Is there a way to set the character I want to control in battle? Or we have to manually switch from main protagonist at the beginning of every fight?
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It's not too far in, if you want to know when you get it without any story spoilers:
A little after obtaining the full party
When in the pause menu select Edit (RB on Xbox) Then you press X over which character you want to change as your battle leader.
Main menu, r1 on PS (idk on other platform, it's called "edit" at the bottom of the main menu). A screen opens with your Party member Icons, choose the one you wanna play as and press whatever corresponds to square on your system (it's one of the face buttons). A flag will appear on that character's picture. Exit menu and you should be set.
Weaknesses returning helped a lot with making encounters fun again, and Ludger has one of the best and deep movesets in all of Tales.
I tend to love lighter exploration styles like what this game exhibits. Serves the sense of adventure appropriately without being overbearing.
Wish I had more time to really dive into the game. :(
Got me there. :P
Wish I had more time to really dive into the game. :(
Got me there. :P
I fucking knew it. Post 5th lord I knew that God damn attendant with all the Lord's was going to be super important.
Berseria is a decent game in its own right but I can't do the "not even antiheroes, a step even beyond that" thing. Not my cup of tea. I get that people dig that aspect since it's so rare but it's rare for a reason tbqh!
Arise is my fave since... I don't even know when. Abyss? I was counting down the days til y'all could get your hands on it. I knew some wouldn't care for it (it's inevitable!) but I'm glad to see a solid number of fans.
Arise is my fave since... I don't even know when. Abyss? I was counting down the days til y'all could get your hands on it. I knew some wouldn't care for it (it's inevitable!) but I'm glad to see a solid number of fans.
Nearly every Tales game has a cameo battle of some sort like that, but it isn't meant to be some major story thing connecting the games together.
thanks. i've played the past 7/9 games so you would think i would have caught on to that or something
What resonated with me about Berseria was the same thing that I like about the later parts of Berserk. The whole idea of (spoilering just in case) if someone wronged you so much that they deserved to die, but killing them would actively make the world a worse place, would you still do it?
It's an interesting moral dilemma.
edit: starting to believe Berseria/Berserk might be intentional lol
If I unlock skills or stat boosters on one title, but change my title, do I keep those boosts and skills? Or do I only get what's in the wheel of the title I select?
still starting off
still starting off
Is there a way to swap a support member into combat without going into the Start Menu and editing the team?
Hold L2 and hold the dpad on the character you're switching in until the wheel fills up, then let go of L2 and hold the dpad on the member you're switching out.
I really really want to know what people see in this game to say it's the best tales ever.
Do you like that one female boss character is half naked?
Do you like the shonen tropes?
Do you like the simplified equipment system which aside from one weapon is just new equipment always better requiring no thought as to how to approach boss encounters outside of dodge, attack with artes, and use the strike command on the predefined points?
Do you like HP sponge bosses that are almost always going to be 3-5 levels above you to justify buying DLC?
Do you like the rather linear corridors with fairly limited exploration compared to Vesperia and tales games before?
Do you like characters that are almost entirely one note, Shionne is the archetype of Tsundere to a T sure they justify with plot reasons but it still is? Dohalim being the sole exception to this?
Do you like a plain protagonist who doesn't any true internal struggle and strife?
Do you like poor attempts at redeeming some pretty poor choices?
Like I just see absolutely nothing that justifies it being more than an average JRPG with good production values.
Do you like that one female boss character is half naked?
and she was the sole lord to need a secondary boss to help
Do you like the simplified equipment system which aside from one weapon is just new equipment always better requiring no thought as to how to approach boss encounters outside of dodge, attack with artes, and use the strike command on the predefined points?
Do you like HP sponge bosses that are almost always going to be 3-5 levels above you to justify buying DLC?
Do you like the rather linear corridors with fairly limited exploration compared to Vesperia and tales games before?
Do you like characters that are almost entirely one note, Shionne is the archetype of Tsundere to a T sure they justify with plot reasons but it still is? Dohalim being the sole exception to this?
Do you like a plain protagonist who doesn't any true internal struggle and strife?
Do you like poor attempts at redeeming some pretty poor choices?
Like I just see absolutely nothing that justifies it being more than an average JRPG with good production values.
Just think of the titles as your growth board/sphere grid, you dont lose anything by swapping around to different nodes, if you hover in the center you can see what mastery stat perks you gain for completing that group of nodes.
just gonna chime in on this point as the others are subjective and to each their own, but you absolutely don't need to buy the dlc at all. I beat the game on hard with minimal grinding. Very little at the end.
