Favorite Tales of games ?

[Cu-Neo]

Vesperia has Rita, easily my favourite game on the franchise

 

[bjork]

I only ever owned Destiny and Symphonia but played neither for any real amount of time. So I'll say Symphonia because of the Klonoa costume, and also the mint GC is really cool.

 

[Rocket2049]

i really REALLY hated symphonia 1, the horrible AI alone almost made me quit the game, there was no way to tell the mages to stay back they always ran up front, and when they had 0 tp they just rush into the nearest enemy, no matter what AI strategy i set! and i never got sheena to ever throw out a summon unless i told her to/was contolling her.
swear to god I only beat this with 2 player co-op otherwise i'd have happily left it unfinished.
it's the prime example of bad AI ruins a game, the AI is that bad, i don't have to mention the lack of a good dodge mechanic or free movement at all.
i did do everything in it besides beating hard/mania
i played symphonia basically after zestiria btw, on the ps3 remaster collection. absolutely didn't help me like symphonia lol,
sad thing it's nowhere near the WORST AI i've seen in a game but it's pretty close.
(that honor goes to Phantasy star Universe, offline story mode, to give an example it takes the AI about 10 seconds to swap weapons)

i've played every game after symphonia 1 (including symphonia 2) i beat on at least hard difficulty, did new game pluses and (for graces, xillia1/2, zestiria, berseria) i got all the grade shops maxed. definitely had no issues finishing those games and least xillia games onward the Ai got much smarter.
i beat all the games mentioned above on their highest difficulties.
just to say, i definitely like tales games and i'm not terrible at em

now the latest one Tales of Arise i have big noticeable issues to point out.
first off, NO MULTIPLAYER AT ALL, this is the ONLY console tales to NOT HAVE CO-OP, far as i know.
i've played all of symphonia to Berseria in co-op 2 players, it's just way more fun and less AI problems and more teamwork and combo setups and such.
2nd holy hell the boss fights take like 30 minutes or something they're way too long and tanky, bosses never freaking flinch either which is really really dumb, only the gimmicky QTE stuff really hurts them.
this is on NORMAL difficulty i can't even imagine on higher modes how tanky the bosses are.
3rd, at any given moment there's way too many moves to throw out, this is the only tales game i went FULL AUTOMATIC on many many times, i'm too lazy to keep hitting d-pad for party member moves, doing ground to air to ground moves all over, even forget to hit the team skill button when it comes up.
4th, idk if its just me but it REALLY felt like they wanted you to buy DLC, OR spend a whole lot of time grinding for even just money to fully gear up, i just went the lazy route and dropped the diffculty as needed
i'm getting old for this i'll be honest LOL.

 

[Questless Knight]

I own several of them like 5-6 of them but sadly I only played and beaten Arise and Abyss and for me does 2 are my all time favorites so far. Abyss have my favorite charter Tear Grants. But yeah I enjoy both of them.


But this is the problem for me it´s hard to say one favorite in a big series. Like take Final fantasy I would say 4, 6.8,9 10 are all time favorites of all time becuse they are all good in their own rights.

So if I play more Tales games I might get more favorites.

 

[Tonberry]

Vesperia!!!
Yuri my beloved

 

[Rocket2049]

Is the Gba version that Bad ?

really bad sound quality, if you play the english version the dub is so bad it's barely understandable even at high volumes, visual quality is lacking too compared to SNES.
i can't recommend GBA over SNES original at all, the translation is also screwed (they say KANGAROO instead of RAGNAROK, LIKE WHAT!?)

the combat is dumbed down a LOT compared to SNES but they changed the "long range/short range" skills to the usual 4 directions + arte button of later games, they added cooking (any other port of phantasia has this just not SNES) and i think an additional character,
and it just looks bad, GBA itself is just a downgraded SNES as seen by many SNES to GBA ports (yoshis island, mario world, DK country 1,2 and 3,
i don't know of the other ports having the additional character haven't played any but SNES and GBA.

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Honestly, among all the games in the Tales of franchise, I've only played Tales of Symphonia on the GameCube.

if you actually liked symphonia, you'd like practically every game after it hands down since anything after it was an upgrade in basically every way, even story.

 

[Dyne]

Wich Version of Tales of Phantasia as there are many Versions.I personally heard the Ps1 Version is the Best.So what do you think is the Best Version of Phantasia ?

The only one I've played is the SNES version.
It was one of the first fan-translations I ever played when I got into emulation back in the ZSNES days.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Vesperia's the only one I've ever played to completion. I burned out on the other Tales of games that I've tried.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Xillia was my entry into the franchise, and there are so many fantastic entries! I haven't played all of them, but I've played most of them since the PS3-onwards.
I love pretty much all of the ones I've played, but I always go back to Zestiria & Berseria as my favourites. I think it's the way they complement eachother. That every time I play through one, it helps me appreciate the other even more.
Both are also prime examples to me of how excellently Tales handles its stories and character development, like few other RPGs manage to do to the same degree.
Berseria also has the character card minigame, and that is probably the easiest minigame for me to get completely lost in for hours.

 

[rugal]

have played all of them and the 4 i like the most are
first place tales of eternia
second place tales of symphonia
third place tales of destiny
fourth place tales of phantsia

 

[shadowcat]

Symphonia is my all-time favorite. I love Kosuke Fujishima's art and the story is one of the few RPG stories that has stuck with me as long as it has. Kratos is still my favorite Tales character in the whole franchise. I probably played through it 4 or 5 times in middle school alone. Tales of Phantasia is another one I really like, the 2d beat 'em up combat was always really fun. Abyss and Berseria didn't really do much for me, and I have always wanted to try Legendia.

 

[NovumVeritas]

Well look at my avatar and guess :P (Hint hint: the main character is Stan)

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

I've only experienced up to the ps1 plus Innocence on the ds(cool world setting, but bad gameplay loop).
Of those i say my favorite is easily Eternia.
On the other hand I've enjoyed, some of the spinoffs like Tales of Vs(an arena fighter) and some of the Tales of the world on the psp.

 

[Jotaro]

mine are

phantasia > destiny dc > symphonia > vesperia > abyss/xillia 1 > the rest

 

[semyaza]

new to the series, currently enjoying both abyss and graces alot, dropped arise near the end cus wth happened there wtf

 

[Bomberman]

I have the fondest memories of Symphonia but I consider Arise and Xillia to be better. Even though I like Symphonia more.
Destiny II is Eternia and should be seperated. Eternia is the best 2D.

I would say Xillia is the best 3D

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Arise was also pretty good. I need to do another playthrough sometime as a refresher though. It's been nearly 4 years since I played it and I would like to check out the expansion DLC at some point.

 

[TacoMeister]

Phantasia is my favorite and Berseria my second favorite so I chose Berseria.

 

[PSVitaForever]

Among the ones I played, "Tales of Innocence" has been the first and the most beautiful for me.