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How about Namco-Bandai America gets on bringing the damned PS3 version to the states? Seriously I'm tired of waiting without any news.
I wouldn't mind a direct sequel; I enjoyed ToV a lot. Just as long as it's a proper sequel, not like a spin-off/expansion/1.5 type of thing.
i would love to have a sequel long as its available to for the 360 and ps3 day one, not having an update version one year later
I wish we'd get the complete version of the first game over here first before talking about some kind of sequel. A sequel would be nice, Vesperia had a cool world full of interesting characters. To develop on all of it's strengths and take a nod from other games (even Tales of Graces is trying some new things) would be ideal for a sequel. I really hope Namco Bandai steps up on releasing these games in the west.
I'm apprehensive, for a lot of reasons.
-I still haven't forgiven them for transforming a 360 exclusive into the freaking beta for a clearly superior version. I don't care what console market they screw over, that was LOW.
-Tales of Symphonia: DotNW was terrible. You can't introduce two lame new characters and expect us to care about them when the party members from the original ToS are all available and fairly important to the story. Except you can't change their equipment? Wth.
-I'm starting to get really sick of Tales. I love the battle system, and usually the story isn't bad...but ugh. Every game has the same mini-games (let's rearrange another warehouse and get waiter/waitress titles for 8 new characters!) , the same progression, the same lack of a major villain, the same random side quests you're magically expected to know about...man, I should write a blog about this crap. End rant, for now.
...but I love the characters of ToV, so maybe I'll be tricked into forgiving them if this speculation turns into something...
-I still haven't forgiven them for transforming a 360 exclusive into the freaking beta for a clearly superior version. I don't care what console market they screw over, that was LOW.
-Tales of Symphonia: DotNW was terrible. You can't introduce two lame new characters and expect us to care about them when the party members from the original ToS are all available and fairly important to the story. Except you can't change their equipment? Wth.
-I'm starting to get really sick of Tales. I love the battle system, and usually the story isn't bad...but ugh. Every game has the same mini-games (let's rearrange another warehouse and get waiter/waitress titles for 8 new characters!) , the same progression, the same lack of a major villain, the same random side quests you're magically expected to know about...man, I should write a blog about this crap. End rant, for now.
...but I love the characters of ToV, so maybe I'll be tricked into forgiving them if this speculation turns into something...
i tried the japanese tov ps3 demo. had no clue what the hell i was doing so i wasn't exactly thrilled playing it. i do like a dog with a pipe in its mouth though.
I liked the characters and the writing, so I'd be in favor of a direct sequel, but I would personally insist on a dual-platform release, as opposed to simultaneously annoying audiences on both platforms hosting the game.
I must be the only person willing to point out that no one thought the 360 version of Vesperia felt incomplete in the year+ before the PS3 version was announced. Most reviews said it was more fleshed out than any other game in the "Tales" series. I hate Namco Bandai for what they've done with DLC this gen, but I think they managed to make a later release of a game appealing with new content without really slighting the initial release.
Also, I hate this loli shit. No 8 year old creepy pirate girls.
I must be the only person willing to point out that no one thought the 360 version of Vesperia felt incomplete in the year+ before the PS3 version was announced. Most reviews said it was more fleshed out than any other game in the "Tales" series. I hate Namco Bandai for what they've done with DLC this gen, but I think they managed to make a later release of a game appealing with new content without really slighting the initial release.
Also, I hate this loli shit. No 8 year old creepy pirate girls.
I like the Tales series. I wouldn't mind a sequal to Vesperia, though I'd rather have a combo of new and old characters so it didn't seem like just a 1.5 thing. The story was pretty interesting for the first half of the original, but in the later half they did a lot of stuff that really annoyed me. Up til that point it was my favorite Tales, but after that it's more like my 2nd or 3rd, depending on how the Abyss turns out. Haven't beat it yet.
The Tales series ranks as my favourite JRPGs - if a direct sequel means they don't have to spend so much time in the design (pre-established world / characters / ect.) I'm all for it. Tales of Vesperia is certainly the best JRPG on the 360, forget about Lost Odyssey.
Vesperia might have been one of the most generic RPGs in recent memory, but it was fun as hell. But while I would like another next-gen Tales game, I'm kinda sick of the Vesperia characterse (at least those that are not Raven and Judith)...
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If Namco Bandai was smart they'd make a patch only distributed through the purchase of ToV2 with all the content on the PS3 version of ToV. Make it so the 360 users would have to buy a new game instead of buying a downloadable patch. They should make it a code as well so that players couldn't resell the content.
either way its a Namco Bandai game...I'll wait til its in the $20 range before I consider buying it. That puts it at a low enough price point to not feel as dirty getting screwed.
If Namco Bandai was smart they'd make a patch only distributed through the purchase of ToV2 with all the content on the PS3 version of ToV. Make it so the 360 users would have to buy a new game instead of buying a downloadable patch. They should make it a code as well so that players couldn't resell the content.
either way its a Namco Bandai game...I'll wait til its in the $20 range before I consider buying it. That puts it at a low enough price point to not feel as dirty getting screwed.
I loved Vesperia. My friends complained that the game style for the tales series has always been the same and most of the characters were cookie-cutter, but it makes no difference to me, it was really fun.
I'm a huge freakin' Tales of nut, I think everyone who knows me knows that. I can't say I wouldn't hate a sequel but I don't see what they could really do. If anything, a prequel would be cool, kind of like the movie they made for it. But I don't know, while a lot of people hate ToS2 (the game could have been it's own thing without the ToS cast), I didn't. Then again, I feel that I"m not very picky when it comes to RPGs, let alone Tales of games. I would kill for more Abyss, though. :(
A sequel would be awesome. However Namco has one problem with their RPGs, they release one game on one system, then port over to another with extra content. Bullshit, for the sequel Namco please make it multiplat from the start and offer this kind of content as DLC.
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