Does /v/ like this game?

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>>315257779

I want too but the writing is so bad.

Why did the Cardinal become a Hellion? They go out of the way to say you don't become one if you're fully committed and believe your actions just.

She did that but became a super hellion that can't be purified because why?

>>315257779
No. The story is shit, the gameplay is an horrible mess and the world is empty as fuck.
At least the characters are entertaining and likable.
Edna best girl

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>>315257779
Yes. Better than a good portion of the latest Tales games and even better then some of the older ones. Alishafags basically were the vocal minority that managed to trick people thinking this was a bad game. its a solid 8/10.

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Homo game for homos.

So yes.

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>>315257779

>>315258921
>Better than a good portion of the latest Tales games and even better then some of the older ones
Which ones then?

And no, the Alishia thing as its reasons and makes sense, although the whole thing was fucking exaggerated.

Camera's wonky as fuck with walls or anything of any size.
The combining thing feels unneeded, especially with 4 players.
Players 2-4 STILL can't manage the main menu.
I really like Alishia's Cheria outfit.

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>>315259156
>tter than a good portion of the latest Tales games and even better then some of the older ones
>Which ones then?
Xillia, Xillia 2, Graces F, Hearts R, Legendia, Tempest(Anything is better than this to be honest) and Rebirth.

>>315259565
I'd agree on Tempest (obviously), Legendia, Xillia and Xillia 2.
Graces, Hearts R and Rebirth are tons better than Zestiria though. Specially in the gameplay department.

You also forgot Innocence by the way, game was shitty as fuck.

How the fuck are you supposed to beat Rose and Zaveid

fucking How

well like all tales games the story is quite horrid but this one takes the cake. also the world is rather empty and monotonous.

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>>315259735
>Graces
Graces might have a better combat system but it falls short in everything else compared to Zestiria. So no its not better than Zestiria at all.

Edna is disappointed in you anon.

>>315259021
>homos projecting homo into games
Everyone sees what one wants to see. Nothing new here.

>>315259565
Don't know about Xillia 1 and 2, but Zestiria is also better than Hearts, Innocence, Eternia and Symphonia 2.

Tales of may be my favourite jrpg series, but I can't not admit it's full of mediocre games.

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>>315259913
Eh, I was just comparing gameplay wise. Story wise, pretty much all Tales are shitty, Zestiria is just somewhat shittier. And yeah, Graces's characters in general are pretty weak. Graces has Pascal though.

its alright

>>315260053
Eternia is a solid game though. It's just plagued with terrible pacing and character designs.

I watched a random playthrough and it seems cute. Mikleo was all mad and then sorey went exploring in the ruins because that's his thing apparently and this girl he was with clearly wanted them to homo bang. the combat looked pretty neat. Is there a lot of content and optional stuff and items and shit?

>>315260184
you'll get about forty hours of gameplay out of it, there's a decent amount of optional content like bosses and sidequests but not much is particularly rewarding.

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I remember an anon in another thread saying Zestiria was better than Destiny. I might like Zestiria but for fucks sake it doesn't even hold a candle compared to Destiny, especially if you played Destiny DC.

The only recent JRPG I've played is Xenoblade. I'm itching for another one though. I have no more consoles other than my old shitty Wii.

>>315257779
/v/ does not like anything.

>>315260152
It's not bad, but overall, I think Zestiria is better. My "overall" includes the dubbing.

Why did they have to fuck the equipment system so badly. Couldn't they just go with the standard "find/buy new stuff, check stats and equp"? My Sorey has been using the same sword for the last 20 levels, because if I change it, all his stats will go 20 points down. Fuck this shit.

>>315260397
>I have no more consoles other than my old shitty Wii.
You bought the wrong system if you wanted JRPG's. Should have gotten a PS3 but if you have a decent PC you can get quite a few including Zestiria.

>>315260397
>recent
>Xenoblade
The game released 5 years ago already. Why not try out Pandora's Tower and The Last Story? Otherwise use your PC to emulate

>>315260275
Maybe he was talking about PSX Destiny?
Because fuck that encounter rate and fuck the final dungeon twice.

>>315260275
overrated shit.

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>>315260493
>Eternia's dubbing

is there a solid tales ranking between games? about to play through phantasia and was curious how the other ranks up

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I haven't played it but I like the girls

>>315260725
You'll never get an 'objective' ranking or whatever.
It depends on how well you can stomach certain cliches, how important the story is to you and how much you enjoy the combat.
There's a few that are almost universally disliked, but to me almost all the Tales games have at least something going for them.

>>315260725
>is there a solid tales ranking between games?
Legendia, Innocence, Tempest, Symphonia 2 and Hearts (DS) are generally viewed as the worst ones.
Graces is love it or hate it.
Symphonia and Vesperia fags and generally at each others throats although both games are overated as fuck, they're good though.
Rebirth and Destiny a have a small but solid fanbase.
The rest are "meh".

>>315260725
Read about the combat before you start. Seriously. How did they expect me to know that pushing the attack button twice makes my character do a jump-attack?

>>315261045
>The rest are "meh".
You forgot about Abyss. Just like Symphonia and Vesperia, Abyss is considered the best game in the series by some (including myself).

Better to grind up the lords for new game+ shop in the first playthrough or just do it all in the 2nd?

>>315261045
>Hearts (DS) are generally viewed as the worst ones.
said no one ever

>>315261178
>You forgot about Abyss
I really liked it but fuck it's so forgettable that I, well, forgot about it.

>>315261345
Said many here. I liked but many seem to hate it.
>inb4 /v/ hates everything

>>315261045
downloading PS3 vesperia with the english fanpatch
symphonia remains one of my favourite games of all time
what can i expect going in

>>315261940
Objectively speaking, you're gonna get decent combat, decent OST, decent characters, an interesting MC that gets annoying as fuck by mid game and a story with great ideas that fall short in the long run.

>>315262265
alrighty. sounds pretty solid
do you happen to know what the PS3 version adds (i never had a 360 and just got my hands on a softmodded PS3 so i'm finally getting my chance to try it now)

>>315262402
Yeah, it's pretty solid. Far from being the best shit ever but still solid.
I only played the 360 version but from what I know, you're gonna have 2 extra characters, more content as in sidequests and side bosses and more end game. Also an epilogue of some sort I think.

>>315262402
Two new playable characters, second set of skill assignments, 8 (up from 4) overlimit bars and a bunch more stuff I can't remember off the top of my head.
I think there was a party coliseum too.

>>315262496
Fun. Also, who's the most 'fun' to play as? (I used Presea and sometimes Regal fairly often, so take that as you will)

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>>315260725
The best battle systems are a tie between Xillia 2 and Vesperia, that much I can tell you don't listen to Gracesfags.

Personally, I think Xillia2 takes more skill and has a higher ceiling overall.

I liked it. Very fun and charming game, pity about the camera but I got used to it.

Rose a best.

>>315262686
dunno about 'best' but symphonia 2 might be the worst

it was like a slower, more muddied version of the first game

>>315262629
how's patty as a character? likeable? annoying?

>>315262638
I only used Yuri in Vesperia. He's pretty fun to use.
You used Presea in Symphonia? I tried using her but fuck she's to slow for me.

>>315262826
Her slowness was the beauty of it. With the right build, she'd be almost impossible to knock down and deal ridiculous amounts of damage.

>>315262686
>tie between Xillia 2 and Vesperia,
>don't listen to Gracesfags
Xillia 2 is legit good gameplay and Graces has, personally speaking, the most fun combat.
Narikiri Dungeon X and Rebirth have the best combat though

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Who /replayingvesperia/ here?
>>315262686
>I think Xillia2 takes more skill and has a higher ceiling overall
Does it though? Sure, X2 is faster but it seems it's more lenient with the timing in general.
Overall there are mechanics that I dislike about both Vesperia's and X2's combat.(though of course both games do more things right than wrong)

>>315262963
I can never give Graces the top spot because how underused the A/B system was (only Hu and Pascal really used it) and NO AIR GAME.

Other than those though, yeah, it's good.

>>315262892
I gotta try using her again then. I generally only used Lloyd and Sheena.

>>315263030
>NO AIR GAME
I really don't care about the AIR GAME though, so there's that.

>>315262963
Graces is okay, older Tales fans just used to get triggered over people praising it as the second coming of Christ.
Can't say I prefer it to the older games but it's not a terrible game mechanic-wise either, just a bit too railroaded.

>>315263039
Sheena was my favourite 'fast' character to use, actually. But yeah, Presea with the right EX Gems is hard to interrupt during attacks so her slow speed ends up not mattering as much, she just tears into enemies like it's a joke. Her Beast in particular (more than Lloyd's) is really useful for getting enemies away from Raine and Genis

>>315263156
New softmodded PS3fag from earlier, how is Graces F?

