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[Heyt]

Today's image is from Tales of Xillia and features both Milla and Jude. Knowing that Zestiria is the 15th title in the mainline series and that the countdown started from 16 I'd say it's guaranteed we will get Tales of Berseria's Velvet at no.1 wich will possibly lead to new announcements regarding the game.

This does not rule out the Tales of the Best announcement but it imay put Berseria's release in a future that is not as distant as I thought it would be... it may be even comming out next year after all.

But I don't know how they could make it in time of that's the case, honestly. There's just one team at namco making Tales, and a very small one at that. Zestiria also had loads of contracted work made for it but it also had a much bigger dev time.

If it's not a 2017 game and it was at 10% six months ago with a small team making the game for 2 platfoms on the same dev cycle for the first time there's a very big chance it's going to be very very rough when it releases...

 

[Some Nobody]

Today's image is from Tales of Xillia and features both Milla and Jude. Knowing that Zestiria is the 15th title in the mainline series and that the countdown started from 16 I'd say it's guaranteed we will get Tales of Berseria's Velvet at no.1 wich will possibly lead to new announcements regarding the game.

This does not rule out the Tales of the Best announcement but it imay put Berseria's release in a future that is not as distant as I thought it would be... it may be even comming out next year after all.

But I don't know how they could make it in time of that's the case, honestly. There's just one team at namco making Tales, and a very small one at that. Zestiria also had loads of contracted work made for it but it also had a much bigger dev time.

If it's not a 2017 game and it was at 10% six months ago with a small team making the game for 2 platfoms on the same dev cycle for the first time there's a very big chance it's going to be very very rough when it releases...

Relax, we don't have much in the way of specifics on this game at all. There's still a lot of things they COULD do to make it work. Plus percentages are misleading. You can be stuck on 10 for a long time then randomly jump up an entire ten percent. We don't know how long they were working on it six months back.

At any rate, we're not getting it next year.

 

[Heyt]

At any rate, we're not getting it next year.

I am talking about domestic release only. I honestly can not see a crippled Tales of dev team at Namco releasing a decent game autumn of next year... but if they're starting promotion now it's not goinf to be an early 2017 as it sould be imo.

 

[PumpkinSpice]

Remastered Tales of Vesperia with all the PS3 content release stateside.

Spoiler

pls

Tales thread.

Time to Vesperia PS3, 15 posts.

 

[Leafhopper]

Tales thread.

Time to Vesperia PS3, 15 posts.

Hey usually it is in the first 10 so that's a bit better.

 

[Sandfox]

Tales of the Best sounds like a spinoff and after ToZ I'm probably going to go from importing the games from Asia to waiting for a price drop on the English version.

 

[Soriku]

Today's image is from Tales of Xillia and features both Milla and Jude. Knowing that Zestiria is the 15th title in the mainline series and that the countdown started from 16 I'd say it's guaranteed we will get Tales of Berseria's Velvet at no.1 wich will possibly lead to new announcements regarding the game.

This does not rule out the Tales of the Best announcement but it imay put Berseria's release in a future that is not as distant as I thought it would be... it may be even comming out next year after all.

But I don't know how they could make it in time of that's the case, honestly. There's just one team at namco making Tales, and a very small one at that. Zestiria also had loads of contracted work made for it but it also had a much bigger dev time.

If it's not a 2017 game and it was at 10% six months ago with a small team making the game for 2 platfoms on the same dev cycle for the first time there's a very big chance it's going to be very very rough when it releases...

Remember there were a bunch of people working on Xillia that were missing for Zestiria. They should've been working on Berseria during that time. The game is probably further ahead than you think.

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

Remember there were a bunch of people working on Xillia that were missing for Zestiria. They should've been working on Berseria during that time. The game is probably further ahead than you think.

Sounds good to me.

 

[Heyt]

Remember there were a bunch of people working on Xillia that were missing for Zestiria. They should've been working on Berseria during that time. The game is probably further ahead than you think.

Well... I don't think so. Baba said there was only one team now and that they were understaffed. That would explain why they had to hand so many contracts and why Berseria is still early into production. It was started as Zestiria was ending. If anything i'd say the 10% number is higher than the real thing.

No parallel developing with just one small team.

 

[Dark_castle]

Please look forward to another Tales of Phantasia remake.

Can I have Tales of Destiny: Director Cut, Tales of Destiny 2 and Tales of Rebirth localized in one awesome HD remaster collection instead? No? Okay.

 

[Soriku]

Well... I don't think so. Baba said there was only one team now and that they were understaffed. That would explain why they had to hand so many contracts and why Berseria is still early into production. It was started as Zestiria was ending. If anything i'd say the 10% number is higher than the real thing.

