has anyone played it?
Tales of Symphonia
has anyone played it?
No! But I really want to.
Yes.Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart
Aye. T'rocked my arse, so to speak.
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The best RPG I have played this generation.
The battle system was extremely good and very, very enjoyable. The story, on the other hand, really sucked, and the dungeons weren't very well done either.
Yes, the story definetly sucked MAJOR arse. You could tell they completely ripped off FF10, and pretty much every other rpg cliche.
The characters to me felt boring and lifeless, nobody really worth rememboring or caring about. Just average on that part.
As a whole, i felt the game was very disappointing, and it just didn't appeal to me in any way like the ff series or kingdom hearts did. Just my opinion.....
easily the best RPG of whatever year it came out in. and im not sure, but i think the only other RPG that i can even remember from that year was FFX-2. and we all know what a huge piece of crap that turned out to be.
X-2 might have actually come out ealier in the previous year, but you get what im talking about.
So, FFX didn't have any RPG cliches at all? OH NO FORBIDDEN LOVE.
ToS' story was pretty different from FFX, since FFX was a matter of beating some huge enemy after gaining random summon powers, whereas ToS was about regenerating the world, something that changed rather swiftly, but it took a whole damn boring game in FFX before anyone said "HOW ABOUT WE DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT?". Only a pretty damn small portion of the game is at all similar to FFX, you must have just been too short sighted to have seen that fact.
Boring, lifeless characters? Where the backstory of each and every one of them is explained, where every character participates in the story sequences and always has something useful to say? Oh sure, FF was great with that with the one random thing Generic Old Guy #3 said, or when Generic Young Hero #2 decided to speak out against injustice.
So, all in all, from what you've said, you clearly only played the first few hours of the game, probably found the combat too hard as, SHOCK HORROR, it wasn't turn based and then gave up and went back to another generic FF game. HOORAY FOR YOU, you don't deserve to play ToS anyway, it's too good for you.
Yes, I played it. That reminds me, I need to get back to that. I dunno why, I just suddenly stopped playing it. :shame:
Boy am I an unfunny ass.
Been meaning to pick up the strategy guide so I can run through it again and get all the secrets. I enjoyed it quite a bit, though the first part was reminescent of FFX, it was a good game that easily stands on its own two feet. I love the battle system.
That seems a little harsh. I wouldn't really compare the game to FFX, but I would say that it was pretty cliched. Worse, the story was pretty predictable and at times seemed to be trying to throw in some big twists for profound results but wasn't quite able to pull it off.
The characterization was decent, but not good enough to make me care much about any of the characters. I was also actually surprised by how easy I found the game. I read numerous reviews stating the battles were very hard, but I only remember dying a few times throughout the entire game.
Reviewers today suck at games. They are no better than jimmy in the 2nd grade. Every game that isn't a complete cake walk is hard to them.
I thought that the story was very well put together with good character development. It was cliche as hell but that didn't stop them from tell those cliches better than most people. I already knew most of what would probably go down in the game before I picked it up due to my prior experience with previous Tales of games.
One thing I really liked about the game was the new game plus system. Just great as they don't make it super easy but allow you to pick and choose certain things to carry over.
The real hard part about the battles is getting your Grade high enough to be able to carry over what you want.
I have played it. The graphics are very good. The voice acting is terrible, but it does have Robin from Teen Titans voicing the main character. That's kind of neat. The story is awful, and gets incredibly preachy towards the end. I lost count of the number of times each character gave a speech about how everyone deserves equal rights. It gets really irritating. None of the characters are all that interesting or original, and there's a lot of stiff and awkward sequences (like people dying and the voice clip of the guy going "ugh!" not synching up). It's kind of dumb.
But the gameplay itself is great, albeit a bit repetitive. Basically, it's the same as any of the other Tales games. Good gameplay, good graphics, and average or worse everything else.
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