>>315262638
Fun-ness wildly varies. I love Colette's style and couldn't get a grasp on how Regal worked.
Estelle is really fun for me. Really love pow hammers and Estelle's delight roll.

>>315263224
Love it or hate it game.
Personally I love it for the combat. Story is weak like most Tales but characters are also kinda weak.

>>315263224
The plot is balls, the characters are mostly okay, the combat is good but gets a tad repetitive after a while.

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>troy baker and jennifer hale will only voice shit AAA action games like bioshock infinite from now on instead of weeb games like Tales of
why even live

>>315262795
Weird, until you get used to her odd randomized style switching (or get a bunch of skills that make the whole thing easier).
Oddly good at supporting and healing.
Trigger Tune rapes solo arena and Form-Up spam to get OVL is silly broken.

>>315263165
I prefer using quick moving/attacking characters. I really liked Presea though, too bad I couldn't get used to her playing style

>>315257779
the world is really bland and boring all dungeons/ruins look and feel the same and combat gets fucked if you're in a cramped hallway

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>>315262992
>Sure, X2 is faster but it seems it's more lenient with the timing in general.
Not really. The stagger duration is about the same as with any other Tales - you probably only saw longer durations due to specific artes/abilities, which is up to you to work into your rotations.

In fact, I'd say it's a lot more complicated because you have to keep track of 3 things: stagger, weakness combos, and OTG.

>>315263165
Presea was fun to play with all of her super/hyper armour. But in the end, I feel like Lloyd's the most well designed character in ToS.

>>315263272
Regal's best to have two ground attacks, one that rises into the air, and aerial attack, and then ending it with a dive

I think they meant to have him be able to do more and have more attacks, but the 2ground, rise, aerial, and dive combo is the only real option. He's strong as fuck, though.

I... couldn't stand using Colette. It was always hard to chain her combos and artes for me.

>>315263283
>>315263317
Alright, so it sounds playable at least. I'll give it a shot.

>>315263341
I see. Well, I'll give it a shot then. Looking forward to playing Vesperia ASAP

>>315263354
Yeah, I see where you're coming from. Sheena was the fastest and also a blast to play

>>315263526
lloyd is definitely more well designed but presea is more fun to play i think

she had a lot more room for unique combos than regal did but still had some limitations

>>315263538
>I... couldn't stand using Colette. It was always hard to chain her combos and artes for me.
THIS. Collette was a fucking mess to play has. I never understood how the fuck her style works.

>>315262795
That's a very subjective matter.
The way she is integrated into the party is nothing to write home about, she is a very silly/comedic/childish character.
Her sub-plot is actually okay, but that only gets touched on occasion and most of the time is just Patty being silly.
Battle-wise though, she is one of the most deep and versatile characters in the series and is a blast to use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqtppJSxM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVhJoiQ9xs0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRNeXyU5QM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5RPfXUZQiA
Overall things that I like about Patty are her fighting style, Chiwa Saito, her interactions with Raven, and her subplot. In that order.

>>315262638
Yuri is easy mode.
Combos like a madman, and Hyper Combo just makes short of everything if you can get a combo going on something.
Judith was fun as fuck, but needs a million skills to really get going. Loved using her in NG+.
Raven has some fun shit going on, but the overpowered stuff is from one of the extra dungeons.
Friend of mine was a monster with Karol. Suffers from being ridiculously slow and being terrible at chasing things. That baseball attack helps and Charge Keep is incredible.
Repede is best dog.
Rita is completely, 100% broken. Fireball is the single most ridiculous spell in the game, and she starts with it. Violent Pain can infinitely stunlock things that don't have Overlimit and Tidal Wave is legendary by now.
Patty's fun, once you know what you're doing.
Flynn is absent for like 80% of the game, but he's solid. Reminds me of a 3D Cless with spells.
Never used Estelle, and she got benched for Patty for heals to boot.

>>315263648
Most of the time I just mashed buttons and cancelled attacks in an attempt to get Holy Judgment. (It was really easy, when Holy Song doesn't target a party member, you're casting it)

>>315263526
Man I fucking LOVE X2's combat so goddamn much.
The only thing it's missing is individual overlimit bars instead of just one big one.

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I've only played Abyss. How are the modern Tales games compared to Abyss?

Abyss I thought was decent, though not exceptional. The plot was fairly generic jrpg stuff, but I liked that it had the guts to make the protagonist deeply flawed. It gave tension to the party dynamic.

>>315263808
Would you compare Karol to Presea in terms of combat, then?

>>315263808
>Flynn is absent for like 80% of the game
Good thing Vesperia has a feature that let's you refight bosses. Wish Zestiria and the Xillia's had that.

>>315263892
the only other game similar to abyss combat wise is vesperia
almost all of the games have only mediocre stories and they won't do much for you since majority of tales fans say abyss had the best story
try picking up one of the more recent titles on ps3 or the symphonia hd port

>>315262686
I kind of agree on X2 and V, but Graces was fun as fuck, admit it. Also, Vesperia required more skill. I can confirm this because I fucking suck but I could at least chain 50 hit combos with Milla in ToX2 regularly, sometimes 100 if I didn't fuck up

>>315263907
They definitely show similarities.
Presea had more AOE stuff, with her Beast and Destruction artes.
Karol prefers his fights one on one, mostly.
Charging his artes is basically his main 'gimmick'. By holding the button you can gather a charge and enhance whatever arte you're doing.
Starts off slowish and clunky, but you get skills that speed up the charge, allow you to keep the charge even if you miss, etc.
He has some really potent shit and Resshin Drop is monstrous (deals significantly more damage on downed enemies if you use an axe).
Later he gets a skill that buffs your defenses to silly levels once you get under 25% health, at which point even bosses can struggle to damage you.
On top of that he has healing and recovery artes to boot.

No air game though.
And I can never unhear Katejina Loos, which is equal parts amusing and ridiculous.

>>315264264
I can't unhear Keroro.

>>315263808
Why would you bench Estelle? She was too cute

>>315257779

Good, not bad but not great.

Solid basics with characters, story, and music but they really didn't spend a lot of time filling in the gaps. Dungeon design is very uninspired and there really aren't a lot of events that unfold or twists throughout the story. Elements that would be very story heavy or gameplay involved in other JRPGs are in Zestiria just a quick run with not much going on, you still get the basic story going but there isn't much else going on around it or between story points. You can even tell they wanted to do so much more with both Alisha and Rose but must not have gotten around to working on it because various aspects of their character and story are missing or just don't lead anywhere making a few things kinda awkward. Side characters as well suffer from this, you have a few baddies and good npcs along hte way that pop up a few times and that's it, they really needed much more content on them.

Worth playing as it is unless you're a complete stuckup kinda person, it's not a completely sound game but when it wants to hit hard it really does.

>>315263892
The plot is never as good as Abyss, but they're not terrible either. Each one has it's own charm. Except Zestiria, the plot is literally "an ancient evil has awoken and you're the chosen one" with the pacifism cranked up to 120% and the world building is not even there, it's so empty and boring.
Thankfully the lack of transition into battle makes things fast and almost fun, if not for the total lack of artes. You learn all artes you can possible get by level 50, which is a bit more than halfway through the game.
The fusion system is fine but once again, there's a total lack of artes making it worthwhile and many skills in base form don't seem to work when you're fused.

On top of it all, combos are now restricted to 4 attacks in a row (unless you go out of your way to try and stack certain skills to increase the combo to 5 or 6 if you're lucky) and then you have to wait, SC gain is painfully boring to wait for and rewards very defensive playing, the camera is fucking terrible and if there's an object in the field you bet your ass the camera is going to smash up against it and point directly downward at your feet.

There are 4 casters and only 2 melee oriented characters. You can argue against it, but the fact remains the 4 casters each have a single dedicated element, and in a game where hitting weaknesses is a huge priority, you bet your ass they're going to be useless without Sorey or Rose.

HOLY FUCK I hate this game.

>>315264209
>Milla
Babbymode, bruh. She's one of two characters to be able to hit all weaknesses in the game.

>>315263808
>Fireball is the single most ridiculous spell in the game
Agreed. My Brother played Rita and spammed that shit all day. By the end of the game each use threw about 8 projectiles and did more damage than tidal wave.
Shit's broken as fuck.

>>315263538
>>315263648
It's easy; you just go boom and bam, and you win!

>>315264443
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAyVeJgZUBk
Because only 80 points

>>315264698
No cast time, no increase in TP cost, max 10 projectiles.
>those two battles where you had to protect Rita were the most difficult battles in the game
I don't even know anymore.

