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'Tales of' Producer Hideo Baba Talks About His New Studio/Project With Square Enix
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Yup. Pretty much this is what I'm getting from the excerpts. He most likely wasn't happy with the working atmosphere and the bureaucracy over at Bamco and now he will have more liberties than working there.
Nightengale
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Saying all the good things so far.
Now, I await the first official announcement of the studio's debut game.
"To Liberate One's Self RPG" - Story of Istolia
Now, I await the first official announcement of the studio's debut game.
"To Liberate One's Self RPG" - Story of Istolia
If this is the case, I'm interested in seeing how this game will end up versus how the Tales franchise continues.
Vincent Grayson
Member
Was he still around when Berseria was in development? Because if him being gone is gets us Berseria, good riddance. The series was stagnating for the last decade at least.
According to Wikipedia, he was the Producer of Zestiria, but not the one for Berseria. So unless he worked on Berseria as something unlisted, he had nothing to do with it. At least its actual development. It's clear that they had some plans for Berseria when making Zestiria, at least the common lore.
he wants to continue the same trajectory of the tales games at another company it seems.
hopefully SE will let his team or whoever he will be managing use UE4
be careful saying that, you might be jumped on for implying he was semi responsible for keeping the series in a polished state
hopefully SE will let his team or whoever he will be managing use UE4
be careful saying that, you might be jumped on for implying he was semi responsible for keeping the series in a polished state
Funny considering what happened to Star Ocean... at Square Enix!
Regarding Berseria he was just listed as Brand Manager and had probably not much involvement with the title.
Give me Star Ocean 4 with a better story???
Nightengale
Member
triAce was a studio that was bigger than the overall size of the Tales team at Bamco, and given roughly the same amount of time to develop SO5 as per a usual Tales game afawk.
SO5 was poor game even compared by Tales standards.
Which is amazing. Tales isn't a bad series, but it's become so commercialized by Scamco that it's starting to affect the story and characters. A fresh start is a great idea
It would be funny if they gave his team the star ocean IP after SO5 and it followed the style of tales
i don't know, its always had annual releases...how much more commercialized has it really gotten? They've always really not broken any sort of mold outside of being safe entrees for RPG fans to get into
i don't know, its always had annual releases...how much more commercialized has it really gotten? They've always really not broken any sort of mold outside of being safe entrees for RPG fans to get into
MetalliCabombination
Member
Hey id kill for a tales game that doesnt look its still using ps2 as its base platform.
and i hope whoever did the combat sfx for graces, zesty and berseria isnt tagging along.
those are some of the blandest and cheapest looking effects ive ever seen .
and i hope whoever did the combat sfx for graces, zesty and berseria isnt tagging along.
those are some of the blandest and cheapest looking effects ive ever seen .
Lil bit on the nose but I like it a lot!
Uh.... Sorry to break the news but they're probably trying to get away from this if anything.
EDIT:
I would like to note that Baba has a habit of being very... on the nose when it comes to explaining what his games are going to be really about in interviews before announcements and stuff.
good.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Good he wants to work on consoles .
The more console RPGs the better .
The more console RPGs the better .
Star Ocean has never been a good series though. It literally has not had a single good game in 5 entries. I feel like people keep forgetting this.
Nightengale
Member
I won't say no to a reskinned Tales of game with higher budget, better animation and Ni no Kuni/GG Xrd level character models in terms of 2D art to 3D art.
MrSaturn99
Member
Makes me wonder if this move was due to his getting burned by the response to Zestiria. I know how that game turned out wasn't entirely his fault, but the Alisha response really seemed to bother him.
SO2 was great game overall. SO3 was great in every aspect except the story.
Did you forget Star ocean 2 and 3?
even that was good, but it depends on whether or not one likes the twist. i didn't care about conforming to the rest of the games so it was a non issue for me
Suzushiiro
Banned
The narrative from the people who hate Zestiria with the fiery passion of a thousand suns is that negative reception to Zestiria caused him to get "promoted" (ie pushed out of a position where he had any creative control over Tales,) which is supported by the fact that Berseria is the first major Tales game in a while that he didn't have any sort of credit on. Would certainly be a logical reason to start looking for another job, at any rate.
Some Nobody
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The only thing accurate about this post is the words being spelled correctly.
Anyway. How long is something like this going to take? I'm thinking a 2020 title, so we're seeing what's possibly a PS5 title here? No way they get it out before then, right?
I thought the gameplay in SO4 was also well received, it's just that all the other aspects took an even bigger nosedive? I'm not too familiar with the franchise though. Anyway, I don't think Star Ocean tripping up has any indication of the quality of this new IP that likely has a lot of spirit from the Tales franchise.
I'm more interested in comparing project Prelude Rune and the next Tales game. I know Berseria didn't have him on it but the game started development in 2014 and he was still taking a supervisory role in the franchise itself. Also Berseria was still developed with the PS3 taken into consideration and we know the next title won't be so I feel like both companies are starting on a clean slate or so to speak.
Subjective. I'm clearly not one of those people you mention, because SO2 was easily one of my favorite PSX RPGs. In fact, I just replayed the PSP version at the tail end of 2015.
Star ocean's 4 issue was def the plot and the characters, kay
But i agree that the gameplay itself was ok, infact it was basically just star ocean 3's for the most part
Or he just got sick of dealing with bullshit.
Makes one wonder what "Tales" is to him. He always seemed somewhat detached from development (likely due to coming from marketing) and many of the things he mentions (anime style, warmth, fantasy origin) Tales actually moved away from during his time as producer. And the part of the staff that left during the closure of Tales Studio was that following that classic Tales style. His game likely will be similar to Tales as far as the focus on characters goes, everything else likely depends on who he gets. May turn into another Arc Rise Fantasia for all we know. =P
He was only credited as series producer for Berseria, with there being even a separate series supervisor/management in Tanaka.
DangerMouse
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I bet we'll get a lesson on racism with the subtlety of a freight train.
To be fair that was before his time.
The focus on story is the one thing Tales arguably improved under him, though Berseria (without his involvement) is the first game where this came to fruition in a polished actually satisfying package.
Cornbread78
Member
Am I the only one that immediately thinks of this?
Sounds about right for what he is describing.
Sounds about right for what he is describing.
I always figured it was Baba pushing for this sort of thing, and not the other way around :/ He's the one who implemented the 'complete' ports ~1 year after launch to other consoles, etc.
Well at least this time they're going for a action rpg/real time battle system.
What he describes is something more in line with Tales of Hearts which was the first entry where he was involved from start to finish.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Got my attention. Put it out for PlayStation, 3DS, or Switch and I'll check it out.
What are these from?
Am I the only one that immediately thinks of this?
Sounds about right for what he is describing.
What are these from?
BasilZero
Member
Tales, star ocean and this?
Crazy!
Though would be great if he picks up star ocean in the future.
One of the worst shounen franchises of all time made by an author who previously made IMO one of the best shounen manga of all time
It could be nothing else but Fairy Tail
Is that already confirmed?
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