I won't find the old jokes about Malik funny anymore
all i remember from this game was how comfy the snow zone was. and how autistic sophie was
I love the loli nanomachine terminator
100% Namco will remove multiplayer for no reason whatsoever
>>686904259is that a bulge for ants??
>battle can be toggled offWhat's the point in playing an rpg if you skip the battles?
>>686905434This can't be real. The only reason anyone even gives a fuck about Graces is because it has one of the better battle systems.
>>686905602Plus it has my wife Sophie.
I want to make crablettes for her
>>686905434What's the point of doing the exact same battles 100000 times except to fill a progress bar?
>>686905434Namco realized corridors with trash battles isn't the most exciting idea and letting the player choose when they fight is better. This game especially benefits from it because the eleth gauge resets every time you touch a save point so you can build it up, turn off encounters, and walk into a boss with a burst ready. Besides, you're still going to be grinding for hours on end to refine your weapons, earn and master the various titles, and increase the eleth mixer.
>>686905602>This can't be real.Oh it's real. Watch the trailer. If they can add a feature like that, just imagine what else they'll do, with localization for instance
I have played at least 5 Tales games for more than 60 hours each and I've never cleared a single one. Why are these games so fucking long?
>>686906146They're as long as you make them out to be anon, like basically every jrpg.
>>686904259Sophiebros / Hebebros were eating good
>>686906146>i couldn't beat the first one, so i played a second one>i couldn't beat the second one, so i played a third one>i couldn't beat the third one, so...What the fuck is wrong with you.
>>686905434it's journalist mode.
>>686904259yeah I didn't realize how old graces was til now. F released when I was about to hit high school.
>>686904462>comfyWith those fucking gunner enemies and the incredibly oppressive battle themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qosouO5ZoY
>>686906146I beat Symphonia because most of the cast is likeable and the areas are comfy. I've tried Vesperia but it just doesn't have the same comfy 00s adventure feeling. There's a cynical streak running through it.
>>686904462>snow zone>comfyGod I wish. I remember eating the most defeats there.
>>686906669They have good gameplay, I just lose interest before I get to the finish line and never pick it back up.
So this is definitely coming to steam as well right?
>>686907773
>>686907595I remember stopping there for a day or two just to steal some enemy non stop because I could use it to make something that gave me lots of money.
>>686907607Fair enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECRq0PvXOQSOUL
>>686908214https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZLWFy4pbTYCrablettes.
I'm surprised, I thought they indefinitely halted porting more tales games to pc. this also happens to be one of my favorite games. I'm prepared for a resurgence of threads shitting on it.
>>686908214Richard...
>>686908705Being a PS3 title, it may be relatively easier to bring over compared to a PS2 title. And it's a different studio entirely, but if Persona 4 Golden was ported over, I think it's a sign that Innocence R and Hearts R will come over eventually too.
They released Vesperia DE with most of the costumes intact and are doing the same with Graces f. There's no way they'll just re-release garbage Xillia without Xillia 2, right?
>Lots of Costume DLC from PS3 isnt thereShould i just Emulate PS3 version instead ?
>>686904259>remastering something other than symphoniaimpossibru
>>686906146Except for Vesperia and Graces, none of the games are 60hrs+ unless you grind and play like an autist. Sounds like a (You) problem.
>>686908705Graces writting is a masterpiece in comparison to most games released on Steam. It will do fine.
>remastered projectSomeday...eternia....
>>686905236>>686905496>>686905674>>686905806>>686905946TIGER FESTIVAL!!
whoa...a port.... of a game that I already played...fucking amazing....
>>686906146>>686906669I did this too. My order of play was Graces F, Symphonia, and Abyss. I will beat Graces this time.
>>686904259
>>686905434If they add new content and can toggle journailist mode off I see no problem.If it's just a rerelease I'll just stick to ps3 copy instead of paying for it again.Also Pascal a cute and I love the long range regular attack/melee range magic gimmick.
So, they made this available in Gematsu's article.>Switch 30FPSI seriously hope this doesn't mean that battles would also run on this framerate when in the PS3's version they were 60, and Vesperia's Switch port ran at 60 in battles and even in some town areas.
>>686910071Nice, local co-op is still in for those lucky fuckers. I do kind of wish there was some super coliseum mode where you can play online co-op.
Anal sex with hebes
>>686909037Didn't it say all the dlc would be included? hoping that means the JP exclusive costumes as well.
>>686910071>no online co-opFor fuck's sake, they'll probably won't fix the AI, do they? People tend to forget Cheria was beyond retarded and you needed to disable almost everything to make the healer actually heal.
>>686904259Graces isnt the only Remaster we gonna get.Xillia is 99% confirmed. Expect Xillia 2 and Abyss will soon to follow
>>686910623*lolis
>>686910736https://oath.tales-ch.jp/remastered/#dlcEverything but the following are in:- Code Geass Costumes: Asbel, Sophie, Richard, Cheria- .hack//GU Costume: Asbel- Miku Costume: Sophie- Idolmaster Costumes: Sophie, Cheria, Pascal
>>686911013Lolis cant do sex. Ask your local lolis
>>686911082>BoA costume is still Wii exclusivepain
>>686910739no tales game has ever had online co-op before.but you can probably force it via parsec or steam remote play if the game has local co-op on pc.
https://www.gematsu.com/2024/08/tales-of-graces-f-remastered-announced-for-ps5-xbox-series-ps4-xbox-one-switch-and-pcoh fuck they kept the local multiplayer
>>686911271I liked the hat too but we still have plenty of costumes to play with.
>>686905236>>686905496>>686905674>>686905806>>686905946>>686906448God someone please make SFM Porn of Sophie
>>686911082>literally everything I want is not in except for JP voicesI will still get this but that really sucks
>>686911129Some of them are professionals you know.
>>686911458I know, but would have been a good point to do so since they are showing off with the remasters.
>>686911082So no JP costumes then, fuck I want the CC costume for Sophie.
>>686911728>Anise>152cm>Loli
>>686911729online co-op sounds cool on paper but probably has lots of issues trying to execute it since this is a wii port of a ps3 game. i wouldnt be surprised if old wii bugs arise again co-op player is able to spam mystic arte or the game crashes when you open the guide menu.
>>686909818Say what you will, but the deadpan delivery on that line was 10/10 acting.
>>686911458>no tales game has ever had online co-op before.Rays gacha had that on the monthly/bi-monthly Union (aka Arena) mode: 2 characters per player, 3 players max, and you can cycle between the 2 characters with a cooldown.https://x.com/piikeisandaa/status/1753348490338660393
>>686911474>oh fuck they kept the local multiplayerOh yes; this is SO going to be couch-cooped to death.
>>686912498Is Rays even a mainline game? I thought it was a spinoff. Spinoffs may as well dont exist.
>the one and only game in which I ever paid for cosmetics>giving away DLCIs this what being cucked feels like?
BAMCO ARE YOU READING THIS? I ONLY BUY RE-RELEASES OF OLD GAMES ON STEAM NOW. KEEP THEM COMING.
>>686911458Graces does have some basis for online connectivity outside of just a DLC shop though. I recall the Wii version had a leaderboard feature where you could share your challenge battle scores with your friends.
>>686911806Sorry, licenses are expensive.
>>686912612Spin-off, but it was a big one.Literally all playable characters in all games (including Link and Asteria) were promoted to playable, including some enemies (Miktran, Dhaos, Arietta, Alice, etc) and literal NPCs becoming playable (fucking Ion and Peony of all characters, Martel, etc). Except Orwin.
>>686911948Yes.
>>686913226>I recall the Wii version had a leaderboard feature where you could share your challenge battle scores with your friends.https://oath.tales-ch.jp/remastered/That's gone.
>>686913226leaderboards are basic stuff though. any game can have that. vesperia had it too for arena mode.
>>686905674My* wife>>686905946>>686908364I actually did start making kanitama (what crablettes was in the japanese version. It's crab egg foo young) more because of her. It's good.
>>686913231Sega is currently holding it. Namco cant get it now.
>>686912393I posted it because it's amazing, lol. Honestly, Graces getting another remaster is the best news of the last days
Graces's story might be bad but the characters and all the skits, jokes and how they interact elevates it beyond most tales games.
