tales of vesperia has been discontinued.

[ItsaMii]

c0rd said:

outlawauron said:
Well, I disagree quite a lot ItsaMii.

First of all, Symphonia isn't very good. Mediocre even.

Abyss is the true evolution of Symphonia, and was a better game in all aspects.

I think you are really blinded by nostalgia, because it was the only big RPG on the Gamecube. (much like Quest 64 on N64)

But of course, it's just my opinion.

Eh, do people care about this? It's not as if he didn't have a PS2 with access to other RPG's (including Abyss). Hell, I didn't have a PS1 so Quest 64 was the only RPG I played in that era, which was awful, by the way. ToS is something else.

There's just no need to devalue his opinion like that. The argument would only hold if he were a Nintendo/GC fanboy (caring which system a game is played on?). Besides, I always thought most people preferred Symphonia over Abyss - shown in both reviews and popularity. These aren't all Nintendo fanboys.

OT: Too bad. I received this game as a gift, though it's with my bro atm. If I can get this $133 360 arcade deal to come through, I'll be playing it in a week or so. It'll be my third Tales - can't wait.

Thanks for answering it for me. I never had a Gamecube, I bought ToS in 2007 for my Wii. I played dozens of RPGs on the PS2, Symphonia was my favorite. I started playing ToA mid 2007, quit because I was bored (stupid game made miss the item book). Restarted a game in early 2008 and never been so disappointed in my life. It is worse than Legendia in story and characters. The game is a techinical mess (load times, awkward animations, awful anime cutscenes, lock ups). The worse of all is the retarded plot. The dialogue is laughable.

Vesperia fixes a lot of those, but it is nothing new. It is shorter than Abyss, the plot is meh, characters are annoying (but torelable), dungeons are linear and you will spend 25-30% of your journey backtracking (no sidequests). For me it is the Tales series showing signs of their age.