At 10/17/09 01:02 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Sadly, this crew is dead.
I haven't been posting here a lot, but that's not a reason to count it as dead..
Yeah.
Recently I've been playing more PSP, which means translates to "I've been playing more RPG lately".
These, more precisely: FF Dissidia, Crisis Core, Disgaea 2, Jeanne D'Arc, and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.
Though I wouldn't call Monster Hunter a fullblown RPG, it does have the elements.
...like 99% of other games..
Crisis Core is good, though haven't been playing it ata frequent rate, hopefully it'll get better.
Dissidia is okay, I guess. It would help if I knew most of the characters.
Jeanne D'Arc is good, enjoying the story, though the fights seem to last to long or seem to slow, maybe it's just me.
MHFU is better than the first part, everything is expained in painful detail, good for beginners.
I've also started playing Grandia. Again.
Ah, that reminds me, has anyone played The Last Remnant? It came out on XBOX 360 and for computer, I grabbed the computer release.
Apart from having an odd menu (everything has the XBOX controls showing, could've been ported better) it has a seemingly cliche storyline from the start but developes a story that stands, albeit wobbly, on its own feet.
The graphics are delicious, though having the shadows on Maximum kills the framerate. Not that that matters much.
The voices are good, though the prince who you meet later sounds a bit ... odd.
The fights are done in rounds, so all you do is sit back and put in the commands that are available and watch. It's not timebased, so you can take your time and think ahead.
Sounds like a good game, right?
Right, which is why I don't understand why I haven't played it for weeks. It should have me gripped. But it hasn't. Same thing for thosewho I know who own the game. Rather odd.
It feels like there's something missing, can't point out what though.
Anyway, that should be enough to get things rolling again.
1, 2, 3, Coffee 4, 5, 8, too late
I posted info on The Tales line up of 09, it's like 3/4 posts up.
And this crew is dead.
At 10/17/09 10:51 PM, Corky-D wrote:At 10/17/09 10:39 PM, knuxrouge wrote: I posted info on The Tales line up of 09, it's like 3/4 posts up.Not until it stinks of rotten flesh.
And this crew is dead.
Agreed, lets put some life back into this thing.
Seeing as my university has a games room with both Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Vesperia, I was thinking of doing a run-through of one of them. Since I have already finished Tales of Symphonia, I was gonna start a file on Vesperia. Also, I might have to take my memory card so I can defeat Sword Dancer V3... I may have to ask some of the other students for assistance in spamming spells with Colette and Raine...
I can't tell if you're joking, because you never use emoticons. ~ SolidToad
At 10/17/09 10:57 PM, ikool wrote:At 10/17/09 10:51 PM, Corky-D wrote:Agreed, lets put some life back into this thing.At 10/17/09 10:39 PM, knuxrouge wrote: I posted info on The Tales line up of 09, it's like 3/4 posts up.Not until it stinks of rotten flesh.
And this crew is dead.
Seeing as my university has a games room with both Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Vesperia,
That sounds like a nice university, having a games room and all.
I was thinking of doing a run-through of one of them. Since I have already finished Tales of Symphonia, I was gonna start a file on Vesperia. Also, I might have to take my memory card so I can defeat Sword Dancer V3... I may have to ask some of the other students for assistance in spamming spells with Colette and Raine...
I saw a video on Youtube playing Colette with 1 HP and killing Sword Dancer.
Try Vesperia if you haven't yet, it sounds good.
Not quite RPG related but I'll post it here either way, I got back into Fallout 3 recently and looked if there were some good mods around.
Yeah, there are. A lot of mods, I think I've added around 100 new weapons and a few extra locations, quite nifty.
And for boredom's sake I installed a few weapons just to mess around with, like a Flamer that shoots Mini Nukes, a Dog Launcher and a dozen of other silly weapons.
1, 2, 3, Coffee 4, 5, 8, too late
Are you guys interested in my "Tales of Updates" or should I stop wasting my time?
At 10/24/09 01:40 AM, knuxrouge wrote: Are you guys interested in my "Tales of Updates" or should I stop wasting my time?
Stop wasting your time, it's not like this information helps us "Tales of" fans at all.