Can someone help me see what I'm missing with this game? I played it and really didn't like it, and all comments i've seen were "yeah the story and characters suck outside of the loli but THE GAMEPLAY" but the combat felt like a lot of great ideas executed poorly>you have a pool of MP that regenerates instantly after the combo ends, but because of the enemy weaknesses and the first/second/third/fourth tier move system you end up doing the same combo on the same enemy over and over with no room for experimentation>you can time a dodge to get your MP back mid string and keep playing without any downtime, but because of this every boss turns into a clusterfuck of projectiles as you press your iframes button>you get rewarded with more exp/better items for playing on hard mode, encouraging you to get good. except the AI can't play its own game at all so you either have to babysit your party members constantly so they dont get 2shot by aforementioned boss aoe spam or just accept they're going to die constantly and you're going to end up soloing a large chunk of the boss fights>every character has two fighting styles you can mix between like light/heavy attacks in an action game, except this is only really true on asbel and pascal with everyone else just having the "combo button" and the "sit here and cast spells" buttonswhole game just felt like I was doing the same combos on the same enemies over and over in linear hallways the game calls dungeons that exist in linear hallways the game calls a world, I'm not even gonna bother talking about the story because I've literally never seen anyone defend it but people seem to love the combat in this game when to me it feels really mindless unless you've literally never played a game with a parry/perfect dodge mechanic before
I remember playing this game in Japanese and they couldn't stop saying "Tomodachi" in every cutscene. I swear they said it at least 1000 times.
>>686914402>you get rewarded with more exp/better items for playing on hard mode, encouraging you to get good. except the AI can't play its own game at all so you either have to babysit your party members constantly so they dont get 2shot by aforementioned boss aoe spam or just accept they're going to die constantly and you're going to end up soloing a large chunk of the boss fightsFriend of mine just went with all mage backline Malik+Cheria+Richard(when available, if not then just Hubert or Blood Flamme Pascal) and Asbel melee.
>>686914498Mamorenakatta...MAMORU
>>686914271The story isn't bad anyways, it's a nice story about family. People just have a bad habit of looking for life-changing shit from the stories they read/watch/play, there comes a point when your life isn't going to be changed anymore.
>>686914271the story is bad BECAUSE the characters are bad>asbel fights for his friends and is stupid>hubert is mad at asbel and a chunni>cheria is tsundere for asbel and likes healing>pascal is genuinely on the spectrum to the point it feels uncomfortable just how little she understands everything around her>malik exists to have testosterone and reveal info about the setting to the player/asbel>richard spends most of the game being a genocidal maniac because he got possessed and then in the last arc is noble and feels bad about being possed by a genocidical maniaconly sophie has any arc, fucking final fantasy 4, a game that came out in 1991, has characters with more depth
>>686911082>>686911806There's a mod for Vesperia on PC that adds in the costumes that are missing from DE, I'd imagine the PC version of Graces will get a similar mod.
>>686914498Tales of Graces F(riends)
>>686914868>malik exists to have testosterone>has a tiny thong with a pronounced bulgeThat's more than fine for me.
>>686904259I wish it was Xillia. Graces f is probably the most average game in the series, not outstandingly good or bad.
>>686915168I honestly thought Xillia was the most mid. It was like they took the worst parts of Abyss and fused it with Hearts R.
>>686914868>>pascal is genuinely on the spectrum to the point it feels uncomfortable just how little she understands everything around herdas rite
>>686907570>There's a cynical streak running through it.the whole point of the game are the cynical characters realizing that their cynicism isn't actually helping and learning to be more honest with themselves and proactive in fixing things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urzosQyrvyE
>>686914729yameroooo
>>686905434wait WHAT? They added an option to skip the combat? What the fuck is happening to the tales franchise. Nobody wants to buy a dogshit story movie with Wii graphics. The combat was the best part of the game
>>686915459It's for journalists or low-level runs. Some places are really tight and enemies end up being difficult to avoid.
>>686914868the highlight of graces f storytelling is when asbel decides to take everyone on a shuttle to some unknown planet because "it might save sophie".not even guaranteed it will save sophie.it "might save sophie".they all basically almost died or never return based on a chance that they find something to help a girl they barely know at this point except she's an alien
>>686905434because the battles in graces are only fun once. because CC means there's zero resource management and the autistic enemy weakness system means you have to hit an enemy with a combo of 4-6 specific elements in order to actually do damage you end up doing the same moves to the same random mobs over and overbeing able to go "no I'm done now, moving on" is unironically an improvement. you're gonna have to fight to not get owned by the bosses anyway
>>686915168I think Graces was a good choice. Not bashing Xillia, but Graces was still a "full package" Tales, having a colisuem, cameo battle, and in-game unlockable costumes. Xillia did have recolors and slight alterations for their costumes, as well as manipulable attachments, but that's a different thing entirely.
>>686914868>pascal is genuinely on the spectrum to the point it feels uncomfortable just how little she understands everything around herAnd that's why I like her. Everyone is always depressed on the story and then there's this autistic bundle of joy to lighten things up.
>>686915613and sometimes if you're bad, you could be deep in a dungeon or something, run out of healing items and have to backtrack outta there to restock. Turning off enemy encounters will help avoid game overs in that situation.
>>686910071Battles will be 60 on switch, guaranteed. The wii version had 60 fps battles.
>>686914868>pascal is genuinely on the spectrum to the point it feels uncomfortable just how little she understands everything around herand thats what makes her a genius lmao. without her or her sisters you cant get into space.its like how judith is called the "weird one" in her race of people but its her fighting autism that helped saved the world.
>>686914868The last one you just described FF4 Kain word for word
>>686905674>>686913561I'm going to cum to both of (You)r waifu to celebrate the news
>>686904259I'm a sucker for time skips in stories, but Graces is very mid.
>>686914868>Cheria>TsundereDid we play the same game? She very blatantly wants Asbel's cock and whenever she's not doing that then she's either acting as the team mom or getting teased about her ass.The tsundere is Hubert and he eventually does accept his brother and his smelly genius girlfriend.
chain capacity is so cool and i wish more games had it
>>686908009Cool, there will be a jp voice option this time right? Was the main reason I skipped it many years ago
>>686916960dual audio has been standard for tales games for a while now.
>>686916960They've had dual audio as a standard feature since Zestiria, including all the remasters.
the only tales that deserves tons of hate is ToS 2
>>686916960Confirmed.https://oath.tales-ch.jp/remastered
>>68691576390% of Tales players just stick with the MC and never bother to learn more than one combo. Resource "management" in many of the games are a complete joke past early game too. Arise was unironically lambasted for having Orange Gels be too expensive lmao.
>>686916072https://noisypixel.net/tales-of-graces-f-remastered-confirms-60-fps/>Tales of Graces f Remastered Confirms 60 FPS on All Platforms Except Switch
>>686917067>>686917136>>686917201Nice thanks
>>686908214How the fuck did they fumbled Arise's skits so much?
>>686916740skits sure have their moments
>>686915687the whole game is just asbel making the worst choices possible and being rewarded for it every time>yeah I know this thing possesed richard and almost destroyed the world but what if I let it possess me, I would simply not get mind controlled to be evil
>>686917486Alongside how most of them just repeated what the plot was they were also really heavily bunched together. Arise does have a few great skits but those are quite out of the way
>>686917235ok but none of that changes the part where in graces it's even less meaningful or that nova barriers are boring as fuck to deal with
>>686917171how dare you
>>686908214https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1aCgWyF2cIf F Richard was around the entire game nobody would have any complaints about it.
new tales game doko...
>one of the worst Tales games gets remastered before the Xillia duology and an Abyss port
>>686904259coming to steam? holy based, bandai is good againnow what about xillia 2
>>686917885The one with the best combat in the entire series, yes
>>686915168I'm just happy they're freeing games from whatever consoles they were stuck on, one by one.
>>686917798>hates the word justice>his MA is called divine justice
>>686917816sorry bozo the vidya industry is suffering the same problems like the movie industry so buckle up shit will get worse.
>>686917942>>686908009
>>686916459this is something made unclear by how most english versions of ff4 had to cut details to save on cartridge space, kain wasn't mind controlled arbitrarily, he was ALREADY repressing feelings of being pissed at cecil for taking the girl he was into and being better liked by their foster father the king of baron because kain decided to be a dragoon like his real father instead of becoming a dark knight like cecil and BECAUSE of this the mind control works on him. golbez is the same thing, in the more recent versions of the game he explicitly says that it's because he had too many evil thoughts that he could get controlled by zemus's influence.meanwhile richard is just a good little boy that wants to make a better world and then he accidentally gets fucked up by a space alien until asbel with his mary sue powers later makes the space alien not evil.
was anyone else autistic enough to make a +99 weapon in this
>>686917654the game gives asbel so much plot armor its fucking insane. dude makes every bad choice but its impossible for him to fail. even when he was in knight academy he was wearing his goofy fucking disco outfit while everyone else had to wear knight armor.
