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#1 Candy

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Posted 11 January 2017 - 08:10 AM

if there's already a Tales thread I can't find it so it must be very old and outdated.

 

Anyway, I finished Vesperia the other night (literally the first console game I have finished in 3 years) and I liked it but as usual the story left much to be desired, it was kind of silly and hard to follow and left a lot of things out e.g. the relationship between Judith and Ba'ul and what he saved her from unless that was mentioned in skits (I skip most of them, I don't have time for that omg) or in some sort of side quest, and by the end of the game I actually forgot everything that happened in the beginning and how we even got to that point.

 

Also,

 

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come on kids, I need some explanations here and the game ain't gonna give them to me.

 

I've still got a few Tales games which I own and am yet to play - ToS Chronicles (I played both ToS and DOtNW separately), Graces f, Xiliia 1+2 and Eternia. I think I'll play Graces f next.

 

yep, Tales stuff.



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Posted 12 January 2017 - 09:51 PM

Yeah that's standard tales fare, though people fucking love Vesperia. 

 

What I wanna play is Destiny DC but the ps2 emulator keeps crashing T_T


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Posted 12 January 2017 - 10:03 PM

My experience in the Tales games is mostly the older ones.  Symphonia, Dawn of the New World, Phantasia, and Vesperia.

 

Also, this:

 


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Posted 14 January 2017 - 09:06 PM

Regal is bae


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Posted 15 January 2017 - 11:15 AM

Yeah I'd do weird stuff with Regal if I had to.
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Posted 15 January 2017 - 09:06 PM

if there's already a Tales thread I can't find it so it must be very old and outdated.

 

Anyway, I finished Vesperia the other night (literally the first console game I have finished in 3 years) and I liked it but as usual the story left much to be desired, it was kind of silly and hard to follow and left a lot of things out e.g. the relationship between Judith and Ba'ul and what he saved her from unless that was mentioned in skits (I skip most of them, I don't have time for that omg) or in some sort of side quest, and by the end of the game I actually forgot everything that happened in the beginning and how we even got to that point.

 

Also,

 

Spoiler
come on kids, I need some explanations here and the game ain't gonna give them to me.

 

I've still got a few Tales games which I own and am yet to play - ToS Chronicles (I played both ToS and DOtNW separately), Graces f, Xiliia 1+2 and Eternia. I think I'll play Graces f next.

 

yep, Tales stuff.

 

Vesperia's story isn't amazing but I thought it did its job of being entertaining and motivating me to go on with the game, which is really all I can ask for from a Tales of game, since it's not like they've ever been superb with their writing. (Same goes for FE, really. Just want some basic entertainment, lol)

 

idk about Raven's blastia good point

 

and I forgot how Yaeger? Yeager? helped them

 

Yeah that's standard tales fare, though people fucking love Vesperia. 

 

What I wanna play is Destiny DC but the ps2 emulator keeps crashing T_T

 

strong word choice there

 

is that even in English, and why not play the real thing nerd

 

My experience in the Tales games is mostly the older ones.  Symphonia, Dawn of the New World, Phantasia, and Vesperia.

 

Also, this:

 

 

I'm like mid-series up to Zestiria in Japanese only (couldn't bother with the English version based on the Japanese version), didn't play Phantasia or the older ones

 

not sure what to make of that Regal clip besides "interesting voice acting" lol

 

Regal is bae

 

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Posted 27 January 2017 - 08:25 PM

Cause then I'd have to but a japanese ps2. Fuck that.


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Posted 19 March 2017 - 04:21 AM

Cause then I'd have to but a japanese ps2. Fuck that.

 

oh, ps2 is region-locked?

 

that's p. dumb

 

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Posted 21 March 2017 - 02:32 AM

Yeah it suuuuuuuuucks. 

 

Oh yeah guys Berseria is good. Go try it.


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Posted 21 March 2017 - 08:12 PM

I read it was super bad on some other site.

It's neither here nor there for me though, I'm completely uninterested unfortunately.
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Posted 23 March 2017 - 05:42 AM

Yeah it suuuuuuuuucks. 

 

Oh yeah guys Berseria is good. Go try it.

 

yeah eventually, hard to prioritize a tedious-sounding game with meh graphics when I have all these better-looking, more polished, generally more awesome games to play XP

 

(but I do intend to play it eventually, plz make it $19.99 or less soon, Namco)

 

I read it was super bad on some other site.

