Could not find an actually thread for this and seeing as how many of us are playing here is one now

First Impressions

Sadly I havent had as much time with this as I would of liked to last night and today only about 8 hours in but yea really enjoying the game.

So far not completely taken with any of the characters right off the bat like I was with Abyss and Vesperia but all the characters so far are really likeable. Also enjoying the slow start to the game, reminds me of FF9 style taking it easy.

Battle system feels a-little more clunky than previous titles as well, but its is a hell of a lot of fun once you get used to it.

Visually you can see it's a Wii port but they have done a great job, the scenery looks awesome! Only thing I would of liked to see is a few more people in the towns and stuff, it's kind of empty so far in that regards.

Cant wait to get more time in with it, so far shaping up to be an awesome game.

This game is awesome! Seriously, the entire thing is just drawing me in! I wonder if I'll even sleep tonight

its here
http://www.awx.co.za/forum/view/id/688/n/The+Namco+Bandai+%22Tales+of%22+Gaming+Thread.html

i think tea changed the name

i have to agree about the battle system being clunky but i think it just takes a bit of practice before you get used to it,maybe once you lv up your characters and get more cc the battle will flow a bit better, but i actually like the battle system, it actually has a suprising amount of depth to it.

as for the characters, don't really like any of them, all so boring and cliche annoying etc. bad dialogue and voice acting isn't really helping either, the win quotes are godlike though

So far, not to bad. Have not played a decent Jrpg in ages, so I'm a bit starved

Graphics are good. Voice acting is decent. The writing is ok. Sometimes really silly, but some good lines.

Sorta predictable, but it's still early days!

Fighting is interresting and give syou a bit of freedom to try new things. It does take some time to get used to it.

The game seems to sport a LOT of collectables!

The fusion/mixing/duelising system is interresting, but I can just see your going to stagger around with a massive load of gear, just because you MIGHT need a lower level item to transmute

As Woofles said, the towns are a bit empty. One house and 5 people just do not feel like a village. Or Armies consisting of 20 guys.


P.S. the titles you can earn are just insanely many! I found a nice eary grinding spot, and earned about 25 new titles in an hour. Which leads to more grinding...

Yeah geez there is a stupid amount of titles and stuff to collect.

Actually a-little overwhelming trying to take in all the stuff you can do in the game in terms of creating and collecting.

Like the duelizing weapons and armor then de-deulizing them and making germs, all the ether stuff @_@

But yea so far great JRPG!

Ok
The BEST part of this game is def the post fight talks, and some of the "extra" skits.
It's like somebody made a ok game, then somebody came back after and added all the great conversations!

best so far:
"Ha! right into next week!"
"I have travelled through time from next week. Please stop throwing monsters at us"

Yea the skits are awesome, some really random stuff.

All the characters have grown on me now, Hubert is a-little [censored], I love him

best win quote i've seen so far

Lol gotten Pascel yet.

Busy weekend is over can get some time in tonight woohoo

So far my favorite quote:



I love Pascal she is so freaking cute, the thing with the touching of Sophie is not perverted in anyway.... bwahahahahah. Crazy lesbians! woohoo!

Seriously though love her character, older Richard as well is freaking awesome damn he cracks me up. If those follows typical JRPG standards though he will end up being a bad guy *sigh*

One of the few games in a long time that had me snorting my coffee out my nose.

i found pascal quite annoying at first, but she grew on me. she's actually kind of funny in a messed up way. the whole touching thing doesn't really sound right in english, its just sounds really silly

@Ragna

The touching thing wouldnt sound any better in Japanese, it's disturbing all round ahahahaha.

I love Pascal, she is so fecking adorable. She is also the only female cast member thus far with any [censored] The random stuff she says lol, that Air head win quote took me a second and then I lol'd

New Favorite Win Quote



I need those costumes for Cheria and Pascal O_O

hahaha i wonder where they found the time to make all these win quotes, they should do this in every game

btw who are you guys using in your parties, having a hard time trying to decide who to use, everyone looks good in one way or the other, right now i'm using asbel,sophie,cheria,malik. might switch out sophie and malik later.

I got Pascals titles for "bench SP" and "Bench xp" so she levels while on the bench. But I also read that you get a lot of her titles by making her the leader and talking to a lot of people, she she will go right back in my party tonight

but getting titles by making them the leader is true for everyone really, but i heard using the spellcasters early in the game is not good when you have so little cc because you can't combo the a-artes into b-artes to cut down the casting time. i will put pacal back into my party when i find a decent levelling spot(which will be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay later). cheria is too good at healing though so she can stay.

I'm using the team of Asbel, Cheria, Sophie and Pascal, probably swop out sophie for Hubert when I get him. NEver swop out Pascal, ever

Looking for a decent grinding spot around the end of chapter three. Guessing you just carbo-load on all the recipes that give you more Sp and go for it.

Didn't play much last night. Allergies where killing me. I bed by 19:00 T_T

Wow you guys are progressing fast in the game, I've only spend 4h30mins on the game just came back to Lahnt.

Not had much time to play, busy packing and sorting moving next week. *sigh*