>"Tales of" Series 30th Anniversary Production I.G × ufotable: The Journey Woven by RPGs Featuring 188 Special illustrations for all mothership titles.Presented by Akira Matsushima and Tokuyuki Matsutake, the animation directors behind the "Tales of" series. We hope you enjoy the 30th anniversary!The first wave of illustrations will be revealed! These two titles will be showcased at MachiAsobi Vol. 30 this May: "Tales of Phantasia" "Tales of Xillia" Stay tuned!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MMJDOt6Rm4New concert for Zesty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vO7ZmvJwNU&t=4s
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>>736283913Are there any other games where I can harvest horse meat while an alien race that looks like me turns all my slave friends into gray paste for over 300 years?...no?just this one?
>illustrationsThat is pathetic
>>736284023butbutbut they will illustrate all characters !!!
I want to marry Eleanor!
Why is this series so insanely dead? Regardless of how people feel about Arise in terms of quality or direction, I thought it was at least financially successful. Even if they pivoted to AAA development cycles, it shouldn't take this long for a new game to come out.
>>736284093they can only make button mashers so many times before they realize they are bankrupt creatively and financially. berseria was pretty shit
>>736283913Neat.>>736284093Arise's DLC came out less than two years and a half ago, and the Tales Remastered Project started a year ago in January '25 with Graces ƒ. We've known they've been working on an actual new title since October.
>>736284093They used to pump these games out every year in the PS2 era and like 3 of them were like Tales of Legendia for every Tales of Symphonia.And the remasters don't do anything exciting. People on Steam already own Tales of Berseria.
>>736284756Is Arise DLC good (assuming you are a consumer and not an advertiser)
>>736285929Arise isn't good, that goes for both base game dlc.
>>736284093Mismanagement after Gachas
>>736285929Not really, no. I mean it's not awful and you can get your enjoyment out of it but you can't import your characters from the base game and a tons of enemies are palette swap reuses. Story is fine. 6.4/10
rose!
>>736283913coolwhere are the vidya james tho
>>736286256SEX WITH EDONA
just announce a new game already you fucking frauds 1 game in 10 years is fucking insane
>>736283913https://x.com/famitsu/status/2039993901323596087lmao the comments. What a shitshow
>>736286227...is the worst female character in her game!
>>736286569>"Join X now to read replies on this post"Yeah, no.
Playing the original super famicom version of phantasia right now. Does using a strong attack or light attack just depend on wether I double tap the attack button or is there some other trick to it? I want to know if I can actually control whether my character uses the rising slash or falling slash versions of the strong attack.
Renans feed you their poison and ragebait you into absorbing your lifeforce and subjugate you into a chrome paste which they drink or do something with (use it as lube?). Truly a real parallel with the sino-hebraic elite.>>736286152Arise is good in the RE4 Remake sense where you set it to the easiest difficulty and don't try to actually engage with its combat.
>>736284093They probably lost all the passionate, talented people over time thanks to Baba. So now they're financially bankrupt, but really also drank the kool-aid the rest of the industry took where every game needs to be some big flashy release that awes everyone. Instead of, you know, just making a low risk 2D game every now and then to fill the long dev cycles.
>>736283913>no new anime>no new game>no remake>no remaster>no yearly festivalwhat a shit announcement
>>736284093Bamco's original endgame for Tales was gacha. They've made so many of them. All dead.They probably just have no idea where to go after that, and there's just no creative drive left for the franchise.
>>736288878>now they're financially bankruptArise was the best selling game to date.
>>736288878>>736289159Ah shit, wanted to say creatively bankrupt. Financially who knows since Arise prolly cost a lot too and those ten or so failed gachas must've sucked them dry too.
>>736288572Can you still get the Code Geass fits in Graces?
>>736289258If you mean in the remaster, normally no - even in the JP version.Not sure if they're still in the code that can hack/mod those back in or just outright removed.
This series won't make it to the 40ty anniversary
>>736285929Just more of the same game but bite sized. If you somehow like the characters, DLC will gives you a reason to stay with them a bit longer, typical tales of storytelling.
>>736284074God i miss Tales of the Rays, still have the offline version installed.
>>736289414See you in 2035.
>>736283913Tales of Abyss remaster news?
>>736289414what are you talking about? it's already dead, they are just parading the corpse for this "anniversary"
>30th anniversary >It's nothing
>>736288878Low risk 2d game would be even harder to sell these days unless you are indie which they clearly isn't
If only baba was here
>>736290992
Thanks to Arise, new Tales games probably will end up like FF7 remake.
>>736283913can i get an official tales of tierlist so i don't waste my time with shit games
>>736283913>illustrations
>>736284093To Namco, anything that doesn't pull in Tekken money is a finical flop.
>>736290992For better and for worse he did produce multiple games I guess
>>736283913Sex with Mint.>>736284074Sex with Eleanor.>>736286175Sex with Kisara.>>736286635Sex with Lailah and Alisha.
