Chances are whoever did the unboxing hasn't played Dawn of the New World.
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Tales of Symphonia Chronicles |OT| 60FPS? I lied. Its actually 30FPS
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Chances are whoever did the unboxing hasn't played Dawn of the New World.
Doesn't matter both are good games.
I'm at the final boss of Vesperia and I've found it to be significantly better than Symphonia. It's more mature, the combat is better, and it doesn't bring up the power of friendship every 5 minutes.
If you plan to eventually play both, play Symphonia first. If you had to choose just one, Vesperia.
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Member
i sold my GC copy for this, and i get lower frame rates and no outline on character details?
if it wasn't for CE, i'd rather turn back the time to prevent selling the game T_T
hope the 30fps wont affect the fight that much cause the gameplay here is 3d in 2d style, not like xillia
if it wasn't for CE, i'd rather turn back the time to prevent selling the game T_T
hope the 30fps wont affect the fight that much cause the gameplay here is 3d in 2d style, not like xillia
It's mindnumbingly mediocre, in all aspects. Characters are irritating, story is terrible, combat isn't great, music is mostly rehash from Symphonia. I made it fifteen hours before giving up.
Does anyone know how limited the EU LE is? I pre-ordered mine two weeks ago on Amazon.fr, then they sold out, a Dutch store got it for less, so I pre-ordered again, but it sold out in a couple of days (again). Because of how fast this seems to be selling out I'm doubting whether or not to keep my Amazon pre-order, I don't want to cancel only to find out the other store didn't get anything.
I also really don't like how us Europeans are getting the vastly inferiour LE again. Differences are getting bigger too, Ni no Kuni and Xillia were just lacking a hardcover (and a coin), this one is missing a steelbook, two discs, artbook and a hardcover. I should be glad bamco is finally releasing their shit here, but instead I'm still feeling ignored
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Still buying it though, because I'm an idiot.
I also really don't like how us Europeans are getting the vastly inferiour LE again. Differences are getting bigger too, Ni no Kuni and Xillia were just lacking a hardcover (and a coin), this one is missing a steelbook, two discs, artbook and a hardcover. I should be glad bamco is finally releasing their shit here, but instead I'm still feeling ignored
.Still buying it though, because I'm an idiot.
Didnt affect the fun in Abyss 3DS so it might be fine tbh.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Well, I'm just going to skip it as originally planned. Hopefully I can finish Vesperia before I get Symphonia, but I'm not getting my hopes up; the Let's Play I was using for translation purposes is currently inaccessible but I'm checking every day to see if I can get to it.
It probably wouldn't matter too much, unless you have a problem going backwards to things that are more basic or graphically inferior. Then I would recommend Symphonia before Vesperia. Otherwise, there's no wrong order to play them in.
Funnily enough, Vesperia looks better than Xillia, so I guess keep that in mind if you do have a problem with that kind of stuff.
I wish they could just stick with the cel-shading, it ages so much better. Xillia already looked a bit outdated by the time it came out in Japan, and even moreso by the time it was localized. The oil painting look is a good idea but I don't think they have the resources to do it justice. I do like the town designs in Xillia however...
Liferebooted
Banned
Damn Amazon, I have 1 day shipping and they just pushed my preorder CE back from the 25th to the 26th. I was ready for release day. =[
Magicpaint
Member
Tales of Symphonia is fantastic and one of the Tales of games I love replaying but man, it's hard to justify this one with 30fps battles. The PS2 port was horrible and I skipped Abyss 3DS for the same reason. I dunno, I feel like this is a missed opportunity - it's nice to have the PS2 content in English but performance should be up to GC standards. Also the game looks kinda weird without the outlines.
Vesperia has better visuals, far better main character and battle system but everything else about Symphonia is superior imo.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
I don't remember my time with Symphonia too well as it was many years ago, but Vesperia's cast is going to be pretty hard to top...
Symphonia has better dungeons and music over Vesperia - how I see it.
2 discs missing? Nope.
US gets 4 actual Audio-CDs with the uncompressed soundtrack (at least it seems to be that way, unless Namco filled 4 discs with MP3s lol)
EU gets 2 MP3-compressed PC-CDs
I guess it's probably the same amount of tracks. But EU gets compressed crap.
Change the shipping speed?
