Red Mage
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Jade was awesome. Guy is kind of funny until
you see his past
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Tales of Series | Community Thread | Localizing more games than Square Enix
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Jade was awesome. Guy is kind of funny until
Nocturnowl
Member
Do it Meccanical, do it for me.
This totally isn't because I want to see you broken down once more by one of the worst casts I have had the displeasure of spending 20 plus hours with before I threw in the towel.
This is how I felt about it when I started the game in high school. I called it "Tales of the Assholes" and only bothered muddling through it because it was a multiplayer RPG to play with my brother and cousin and the three of us had enjoyed Symphonia.
But then shit hits the fan, people lose their patience, and after all that it finally gets better. It helped that the FoF system incidentally was a great system for multiplayer.
Red Mage
Member
I see you've never played Xenosaga, FFXIII, or Legendia. = x
Meccanical
Member
I think Abyss is better because at least I liked some of the characters briefly before they shit the bed with their antics.
In FFXIII I never liked anyone at any time. I skipped all cutscenes in Xenosaga because I didn't care about anything except giant robots.
Nah, people warned me going in. It'd be like being turned off from FF if I only played the worst of the series.
I will ask up front, though, for when I finish Abyss: What is the best Tales of Game I could get for a hand held console? So that when I finish Tales I can look at the best of the series.
I'd say Tales of Eternia. But if you don't like Abyss, you'll know that you don't have to consider my opinion.
In English? Tales of Eternia, but UK only for the PSP version.
There aren't that many English Tales for handheld.
Well it's the only suggestion that's been made so far, so I'll give it a looksy.
Red Mage
Member
Best overall, go for Tales of Symphonia. = x
I think I actually might still own a copy of Symphonia for the GC, but GC games run the same problem as all console games: I only have like, 3 months a year to play them.
Meccanical
Member
I guess best overall would be Symphonia...I don't remember anything particularly bad about it.
After that I guess it would be Vespiria.
After that I guess it would be Vespiria.
BassForever
Member
Abyss character list best to worst
Anise
Jade
Ion
Guy
Tear
Luke
Mieu
Natalia
Anise
Jade
Ion
Guy
Tear
Luke
Mieu
Natalia
Your current thoughts are pretty typical, even amongst those who like the game. I don't think you have anything to worry about.
Man. I disagree with this so much.
Meccanical
Member
Should be a list from worst to needs to die immediately.
Being more serious, it's been too long since I've played Abyss to really rank them in order with any specificity. From my memory, it goes something like this:
Characters I generally liked
Guy
Natalia
Jade
Characters I generally disliked
Luke
Anise
Mieu
Indifferent
Tear
Ion
But again...it's been a long time.
Characters I generally liked
Guy
Natalia
Jade
Characters I generally disliked
Luke
Anise
Mieu
Indifferent
Tear
Ion
But again...it's been a long time.
dakkumauji
Member
Guy
Natalia
Tear
Ion
Jade
That couple for the sidequest where you run around the world for
Asch
Some other members of the god generals
Uh, I guess Mieu?
Luke
Anise
Natalia
Tear
Ion
Jade
That couple for the sidequest where you run around the world for
Asch
Some other members of the god generals
Uh, I guess Mieu?
Luke
Anise
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Is the free iOS version of Phantasia better than the GBA one? I had a hard time liking that version...
BassForever
Member
No, it's faster and has a better translation, but it plays like crap and is made harder to make you try and buy IAP
Makoto Yuki
Banned
That's a shame, guess I should stop downloading it. What is the best version of Phantasia though?
BassForever
Member
With an actual English release? Fan translated PSX version
Among all versions, Phantasia Cross for the PSP
Makoto Yuki
Banned
I tried to like it on GBA, It was the first version I tried, but it was super slow. Got really impatient with the battles.
