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Tales of Graces (Wii) Tales of VS (PSP), Tales of Vesperia (PS3) JP sites open.
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Calints Neos
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As long as there's no mary-sueish behavior going on, I'm fine with anything.
Fimbulvetr
Member
Geneijin said:
Race(the way it's defined on earth) is weird to apply to fantasy settings when everyone else is a sentient animal.:lol
I see what you mean.
AceBandage
Banned
New Graces character: Richard.
Long blond hair vampire looking guy.
Seems to be a pistol wielder?
Long blond hair vampire looking guy.
Seems to be a pistol wielder?
He's the prince of Windol. Respected by his people because of his preference for peace. Has been a friend of Asbel since they were children, and they have a great amount of trust for each other. Uses a small sword (rapier?) and attack magic.
And the game includes a minigame that you download to your DS, Kamenin Merchant (Turtlemen Merchant). It's an action game in which you control a Turtleman and have to stock items, and up to four people can play through a wireless connection.
And the game includes a minigame that you download to your DS, Kamenin Merchant (Turtlemen Merchant). It's an action game in which you control a Turtleman and have to stock items, and up to four people can play through a wireless connection.
SilverLunar
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He looks like Alucard, therefore he is awesome.
Fimbulvetr said:
Seriously. It doesn't help race is socially defined. Then you have various cultural differences adding to a distinctive regional definition of what blank race is. Such a mess :lol
hteng said:
Well, I was responding to his question of "black" and it's already an ambiguously vague term socially defined. You could be entirely right and I'm simply stereotyping him which I probably am. I only played the Destiny remake so I have no idea of the translation on the PSX. But it's like Obama and Tiger Woods. People tend to associate someone based on their physical attributes more than what they actually might be on paper.
Can't believe I forgot Mary. Man, Destiny had a bunch of dark-skinned people. Awesome.
SilverLunar
Member
Tales of vesperia op comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGCL35nAfug
Almost everything is the same except the pirate part near the end.
Almost everything is the same except the pirate part near the end.
V Jump Info:
-Richard: The prince of Windol with great expectations for the future, who has a tremendous amount of support from his people. He has a calm personality, and prefers subtle victories in battle, but his heart is grieved from the political conflict int he royal palace. Since meeting Asbel as children, he has considered him a special person that he trusts.
-You can freely change change characters using the directional keys (D Pad?).
-You can make materials and consumable items as shops by synthesizing materials/items.
-You can strengthen your weapons using materials you've collected. They may even have new effects.
-Same mini game mentioned earlier. Randomly generated dungeons. Your Turtleman levels up by defeating monsters. You can buy items you've stocked within the minigame in the main game.
There's also a group artwork. Since these drawings are pretty much only shown when we know all the party members or really important NPCs, I'm going to assume Graces will have 7 playable characters.
-Richard: The prince of Windol with great expectations for the future, who has a tremendous amount of support from his people. He has a calm personality, and prefers subtle victories in battle, but his heart is grieved from the political conflict int he royal palace. Since meeting Asbel as children, he has considered him a special person that he trusts.
-You can freely change change characters using the directional keys (D Pad?).
-You can make materials and consumable items as shops by synthesizing materials/items.
-You can strengthen your weapons using materials you've collected. They may even have new effects.
-Same mini game mentioned earlier. Randomly generated dungeons. Your Turtleman levels up by defeating monsters. You can buy items you've stocked within the minigame in the main game.
There's also a group artwork. Since these drawings are pretty much only shown when we know all the party members or really important NPCs, I'm going to assume Graces will have 7 playable characters.
The PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia sold over 140,000 copies in one day, almost as many copies as the 360 version sold in Japan in 2008.
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Wow, the Wikipedia entry on Tales of Vesperia has already been updated.
So how did the other versions sell in Japan?
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Wow, the Wikipedia entry on Tales of Vesperia has already been updated.
So how did the other versions sell in Japan?
squall211 said:
2007年12月：DS「Tales of Innocence」76k
2008年06月：Wii「Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World」120k
2008年08月：Xbox360「Tales of Vesperia」71k
2008年12月：DS「Tales of Hearts」121k
2009年01月：PSP「Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2」135k
2009年08月：PSP「Tales of VS」89k
2009年09月：PS3「Tales of Vesperia」147k
First days.
lorddarkflare
Banned
MelloBoy said:
Well the sentence was awkward, so i can understand why the misunderstanding.
lorddarkflare
Banned
neojubei said:Booyah!Wonder if we will see similar results when Star Ocean 4 international comes out.