Actually, yeah, change it to 2nd day and see what that comes out to, then back to 1st day if it isn't the 25th. Win-win if 2nd day makes it the 25th though as it usually does for release date delivery eligible products.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Tried to cancel my Club Namco order yesterday. But they shipped it anyway. Guess I'll cancel my Amazon order instead. For some reason I thought this was coming out in April. Totally slipped my mind.
RPGCrazied
Member
My order still says Open, but I can no longer make changes or cancel the order, hoping that means its been charged. I can't check at the moment.
That's the good thing with Amazon, they tend to wait until the last minute and still manage to get your game there in time. But they kind of needed advance shipping on the online store after Ni No Kuni Wizard Edition.
They are actually trying (and failing due to increasing development times) that since 2002 with Tales of Destiny 2 so it actually predates CoD. It just that the West never got the better part of the series (the superior 2D entries) that you may not be aware of that.
The Red Wizard
Member
That unboxing video just reinforced my disdain towards Namco for shafting its EU fans out of the steelbook, artbook and four disc soundtrack. I really don't know why we don't get those included in our CE. Symphonia is one of my favourite games from the GameCube and the 30FPS thing was bad enough but this is just adding insult to injury.
Each new game doesn't promptly obsolete the last so it's fine with me.
At least it's not 75% copy/paste for every game.
Besides the enemies, that is.
True.
That's all in the OP!
RPGCrazied
Member
Another US CE unboxing! This time by Namco themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnNTR1lczF4&feature=youtu.be
Holy hell, look at dat manual. So good. Can't even remember the last game I bought that had one of these.
The CE also gets reversible cover art! Nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnNTR1lczF4&feature=youtu.be
Holy hell, look at dat manual.
So good. Can't even remember the last game I bought that had one of these.The CE also gets reversible cover art! Nice.
Another US CE unboxing! This time by Namco themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnNTR1lczF4&feature=youtu.be
Holy hell, look at dat manual.
The CE also gets reversible cover art! Nice.
Reversible covert art is sweet. ToS is the PS2 art, but where's the DotNW one from?
Can anybody get the track listing from the soundtrack? They show it for a second.
Better than Dark Souls Hollow Lullaby trailer tbh.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
God, I literally cringed after the first line.
Did they recast Lloyd? I don't remember him sounding like an 8-year-old.
Lol did Lloyd have another voice in this trailer?
The "I won't let you get away with anything" line is definitely Scott Menville - and it's from the original game - only the line is spliced from early in the game at the Martel temple, not from that end-game anime cutscene it was placed over. The trailer lines "Where is the chosen" "There she is" and "Your life is mine" are all also spliced from that same scene.
Lloyd was recast in ToS2 though.
RPGCrazied
Member
Lol did Lloyd have another voice in this trailer?
Different voice actors played him from original to sequel. I really wish they could have got the old cast back to do the skits, but I guess it was impossible.
GreatMightySymp
Member
Really hoping Amazon doesn't do another Bravely Default with their shipping for the CE.
Yeah especially since some got to go back and rerecord new lines for the added artes. Wish they could have got the rest of the cast and voiced the skits. I guess I'll just play them with JPN voices, plus it'd be consistent since the Japanese cast stayed the same with both games.
Ugh. :/ I hope not.
RPGCrazied
Member
Hoping the same from Gamestop.com. Last package though was really good. Had bunches of those air floaties in the box so nothing would move. I'm hoping they do that again.
Vane_MagicCity
Banned
I sold my Gamecube copy because I knew this was coming out and the Gamecube version didn't support progressive scan.
So while I can probably deal with 30 FPS, it is still a downgrade and how fuckin pathetic is that. The PS3 can't run a ported Gamecube game or was Namco so lazy that they just ported the inferior PS2 version. I know the answer.
What I want to know is, have there been any graphical improvements that will make this game look better on an HDTV than the Gamecube version would look on the same TV with component cables?
So while I can probably deal with 30 FPS, it is still a downgrade and how fuckin pathetic is that. The PS3 can't run a ported Gamecube game or was Namco so lazy that they just ported the inferior PS2 version. I know the answer.
What I want to know is, have there been any graphical improvements that will make this game look better on an HDTV than the Gamecube version would look on the same TV with component cables?