>finally give this game a try>skits are dead silentWhy was this allowed?
>>4012610Namco gave the localization team $100, three pizzas, and a six pack of beer. Corners had to be cut. Previously, they just avoided dubbing the entire "post-game" (actually third and last act) in Legendia, and that didn't work out. For the Abyss, they decided to go back to Symphony's solution of not voicing the skits. Keep in mind, this is still all an improvement over Destiny and Eternia, which had the skits completely removed in the English version. Tales only consistently got voiced skits starting with Vesperia, but the trade off was increased machine translation errors to speed up and lower the cost of the translation.tl'dr Fuck Namco. Always. Fuck them.
I've been playing Symphonia and I like the idea of skits and fleshing things out, but holy shit you get one like every 2 steps. I just stopped doing them after a while because of how much it interrupted the game. Do they slow these down in other Tales games?
>>4012610Just play it with the undubbed patch.
>>4012610haha.. maybe you should've
>>4012610Early day Namco was stupid and did not take the tales series seriously in the west back then. Abyss did not even release in the US until the 3DS port.
>>4012610Would not be so bad if you could control the speed of the text but they just had the screen transition in jap speed which made some lines go super fast or super slow.
>>4012723No, anon, that was Europe, who were treated as an afterthought for JRPGs during most the the 80s-00s. US got Abyss on PS2 in 2005. It was however only the fifth game in the series released in the US at that time after Destiny, Eternia, Symhponia, and Legendia.
>>4012736Ops, always get that mix up.
>>4012723>>4012736>>4012742Not only did we get PS2 Abyss in the US but it also had several changes like balance adjustments, second mystic artes for every characters, an extension to Luke's first mystic art, new mystic artes for Nebilim and other small changes like changing the time window for some side quests and requisites for some titles.
>>4012814This was also the case for star ocean 3 and rogue galaxy on ps2. The west got the advanced ports which added content moves and fixed balance issues
>>4012634The remaster will probably have fully voiced skits. Eternia remastered is getting a new translation and included skits.
>>4012610To filter "people". "People" that play with english voices are subhuman.
>>4012636From my experience they're not too bad in the other games, but do remember that Tales' appeal is heavily rooted in characters and their interactions.
