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glad to have confirmation that it is in fact a tales game writing-wise
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May 5, 2021 22:17
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tbh the berseria one was pretty funny
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May 5, 2021 22:17
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It was great especially the voice actors trying to impersonate each other
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May 5, 2021 22:19
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quote:You wouldn’t deny me the chance to be a man, would you? can't wait to see Shionne shadow box in Rowe's body
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May 6, 2021 02:11
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I wonder if they'll do a joke about Alphen's curse making him hangover-immune Also that Rinwell comment confirms she's younger than 20 Junpei fucked around with this message at 03:28 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 02:17
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I started up Legendia again for the hell of it and it's just it's own weird thing, same as before. Did the staff of that game just all disperse after it was released or did they do anything else semi-together? edit: it does not, however, look very good on my 4K TV, at least when connected through official component cables. There are bands of stretched pixels, like a bad attempt to shoehorn it into the wrong resolution. Does it run at an unusual resolution or anything for a PS2 game? Only a few other games look like that. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 05:03 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 05:00
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isn't that the one that was made by tekken staff?
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Tales of Woe posted:isn't that the one that was made by tekken staff?
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Tales of Woe posted:isn't that the one that was made by tekken staff? It was, yeah. They also had Go Shiina do the music instead of Sakuraba, so that's another reason it feels so different. Endorph did a really good breakdown of the fighting game mechanics that it has when compared to other Tales games of the same era, but I don't know how far back you'd have to go to find it. It received virtually no marketing and was directly competing with Abyss in the west as they came out really close together iirc, but it has a decent amount going for it if you ignore that they opted not to voice half of the game.  Samurai Sanders posted:edit: it does not, however, look very good on my 4K TV, at least when connected through official component cables. There are bands of stretched pixels, like a bad attempt to shoehorn it into the wrong resolution. Does it run at an unusual resolution or anything for a PS2 game? Only a few other games look like that. I think that the art style plays very strongly to the PS2's strengths and doesn't do well when being stretched any farther than like, 1080p? I know it emulates very nicely, since I've done that personally, but my screen is much smaller, I think. Ershalim fucked around with this message at 07:54 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 07:52
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Ershalim posted:I think that the art style plays very strongly to the PS2's strengths and doesn't do well when being stretched any farther than like, 1080p? I know it emulates very nicely, since I've done that personally, but my screen is much smaller, I think.
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Compare this with Tales of Destiny PS2. See how much more clean the text is? That’s how some PS2 games look but not others. Incidentally I went looking for ToD Director's Cut and...drat, I wish I hadn't sold my copy all those years ago. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 11:14 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 10:52
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Tales of Series: "The word “a*shole” appears in dialogue."
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legendia was... sort of made by tekken devs but. its staff is honestly spread out to a lot of completely random people. like its lead battle programmer directed, napple tale, for the sega dreamcast, and also worked as a programmer on stretch panic and wario world. its lead programmer worked on the klonoa games, its graphics engine programmer worked on ridge racer v and klonoa 2, its art director's only big prior credits are package design for a bunch of late 90s namco games. the ui designer's only credits are for a ps1 goemon game and Fisherman's Bait 2: Big 'Ol Bass. Samurai Sanders posted:Beats me. The music is like nothing else I’ve heard before or since and the character designs are by the Samurai Champloo guy I guess. Combat is a throwback to the earliest Tales games. if you haven't played them yet, the first few mr. driller games have music from the same composer in a style that's closer to legendia than anything he's composed since https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4giMWBWP9ZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDnkBq2HjjQ The Colonel fucked around with this message at 15:31 on May 6, 2021 |
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The Colonel posted:legendia was... sort of made by tekken devs but. its staff is honestly spread out to a lot of completely random people. It's kind of funny looking at it now, I distinctly remember some marketing speak of it being made by "the soul calibur team" and other people remember a tekken line, but like there's maybe one person whose worked on either game as far as legendia battle designers go and both worked on graphics for those games. way more overlap with ace combat, if anything
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Elvis_Maximus posted:Thank god we've got confirmation of a hot springs scene There must always be a hotspring scene. Except Graces, where it's more of a community pool scene IIRC.
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why are people saying Rinwell's gonna be a traitor when Law's description is literally: A young Dahnan man from Calaglia who works in Renan police force known as Bull's Eye. He confronts Alphen and his group when they arrive to Cyslodia. He's literally working for the cops, he's obviously the traitor if there is one
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May 6, 2021 19:33
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Alvin gets an inexplicable cameo where all he does is meet the party and then betray them in under five minutes before never showing up again.