>>315264662
Milla is fun as fuck to use. I can't believe they didn't take advantage of her "Spirit Shift" ability to turn every Seraph into a mix of melee and spellcaster like her in Zestiria.
Such wasted potential, man...

>>315264759
>Patty scored 90 "for a certain audience"
I love Raven.

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>>315264848
>I can't believe they didn't take advantage of her "Spirit Shift"
The reason why Milla worked so well was because she had access to every element and with spirit shift, that's essentially double her arte pool.

Zestiria's problem with the Seraph isn't that they don't have melee/spells, it's that they only have one element because of narrative reasons.

Also, to that other Anon saying Xillia2 has lenient timings, this webm shows a dropped combo - it's actually pretty tight.

The OST is a solid 92/100 in my book, in the argument for best Tales OST for sure.

If they had put in the effort to flesh out the game it could have been really special.

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I beat Xillia 1 yesterday and I just started Xillia 2.

Fuck, the battle system is carrying this whole fucking thing. I wish I had japanese voices but...

God I love the battle system so much. Does the all divide item keep its effect for all battles? I just want to do longer combos on regular enemies before they run out of health

>>315265674
All Divide only works for the battle you use it in
Start bumping up the difficulty.

>>315265674

It's just for the battle you use it in. There are skills you can get later on that make you do half/quarter/one damage with each hit though.

>>315265738
I started Xillia 2 on moderate difficulty because I jumped straight outta the final boss of X1 into X2. I didn't want the tension to drop too much.
Do you get anything extra for bumping the difficulty up?
>>315265820
oh alright. Do you remember their names? I'll keep an eye out for them.

>>315265892
I honestly can't remember if it added anything in X2.
Moderate is still pretty damn easy if you're familiar with Tales games. I'd go for at least Hard unless a boss is really raping your ass.

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>>315265674
>Does the all divide item keep its effect for all battles?
No :^(

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>all these combo webms ITT
fighting game fag here, can I play any of the tales games with my PS3/PS4/PC arcade stick?

>>315265892
Well I mis-remembered a bit, ToX2 only has the Minimum Damage skill, which you get from a skill book as a reward for paying off some of your debt.

it's not as bad as /v/ makes out

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>>315266060
It's more like DMC, so no.

Also, it's only one game in the series that ever gets this CUHRAZY.

>>315266617
Graces f, Vesperia and Destiny DC can do some crazy stuff as well though.

>>315266751
Including Zestiria.

>BUT THEY HAVE NO AIR GAME

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>>315266751
I'll give you Graces F, but Vesperia doesn't really ever reach this level simply because Ludger doesn't exist in it.

Never played Destiny, how is it? I've heard people either say it's overrated or it's GOAT.

>>315266617
NDX, Vesperia, Destiny DC and the R titles are all pretty cuhrayzee.

>>315266839
You know what's overrated? Xillia 2.

>>315266960
>A game where no one puts at the top of their list
>Overrated
baka senpai

>>315266839
Just because it's not as long, due to the way the combo system works in ToV, does not mean it's not impressive or crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_N0IamxrLc

Destiny DC basically has the best 2D combat in the series. And Xillia took a fair amount of cues from it.

>>315257779
I really want to like this game but...

>That delusional religion pandering
>That camera
>That extremely confusing item and combat system
>That level design / monster placement

The soundtrack is pretty damn good. I like horizontal progression but even with all the tutorials it all seems like one huge pain in the ass. I hate getting locked out of being able to travel places at random intervals.

>>315258735
Maybe deep inside she knew she was killing innocent people? However yeah the whole "pure of heart" thing is pretty poorly thought out. Tons of people throughout history have genuinely believed they were doing the right things, even though they were actually doing some pretty horrible stuff. That's japan for you though, they dig that shit.

>>315259156
>better than eternia

Nigger I'll fight you.

>>315267076
>This Judith video
Like clockwork.

Anyways, I never really liked Vesperia since the techout system was kind of shitty. It felt more like a bandaid to stop you from doing a 999 combo on a boss more than anything.

>And Xillia took a fair amount of cues from it.
Like what? Because Xillia's system was pretty awful overall.

>>315258735
I'd say the breakdown she had near the end of the fight was clue enough she wasn't fooling herself anymore.

>>315257779
Hate the fusing system with a passion. Not being able to move the camera manually while in combat is the stupidest idea ever. Fast travel should NOT cost money or should be really cheap, this isn't an mmo. There's so much backtracking that being able to warp around would eliminate a lot of the annoyance with that.

Other than those things I'm really liking the game. Most of the Rose/Alisha stuff was way overblown, a lot of it makes sense if you pay attention to the plot. Plot is pretty predicable and has some poorly thought out ideas, but that's most tales games to a T. I'm having fun.

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Still the best JRPG on steam for almost 6 years.

>>315267649
Are The Last Remnant fags the new cancer on /v/?

>>315268695
Name one that's better. I'll wait. FF7 doesn't count. That was on PC long before steam.

>>315257779
I can stand the story.
I can stand the horrible camera (they said they fixed it, I believed them, oh boy how wrong I was)
I even can stand the retarded AI (I have never seen a worst AI in any other Tales)

But the fucking equipment system, the most stupid thing ever, mix grinding and RNG.

>But you can solve it by using the cats.

AND THAT IS WORSE, that makes it 10 times more grinding, choosing the cat and then looking for the equipment you want. And don't forget that fusing equipment with full slots will change the skills it has.

It is the most stupid thing ever, I hope they mod the PC version so you can choose the skills you carry when you fuse it.

>>315269032
The camera only bothered me for the first hour and the AI works well enough for me. Don't have any issue with the story so far.
The equipment shit is overly complicated though. I don't even bother getting into it.

>>315267649
>that autistic shit
>better than FFIV, FFVII, Type-0, Valkyria Chronicles and Dark Souls

I mean, you're allowed to have an opinion like everyone else but do you really have to have such a fucking godawful taste?

I don't see why people say Graces has one of the best combat systems, I can see why it would be fun but only if you become absolute GOD at it because dodges in the game require you to be frame perfect

>>315269303
>The camera only bothered me for the first hour

Just wait till you start doing the dungeons which are nothing but tight hallways. You can't see shit thanks to the camera in battles.

>>315269303
I was reading a guide the other day and I was like "are you fucking serious"?

So when fusing, the skills have a number, and when you fuse the skills if they are in the same element they sum to give the new skill, or something like that, seriously I saw it and decided to just fucking park the game.

>>315269385
>Final Fantasy games
>Souls games
>specially souls games
>Not autistic

forty keks

>>315267649
baka senpai

>>315265356
>Zestiria's problem with the Seraph isn't that they don't have melee/spells, it's that they only have one element because of narrative reasons.

I didn't hear any complaining about this issue when Rebirth and Destiny came out,

Also all seraphim have at least three elements. Mikleo has Water, earth, and fire. Edna has Earth, water, wind. Lailah has Fire, Wind, water. and zaveid has wind, earth, and fire.

Not to mention they have more species weakness than either rose and sorey, which neglects element weakness.

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>>315269385
>>315269640
You can emulate IV, VII and Type-0 and have a better experience, and both IV and VII were on the PC before steam.

TLR is better than IV, Type-0 and Visualnovel Chronicles combined. Square gutted the multiplayer from the Type-0 port a.k.a. the only fucking reason to buy it.

It's also better than Souls. Souls games have horrid controls and they're terrible PC ports. They're slow, they're clunky and the default keybinds on both the controller and KB+M are pantsu on head retarded senpai desu baka. I'd rather play bloodbourne any day of the week and that game sucks.

Meanwhile TLR on the PC is the definitive version. It runs at 60+FPS and all the graphical issues evaporate with a little tweaking. It has tons of content, a tasteful story and it's a SaGa warzone and you don't need an xbox controller to play it.

>>315269885
Please explain how the emulated version for those games is better than the Steam version.

>TLR is better than anything
Horrible taste. Everything about that game that has to do with game design is pure liquid shit.

>>315269419
/v/ is literally too retarded for this game.

>>315270278
You can get a pretty authentic experience with an emulator if you know what you're doing. You can even save and load at will or bump up the resolution to ungodly levels. I'm pretty sure there's some HD packs floating around for FF7 emu.

You can actually play online with type-0 emu. It's a pain in the dick but you can actually do it. It's impossible on steam because they gutted it.

FFIV who cares, it shouldn't even be top 5 final fantasy games on anyone's list for fuck sake. The PC port doesn't even have the classic soundtrack.

If you really want to say Final Fan-ta-shee VII is the best JRPG on steam fine, I won't argue. I'd just wonder why you'd buy it on steam.

>>315270438
Even if people did understand it you still have to grind for weapons to gt the skills you want on them. It's a shitty system that needs to be dropped.