Oh you don't but you do have to have patience with the battles. Those HP sponges are simply long battles. As long as you make sure to either enhance your accessories with lucky element damage reduction or simply go the route of using element specific damage reductions ahead of boss battles, you can breeze through most of the battles.
I'm not far enough into the game to have this conversation, but if you are trying to fill people's mouths with your opinion before even having one, why pretend to have one?
Just let him be. No one is gonna change his mind. I thought Arise was a great game with great highs and some lows but overall the experience felt like a next gen tales finally and not something stuck in the PS3 ERA.
For at least 10-15 years or so Tales games have been average to bad JRPGs with bad production values.
I don't need him to change his mind. I have no problem with him thinking game is bad. I have problem with how he pretends to want to have a conversation but already made assumptions on what the other individual likes based on his negative experience with the game.
Polish, presentation, and some fluid combat is enough for most people. Its definitely Tales as fuck but so far the game hasn't reached the highs of Abyss or Berseria for me.
I think the moment to moment gameplay and pretty graphics really saves this one and tips it over stuff like Vesperia and Xillia.
Yeah I think theyre trying to make us dislike her tho? I hope. It almost reminds me of Luke from Abyss. Not as bad but yeah.
It's about 30-33 hours if you beeline. Also I skipped all the skits once I realized they weren't like previous tales games for the most part with silly banter. Here it's almost all additional exposition dumps on top of the cutscenes you just watched and the previous skit you just saw.
That's still about 8 hours a day, longer than the 7 hours I marathon'd it for yesterday, which was the first day I played it. Pretty impressive.
I beat it yesterday at 31 hours. Yeah I had no other plans this past weekend :P
I'm not reading your spoiler because most people in this thread haven't finished the game yet but:
Most of your points apply to every Tales other game I played. I finished Vesperia a few weeks ago and I was like 10 levels below the boss of act 2 and farming levels was a mess because enemies give very little exp.
They're full of anime tropes. One-note characters, questionably sexualized women, (Zestiria has a half naked loli) and combat that is simultaneously mashy and obtuse as fuck unless you really want to get into it, which probably requires watching some tutorials on Youtube or something.
I understand not thinking this is the best game in the series but I don't see anything that makes it the worst either? It simplified some stuff but it's also a big jump in graphical fidelity and quality of life features. It also has imo the best controlling combat in the series, it's technical but flashy and addictive. The moment to moment gameplay feels a lot better to me.
Saying Arise has fairy limited exploration compared to past Tales is laughable.
Theres more exploration then any of the PS3/4 games in the first realm alone then they had in there full games.
Being a few levels below bosses is nothing new for the series. It's standard for basically every game.
And again, calling the characters one note when your rating fucking Zesteria a cast that you couldn't even call 1d, above it just makes it impossible to take seriously.
Theres more exploration then any of the PS3/4 games in the first realm alone then they had in there full games.
Being a few levels below bosses is nothing new for the series. It's standard for basically every game.
And again, calling the characters one note when your rating fucking Zesteria a cast that you couldn't even call 1d, above it just makes it impossible to take seriously.
This is kinda where I'm at, though I can't say I've been having problems level wise.
There's a lot to like about this game, but nothing outside of maybe visuals and the combat mechanics really stand out in anything but marginal ways over any other entry to me. And with regards to the latter, boss fights in this game seem like, the anthesis of everything that makes the game's combat mechanics fun in the first place and feels like playing a different, much more tedious game. I'm not even asking for silliness like being able to faceroll bosses with ludicrous combos ala Vesperia, it'd just be nice to actually have bosses in this game that don't boil down to chipping away at ludicrous stat walls until you get a guaranteed boost strike at half health, and then again (with an overlimit phase sprinkled in). They're not even difficult, it's just boring. If I'm looking forward to fighting random trash mobs than bosses in an action RPG, that's a problem.
Hey PC friends!
Is there any way to lock the framerate to 30?
I'm running this on a handheld gaming PC at times and the framerate often jumps from like 30-70 based on what's happening and I'd prefer to just lock it at 30 when I'm on this machine.
But for whatever reason, I guess it only goes as low as a locked 60 or just unlocked entirely?
Is there any way to lock the framerate to 30?
I'm running this on a handheld gaming PC at times and the framerate often jumps from like 30-70 based on what's happening and I'd prefer to just lock it at 30 when I'm on this machine.
But for whatever reason, I guess it only goes as low as a locked 60 or just unlocked entirely?
The thing is almost all the reviews made it sound like a lot of these things were gone. Like the optional hot springs scene that you never have to encounter and I chose not to encounter was fine because I knew about and could control it. I guess more than anything I'm pissed I bought into the hype and paid $60 for a game I hadn't planned to buy til the day before after reviews hit and I would have liked to have more information on what's negative about the game before hand.
