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Tales of Berseria |OT| The Band of the Crowe
- Thread starter Cornbread78
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I played the demo on PS4 and thought it looked ugly. Vesperia is the last good looking Tales games still.
Shouta
Member
Berseria is gonna magnify those feelings towards Zestiria, lol.
8.8 is a really strong score from IGN. 7 from Gamespot sounds like the norm for media outlets here.
Velvet had a hard life, it's understandable.
Pandora012
Member
I played the demo on Ps4 and they looked fine. But I'm fairly lenient with visuals, as long as I'm have a good time, I really don't notice anything. Unless of course it blatant.
SkylineRKR
Member
Not a looker but its colorful and 60fps.
The Last Wizard
Member
We tried to warn you. Don't know how you're able to back to back a tales game after finishing zestiria. It's been about a year and I'm still not ready to come back.
Its basically the same asset and graphics level from Xillia 1 on PS3. Which came out 6 years ago. Luckily the game's color pallet can be pretty bright and vibrant and 1080p 60fps helps as well
Cornbread78
Member
If you don't remember, then score for me, lol.
Now there is:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1336995
StrikeFirst117
Banned
I don't need to play any other tales games, this is standalone in terms of story right?
If so then I'll be getting it on pc but wait for the port reports first.
If so then I'll be getting it on pc but wait for the port reports first.
It's a PS3 game (literally, it released on PS3 in Japan and was very competent for that), but rather clean at 1080p 60fps on PS4. Next Tales game won't be on PS3 anymore so it's then when we can expect Tales to step up the graphics some more.
I participated in that thread and it keeps annoying me how the TC started the thread with an obvious agenda so he couldn't update his first post. The whole censorship issue was fake overblown and misleading to boot (a lot of people thought Velvet's costume was censored) and we needn't repeat it. You triggered me by linking said OP. =P
You dont need to play any other tales before this no. Some ppl might tell you to play zestiria since it takes place in the same world. It doesnt matter and dont listen to them. Zestiria is garbage fire.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
ok buddy
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Malak = Seraphim
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Should have reacted that fast in your own thread, buddy.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
or you couldve PM'd me to add it. I'm not a mind reader.
I was still posting in that thread for a bit after the extra statement was posted, I see one post after I stopped posting suggesting to add it to the OP. I never read that.
Hmm... after Zestiria I'm going to wait to hear a good number of impressions on this one and maybe for a price drop.
I'm kinda off the Tales of series recently due to the number of releases over the last few years and the lack of any discernible qualitative increase across them.
I've seen some decent impressions so far, and if anything the slight edginess to this game's story is a plus for me since I prefer that kind of thing to all the magic of friendship, love and courage stuff going on in Graces and Symphonia, but it's still not quite enough to sway me after how frustrating and bad the pacing and systems of Zestiria were.
Looking forward to some honest impressions within the next few days.
Edit: Oh yeah, how's the music? I really enjoyed the Go Shiina stuff in the shrines or whatever they were in Zestiria, but most everything else was forgettable.
I'm kinda off the Tales of series recently due to the number of releases over the last few years and the lack of any discernible qualitative increase across them.
I've seen some decent impressions so far, and if anything the slight edginess to this game's story is a plus for me since I prefer that kind of thing to all the magic of friendship, love and courage stuff going on in Graces and Symphonia, but it's still not quite enough to sway me after how frustrating and bad the pacing and systems of Zestiria were.
Looking forward to some honest impressions within the next few days.
Edit: Oh yeah, how's the music? I really enjoyed the Go Shiina stuff in the shrines or whatever they were in Zestiria, but most everything else was forgettable.
Gai Murakumo
Member
Malak means "Angel" in Hebrew and Seraphim is another word for high ranking Angels in Christianity. Thus they are the same.
thestopsign
Member
It was confirmed from the start, they advertised it as a semi-prequel set in the same universe.
Shouta
Member
It's also used to differentiate the ages in which the games take place.
I imagine so based on impressions.