/sarcasm
I can't tell if you're joking, because you never use emoticons. ~ SolidToad
At 10/24/09 02:48 AM, ikool wrote:At 10/24/09 01:40 AM, knuxrouge wrote: Are you guys interested in my "Tales of Updates" or should I stop wasting my time?Stop wasting your time, it's not like this information helps us "Tales of" fans at all.
/sarcasm
K!
Tales of Updates!
Let's start with the soft stuff.
Tales of Vesperia: First strike (The prequel movie to Tales of Vesperia) hit theaters October 17th in Shinjuku, afterwards a special conference was held, in that time it was told that the game's developers were thinking about making a sequel to Tales of Vesperia in either game or movie form, they told the Japanese magazine Famitsu.
Now to the big stuff.
Namco is advertising Graces big now, I mean BIG. The full song to the opening theme has been leaked and the official commercial can been seen on Youtube.
The hype has expanded to the US even further, since it has been also leaked that a DVD of BoA (Singer of Mamoritai~White Wishes, Tales of Graces' theme) will be released December 9th, a day before the game's release. This package includes an English version of the song, high hints and hopes for localization. Another DVD can be obtained by pre ordering the game, it comes with a serial code to download Vesperia costumes for 3 characters, Yuri's costume for Asbel (protagonist), Patty's costume for SoPhie (heroine), and Rita's costume for Cheria (Spell Caster).
To clarify on that last sentence, Tales of Graces will be receiving downloadable content.
To add to the Statewide hype, two scans of the game can be found in the latest issue of Nintendo Power, as they too hope it comes stateside. They will also be releasing (in celebration of the game) real life Mabo Curry, which before has been a fake dish only in Tales of titles when cooking. That hits stores on the 7th (of Dec.).
The official site has been updated with short clips in the Characters section.
Tales of Graces has also been awarded as the most anticipated games of the year in Japan by the Japan Game Awards Future Division.
At 10/24/09 04:13 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Tales Update
Good sheez, looks like Graces is being hyped up more then ever. I really hope that this will be just as good as Symphonia... and mebe they'll add a little easter egg with the old tales characters.
I can't tell if you're joking, because you never use emoticons. ~ SolidToad
At 10/24/09 07:34 PM, ikool wrote:At 10/24/09 04:13 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Tales UpdateGood sheez, looks like Graces is being hyped up more then ever. I really hope that this will be just as good as Symphonia... and mebe they'll add a little easter egg with the old tales characters.
You've seen the gameplay, if you haven't......
Combine that with 70 hours of gameplay and a story that (personally) I have faith in will not suck (they've nevel let me down so far...).
This game just might be better than Symphonia.
Tales of Updates
ast month, fireguardiancoty (FireG from the Tales Forums) shared with us some dialogue he had together with Yuri Lowell's English voice actor, Troy Baker, regarding a localization for Tales of Vesperia PS3 possibly in the works.
This time around, someone from the VGChartz Forum further backs up this story, claiming that Troy Baker has once again mentioned that he has been called back to do scenes for the game while having a chat with him at the London Expo. You can view the growing thread here. The guy even has pictures with Troy Baker.
As usual, this could be false info, or it could be for real. If this is genuine, keep in mind that some projects could even get scrapped despite having done some VA work already. The last thing I want to think about is Troy Baker pulling everyone's leg, so let's hope that isn't the case. Once again, this doesn't count as an official confirmation at all. Just, a little icing on the cake to put our hopes up :\.
At 10/24/09 08:32 PM, knuxrouge wrote: You've seen the gameplay, if you haven't......
My eyes literally teared up from watching how beautiful that trailer was...
My, I haven't been so hyped up for a wii game since I first watched the trailer for SSBB back in '07!
I can't tell if you're joking, because you never use emoticons. ~ SolidToad
Sure, you can join, but this crew is pretty much dead and is primarily used for my "Tales of Updates" where I just give out news concerning new Tales games in development.
In speaking of which....
Tales of Updates
On Tales of Graces' main site there are new character scenes for SoPhie, Hubert and another for Malik, the System section has opened with the game's battle system.
