Oh hey three new Tales of... games

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Tales of Vesperia port for PS3. Apparently, it's not a direct port becuase they're adding a new character. Some young pirate girl. This will be interesting.

Tales of VS for the PSP. A up four-player multi-player fighting game featuring characters from other Tales of... games.

Tales of Graces for the Wii. Yes, that new "mothership" title they were talking about.

Hype train pulling into the station.

This post has been edited by Fiddy Three on Apr 1 2009, 02:29 PM

So that's finally the new Wii Tales game been announced? Awesome.
And yes, Tales fightsmurfsmurfsmurfsmurfsmurfing game!

Too bad I couldn't ****smurfsmurfsmurfing play Vesperia because I didn't have a 360... >________<

I won't hype until later though. I want to be patient.

But I am looksmurfing forward to it.

This post has been edited by Parakarry on Apr 1 2009, 02:30 PM

Sweet. I've heard good things about Vesperia. Can't wait to get it.

This post has been edited by Sorario on Apr 1 2009, 03:08 PM

me besmurfing the idiot I am will probably buy a ps3 just for the new character

and I was just about to start my new Unknown mode file :/

Hopefully the Wii one will be better than ToS2

Too...many...Tales...games...I'm still playing Tales of Symphonia...

Meh, no attention span for long RPG's. Good games in general, I hope they don't ruin the franchise by flooding the market.

i should go play TOS again, but I don't remember where I am.

I just realized that these all have December releases in Japan.

Looks like we're going to be waiting quite a while for them to come out to our regions.
Unless they're translating the game as they produce it, but that's most likely not the case.

This post has been edited by Fiddy Three on Apr 2 2009, 04:41 AM

Tales of Graces has a dumb name but overall it's appealing so far. Aspel reminds me of Siegfried from Soul Calibur though, with his DUR HUR I WANT MORE POWER POWER POWER thing. Aside from that, he's the same as every other protagonist.

Tales of VS looks amazing so far.

Vesperia PS3 is just weird. Why would they add a new character? Also, you missed the fact that they're making a movie based on Vesperia.

http://gallery.abyssalchronicles.com/displ...lbum=71&pos=187

Pic of Aspel, Pirate Loli and the Vesperia movie at the bottom.

Are the Tales of.. games made recently any good? I mean they keep getting churned out faster than Tetris remakes, so I've sorta been skeptical about them.

Then again that could just be the fact my most recent system is GCN and I have some sort of denial of not being able to play any of the Tales of.. games beyond ToS or emulating ToD (PSX).

Pirate Loli? The game is automatically ten times better.


@TenguMan: Well, if you've played Tales of Symphonia, you could check out Tales of Symphonia 2. The plot is a lot better. Even though a lot of the locations are the same, the game doesn't get boring at all. It's a lot shorter, but for some reason I like it better.

I feel like the Tales games get closer and closer to conforming to the anime norm with every game. The first Tales game I ever saw was Tales of Symphonia, and despite not really liking the art, I could respect it, at least -- it had it's own style. But slowly it seems like the style is coming closer to the "typical anime style" (i.e. huge shiny eyes, "she looks 12, but she's actually 18," lanky limbs with smaller appendages, etc.), which I think is a bit sad.

It makes me think a company's really selling out if they need to change their style to meet the norm just to sell to people.

Bumping since more info.

Tales of Graces:

The game sounds awesome so far. I'm really looking forward to it. And they're not forcing motion controls, so **** yes.


Tales of Vesperia:

And people say the PS3 doesn't have it's benefits.
Twice the dialogue and new events/content.


Tales of Vesperia Movie:

Haven't played the game yet so, I don't know if I should be saying "yay!"


Tales of VS:

Oh god, I might actually get a PSP just for this game. 35 major characters from previous tales games and a voiced story mode? **** this game is going to be awesome.

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EDIT AGAIN: IGN Also has four images for Tales of Graces up.

This post has been edited by Fiddy Three on Apr 6 2009, 05:37 PM

Mrs. A, when you say typical anime style, are you referring to the models in game, the artwork, or both? Just asking for clarification.

p.s. I think both Colette and Estelle look younger than they actually are while Tear looks older (and also dressed inappropriately) xP Most of the other females seem to generally match their age with their looks.

This post has been edited by Mug on Apr 6 2009, 06:02 PM

I'm referring a tad more to the artwork than the graphics, though I really haven't seen much of the graphics to really make a fair judgment. From what I saw in Symphonia, though, I'm not sure if I'd ever want to see more in-game graphics, anyways; they really don't suit my tastes in 3D models.

Out of the three I have seen and played (Symphonia , Phantasia, Narikiri Dungeon 2) I definitely like Phantasia the best.
Tales of VS sounds good.

Emulate Tales of Eternia while you're at it, it's really good. ;x

I would definitely play Abyss, it's piss easy but a wonderful game.
VS is confusing me, there appears to be a 2d and 3d mode. The 3d looks ok, whatever, but the 2d is horrendous. Tales of Eternia and Tales of the World gba backgrounds, Tales of Eternia sprites/Tales of the World sprites, just ... what the hell? Put some effort in. ._. it's so ugly.
Graces sounds interesting with this "battle style shifting" during fights and the 360 degree sidestep, but god are the graphics incredibly lazy.
**** YES TALES OF VESPERIA FOR PS3 FINALLY, I don't have a 360. Ew at the pirate though, we already have Chat and she's got a better ship!


Mrs. A, I'd like to point out that there's two artists/main character designers, they do different games and are distinct styles. Kosuke Fujishima you might see from things like Ah my Goddess and You're Under Arrest; he did Symphonia while Mutsumi Inomata is from what I hear a fantasy novel illustrator, her art style was pretty gross and hard for me to get used to, though she's improving now. Both types of games are wonderful though, and I've taken a liking for the 2d ones, even if the last one we got in the States was on ps1 (Eternia) so not very advanced.

Tales of the Abyss (Fujishima)
http://gallery.dot-3.com/displayimage.php?album=30&pos=16
Tales of Destiny (Inomata)
http://gallery.abyssalchronicles.com/displ...lbum=141&pos=41

I suppose this isn't a fair comparison though, I've taken Abyss which is fairly recent and compared it to Destiny, Inomata's first Tales game. :p she did improve later on though, I think for the Destiny remake and Innocence, etc.
http://gallery.dot-3.com/displayimage.php?album=13&pos=4

By the way, anyone know what the hell happened to Tales of Hearts?

It's out in Japan. No idea if it'll come out here, iirc there was an interview and they said they have no plans to bring it over. If you haven't noticed, the last 2d game we got was Eternia and so they don't think it sells here or something.