The gameplay is fun but holy shit the graphics for xillia are horrible. It feels like this game has zero art direction and is just a bunch of soulless assets strewn across a flat plane. The towns, outside of the first one, are absolutely atrocious. And Sakuraba literally lifted samples from his other works and copy pasted them for this game's soundtrack. It just feels so low effort.It's really weird just how much better vesperia looks than arise, berseria, zestiria, and especially xillia. Why won't namco reuse the vesperia engine I just don't get it? The one they went with for xillia and after is eye cancer.Fuck I honestly think abyss looks better than xillia. There is not a single area in xillia that looks better than this.
Yup, Vesperia's the best looking Tales game and idk why they didn't just stick with that style. The games started looking weird after that. and yeah Xilia's OST is so boring, I can't remember a single song. Wish there were more OSTs like Legendia.
>>3883944Fennmont, Nia Khera, Xian Du and Trigleph look better than one screen of a sandnigger town.
>>3884052Cope.
>>3883944Chesedonia, home
>>3884052Chesedonia is in the desert but it's a white people town. If you'd play the game you'd know that guy was a member of it's royal family before they got btfo you dumb nigger
>>3883944>Tales of Xillia in the title>thread theoretically wants to talk about how Tales of Xillia looks like>does not post a picture of Tales of XilliaOkay be honest - are you still in highschool and are you currently failing whatever your English/Language comprehension courses are in highschool?Because if not you shouldn't be this retarded
>>3884223How about you read the actual OP text you unfathomable autist
>>3884251Don't be harsh with the retarded faggot please!>>3884223You are a retarded(affectionate) faggot(affectionate)!
>>3884185Shit eaters, sandniggers dilating, lol. Chesedonia looks like trash outside of that screen. Seethe.
>>3884353Way better than any location in xillia. That screenshot has some actual atmosphere at least.
>>3884353>Cheesedonia>yellow colour palettePottery.
>>3884353>"Chesedonia looks like trash">posts a cozy bazaar pic
>>3884395Xillia's environments blend in
>>3884721Xillia looks like they lifted they're graphics engine out of an Atelier game.
>>3884054NTA, but I will accept your concession in their place.
>>3884223It's a thread actively bashing Xillia and then presenting a picture of Abyss with the implication that it looks better.How come I'm an actual ESL and I understood the assignment better than (You)?
>>3883944What would a moon with a true atmosphere and biosphere look like from Earth?
so after the 2008 crisis bandai namco merged its two tales teams into oneeach team had their respective dna, tram destiny and tram symphonia, both had very different approaches to story telling and combatif you pay attention youll see destiny’s combat is mainly CC based, which its last “pure blooded” descendent being tales of graces, made by team destinyvesperia was the last pure blooded descendant of team symphonia, with abyss being one of them. After both trams merged, they tried to find their footing, but never really got there. Xillia 1 and 2, zestiria, berseria, all failed to set foot on the ground on a direction they wanted to followthe latest one, arise, was yet another attempt to set a new foot for the series, but this too hasnt caught up. Truth to be told, the two teams made games they wanted to make, symphonia, abyss, vesperia were all styles, characters and combat shared by one dna and one team and one vision. Same for tram destinyAfter 2008, it was just never the same. Not a team expressing their style through media, just a bunch of monkeys throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks and what sells more. Inevitable that the tales franchise collapsed. Before they had a long term growth scheme going pushing creativity, but after the financial crisis they, like most companies, pushed short term profits and cost cutting which led to short term medium success but long term fading which youre all experiencing. Lots of retards defended the post 2008 tales games, and back then everybody went on heated arguments, but the results speak for themselves. No more tales games, if youre very lucky you may get a new one every 10 years or so. The people who would unironically defend the newer tales games probably killed themselves by now.
