Diseased Yak
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Copy already shipped from Amazon. Looking forward to it, as I still have the PS2 original shrink-wrapped on my shelf. Just never got around to it.
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Public Announcement: Tales of the Abyss 3DS is out today
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I thought you couldn't 100% the game on the first run?
The horrendous PS2 load times are fixed, overworld runs better, no multiplayer, 30FPS in battle instead of PS2's 60, and the game has been rebalanced on harder difficulties. Dunno about the 3D. The main draw for this port is the load times.
Worthintendo
Member
Now just need to wait for Play Asia to ship my copy along with a few other things I have on order and I will be happy.
TheyTookOurJobs
Member
Picked up my pre-order at Gamestop today and am about 1 hour into it and am enjoying it so far. I saw they had 4 other copies sitting out, so it's somewhat popular, and the girl that rang me up said they had other pre-orders as well.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Skill-wise, I mean. I remember my first playthrough when I missed Natalia's sidequests to get two of her skills. I never really liked using her, but it felt bad when I didn't get them. :/
The extra dungeon must be done on a second playthrough, of course.
brettchalupa
Member
What's with the awkward silences during the skits?
Did the original not have skit voice acting or at least background music? The background music pauses during skits for some reason. I wish you could at least button press through the text. -____-
Did the original not have skit voice acting or at least background music? The background music pauses during skits for some reason. I wish you could at least button press through the text. -____-
Yep, it looks, sounds, and plays like Tales of the Abyss; only portable!!
I can't really compare performance differences since I only played the PS2 game off a hard drive. But so far so awesome!
The graphics look good (though it could be more colorful, a complaint I had about the original), the music sounds great, the combat's awesome, and the controls feel pretty good too. The 3D isn't insane, but it's used to nice effect. It's as if you're looking into a window and seeing the game played out in that fashion, with text announcements, subtitles, dialog, etc. floating on top of the glass of the window, so to speak. Nicely done.
I do question their choice to use that stupid blue thing that Luke loves to abuse as the home screen visual and audio representative to the game, however. What's that little shit called, Mieu? I forget...
I can't really compare performance differences since I only played the PS2 game off a hard drive. But so far so awesome!
The graphics look good (though it could be more colorful, a complaint I had about the original), the music sounds great, the combat's awesome, and the controls feel pretty good too. The 3D isn't insane, but it's used to nice effect. It's as if you're looking into a window and seeing the game played out in that fashion, with text announcements, subtitles, dialog, etc. floating on top of the glass of the window, so to speak. Nicely done.
I do question their choice to use that stupid blue thing that Luke loves to abuse as the home screen visual and audio representative to the game, however. What's that little shit called, Mieu? I forget...
Namco is lazy.
The original Japanese had voice acting for the skits. Namco decided to simply not voice them for the English release.
Same thing with the opening song, which originally had vocals.
DidntKnowJack
Member
I'll have to pick up a copy tomorrow. This is probably going to be hard to find fairly quick.
brettchalupa
Member
I figured that was the case. The opening seemed barren, and I believe that when I played Vesperia and Xillia there were vocals (Vesperia had an English version). I wish they at least kept the Japanese vocal track.
The lack of voice in the skits really detracts from their quality. I will probably stop watching them.
Edit: Really like the Japanese OP, thanks for sharing.
InsaneZero
Member
I remember that I loaded up my game with a save prior to endgame (I had a game clear on a different slot) and I was able to access that extra dungeon with my endgame characters within about ten minutes of finishing my first playthrough.
I figured that was the case. The opening seemed barren, and I believe that when I played Vesperia and Xillia there were vocals (Vesperia had an English version). I wish they at least kept the Japanese vocal track.
The lack of voice in the skits really detracts from their quality. I will probably stop watching them.
Edit: Really like the Japanese OP, thanks for sharing.
Vesperia had the advantage of it's vocalist being bilingual. Graces also has a bilingual vocalist (and an English version was made long before it was officially announced for the US.)
Microsoft may have had some hand in Vesperia too. It's localization is unusually good for Namco.
You're welcome. Karma is probably one of my favorite Tales opening songs. Damn shame it keeps getting replaced with an instrumental. At least it stayed in the game as an instrumental, Symphonia didn't get so lucky...
The instrumental version is far superior, so I'm okay with this. Abyss has the only Tales opening song I really like.
Shame about the skits not being voiced though. I don't think they're written as well as Symphonia's or Vesperia's to begin with so I skip most of them.
I figured that was the case. The opening seemed barren, and I believe that when I played Vesperia and Xillia there were vocals (Vesperia had an English version). I wish they at least kept the Japanese vocal track.
The lack of voice in the skits really detracts from their quality. I will probably stop watching them.
