texhnolyze
Banned
Ah, I see. You're right, it's showing the discount on my phone.
Maybe it's indeed exclusive to Zestiria and/or Symphonia owners.
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Tales of Berseria launches on January 24
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Ah, I see. You're right, it's showing the discount on my phone.
Maybe it's indeed exclusive to Zestiria and/or Symphonia owners.
The unanimous verdict seems to be the best Tales game in almost a decade. Since Tales has largely coasted during that time, it may not seem like a huge praise, but it is a genuinely good game compared to Zestiria which was too flawed IMO to recommend.
Don't tell me that! I loved Vesperia. Graces is okay but I never went too far in it. I didn't play a lot of Xilia.
Basically the exact quote I was looking for. If this ends up Day 1 (or close) on PC as well, I'll be a pretty damn pleased.
Wait what? You mean a Vesperia port or what? Because Berseria is launching the same day on PC as PS4.
No. Its a prequel. At most there are a few characters you will recognize if you played Zestiria, but they don't intentionally call back to Zestiria at all in a "hey remember this?" sort of way, more like a "ah, its that dude!" sort of way.
Its good cause i'd never recommend zestiria to people.
The Last Wizard
Member
Of course when I decide to skip a tales it ends up being better than the recent output.
In term of art style sure, but the assets themselves are close to Graces F quality which was wii game. And i guess it makes sense going by that distinction
^ Very positive, especially surprising given the crazy rejection of Zestiria. The Japanese fans who played Berseria were very happy. Baba leaving the Tales team's development arm really helped the game i feel.
Xillia 2 was basically a copy paste of Xillia except for the story. If you hated that game you'd hate Xillia 2.
Berseria does a lot of things better than Zestiria objectively, and Xillia and Graces as well.
Xillia 2 was basically a copy paste of Xillia except for the story. If you hated that game you'd hate Xillia 2.
Berseria does a lot of things better than Zestiria objectively, and Xillia and Graces as well.
I liked Xillia and hated Xillia 2's pacing and intro tbh.
Novel Mike
Member
Yep I herd the same from many places not just here and Xillia 2 is the worst game in the entire series as far as I'm concerned, and sadly I didn't stop playing it for 5 hours like you did, I finished it and the bitter aftertaste still hasn't left my mouth. Also I thought the first Xillia game was at least okay, the second game is just so awful in so many ways.
So yeah, Berseria might end up being great but I won't believe any of the hype for a Tales game ever again.
GoldCrusader
Member
Man all these people being scared of Berseria's quality, I can't remember the last time I was disappointed in a tales game. They always met up with my usually huge hype.
BRING ME BERSERIA, I NEED IT!
BRING ME BERSERIA, I NEED IT!
well the story and writing can make a difference too as i said
But its good that berseria had a great story that is not bland and annoying like Zestiria, nor overcomplicated, generally disconnected from the plot of the original and generally full of holes like Xillia 2.Weird, I never heard anything that good about Xillia 1 or 2, both were majorly lacking. Same with Zestiria. Usually, people pre-hype a Tales release but once it finally releases in Japan people acknowledge that the game kinda sucks. However, the importers this time make it sound like Beseria is going to be good for once.
well the story and writing can make a difference too as i said
Well lets hope for no Denuvo then so I can buy it and support the games on day 1. (though if God Eater is anything to go buy that won't happen)
Crimsonsky
Member
Maybe, but the CE sold out quick everywhere. I didn't even get one and I've gotten one from every other Tales release.
MilkyOctave
Member
Details about preorder bonus:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/429660/announcements/detail/702956339911803498
A demo, huh? Maybe it's the same as Japan got?
http://steamcommunity.com/games/429660/announcements/detail/702956339911803498
A demo, huh? Maybe it's the same as Japan got?
Robobandit
Member
They changed the cutscene... wasn't expecting them to do that.. guessing it was done for ESRB reasons.. small spoiler for the first hour or so of the game
In the JP version, Laphicet got run through w/ the sword
I wasn't aware of the same day PC/PS4 launch before posting that, my bad. Really excellent news!
Persona 5 gonna launch only in april
But I agree that GR 2 and Berseria gonna have poor sales
Has the PS4 demo also been confirmed? Wouldn't make sense for it not to be.
Yes, demo is confirmed for both platforms.
Paltheos
Member
*obligatory reminder post to everyone else that some people love Zestiria*
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Have yet to play a good Tales games.
*haven't played Vesperia.
*haven't played Vesperia.
adversarial
Member
Day 1. I bought a PS4 at the perfect time. Giddy like a kid again with all of these upcoming games.
Rapscallion
Member
This is a perfect "wait for it to be cheap" game. The first quarter of 2017 is crazy, this game can wait.
Try either Vesperia or Abyss, if you don't like that then the series probably isn't for you
But Vesperia has great characters. Abyss has nothing.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
finally some decent english footage. Cristina vee is so great
God damn that opening footage. Im super hyped now
God damn that opening footage. Im super hyped now
Don't want to turn it into a FF thread lol but a lot of people like the story and characters in Abyss
Yuri, Estelle and Flynn all annoy me personally
thestopsign
Member
I really enjoyed Zestiria so if this is a substantial improvement on that game, then I'll be there Day 1. Gonna finish up Trails in the Sky SC and some other Steam games in the mean time hopefully.
Good catch. It's also quite a bit longer with that change, and
Velvet running and actually managing to catch him seems more realistically doable this time, the long time on the stick seemed painfully exaggerated in the original
On the fence this time around. I used to love the tales series but Xillia, Zestiria and to a lesser degree graces f has soured me on the series greatly. It looks to me that while Berseria improves on a lot of things it's still cut from the same cloth as Xillia and Zestiria. Jap import threads generally tend to be a lot more positive as well so I don't trust any of you who has played it!
But Velvet is still Velvet just as he promised.
=P
The Western side likely pushed for the change when they noticed that one scene as is would make the game rated adult only in some markets while the release is intended for all markets at once (sans Japan). Starting a shitstorm due to that is just inane.
BakedTanooki
Member
Hm? A cutscene is censored in the west version?
What exactly?
Edit: Just found the thread about it.
What exactly?
Edit: Just found the thread about it.
Do you trust Japanese peole's reviews? Because almost all of them were positive too. Or maybe you just can't trust anyone
Chaos2Frozen
Member
I've never skipped a modern Tales game since Vesperia and I don't intent to. However I'm going to hold back from buying this game at release due to its close proximity to Nioh, which would be out in like 2 weeks later...there's no way I could complete it before then. And then Persona 5 after that.
Glad to hear that it's doing well though.
Glad to hear that it's doing well though.
