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In terms of game sales, it's about half and half with a lean toward males while women make up much of the extra merchandising. Very big among female artists, too.
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Tales of Berseria - New setting details & screenshots
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In terms of game sales, it's about half and half with a lean toward males while women make up much of the extra merchandising. Very big among female artists, too.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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I was going to skip this one, but the environments are looking good. I'll have to see more...
But aren't all the names gibberish. Whats a Symphonia or an Xillia?
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Every once in a while they go with a regular name like Rebirth or Abyss, and Hearts was even directly relevant to the plot for once!
Seven Force
Banned
Not really liking what I'm reading about the combat, to be honest. Considering that's the only thing that even keeps me attached to the franchise these days, this might be where I check out of the series for good.
I always thought that Symphonia would have been a far more fitting name for Abyss, given how melodies and sound play a big part in the lore of Abyss' world.
I always thought that Symphonia would have been a far more fitting name for Abyss, given how melodies and sound play a big part in the lore of Abyss' world.
Sure, but at least they sounded cool(ish).
Looks and sounds like Tales alright. Always fun to see some people get up in arms about predictable stuff like this. =D
A couple of the selective screenshots in the article look pretty good for Tales.
A couple of the selective screenshots in the article look pretty good for Tales.
Oxymoron evolves into an absolute oxymoron.
What team? The pieces he did for Tales so far he always had to do alone. No single musician unlike what he gets to use on his work for other games or the army that always accompanies wherever Shiina goes (only exceptions so far are the Abyss *anime* with live strings and obviously last year's live concert with his band).
Looks great, i like Velvet. Not a fan of the little boy though, but i guess there is always one kid in JRPGs...
I'm really looking forward to the battle system. Freerun and mapping the arts to the 4 face buttons sounds like a great change.
It's time for another Tales game of Vesperia's quality Bamco!
I'm really looking forward to the battle system. Freerun and mapping the arts to the 4 face buttons sounds like a great change.
It's time for another Tales game of Vesperia's quality Bamco!
Dangansona
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Basically everything has gone downhill since Vesperia, and that pisses me off because that game was so good. I'm dissapointed to see the character models are still lame looking in this game.
I'm not really understanding what sounds bad or even "pretty bad" about these combat details? It sounds like Graces/Zestiria but with some more flexibility with the button mapping and camera controls. That's of course ignoring whatever new subsystems they have in place.
Free run sucks. Free camera sounds bad for multiplayer.
Werewolf Jones
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Someone needs to put some money into the backing for these games then. Otherwise RIP Tales series.
I always preferred the mobility of Free Run so I disagree. It doesn't suck at all.
Also for multiplayer they might allow you to set your own viewpoint instead of choosing preset ones. We don't know yet. And anyway a shoddy multiplayer camera wouldn't make the combat suck.
Tales isn't going anywhere.
This game sounds a meijin to me
Will keep and eye on it but I feel that something feels off this time... some of those environments look really nice but that shot of the coast city or whatever looks really blandish...
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Xillia name is kind of messy but basically they said that it's derived from million and billion, Baba wanted the title to have something like a big number in it and started with "Xillion" which eventually was changed to Xillia, most likely for the cool factor. lol
The big number things refers to the fact that within a person's life there are many events and encounters with people which I still don't totally get what does that has to do with the events in the game and it kind of only makes sense in the sequel since
I assume that Symphonia refers to the harmony between
the 2 worlds
Xillia name is kind of messy but basically they said that it's derived from million and billion, Baba wanted the title to have something like a big number in it and started with "Xillion" which eventually was changed to Xillia, most likely for the cool factor. lol
The big number things refers to the fact that within a person's life there are many events and encounters with people which I still don't totally get what does that has to do with the events in the game and it kind of only makes sense in the sequel since
they explore a variety of alternate universes
John Kowalski
Banned
Her hair is really long.
I would love to buy those DLC costumes BUT I do remember that most of the time they also change the battle music which was good while playing Jude side in Xillia since his battle music annoyed me but bad while doing the Milla side because her battle themes are some of the best battle themes in the series.
Ch.
The reason I like Tales combat is because LMBS is somehow similar to traditional fighting games, free running in, let's say Tekken, would feel just wrong. It's also why 2D Tales games were the best. Now it will feel more like 3D beat em all games or something, so that sounds bad to me.
he is kawaiiiiiii
Emil, is that you?
Dark_castle
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All I really wanted from Namco Bandai is just the English version of Destiny: Director Cut, Destiny 2, Rebirth, Hearts (DS), and Vesperia (PS3).
Pyros_Eien
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Probably won't bother using the kid in my party, just hope he's not so important for the main story that I have to use him too often.
Otherwise liking the other screenshots, looks pretty good, and love Velvet already.
Otherwise liking the other screenshots, looks pretty good, and love Velvet already.
Seven Force
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Didn't say it was bad, just that I personally didn't like what I've read about it.
He's the second most important character.
I just hope this game does not depend on Zestiria story wise
You can always turn off the costume music
I'm actually surprised she's 19 to be honest, Tales main characters tend to be lower on the teenage scale.
Just as Alisha was the second most important character? Let's not get ahead of ourselves. ;o)
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Eh, this should've came out when that other info hit IMO. I want to know about the other playable characters at this point.
Cornbread78
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It's a Tales game, so I will buy day 1 regardless. They are always fun to play and the skits are always entertaining. I'm glad I can enjoy games without nit-picking them to death.
gundamkyoukai
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Hope the new battle system is interesting .
The gfx for everything just look so plain they really need to update there tech .
The gfx for everything just look so plain they really need to update there tech .
zerokoolpsx
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Nero, is that you??
This area is nice.
Swear I've been through this dungeon several dozen times and back again.
pauloshinobi
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Shinji Tamura worked with him at least on the original Tales of Phantasia (Fighting of the Spirit is his composition)
You can? Because in Xillia and Xillia 2 you definitely can't and I didn't see the option in Zestiria.
Pyros_Eien
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Even assuming he is, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll be forced to be played, is what I hope.
For example in Xillia, Milla and Jude are the 2 most important chars, and whichever you play, the other is the second most important. But ultimately, you rarely have to have both in your party at a time(other than the start of the game obviously) and you can mostly ignore the other, which I did for Jude.
Jude was just another character in my game, he was barely anymore important than old guy or Elise or whoever else, other than their specific character arc sidestory stuff.
The series hasn't had good multiplayer since.... well....
Hell, I don't think even Symphonia had good multiplayer.
Yeah you can, at least in Zestiria. Go to the costume in attachements, and there should be an option to check and uncheck the music note attached to the costume.
'kay
Thank god, I lowkey hated that I never used the School outfit for Jude in Milla story because if you have any character in a DLC costume, even if you don't play as him, the battle theme will still change.
Graces isn't that old.
Symphonia GC has a broken camera, Xillia has mechanics preventing coop, and Zestiria has both. But any of the other games were fine, really.
She's the Lord of Calamity.
I switched to free run default as soon as possible in Zestiria and never looked back.
And I had a lot of fun with the battle system in that.
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