Edit: Really like the Japanese OP, thanks for sharing.
US ver of ToV has the JPN track in the intro when it starts again after idling in the main menu.
brettchalupa
Member
That would make a lot of sense, Vesperia seemed to be really high quality. I own Legendia, but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet. That'll be down the line I'd imagine.
AceBandage
Banned
BassForever
Member
I got the last copy today at my Gamestop, glad to see what little copies there are of TotA3D are flying off the shelves. Hopefully Graces F (which I also have preordered) will also sell out and show Namco Bandai that US (and PAL) love Tales and want more games in the series.
Randam_Hajile
Member
Had planned on waiting until I finished RE Revelations, but just ended up ordering from Amazon Prime. Oh well, at least now I know I'll have it.
Urban Scholar
Member
If I could share a complaint, the text font chosen...eh not good. Otherwise, its been solid.
Splash Wave
Member
Should I be getting this over Radiant Historia? I hardly have time for either game.
Both will be hard to find. Just get both for a rainy day
RPG_Fanatic
Member
Picked up my copy today, along with preorders for tales of graces and Kid Icarus.
chickdigger802
Banned
Nope. But it's not really annoying either besides the whole "TEXT BUBBLES IN YOUR FACE".
Besides nintendo games, most 3rd party games tend to not really do 3D well
.Heard the 3D is not good but I'll be playing 2D
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Well it's a quick conversion port with 3d slapped on. So honestly you might just be better of playing in 2d.
Big Papa Husker
Member
Well, with it being a limited run, I decided to order it to play down the line.
Synless
Member
Yeah, I think that's how it's going down.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
I think it's worth of the money that I spend because it is pretty good game. IMO but I think you are being harsh to tell people to not buy the game because you don't like the game. It's depend on players' opinion, not just your.
Hours Left
Member
I can't get it until next week, I hope it's not that limited.
Super Smash Bro
Banned
I was going to get this as part of my 3DS-a-ganza (TotA, RE:R, MGS3) with my taxes. They're expected on the 22nd; will this be GONE FOREVER (aka bought by jackass resellers) by then? Or should I dip out of the rent money?
IrishNinja
Member
ugh, this shit kills me. i kept thinking this gen had less rarity (thankfully - fuck you collectors!), but apparently it's all carts.
grabbed Radiata for a rainy day, but i dont know if id even want to play this...Vesperia's the only Tales game i played, but i loved that, pacing issues aside. here's to hoping gamefly still has it in stock after binary domain drops.
chickdigger802
Banned
Grab this. RE and MGS will have infinite times more stock than this, so you probably can pick those up later.
abstract alien
Member
Ordered it just in case it isn't around later. If it sucks, I wont have any issues getting rid of it for a profit most likely, so why not go for it.
I figured that was the case. The opening seemed barren, and I believe that when I played Vesperia and Xillia there were vocals (Vesperia had an English version). I wish they at least kept the Japanese vocal track.
The lack of voice in the skits really detracts from their quality. I will probably stop watching them.
Edit: Really like the Japanese OP, thanks for sharing.
It was a budget thing. They didn't voice skits in the US games, excluding Legendia since that game had very little of them (and due to a communication error, the 2nd half of the game didn't get voiced). They stepped it up for the games localized after Abyss though. (Radiant Mythology, Vesperia, DotNW)
Splash Wave
Member
God, I'm not sure if I even like Tales games, and yet here I am nearly convinced that I should buy this.
Incitemaybe
Member
I like 3d on its own merits and I was prepared for "bad 3d" coming in.
This wasn't the case. The 3d looks fine.
I'm just as confused as to what the expectation of useful 3d would be in a game like this
Colonel Mustard
Banned
I've bought every Tales of game at launch and am even buying Graces F with no PS3.
Why doesn't Namco localize more of these? Sales aren't too abysmal for the type of games they are.
...and I want Symphonia 3D or HD remake/port. Who's dick do I have to suck to make this happen?
Why doesn't Namco localize more of these? Sales aren't too abysmal for the type of games they are.
...and I want Symphonia 3D or HD remake/port. Who's dick do I have to suck to make this happen?
Played a little bit. Some thoughts:
-Oh god, the aliasing!
-You can torment Mieu in the 3DS Menu! Yay!
-Game plays pretty well, though everything seems a bit small due to the resolution.
-Luke is quite insufferable, but I'm still in the forest area at the beginning.
-Snappy menus, though saving takes a while.
-Oh god, the aliasing!
-You can torment Mieu in the 3DS Menu! Yay!
-Game plays pretty well, though everything seems a bit small due to the resolution.
-Luke is quite insufferable, but I'm still in the forest area at the beginning.
-Snappy menus, though saving takes a while.
