ya didn't hear king like 10 times in the trailer!? xD
The past 3 games have had young and non-sexualized female characters, so I assume this is just someone's idea of trying to balance it out. It's going to be incredibly hard to better Edna as a character in this position, though.JRPG trend of having young boys
Uh. Did anyone say this? Tales games are sorta 50-50 on this. For every instance a character looks completely natural there's an opposing one wearing something ridiculous. There are always costumes, anyway, so this isn't something anyone is actually actually worried about. I'd venture that it'd be hard to find a single GAF member that would be entirely turned away from this game based solely on the MC's outfit. It's okay to want things!just because she shows some skin doesn't make her a slut
smh
Despite having zero evidence or logic to back up this guess, I'm not feeling terribly confident in SO5's technical prowess.Looks like a last gen game alright but at least it's going to be 60fps. Star Ocean 5 eats this up graphically despite also being cross gen and having more characters on screen.
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.
JRPG trend of initially fooling me into thinking said young boy was actually a girl.
No joke, until this post I thought first pic was a girl.
Judging from the trailer, he's not. He told Velvet to fight, not "K-Killing people is bad"
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?
My god are they dishing these out yearly now? The quality is diminishing, they should really take their time with these things..
Also is Motoi Sakuraba composing again? I worry his music is getting dull with each new installment...
Looks like a last gen game alright but at least it's going to be 60fps. Star Ocean 5 eats this up graphically despite also being cross gen and having more characters on screen.
My god are they dishing these out yearly now? The quality is diminishing, they should really take their time with these games..
Also is Motoi Sakuraba composing again? I worry his music is getting dull with each new installment...
Looks like a last gen game alright but at least it's going to be 60fps. Star Ocean 5 eats this up graphically despite also being cross gen and having more characters on screen.
Tri ace is on a different level technologically as well as budget wise. Not even the same situation.
Blame Bamco
Tri ace is on a different level technologically as well as budget wise. Not even the same situation.
Blame Bamco
I think Bamco stopped giving Tales team enough budget after Vesperia didn't sell as well as they wanted it too. All the Tales games after Vesperia seemed to have lower budget..
I think Bamco stopped giving Tales team enough budget after Vesperia didn't sell as well as they wanted it too. All the Tales games after Vesperia seemed to have lower budget..
The past 3 games have had young and non-sexualized female characters, so I assume this is just someone's idea of trying to balance it out. It's going to be incredibly hard to better Edna as a character in this position, though.Uh. Did anyone say this? Tales games are sorta 50-50 on this. For every instance a character looks completely natural there's an opposing one wearing something ridiculous. There are always costumes, anyway, so this isn't something anyone is actually actually worried about. I'd venture that it'd be hard to find a single GAF member that would be entirely turned away from this game based solely on the MC's outfit. It's okay to want things!Despite having zero evidence or logic to back up this guess, I'm not feeling terribly confident in SO5's technical prowess.
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.
So a stripper and a cute shotaro boy get on a boat
My god are they dishing these out yearly now? The quality is diminishing, they should really take their time with these games..
Also is Motoi Sakuraba composing again? I worry his music is getting dull with each new installment...
I think Bamco stopped giving Tales team enough budget after Vesperia didn't sell as well as they wanted it too. All the Tales games after Vesperia seemed to have lower budget..
It feels more common because 1) There was a sequel game made that messed with the typical cycle, and 2) The localizations started very delayed and have slowly caught up. It's not yearly. It just feels like it for now. Really we're still recovering from the awkwardness that was Tales of Graces on originally-not-a-Playstation. Its original Wii release was 2009 but we didn't see it in NA for over 3 years. There's a timeline on the series' Wikipedia entry that shows that we're actually spread out better than in the past.My god are they dishing these out yearly now? The quality is diminishing, they should really take their time with these games..
Also is Motoi Sakuraba composing again? I worry his music is getting dull with each new installment...
that fucking kid is going to be a huge focus in the story isn't he
fuck
I think Bamco stopped giving Tales team enough budget after Vesperia didn't sell as well as they wanted it to. All the Tales games after Vesperia seemed to have lower budget..
I have a legit question though: are Star Ocean games, as individual units, more popular worldwide than Tales? All the info I can get is that Star Ocean 2 and Star Ocean 3 sold over 1m worldwide each. Not sure about 4 though.
Vesperia wasn't any different, it just had a more colorful artstyle and an overworld, along with fixed camera angles in towns.
Xillia tried to go more detailed with the character models with higher poly counts, as well as try a full 3D perspective for exploration, which merely introduced its own faults.
If you don't have the technical or budgetary chops for that, its gonna hurt.
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
60fps - nice
2016 - really? thought they said the game was like 10% done last trailer and everyone figured it was 2017.
Cheap - yeah, still looks like Zesteria...wait, in fact it looks exactly like Zesteria, full of asset re-use, including the same races and even knight design. Uh, remember that Zesteria DLC sequel tease? Yeah, pretty sure this is Zesteria-2 like Xillia-2 but they're just not calling it that. Maybe takes place like hundreds of years later or something. Could be why they're not showing much of the playable cast yet...
I really hope the dark haired woman is the main character, she looks awesome.
Other that Milla in Xillia 1 (and even then you could pick Jude), I don't think it's happened in Tales before so I won't get my hopes up though.
I really hope the dark haired woman is the main character, she looks awesome.
Other that Milla in Xillia 1 (and even then you could pick Jude), I don't think it's happened in Tales before so I won't get my hopes up though.
I really hope the dark haired woman is the main character, she looks awesome.
Other that Milla in Xillia 1 (and even then you could pick Jude), I don't think it's happened in Tales before so I won't get my hopes up though.
well, maybe next time that they switch to UE4 (like duh who isn't? right) it would look good finally. Character designs are completely awful this time around lolz. and that music... really?
Amazing.
Hope this turns out as good as Zestiria.
Hoping it turns out better than Zestiria
Getting harder to get excited about a new Tales game as of lately
I really hope the dark haired woman is the main character, she looks awesome.
Other that Milla in Xillia 1 (and even then you could pick Jude), I don't think it's happened in Tales before so I won't get my hopes up though.
Hmmm. Polarising game I presume?
I thought Zestiria combat was some of the best out of the Tales games I played :/I hope they redo the combat. Zesteria combat the most boring part of the game.
It is.Hmmm. Polarising game I presume?
Looks very similar to Zestiria visually.
Just lower res
Cheap - yeah, still looks like Zesteria...wait, in fact it looks exactly like Zesteria, full of asset re-use, including the same races and even knight design. Uh, remember that Zesteria DLC sequel tease? Yeah, pretty sure this is Zesteria-2 like Xillia-2 but they're just not calling it that. Maybe takes place like hundreds of years later or something. Could be why they're not showing much of the playable cast yet...
Velvet is 100% the protagonist. She was announced as such when the game was first revealed and her silhouette is even part of the logo.
They already confirmed that the black haired girl is the main character.
I do think part of the problem is the different art direction they decided to take after Vesperia. Instead of going traditional cell-shaded look of Vesperia, Grace/Xillia/Zesitira/Berseria have their unique (and weird) looking artstyle approach. The problem is that it's very controversial, and look so washed out compared to colorful style of Vesperia.
But Vesperia was super ambitious, at least for Western market.