>>686916767> She very blatantly wants Asbel's cock then why does the game end without them being a couple. at least with vesperia yuri and estelle have a pretty ambigious relationship that could be sisterzoned and she lives a completely different life as a royal from his commoner guildie ass but there's literally no reason for cheria to do it unless she's continuing her woman moment from earlier in the game of pretending she's moved on from asbel as an attempt to make him upset
>>686918335nta, what do you mean? they literally have a kid in the prologue
>>686917235>90% of Tales players just stick with the MC and never bother to learn more than one combo.yeah which is why people say graces has good combat lmao, the MC is the only character that actually uses the A/B arte mechanic properly and exists in a game that forces you to not do the same shit the whole gamebut people who want to experiment and figure out situational niche uses for moves are told to eat shit and mash the same string as everyone else when the button mash casuals were having a decent time playing as yuri and spamming destruction field
>>686911082if they're based they'll leave the files in and people can mod access to them
>>686918525That'd be ideal, but can they do that legally?
>>686915687>Boy, it sure is convenient that Sophie's home planet has the same gravity and oxygen as our planet!
>>686908214Richard in the f-arc is quite literally, unironically, the best Tales character of all time.
>>686918691Side effect of the moon they live being terraformed a long time ago.
>>686917945That's precisely what I'm talking about, where's my Xillia 2 port?
I've been waiting for this. I have been steam remote playing the current tales on steam with friends and now my favorite tales is coming to steam. I hope this means xillia is on its way in the future too.
>>686917798>>686917171>Hmm, I know that I was literally willing to die for lloyd in the previous game, but if you say that he killed your parents and burned down that town I guess I don't have any direct proof emil, I guess I'll help you finding these centurions, which are things we somehow never found out about even though we traveled the entire length of the world and poured over every single library with a fine tooth comb to try and find answers. I know you're obviously mentally ill and we just write it off as "going ratatosk mode" as if it isn't a big deal that you just go mental sometimes with no warning but I guess again if you say these things exist I have no reason to distrust yougames fucking stupid. the moralfag party members should object to emil on sight and the sociopaths like raine should get him locked up and studied but instead we have this tales of symphonia fanfic shit where the author self insert hangs out with the protags of the previous game except for the one guy who would obviously mog him so he spends 90% of it offscreen, like a harry potter fanfic where harry is now a douchebag so the mary sue can cuck him
>>686919043She's so cute
>>686914868yeah, the game has one of the better battles in the series. and probably THE worst cast in the series. EVeryone was annoying as fuck. except richard who wasn't even there for most of the game, and Malik
>>686918335Anone...
>>686914271no. both the story and the characters are terrible
>>686917754Nova Barriers are basically glorified tech outs because most of the cast have several powerful nova moves you were going to use anyway. Only Pascal I think takes long to get one.>>686918008Translation issues>>686918471That's not really true. Casters like to do their A Artes first before casting because spells used later on in the combo cast faster. Its practically mandatory for Richard as his cast times outside of Accel Mode are unbearably long otherwise. Hubert also uses the Hold O for altered artes just like Asbel.
>>686915687>something to help a girl they barely know you don't understand, asbel/cheria/hubert/richard literally didn't form any friends or bonds in over 10 years, all of the shit they did that whole time means nothing compared to the weekend they spent together as kids and found a dead alien
>>686917543There are some foul moments in this game. Way more than necessary.
>>686919545It's an anime story, anon. Don't take it seriously.
>>686919657>"It's an anime story, anon. Don't take it seriously"
>>686919545kek its trueasbel and cheria are basically miserable until she suddenly shows up one dayin that time since they havent made new friends they were just being salty
>>686919439>Nova Barriers are basically glorified tech outs the options I have for dealing with tech outs are waaaaaay more varried then the options I have for dealing with nova barriers for a huge chunk of the game. you do eventually get those titles that give the nova breaking property to most of your moves but I real really "fond" memories of early game asbel and having to hear MOWEMDOWN over and over and over because nobody has any fucking good moves to stop these things, which only exist to give an in-gameplay reason why the protagonists are the only people who can do save the day as if we needed to make it an obnoxous gameplay mechanic and not just the reason why you can survive all these random battles
>>686919795well, i can see cheria and hubert not making any friends because she's an utterly unlikeble bitch, and huber is a salty little bitch too. richard's a royalty, so it's not like he can hang out with normal people, and the nobles are toadies and beta orbiters
>>686919781symphonia anime is also pretty brutal which I wasn't expecting. in-game the desians make silly saturday morning lines and fade away. in the show they straight up get sliced up by blades and summons with blood pouring.
>>686905602>betterOnly retards think this. The Graces battle system is genuinely why the series stagnated so much after the team moved on from the Xillias.All style, very little substance.And the story and characters of this game, Hubert aside, are simply atrocious.
>>686919327>>686918446yeah but this is weak, they don't actually get together in the game you play at all, just a vauge kid that implies something but doesn't outright say it and doesn't justify the entire game of cheria being a satalite that orbits around asbel instead of a real character because they don't want to piss off abel/sophie shippers by hard deconfirming it and having them kiss on screen
>>686919589kek
>>686920241Who ships Asbel x Sophie when both the main game and F Arc pretty much beats it over your head that its Asbel x Cheria?
>>686920128the CC system is great for people who button mash because it removes literally all mechanical execution from the combat of these games and makes it entirely planning/reaction based. just set up the right autocombo of moves with the right attributes and press the dodge button when the enemy does something to continue pressing button and seeing something awesome happen.I can understand the appeal, but for me the big strength of tales games all the way since the ps1 was their fighting game adjacent combat system and a part of that is that playing them optimally required a bit of mechanical dexterity
>>686920463they beat you over the head and yet the only proof we have they get together is a kid that kinda looks like it could be theirs (that is interacting with neither of them, instead its interacting with sophie for whatever reason) in a game with an anime artstyle where everyone kinda looks like anyone else if you give them a different hair color and shave their facial hair
>>686920479You're conflating a host of nonsense with the CC system like a retard.
>>686911082all those franchises are owned by bandai. i will never understand the retardation that happens with JP corpo and its handling of their own IP. I will never forget MH sueing the capcom fighting game division because of unauthorized use in MVCI and Huckbein shitshow on SRW
>>686920686in the CC system links don't exist, you just do your string of moves till your CC runs out. there's still depth in the sense of figuring out what strings combo better then others (especially with a character like asbel who gets a second slightly different version of his moves if you do the same one twice in a row) but actual mechanical execution in attacking is gone, and it's also gone in defending because you hit your iframe button when trouble happens with the only nuance being understanding the boss enough to not use up CC before you need it to dodge
why does the artstyle seem a little different from vesperia?
>>686921009Links exist in the CC games>>686921273Because it is different
FUCK GRACES, ALL MY NIGGAS HATE GRACESABYSSXILLIA WHENXILLIA 2 WHEN
>>686920241>character has a child with another character>this is weak evidence that they got togetherSorry but this is anime where characters being children of other characters is blatantly obvious. You're also ignoring one of the ending cards of the f arc has Asbel and Cheria together while Sophie is alone tending to the flower garden. If you want to say that this isn't a confirmation because that could be anyone's kid then why would they deliberately give him Asbel's hair and Cheria's eyes? The party dynamic also reinforces how Asbel and Cheria are the couple.
>>686904259Censorship status?
>>686921273>a littleYou mean a lot? Different artist, I think she passed away earlier in the year, and this is a Wii game. Vesperia was the prettiest Tales game until Arise took that spot, along with it being the best thing it has going for it
Good, maybe people will realize how overrated the combat is. Or rather, the entire franchise.>best tales combatYeah well that's easy when the bar is really low.
>>686921412Abyss/Vesperia Director won't stop teasing Abyss in his Twitter profile. Even his bio is related to Abyss. It's happening sooner or later.
>>686921356>Links exist in the CC gameshow can you link in a CC game when you need CC to attack, and if you have CC you're going to use it to do further moves in your chain of attacks?I'm talking about stuff like how in tales of the abyss guy can end combos with tiger blade and then hit them with normal attacks before they break out of the combo to do another whole string of artes, and that's a game with pretty limited combos compared to some of the shit you can do in other games that don't use CC
>>686921659>in tales of the abyss guy can end combos with tiger blade and then hit them with normal attacksYou can?
>>686921009Destiny DC and Graces both use CC but they play differently because one uses A/B Artes and the other doesnt.Some of this also sounds like you didnt really experiment with the non Asbel characters. For example, Sophie can do whatever she wants to Nova enemies because almost all of her artes hit Nova and she has excellent availability.I know the game has shit bosses like Kurt and Emeraude but still.
Hearts R when
>>686921430He is also carrying Cheria's brooch. It's pretty obvious this is their grand grandson etc.
>>686921430It has been a while since I played F, but I also swear that one of the minor things going on was Asbel's mom was pressuring him into finding a wife and even had arranged meetings but Asbel always flaked out or was uninterested. I think near the end of F Asbel even asks Cheria if they could talk about it later or something.
