Nuclear Muffin
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Are battles in 30FPS or 60FPS? Also, is the 3D effect as weak as in the JPN version?
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Tales of the Abyss [3DS] |OT| "The wait better be worth it!" - PALland
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Are battles in 30FPS or 60FPS? Also, is the 3D effect as weak as in the JPN version?
In my opinion, it is better than Symphonia but not as good as Vesperia.
Well I won't claim that I know for sure. I'm just parroting what I've read on these boards before. I think it was something along the lines of any processing that textures need to go through before being drawn only needs to be done once or something like that. But again I could be mistaken.
Thanks, i have fond Symphonia a good game, so there's chance i get his one.
I love Symphonia and Vesperia bore me sooo .... I don't know what to think anymore lol
R_thanatos
Member
european , here .
lack of japanese voices and the fact that i've finshed this game 3 times will make me miss this title .
Will buy Tales of graces F ...
BUt IMO abyss 3DS wasn't needed ( unless the information that the game has multiples text languages is true )
It was for europe. I mean I imported the game from the US, but many people won't have bothered because they hadn't hacked their console.
Never played this, so here are a few questions:
1. How do you rate the battle system compared to other games in the series?
2. How is the voice acting and are the characters likeable?
3. Does it get annoying playing the game on a small screen, because I'm expecting a lot of things to happen during battles.
4. Is the font easy to read on these screens?
5. Is 3D worth it?
I'd argue against that. Abyss is a fine game and this is a great opportunity to get it for anyone who didn't have a modded ps2
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
You aren't. That mostly includes shadow (volume) maps and.. well, that's about it on the 3DS. Other than that, I remember speculating with M3d10n about the possibilities for skinning occurring once per mesh per frame, but that'd require gpu paths known as 'transform feedback', which 3DS may or may not have.
HamPster PamPster
Member
This is probably off topic, but how is the 3DS looking as an RPG system?
I'm debating a chirstmas purchase of the 3DS and Tales of the Abyss is high on the reasons list because I never played it. Interested in trying the Devil Survior game too
I'm debating a chirstmas purchase of the 3DS and Tales of the Abyss is high on the reasons list because I never played it. Interested in trying the Devil Survior game too
Well do you like Pokemon? And perhaps, MHunter?
It's too soon to tell really. Perhaps MH will bring in the JRPG market. But thats simply a possibility.
Magicpaint
Member
For me Abyss > Symphonia > Vesperia.
R_thanatos
Member
i agree . I forgot that it never went to the pal countries. For those who haven't played this game (yet i hope ) this is great, especially if there is indeed all the text languages ..
It's just that .. the 3ds doesn't seem to do this game justice. ( at least i hope that the loadings & bugs are gone ).
After all the original tales games that went forgotten, i'm sad that this one made the cut, while some games are still mysteriously in japanese.
Quite decent, actually, especially if the pace keeps getting better or even stays the same in the coming years, or at least doesn't slow down noticeably. Basically:
Paper Mario 3D
Kingdom Hearts DDD
Beyond the Labyrinth
Bravely Default
SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked
Tales of the Abyss
Fantasy Life
Heroes of Ruin
Rune Factory 4
Fire Emblem
Inazuma Eleven Go
I think that's most of what we know is coming for 3DS, unless I'm forgetting some (there's Monster Hunter 3G & 4, but I don't know if those are considered RPGs). And of course you can expect Pokemon to hit 3DS eventually.
It's not a massive list, but RPGs can be slow to move from one generation to the next and the list already has some promising Nintendo, Square Enix, Tri-Ace & Level 5 love. Apart from the couple that've been released already, those are 2012 releases. Hopefully 2013 will be as good for 3DS RPGs as 2012 is shaping up to be.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
One of my more anticipated 3DS games. Why do I feel the screens all make this game look polygon starved though? Am I crazy for thinking this?
Ah yes, now we're talking
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Yep. Xillia's getting up there for me in terms of narrative, I think. While there were people in the main cast I didn't like in the Team Symphonia games, Xillia and Graces have a cast that I like very much. Graces is good for combat, though; Xillia's good for narrative and character relationships.
Enjoy the game, PALland! For those who aren't going to like the game during the first few hours (you'll know why, trust me), it gets sooo much better after that. I have a few gripes with the narrative regardless, though. In terms of combat, I like it a lot better than Symphonia.
Chet Rippo
Member
February huh?
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I guess I gotta a long wait...
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I guess I gotta a long wait...
