First unveiled at Jump Festa last week, Tales of Vesperia is the latest entry in Namco's long running "Tales" series. Following up on that announcement, the above trailer was released today but, since our Japanese is pretty rusty (read: non-existent), we'll concentrate on what we did notice: there's no console listed.
While they're not naming a destination console for the title – the last three were released for PS2 – the meta tags on the official site originally listed "Xbox 360." Though they've since removed that reference, we suspect we could be seeing a cross-platform Tales game.
Har Har. Two can play at that game, (Insert 360 exclusive here) doesn't have enough androgynous teenage boys or 3 hour long cutscenes to be on the PS3.
Umm.. it's not a "cartoon" that it looks like. You're supposed to say anime. Cartoons are usually the kids stuff. Animated shows are geared towards no specific/ older audience. And anime is the latter but with that Japanese look you see in it. And it's made in Japan(Duh).
Wow, people like you (along with the monumentally horrible shows) were the reason I've never been able to enjoy Japanese cartoons. Pompous isn't strong enough of a word.
I think console exclusitivity on this one will hinge more on which console sells more copies of Trusty Bell (Eterna Sonata). Because 360 didn't seem too keen on that game, but PS3 hasn't had it's chance to throw support that way. Then again, it could be multiplat.
I'm just getting into the series. My girlfriend keeps telling me to play ToS but I can't stand playing RPGs on consoles. So I'm hoping for a PSP or DS port? Pwetty pwwweeeeze?
Wait, so you prefer playing for long sessions on a handheld, rather than on a console? I'm the opposite. I can't stand playing on a handheld for more than an hour. And I definitely play RPGs for at least a few hours in one sitting.
Anywho, Tales of Eternia is available on the PSP, but only in Europe, Australia, and Japan. I wouldn't bother with Tales of the World on the PSP, it's a crossover spin-off for the Tales fans.
I just don't like running through menus and stuff on a big screen. It's odd I know. Only just started playing FF7 now I can finally play it on a handheld.
Golden Sun is pretty much my most beautiful puppy so far.
Yeah, that's certainly the Eternal Sonata engine. I wonder if it'll be multi-platform day and date this time, or if it will be another timed exclusive?
I'm hoping it won't end up on PS3 / 360 seeing as I have neither, but the reasons why it could be are pretty convincing.
1) Namco/Bandai already announced a Tales for PSP, DS, Wii, and PS2. Now, to be fair, the PSP and PS2 games are remakes, so it's still possible this is a PS2 game.
2) The trailer is in 720p. If it's truly in-game footage, it's possible that it's an HD game. Wii only goes up to 480p.
Regardless, the Tales series is always top class in the RPG world. I might just have to get a 360 / PS3 if it remains an exclusive for these consoles.
By the way, people seemed to ignore the fact that Tales of the Abyss exists. It came out last year after the success of Symphonia, and I daresay it's even better than Symphonia. Abyss was the game that made me finally crack down and get a PS2.
I heard "Tales of" series are crazy popular but for all that I have seen the franchise seems quite generic and before all Jrpg fans say "Well you play generic shooters sucka" is the story really that good,the gameplay or what makes the franchise so good?
The Tales series, at least as long as I've been playing has had these advantages:
1) The real time battle system so every single battles is more then just sitting around and pressing a button to pick an action for the turn. Actually plays out more like a fighting game during battles. 2) You can plug in other controls and let other people join in taking this JRPG from unintended multiplayer to full on multiplayer. 3) You can avoid just about all the battles so if you don't feel like grinding in the castle of infinite sorrow you don't have to and can just get right to the boss. 4) Full voice acting. Not always full quality voice acting but usually either acceptable to good or MST3K level bad.
But the stories are generic JRPG fare and the battle system is evolving, but very slowly.
The Tales' games tend to have pretty decent storylines too, so that combined with what GD86 said makes them very good by JRPG standards. I actually think that Tales of Symphonia is better than FF12, but that might be because I hated the battle system in FF12 more than anything else.
Anyway, I'm convinced that that's a 360/PS3 game. No other consoles have games that display in wide screen by default, and those kind of graphics would just not happen on a PS2 or Wii. I'm kinda anxious though, the last 2 Tales games on PS2 (Legendia and Abyss) never made it to Europe. On the other hand, we did get Tales of the World and Tales of Eternia on PSP, so I guess there's hope.