>>686921834>>686921659Some of those normal chains such as Luke's Rending Thrust and Guy's Tiger Blade do require you to increase hit stun via blue cores as it can be inconsistent against certain enemies. The easiest equivalent in Graces is probably doing a basic combo into Asbel's unsheathe animation or using Accel Mode. Malik/Hubert's in particular are usually used like this.
This game makes Shinzo Abe proud
>dualblade>split them into two 1h swords>retract the blade for two pistols>dualblade curves slightly and becomes a bow>just tosses it aside and punchesYou do play as Hubert, right?
>>686922068F ends with Asbel asking Cheria to come live with him. How is your memory the exact opposite of what happens?
>>686922373Instant Balls
>>686922450Probably because I played the game 12 years ago.
>>686911082Why would they exclude costumes from series Bamco owns? There's been Idolmaster costumes in every mainline Tales game since Graces f, for example.
>>686922668Fuck off, that's retarded. Even if I didn't remember shit about the game, I wouldn't somehow remember sth that never happened.
>>686922261>The easiest equivalent in Graces is probably doing a basic combo into Asbel's unsheathe animation or using Accel Mode.yeah again neither of these things are links, because you're using a resource (CC/accel mode meter) to make them happen. these are chains. you are married to your meter graces system game and are unable to do things without it
>>686921456Nintendo might censor "that moment". But should be fine on other platforms.
>>686906146in my experience, Tales games are on the shorter end. at the very least, if you played Symphonia, I don't know how you didn't clear it in less than 50 hours.
>>686922989what moment?Cheria at the beach?
>>686923083Cherias peachy butt.Nintendo doesnt like when third parties sexualize underaged girls. Only they can do that for their first party games like Xenoblade.
>Graces story sucksFirst Tales game?I'm expecting this reaction again after Graces release
>>686922373i hope he gets a new dlc costume that has Yuan Ka Fei's outfit
post emeraude
>>686922960Okay and? Saying that CC is all about spamming the same combo all the time is still wrong.
>>686923339We do this every time>new Tales remaster/entry/translation gets announced>hype ensues>1 month after release it's considered mid and forgotten
>>686923215What are you going on about? Stuff like Gal*Gun and Senran made it onto the Switch uncensored.
>>686923815its fine for those games because they're appropriately rated M. tales is cero A or esrb T.
https://strawpoll.com/PbZqbb8EByN
>>686923720Maybe all tales games are mid and forgotten.
>>686914402>>you get rewarded with more exp/better items for playing on hard mode, encouraging you to get good. except the AI can't play its own game at all so you either have to babysit your party members constantly so they dont get 2shot by aforementioned boss aoe spam or just accept they're going to die constantly and you're going to end up soloing a large chunk of the boss fightsIt's simple, play normal fights on the hardest difficulty then switch to a more reasonable one for bosses. It's what I remember doing.
>>686912601>Oh yes; this is SO going to be couch-cooped to death.Hell yeah. Graces is the only Tales game where EVERYONE is fun to play.
>>686923591>Okay and? I was replying to a post saying that links exist in this game >>686921356 so them existing or not is the entire point of the discussion thread you baka
Old trailers still get me hyped over Graces.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qD521yY1WM
>>686925678I remember Cheria's moveset feeling pretty samey and boring (although she CAN be strong) but other than that I agree. It's the Tales game where I ended up switching mains the most.
>>686921659>>686925794>How can you link in a CC game when you need CC to attack, and if you have CC you're going to use it to do further moves in your chain of attacks?Mashing until you use up your CC, then giving the enemy its turn back while you stop and wait for all your CC to come back isn't efficient play. It's like doing nothing but thoughtless lv1->lv2->lv3 chains in Symphonia and saying it doesn't have links. It's because CC runs out and has to refill that links exist and are useful, especially early game/first playthrough where you have less CC and using links and loops effectively is important to keep combos going. Links allow you to regenerate CC between the linked combos, extending your combo past what you'll get out of running up and blowing all of your CC at once then sitting around waiting and letting the enemy become actionable again. Here's an example of a couple different links that can be performed in the very early game in Destiny DC, the original CC game. If Stahn here played the way you're describing then he would mash swallow dance or hell sword a couple of times and then proceed to stand there guarding and letting the enemy take its turn back 4 seconds in. The combo would be a lot shorter, wouldn't lock down the enemy nearly as effectively, and Stahn would leave himself in a vulnerable state much more frequently.
>>686914402its fun if you don't take it too seriously (its like one big saturday morning shonen) and a lot of what you say is straight up inaccurate.
>>686926131It doesnt count because it has a "meter".
>>686926131Still pisses me off the patch removed the nonsensical DISILLUSION from the BC cutins.
Reminder Asbel cheated on Cheria for a decade
>>686904259Holy shit do I want to replay this game. It's nostalgic to me. Skipping school to finish the game in 1 weekend. Asbel Lambda autism, Sophie the cutest... Fuck I'm definitely replaying it.
>>686926470I still miss Whorshipper
>>686922373who else am I going to farm the rockgagong with?
>>686908009>it's realdamn, I'm not sure what to feel. I waited so long to play this game and did a bunch of testing the first 10 minutes or so for RPCS3 but never got around to actually trying to play it (because it had problems on the emu). Now I get to spend money on it and have it in my steam library that I cannot pass on to through my will. Perfecto. Molto Bene. C'est un très bon. Sweet achievements here I come!
>>686926472He's the son of a prince. He's gonna get some ass no matter what.
>>686911705What are the chances they just happen to leave the assets in and we get a mod for it?
>>686926030Cheria's moveset really shines when you have Hubert cosplaying as her with the nakiri dolls. His High accuracy and strength makes those little daggers stagger like crazy and deal lots of damage. I fucking love the Nakiri dolls, because they let you shore up the weaknesses of some characters. For example, you could have Sophie or Pascal cosplay as Hubert if you wanted him to be tanky, and I think Asbel was a better Malik than Malik because he had higher strength and magic. If I recall correctly, it's Cheria and Richard who have the worst stats all around and aren't very good, but Richard at least serves better as Cheria than Cheria.
>>686926893https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680254572
IGN is finally going to finish reviewing this game after a fucking decade+ LOL
rebirth & destiny 2 patch when
>>686926893I hope so because technically your party will be slightly weaker than on emulator from the missing titles.
>>686904259>look him up>brace myselfoh thank fuck he's older than me
>>686921412>xillia 2That's where I dropped the IP though, I remember finishing that game just because I already paid for it, but it was awful.
i always stop playing in the desert areathat happens a lot in gamesi hate sand
Is there any game besides Symphonia worth playing?
>>686926131can you do stuff like this in graces? This is pretty much what I was talking about even if I feel like it's still more limiting then being able to start an entire new chain of artes with your 100s of TP.asbel putting his sword away isn't really the same as thing and is more like a single use refresh of your meter only he gets, not a more universal mechanic
>>686927618For you, no. Just sit in your Symphonia bubble and pretend to be happy.
>>686927468Sounds pretty souvlless of you, frenhttps://youtu.be/2-2-mUD2-Ug
>>686910862Abyss was so much fun. I randomly pirated it and spent like 120 hours going through all of it. Unfortunately, Abyss was also my first Tales game so it's been a slightly bitter experience when playing the other ones. One of the better ones was the first game, Tales of Phantasia. I never finished it though but it held up really well.
Oh man, so the Xilia Remaster rumors were fake?This looks more lighthearted and cheerful, but I guess I'll give it a check.
>>686921412>ABYSS>XILLIA WHEN>XILLIA 2 WHENHow can someone with good taste be such a shit head at the same time. Graces is good.
>>686928326>story nobody defends>linear wii hallways with no puzzles, no sidequests, and no point>obnoxious intro sequence where we made the gameplay shit on purpose>gameplay so repetitive the remake is letting you turn off fights entirely nah its pretty bad
>>686928326People only ever fellate Graces for its combat for a reason. Never the world, never the plot, not even really the music, at best some characters but in the "they're so le fun and quirky" way not the "they're well written" way.
>>686927906Xillia was good, one of the few Tales that actually developed characters, the plot that none is perfect and some have a fuckload of flaws (alvin) but still work together.And then ludger ruins everything on 2, he's a self-insert, everything revolves around him and no one else matters, everyone else just exists to suck his dick, also the game is way more linear than 1. Xillia 1 had way more soul than 2.
>>686927618if you liked symphonia then you'll probably like abyss or vesperia since its made by the same people.
>>686927796Graces A/B is tighter than the freeform Destiny DC but you can hold off a bit before extending instead of just emptying out your CC like an idiot.
>>686928124No, they were most likely real, the Tales producer put out a video that implied more remasters were coming next year. Graces is just the first.
>>686928647I'll have you know I fellate its OP more than anything. No not the dub version you fucking animal.
which VA's will return to reprise their role? we wont have another troy baker incident right?
