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I'm really a fan of the new character they've revealed. Miclio seems interesting.
I think he has my favourite design revealed yet.
I think he has my favourite design revealed yet.
After beating Xillia, it was pretty bad. No overworld, lack of hidden things / side quests (ala the Sauna in Vesperia), two main characters was pretty boring, didn't add much, hardly any non-dlc outfits. Hope this one is more like Vesperia.
Yup, but we all know that the next mothership title after Zestiria will be on PS4, just don't expect it until, at best, Winter 2015.
I don't understand this. I just beat Xillia as well, found it far more interesting than vesperia. The Skits, the ensemble cast, was fantastic, and everything extra was story based for the most part except for the mysterious orbs and the devil arms. I really like the fight mechanic and the fact we could level up the store, other than that the art could have been sharper (one thing I give a nod to vesperia for) but I preferred everything else.
I hope this new game keeps up the character interaction and humor that Xillia had.
Too early.
IMHO 2016 would even be too early for that, given how they've been going about the idea of next gen (I'm talking about release date btw, not info).
I don't understand this. I just beat Xillia as well, found it far more interesting than vesperia. The Skits, the ensemble cast, was fantastic, and everything extra was story based for the most part except for the mysterious orbs and the devil arms. I really like the fight mechanic and the fact we could level up the store, other than that the art could have been sharper (one thing I give a nod to vesperia for) but I preferred everything else.
I hope this new game keeps up the character interaction and humor that Xillia had.
I was rather thinking about 2016 too, but we have no idea about how "big" Zestiria is, just that they're still reusing the same graphic engine, and for all we know with the Bamco staff shuffle it's not impossible for them to already have another team working on a PS4 title for a few months already
I don't think there's a PS4 title scheduled for 2015, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility yet
I was rather thinking about 2016 too, but we have no idea about how "big" Zestiria is, just that they're still reusing the same graphic engine, and for all we know with the Bamco staff shuffle it's not impossible for them to already have another team working on a PS4 title for a few months already
I don't think there's a PS4 title scheduled for 2015, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility yet
That is IF they really do already have a team working on a next gen title...
If that were the case then they wouldn't have given the 20th anniversary title to Zestiria but the next gen game. I disagree entirely with your assessment.
Its safe to assume that they always have a few people working on the next title as very early pre-production. Always.
Is Tempest R ever going to happen?
Both Vita titles bombed, so probably not....
Is Tempest R ever going to happen?
Both Vita titles bombed, so probably not....
Not even that, Tempest was just a terrible game in general. Not like those other 2 DS games were amazing either.
I was rather thinking about 2016 too, but we have no idea about how "big" Zestiria is, just that they're still reusing the same graphic engine, and for all we know with the Bamco staff shuffle it's not impossible for them to already have another team working on a PS4 title for a few months already
I don't think there's a PS4 title scheduled for 2015, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility yet
It seems like Inomata was going for a mysterious, less human look with this character's eyes and they lost that with his model by giving him big anime eyes similar to the other two characters, which gives him an even more typical bishounen face instead of something with a little more character. The kinda generic anime eyes they use in the character models also makes me notice the times where it's like their eyes aren't focused on anything, or they're unnaturally focused on some random object or person. Looks weird lol.
That little complaint aside, this character looks like he would fit in as a character from Destiny or Eternia. I don't think any of the designs are amazing, but it seems like they're dialing things back to designs that wouldn't look too out of place in the first tree or four Tales games, which is interesting. Revealing one character at a time lines up for a 6-person party if they're trying to have every playable character known by the Tales of Festival, but at the moment it still doesn't really come across as if they're targeting a late Summer/early Fall release, so I can still see an 8+ group happening.
And it looks like our inevitable made-up Tales name for the casts' magic and super powers is "Tenkyoujutsu" (天響術. Basically pure individuals can access some ability that lets them use magic and stuff. His expertise lying in water elemental Tenkyoujutsu makes me wonder if it'll be like Destiny R and every character will specialize in one or two attributes, requiring some mix and matching for maximum effectiveness (already Srei, Alisha, and Mecurio would cover slash, Shot/Pierce, and Strike respectively, in regards to the physical attack attributes).
The question whether they rebuilt a second team is the real wildcard here. Though at this point I'd assume work on an engine for PS4 will be centralized at Bandai Namco Studios and the first games using it won't be Tales ones.
It feels like more and more of their biggest names are going f2p (Tekken, Ace Combat, Soul Calibur, even Im@s has a weird platform...) and I'm not even sure they have many licenses aside from the Tales series that can crack 1 million copies for an episode worldwide
I've never played a tales game before so which is the best one to buy for PS3?
Graces F or Xillia 1?
I've never played a tales game before so which is the best one to buy for PS3?
Graces F or Xillia 1?
Depends.
Gameplay great, bad to mediocre everything else: Graces f
Good across the board: Xillia
If it makes any difference I think Ni No Kuni is great and about half way through Eternal Sonata and enjoying it as well. So based off that would Xillia be the best to get for my 1st Tales experience?
Graces has an awesome gameplay, but story and characters are a bit childish.I've never played a tales game before so which is the best one to buy for PS3?
Graces F or Xillia 1?
There's nothing bad about Xillia's quality (let alone "quite bad"). The only viable complaint is the amount of asset reuse.Graces has an awesome gameplay, but story and characters are a bit childish.
Xillia is more mature, but the game's overall quality is quite bad.
There's nothing bad about Xillia's quality (let alone "quite bad"). The only viable complaint is the amount of asset reuse.
The boss battles are generally easy, but I don't particularly care either way (the Devil Beast bonus bosses have been more challenging than anything else). Having only played Abyss before it, I haven't seen any difference in regard to balance. Not particularly concerned with end-game content (unless it concerns Mystic Artes, which it has been lacking; that limited amount did bother me).Boss fight design and balance is pretty bad. And lack of end-game content. It's still pretty fun despite that but it definitely has issues outside of just the asset reuse.
Personally I would recommend Xillia since the gameplay is more inline with your average western-released Tales game and it has a direct sequel coming out this year.
I must say the graphics looks improved from Xillia.
Still a downgrade from Vesperia though.
New info up today. It seems that village Slay was being raised in is actually full of the Tenzoku, and not humans. But Slay treats them like they're the same as him 'cause he's never really seen a human outside of the village. But normal humans can't see 'em, so it'll be quite a surprised once he brings Alicia to where they live.
Also, they're hinting at modifiable default costumes. You can remove Slay's really big cape, for instance.
If you play on a harder difficulty they had the tendency of auto breaking out of combos often which really goes against how the battle system is designed.The boss battles are generally easy, but I don't particularly care either way (the Devil Beast bonus bosses have been more challenging than anything else). Having only played Abyss before it, I haven't seen any difference in regard to balance. Not particularly concerned with end-game content (unless it concerns Mystic Artes, which it has been lacking; that limited amount did bother me).
Oh boy, are they going to have another RACISM plot?
new screenshots
I must say the graphics looks improved from Xillia.
I dunno Rebirth's racism plot is more dumb. Wouldn't be completely out of the question.Racism against a race humans can't even see? That would be dumb as hell.
New info up today. It seems that village Slay was being raised in is actually full of the Tenzoku, and not humans. But Slay treats them like they're the same as him 'cause he's never really seen a human outside of the village. But normal humans can't see 'em, so it'll be quite a surprised once he brings Alicia to where they live.
Also, they're hinting at modifiable default costumes. You can remove Slay's really big cape, for instance.
"Dafaq you say?"