I just want either a game that's better than abyss in the overall department or above Graces F in the gameplay and combat department.
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You should be able to use a program like RTSS to lock to 30 fps or go into NVidia control panel (if you have an NVIDIA card) and lock to 30 fps there.
I don't know if you can do this on your handheld, whatever device it is exactly, but if you have Nvidia Control Panel you can select the game and set a framerate limiter in there.
Can answer some, currently on third realm.
- Love shonen tropes, I'm not expecting this game to be a deconstruction of the genre.
- Also love HP sponge bosses... that stop being HP spongy when you actually know how to properly use systems to the maximum output (like FF7R).
For example: I just re-played the 2nd lord for fun, and I think the fight lasted around 3-4 minutes. - DLC thing is shit, not buying it. Playing on moderate and having no issues so far.
- Don't mind exaggerated character tropes either...I like the overall interactions among characters, I find skits entertaining.
- Corridor dungeons/cities? Not so much... but the graphics/settings change make up for it to some degree
- Not TOO far into the game, but I don't think the protagonist is plain at this point
I know I'm a bit behind, just beat Balseph on Hard, really enjoying this
So far this game stomps every Tales in a long ass time. The story is nothing special but at least it's not gibberish and the characters aren't insufferable, the visuals are actually nice to look at and the game just plays so smoothly compared to the rest of the series. I don't expect the combat to beat Graces, but so far everything looking to be better than Xillia and Berseria (couldn't bring myself to play Zestiria).
So far this game stomps every Tales in a long ass time. The story is nothing special but at least it's not gibberish and the characters aren't insufferable, the visuals are actually nice to look at and the game just plays so smoothly compared to the rest of the series. I don't expect the combat to beat Graces, but so far everything looking to be better than Xillia and Berseria (couldn't bring myself to play Zestiria).
Yes. It's hard to have honest conversations with people obsessed with the concept of "tropes" as if it's inherently a negative instead of a means of classifying concepts that exist in everything, but essentially what I like about Tales is that I feel like I'm playing an anime. "My name is... Alphen!" is not good writing, but it's a hype moment, and that's what I'm here for.
Yes. As I've mentioned from the Berseria stats I spent almost literally twice as much time in menu in that game than I did in battle, and it was because the terribly obnoxious and overly intricate equipment system. I thought I would love it because I love (for example) FFIXs system of tying skills to equipment, but when turned up to 100 on worthless stats it's just a time waster. Simplified isn't necessarily worse.
I don't think this is a thing, so yeah I guess I like how it's balanced. It's rare to have a challenge in RPGs. The boss fights are long but they're also literally the boss fights, the meat and potatoes of the gameplay. I haven't felt the slightest incentive to buy the DLC, nor even grind yet. From impressions of people further than me I'm certain that feeling isn't going to change because I seem to have got past the hardest sections. If I struggle too much I can drop the difficulty level. If I still struggles too much I could probably run a couple dungeons in like 20 minutes and get some levels I guess.
Sure. The incentive of chaining battles means I don't want too much detracting me from getting better gains, the environments look nice, there's enough side paths and verticality to make it feel better than the last Tales of at least, and you get actual worthwhile loot for exploring.
The characters are fine, yeah. No they're not incredible and super nuanced, but they're true to what the series is and has always been. I like Alphen's positive attitude, I like that nobody steeps themselves in their drama and misery, I like when the cast acts light hearted together. I like when they do cheesy moments together too.
Dunno what this means.
Okay? You've been exceedingly dramatic in playing up how bad of an experience you had with the game. That sucks for you but every time you try to start any discourse about it you do it in such a way as to put any dissenting opinions down. What kind of conversation are you actually wanting to have with those of us who are enjoying it? There's that one reviewer that was desperate for other people to dislike the game, so it's not like you're completely alone, but you should probably understand despite your issues with the experience your opinion is rather niche right now.
As other user have said, the game is more than the sum of its parts. I like the presentation, the music, the characters, I like the premise, I like the optional content, etc. and on the whole it's giving me a strong impression of an exceedingly competent JRPG, something that frankly I'm always happy to see more of.
yeah despite the combat and the new coat of paint it still very much is a JRPG and still is a Tales of game at that.
I really hope they bring in some more influences for the next game, they've really got the chance to appeal to a wider crowd and blow up big time after this entry and I'd hate to see them trod on as usual.
I really hope they bring in some more influences for the next game, they've really got the chance to appeal to a wider crowd and blow up big time after this entry and I'd hate to see them trod on as usual.