>>686928904Is there even anything new to record lines for?
>>686928647People have to remember that its a single layer DVD Wii game that almost died for being too buggy. The game didnt have high expectations to begin with. Namco tried to make it up with F arc and now this.
>>686929003Just a couple skits
>>686928587>hurr durr just empty your cc and waitHave you tried actually getting good at the game?
>>686928847MAMORITAIMAMORARETERUAENAI TOKI MO ZUTTOICHIBYOU ZUTSU KIMI TO WATASHITSUYOKU NARERU KARA
>>686920863It also happened in Megaman X Dive Offline, which has every character except the DMC and Monster Hunter ones.
>see hatsune Miku Sophie>unavailable for this versionwe better get new costumes. what costumes have never been reused for other games.
>>686929016>People have to remember that its a single layer DVD Wii game that almost died for being too buggy. this is the mindset that killed this franchise btw, stuff like this, escort titles, "making a game on the scale of vesperia is too expensive with modern hardware" its like if you don't give a shit about the game you're making why should I give a shit about it? I don't fucking care what the excuse is, if the game isn't that good then its not that good
>>686929204
>>686904259A MAN SPEAKS WITH HIS BACK
>>686927376In my mind characters age in real time, so Malik is currently 55.
>>686929336i bet they're gonna do platform specific costumes.princess peach cheria, tekken asuka sophie, palworld pascal.
makes me wonder why abyss of all tales got ported to 3DS and for a decade no new tales game was released for it aside from Revia Unita (or however you call it). maybe before the Switch gets its swansong. you think they should just do 3D versions of the 2D games?
>>686927906How the most bitter and suffering-filled Tales has the most climactic credits song is beyond me.
>>686930185imagine if xillia 3 happens with elle marta
>>686929905Tales went from Nintendo to Sony and hasn't looked back a long time ago around the time Final Fantasy did the same thing.
>>686928720A self-insert wouldn't suffer so much
>>686930250I'd rather they leave the future open now after the whole "spyrix kills spirits and timelines are nearing their end" thing is resolved. Same way I don't want an Abyss 2, there's a non-zero chance they'd fuck it up like with DotNW.
>>686928740I was a hardcore nintendo-only JRPGlet Symphonia baby growing up, and I absolutely HATED the Vesperia remaster. There's a reason Metroidvanias are currently one of the most popular genres. It turns out most people fucking loathe missables and arbitrary points of no return for quests in their games, and Vesperia is chock full of them, to the point you could have played the game a dozzen times and still need to be tethered to a guide so you don't miss stuff on a fresh save. FUCK Vesperia. In comparison Abyss is a lot more tolerable with that bullshit, it was okay.
>>686928740I have Abyss installed on my 3DS, does it suck there or should i track down the PS2 version instead?
>>686930507i suddenly now want Sophie in this costume. do it namdai!
>>686930583The definitive way to play is on the EU Undub on PCSX2. You get:>4k resolution>60fps gameplay>Instant SSD load times>Savestates/Autosaves>Voiced Skits
>>686930343it would. lots of guys want to be a "tortured" hero/genius/chad. it makes them more desirable to women.
>>686930583It's the exact same game, just better loading times but worse textures. In Japan the 3DS version was the first time they got the additions the PS2 Western release had like new Mystic Artes and stuff
>>686929003>>686929103>Just a couple skitsAre they adding any new ones for the remaster or something? Because Graces F already had a dub on PS3.
>>686930507I'd take a just-for-fun game with the older Elle, just doing detective/mercenary work in a recovering Elympios, with a light-hearted main story.
>>686927796>can you do stuff like this in graces?It's been a while but I believe you can, technically, although it won't be as consistent. However that's not because of CC but rather the fucked up hitstun mechanics in Graces where enemies can have very abusive stagger resistance and seemingly randomly break out of combos. (By the way, if you bring this up, people online will usually tell you that ACC affects stagger time and the solution is just raising your ACC stat. That's not actually how it works, and it still happens with ACC maxed out.)i.e. this would still happen if it was TP-based and some TP-based games have similar problems like Xillia. >I feel like it's still more limiting then being able to start an entire new chain of artes with your 100s of TP.I wouldn't say it is. At low level/early game CC is less limiting and lets you focus more on efficient kit usage and fundamentals instead of using two artes and running out of TP, while TP late game has the opposite problem with high TP pools and availability of TP cost reduction items like the faerie ring making TP into an ineffective limiter that can just be ignored whereas CC similarly will be more abundant, just like you can start new chains with 100s of TP you can also start and link into new chains with 20-30 max CC (Yes the number is lower but 1CC is a lot more valuable than 1TP and regenerates) but the resource management doesn't completely stop existing to the extent it does in the mid to late portion of TP games.
>>686915168>Graces f is probably the most average game in the seriesnigger have you ever played zestiria or legendia?
>>686930583If you want to play it on the go it works but it suffers from slowdown by the later parts of the game that dont exist on ps2 or emulator.
>>686931350legendia is a game of highs and lows, not averages
>>686930808t.
>>686930796>Savestates/AutosavesCheating scum!
>>686918916god i love the "fantasy setting but its actually high technology" twists
>>686921649i want xillia 1/2 way more, we already have pcsx2 for abyss
>>686923479I wish this big titted whore got way more porn.
>>686931481I don't get how you can "cheat" by that. If you die the game lets you continue the fight or reload your save. This is just skipping various loading screens.
>>6869313793DS has much better loading than the non emulated PS2 version overall.
>>686930753>>686931678Thanks for the ideas I'll draw both
>>686931678Everything could've been prevented if Cornell just gave her the dick.
>>686931350Zestiria is below average, Legendia has higher highs but lower lows
>>686931350Zesty is just straight up shit
>>686929905Hideous babarian was a huge snoy tard
>>686931239I see, thanks for the info, so I guess I should change my stance to "graces just sucks" instead of hating on CC but for what it's worth aren't graces and destiny R the only CC games?>availability of TP cost reduction items like the faerie ring making TP into an ineffective limiter that can just be ignored yeah but there's always a better accessory to use instead of these, choosing to make TP matter less (or choosing to spend money on orange gels) instead of using accessories that make you win more or spending your time/money on something besides stocking up constantly is still a choice even if a lot of people end up with TP no longer mattering after a while imo. also while I haven't played destiny R I have to imagine the moves that let you buy time for CC to tick back are a bit more rigid then something like yuri being able to literally do any knockdown -> manaul cancel -> OTG -> do artes again but now I'm just moving goalposts like a jackass and I guess I should play destiny R
>>686931709Then they aren't savestates, just autosaves.
>>686931756True but you can get same if not better load times via HDD/SSD loading on PS2/PS3.
>>686932094zestiria and berseria may as well be cc just with a different naming, it works the exact same way
>>686932094>>686931239you don't usually get a full set of faerie rings until very late in a game unless you can craft them and know exactly how to get the materials so even once you start getting these TP no longer matters items it still matters to some of the roster, getting this item is usually just "oh thank god my dedicated caster is way more useful now"
>>686930343And yet he always prevails, the mary-sue/deus ex machina he is killed the game for me.Also the gameplay is way worse>forced parties>forced to use ludger>linear gameplay>HEY IT'S TIME TO PAY YOUR DEBT! NOT NOW? OK, I'LL CALL YOU AGAIN IN 2 MINUTESI honestly felt Xillia 2 was a slog to finish.
>>686931239Just get more acc/evade is usually the answer for most of it but as you said, some enemies do become obnoxious with tech outs such as the boar and kurt as notorious examples. Some characters like Cheria do have answers for them though.>>686932094Boots are only relevant up to a point based on your agi. Faerie Rings functionally doubling your TP Pool goes a long way in minimizing the amount of items you need to use.Only casters care about mystic symbols and in some games, not every caster cares about one (Anise/Tear actually use other things while Natalia prefers Faerie Ring due to TP problems) etc.>>686932663Unironically cook more. Some games give you tp restore L via food really early. The most expensive spells tend to never be the best ones anyway.
Xillia 2 kills Xillia 1 lore. I never liked it. I don't care about the Kresnik family of gary stus popping up and taking over the whole world lore.
>>686931678I love how insane the Zhonecage plot is. Shout outs to Asbel desperately trying to fuck Kohaku.
>>686932663Mind up is usually obtained around 20-25% of the way through the games where it's in, and there's always the rare herbs you can find to increase TP. Those aren't much but over the course of the entire game they add up. They also usually put some TP cost reduction ring along the way, it's a mid game accessory. There's also the accessories that give TP regen as well. I stop caring about TP typically around the 30% mark.
>>686932968Debt is barely a problem because killing the next giganto instantly solves the problem. Also Xillia 1's ending reeked of this game is only 2/3rds of an actual game.