Good:
>Fun characters when they were talking on skits. When it came to conflict and stuff, they sucked expect for Zaveid and Edna.
>Skits were entertaining
>Music was better than expected
>The only cutscene that I liked was the one on Lastonbell, before the final battle. That one was great.

Bad:
>Sorey
I'm sorry guys, but this guy just was not good at all. His convictions were all over the place. Always a yes-man. I could go on more about him, but whatever.
>The party's attitude towards everything
What I mean about this is that, there was no tension at all within the party. If there was conflict, its like they were ok with whatever anyone suggested. Hard to explain but that was what I felt.
>Rose can do no wrong
This girl. She was actually good. Had great lines, attitude, and other stuff. Only problem is she was perfect. Anything she did, the party was in awe and I mean everything.
>Alisha's removal
Now I know this is a hot topic, I myself am neutral about it since she was removed early in the game anyway. But after playing more and more, I just couldn't understand why she was removed at all. The party kept getting into politics anyway and altering stuff that was supposedly what they should have not been doing. Only reason I pointed this out is because when she was reintroduced again, I felt that even she could have stayed anyway and the events would have played out the same way.
>Battle System
Now I'm no expert regarding the Tales battle system, but I couldn't understand the hell out of this. What I mean are the skills on the weapons/armors. Also, I felt more restricted on this than on Xillia's system.
>Boring as fuck villain
When you ask someone to find out the truth and collect stuff, make sure the revelation is something big. It would have been more entertaining if it was actually Shepherd Michael that was the true enemy or something.

All in all:
Music: 1
Story: .5
Characters: .5
Graphics: .5
Battle System: 0

2.5/5

>>315270967
>>315271042
They at least tried to explain the loot system properly several times. Every time they did it I was like "Okay, I get this and then... uh, wait if they're next to each other they negate? But if they're in a row you get bonuses? Don't they need to be next to each other to be in a row? Is this bingo or plinko or what?"

This is one of the few JRPGs that just left me clueless, and as a result my party ended up really weak really quick. I'm ten hours in and I feel like I need to restart just to grasp it all, but the problem is I don't really like the story is and the combat is dull compared to other tales games.

>>315270657
There are a lot more and higher quality mods for the PC version and you can bump up the resolution as well. So it's only better to you because you need to savescum and you have an easier time doing that on emulator?

Online was complete shit in type-0. It was just a means to getting items, and now you can have the AI do it, in fact having the AI do it made grinding for those items easier. Getting rid of it altogether would've been the best way to go. It's still a better system, not to even mention the graphical improvements. It's the definitive version.

FFIV is mediocre but that still makes it lightyears better than something that's completely awful. Emulating the DS or iOS version doesn't give you the classic soundtrack either. On PC however, you can mod it in. So that's three out of three cases where I wonder how you think their emulated counterparts are better.

>>315271410
Truth be told I didn't understand it at all. Ok, more like, I didn't try to understand it more. I knew the gist of what they were trying to say, but for me it felt overly convoluted, especially knowing that I had to farm some more equipment just to get a few stats on it.

>go in dungeon near quest
>pretty easy, get treasure and shit
>get to boss
>entire party is one-shot
>pretty much every mutated hellion that is not quest related does this
Thank you game.

>>315271042
> The party kept getting into politics anyway and altering stuff that was supposedly what they should have not been doing.
They only did that like twice, and both times was because of MUHlevolence.

Either way, she was a pretty pointless character compared to Rose.

>>315264543
I'm level 42 and I'm getting ready for the final battle now.

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Everybodys thoughts on the Xillia games? They are both on sale on PSN right now (along with Graces)

I haven't played Tales since Symphonia on GameCube.

>>315271731
The only reason she felt pointless to me is because they scrapped her early. Late in the game when she was reintroduced, she actually had a better development than even Sorey. Not that's even comparable since Sorey as a protag sucked.

Like I said about Rose. She's a good character. Problem is, she had no problem at all. She had no dilemmas. Nothing.

Anyway she wasn't the big issue. Sorey was. I hated every mind-juggling thing he did regarding anything he questioned. Also his bow. It looked fucking retarded. His running animation and walk as well. Fuck.

>>315259823
You don't that is literally the fucking hardest fight in the game for me and I beat all others but post game ones.

-The camera is at its WORST
-You cannot start a weakness combo because they are people element but they can resist.
-Fusing is the only way you can survive yet its becomes suicide since its 1v2
-Rose hits like a 18 wheeler with a spiked grill and somehow zavied becomes a magic adept
>Rose is strong vs A-artes while zavied is strong vs B and magic
>arena the width of 3 characters

Its the only fight I said fuck it too and I beat the rouge turtlez with the xillia 2 moveset

>>315271905
I really liked Xillia. The only downside was that it was a little easy, and the PS3 has some trouble running it at full framerates at times.

>>315271905
It's shit. Play Vesperia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_N0IamxrLc

>>315257779
Bad writing, bad battle system, empty dungeons with nothing to do in them, no minigames, traditional sidequests got cut and their rewards are sold as DLC, EVEN THE POST GAME GRADE SHOP IS DLC WHAT THE FUCK.
Also, why the fuck Alisha leaves the party and Sergei isn't even playable? Instead we have to deal with Mary Sue Queen who not only is completely averse to character development, she also stops Sorey from actually showing his resolve earlier on with her "hurr taking lives is my job" shit.
Buyers remorse/10.

>>315272139
>The only reason she felt pointless to me is because they scrapped her early.
Iunno senpai, her character arc didn't exactly tie into Sorey's cleansing journey at all. She would've worked in a game like Vesperia that was all about dealing with the human world and corruption, but Sorey's story focuses on completely different topics.

The only time he even meddles in her affairs was because Lailah said there was a serious threat of him going full muhlevolent if she died.

>>315271675
I liked the idea if they just simplified it so that lets say for martial art comboes

>1st column is for 1st hit bonuses, 2nd column for 2nd hit bonuses and so on

>A row would give vague bonuses like 20% non-element damage boost.

For fusing and whatnot the whole thing should just be burnt into the ground. You can "break" an item to steal a quality from it (such as pezur or whatever the fuck they name this shit) to put into another weapon, fusing weapons just improves base quality.

I personally think that whole system had promise for a really varied experience but they managed to just fuck it up REALLLY fucking badly.

>>315271846
I found it nigh impossible at lvl 42, the fight go on for waay too long for how much damage your outputting. Maybe if you got some really strong synergised gear.

Any good mods for Zestiria yet?

>>315259565
>i'm just going to pick tales games at random haha
>no innocence DS
>posts rebirth

I'm glad that the tales series mostly takes opinions from japan bucase if they listed to the chucklefucks here in the states the series would be dead. And everybody seems to post tempest but I doubt most played it and it should stay that way and the game should be shitted on. I remember how disappointing I was with the DS tales trying to emulate them on PC since I wanted to complete the mainline ones.

Also,While all the characters are cool in zestiria but the MC they all play like shit but rose and sorey and the pendulum users are a distant 3rd that made the game less fun for me since I only really played sorey since I geared rose to be controlled by the CPU (lots of actions to HP skills and resistance vs creatures) while I geared for stun and basically cheese the game. Awful combat with a skill system that doesn't fit the game and makes combat trivial makes me wonder why this is not in anyone's bottom 5.

>>315272392

You're a dumbass, Rose is great.

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>>315272587
I have a fusion chain on Lailah that makes her do 80% more damage so I will probably be fine.
She has the best armatize by far.

Does collecting all the iris gems do anything? Ive been trying to do all the purple star side stuff so far, but not sure if i missed any

>>315272809
a shit

>>315269673
Those games didn't penalize you for wrong elements you were given bonuses iirc except for destiny R but it wasn't as strict as in zestiria you just gave less damage vs using more SC,less stagger,no stagger and speeding up magic casts.

>>315272567
Maybe. But I can't say anymore regarding that as, like said earlier, she was cut suddenly anyway. There were issues regarding the two girls but they weren't that story-breaking.

>>315272587
Yeah the fusing really was the one I didn't delve into. What I just did was fuse some shit and whatever.

They had a great idea about it for sure, but the implementation was wack.

Even if that ones was great, the battle system can't save it anyway. The camera sucked soooo bad. Even my brother who was watching kept asking, "why is the camera so close?" or "was the camera like this in the previous games?".

>>315272813
Probably are if u have that. I had to go stack some anomalous orbs to go from 1800 hp to 3.2k

>>315272687
Fuck off Baba

>>315272878
Isn't that to unlock the combination MA which somehow manages to look worse than its ToV incarnation, sasuga.?

