The "Tales of" series, and exactly why Vesperia is a "big deal"

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jman8 said:
I hate to be party pooper, but by throwing Final Fantasy and Metal Gear in the same breath as Tales, I think you're way over-inflating the Tales series. I would compare the Tales games more to the Disgaea, Shin Megami Tensei, or Suikoden series. At best, they're in between FF and the series I mentioned.

 

I'm not talking about the Tales of "series," when I mention Final Fantasy. I'm talking about games by "Team Symphonia" of which there have only been 2.

Both of those games, I feel, are better than FFIII, MGS2, and FFIX. Many, many people agree with me. While I agree with you that the series of FF and MGS are far better than the "Tales of" series in general, I disagree with your assertion that games made by "Team Symphonia" are easily disposed of as AA or lower games, despite the fact that both titles performed averagely at best on gamerankings.

Every series has bad spots, and some series have amazingly high spots. They just all aren't readily apparently by a quick glance at gamerankings, despite what our immediate gratification based society would hope for. There is knowledge beyond what the casual user can learn in the span of 20 seconds.