

I hope the battle system is a bit more intuitive than Zestirias. I'm not asking that they go back to sideview (even though I would like that, as a huge Vesperia fan), but I feel like Zesty's battle system had too much stuff to take into account.

 

[GasProblem]

Does this already have a release date in Japan? Don't really know what to hope for in a release date for the West, end of 2016/early 2017?

 

[raven777]

JRPG trend of initially fooling me into thinking said young boy was actually a girl.

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No joke, until this post I thought that was a girl.

Don't worry, you are not the only one.

 

[aitakute]

Yeah, I have a HUGE concern regarding the kid.
I hope he's (or she?) not a whiny, annoying, or super pure kid. Grown up kid (like Edna) would be cool.

Judging from the trailer, he's not. He told Velvet to fight, not "K-Killing people is bad"

 

[ShockingAlberto]

So she's Nero?

 

[yami4ct]

Hopefully they took lessons from Zesteria and make a more flexible and open combat system again, but keep the encounter design as fun and balanced as the first 2/3rds of that game. I didn't hate Zesty's combat, but it didn't feel as good as Xillia to me. Also, for the love of god, kill that skill system. Tales doesn't need RNG grind loot. It's not setup for it. Combat already looks fast enough to confirm they aren't going back to the Vesperia/Symphonia garbage, not that I would expect that. Thankfully Tales has moved on.

Story looks darker, which could be interesting. We'll see. Graphics are as meh as expected due to cross gen. Art design is nice, but the texture and detail work is held back by the PS3 engine. Glad to seemingly see 60 FPS, though.

 

[Jolkien]

Wait the cat ear lady in Ni No Kuni 2 reveal was a boy ?? I was sure it was a girl. Alright colour me surprised.

 

[SarusGray]

Wait the cat ear lady in Ni No Kuni 2 reveal was a boy ?? I was sure it was a girl. Alright consider me surprised.

ya didn't hear king like 10 times in the trailer!? xD

 

[raven777]

Wait the cat ear lady in Ni No Kuni 2 reveal was a boy ?? I was sure it was a girl. Alright consider me surprised.

 

[Vazra]

I know there is already a gif but meh.

Action only version.

 

[CielTynave]

I wonder if they're going with 4 character designers again, the boy looks like he might be an Okumura character. If he is I'm sure he'll get shafted in some way like all of his characters have been in main games so far lol.

Although I really wish they'd go back to having one designer per game, even though they generally adapt them to Ufotables style for in game images there's always a few things that stick out that make the designs clash a bit.