>people placing Zestiria than Eternia and Rebirth
Fuck this fanbase to hell. I hope you continue to be jewed and sold incomplete games by Namco.
>>315271042
You summed up pretty well my issues with the cast.
Sorey is just the divines personal goy and more specifically Lailah 90% percent of the time.
Rose is an okay character ruined by the constant shilling by the rest of the party, it seems Baba or whoever the man in charge of the rewrites was had no faith in her character at all.
Alisha there is a clear point after the second act which is "ALISHA JOINS HERE" yet nothing comes out of it, the shops keep selling her weapons. Just a fucking mess because they decided to sell her as DLC.(which backfired and had to give the DLC for free and drop that entire plot-arc, as you know)

>>315273286
It just feels like people didn't play either of those games.
Be it because they're old, 2D, or completely in moon.

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>>315273021
Really you just have to plan ahead and use the normin ability when you recruit them well.
Bottom one is Sorey. I could get the 80% damage boost on him too if I could be bothered to get some boots with the two that I am missing.

>>315272981
For me personally just having rightstick be the camera and have r3+button be issue command could save soo many issues. Ive said it before but tales of zestiria plays maybe even worse than Star Ocean 3 did and that games a decade old, and combat had alot of room for improvement.

What let this game down was actually easily solvable things. Someone might mod the PC version to fix camera issues. I can't believe this game had like a 3-4year dev cycle
Anyhow star Ocean 5 is the next big jrpg hack-n-slash dungeoncrawlerino thing.

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>>315269396
>mfw seeing streamers get rekt in the caverns with the magic caster ghosts

Off screen enemies with a garbage camera with icicles everywhere is pretty stupid.

>>315257779
worst game in series, shit tier story, shit tier combat, shit tier world... i have played and finished almost all in not all main tail of games and liked them all, gave up on that shity game after 3h of painful gameplay...

>>315273657
The way they made out the system i initially thought that stacking vertically was really good, boy did i learn, the entire system was dull and complex

>>315273716
Oh yeah I remember acting the same way when I started the game. I was thinking /v/ overreacted again, the camera was fine after an hour, fixed also the height and zoom in the pause menu
>mfw lots of dungeons with tight ass corners
I couldn't fucking see shit.

>>315273807
You thought 5 stacks would be better than 10 stacks?
It would have helped if they just explained the entire thing in one go.
I am still missing the fucking explanation of how fusing different skills changes what skill you get.

>>315259913
????? Zestiria shitty story shitty combat, boring as fuck characters, empty boring world, design of characters is just uber shit tier Edna being exception, visual side of game may be just worst in series... so yeah its shit tier game and its not better in anything then other main entries of series...

>>315273675
Well Baba said that the camera was part of the "challenge".

Yes you guys read that right. They didn't fix the camera issues because it was part of the fucking challenge.

>>315273716
I tend to just run away from serapic users.
Fuck that shit how are you supposed to deal with 4+ enemies casting unblockable spells that your alllies can not dodge.

>>315273978
I thought getting 2 stacks and 5 down is as good as getting 10 across.

>>315273286
>people placing Zestiria than Eternia and Rebirth
I assume you mean higher, but I guess it's mostly because retards are pretending to have played every Tales of games ever, while Rebirth was never released outside of Moonland and Eternia was a pretty uncommon game in the 90s.
Also, Farah is still the best girl.

>>315262265
>an interesting MC that gets annoying as fuck by mid game
WTF ? hes best MC out of any jrpg ever created... fuck ppl have no taste....

>>315274002
Why is Zestria so small?
Pretty much every other game has you travel the world, sometimes going to other planets as well and having flying machines and shit.
This one you just walk back and forth on a single continent.

>>315271728
You can beat most the first time however do NOT fight the boar and PLEASE do not fight the 9 headed serpent.

I was stubborn and it took me about 2 hours to beat each one. They basically taught me the battle system and skill system because to beat them you need to be great at the skill system. I finally beat the 9 headed serpent (hard mode) after deteating the gryphon at the end of the cave and realized it was like almost level 80 with extremely high stats. I was like level 40.

When fighting these bosses expect everyone else to die but you. Also the bosses seem to get much stronger and get new moves before they die and they act quicker.

>>315274067
I fought them out of principle since I hated running away and that was like the first time a non boss ko'd me.

>>315274256
Xillia was small as shit as well.
For story reasons, but that doesn't make it any better.

>>315272878

Collecting all of them is a mandatory late in to the game to proceed with the main quest. Yes the game forces you to backtrack and complete most of the big sidequests.

>>315274336
It's hard to try to kill something that game-overs me in literally under 5 seconds.
I spent like an hour trying to kill that evil skunk outside of pendrago and couldn't deal with it's rage mode artes hitting me for 80% of my hp before I got my first mystic arte.

i liked tales of graces f

>>315274423
>Honestly thought the revelation would be something so big that will make me go "oh fuck"
>MFW it wasn't

>>315267076
There are better combo videos out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9GcQRToZ0

But you wont change a Xillia/2 faboy/shill mind that easily bruh, he "never really liked vesperia" anyways.

>tfw you will have a foursome with Patty, Beryl and Elize

>>315274349
Xillia would have been fine if Elympios was remotely as big as it should have been, it's clear they needed like 2 more years to work on that game.

Basically the same thing that happened with Graces and Mars, though at least that was a dead planet and thus there was an in universe explanation of why the planet isn't worth exploring.

>>315274190
Yeah, and the other Tales MCs are all faggots except Yuri and Ludger. I will never understand.

>>315274632

Yeah they kept talking about some huge revelation they were missing and even after you've watched all the historia. You then go watch the memory stone event and at the end of all that and the guy giving up his fucking life for you to learn things, all you've learned is nothing of worth. Nasty general became evil boss, you still need to stab him with a sword, the end.

>>315274720
Pedo

>>315274534
that was one of the easier ones since its weak to an element

Gear up MC of choice and lailah for bonus damage,damage on stun and X on evasion skills and go nuts. Occasionally the skunk will spray gas you can actually use these to perfect dodge and get BG/HP/ect if you have the skill since the perfect dodge triggers easily for it.

So the gameplan is to go arma fire and spam attacks but be patient since thats a close range arma.

Its funny how I give a good portion of advice on this game but I absolutely loathe it

>>315274581
Me too anon don't let the haters here get to you. Its only on /v/ that you would hear people say its bad.

>>315274731
I just wish they went back to having a proper world map again.
It just added to making the world feel big.

>>315274809
I would have been more ok if it was actually Seraph Michael + Maotelus who was the big bads in this.

Tigershit felt just like a pawn. Not even a huge boss or anything.

>>315261045
What is wrong with innocence?
I tried to play it but couldn't because for some reason my characters were totally unable to do damage.
No one ever talks about it though and I kind of enjoyed what I played.

So what titles do you anons use for each character?

>>315272139
Like I said about Rose. She's a good character. Problem is, she had no problem at all. She had no dilemmas. Nothing.


how is that problem ? god i hate when character in jrpg game ave problems, its always gay as fuck, oh i killed someone, oh someone used me, oh look put something only 5yr could whine about and thats it for character development in jrpg games >.< character that doesnt cry about everything is god sent in any rpg...

>>315274937
Original Innocence felt really, really boring to me.
Boring sidequests, boring dungeons.
And Ruca/Luca was a doormat like you wouldn't believe. Might've changed later in the game, but I never got that far.

I have no idea about Innocence R because Vita.

>>315275016

Oh yeah the titles. Everyone gets half a dozen of them and they change fucking nothing, all the big bonuses are shared across all titles. So just pick the one that gives the biggest damage bonus and call it a day.

>>315274917
The Graces/Xilliababies that populate these threads don't even know what a world map is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7y7qa_b-j0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3t2qE20rEs

>>315274903
What do I do when it starts casting artes and then finishes almost right away and hits me for all my health unless I am not trying to hit it because you can't dodge it unless you are not next to the thing then as soon as it finishes casting it starts casting again and does this about 5 times in a row then runs away and does it again when I can't interrupt the casts because sometimes enemies randomly become damage immune.

>>315273657
What does a full horizontal line do exactly?

>>315275150
Yeah and I know you didn't really play the game.

baka desu senpai

>>315274256
>Why is Zestria so small?
It's even worse, the world itself is so bland and uninteresting, there is very little variation in the scenery and when the game shows something new that could be exciting nothing ever comes out of it. I actually got a bit excited when I reached the field with the spear-like towers, then Sorey just says he saw about it in the Celestial Record and that's it. I tried circling them to see if there was anything to do, but nope, it's was just there for no reason.

Also, none of the things going on are really interesting. I find the war between Rolance and Hyland to be most ridiculous part of it all, why are they even fighting for? Should I care about it only because the evil guy is involved to gather MUH LEVOLENCE? The writers were not even trying when they came up with this shit.

