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Winter Anime 2017 |OT| John Wick cleaning up KyoAni's mess
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Celcius
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Sounds like I was right to skip the game and watch the anime instead.
I did the same thing for Persona 4, although that was mainly due to time.
Say what you want about Zestiria (as a Tales fan I even skipped it myself), but you sir have gone too far!
Have you never played Tales of Vesperia? Symphonia? Xillia 1 & 2? Berseria isn't out yet (in the west) but is supposed to be amazing as well.
nintendoman58
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I have lots of fun with the combat of Tales games but if you play the games for their stories you're going to be veeeerrry dissapointed.
I still laugh at everybody who plays Tales of Graces (my favourite by the way) and watch them have a mental breakdown watching Asbel's stupidity.
I still laugh at everybody who plays Tales of Graces (my favourite by the way) and watch them have a mental breakdown watching Asbel's stupidity.
I just dropped the game after 6 hours. Insufferable.
SliceSabre
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Well she seems kinda cool here...
At the very least I'm more engrossed with this than the game which I only played for like 30 minutes and said fuck this.
Dedication Through Light
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Graces F is the best Tales game and one I finally enjoyed more than Eternia (best before Graces F).
Asbel is the best tales protag (sorry Sorey).And his Richard!
GoldCrusader
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Well I do enjoy most of the Tales games story, but the main selling point for me was always the characters and Zestiria has my favourite cast of any Tales games.
nintendoman58
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Graces or Zestiria?
If the former, please play that crap through to the end so I can laugh at your reactions watching the ending. Just do it. Please. I'll even change my avatar to something promoting Terra Battle or whatever if you do.
If the latter, then yeah I'm right with you there.
hosannainexcelsis
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So you don't like Tales. Do you want to watch ufotable's photography team go really overboard with the application of digital effects? If so, then you might still get some enjoyment out of the anime.
Graces. I'm not sure I can sit through the rest of it. I even remember spending like 5 bucks on PSN to buy Asbel the Haseo costume from .hack//GU just so the cutscenes would actually make me laugh instead of burying my face into my palms crying.
After that I never bought another Tales game.
Celcius
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Actually, I also hated Graces f. At one point I disliked the game so much I ejected the disk, took it to my nearest Gamestop, and took whatever they gave me for it haha.
You should really give Vesperia or Symphonia a try. If Graces f and Zestiria were your entry points to the series then no wonder you dislike it!
I promised Mr Jeff I never would.
nintendoman58
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I won't lie and say there are Tales characters I don't enjoy. Malik, Yuri, Estelle, Rita, Jade, Pascal, etc.
The stories however just boil down to being junk food and the meat of the game just comes more from the combat system and character interactions.
SliceSabre
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Graces F's story and characters are in fact insufferable power of friendship trash, the only thing it is redeemed by is having the second best battle system in the games after Abyss.
Errr... what? I've been playing Tales since Tales of Phantasia on the SFC.
I own the Japanese ToS, the OST, and the single! I played ToV on the 360.
GoldCrusader
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And it has the best mystic artes.
LoH is actually more closer to Nepnep than Tales of since it has literally Neptunia characters running into the game, if you think about that.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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Really I just remove the existence of Tales games after Versperia, we won't ever get a better cast from the franchise (FUCK CAROL. that kid doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned).
nintendoman58
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I really can't blame you for dropping the game because of the story but MAN are you guys missing out on some fun combat.
Despite what you think of the story's many many many many many many many flaws, I still believe the combat is fun enough to carry one through the game. Having combat come down to managing combos rather than MP made things fast, fluid, and easy to chain attacks together.
I love loading up a boss fight and just wailing on it with Mystic Artes.
I couldn't freaking stand Abyss's FOF crap playing it on the 3DS. Good luck hitting the enemy when the circle is a mile away from it!
More like the best Mystic Arte system. They're essentially the Hyper Combos from Marvel V.S. Capcom.
