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PancakeFlip

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Oct 26, 2017
7,923
Surprising to hear that. Jay from Jay RPG was really positive on them in his preview and I am usually 100% aligned with his opinion. I guess we will see.
Its actually really interesting that many don't like the new skit format. On reddit it seemed like people didn't appreciate any moderate to harsh criticism of the change. I wouldn't consider the average reviewer very sensitive to that kind of thing either, so yeah I'm a bit surprised.

I'm really hoping that this doesn't imply that they don't get any better than the samples we got in the demo. Those weren't really great first impressions of the change to me.
 

iFirez

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,577
England
Early reviews and such seem amazing!

I played a short portion of the demo, mainly to avoid spoilers as I just wanted to get a feel for the game both graphically and from a gameplay perspective and it felt very very good. Glad to see the rest of the game stacks up highly too. Excited to play this one.
 

Squall ASF

Member
Oct 29, 2017
1,022
So PSN says it comes out tomorrow surprisingly (US store). This should mean it unlocks at midnight tonight, right?
 

Ducayne

Member
Oct 27, 2017
643
Ugh some of the pop-in I've seen on PS5 and Series X is so atrocious. It's sooo close to your character. Such a bummer, really takes me out of the experiencing the world.

I've been waiting to see if there's a Microsoft Rewards punch card before preordering but it doesn't look like there will be one this time.
 

Blade30

Member
Oct 26, 2017
4,613
Good to hear it reviewing well.

Keep seeing that skits aren't particularly good, which I attribute to Scarlet Nexus stealing away the skit thunder as the entirety of that game is told in skit-like fashion and involved Tales devs.
Surprising to hear that. Jay from Jay RPG was really positive on them in his preview and I am usually 100% aligned with his opinion. I guess we will see.

EZA also said that the skits are good and work really well in the 3D comic style.
 

Kromeo

Member
Oct 27, 2017
17,867
Hopefully Kaleiden or whatever his name is will be able to fix the pop in issues on the PC version before too long
 

garion333

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,722
Its actually really interesting that many don't like the new skit format. On reddit it seemed like people didn't appreciate any moderate to harsh criticism of the change. I wouldn't consider the average reviewer very sensitive to that kind of thing either, so yeah I'm a bit surprised.

I'm really hoping that this doesn't imply that they don't get any better than the samples we got in the demo. Those weren't really great first impressions of the change to me.
Well, the demo was it's own thing, ya know? The skits there were replacing tutorials half the time.

I feel like every Tales game is simply hit or miss with skits since humor is so damn difficult.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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I've actually been waffling between the two and can't decide which to buy. I was more hyped for Arise because I'd like for Tales to be great again, but my longterm heart rests with PnP RPGs and Pathfinder nails that. I can afford both atm, but it's time that's the issue and I see Arise being on sale within a couple months, so ...

Yeah that's my struggle as well! I don't want to go back to only getting 4 hours of sleep LOL.
 

Spidervan

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Jun 11, 2021
217
Its actually really interesting that many don't like the new skit format. On reddit it seemed like people didn't appreciate any moderate to harsh criticism of the change. I wouldn't consider the average reviewer very sensitive to that kind of thing either, so yeah I'm a bit surprised.

I'm really hoping that this doesn't imply that they don't get any better than the samples we got in the demo. Those weren't really great first impressions of the change to me.
I'm half and half on the skits, but I do like them but still wish they kept 2d. Thing is the majority of skits in tales aren't really good, just servicable. For all the skits tales of vesperia had there's only like 100 or so that I actually like and that game had over like what, 900 skits? So to that I say to each his own.
 

NegroNinja

Member
Oct 27, 2017
420
I'm considering buying this as I enjoyed the demo. The only thing is that the tutorials were pretty bad IMO. I didn't really understand what I was doing.
 

Spidervan

Member
Jun 11, 2021
217
I just got around to looking at most reviews, they haven't been getting good reviews since the game on 360. Nice to see.
 

LuckPuck

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Dec 6, 2020
109
I'm really excited to play this, the good reviews are pumping me up!

Question, has there been any comparison between the PS5 and XSX versions? I prefer to play on PS5 (controller and trophies preference), but will get the XSX version if performance is much better.
 

Rainy

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Oct 25, 2017
14,653
The viewership on Twitch is pretty good since it's still not released a lot of places. I saw it as high as 32k viewers earlier and it's hovering around 26-28k right now. There's also quite a lot of YouTube streams I see of the game as well.
 

Pizzamigo

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Oct 25, 2017
1,440
Just bought it on PC ($50 at GMG).

Going in blind, didn't play demo or read any reviews/previews but I'm currently playing through MHStories2 and it's pretty underwhelming and basic for a JRPG. Need to play something better and more epic and this is reviewing great so far. Last Tales game I played was Vesperia on 360 which I remember liking a lot, so now I'm super looking forward to this one tomorrow.
 

Quinton

Specialist at TheGamer / Reviewer at RPG Site
Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,276
Midgar, With Love
For the rec, I love the new skit format and I have unlocked around 250 or so? They look fantastic and feel better integrated into the game than past stuff. But I get that some disagree.
 

EssBeeVee

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Oct 25, 2017
22,760
The viewership on Twitch is pretty good since it's still not released a lot of places. I saw it as high as 32k viewers earlier and it's hovering around 26-28k right now. There's also quite a lot of YouTube streams I see of the game as well.
gonna hide just in case people start posting random spoilers online because why not.
 

Quinton

Specialist at TheGamer / Reviewer at RPG Site
Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,276
Midgar, With Love
It's so weird that the game has a single missable Owl. I'm going to do a replay soon, anyway, so I'll check to make sure it doesn't show up a bit later. I strongly doubt it does, but...

Have it preordered but won't get to play it day one anymore. Sucks but still super excited!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do <3
 

Kiria

Banned
Oct 29, 2017
1,624
Damn a friend who lives in singapore was able to buy and play it.. so I made a singaporean psn account and bought it now my UI is in japanese his isnt…
 

sensui-tomo

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Banned
Oct 25, 2017
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So at the moment (going off demo ) the best/high framerate is xbox series X(only in 4k mode and only by 10 fps-ish)> ps5 > the other stuff right? And pc being top dog assuming they don't botch the pc port. Thinking I might grab this on xbox due to having some credit.