As much as some people hate Xillia, it had a better story than this shit. Like, lots better.

>>315275306
>reason everyone is fighting is malevolence
>can't just explain to them all their problems are the cause of their problems and they just need to stop giving a shit about everything to solve them
Really it's the worst motivation I've ever seen in villains.
They turned evil because in this world if you feel bad for a little while you become a monster.

>>315275184
Do not test it while casting. Basically you can wait it out or split (tell lialah not to use BG) to interrupt it and then re-arma. However when I fought he he could one shot me with any attack non arma so I just waited it out or countered with my own magic. Its risky though.

I forgot what spell it casts? Was it mindflayer? If so equip longstep and dodge towards the enemy. I would position myself a step away and dodge then immediately counter attack the spell.

>>315275173
World maps are an abstraction of a larger explorable world, you would expect that over time with improving technology we would be able to move on from that.

The actual problem is that creating a good open world game is really hard, and not even gigantic companies with hundreds of millions of dollars can pull it off with any reliability. Expecting a team of 30 people to do it on a shoestring budget is delusional, so someone at Bamco management needs a fucking reality check.

>>315275150
Theyre shared? So i should level the other titles too ? Ive just kept them on damage type titles

>>315275842
But neither Graces or Xillia could be called 'open world' by any stretch of the definition.
Instead of a world map you now have corridors that lead to wherever you have to go next.
Sure, most world maps don't contain much of interest either, but they at least give the impression of a big world.

I'd honestly say that the current corridors are worse immersion breakers than the old, low poly overworlds.

>>315275240
No idea.
I could go find out right now I guess, last normin I need is back in elysia.

>>315275923

No I mean every title has the same major passive bonuses (armatization element bonus, specific ailment removal bonus etc.) so the choice between titles is mostly meaningless. Your companions get brutally raped by bosses anyway so you'll probably just grab the +a.attack/+attack title for everyone and forget titles exist for the rest of the game.

>>315275842
I'd rather have an overworld map on games with this kind of budget instead of what they have been offering lately.

They really should stop it.

>>315276051
They're also a good way of showing the effects the game's events have on the world.

There's the Adephagos looming in the skybox in Vesperia, Meteor in FF7, Time Compression limiting access to areas in FF8 and more. It's admittedly an easy way to showcase such events, but if it works, it works.

>>315275842
You are right. If not even people with mad dosh like Bethesda can make a proper open world JRPG should definitively stick to the tried-and-true world maps.

>>315274937
Innocence is terrible. Story is shit, dungeons are shitty straight hallways (last dungeon is literally a spiral of stairs for 40 minutes and 2 boss battles in between), shitty characters, shitty gameplay, etc.
Honestly, it's barely better than Tempest.

I'm buying Xillia 2 tomorrow since I was in the mood for more Tales after Zestiria even though Zest was subpar. What am I in for? I liked the story in Xillia 1, not that much, but I liked it. Is Xillia 2 at least good?

>>315276174
I like 3D environments and being able to encounter enemies in the world. Zestria doesn't do this quite as well as other installments in the series, or even some other JRPGs but I'd still prefer that over a battle swirl random encounter.

>>315275117
>And Ruca/Luca was a doormat like you wouldn't believe. Might've changed later in the game, but I never got that far.
No. The only interesting bits with Luca are at the beginning when he's enjoying his new found power. He's a doormat from beginning to end.

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>>315275403
This I can agree with 100%. The story for the xillia games weren't even bad and were fleshed out and the story never contradicted itself like zestiria. But it does have some moments leaving you saying stuff like "why didn't he just do this."

The characters were extremely developed (even if only counting the first game) but the story literally had pic related after fezebel marsh regarding the story.

>>315276721
Xillia 2 is a lot better than Xillia 1. Better combat, better characters. Story and the debt system is hit or miss. I really liked Xillia 2 and I hated Xillia 1.

>>315276735
Doesn't help that his love interest is the worst in the series.

>>315276051
>I'd honestly say that the current corridors are worse immersion breakers than the old, low poly overworlds.
Probably, but clearly it's not a dealbreaker for a lot of people. They are getting a little better game by game, though at this rate Tales won't be around long enough to get to an acceptable level of open world design.

>>315276174
That or more dev time per game. This anniversary shit is fucking retarded, it's ruined 3 consecutive games now. The craziest thing is, Xillia 1 and Zestiria were rushed out to hit the 15th and 20th anniversaries respectively, and they came out 3 years and 4 months apart. How the fuck does that work?

>>315276721
Combat got significantly improved, though incredibly biased towards Ludger.
Assets get reused everywhere.
They ditched the ability to switch party members mid-battle (something I still haven't forgiven them).
The character relations are weird, if you ask me. It's like they feared upsetting the status-quo, and decided to advance everything as little as possible. Oh, and almost everyone likes Ludger, which was sorta jarring.

Still enjoyed it, but I'm a Talesfag, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
I still like ToP SNES, after all.

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>>315276829
Oh god, that gunner chick was grating until the fucking end. The japanese wannabe was tons better.
All the characters were bad though, except maybe Richard and Spada. The only genuine fun character was that nutjob with a spear whose name I don't remember.
Innocence was an all around terrible experience.

>>315276826
I've heard about the debt system but I didn't look more into it as I wasn't playing yet to play the game before. Is it as restricting as Zestiria's shop/fuse system? If not, then that's fine. Right now, anything is actually better than what Zestiria's system offered.

>>315276817
Getting transported to Elympios should have been the same point plotwise as Tethe'alla in Symphonia.

Instead it was literally the end of the game.

>>315277048
Try it for yourself. It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Better than Zest without a doubt

>>315277101
When I saw before the battle cutscene I freaked the fuck out like I just got transported here and did one dungeon. It was jarring tbqh. I didn't believe it until the game told me if I jumped down in the dimension area it was a point of no return.

At least I could have went back to rise maxia before that.

>>315277048
Debt system is just a plot progression mechanic. You're never really short on cash, but there'll be times when you have to cough up dosh before you can progress to the next plot event.

You can't farm gald either. There's a limit to how much dosh you can gather before it's auto-funneled to your qtjew banker. Still, I reiterate, cash is never really an issue.

my little sister wants me to play it but I dont really like tales of xillia's combat system that much, is it like xillia?

>>315277017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFg695mlsuo

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>>315277017
ToP snes is the best version I don't give a fuck what anybody says.

PSX feels weird and kind of like destiny psx which I hated and the gba one is fucking awful.

>>315276817
God I don't remember the game anymore. But I do remember me thinking a lot that, "Yo, this still isn't the last boss?" or "Really? There's more?"

There were lots of "final boss" moments in the first game. But I enjoyed it.

>>315277101
That's because Elympios was really just a separate continent. You can call it another "world", but in reality, it's the protagonists discovering France for the first time after spending the majority of the game in England. The island cluster of Rieze Maxia can be connected to Elympios via an actual physical bridge, kinda like a reverse English Channel Tunnel.

>>315277178
>>315277369
Well anything's better than Zestiria's system.

>>315277017
>Assets get reused everywhere.
Well I don't remember the first game that much so it won't be an issue, I think.
>They ditched the ability to switch party members mid-battle.
THEY FUCKING WHAT?

>>315257779
The camera is ridiculously horrible (honestly don't know how the camera made it into the final product with how many problems it has) and adding armatizing into the game really fucked over the battle system. Equipment skills are really unsatisfying and requires a lot of banging your head against the RNG until it gives you what you want.

And the world in general is just lacking, looking at the world map there's a region north of Lohgrin that looks like you could go to it but there's just this massive wall to the north that you can't get around. At least the music is great!

>>315277398
no Gale Shield/10

>>315277558
I'm pretty sure my nostalgia goggles are on too tight for me to be even remotely objective about ToP SNES.
Still nice to see that I'm not the only one who still likes it.

>GBA one
I do not speak of that abomination.

>>315277692
You're essentially buying the same weapons/armor/accessories, visiting the same fields/dungeons/towns etc. with a few new additions.

>>315277707
I only liked 3 pieces of music.

Journey's End
Rising Up (I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY USED THIS SHIT ON A MIDGET LOOKING DRAGON)
Zaveid's theme

>>315277558
PSP remake of ToP is really solid though.

>>315277806
Hmm, well I hope the story will save it a little. At least I know what I'm expecting regarding the reused assets now.

>>315277692
Yep.
You select your 4-man party whenever you go outside of the towns and that's what you're gonna work with. Ludger is required for 90% of the game as well. Which is not awful, as he's damn good, but fuck restrictions.
Sure, fitting in 5 members to swap around might've required some creativity, but goddamn I'm still mad.