BassForever
Member
Xillia has by far the best simply because kills count for both characters in a link combo so everyone's weapons are beastly the moment you get them unlike in Symphonia where outside of the character you play (probably Lloyd) most characters weapons start off inferior to their ultimate weapons.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
People play characters other than Lloyd?
My bro's Genis put my Lloyd to shame at times.Edit: For those Lloyd players, where you a T guy? or an S dude? I was an S dude, I actually did not know how to change from one to the other till my little brother showed me. Sonic Sword Rain all day every day.
People play characters other than Lloyd?
Lloyd is very rarely the best option for a controlled character.
Makes me wonder what percentage of Tales players just stick with the main character for the entire game?Probably very high, except in Abyss. Everyone seems to use Guy.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Lloyd is very rarely the best option for a controlled character.
Probably very high, except in Abyss. Everyone seems to use Guy.
That's fascinating. All my buddies and I used Lloyd almost exclusively. We forgot you can use other characters, till someone decided to pick up another GC controller.
Started playing Vesperia today. I'm not very far at all. I just got out of the initial castle, so these are most of these are the earliest of early impressions, but I really like it so far. Yuri is a really cool main character. He's a ton of fun. It's really nice to see a decent male lead, given the only leads I've seen so far are the boring Jude and the absolutely horrendous Asbel. While I don't like the art style quite as much as Xillia, it's a neat middle ground between the darker, serious style of that game and the super light and colorful Graces art.
On the negative end, the game definitely is showing its age a bit. The areas feel really small and confined. It's probably not as confined feeling as Graces, but its a far cry from how big a lot of Xillia locations feel. Also, I think most of the fonts in the game look dated and kind of ugly. So far, the battle system feels slow and disjointed, but I imagine that's mostly because it's so early on and it'll speed up once the game gets going.
One last thing, does the game really not have an AC equivalent? How do you expand your basic chains? That was one of the biggest surprises seeing the battle system for the first time.
On the negative end, the game definitely is showing its age a bit. The areas feel really small and confined. It's probably not as confined feeling as Graces, but its a far cry from how big a lot of Xillia locations feel. Also, I think most of the fonts in the game look dated and kind of ugly. So far, the battle system feels slow and disjointed, but I imagine that's mostly because it's so early on and it'll speed up once the game gets going.
One last thing, does the game really not have an AC equivalent? How do you expand your basic chains? That was one of the biggest surprises seeing the battle system for the first time.
dakkumauji
Member
I believe there are some skills that allow you to increase your basic combo and there are some skills that lets you go from an arcane arte to a base or whatever but that's about it.
Vesperia still has the old attacking formula of basic moves -> base arte -> arcane arte.
Xillia 2? Even that I don't think is that futuristic though.
It's called Star Ocean and it's dead.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
It's not dead,
It's all a video game, according Star Ocean: Till the end of Time - but yeah that series is probably dead
People play characters other than Lloyd?
Edit: For those Lloyd players, where you a T guy? or an S dude? I was an S dude, I actually did not know how to change from one to the other till my little brother showed me. Sonic Sword Rain all day every day.
Hybrid all the way. Though mostly T especially if playing on the PS2 version where you can't use that glitch to have artes from both sides.
I always try all the characters out in any Tales game, though I usually stick with the main character.
R_thanatos
Member
You'll be fine then.
But luke is abnormal , even by jrpgs protagonist standards. You'll see why.
Tales of is a series that is best experienced on Home consoles !! all the best handheld gmaes aren't translated ( another reason why i learned the language )
I like them all. This might seem funny , but even when some character did some pretty questionnable things , their reasons made sense so it didn't bother me that much
And good riddance!
I hate SO3 with a passion. Star Ocean may be like a cousin to Tales, but it's the cousin that smoked too much meth and snorted too much cocaine.
I disagree. But it really is a shame we got so few of the handheld games in English, so we don't have many options. 4 out of 21....is what I counted.
Meccanical
Member
But what if they made another SO2?
I liked SO2 a lot.
They were never gonna make another SO2
Lost the second disc?