Yes, Tales is a popular series in Japan.
Maybe that's the case today but in the past with games like Destiny and Vesperia the series was pretty damn good. Deal with it.
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Famitsu Survey Results: "Japan's Top 3 Biggest RPG" (Surprised?)
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Yes, Tales is a popular series in Japan.
Maybe that's the case today but in the past with games like Destiny and Vesperia the series was pretty damn good. Deal with it.
NeonZ
Member
Have you looked at their sales? Tales does better than any of Atlus' series. Maybe Persona 5 will change that, but it's really not surprising considering their past numbers.
clay_ghost
Member
Can't fault them if the games are still good.
It´s nothing new that Famitsu polls favour Playstation titles due to their audience, a good and constant indicator for this have been their Most Wanted polls. So, yes, to a certain degree you are correct.
While Pokemon charting third isn´t surprising in this context, it´s still funny seeing the actual number of votes, just one third compared to Final Fantasy is just hilarious considering actual market performance.
In the dedicated gaming system segment it currently looks more like this.
1 Pokemon/YoukaiWatch
3.Dragon Quest
4.Final Fantasy
5.Tales of series
Probably due to actually beeing spin-offs, both, the Mario RPG and Paper Mario series have also been quite successful. Don´t know if SRPGs have been considered but also Fire Emblem has seen a resurgence this gen and has been more successful then quite a bunch of the listed IPs recently.
While understandable due to beeing either dormant or mismanaged, it´s sad to see how Breath of Fire and Seiken Densetsu are missing as well.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Final Fantasy series as a whole has been in a slump for years, excluding ARR which is a MMO. XV is still a wildcard. I guess FFVII remake would/could ignite the flame in FF series.
JonathanNemo
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clay_ghost
Member
Forget to mention outside of recent FF and tales games after Grace. (note I have not played toz yet)
Even pokemon got worst but at least the quality does not reduces to FF13 standard.
Considering the only people who can act on any interest shown in Suikoden are KPE, it might be for the best that it continues to fade away.
ChasingComets
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I'm actually surprised that the Tales series ranks higher over the others.
Especially Kingdom Hearts.
Especially Kingdom Hearts.
Stereogatari
Banned
I for one am SHOCKED!
Hello? This is Hailun!
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SaGa over Kingdom Hearts? Crazy.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Really tales of? I like the series but most of the games are very mediocre
SporeCrawler
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surprised about pokemon since it usually did not do well in famitsu pollings
SatelliteOfLove
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Brands rule but where some land is really odd at first glance, but the ones up top have consistancy (which, to be fair, is a huge boon in this age for the genre).
no u
no u
psynergylover
Member
called the top 3 without clicking on the spoilers
DiipuSurotu
Banned
The reason Xeno is not a franchise is because it's two aborted franchises and one ongoing franchise (which hopefully won't share the same fate as its predecessors).
I wouldn't call them boring. They have good battle systems.
Sumio Mondo
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Meccanical
Member
Both of those franchises are dead.
foxuzamaki
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Mother got on that list 
Supermanisdead
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square enix's mishandling of the kingdom hearts franchise is fucking hilarious. after 1 and 2, the series was on track to becoming bigger than final fantasy world wide and now.. rofl.
Ghost Slayer
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It's not their series so they probably don't care if it's bigger than FF or not
I wasn't expecting Dragon quest over final fantasy.
Yeah i was wondering the same, maybe it's just the hype for the new game.
Yeah i was wondering the same, maybe it's just the hype for the new game.
Well, so is Suikoden.
AntiFacebook
Member
Wow, I didn't know Famitsu has such a small number of readers.
I thought Pokemon would be higher,honestly.
I thought Pokemon would be higher,honestly.
So are Suikoden and Mother
I'm always surprised at just how popular and prolific the Tales games are in Japan when (of admittedly only the three I've played) they seem pretty mundane and generic to me, with a tendency towards having a cast of walking stereotypes.
Having said that, they do have an atmosphere of lighthearted fun rather than endless moody darkness, and there is something to be said for hitting what your fanbase wants on a regular basis rather than having variable quality and taking ten years to make a computer game.
Having said that, they do have an atmosphere of lighthearted fun rather than endless moody darkness, and there is something to be said for hitting what your fanbase wants on a regular basis rather than having variable quality and taking ten years to make a computer game.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
It is more popular. P5 will probably do 500k+(across both platforms) FW but SMT is definitely more popular than what people say it is. Biggest problem with SMT is Atlus doesn't milk them enough.
I was a big fan of Tales. It's just gone downhill post-Vesperia with the games becoming dull and uninspired. I decided to pass on Zestiria. They could do with taking a bit more time and care in order to deliver a better game instead of rushing them.
YankeeDonB
Member
If Suikoden were 3rd, I'd be much happier.
Still, list isn't surprising at all. I'm actually more shocked that there's more than 10 J-RPG franchises lol.
I'm just glad Suikoden is mentioned at all. Don't let the flame go out!
KeyChainDude
Member
Damn, Kingdom Hearts has surely fallen from Japan's grace. Was expecting something like 4th or 5th position. The small number of surveys doesn't help either, I'm sure it used to be much bigger than SaGa LOL
What do you expect from a franchise that has released more side story spin offs than main line entires since the ps2 era.
BlazingDarkness
Member
SMT isn't anywhere near as accessible as FF though. Plus it still has some of those oldschool trappings (first person dungeons etc) that wouldn't necessary appeal to modern audiences.
BlazingDarkness
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Of course it is. Persona has anime series under its belt, for starters.
SolidSnakex
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You've probably heard of it, but under a different name. During the NES-era Square released them in the west under the name "Final Fantasy Legend". That was to try to give it a boost in sales by connecting it to a series that was known more at the time in the west. The series then completed skipped the SNES-era in the west and eventually returned on the PSone under the name Saga Frontier. The last one released in the was a remake of the first SNES game, Romancing Saga.