I honestly never got the hatred for Carol. I mean, as far as kid characters go in JRPGs and anime, he's not...insufferable!
I'll take him over Eureka's kids.
GoldCrusader
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One day I do hope I'll be able to play Vesperia. I want to play has Flynn, he always looked so good and cool.
nintendoman58
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Ahahahahahahahahaha.
SliceSabre
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I played it on the PS2 when it first came out I thought about getting it on 3DS but heard bad things.
Try Star Ocean.
GoldCrusader
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Don't laugh at my misery!!!
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Kratos is the best Tales character of all time! I get turned on every time I hear his english voice.
nintendoman58
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There's a part in the game where you're going through this big canyon/desert or whatever and it lags the ENTIRE time on the 3DS.
It was almost unplayable.
I said series, not buried corpse.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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So the SaGa franchise....*Runs away in search of Shin Gozilla artbook to appease the Duck*
SliceSabre
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Wow rude have some respect for the dead.
Glad I didn't touch it, I don't want my memories of the game tainted.
nintendoman58
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I'm laughing at the fact that you want to play as Flynn.
Flynn is only (fully) playable in the PS3 version. I'm pretty sure every Tales fan is aware of that bygone fiasco and at this point have accepted it never getting localized. If you want him as a playable character, you gotta get that version.
The fan translation is done, so if you're willing to mod your PS3 (I'm not) you could go through that. Otherwise play the entire game in Japanese and read a let's play on another forum to understand the plot and characters.
That's what I did. In fact I think I still need to do the final dungeon.
Only thing I like is the music.
I played Abyss to completion on the 3DS. Everything sucked arse except Jade.
Cornbread78
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You're in luck then; Berseria is said to be better than both. Time to buy it next week. If nojody rlse does, I'll put a thread tofether for the demo that goes live tomorrow.
GoldCrusader
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Better then Vesperia even, if we base ourselves from the import thread. Last time I checked there anyway.
ThatChairMan
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Since we're on the subject of Tales: are the Symphonia or Abyss anime worth watching, or should I just play the games instead?
The Symphonia OVAs are the best things ufotable did.
Cornbread78
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Fairy Tale ep.74
Well, this was a straight comedy episode with Wendy getting the focus, as well as Freed fof his first job as a "good guy" paired up with Wendy. Pretty fun stuff, but I'm still waiting for the next arc to actually start, lol
I only watched Abyss and I think I dropped it around episode 16 or so.
Tales of stories are not good enough to sit and watch a 26 episodes anime of them, and I even like Abyss and its stupid technobabble. They are generally very
fun
Cornbread78
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As is often mentioned, Vesperia is only "good" because it featured a yuri relationship and it was an Xbox exclusive in the West. Outside if that, it's about the same as every other entry. Go ahead, fight me nerds.
I'm a nerd too, lol
It looks beautiful and the story makes a lot more sense in it's new form. Plus they are giving screen time to the character that disappeared in the game and caused Japanese fans to revolt
Just starting this now. It's adorable. 😢Show was really good.
Now watch another cute one in Sweetness and Lightning.
Trojita
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Wait, did you watch Barakamon?
Cornbread78
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GoldCrusader
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Barakamon was added to crunchyroll not long ago if my memory serves me right. So he would be ok!
PshycoNinja
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Tales of Xillia is pretty good. Ignore the fact that it feels like it was going to end a half a dozen times. Still pretty fun all in all.
Sweetness and Lightning is fantastic. Didn't think I would like it as much as I did end up.
Barakamon is a treasure too!
Oh absolutely.
I just rewatched the first season, minus the filler - so I didn't need the flashbacks, and found them annoying. But I can also see how they'd be helpful to someone who (a) watched the filler or (b) hadn't watched in a long time.
I have not, no.
I have Crunchy, Hulu, and Netflix.
I'm trying to avoid adding a fourth if I can get away with it (Funimation) but they have some annoying exclusives that I want to watch...
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