MrAngryFace
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You bet it does. Cast is better. World is better, art direction is better, you get flying boats and a poon canon.
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Skies of Arcadia > Tales of Symphonia
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MrAngryFace
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You are right GaimeGuy!
Drinky Crow
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Skies has the Delphinus breakout sequence -- anyone who didn't have SB Yamato flashbacks when nuking Valua's gates is a shitty person and I don't want to know them EVER. Symphonia has, uh
what does Symphonia have
hm
shit
the main dude uses two swords, I guess that's cool
what does Symphonia have
hm
shit
the main dude uses two swords, I guess that's cool
Tritroid
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I think the battle system is a lot more fun in Tales, and there's a lot more variety in them.
Skies is just the same boring random battles over and over with the same boring enemies...but that doesn't include ship battles.
Ship battles were probably the best thing about Skies, and it's better than anything in Tales.
Skies is just the same boring random battles over and over with the same boring enemies...but that doesn't include ship battles.
Ship battles were probably the best thing about Skies, and it's better than anything in Tales.
MrAngryFace
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Your opinion is shitty. Next.
MrAngryFace
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Even that wouldnt add the needed credibility.
MrAngryFace
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Fraid not, I cant comprehend your suck even in my native language.
Drinky Crow
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ToS's ninjas are seriously subpar. On the other hand, Skies's pirates are fucking best in show.
Drinky Crow
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We need Overworks to make a One Piece RPG.
WarPig said:
Actually, you get a pirate costume for the main sword guy somewhere which not only gives him an eyepatch, but it even has a skull and crossbones on said eyepatch. Can't remember how I earned that costume...but yea, ToS did kinda suck.
+1 for Skies of Arcadia.
The game I bought a Dreamcast for at 150 and 1 of only 2 games I ever have on it. But totally worth it. The entire game taking place on floating islands is such a great idea. Even though the battle was pretty mundane, the sense of adventure greatly outweighs it. Very likable main characters. Really nice graphics too for its time. If only there's a sequel - -;.
I'm only 3 hours into TOS though, so maybe it's too early to judge. All I know is once I started SOA, I couldn't put it down until I'm done. Something that hasn't happened for TOS, yet.
The game I bought a Dreamcast for at 150 and 1 of only 2 games I ever have on it. But totally worth it. The entire game taking place on floating islands is such a great idea. Even though the battle was pretty mundane, the sense of adventure greatly outweighs it. Very likable main characters. Really nice graphics too for its time. If only there's a sequel - -;.
I'm only 3 hours into TOS though, so maybe it's too early to judge. All I know is once I started SOA, I couldn't put it down until I'm done. Something that hasn't happened for TOS, yet.
Z
zylo
Unconfirmed Member
story
SOA>TOS
Battle system
SOA<TOS
therefore SOA=TOS for me anyway.
SOA>TOS
Battle system
SOA<TOS
therefore SOA=TOS for me anyway.
The story and characters were great in SOA but the battle system was aweful and boring.
The story and characters were medocre to OK in Tales of Symphonia, but the battle system was intuitive and addictive.
Since you encounter battles much more frequently than the story unfolding or the characters interacting in the story, the battle system wins.
ToS = No random battles
SOA = Suck-ass random battles every 5 seconds
ToS > SOA
The story and characters were medocre to OK in Tales of Symphonia, but the battle system was intuitive and addictive.
Since you encounter battles much more frequently than the story unfolding or the characters interacting in the story, the battle system wins.
ToS = No random battles
SOA = Suck-ass random battles every 5 seconds
ToS > SOA
Drinky Crow said:
I've always been for it. There's an OP RPG-of-sorts for the GBA, but as you can expect, its nothing special. The One Piece universe itself is so huge it truly lends itself to an epic RPG. As far as I can tell, three of the oceans are never even explored. They start off in East Blue and then go to the Grand Line, isn't that right? Anyway, they could make a whole RPG off the Grand Line alone.
I always through an MMORPG would be an even better idea. The character creation system would have to be godly, though. The only problem is managing devil fruits, really. Who gets them? How? Do they make you an uber-character? Should all PCs get them? If so, how do you explain multiple copies of the same fruit?
Anyway, its all pipe dreams.
I still think the battle system in TOS sucks ass. Sure, its an alternative to turn-based, but that doesn't necessarily make it better. You can effectively button mash your way through most of the game, and that's pretty much what I did for 95% of the battles. Its almost too fast for its own good, so fast that its hard to actually strategize with so many characters to consider. Yeah, you can automate them to a degree, but you still run into all sorts of annoying problems with keeping them alive and doing the things you want them to do. When you preplan their strategies, you're never really sure what you're going to run into next, IMO. So the strategy you have planned may not really be effective. Then it gets annoying to change it around every few battles or so.
Neat idea, clumsy-as-hell execution. SoA's battles are far from great, but ToS doesn't really elate me any moreso.
Neat idea, clumsy-as-hell execution. SoA's battles are far from great, but ToS doesn't really elate me any moreso.
eh, the only RPG's battle system that made the game better was Grandia 2 (can't speak for Grandia 1 since I never played it) that battle system is the #1 reason played that game to the end and SOA is still better than it. For me RPG's aren't about how exciting the battle system is but how I can use the battle system to my advantage so that I can further the adventure.
MrAngryFace
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soa's story pacing was incredible.
I agree, skies is the better game. Especially in legends, where some stuff that seems really minor wound up making the combat much faster (like being able to stack element colors on your party and rapidly build up spells). For all the crappy regular battles (which can be ended rather quickly from about 6 hours into the game and onward) it had awesome ship battles, and even some of the boss battles were tough.
It also always had something new to discover in the world, up until the very end of the game. You can argue that the characters are simple and stupid, but so are the characters in TOS, so that's more of a draw.
It also always had something new to discover in the world, up until the very end of the game. You can argue that the characters are simple and stupid, but so are the characters in TOS, so that's more of a draw.