>>686932968>he always prevailsNigga he dies>Also the gameplay is way worseI don't think a single person in the world will take this one seriously
>>686931109Not adding, including DLC skits that the west never got.
>>686933131The Kresniks already had a chokehold on the world's lore. Xillia 1 already had the motherfucking Genesis Sage and his Lance of Kresnik who was the coolest and most powerful guy.
>>686932968>another idiot filtered by the debt system Love to see it
I'm waiting for the real anniversary remake.
>>686933860>coolest guyGenesis Sage is a woman
>>686933131Yes, and also the idea of having forced parties for quest all the times, except gor the final battles.>Wanna use Rowen? Nah, you are stuck with Gauis, don't wanna use him? Fuck you>wanna have Elise for sharing is caring? Nope, wait 3 more chapters to use her>jude? Nah you are stuck with an all-girl party, would be based if they weren't badly equipped or had no synergy>wanna use alvin? lol, lmao, eat 5 chapters first and MAYBE I'll let you use him, on a shit party though, because fuck you
>>686934245Figuratively, she is a man. No one dicked down Maxwell as hard as she did.
>>686934245This, Milla Kresnik was Xillia's Yulia Jue
Just really good friends.
>>686934391Wrong.
>>686932094I think Graces is decent, it's just the hitstun mechanics mainly holding it back. I should also mention that to my understanding weaving sidesteps into combos more is what actually counteracts that shit. >yeah but there's always a better accessory to use instead of these, choosing to make TP matter less (or choosing to spend money on orange gels) instead of using accessories that make you win moreI don't really agree. The Faerie Ring cuts your TP consumption in half, and is arguably the best accessory in several games, especially Destiny 2 where TP cost reduction is almost a necessity, whereas most other rings are negligible stat boosts or elemental/status effect resistances which are highly situational. That is to say that the thing is, the faerie ring IS an accessory that makes you win more, by effectively doubling your available resources. Although it's true that even without it TP rises so high in late game and NG+ that it becomes largely ignorable. Especially Vesperia where level 3 over limit disables TP consumption. And, >(or choosing to spend money on orange gels)If we're talking about playing well, then using items, aside from forcing you into a vulnerable animation, has a grade penalty. >I guess I should play Destiny RYou should, since you seem to like the fighting game adjacent aspects of the series. It's the same thing I like about Tales, and in my opinion it's the game that captures those elements most effectively.By the way, it's not much coming from some anonymous guy, but I appreciate that you were willing to hear me out when I told you about CC games having links. Most people on here or the internet in general aren't willing to do that. >>686926470Yeah I usually play it unpatched on PS2 hardware but I recorded this when the patch was new. I know the project lead though, I'll bitch about it just for you anon-kun.
>The only JRPGs with loli party members that get announced anymore are remasters and gachaI hate what the west has done to my favorite genre.
>>686934790Bro your Feri from Trails through Daybreak? Your cumdoll from Cold Steel?
>>686934757>game doesn't let me use the characters for shit reasons>rightAnd this is why I dropped the series after Xillia. I just hope Graces gets a good remake.
Graces is coming to steam, so now I would like one of these 3 games to arrive next:RebirthLegendiaXillia
>>686934591rita can be gay but estelle and yuri care about eachother way too much, literally half the game is them worrying about eachother and basing most of their actions on what the other person is doing even if they also have homo ships
>>686935152Estelle always came across like a little sister to Yuri, just like Karol. He definitely banged Judith though
>>686934950You're wrong because characters in X2 have way more availability than you're claiming. On top of the nonsense like "poor synergy" which is just a skill issue.
https://youtu.be/RMKOwA54_vYHe's gonna take you back to the past...To play the shitty games that suck ass...
>>686932663The faerie ring is just what I remember the name of, there are accessories available before that for restoring TP or reducing its consumption. Also what >>686933117said>>686933117>Just get more acc/evade is usually the answer for most of it but as you said, some enemies do become obnoxious with tech outs such as the boar and kurt as notorious examples. Some characters like Cheria do have answers for them though.FYI, there's a hidden stagger resistance value that all enemies have. Bosses like Kurt or Veigue are like that because it's set really high. You should be able to play around it with about anyone by using weaknesses and the way sidestep interacts with hitstun effectively. Cheria is definitely especially effective but I mostly play solo Sophie. You can also set that value to 0 using cheat engine and the only thing that really will change is random combo drops becoming less likely
>>686934591they're both sheltered autists except one is rich and the other is poor
>>686908214Future arc was excellent.
>>686935271>karol nowhere to be seen when a gigantic monster just rampaged through the area and the roof collapsed with them narrowly escaping"yeah he's probably ok and got out on his own>estelle kidnapped by alexei"guess I have to solo him and all of the royal guard because I can't wait for everyone else to come with me"I dunno man, he sure gets a lot happier every time estelle decides to keep traveling with him instead of going back to the palace. I feel like you can make a "they're just friends" "they're like siblings" argument for any angle of this this yuri/flynn/estelle/rita love dodecahedron and be about as valid
>>686904259Damn Laura Bailey's voice was pure sex in this. Makes me legit jealous shes married.
>>686922483If they redo the dub im not going to buy it.
the most important character in the games plot. if she didnt exist, eveyone would have died btw.
>>686935271>Judith definitely banged him thoughfixd
>>686936117smelly
>>686936117Everyone already died from her rank musk.
>>686936117does hubert enjoy her stinky smell
>>686936392>>686936253>>686936178sophie doesnt mind her
>>686936475Would be a lot hotter if not for the giantess fetish
>>686935271>>686936156*Patty
>>686904259MALIK BEAM
>>686935271I mean of course he banged Judith, but that's just on the side. Estelle gets true love sex, Judith gets friends with benefits sex.
Crazy to me the final boss of the DLC can be beaten by a Blue Earth extension.
Should I play Abyss? Which version?
>>686937305some of the devs who worked on graces also worked on rebirth and destiny 2.
>>686936746>>hating giantess
>>686937424Hell yeah>>686931098
>>686936746pascal sees herself bigger than others thats why she builds those tiny robots of sophie and asbel.
I never finished the Future Arc because of this bitch. How the fuck was I supposed to know her Mystic Art requires the player to know SOMETHING from Tales of Eternia to counter and kill her?
>>686937450>liking giantess and voreGo back to deviantart
>>686937619You can just unga her. Not inputing anything prevents her from using her extensions. You're left with 1HP otherwise, so you're fine. You're only in deep shit the moment you let her extend into Prism Stars, I think. Pretty sure Aquarius Sphere and Dual the Sun are survivable no matter what.
>>686934780You're a god if you get them to change it back anon. The patch is way higher quality than I ever dreamed of getting, but that change always triggered my autism. That and the dubtitles on the win quotes were the only smirches I had when I last played it.
>>686931441highs and lows makes a game average
>>686928587>no puzzles>bad combatYou didn't play the game
>>686928647Graces is good. Xillia is a mess, it's only not the worst because Zestiria, Tempest and Dawn of the New World exist. Xillia 2 is a damage control.
>>686910862If we get xillia 2 and abyss announced next year, I might blow my fucking load
>>686937619Technically speaking Blue Earth was in several games between Eternia and Graces F but since they never got localized, it definitely threw westerners for a loop.
>>686938127but in legendia the things that are high are high the whole time while the things that are low are low the whole time, that makes a game "a cult hit"
>>686938127saying a game is average implies it's unmemorable. legendia is anything but
If they ever port Xillia 2, people will hate the Debt System, recycled content and going to every Fragtured Dimension of every dungeon 3 times.I'll glad because they'll finally realize how mixed bag some games are and Namco will either kill the series for real or port/remake the PS2 games. The actual good ones.
>>686936746Here you go
How come nobody ever talks about Hearts?
I want to play Tales of vesperia remastered but people say the dub is worse compared to the OG. What should I do? I could play in JP but I wanna do dub for these types of games
>>686939416>they localize and port destiny dc>nothing but complaints about the second half of the game
So basically. You fags are never happy no matter what gets ported and bamco is fucked either way
>>686939469JP DS game. Or Vita with half-assed localization. Pick one.
I've tried in two full playthroughs+zhonecage twice to understand why people like the battlesystem but it's so full of ridiculous speedbumps and annoying, tedious shit I just can't. Eleth burst, nova, restrictive CC, accuracy and evasion, ironstance being introduced and the shittiest iteration of it, the way titles work and dualizing making it the grindiest Tales game to date, it's just all too much. Berseria improved on everything Graces started and removed everything that was shit.
>>686939480https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GYFb3XZ3XA
>>686939469Original isn't translated, the localization for the remake is a terrible rewrite, and there's just not that much to say about the remake. >>686932094>for what it's worth aren't graces and destiny R the only CC games?Forgot to answer this. Technically yes but Hearts DS has a very similar system just with a different name and UI.