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I played an undubbed version of Tales of the Abyss and absolutely loved it. The soundtrack was amazing. Those overworld themes really made it feel like shit was going down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcJscrR8NE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FabFpzFX4tI

Would I like this game?

>>315277602
I mean, before Milla dispelled the barrier they were basically in a bubble with no way of knowing there was an outside world. I don't remember the exact geography (did they just assume the world was flat? was rieze maxia curved into a tiny ball floating somewhere invisibly in the elympian sky?) but it's a little bit more complex than england and france.

>>315277692
You're locked into a party of 4 and can only switch out members at cities. You can still switch between the 4 to control, but you can't swap in new members in battle anymore.

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>> People shit on every older Tales game after Zestiria was released on PC,
>> PC fags troll in every thread saying how awesome Zestiria is,
>> People who played more than 2-3 Tales of titles are aware that Zestiria is one of the worst games,
>> People are saying Zestiria is better than all Tales of games released on Nintendo platforms,
>> Vesperia fans, Zestiria trolls are fighting in almost every thread possible, it's like watching 3-year old children punching themselves in sandbox while crying how much their eyes hurts,
>> Only good things about Zestiria is 3 main characters and music. Everything else was mediocre or really bad.

I played Tales of Symphonia 2 and that game is much better than Zestiria!

>>315278272
This makes me mildly inclined to play symphonia 2.
I've been avoiding it for years.

I'm having a lot of fun playing it while imagining all the seraphs as fake and the entire party runs around fighting thin air/normal animals like they are autistic chunibyos.

>>315278272
>Only good things about Zestiria is 3 main characters
Not really. Sorey sucked big time as a protag.

>>315276735
At least we got these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0zoweKKxZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8TzxxKew00

>>315278272
Something about symphonia 2's combat felt really stiff, didn't feel really good to me. Apparently this is the same combat system abyss uses but I hear abyss has broken freerunning on top of that so I've been staying away.

>>315278507
There's no silver lining for Innocence as far I'm concerned. I'll avoid everything related to it.

>>315278501
He was pretty good. Not as boring as Jude, not as punchable as assbell, more personality then Kor fucking Meteor.

>>315278272
Zestiria IS bad. But there are worse Tales.

>>315278575
>Apparently this is the same combat system abyss uses
Bullshit.
I played Symphonia 2 for an hour, and it felt way worse than Abyss.
I don't remember accidentally moving opponents by walking into them in Abyss.
Also restricting the old party members to level 50 max was pants on head retarded.

Free run was broken in Abyss because you could go too fast and the AI sorta shat itself at that point.

>>315278759
Post-battle victory screen Asbel was best Asbel.

Hey guys, i beat zestiria and i loved it, but that's just my opinion on it

Are any of the other tales games like this? Sadly I only have a pc so my options might be limited here

>>315278876
PCs can play every game except 4 of them.

>>315278876
>options might be limited
You can emulate all the PS2 games and the PSX games and SNES Phantasia.
It's a fairly large list.

>>315279041
And the PSP games too.

>>315278876
>only have a pc
>my options might be limited here
Limited? When you can emulate pretty much everything released before Vesperia?

>>315278876
Your options are limited to say the least. You can emulate Symphonia and Abyss i guess.

>>315278060
>Huge storm/fog blocking off England from the rest of the world
>no air travel, only ships
>ships can't bypass fog
>England is an isolated island
>fog gets lifted
>England discovers France for the first time
>builds a bridge across the English Channel instead of a tunnel

That's literally it.

>>315279165
Aren't the majority PS2 ports, other than Narikiri Dungeon X?
Oh, I guess there's the Radiant Mythology games, but the combat always felt a bit off in those to me.

>>315279196
>Phantasia
>Destiny (DC)
>Eternia
>Rebirth
>Destiny 2
>Legendia (well, you can)
Why are you forgetting so many titles?

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>>315257779
Played only Eternia and Symphonia and haven't finished Abyss. Holy shit this game is bad. It's just bad I couldn't force myself to play it after 4 hours in.

>>315279495
>Oh, I guess there's the Radiant Mythology games, but the combat always felt a bit off in those to me.
Even though the combat kinda sucks on the first two the third one is kinda decent. They still count.

>>315277761
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbmCKT3XSAU

>>315277889
Most PSP remakes are. The PSP was a fucking GOAT system.

>>315279315
it wasn't just fog, it was a physical barrier that you needed to break with a spirit gun.

>>315279810
>The PSP was a fucking GOAT system.
My niggah. Up there, right next to the PS2 and NDS.

>>315279810
WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

>>315279762
What was bad?
The awful timing on side quests?
The characters?
The combat?
Because if it's the combat your opinion is shit.

>>315257779
I watched my friend play this game for over two hours last week. He had all of two actual battles that were over in seconds. The rest was horrific cut scenes and pointless tasks, stocked to the brim with shitty anime archetypes and miserable RPG cliches.

Is this what JRPGs have become in the wake of the 90s? Damn, this genre should just die already.

>>315280086
Welcome to the tales series friend.

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Tales of the Abyss hit too close to home. I got to a point where the game emotionally hurt me so bad I had to put the controller down, shut off the game and cry myself to sleep.

>>315278041
>World map music changes that reflect the mood or the end of the game

MUH DIK

>>315279969
NDS GBA SNES PS1/2/3 and PSP are my personal faves

>>315279889
Yeah well the point was that you weren't discovering a brand new dimension/world.

All you literally did was just breaking the barrier that stopped you from getting to the adjacent continent on the same planet.

>>315280086
Tales has always been anime and cliches.
Combat used to be really damn solid as well, which was the main draw for me.

>>315279980
Characters are even more just like in my cliche chinese cartoons than usual, I can't say about story but from what I've seen it's jiat an ancient evil awaken and only you can save the world, Shitty graphics I thnk that's because of open world tho. I don't know about combat it's nothing special I think. I remember eternia having somewhat different system and symphonia and abyss similar to zesteria.

>>315280174
Was it always like this? I had friends who loved Tales of Symphonia back in the day, and it seems to be generally well-regarded, but I never cared for JRPGs so I never touched it.

I also never cared for Action RPG combat. It annoys me. It's like a compromise between styles where instead of mashing a button through menus, you're just mashing a button through the attacks themselves. And you lose strategic control of your party members, which, to me, is a pretty important aspect.

>>315280393
Well, yeah.
Eternia was 2D, Symphonia was their first foray into 3D combat.
Abyss has pretty solid combat, but at the start it doesn't really show because your options are limited.

>>315280575
Symphonia is basically babby's first Tales.
People nostalgia over it pretty damn hard.
It's not a bad game at all, but the half-assed 3D combat annoys me too much for me to replay it.
>button mashing
That's why you can set the difficulty higher.
And usually the tactics menu allows you to have the AI do what needs to be done. Set things to short-cuts if you want, or use the menu to manually tell them to do a certain technique.

>>315279889
I still dont remember what the fuck was going on there.
>Helping out on a battlfield
>climactic fight with the chimieriad
>suddenly Ivar
>IVAR NO IF YOU PUSH THAT BUTTON WE'LL REPEAT THE PLOT TWIST FROM SYMPHONIA
>BAW GAWD HE PUSHED THE BUTTON
And from there you could see that the budget was tapped out.

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>>315275240
That took a while.

>>315274632
>>315274809

It was a pretty huge revelation, it showed that Heldalf didn't choose to become a hellion. While he did awful things he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and part of a huge chain of wrongdoing by many people.

That's where Sorey finds his ultimate answer in that Heldalf has to be saved, the answer to why and how he has to be stopped.

>>315281958
>Heldalf has to be saved

Yeah which still amounted to stabbing him with a sword.

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>>315281213
I'll stick with x9.

>>315275306
>>315275521

The war happened because Heldalf wanted it to, he was using it to breed more hellions. It's kinda everything the Cardinal and Symonne were doing. They pulled the strings and Heldalf pushed the world further into chaos.

Zestiria wasn't that complex and yet people still post with questions that were clearly explained in the game.

Speaking of the writing being hilariously bad at times. Did anyone find the taboo system some of the stupidest writing in ages? A human becomes freaking immortal if he swears not to tell anyone about the memory stone. No one can do anything about hellions, not even Seraphs... except Lailah can purify them and all she has to do is swear not to talk about the past?

So why the hell isn't everyone making up some taboo?

>>315281958
>It was a pretty huge revelation
Not really. What Michael did was a bigger revelation that Heldalf's.

>>315282115

It's the why that matters.

If they had killed him without knowing that it would have led to Sorey being corrupted, knowing that he had to be saved changed the why and allowed him to escape becoming the next lord of calamity.

It's kinda why Heldalf is ok with doing battle with you early on and why a bad ending to the game exists.

