Never thought we'd actually get this. Looking forward to it

just glad we never have to worry about missing out on any more tales games.

RagnaXBL said ...

just glad we never have to worry about missing out on any more tales games.

*Cough cough* tales of innocence R

I've played the ds versions of this and innocence (and i kinda preferred innocence surprisingly)

Supa said ...

RagnaXBL said ...

just glad we never have to worry about missing out on any more tales games.

*Cough cough* tales of innocence R

I've played the ds versions of this and innocence (and i kinda preferred innocence surprisingly)

If hearts R is successfull we might get innocence R.

I would imagine that might actually could be the case. From what I've read, the 3DS does quite well (in the west) so it's not impossible.

Everyone should not get their expectations too high. This is not a sign that Tales games will always come outside of Japan.

Namco Bandai were not going to localise Hearts R. The localisation announcement came about because Sony (a man named Shahid responsible for the indie support on PSV) had to push for the localisation.

And here we are now. Hopefully the game does sell well enough to warrant Innocence R getting localised. But that Leaves Tempest R not even being announced for Japan yet, which is important considering Hearts, Innocence and Tempest (in their remake form) make up a tri universe where all 3 are connected.

wolfshadow101 said ...

I would imagine that might actually could be the case. From what I've read, the 3DS does quite well (in the west) so it's not impossible.

This will depend purely on whether Namco feels the Tales fanbase even properly exists on the 3DS.

7 tales games and people are still doubting namco??? Unbelievable...
Calling it now innocence r is next

I think you are giving Namco way too much credit here.

Tales on PS3 has a fanbase, in Japan and worldwide. That is not the case with the PSV. Both Hearts and Innocence R did not sell that well at all. If they did, we would be seeing Tempest R in development (since it completes the new trilogy established by the R series), but we are not.

Additionally, Namco already stated on a few occasions that PSV sales were the reason they would not bring Hearts R over to the West.

Things are different now after Sony convinced them otherwise.

And hopefully Hearts R does sell well so they consider Innocence too.

Innocence R was released a year earlier than Hearts R, not sure how much that matters but that's up to the developers wanting to go back to the game.

Well the more JPRG's that come, the better and it looks like JRPG's are really picking up in the "west".

More tales in never a bad thing! Who doesn't love Tales Games...lol

Sinncross said ...

Everyone should not get their expectations too high. This is not a sign that Tales games will always come outside of Japan.

Namco Bandai were not going to localise Hearts R. The localisation announcement came about because Sony (a man named Shahid responsible for the indie support on PSV) had to push for the localisation.

And here we are now. Hopefully the game does sell well enough to warrant Innocence R getting localised. But that Leaves Tempest R not even being announced for Japan yet, which is important considering Hearts, Innocence and Tempest (in their remake form) make up a tri universe where all 3 are connected.

wolfshadow101 said ...

I would imagine that might actually could be the case. From what I've read, the 3DS does quite well (in the west) so it's not impossible.

This will depend purely on whether Namco feels the Tales fanbase even properly exists on the 3DS.

I follow Shahid on twitter. Really nice guy. You also get the feeling the guy works really hard and cares about making gamers happy.
Guy has gotten a lot of awesome indie games on the playstation machines .
Convincing Sony to help fund Hearts R musn't have been easy.
Will def be buying it

Wrong thread, DP

By the way, this game doesn't have an english voiceover, only subtitles.
That's awesome and all, I'm sure it's to cut localization costs, but the only game that I prefer english dub is the Tales of series

as long as it means that the games get localised, I think the loss of an English dub is beneficial. The problem with ToR though is that the subs dont match the actual Japanese in some cases. The most glaring change being the characters name.

Sinncross said ...

as long as it means that the games get localised, I think the loss of an English dub is beneficial. The problem with ToR though is that the subs dont match the actual Japanese in some cases. The most glaring change being the characters name.

Yeah, I don't mind the lack of a dub. The odds of even getting this game at all was really REALLY low. So I'm just happy to be able to play it.

14 November confirmed as the release date.