>>686939678>nothing but complaints about the second half of the gameSounds like every Tales. At least all characters in Destiny are fun to play.
>No code geass costumes.>No .hack//g.u. costumewhy bother?
>>686939480Just use the JP track, it's fine. People liking one single voice actor doesn't mean the dub was ever actually better
>>686939789I don't get this post, Graces has always been treated the exact same way: everyone cumming over its combat and Pascal, maybe Sophie for the loli-fags, and nothing else. People always talked about/liked Symphonia, Abyss, Vesperia, Xillia more
>>686939986>Remake took out the Guy cameo battle and replaced the bonus boss on top of a host of plot rewrites
>>686939480The english dub is very good, but after like a decade the returning voice actors (and some different ones for the same characters) can be jarring when they voiced the previously unvoiced scenes.
>>686934121What the HECK is that!?
>>686935508kek
>>686940189I thought it was just a couple of nintendo-onlies who were cumming over its battlesystem. Most people wanted Xillia or Abyss. They even held polls for which games people wanted remastered and those ones were higher from what I remember.
Pascal has stinky feet.Cheria has peach butt.That's all I remember about the characters in that game.
>>686939854It's overrated. Can't wait to see people actually play it. The threads will be glorious
>>686940472And Luke and Ludger were always top 3 in the popularity polls before the one made post-Arise
>>686940472>Graces>Nintendo onlies>When the vast majority of people who played Graces would have played the PS3 version
>>686940472I think they wanted to avoid Xillia because then they would be obligated to do Xillia 2 as well and either sell them as a bunch or they're simply not good at making quick remasters yet.For Abyss I think they've got bigger plans than a remaster, sadly.
>>686940978Please, don't. Don't touch my beloved.
>>686940978Ah yes. I can't wait to roll around like a retard as Luke while fighting Asch....
>>686940189People only talk about FFVI/VII/VIII/X as well. Secondaries and casuals exist, after all.There are other good games outside of that circle.
>abyss but with actual good gameplay this timecould be cool
>>686941168>Abyss remake>backstep and block replaced with rollno please god no
>>686939854True. Eleth was so bad they introduced a better ssj mechanic in F and Switching titles every time you ma for more damage was annoying as fuck. Its overrated >Berseria improved on everything Graces started and removed everything that was shit.Also true but tales fags are stupid enough it got a worse rep
Abyss with Xillia 2, Hearts R or Vesperia endgame combat. Want.
>>686941507Abyss with the exact same combat but even more FoF changes.Make sunlight chambers buyable early on.I have now perfected the combat system, you may suck me off now.
>>686941507Nah, Abyss just needs some minor tweaks and for characters like Natalia to get a bit more artes to use.
>>686941507Abyss but with AC2
I liked field of fonons and I wish that mechanic came back in a future Tales games.
>>686942593Same. It was exciting seeing someone drop a spell on an enemy and a perfectly placed FoF field opening up for me to take advantage of.
>>686941774>whole combat system still base arcane base outside of a few self FOF combos because nothing has any hitstun >bosses taking 1 damage from melee on higher difficulty
Sex with Sophie
>>686942095If you tweak Abyss combat it literally becomes Innocence or Vesperia, they are the logical evolution of the game combat.
>>686943217>>bosses taking 1 damage from melee on higher difficultyYou are supposed to become autismally challenged with your capacity core growth in Unknown mode.
>>686943217I remember trying the hardest difficulty on Abyss (not first playthrough) and I got to Arietta or something and was doing no damage and dropped caring about finishing that playthrough right there
is she autistichttps://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/89694973
>>686943713no she's just retarded.at least she doesn't STINK like pascal
i hated the fact that Tales of Abyss on the 3DS was limited to physical. also I feel that Abyss might come after Graces F, follow by DotNW, then Xillia. how long will the switch have support depends. more antagonist costumes would be great.
>>686943713She's special
>>686940694Nope. Vesperia got exposed, Graces will get its flowers. Arise is pure shit which only makes Graces better
>>686941774>lots of moves that awkwardly end in the air but no air combos (the lack of which is a regression from Symphonia) >reduction from 3 arte tiers in Symphonia to 2 in Abyss>over limit activation blast is the only OTG in the game>retarded grinding requirements for spell cancel>stat requirements for skill unlocks make it so you can't get super chain and ability plus on everyone without grinding each character one by one with the tutti core, which has to be stolen from the endgame superboss by which point it's probably too late >free run is a bad mechanic that actively puts you at a disadvantage for using it (high startup, high endlag, can't chain into anything, guaranteed crit if you get hit) >FoFs are a bandaid fix for free run's uselessness added late in development after they realized how bad free run in Abyss is >already small arte pools compounded by essential parts of Luke's kit being locked behind piles of time-sensitive sidequests >Luke is just bad, game cockteases you by letting you play as an objectively better version of Luke that can spell cancel for a couple hours then making you play the bad version again for the rest of the game>bugged mystic artes >difficulties above normal are so rushed and unbalanced that on Unknown doing more than 1 damage per hit to the first boss' 35,000 HP requires 3 hours of grinding>game crashes if you look at an enemy wrongNo you haven't>>686943556Which still requires you to sit around grinding, and if you want to level efficiently and be able to get all of the skills you only have one tutti core so you have to level one character at a time
>>686940694Considering the way people flipped the fuck out about Vesperia, an actually good Tales game, then they will lose their fucking minds about graces with how hard its been jerked off.
it's weird how tales games (and other niche series) started to get attention late in the 10s and early 20s. why the sudden change? anime? in the 00s you would have a small crowd of people familiar with Symphonia or earlier.
>>686943497No. FoFs are very integral to the general flow of Abyss combat.
>Sophie will retain Patty (Aifread) Fleur's pirate outfit. Now if we can get Asbel with Kratos Aurion's uniform and Richard for Yggdrasil's uniform.
>>686944079>>reduction from 3 arte tiers in Symphonia to 2 in AbyssFoF changes is a 3rd tier and can be worked into combos easily, many characters have strings that can change their own artes mid-combo.>>over limit activation blast is the only OTG in the gameThere's less artes that ground an enemy.>>free run is a bad mechanicI've decided to disregard your entire post after this. You have brain damage and you're not worth my time.
>>686943556it happens on hard mode if you don't grind
>>686944079>over limit activation blast is the only OTG in the gameAm I remembering wrong? I swear you could OTG with other artes.
>>686944325It doesn't, I've done many playthroughs in these games. Set up your C.Cores appropriately, put on the best gear you have and don't rely entirely on regular attacks and you will rarely ever see 1s.
>>686944325>>686944079Wrong or plain inaccurate on a number of points.
why is namdai so afraid of giving us narikiri dungeon cross
>>686944042>Vesperia got exposedthe only thing that got exposed was the average poster on this board, to this day I see people get mad about zagi because they did azure edge point blank to his front and don't know about manual cancel so they got punished
>>686944182>late in the 10sThe series hit steam in 2015, that's all there is to it.
I'm just glad it's on PC, please let me give you money to play games without having to emulate them.
>>686944562I never used manual cancel in any of my playthroughs in vesperia in all versions and had no issues./v/ posters are just bad at videogames.
>>686944541They already gave it to us, it's still there waiting for you to play it. All you have to do is learn a measly little language.
>>686944182JRPGs mostly died out while Tales not only still exists but didn't change how it does things. It's more popular in part due to not having any other competition.
>>686944562Tales threads on /v/ are full of shitters and ignorant players who make braindead takes unfortunately.
>>686944325Hard is the sweet spot for a first playthrough if you're into challenging combatVery Hard is for grindy autismUnknown is for grindy autism x200
>>686944562I did it. Wasn't fun.
>>686944284Those were never in the JP version, so have fun with Leon Asbel, Kyle Asbel, Yuri Asbel, and Zelos Richard, Judas Richard.
>>686944562I'm not a big fan of Yuri's twirl being longer than Zagi's recovery time considering that he's the first real boss. Sure manual cancel exists but its kind of bandaid at points.
>>686944562after seeing complaints about how vesperia "only gets good at the endgame" I played it and had fun the whole time, the characters feel pretty fleshed out from the start, they just get tons of crazy unique mechanics as the game goes on so you don't go "oh, I guess I've mastered this character already" with the only thing changing being what animation your moves have
>>686945010I'll forever be pissed they gave everyone a Yuri costume except the character that needed it most.
>>686944445>>686944504arietta and her pets on hard mode is absolutely going to make you do 1's unless you grind a bunch, you literally wont have access to better CC cores or weapons to make up for the stat difference on a new game
>>686945095Later tales games let you do longer combos earlier so for people who are expecting to be able to do the insane DMC techs they've seen in combo videos, the early game can be disappointing.
>>686945230https://youtu.be/sF7NzzTQqog?si=8CXAq0vBBBVYNBMdseems fine to me.