Yea, I'll see how it goes and may need a break afterall after the last month of Zestiria. Granted I have taken a long hiatus with jRPG's with the only one I have real fondness playing in recent years being the PSN re-release of SMT Nocturne. Zestiria, despite its flaws somehow rekindled my interest in them, but it wasn't really because of any specific strength in the game itself(of which there are few).
brainzelda
Member
After all the hate in the demo thread I decided to try it out yesterday... and I liked it quite a bit!
I love the new mobility that free running gives, and I feel that it's easier to grok just how many more attacks you have before you're out of "stamina" so to speak, since souls are just displayed as little diamond pips. In Zesteria I never had a full grasp of how much resource each attack consumed since the stamina bar was just one big blue bar.
And also I felt that Zesteria had huge animation priority that made it hard to dodge on command, that this one doesn't. I also like the break soul feature, especially the bonus you get if you hit with it.
Definitely looks like a day one purchase for me.
I love the new mobility that free running gives, and I feel that it's easier to grok just how many more attacks you have before you're out of "stamina" so to speak, since souls are just displayed as little diamond pips. In Zesteria I never had a full grasp of how much resource each attack consumed since the stamina bar was just one big blue bar.
And also I felt that Zesteria had huge animation priority that made it hard to dodge on command, that this one doesn't. I also like the break soul feature, especially the bonus you get if you hit with it.
Definitely looks like a day one purchase for me.
Outside of the main theme, the music is easily the weakest link in the game besides the PS3 era visuals. Sakuraba has been on cruise control for a while.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Thought so, cool.
Is it possible to use Eizen's pirate hairstyle without his hat?
A shame, because he used to be one of the absolute greats back in the PS1/early PS2 era.
Yeah, Zestiria has burned a lot of people...but i'd still recommend playing Berseria, i try to tell people to skip Zestiria whenever i can
Oh thank you
It was Rakugo wasn't it?
I just realized this was the first game I hadn't imported for Tales. LMAO. RIP. I guess times change.
I'll probably pick this up after my free time laxes a bit.
EDIT: Interested in hearing how they handle Rangetsu-ryuu considering Rose's MA in JP was Rangetsu-ryuu: Kawasemi and localized into Jade Luminescence....
I'll probably pick this up after my free time laxes a bit.
EDIT: Interested in hearing how they handle Rangetsu-ryuu considering Rose's MA in JP was Rangetsu-ryuu: Kawasemi and localized into Jade Luminescence....
MrSaturn99
Member
You're a stronger man than I; hated the game so much that I lost any interest in Berseria the moment I heard it was a prequel.
That said, IGN's score is a definite surprise. I'd heard this game was an improvement but to this extent?
All of this is so true of Zestiria. I really disliked how stiff the combat felt in Zestiria overall. You never had a real sense of where in the 4-chain combo structure you currently were at without counting in your head, and the flow never felt tuned well either. (ie. too often spell casting bonuses failed to proc despite being in the last chain of the combo for whatever reason, and I yelled at the game everytime!)
I'd also add how irritating it was that enemies get free immunity following major combos for the sake of avoiding button spam.
Guarding was never fast enough as mentioned, making decisive reactions nearly impossible in cases.
Break Artes(forget name) were so slow to cast that most of the time you needn't bother as they are wasted due to the recovery immunity enemies are given at opportune moments.
Oh and anything you targeted just loved to run away forcing you to constantly switch to closer enemies or be stuck in a constant stun-lock state as off-screen or back attacks kept your character frozen.
The whole thing just felt like a mess of ideas that never flowed well together.
Cornbread78
Member
Correct, you can jump right in without losing a beat.
It's a completely different story and set of characters. Only the world is shared and some of the lore. It's about a 1,000 year time difference.
Sounds about right, lol.
Has this been said? I haven't heard anything else on the matter either way.
Cornbread78
Member
Official statement from Bamco on the Censorship:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthre...#post226299847
It's just that one scene. I actually think the revised version is almost more grotesque, lol.
You can, indeed.
Cornbread78
Member
Steam page link in the OP might have additional information.
The ladies all look awesome in this game in terms of how they are portrayed based on demo and import impressions. I love Rokurou and Eizen designs. Only character I don't care for so far is Laphicet due to child character and the English VA being the usual woman trying to portray a male child.