Arise was released 4 years ago and announced 6 years ago.Probably another remake/remaster of an older title. Seems a bit too early for a completely new Tales game. Fans want an Abyss remaster/remake.
Probably another remake/remaster of an older title. Seems a bit too early for a completely new Tales game. Fans want an Abyss remaster/remake.
Arise was released 4 years ago and announced 6 years ago.
I am aware. It's just that with Arise, I thought that Tales games are now "big projects" inside Bamco, taking their time. But it would be cool if they had a new mainline title ready.The last new Tales game came out 4 years ago. Announcement now with a release at the end of the year, or next year, seems fine to me.
Yep, it's about time.The last new Tales game came out 4 years ago. Announcement now with a release at the end of the year, or next year, seems fine to me.
They still haven't made as good a cast or combat system as Graces F. I hope they're focused on doing something special with this next one.but...let me tell yall about Tales of Graces F. ELITE!
I loved arise but they screwed up in two areas that need addressed in the next game.
1: Bosses: Arises bosses were damage sponges that you couldn't break at all and it made them feel insanely OP compared to the rest of the enemies u faced which made for a frustrating time. Not being able to break them until half there healthbar was gone felt like a mistake.
Can't be worse than Arise I guess
Okay yes, it can be much worseSure it can, they just have to follow FFXVI's lead. Take away control of all party members, remove parties entirely, remove all RPG systems, leave in all the MMO fetch quests and bad story.
There it's worse.
It's about time.
Hopefully it's good. Arise was a bit underwhelming, I enjoyed the combat and visuals but the story and pacing were pretty bad.
Yeah the bosses sucked because they went against the core mechanics of the combat system.
The game focuses on spongy enemies because the idea was to build up combos and insta kill them with boost strikes. But you can't do that with bosses, and you couldn't even perform long combos on them because you could't break their stance. So it just feels like hitting a wall for 15 minutes.
I loved arise but they screwed up in two areas that need addressed in the next game.
1: Bosses: Arises bosses were damage sponges that you couldn't break at all and it made them feel insanely OP compared to the rest of the enemies u faced which made for a frustrating time. Not being able to break them until half there healthbar was gone felt like a mistake.
2: Fix the pacing issues with the next story. In arise i felt like the back half of the story got sped up wayyyy too much and things that needed explained more or needed more context fell by the wayside. An example of this is vholran. He literally has little to no backstory like 90% of the game and then bam here's some backstory that's a mess.
Dude, I'm day 0 on this shit. I did not love Takes of Arise and felt it was missing some of the charm and pacing I was looking for....but...
but...let me tell yall about Tales of Graces F. ELITE! If you like Suikoden II remake, you fucking up by not having at least a look. If you lost your love for JRPG and don't remember why you love them, Tales of Graces F is the game for you.
Vesperia, Symphonia, Abyss. All legends mate. Pure legends.
I had a bunch of other issues:
1) Removing AI combat direction. This was a big one. In past games, you could direct your party members to attack different targets from you, for instance. Not in Arise, and my teammates were constantly interrupting my combos.
2) No individual sound sliders. Pretty boggling for such a major release. There were no separate sliders for music, SFX, and voices. Just one generic volume slider. Compounded onto this was the music was mixed to be very quiet compared to the rest of the game's sound. Arise has one of Sakuraba's better OSTs but it's so quiet most of the time.
3) Tossing out the hand drawn portraits for skits. The anime style drawings lent so much more personality to skits than awkwardly forcing the in-game models into the comic book style used in Arise. Also doesn't help that a lot of the skits kinda sucked.
Ironically regarding your second point, I felt the game slowed to a crawl (how many hours of exposition in a row were there near the end?) while simultaneously giving very little of value. Tales games usually have shit villains though and the latest entries usually shit the bed by the end, so this isn't out of character anyway, except for how much exposition there is. God.
Imagine if they can use generative AI to produce infinite skits.
That's literally the only part I remember from that game lolWho needs AI when the actual skit writers put out bangers like this.
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I want that more than a new game, actually.Fans want an Abyss remaster/remake.
Probably another remake/remaster of an older title. Seems a bit too early for a completely new Tales game. Fans want an Abyss remaster/remake.
I have a love hate relationship with Abyss. I do fucking hate Luke during the first parts of the game. But I also know that he's deliberately written like that, and it makes for a better payoff. But damn, it is quite annoying to play through the first parts of the game...I want a Abyss sequel
Abyss is still my favorite Tales
By the main stream? Agreed. By the fans who've been following the series for decades now? Doubt it.Tales in a post-Expo33 world is going to be judged very harshly.
Baba fucked it up, just so he could get with the voice actress.
As far as I know, Bamco basically set up Alisha as the main heroine of Zestiria in the marketing and PR. In the release version of the game, she's not really present. Even not in the party for most of it. Instead, another female party member, Rose, was quite prominent. She even got her own DLC. And it turned out that the reason for this is that Baba ordered to rewrite the story and cut the game in a way such that Rose had much more screen time because he wanted to get with Rose's voice actress. And it didn't help that the accompanying mobile game at the time directly called Alisha the main heroine of Zestiria. Baba, of course, tried to smooth things over by saying that Zestiria was advertised in a wrong way etc. but people in Japan were fucking furious. It also didn't help that Baba was inconsistent with his reasonings in different interviews about the whole situation. It ended with him and the voice actress of Rose standing on a stage and publicly apologizing.What's the story behind that?
you do not have to play them in order .On one hand, it's about time, but on the other hand... I still have three games to complete. Zestiria, Berseria, and Arise.