RyougaSaotome
Member
I haven't played an English copy of the game yet, but I did pick up a Japanese copy the day it came out here so I can speak to that.
The biggest change is definitely the load times. If this is your first time playing Abyss, you definitely picked a good time to dive in.
While the 3D didn't blow me away or anything, I found myself preferring to play with it on. Made the visuals feel a bit more vibrant and alive.
The biggest change is definitely the load times. If this is your first time playing Abyss, you definitely picked a good time to dive in.
While the 3D didn't blow me away or anything, I found myself preferring to play with it on. Made the visuals feel a bit more vibrant and alive.
twentytwo22
Member
+1 on the load times, so nice compared to the PS2 version.
Otherwise, this is Abyss. A really good entry into the Tales series. If you haven't played it before, great time to pick it up.
Freyjadour
Member
FON YEAH.
Skinning can be done on the CPU too. The 3DS CPU, as any other console CPU, should be able to manipulate vertex data without having re-uploading as a PC does. It's not as fast as GPU skinning and uses more RAM (needs a vertex buffer for each character instance), but depending on the requirements of the game it might be worth it.
RE: Mercenaries is likely doing this since it reduces the framerate of the animation on distant enemies. That would be pointless with using GPU skinning because all vertices would need to be processed every frame regardless of animation state (vertex shader changes are not persistent without transform-feedback).
Animation sounds like a good task to have running on the 2nd CPU if devs can really load arbitrary code there now.
There's also another Harvest Moon game, a DQ Rocket Slime game, a DQ Monsters remake, that FF Theatrhythm game (if that counts), Eternal Eden, plus the SMT/Etrian Odyssey games Atlus said they were making like two years ago but haven't been mentioned since.
The problem, of course, is that many of these games haven't bee confirmed or even hinted at getting an international release, and the 3DS is region-locked.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
preordered, i love the Tales games
better than Symphonia? Omfg
better than Symphonia? Omfg
jump_button
Banned
I dont think anyone doing any ads in uk for this what a shock, and yet they cant work out why RPG dont do as well
I haven't played a Tales game since Symphonia... I'm gonna pick this up when I have the money (sometime in January probably). Hope it'll still be easily available then.
Oh and btw, this isn't the first time Namco release an english only game in Europe, they did the same thing with God Eater.
Oh and btw, this isn't the first time Namco release an english only game in Europe, they did the same thing with God Eater.
Abyss has a much better battle system and overall cast of characters. I liked the overall plot of Symphonia better though. I consider them both really good.
MidnightScott
Banned
Anyone think the game will still bomb even though Namco delayed it for NA because of the fall onslaught?
Don't know, it has a better chance since the game was released once in NA compared to EU where we never got it.
We'll see though
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Once the redesigned 3DS comes out, Tales of the Abyss will be the first game I buy for it.
Isn't there an official thread for this meme? Seriously.
Not sure if I'd say Harvest Moon is an RPG, more like some kind of a farm life simulator. Rune Factory is the Harvest Moon RPG.
I consider DQH Rocket Slime more of a Zelda-ish adventure/action game than an RPG.
It being a rhythm game, probably not.
Hmm? What is this?
Yeah, I knew about these, but... those were not definitive announcements and we haven't heard anything after they were first announced. They seem like the kind of announcements all platforms get before launch (OMG, LOOK, WE ARE GETTING FRANCHISE X & Y & Z) that might not turn into anything. I mean, think about PS3 pre-launch. Stuff like a Shin Megami Tensei project, Konami RPG, Gradius VI etc. were announced but they were either canned or they never even existed. My guess would be that, atm, there might not even BE Eternal Odyssey or "mainline" Shin Megami Tensei games in production.
I'm pretty sure most of those games will be released at least in the US. The only ones I could see being left as Japan exclusives are DQH:RS3, Fantasy Life & Inazuma Eleven Go (apart from Sony's franchises & Professor Layton, L5 doesn't really have the best of records when it comes to localizing some of their games), the rest are more or less high profile releases, imo, which have all the chances in the world of being localized.
I'm expecting it to bomb in the US at least. Might do acceptable numbers in PAL territories.
Sniper McBlaze
Member
Anyone got the game today?
I did.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Get a picture up mo fo!
I'm dying to see the packaging :lol
I'm dying to see the packaging :lol
My Abyss 3DS got sent out today
Where did you pre-order from?
GAME haven't set mine yet... really disappointed! Their new site is so crap, I can't even view the order status.