From what I've heard so far, the A button style for the characters work in a totally different way than we've ever known, while the B button style works like the normal artes button that we've experienced in other Tales games (Directional Button + B button = arte). The scans above further explain this "new" system using the A button. Imagine it to work like this: the artes system for the A style works in a tier-like system. The first time you press the A button, you perform the arte(s) that require 1CC. This then allows you to perform the artes available that require 2CC. As you can see, there are four artes available for that, and can be performed by using the analog stick together with the A button. The next tier of artes can be performed once you have performed 2CC artes, and so on.
Tales of Symphonia is finally starting the Tethe'alla arc of the OVA, a trailer has been released and the theme song has been leaked and can be downloaded here.
You can both join, start up a discussion or contribute to one.
At 11/2/09 01:57 PM, knuxrouge wrote: In speaking of which....
Tales of Updates
Hmmmm, the new battle system sounds interesting... :D
After seeing the trailer on how the battles look visually appealing and large roomed, I really can't wait to get my hands on this game. ^.^
Also, TRIDENT GUN FTW!
I can't tell if you're joking, because you never use emoticons. ~ SolidToad
At 11/5/09 12:26 AM, EpicFail wrote: I'd love to join... I've been playing RPG's my entire life, and even RPG's on paper, that's right, I play D&D.
I'll be coming here often I'm sure.
They all say this and never come back, literally.
At 11/5/09 03:39 AM, knuxrouge wrote:At 11/5/09 12:26 AM, EpicFail wrote: I'd love to join... I've been playing RPG's my entire life, and even RPG's on paper, that's right, I play D&D.They all say this and never come back, literally.
I'll be coming here often I'm sure.
Good thing I didn't say that.
Anyone heard about the new RPA game Risen? Yeah, I know it's not a real RPG, but that's all we got.
I'm thinking of getting it. If not that, I might consider Dragon Age Origins.
Don't let the join date confuse you, I been here since waaay long.
At 11/5/09 07:38 AM, EpicFail wrote:At 11/5/09 04:38 AM, Aigis wrote: Dragon Age: Origins comes out here tomorrow.I've been meaning to look in to this game, but completely forgot about it... Due to distractions. Thanks man!
What about me?
Don't let the join date confuse you, I been here since waaay long.
Tales of Updates
Bandai Namco Games Japan has opened up a new teaser site for their new "Next RPG Project K". There is currently no news on as to what it is, for what console it is or even if it is a Tales game or not. There have been, however, hints about the game presumably being an upcoming Tales game for the Nintendo DS.
When they had updated the Namdai news list about this update, it was originally filed under "Nintendo DS" with the DS icon. Either they accidentally posted it early, or they just made a mistake in posting. This has now been fixed though with a new icon, indicating that it is a home game.
Also, despite Namdai's many subsites for their games, only the Tales Channel has a link leading to Project K's teaser site. Because of this, many are now speculating that this could be a new Tales game. There are also some who believe that it's a Sergeant Keroro game. The teaser site will be updated seven days from now according to its countdown. We will all know by then if this really is a Tales game or not.
In Graces' News
Amazon Japan has been updated today with images of the Tales of Graces Special Bag Wii bundle and the cover of the special DVD pre-order bonus.
The Wii bundle packaging will feature a lovely Tales of Graces group artwork by Mutsumi Inomata. The bundle includes the game, the Wii console (white) and a Classic Controller Pro.
The special DVD pre-order bonus, now officially titled "Dramatic DVD ~You Want to Be an Adult?~" (%uFF5E%u5927%u4EBA%u306B%u306A%u308A%u3 05F%u3044%uFF1F%u7BC7%uFF5E, ~otona ni naritai? hen~) features the status arts of Asbel, Sophie, Cheria and Hubert for the packaging and a floral pattern for the DVD itself. No news yet on the DVD's contents. According to Amazon JP, pre-ordering the Wii bundle will also get you the Dramatic DVD (and the Vesperia costume code, and possibly the ToG-themed postcard too).
4Gamer has also updated with a new article regarding the game's Groovy Chat and Critical Gauge systems. The Critical Gauge is the blue-colored gauge found below the HP gauge of the controlled character in battle. Successfully attacking your enemies and successfully evading their attacks will fill up the gauge. Getting hit by enemies will decrease it. Once the said gauge is full, the upper limit (max number) of your CC points will increase by 1 and you will be able to deal critical hits. Once the gauge is empty, however, your CC upper limit will decrease by 1 point and enemies will be able to deal critical hits at you.