>>315282776
Sorey doesn't become corrupted in the bad ending where you kill Heldalf early. But Maotelus stays a hellion, and as Maotelus is the land itself, the malevolence can't be stopped. Sorey never figures out that Heldalf and Maotelus were tied together, so the world is fucked.

Zestiria is a 6.5/10 Tales game with a painfully generic story and combat that doesnt >feel as good as Graces did with a super terrible camera and party member AI

The overworlds are pretty and the music is fantastic but the dungeons are almost entirely copypasted ruins. the human party members are bland as fuck and the game does fuck all with the villains

The Alisha DLC is literally one super long generic ruin dungeon and the japs were right to throw a bitch fit over it

This is the first Tales game I wont be doing a NG+ run of

Hearts R has the best 3D combat system of the series.

AC for artes, no forced bullshit "Linking system" like XIllia/Zestiria, focus on aerial combos unlike Graces and Zestiria, every single character is fun as fuck to play, game has a just counter system that let's you bypass Iron Stance by getting gud. HEARTS R LET'S YOU BYPASS IRON STANCE.

I hope they use that system in the next game.

Too bad Berseria will just be Zestiria 2 :^)

>>315283474

Good because there are about a dozen questions left up in the air with the ending and no closure on a bunch of topics.

I think the camera behaves so weidly, because they implemented a neat idea:
when you touch an enemy, the current area will become the battle arena.
The camera seems to struggle with all the possible obstructions that a battle arena could have.

>>315281213
nice senpai (family)

>>315284652
Obstructions like edges?

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That fucking fire temple theme made me wish I were a Mexican.

>>315259823
>>315272146

Armatize with Mikleo and learn to how to dodge timing to raise BG.

>>315285317
I like the wind temple. I think I'm the only one who likes it.

>>315285582

It has a few really good segments but then a few kinda bad ones that sour the whole thing.

>>315285582
I liked all the temple themes, but wind is admittedly my least favorite. Gotta agree with >>315285687

>>315285242
I was more talking about a forest.

>>315275842
Except technology is not the only limit a video game has and the biggest detriment to moving on from world maps is the fact that no one is going to actually design an entire world to scale (especially on a Tales game budget) so you'll either get a series of corridors a la Graces, a series of empty connected rooms, or one fuckhuge empty room.

>>315261432
I know I know,
>replying to a post six hours later
but I just can't imagine anyone finding Abyss forgettable of all things, especially if you found fucking Symphonia memorable

>>315285317
>>315285582
>>315285687


Go Shiina should really spearhead the sound direction for the next Tales' game.
Motoi Sakuraba is literally losing inspiration and fast.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ46J5N56Qc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGwqySAk6VY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdX1g3Lu5Q8

>>315285317
im mexican, i like the fire temple music

>>315285352
doesn't work

I would dodge and get the BG and SC increase and still die since they nerfed it from graces but rose still has the graces dodge that leaves you fully invulnerable till you dodge all of the attacks. Water arma has great range but the attacks have HUGE cooldowns and leaves you open and you must commit and one wrong shot will make you instant cast zavied's hell gate which rose will promptly follow up on.

The're are just too many attacks and not enough room to move in that fight in the harder difficulties. I could NOT beat them level 70 in hard mode. I would have to be at least 90 with blessed gear. I could dodge no problem and rose is kind of easy to kite but zavied makes up for that weakness so you'd have to take out zavied. However being non arma will get me comboed to death by rose or 2 shotted by his magic.

Awful fight
Awful camera
Awful balance

>>315286305
How do you know if Go Shiina was the one that did the tracks?

Did he also do this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCkaq1GsK_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sXut-uosys

>>315286323
Earth>Wind>Water>>>>Fire temple

>trying to find normin locations
>No video
fuck

>>315286567
>>315285317

Could someone who hasn't beaten the game post a pic of the title screen?

I want to check something.

>>315286567

Earth>Fire>>Water>>>>>>Wind

>>315286561
Go Shiina did all the disc 3 tracks, so yeah, those too.

>Tales of Berseria
>party members include certain characters for Zestiria
>Alisha to shut up waifu fags
>token seraphim just because
>motherfucking Sergei

what if

>>315286567
dont know about any other temples, just beat fire temple last night and the music was good

>>315278041
No, but you might like Vesperia for playing similar. I don't think any game in the series really has the same feel Abyss does, though IIRC they all do the changing overworld theme. Well, all the ones that have overworlds.

Abyss just had a lot more love poured into the creation of its fictional world than most other Tales games and I don't know why they didn't haven't bothered with that aspect since as it was stellar.

>>315287345

>MC is full of Malevolence
>Returning zesty characters purify then journey with her
>Their goal is to help Sorey so he can wake up
>The 700 years mikleo thing ends up just being a ruse to make people sad

>>315283474
I like Hearts R's counter system
I liked Hearts R's gameplay a lot
It's a shame the music sucked and the shitty localization ruined everything that possibly could be ruined aside from that

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>>315287520
People have made quite a bit of fun of TotA's world building though.

And yeah, changing overworld themes have been a thing since Phantasia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLkVwNgkDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zm_7xcgB8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6t7xa2BTEQ

Either this, or different themes for different worlds.

>>315287345
Will it have boat gameplay?
Tales of Black Flag pls, I want to be able to take Mikleo with me to a deserted island.

>>315287702
It'd have to be at least a hundred+ years unless Rose's funeral scene was a ruse, too. Mikleo didn't have his fabulous long hair yet.

>>315287903
Overusing the term fonon isn't world building, but it is funny

>>315288049
Fonons are a massive part of the TotA world though.
Hell, they fucking predict the future with it.

They did go sorta overboard with the names.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCuZlWSte1E

>>315287959

That's assuming the hand that grabbed him was even Sorey and not his and Alicia's descendant.

>>315288381
gross

but seriously, he was wearing the glove and Mikleo's tsundere ass wouldn't be that happy to see anyone but Sorey

>>315288182
Fonons are literally Abyss' world's equivalent of atoms so no, they didn't fucking go overboard with it
I've done three playthroughs of the game and I think the whining about the Fonon issue is ridiculously exaggerated
The image is funny yeah but that's because it's a hyperbole, not anything close to a line from the game

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If Alicia had worn that DLC outfit during the main game there is no chance Sorey would have passed up on that.

>>315288665
I love the hat.

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>windstepping

why
why do i have to keep fighting tedious trash mobs just to go fast
why do i have to run around listening to fluff text just to go fast
why can't i just get a skill that gives me a flat buff to movement speed
who thought this was a good idea

>>315288665
Alisha deserves a real man, anyway, not some archaeology nerd. She deserves best husbando Sergei

>>315288901

You do, read what some of the orbs do.

>>315288665
>there is no chance Sorey would have passed up on that.
But Sorey likes men.

Dikleo is worst girl

>>315288912

He couldn't even touch Sorey in a fair 1v1, not much of a knight if you ask me.

>>315259565
Did you have to post Lailah's picture.

;_;

>>315289018
Honestly, outside of that skit and fanart, I've never really seen anything in the game that hints he's actually gay.

Everytime you're in proximity of Ladylake, it's always
>is Alisha doing okay
>i wonder how Alisha is doing
>shit we totally better tell her about Maltran
>wonder how Alisha is coping

>>315289296
Yeah, but he never actually goes to talk to her, does he? At least two of those 'let's go check up on Alisha!' scenes have him eavesdropping on her and her maid-chan and not actually talking to her afterwards. And that scene towards the end of the game where he rejects going with her is so blunt there's even a skit afterwards where the seraphim talk about him rejecting her feelings.

He's attached to Alisha because she was his first human friend.

>>315289626

At that point in the game he knows what he has to do and that he can't really be with anyone. Prior to that though you can tell he is interested but probably just doesn't know what to do with himself.

Sucks that they would tease romance throughout the entire game and the never go through with it, not even a little bit.

>>315289626
He's a beta faggot, what more needs to be said?

>>315282341
Read those posts again, it's not that people don't understand why these things are happening, it's that the motivation is lazy and uninteresting. The writers could have easily added things like the people of Rolance starving due to the constant rains, water poisoning in Hyland, riots all over the continent, a war would be perfectly acceptable then. Instead we get one isolated incident with a plague city and a villain who barely even tries to kill you.
>First battle with Heldaf
>Join me Shepard
>No
>Then let's finish this
>No
>Okay, bye
Just face it, the writing is bad.

>>315287268
If that's right then they should change Motoi for now. I really think he's a little fed up with Tales as they only want "the usual stuff" from him.

>>315291141

But that comes from people not paying attention, most of what you just asked about was explained in the parts dealing with Cardinal Forton.

They were starving among other things, the Cardinal was using all of that as pressure on the people to act as a driving force to unite them in the war.