>>736283913at this point I'm hoping someone has the autism to decompile tales of the abyss so we can get a port that doesn't suck like the symphonia port sucks
Scamco does it again
>>736291149I wouldn't go that far just yet. Even Zestiria is less an affront to Tales than 95% of post-FFX releases were towards Final Fantasy, including Nomura's fanfic.
>>736291342based
>>736283913Why don't they illustrate some fuckin games instead
>>736283913>tales of censorshipI'll pass
>>736289467>If you somehow like the charactersNot at all, but I don't really think a main character has to be likeable
>>736284093They probably don't care anymore, non-ironically. Must be tiring to make Linear Motion Battle System the whole life, I'd be tired too. Not only for this, probably the reason FF also completely changed its design after IX/X.
>>736285929Gameplay-wise, definitely not. Few new enemies, no new Mystic Artes or mechanics, etc.For the Skits and character interactions, it was worth it.
>>736284093Devs came to the terrible realization that they have to release any new games on nintendo platforms.
>>736286673slap 'cancel' between x and .
>>736284093The series was already stagnating and instead of doing something about it Hideous Baba sabotaged Zestiria by replacing the main heroine with a last minute character, voiced by a seiyuu he had a crush on and by the end of production he had impregnated her.Also there's subtle things like Go Shina carrying the music quality but then he left Bamco so that's gone. Just a gradual decay of talent and vision I guess.
>>736291160Abyss > Vesperia > Xillia 2 > Eternia > Symphonia > Destiny DC = Xillia > Berseria > Phantasia > Rebirth > Legendia = Zestiria
I still don't understand what the point of re-releasing Berseria was, especially when Xillia 2 is still trapped on PS3.
>>736292353I'm sure someone told you this before, but I'll do so again: Because this company is lazy as fuck, so it re-releases the most recent (aka easiest to port) games for some extra cash.
>>736292353I think most people assumed it was for the purpose of porting it to Switch
>>736292353$$$$Though those rereleases have been selling worse and worse because they keep putting absolutely no effort into the switch versions of the games. Tales of Symphonia runs better on the Gamecube than the Switch.
>>736292689What extra cash?
>>736292837That's like 70,000 yen bro. That funded the artwork for the anniversary.
>>736292837That's at least 200 sales, man. It's not like it cost much to port it over with all the source code still working just fine. Add two new features, recompile shaders and you're good to go.
I really wanted to like arise but it's the first tales game that I dropped.I tried to enjoy it I really did.
>>736292837Tales sells more on console.
>>736292837All they did to the game was add some QOL features. it cost pennies to make compared to a new game. It's very likely it turned a profit.
>>736291678No, i mean "we want more audience so we will do stupid things" and destroy the series for good. Arise don't feel like Tales at all.
>>736293150The ending made the late game slog somewhat worth it at least
>>736292201Alisha was always meant to be a temporary party member, it was a case of shit advertising.
I'm curious: How long did it take them to make Symphonia and Abyss?
>>736283913It'd be one thing if they simply just announced it without much fanfare, but the fact that they teased this thing for over a month is diabolical.
>>736293848Symphonia started development around early 2002 and came out August 2003. Likewise Abyss started development early 2004 and came out December 2005.
>>736288572>>Arise is good in the RE4 Remake sense where you set it to the easiest difficulty and don't try to actually engage with its combat.Why are Tales fags so casual? Motherfuckers make combo vids on dummies and then when presented with a game where you have to micro and cannot juggle enemies forever they cry and set it to EZ moodo.
>>736294186He's right though Arise has genuinely some of the worst action RPG combat I've ever seen.
>>736294314Yeah if you're shit at the game just like webm rel on Crimson Desert
>>736294186That anon is an idiot, but so are you. I micro'd more on games where I could juggle enemies by juggling them or switching to my dumbass casters to move them out of the way of spells. Arise on the other hand was pretty braindead as Rinwell. Just nuke them until they stop moving.
>>736293938It feels like an April Fools joke revealed two days late.
>>736291160Play the team symphonia games if you want a story, play the team destiny games if your a character action game dude and don't care about story
>>736284093>Why is this series so insanely dead?Because Namco have absolutely no money, are in the middle of an incredibly messy restructuring, bleed talent from the dev teams gen after gen, always prioritize the Japanese audience first through cheap shitty mobile games and never truly innovate on anything in the series.Also they just lost Inomata, one of their two largest contributors to their character art for the last 30 years. If a new game is ever produced, it will largely be a Fujishima focused title until they can find replacement artists.
>>736294663>bleed talent from the dev teams gen after genThe funny thing is they still have Takumi Miyajima after 25 years. She was the main writer for Symphonia and Abyss, two of the three most popular and praised games in the franchise, and Abyss specifically beloved for its narrative, characters and themes she also wrote DotNW but we'll let that one slide. For some insane reason they relegated her to writing for Rays and Scarlet Nexus.
We'll get something good at this years tales of fest right...right
Yeah great. Where the fuck is the new game?
