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Tales of Xillia |OT| - Teach me about Bazongas!
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Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
"The town with the arena where the arena battles don't matter at all in the long run."
"The town with two screens and it's basically nothing of note. The farmer one."
"The one with the pretty sky and the railroad tracks. Whatever they look like railroad tracks."
"That one town with the traders."
Not hard, but when you hit the ports...
"The port that looks like every other port in the game."
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Getting this and Dragon's Crown the same day is torture, I want to play both at the same time.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Is this one supposed to be カラハ・シャール? It seems close to it. Kinda bummed they ended up removing the '・' from everything, though. Ah well.
Shan Du/Jian Du/Xian Du is the same, but it's nice to see that romanized for consistency.
Well, yeah, just wondering if anything notable on the missable or point of no return scale. Don't remember Graces having anything but it's been forever.
So half the towns.
Ever.
I made the decision to pass on Dragon's Crown. And by "made" I mean my original pre-order got cancelled and I forgot to do it again.
Jathaine
Member
Definitely the highlights of the game, that's for certain.
No. If i recall correctly it was khan bark or something like that in JP.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
That makes sense, too. Thanks. I called it Kahn Valk/Balk. カン・バルク
Every Tales game has to have one.
weird, the stock locator for this game suddenly stopped working. It must be getting hammered.
http://www.gamestop.com/browse/storesearch.aspx?sku=271393
it just redirects to the front page
http://www.gamestop.com/browse/storesearch.aspx?sku=271393
it just redirects to the front page
Got a call from home saying there was a delivery. Too bad I won't be able to play till this weekend.
I don't remember tales of graces very well, but I remember my favorite part being that the combo strings had different affinities and then depending on what you were fighting you had to change up your combos to do better damage instead of repeating the same thing over and over. Does this have something similar?
dakkumauji
Member
Dragon Quest fans have had to deal with it since DQ8. You'll be okay!
The ・ isn't necessary in English, because we use spaces.
dakkumauji
Member
In battles? On the field/dungeons? In towns?
Gillian Seed
Banned
This makes no sense at all. How is that even possible?
Xillia 2 does, this doesn't.
That would be strange and horrible. The slowdown was already annoying and too common to begin with.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
What? Really? There was some slowdown in Xillia already, especially if there was too much going on onscreen (which I didn't happily find out with the EX Dungeon). Did you really compare them, or was it really that noticeable?
Yes I did.
I mean, it's not TERRIBLE but it is there and it was noticeable for me between the two versions.
At the same locations? Because as mentioned, it's variable depending on what's going on.
I saw slowdown where I didn't necessarily feel slowdowns before.
GayForMaster
Banned
I ordered the standard and only paid 40 cause of the e3 promotion. What surprised me the most is it came as a limited edition copy! Wtf!
cleveridea
Member
hard to find a copy of the limited edition round here, gamestop had no left apart from preorders this morning, local target and best buy didnt have any, had to drive to a further away target and picked up 1 of their only 2 copies
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Making me want to pick this up on the spur of the moment and compare them myself, you know.
chickdigger802
Banned
toki towa plat go!
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Yes, ma'am. It's about time I got back to that. Palate-cleanser.
I finished that POS last night.
I'm writing impressions for it right now. I'm astounded to see the guy who did work on some good games like Emerald Dragon was the story planner for it.
NO.
Sure, you say that now.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
...you saw that 75% on my trophy list, didn't you.
And then you had to talk me out of playing more Ni no Kuni because you couldn't fathom the fact that I was doing the postgame content despite me disliking the game.
atheistium
Member
I'm with you there but Xillia is great so I hope you give it a go
It's not really her voice that's super bad but more her delivery. I'm not sure if that's the actress specifically or whoever is directing her but there are lots of very odd pauses and weird ways to deliver specific lines. It doesn't feel natural.
I've not played the Japanese original (as I can only understand bits and bobs) so I can't compare but Milla as a character is a bit all over the place when it comes to skits. It could be the translation though...
Milla's voice isn't the worst in comparison to the rest of the cast. Prepare yourself for high pitched anime girls
(Eliza)
(Teepo)
(Jude)
Alvin and Rowen are the most natural and nice sounding characters on the English dub.
The worst thing though is the localisation. I've spotted one or two mistakes already. There are also a few moments where the translation is a bit to literal. Looks good on paper but sounds very strange in conversation.
Though I'm just happy they are bothering to release the Tales of games outside of Japan. I think Namco said Xillia 2 will have dual audio so that should cheer up those who can't stand the English dub.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
So if Xillia is like a gum drop. What flavor would it be?
http://kotaku.com/tales-rpgs-are-like-gumdrops-says-the-guy-who-makes-th-470869380
http://kotaku.com/tales-rpgs-are-like-gumdrops-says-the-guy-who-makes-th-470869380
dakkumauji
Member
I'm with you there but Xillia is great so I hope you give it a go
It's not really her voice that's super bad but more her delivery. I'm not sure if that's the actress specifically or whoever is directing her but there are lots of very odd pauses and weird ways to deliver specific lines. It doesn't feel natural.
That's kinda the point of her character.
I'm with you there but Xillia is great so I hope you give it a go
It's not really her voice that's super bad but more her delivery. I'm not sure if that's the actress specifically or whoever is directing her but there are lots of very odd pauses and weird ways to deliver specific lines. It doesn't feel natural.
I've not played the Japanese original (as I can only understand bits and bobs) so I can't compare but Milla as a character is a bit all over the place when it comes to skits. It could be the translation though...
Milla's voice isn't the worst in comparison to the rest of the cast. Prepare yourself for high pitched anime girls, annoying zany sidekick(Eliza), and slightly whiney men(Teepo).(Jude)Alvin and Rowen are the most natural and nice sounding characters on the English dub.
The worst thing though is the localisation. I've spotted one or two mistakes already. There are also a few moments where the translation is a bit to literal. Looks good on paper but sounds very strange in conversation.
Though I'm just happy they are bothering to release the Tales of games outside of Japan. I think Namco said Xillia 2 will have dual audio so that should cheer up those who can't stand the English dub.
I was very happy with the English dub for the main cast except for Milla. And Xillia 2 will not have dual-audio. Not sure where you heard that from.
I guess that means the Tales game after Xillia 2 will also be on PS3.
You know...I recently played through White Knight Chronicles, so I guess I'm not really any better.
WickedLaharl
Member
It sounds like millia has a lisp lol.
Alboreo
Member
I'm having the same issue. I can't decide which I want to start first. D:
Just got mine in mail, will play in a few hours and post some impressions later. Among Tales games I've played I rank:
Great: Vesperia, Abyss, Symphonia
Decent: Legendia (the characters grew on me, but worst combat ever, plus dat OST)
Meh: Graces, Innocence
Played bits of older ones and I need to get to them again, but usually am not too motivated.
Great: Vesperia, Abyss, Symphonia
Decent: Legendia (the characters grew on me, but worst combat ever, plus dat OST)
Meh: Graces, Innocence
Played bits of older ones and I need to get to them again, but usually am not too motivated.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Gumdrops are now PS3-exclusive.
Which one's the gumdrop that tastes ok, but not that great? That's the one Xillia is.
...did you play it before it was taken offline to get the platinum? Because that would be worse.