Tales of Vesperia

[Magixion]

I picked this game up yesterday and am loving it so far. The graphics really bring out the anime-inspired art style and draw you in. The battle system is typical of the Tales series and is easily one of the most fun systems I have played for awhile. Also, Yuri is just a badass and so is Repede, his knife wielding dog-thing!

Anyone else pick this up or going to pick this up?

[Ouch!]

It's out? How did I miss this...?

[Magixion]

Yes it is! It came out on Tuesday!

[Roto13]

Apparently you can pay real-world money to buy levels and skills and stuff for your characters if you don't feel like grinding. Not that Tales games are particularly difficult. I beat Tales of Symphonia on Mania difficulty with half EXP and I didn't have to grind once. >_>

[Namelessfengir]

ps2 or 3

[Zeromus_X]

XBox 360.

[Tasura]

I haven't picked it up yet, but I plan to the first chance I have money, which will be in a couple of weeks, give or take a month, depending on how far the government has it's head shoved up it's ass.

[Karellen]

Apparently you can pay real-world money to buy levels and skills and stuff for your characters if you don't feel like grinding.

It begins.

[Lawr]

Apparently you can pay real-world money to buy levels and skills and stuff for your characters if you don't feel like grinding.

It begins.

Lawl Karellan and yeah, I thought this was an MMO too. :laugh:

[JKTrix]

I went to the store on Thursday looking for this, but they didn't have it. To be expected.

They did have Mercenaries 2 though... and I've been playing that since I got it. What a fun game.

That 'pay money' stuff is just in Japan. All that's available right now for the US are some free gels and some 'trial' skills for some of the characters. No doubt that it will be coming later though. Namco loves them microtransactions.

[Dreddz]

If only Namco could take this series to new places, then maybe I would be interested. Tales of should be in the dictionary right next to generic.

[Markus. D]

It's still pretty fun y'know n-n?

Battling things side-scroll style.

[JKTrix]

If only Namco could take this series to new places, then maybe I would be interested. Tales of should be in the dictionary right next to generic.

I wouldn't go so far as to say 'generic' (it's still better than most similar games and looks to be more enjoyable than Infinite Undiscovery), but maybe a little 'behind' considering RPGs in general. Tales is still kinda stuck in kid-friendly mode when it comes to presentation and content, though Vesperia already seems to be touching on some more mature subjects. I guess that's just how the franchise is meant to be, all colourful and pleasant and stuff. If it changed too much, the JP audience probably wouldn't be too pleased. I just hope that Namco's idea of innovating/progressing the franchise doesn't begin and end with letting people choose whether they want anime or CG cutscenes.

[Khaotic]

Time to throw away my PS3.

[Bastian]

The only Tales game I played was Symphonia. It was alright. Really, I think I only liked it because it seemed to toally rip off the Mana games and Final Fantasy games and merge them into a lesser-than multiplayer. If it was single player, I would have never finished it.