>>686945047>I'm not a big fan of Yuri's twirl being longer than Zagi's recovery time considering that he's the first real bossstop hitting him in the face and hit him in the back after he whiffs something and this will stop happeningalso a lot of his stuff isn't an acutal combo and you can run (not free run, its slower) away from him and the followup will whiff. it's arguably easier on semi auto then manual mode
>>686945341I know what to do. I still think that its asinine that they designed it that way considering none of the other games in the series had this "problem".
>>686945250but you can do long combos from the start of the game. yuri can manual cancel cerberus strike into more buttons till hitstun decays and then once he gets wolf strike you can OTG loop till you run out of TP. estelle can fucking spell cancel, karol can just kind of bonk and manual cancel enemies with his basic attacks and keep them on the ground forever, rita starts with rhythm and the inherent ability to spell cancel all kinds of stuffnot to mention if you use the "dlc" item to get moon selector you can do shit like this to gatsuo and bascially every other act 1 boss by just doing a string as yuri and swapping to repede and doing a string then swapping back to yuri
>>686945339>level 15Yeah anyway
you think they'll keep Blue Earth ?
>>68694533915 is definitely overleveled for that point in the game, luke starts at level 1 for fuck sake>>686945450>what do you mean I can't just mash buttons at the boss and winyeah I agree a lot of tales games have this problem lol
you think they have more planned in 2025 besides Graces?
my only issue with vesperia is that most of the free run attacks are just kind of shitty and don't lead into anything while being kind of unsafe on hit and slow outside of yuri/flynn/repde/judith, I would assume it was a deliberate penalty to nerf free run if those four weren't useful
>>686945994yeah it was an over-correction after Abyss I think. But to be fair doing Asch without free run is fuckin suicide.
>>686945760Being disingenuous when someone is trying to have a civil conversation isn't a good look.
>>686946192how am I being disingenuous, you don't like that you have to bait and punish attacks in a real time combat game
>>686945230Luke/Guy run interference, Tear heals, Anise vomits Limited all over the field and Jade does whatever. The game hands you a decent staff for free to put on Anise too, so they're really pushing you towards using her spells (which are all very powerful mind you) to handle the fight.
>>686945713https://youtu.be/fxf7diKAL3E?t=12336Blind playthrough, dude had his party at levels 13 and 14
>>686946386why does guy wear a choker
>>686946385yes I'm well aware of the way you have to play this game because of the fucked up enemy stats, even beat unknown mode nebelimthat doesn't change that it feels shitty to do 1 damage a swing to a boss with 10s of thousands of hp because you don't have 2x exp mode on due to it being a fresh playthrough, symphonia doesn't have this issue so I dunno what they were thinking in abyss
>>686946360You're doing it again. Once again, I know what to do and how to handle the fight, its just that I find that they could have done better with Zagi as a tutorial boss for newer players.
>>686946507You're not doing 1 damage a swing to any boss on Hard Mode unless you're comically undergeared/underlevelled. Money in Abyss is tight early on, but its not so tight that you can't afford to buy up to date gear given the time between St. Binah and Choral Castle unless you waste it on crap.
>>686946501It's just a character design. That's like asking why Hubert wears a bodysuit and hooker boots, why Luke bares his abs, why the Legendia cast looks like... that.
>>686946501Same reason he wears tights.
>>686946501He's a servant
It got one of those weird flowchart combat systems, right? I fucking despised them in Zestiria and Berseria.
>>686946640the tutorial boss is the two knights, which is why you don't have to beat those guys, as well as all the 1v1 and 2v1 fights in the castle before zagi. zagi is a step up from this in that unlike those fights he shows what happens when you run at man and hit sword button
>>686946823Its good here however
>>686946501He's a servant of house Fabre and Natalia likes to take him for walkies.
>>686946913Guy is for Noelle
>>686946823Berseria improved on the flowchart combat so you'll hate Graces.
>>686944228You can keep them in a better combat.
>>686947002
>>686944140Graces is objectively a better game for the sole reason that 90% of content isn't missable because of arbitrary time gates with zero hints about where to go or when sidequests start. I swear, it feels like Vesperia was designed to sell strategy guides.
>>686947031"""Improved"""""Hits and Artes connects much better in Graces and the combat itself is more fast-paced overall. Soul System sucks.
>>686947152Thats every Tales game before Vesperia too
Not the one I would have wanted, but at least it's something.
>>686946823Everything A-artes actually flows together, B-artes as well mainly for Asbel and the others with melees.Casters can chain link spells with proper chaining too.
>>686947225Vesperira was the worst offender
>>686947249Bro, they'd have to overhaul the whole battle system for Legendia to make it bearable.
>>686947152most of the sidequests are easy to at least partially stumble into if you just sleep at inns, check out old places when you can for dialogue or to get crafting materials, and in general play the game like an old school rpg instead of a find the cutscene speedrunand for the sidequests that are kind of bullshit, that's what NG+ is for, these games were designed to be replayed
>>686947358Good make them work instead of doing nothing.
>>686947219>Hits and Artes connects much better in Graces and the combat itself is more fast-paced overall.No, graces is significantly more defensive. You run out of CC very quickly like an asthmatic and it recovers very slowly. Berseria is significantly more fast paced and you can combo infinitely if you know what you're doing and balance your souls and break souls.
>>686947152yeah instead graces just has no content at all lmao. love a world designed like a checklist where I walk up to the designated side event star and hit X to see side event then clap like a seal
>>686947363That's bullshit and I'm saying this as someone who's played a lot of old school jrpgs.
>>686947358chloe and senel are tons of fun, the issue is everyone else being either a dedicated spellcaster or just obviously not playtested at all
Hearts R is one of the best entries in the franchise and it's a tragedy it's stuck on a dead console
>>686947363>and for the sidequests that are kind of bullshit, that's what NG+ is forNo, some sidequests are so obtuse that you can never organically reach 100% sidequest completion without a guide. NG+ is when you use a guide for the mountain of shit you missed on your first run.
>>686947454>CC recovers very slowlyLol lmao
>>686947597This reminds meAre they going to keep her name as Amber or go back to Kohaku since Hearts R's (bizarre) localization exists
>>686947484Graces has tons of sidequests, and you get rewarded with titles that impact your battle performance when you grind them out for their passives.
>>686926768>Sweet achievements here I come!
>>686947363This, I can't speak for Vesperia but before I played Abyss most people said the same thing yet I looked up sidequests after finishing my first playthrough and I had either done most of them or at least found their first couple activators. I fully upgraded Mieu, I did Luke's hyperresonance sidequest and both his and Guy's arte masters chain, I found the greater flightstone and Nam Cobanda Isle, I fought Nebilim, I got the Jewel of Gardios and that warehouse sidequest in Keterburg that gives Natalia a title, maid Tear, Chesedonia Guy barman, hell I got Gallant Barrage for which you need to dock the Tartarus somewhere while Asch is in your party right after Akzeriuth but before Ortion Cavern. Just explore, sleep in every inn and talk with every NPC on screen.
i love graces f. such good battle system, you can make such great combos, one of the greatest tales gamesactually i played it on ps3, back then in 2012-13 or something, it was good times before war started. and i remember main hero asbel was some unbearable shitter who was hard gay for richard, and richard was fucking most evil evildoer.
>>686947597hears r was good too, and that ps2 untranslated 2d game was good too. But Graces f was like 10 times better than hearts r, because in hearts there was literally no side content, and in combat you just spammed 1 most useful move. but it was fun to spam that one button. although all game at some point was unbearable boring slog, from one dungeon to another to another. still better game than most of games now.
>>686948052Absolutely nothing in Tales has ever reached the level of bullshit as much as Vesperia's game-spanning Brionac sidequest.
>>686948052Most of the sidequests in Abyss are right on the beaten path outside of like Gallant Barrage/Healing Force.
Whats up with the seething about tales of Vesperia here anyway? it's always been regarded as one of the runners for best games in the series.Some guy was complaining about not being able to mystic arte easily and I think he just didn't know you needed to be level 3 over limit or something.
>>686948368>Hearts DS has no side contentNope
>>686948482It's too slow for most anons.
>>686948368>and in combat you just spammed 1 most useful move.Imagine being such an unimaginative tard
>>686948392Brionac and the dark enforcer sidequests were the only truly bad ones.
>>686948482>Whats up with the seething about tales of Vesperia here anyway? natural contrarianism/hype backlash from people propping it up for years + people being filtered by a game that doesn't tell you everything about it immediately and expects you to do some research if you want to know everything about it (muh sidequests, muh arte counts, muh boss tech outs)
>>686918681They can. Square left the collaboration costume files in FFXIII-2 even though they weren't supposed to. They never got in trouble and you just needed a mod to activate them.