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Junpei posted:why are people saying Rinwell's gonna be a traitor when Law's description is literally:
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Endorph posted:a 'traitor' usually isnt introduced as working for the group that he will be dramatically revealed to be working for later See that’s a true twist no one would expect
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May 6, 2021 20:03
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what if Law's only pretending to have betrayed Bull's Eye and is still spying on the party for them Unrelated: ufotable doing the animation for Arise's anime cutscenes 
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May 6, 2021 20:44
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ufotable has been their go to animation studio for a while now.
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May 6, 2021 22:26
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Is it wrong to read it as Tales of Arse in that picture?
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LostRook posted:Is it wrong to read it as Tales of Arse in that picture? Depends on if the game is better or worse than zestria
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Zestiria was some sort of production disaster and there's no reason to believe Tomizawa will let anything like that happen.
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the worst i can see is arise maybe having some kinda bland writing, even if it comes out kinda disappointing it'll probably be better on the whole than zestiria
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Yeah it's probably going to be a complete game that implements all the features it set out to. I'll even go so far as to say that technically speaking, I think it's going to be good. Whether it uses its setting well, writes characters with personhood, properly explores its themes, all of that? The game has 60 hours to flesh out and 60 hours to screw it up, and what we get told before release is nothing but jumping-off points. I prefer to be optimistic until the game proves itself to be bad.
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I'll give Zestiria full credit for the update to Mystic Cage. If Arise has a cameo battle -- and it probably will -- I hope they do something like that with another older mystic to make it all flashy and cool. From the little snippets we've seen so far it's looking kinda like Berseria in tone, but that could easily change as we see more. A slightly darker feeling Eternia could be a drat good Tale.
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I am not feeling enthused about Arise but my somewhat pessimistic expectation of how it will turn out can be summed up as "blandly competent videogame". It would take an impressive feat of left field awfulness for it to turn out worse than Zestiria.
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Beyond this thread and despite my earlier snark, I've mostly been avoiding direct info on it, I'm hoping it will play well and be fun to play through.
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I've heard a lot about these games from various friends and goons over the years, and decided to take a shot when the sale put Berseria at like 8 bucks. Anything I should know or prepare myself for? Other than anime, obviously.
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ShootaBoy posted:I've heard a lot about these games from various friends and goons over the years, and decided to take a shot when the sale put Berseria at like 8 bucks. Anything I should know or prepare myself for? Other than anime, obviously. I recommend playing as all of the characters at least a little bit, because they have a bunch of fun gimmicks even if you ultimately end up going back to Velvet with her wreck everything gimmick.
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ShootaBoy posted:I've heard a lot about these games from various friends and goons over the years, and decided to take a shot when the sale put Berseria at like 8 bucks. Anything I should know or prepare myself for? Other than anime, obviously. Groups of casters will be kind of annoying for the first part of the game, but you will have sweet, sweet revenge as you get to the midgame Other than that just yeah, feel free to try playing as every character because they all play differently and they're all pretty fun minus like one or two It's a fantastic game though so you'll have a great time
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Do you think Shionne will learn heaviest towards being a long-ranged sniper, a healer, or a fire mage? Obviously she's gonna be all three in some capacity but I wonder which will be her core focus and which will just be her side role
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I think she'll be mostly long range offense with spell support. We know from some of the pre-release materials that she can heal other people and Alphen probably can't, but in the most recent tales games they've had it so everyone can heal to some extent or made it so that largely healing wasn't something that was super important to think about due to personal mechanics the characters had.
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There's no reason you can't have a bit of everything. Rutee and Illia, water casters with heals and weapon abilities, come to mind. And again, Shionne has an additional gimmick in throwing bombs to augment her regular gun attacks.
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yeah like Xillia is the last game with a traditional actually powerful healer who can pretty much full heal the party with one spell in the endgame. all the aoe heals are really tiny now and i doubt they'd go back to how it was.
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All we have is really early game footage but we know that: 1. Shionne has First Aid and Recover 2. She can heal people out of battle as a sidequest thing 3. Her being able to heal is plot important So I wouldn't be surprised if she was more in the Nurse/Healing Circle/Revitalize vein than the single-target one
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So hey, there's another Destiny script in the works! The translator for this one is a friend of mine and the team seems to have a handle on making a project work, so I'm inclined to recommend this one to keep an eye on. Oh, and they're also releasing Destiny 2, if you want to experience the saga of a failson and his codependent time waifu fighting communism gone mad. (But none of that is in a good way.) https://luminatales.net/2021/05/08/announcing-the-lumina-destiny-project/ Caphi fucked around with this message at 22:20 on May 8, 2021 |
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