No parallel developing with just one small team.

I've learned not to take what companies say about teams and percentages too literally. I think we should wait and see.

 

[ULTROS!]

Well... I don't think so. Baba said there was only one team now and that they were understaffed. That would explain why they had to hand so many contracts and why Berseria is still early into production. It was started as Zestiria was ending. If anything i'd say the 10% number is higher than the real thing.

No parallel developing with just one small team.

I kinda missed the time when there was Team Symphonia and Team Destiny. So it's just one team now with a lot cut out from the team, no? Hence all the newer Tales games felt half-assed towards the end.

 

[Heyt]

I've learned not to take what companies say about teams and percentages too literally. I think we should wait and see.

Look at Zestiria's credits. Lots of gruntwork by other companies and it took 3 years. If there was another team working on Berseria it would not be as low as 10% if they were 2 or 1,5 years into development no question.

I agree that time will tell, but for now nothing seems to make sense but the statements Baba made.

 

[R0ckman]

Tales of Destiny remake where Leon just completely hijacks the whole game as the main character. It's getting to that point.

 

[Datschge]

No parallel developing with just one small team.

It's Bandai Namco Studios which has well over 1000 employees. Unlike with the former Tales Studio this means they could easily and quickly form new teams or increase the size of existing teams without even needing to rely on any external companies.

That they didn't for Zestiria and have Baba publicly whine about it is telling enough though.

 

[Eidjinn]

I'm going to subscribe for this thread... because I'm truly expecting Tales of Vesperia on a sony console.

Seriously, even if it's for the pc...I just need this one good news!

 

[Sagitario]

Stop acknowledging Tempest, Bamco!

It's Bandai Namco Studios which has well over 1000 employees. Unlike with the former Tales Studio this means they could easily and quickly form new teams or increase the size of existing teams without even needing to rely on any external companies.

That they didn't for Zestiria and have Baba publicly whine about it is telling enough though.

Now that's interesting! Any more insights?

 

[Ultimadrago]

I'd rather them finally put out a new, good game unlike the last three or four we've got and I had to accept due to stockholm syndrome for the series but y'know.

Wow, I didn't remember posting jn this thread before, but apparently I did!

 

[Trigonometrize.]

My favorite Tales games are Xillia and Zestiria so I hope it's about Beseria and not the old shit I missed.

 

[fates]

Please look forward to another Tales of Phantasia remake.

ToP is one of my favorite games ever, so I'd be OK with that Maybe this time it will actually come out overseas!

 

[Syril]

Tales of Destiny remake where Leon just completely hijacks the whole game as the main character. It's getting to that point.

That totally happened already.

 

[Datschge]

Now that's interesting! Any more insights?

I'm just referring to that quote from this year's Taipei Game Show Heyt keeps mentioning, where Baba stated that there's only one team and only few developers anymore, see e.g. http://www.abyssalchronicles.com/?fn_mode=comments&fn_id=1364

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Tales of Destiny 1/2 remake please.

Preferably 2 since 1 was already remade and is still the best game in the series. 2 has a wonky battle system that somehow aged more poorly than games before it.

I have a love/hate relationship with 2 because Kyle is a terrible protagonist, the character designs are terrible, and the battle system isn't that good but seeing returning Destiny characters, the story, Barbatos, the world and the soundtrack are all really good. Especially the soundtrack. Sakuraba actually sounds like his usual good self in it and not his watered down Tales-y self.

Either way, not holding my breath for a remake of 2. Maybe we'll get an HD remaster of Abyss or something.

 

[Einhander]

The first time I saw Tales of Berseria, and in respect to the pirate ship theme, the first thought that came to mind was "JRPG's answer to Assassin's Creed 4". I think it's a cool direction for the Tales series. I'm interested in learning more info about the game.

 

[10k]

All 3D console tales games being remastered collection. Tales of Tales. Believe.

 

[Einhander]

We need a damn Tales of Rebirth remake, so we might be able to finally play that in English. ( ._.)

 

[Heyt]

It's Bandai Namco Studios which has well over 1000 employees. Unlike with the former Tales Studio this means they could easily and quickly form new teams or increase the size of existing teams without even needing to rely on any external companies.

That they didn't for Zestiria and have Baba publicly whine about it is telling enough though.

Those employees are working on other stuff. It they could not pick internal staff and went with outsourcing for their big 20th anniversay title why would they do that with Berseria? It seems they just built a core team with people that has worked in previous Tales like Hase, Miyata, Udo, Iwamoto, etc for design, directional and conceptual purposes and just outsource all the "grunt work".