Tales games thread

[Mcjon01]

Xillia 1 & 2 have the best story. Graces has the best gameplay.

Anyone who disagrees can fite me!

But Symphonia has the best Sheena.

[Tobias]

that is certainly an opinion of someone who hasn't played a tales game before

Are you one of those folks that if you like one game in a series, and don't enjoy another game in said series as much, you downgrade the second game to bad?

thats a hard life.

[Laith]

nah I enjoy most tales

Zestiria was bad tho

[Skull]

I wouldn't say Zestiria was bad, it just didn't live up to the previous games i either story nor gameplay.

Alisha Diphda was best waifu from Zestiria though.

[Mcjon01]

Are you one of those folks that if you like one game in a series, and don't enjoy another game in said series as much, you downgrade the second game to bad?

thats a hard life.

I'm one of those people where if the game doesn't have Sheena, it's bad.

[Tobias]

But it had laylah

[Raylen Cypher]

But it had laylah

a point

I've actually been meaning to introduce you to Tales of Zestiria because she was in there and I thought, "You know, Tobias would really like this character."

[Megas]

My only major thing that I care about is that Abyss should never be called the best anything within the series.

Other than that think what you want.

Oh, and tempest was terrible.

[You]

only played one tales games
the first one
it was the best

[Dantalion]

Speaking as someone who's only played Zestiria, it was IMO quite a poor game. Sure, production values were pretty good for a game with that much content, but combat feels clunky, even with all the battle actions (to begin with, why the hell do I need to unlock free movement in combat?).

To add to that, story is rather awful, the party seems to have the collective intelligence of a potato, and the equipment system is confusing at first and stupidly grindy once you figure out how it works.

[GundamFSN]

only played one tales games
the first one
it was the best

Now, this is a man of good taste. Destiny Remake has the best gameplay, tho.

Berseria seems pretty great, or so I hear.

[Draconic]

Speaking as someone who's only played Zestiria, it was IMO quite a poor game. Sure, production values were pretty good for a game with that much content, but combat feels clunky, even with all the battle actions (to begin with, why the hell do I need to unlock free movement in combat?).

To add to that, story is rather awful, the party seems to have the collective intelligence of a potato, and the equipment system is confusing at first and stupidly grindy once you figure out how it works.

You started at the series' lowest point. Story and gameplay weee at their all time low, such that the rather average anime is significantly better.

Play Tales of Symphonia. Best of them all.

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But it had laylah

And on the other hand, this small fact genuinely makes up for more than half the bullshit. And Edna helps too, I guess.
…Meebo.

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Yes, Lailah's a treasure.

And no, that's just the subtext. Tales of Hearts had a straight fulfilled romance, while Tales of Xillia had the more platonic romance. Its sequel was just the father-daughter bonding story in my eyes.

Lloyd and Colette in Tales of Symphonia. That was pure feels from start to finish.
And Genis' relationship with Preseason is cute too. And yes, I also ship Sheelos.

Zesty's OST is pretty solid. But yeah, play some other Tales games.

I kind of like how despite being one of the worst Tales of game, Zestiria's OST may be the best since Vesperia. Though I haven't played Hearts or Tempest.

Xillia 1 & 2 have the best story. Graces has the best gameplay.

Anyone who disagrees can fite me!

I seriously will fight you. To say that Xillia 1 or 2's can top Abyss, Vesperia, or especially Symphonia, displays either a general lack of knowledge or incredibly poor taste.

[Mcjon01]

No point shipping Zelos with anyone since he doesn't deserve happiness and he's just going to die when I pick the Kratos route anyway.

[Laith]

why would you pick the worst route

[Mcjon01]

To kill Zelos.

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Keep in mind this is all motivated by a twisted obsession with Sheena. The flirting cannot be forgiven.

[asterism42]

I kind of like how despite being one of the worst Tales of game, Zestiria's OST may be the best since Vesperia. Though I haven't played Hearts or Tempest.

The only song I can really remember from Hearts is Incarose's battle theme. It's pretty cool.

[Skull]

I seriously will fight you. To say that Xillia 1 or 2's can top Abyss, Vesperia, or especially Symphonia, displays either a general lack of knowledge or incredibly poor taste.

It's not lack of knowledge since I've played the three you mentioned and of them, Abyss was terrible, Vesperia was good and Symphonia was indeed great but the combined narrative of Xillia 1 & 2 just tops it I'm afraid. So I'll just have to go with "different strokes"

[GundamFSN]

Xillia 2's story is really good, yeah. Xillia 1 is actually okay, too, just that I don't really like some of its characters.

[Laith]

Funnily enough the fact that you can say Vesperia is good with a straight face explains everything

[Riven]

Xillia 1's story is interesting, but is blatantly cut short and it's cast kinda doesn't live up to it.

Xillia 2's storyline is 70% "Lets explore all the missed potential in Xillia 1" and 30% time travel stuff which sine waves in quality depending on how much of it rests on the shoulders of the MC. Ludger could've been a great character if they had just picked a direction with him and didn't pawn it off on that stupid dual dialogue system. Also I will forever be pissed off that I actually got a sympathetic and engaging version of Milla only for her to get shafted to bring back the bland one.

Even trying to fuse the two into a unit and judge them that way still comes off as wanting. Both stories feel like the kitchen sink approach ran away with them in different ways.

Funnily enough the fact that you can say Vesperia is good with a straight face explains everything

It had a good cast. The story was ... eh? Combat was functional and I don't have any memory of strong opinions over it.