Good, this means that we may have a chance of getting it.
lorddarkflare
Banned
Kagari said:
That is what i am hoping. This game deserves localization, unlike drek like RM2 and ToVs.
Although, RM2 sold very well in japan, but did not get a port. Though since much of the work is done for ToV...
Only those seven characters in Graces? I certainly hope that's not true. I mean, I'm obviously still hyped for the game regardless, but it seems a little lacking on the female side of the roster. It really needs a fourth female character to even things up, even if she's not the loli I'm still vainly hoping for.
Of course, what would be kind-of-awesome is if they act like that's the full roster, then pull a surprise character (or more!) on us when the game is actually released. It would make a change going into a Tales game without knowing the whole party in advance for once >_< That's probably an even vainer hope, though =p
Of course, what would be kind-of-awesome is if they act like that's the full roster, then pull a surprise character (or more!) on us when the game is actually released. It would make a change going into a Tales game without knowing the whole party in advance for once >_< That's probably an even vainer hope, though =p
Die Squirrel Die
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Even if they have already greenlit the localisation, they may be waiting to see how the early part of next year shakes up in terms of releases. A game like ToV needs a quiet release period to maximise its impact, and early next year is looking very crowded, both in terms of releases generally but also jRPGs specifically. SO4Int is confirmed for Feb, WKC is supposedly hitting sometime early on, and then of course there's the biggie of when FFXIII will drop. While a run of the genre like that is probably good for the overall profile, you wouldn't want releases being bunched up too much.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
Kagari said:
I'll bet they're extremely excited about the prospect of bringing over more late ports of Xbox 360 RPGs after Eternal Sonata PS3 sold so amazingly.
:lol
cnet128 said:
Well, it's not definite that there are only seven characters. Most of the games she does the artwork for don't have every character on the main drawing, after all.
Though recently it looks like Inomata's starting to end her trend of one-four characters on the main drawing, and is starting to follow in Fujishima's footsteps of cramming in every single party member, so maybe this is everyone.
Speaking of that, I like her recent change to more group art as the main drawings. But then again, I'm more of a fan of Inomata and think she's waaay better at these kinds of drawings than Fujishima, so eh.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
Kagari said:
I think it should be localized because it's my favorite RPG this generation, and the Tales series definitely needs more exposure in this part of the world.
What I thought was funny was your rationalization about games 'deserving' to be brought over.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
I'd like to take this time to again point out that all "Tales of" english localizations were announced between February-April. So early next year when (if?) Namco announces their next crop of Tales of localizations we should know the answer one way or another.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
Kagari said:
I think it would perform better too, but I would throw out the idea of Tales being established in the West - the fanbase is so tiny it almost doesn't count.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
lupinko said:
What does the jewel slime have to do with anything?
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Not that I want to get into this little quarrel you two are having but I should point out that Eternal Sonata was just as "highly reviewed" as Vesperia was.Kagari said:
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/eternalsonata?q=eternal sonata
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/talesofvesperia?q=tales of vesperia
I was one of the poor fuckers fooled by the massively inflated scores of an audience that was absolutely starved for something in the genre at the time. $60 that I'll never get back. Eternal Sonata was absolutely horrible, and enough people thought so that word of mouth had a much bigger impact than review scores.grandjedi6 said:
lorddarkflare
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Awntawn said:
Yeah no kidding. It is beyond me as to how anyone would think that PoS was a good game.
Dwight Schrute
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Is there a possibility that the good sales of PS3 Tales of Vesperia in Japan
will make publishers want to bring it stateside ?
Or maybe I'm just dreaming. Come on ! Star Ocean il already on the way !
and the good sales of PS3 Slim
Or maybe I'm just dreaming. Come on ! Star Ocean il already on the way !
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
You mean "publisher", not "publishers". Namco guards their franchises with an iron fist so if they don't publish it themselves its never coming. If there was any chance of them letting another publisher do it we would have seen so many Tales of games ages ago.JonStark said:
Dwight Schrute
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grandjedi6 said:
Sorry, my bad. But I still hope Namco will make the right decision :lol
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
so do I, so do IJonStark said:
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