It's neither here nor there for me though, I'm completely uninterested unfortunately.

 

haven't you played Tales of games before tho? lost interest in the series or something or just not interested in Berseria specifically or what? I mean it seems like you were interested enough to read about it, at least


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Posted 23 March 2017 - 05:59 AM

yeah not really feelin the series in general anymore. symphonia's always gonna be in my top 5, but aside from that and xillia i dont really care for any of the others ive played. looks like it has that weird combat system from zesteria so if i cant even enjoy the gameplay why bother lol.
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Posted 27 March 2017 - 03:21 PM

I have to disagree heavily with it being bad. The story is safer and by the books, but that's fine after the mess of Zestiria's plot. The two things I love about Berseria is the combat and the skits and cast. The combat is super fun once it fully opens up and there are a ton of cool combos you can do, along with cool team combos since switching members is built into the system. I LOVE the cast of Berseria, up there as one of my favorite tales casts (With Eizen and Magilou being some of my favorite characters period.) The skits are amazing and really bring the chemistry of the cast out (They even got skits for whole side characters it's sick). So I say give it a try, I was skeptical of the game before release but I'm really enjoying it. 


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Posted 27 March 2017 - 06:13 PM

yeah not really feelin the series in general anymore. symphonia's always gonna be in my top 5, but aside from that and xillia i dont really care for any of the others ive played. looks like it has that weird combat system from zesteria so if i cant even enjoy the gameplay why bother lol.

 

ahh fair enough

 

top 5 Tales of games or games of all time lolol

 

I didn't dig Zesteria's gameplay much

 

I have to disagree heavily with it being bad. The story is safer and by the books, but that's fine after the mess of Zestiria's plot. The two things I love about Berseria is the combat and the skits and cast. The combat is super fun once it fully opens up and there are a ton of cool combos you can do, along with cool team combos since switching members is built into the system. I LOVE the cast of Berseria, up there as one of my favorite tales casts (With Eizen and Magilou being some of my favorite characters period.) The skits are amazing and really bring the chemistry of the cast out (They even got skits for whole side characters it's sick). So I say give it a try, I was skeptical of the game before release but I'm really enjoying it. 

 

no one said Berseria was bad did they?? I haven't played it so I can't really say it's good or bad yet XP

 

the combat seems mediocre which is bleghh, but I'll admit the skits and cast might be good (or at least, classic Tales-of-style good) and I plan to give them an honest shot. Magilou's outfit looks incredibly dumb though

 

I guess I'm not big on the heavier team dynamic of Tales of games where you are more reliant on your party members to do certain things, but eh. I mean, having real-time battles with a party and all that is part of what makes Tales of fun and unique I think so that's not wrong I don't want to just control 1 character or anything but I want to do cool things on my own without having to "link up" with other characters or anything XP like Xillia's link artes thing was cool but you can't go into overlimit by yourself and trying to get other characters to do their overlimits and stuff when controlling them was kinda tough, idk, I'm fine with a team dynamic but I'm more of an independent player who likes characters that can basically do everything themselves (so main characters and other fighter characters, I tend to not play mages or support characters), and yes Velvet exists and stuff but I saw a clip where they were like, stringing team attacks or something and I'm just like eehhh, I didn't dig that, and Zestiria you were dependent on merging with other characters which was a drag, so idk, I prefer team stuff as an occasional bonus, not weaved into the gameplay such that the player is dependent on it, but that just means the Tales of series is moving away from what I prefer, it's not objectively bad by virtue of the decision, though it may or may not be bad depending on the execution (I thought Zestiria's was a little subpar, but I can't really judge Berseria's yet)


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Posted 27 March 2017 - 08:25 PM

^ of all time lol.

And I said I heard it was bad, not necessarily saying I thought it looked bad. I mean, I'm sure I'll cave and give it a shot eventually.
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Posted 28 March 2017 - 04:47 AM

Yeah I forgot to quote the review part but I accidentally backed out of the page after writing my post and was a little miffed.

 

Blazer you can do cool shit yourself too. Look up Eizen or Rokurou combo vids. They're super sick. Also all the characters are fun and (generally) easy to get the hang. I just like how you can do cool shit both solo and with a team. Everyone can do everything by themselves and throw in switching it's super seamless to go around everyone.


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