Topic: Who Here Likes the Tales series?

Tales of Monkey Island was awesome and funny.

Let's try to keep this on topic okay. We're talking about the Tales series, owned by Namco Bandai.

I'd buy one if they were prices I could pay...Vesperia and Symphonia however, go for about £60 second hand and such...maybe I may get the former on the 360 via digital distribution however at £20.

I'm playing Tales of Symphonia right now. It's kinda fun so far, but the story is making me YAWN. Also the interface looks kinda weird/dated. Kinda hard to get myself psyched up enough to play it.

Tales of Symphonia = meh

Nonlinear RPG's are the worst kind of RPG imo.

Tales of Symphonia was non-linear? I'm pretty sure outside of some branching paths, it was no more non-linear than your average Final Fantasy game.

Yawn? D:
Depends how far you are really.

Is Tales of Symphonia any good?

Symphonia was awesome. The sequel was awful, though.

It's okay. Your mileage may vary depending on how much emphasis you put on story, but the gameplay is great.

I'll think of getting symphonia, but sometime i'm definitely going to get Abyss after it's out.

And to think XIII got hated for it...despite it being more obvious...I enjoyed it as much as I should have (since I love my X and IX).

I'm pretty sure I heard XIII was pratically just corridors for like 50 hours but I don't care enough to confirm that in any way.

Yeah, that's pretty much how it was. Personally, I didn't mind that. It kept the game going. In fact, I actually liked it less when it opened up on chapter 11. Of course, I still had many other reasons to label it a disappointment, but that's neither here nor there.

I always liked the gameplay of these games. But the story isn't... interesting all that much to me. Oh, and I'm talking about ToS. I really liked the fact that you can have 4 players play the game. That was really awesome.
It'd be cool if 3DS' Tales of Abyss had something like that

The original had 4 player cooperative during battles. I'm sure the 3DS version will too.

It better lol

Not like it'll make the game bad or anything but I'd like for it to stay.

What's the problem with Symphonia's story? I thought Eternia had a great story for what it's worth, but it appears no one here has played that one.

My problem with Symphonia's story is that it's dull and predictable. I have a feeling other will tell you something different, though. Everyone seems to have different opinions about it.

I'm loving this series even more as of late. I've restarted Tales of Phantasia and am having a blast. Meanwhile I've been engrossed in Tales of Vesperia. I think it might be my new favorite in the series. Then again, I've yet to play Tales of the Abyss, which I just got. This is definitely a series I've come to adore.