Bandai Namco Promises To Release Tales Remasters "Fairly Consistently"

I think the bigger desire—at least from me—is to make the older titles playable, again, and not on some streaming service or on mobile phones.

Collections of games work well—the Pixel Remasters, the Saga Collection, and other collections have shown us that it doesn't require full 3D remakes to make games accessible, again.

Just official translations of the old ones like Rebirth or Destiny Remake or Destiny 2 would be appreciated. They don't even need to be particularly remastered, just newly translated and voiced would be fine.

Agree with the above. Give us access, both for games trapped on old consoles and also ones still in Japanese only.
I'd love for them to do collection also

Personally I would really like rereleased of the early games, especially Tales of Destiny as I missed that one. I have Tales of Phantasia on GBA and Tales of Destiny 2 (real name Tales of Eternia I think?) but these would also be welcome rereleases.

@AlanaHagues "We've only ever seen the game on GBA in the West."
I've read that is technically incorrect. I wasn't playing them but I heard there was a localized mobile port a decade ago. However, it was a F2P microtransaction game that Bamco took (perhaps deservedly) so much criticism for they took it down and pretended it never existed.
I've heard the short story of what I'm told they did is with the port was to lock it to the most extreme difficulty level to push players towards a feature where they could buy "emergency" rations with real money (I presume the original shops to buy supplies with ingame money was still there?).
I don't know if I'd want to play ToP on a phone but it's too bad they didn't rework it into a non-predatory paid app (with the game's intended difficulty restored, if that's indeed what they did).

Just don't muck em up!
I would love to be able to play Tales of the Abyss with friends again.
Without having to hook up the PS2.

That sounds like a threat

@mjhopkins81
yeah i feel like games such as phantasia, eternia, Destiny etc still hold up pretty well visually (outside of maybe the world map in destiny) plus with tales of destiny i feel the original and remake/DC are enough of a different experience that both versions would be viable.

plus there hasnt really been a "definitive" release of phantasia in the west, just the GBA one and that other one which everyone including namco wants to forget.

iirc the version contained in NDX on psp was considered the "best" version of phantasia so it would be cool to see that one released in the west on switch and whatnot.

I have the super famicom cart. Need to finish that someday, just wish they hadn't messed up the fan translation with unnecessary perversion. But I love the way it plays on super famicom.

TBH i kinda wish they'd give Tales of Symphonia the same treatment Nihon Falcom is giving the remake of Trails in the Sky.

I hope that they will be good like Tales of Vesperia REMASTER, and not awful like Tales of Symphonia one...

Just translate Rebirth, already.

Graces f was the one I wanted most, so that's it at this point.

@AllieKitsune you're joking or your timing is almost perfect since within a few hours the fan-translation patch will be released for Tales of Rebirth

@MegaVel91 Yeah, I don't think we're gonna see another Symphonia Remaster ever again. Either assists are lost/unobtainable, or they don't want to put the work into a 60FPS version.

Now, a full on from the ground up Remake, that could be possible as it's the most popular and well known Tales game in the West.

It made me happy hearing them talk about worldwide releases and even having the guts to 'answer' a question about the classic 2D games, remasters and remakes. At least they acknowledge the fans from all over the globe. And the questions they answered probably were just pre-recorded so for Bandai-Namco to actually talk about these kinds of subjects are.. Tales of Hope!

The real reason to prioritize classic 2D entries is that surely those ones will be able to hit 60fps.

@Angelic_Lapras_King did you see what they're doing with the Trails in the Sky remake, dude?

I don't understand people clamoring for modern Tales games to be remade or remastered when a third of the franchise has never been released in english and most of the classic Tales games are stuck on their native consoles and are very expensive in the aftermarket. Honestly....

I’m realizing that as much as I like the ‘Tales Of’ series, I in actuality haven’t played a whole bunch of them yet (only Symphonia, Graces F & Vesperia thus far).

As such, Namco please go ahead and Remaster them all (and done well like Vesperia, not like Symphonia- as another user mentioned) into reasonably priced Collections or individual entries and I’m in!

Particularly interested in playing Xillia 1&2 and Berseria on Switch for the first time. Although I’ve heard some of the older handheld entries are quite good as well.

A localization of Destiny 2 (the real one, not Eternia) would be nice. Maybe the Narikiri Dungeon spinoff of Phantasia too, since it was notable enough to get a full remake on PSP.

With how many Tales games are there now, they could choose to remastered two Tales per gen along with a new one that same gen. I'm still hoping we get a Tales of Arise for Switch 2 even though I already got it on Steam. A compilation of all the GBA/DS/3DS Tales (Phantasia, Narikiri Dungeon, Tempest, Innocence, Hearts, Abyss) would been nice too.

I really want to play Tales of the Abyss in multiplayer. I've only played it on the 3DS, and it's become one of my favorite 3DS games, despite how crusty it is sometimes. For my next playthrough, I'm definitely avoiding Luke as much as I can, probably in favor of Anise or Jade.

Tales of the Abyss would be nice

Here hoping for a Tales of Efernia re-release ❤️

Remaster: way to sell an old game at full price with minimum efforts, sometimes in a worse quality than the original.