Wow, I'm disappointed with the Tales of Vesperia Demo

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heruamon said:

kn said:

I love RPGs but the Tales of Vesperia demo seemed very, very tired. to me.  It is VERY similar to Eternal Sonata but the graphics and colors are not nearly as rich.  If you played the demo and LIKED it, tell me what you like about the demo as I was very underwhelmed.  I'm trying to get FFXII finished up so I can start on Lost Odyssey and was hoping Tales was going to be a Great Japanese Anime RPG.  I'm even further blown away by the first day sales report from Japan showing the game off to a STRONG start (for a 360 title).  Color me dumbfounded.

I'm not into whole JRPG thing, and looking at Tales, it's the very epitome of the genre.  I tried the demo and was equally unimpressed, but then again, I've tried other JRPG and have been as unimpressed as well.  It's just not for some people...and I'm one of them.  I'm not disappointed, since the target audience is for mostly Japan, not me...I got my Mass Effect fix, and Oblivion before that.

 

 

JRPG's also have a very large audience here in America. You can tell because nearly every hardcore poster here has an outspoken and passionate opinion about nearly every Final Fantasy game, as well as the large percentage of Playstation fanboys sporting anime or jrpg avatars.

That's anecdotal evidence, but I hesitate to pull out sales number....ever. Just suffice it to say that like shooters and wrpgs, there is a significant and large fanbase for anime and JRPG in america, which shouldn't and hasn't been ignored by developers. If you took the all time sales of JRPGs in america and put them up against the all time sales of other popular genres, you might be surprised how high the genre creeps up, due to, if nothing else, sheer quantity of available titles on handhelds and the PS2.