While we weren't in love with Tales of Vesperia there is no doubt that the PS3/360 JRPG was a popular game, especially in Japan where the word Tales before a game pretty much means decent sales. Yes, there is a strong following for the game, so strong that a movie called Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike was even made. During the debut of the film Namco Bandai's Makoto Yoshizumi let slip some good news for any fans of the game. Evidently there is some strong internal desire to bring Vesperia back to gaming.
During the premiere Yoshizumi discussed how staff at Namco Bandai has asked him whether a Vesperia 2 is coming. To this he jokingly responds "Don't talk like a fan! We're thinking about it." Not only this, but they want to keep the Vesperia story going in some form or other. When discussing the film Namco Bandai's brand manager said, "I don't know when it will happen, but we'd like to show [these things] in video form." So they've got the story ideas, they've got the desire now they just have to get it done.
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10:00 PM on 10.18.2009
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for some reason, namco of america hates this series
-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 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.
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.