>>3884970>The people who would unironically defend the newer tales games probably killed themselves by now.FUCKING LOL DUDE!I remember I had a friend in college try to convince me/himself xillia was better than vesperia. He was just mad jelly he didn't have a 360 back in the day to play vesperia. That was an incredible experience for me back in my senior year of highschool. 360 for the first half of Gen 7 kicked so much ass Microsoft where morons for letting Peter Moore go. At least some companies like atlus have managed to keep their series going strong. We're still getting persona games smt mainline, and devil summoner. Namco just gave control of their franchise to literal degenerates like baba that cared more about getting their dick sucked than creating quality new games for the franchise.Also I'm pretty sure namco is making this huge push with tales of... And it's a pretty significant push we've gotten symphonia, graces, xillia, and soon berseria remaster back to back because they have a new mainline tales in the pipeline. I'm optimistic it might actually be a return to form as they seem pretty serious about reviving the tales of hardcore fans base. I for one am optimistic they learn from their mistakes with arise and Co.Maybe of we're really lucky they'll even return to fixed camera angles. Tales of xillia doesn't benefit at all from letting you control the camera on field and it seriously shits on the atmosphere of the game.All that said the actual gameplay in xillia is pretty fun. They pretty much just slapped the vesperia and graces battle engines together and shit works alot better than it has any right too. Good shit
>>3883947Post best Legendia tracks if you would anon.
>>3884528>Cheesedonia>yellow color palettePoetry.
>>3884988How are all the other Tales games compared to Berseria? I'm playing that one now and enjoying it. I never played any of Tales other than Destiny back on PSX. I usually dislike ARPGs.Other question - how is Tales compared to Xenoblade? I loved Xenogears, and Xenosaga I was cool, but I never tried Xenoblade.
>>3883944how is the anime adaptation?
>>3884996Berseria has one of the better writing for Tales games and below average gameplay. Depending on what you value other games will be even more enjoyable.
>>3884996I haven't played berseria so I can't really say how it compares to other games. I'm excited to get it for switch next year as it is only 40 bucks and a new game to me.Xenoblade kicks major ass. It's basically a heavily refined final Fantasy 12. I love these kind of rpgs that give you a huge beautiful world to just explore, find treasure, quest, and fight monster and ff12, dq8, and especially the xenoblade chronicles series really excel at this. The first half of xenoblade x on the switch is one of the best rpgs I've ever played it's pure joy... But then you get to the point where you've filled in the map/found most of the teleport Data drone things and theirs not that much to do but teleport around doing quests.Future redeemed > X > 1 > 3 > 2 > torna is how I ranked the series. When I first played 2 I absolutely loved it but in retrospect it had a lot of obnoxious mechanics like field abilities and rng gacha shit to get blades the series was better off without.
>>3884970Namco in general fell into disarray shortly after the Bandai merger. Most of their best staff outsources work to other companies these days, it's weird.
>>3883944>incoherent schizo babbleyou are mad mad
>>3884988>I'm optimistic it might actually be a return to form as they seem pretty serious about reviving the tales of hardcore fans base. I for one am optimistic they learn from their mistakes with arise and Co.I'm amazed you can still have that optimism after the last few fuck ups. And now for the 30th year anniversary their big plan is to remaster games by starting with the easiest to remaster. Wow, they're really looking back at the series' legacy with this one.Nah, at this point I'm convinced they don't even know how to produce a game with a good world and story anymore. I'm looking forward to the next game, but solely to laugh at the trainwreck it's gonna be.
Have we matured yet to agree that Tales of Zestria was a good game review bombed by rabbit Alisha fanboys?
>>3887947It's okay, but the camera is fucking awful.
>>3885005>Berseria has one of the better writing for Tales games>DRRR WHY BIRD FLY! Really says a lot about the fucking franchise
>>3887947Also those who played Berseria first, and got a wrong impression of the story.
>>3888075>>3887947Remember in Zestiria when the retard realizes her teacher/mentor was in cahoots with the big bad guy and was going to deliver the weapon to destroy the world and she lets her walk right past without even trying to fight and then like 20 minutes later you kill her after she already delivered the weapon and everyone has sympathy or makes excuses for her for literally no reason? Tales of ZESTY FAGGOTS FUCKING SUCKS
>>3888019That's because it doesn't. >>3885005>Velvet is called a Therion early on which is ignored until way later where they make it out to be a surprising reveal>Antagonists decide to ignore the party for no reason>Story is kinda just durdling for the mid game>The two siblings die only due to a dumb misunderstanding no one even tried to resolve or even care aboutNah, the writing is only good if you've started with Zestiria or something.
