^Swyggi he probably is although he doesn't specify skipping around saying RPG, and in the next paragraph he makes it JRPG. It's a different paragraph isn't he talking about a different subject? Either way I'm trying to show him that his definition of next gen is flawed by showing him these things have been done.

I didn't want to get into an argument over this but whatever

Diomedes really needs to stop trying to highlight the PS3 more than the game its just bad policy.

I don't need to play a Tales game to know that they haven't been known for breaking new ground.  Character interaction=/=story.  An amazing story would be Final Fantasy X(I know you haven't play this game) IMO

I'm just saying that Tales games have decent stories(from what I can tell), but they aren't really anything anyone in the right mind(no offense, Soriku) would consider "amazing".  Now, let's just end this discussion.

i always play 100++ hours for final fantasy games. i wanna collect everything n become godlike strong haha!!

My friend is a big XBox360 fanboy.  He thought the story in FFX was freaking awesome.  He thought the story in Tales of Vesperia was good.  He's currently playing Tales of the Abyss and he thinks that game is pretty good.  But none of the Tales games he's gushed as much about as FFX.  Btw, he played all of them withing the past 2 months, so no nostalgia factor here.

I'm almost done FFX after hearing his gushing review about the story.  I love it so far.  What I've played of Tales of the Abyss doesn't come close to matching FFX.  I got about a quarter/third of the way through Tales of the Abyss (15 hours play time) before giving up.  I hated the story and the characters.  You might tell me that it gets better as the game goes on, but I shouldn't have to slog through 15-20 hours of crappy story telling and crappy character development to get to the good parts.

I've also played bits of Tales of Symphonia.

From what I heard,  FFX's story is considered better executed than ToS's story

Well ,I wont put much more time in this.

But consider simply this:

1)WKC allows you to create nearly all your party ,not only the main character.Older games that allowed you to create you character were way more limited and in the western RPG mould of classes and races and standard weaponry.The editor here is far ,far more advanced.Like it or not this is a step in the right direction.

2)Co-op gameplay is a definite plus and innovation for the genre.

3)100 hour+ of gameplay its the first JRPG of the generation to offer something like that.

4)Its the first JRPG ever to feature 1080p graphics.

All that toghether puts this a step beyond any RPG released yet.

I CANNOT have heard that right, this game will have ENGLISH SUB right of the bat with the jap release????? Are you certain of this? Can you quote a source? This would be the single most revolutionary thing any big budget JRPG has ever done.