PS Euphoria writes: Previously, the “Tales of” community spotted a note from Sony which included Tales of Vesperia on their PlayStation Plus related survey and now they are campaigning for the games to be localized in a similar way to how Operation Rainfall was conducted, which ended up with the localization of The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles on the Nintendo Wii. This group for “Tales of” fans, however, is called Mission Atelier and throughout the past few hours, they have hit up Namco Bandai’s Facebook page with comments and posts.
Nevada Dru from Bits & Pieces explores delayed gratification in JRPG's.
I really enjoyed this article, it was a good read. This quote gave me a chuckle, because it's true!:
"Pretty much every JRPG involves the player’s characters going from barely being able to lift a sword to killing God"
Final Fantasy 15 the ultimate delayed game with delayed story dlc shoveled in at the last second. Doesn’t ring the gratifying bell when I see that stupid car at all. Article+thumbnail is like describing a 5star meal while watching your cat clean its backside.
Replies(2)More specifically I would say JRPGs are progressive gratification. Basically like listening to prog music vs anything else which imo is the best. Even if a JRPG is all about the journey, generally speaking JRPGs keep getting better as opposed to other games which usually have their high points come in either too soon, or the best parts just aren't nearly as impactful.
Also don't forget the direct comparison that the old Square Enix president made. He said Western players like TWITCH games and eastern players love Cerebral games. Now it was taken as a racist slam. But he meant it as one of the reasons outside of development time and cost return on investment(ROI). But he had a true point people here are TRAINED to like instant stuff. And people there are trained to like delayed over the top stuff. It is not a intelligence slam. I'm glad I LOVE the later gratification! Because it is way better!
The Tales games may be less recognizable than the Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy games, but that doesn't mean that they aren't worth playing!
“Tales series is considered one of the top three Japanese RPG series next to RPG giants like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.”
How you gonna talk about the top three JRPG franchises and not mention Pokémon, the top selling series in the genre?
This is how the top JRPG series stack up
1. Pokémon - 340M
2. Final Fantasy - 144M
3. Dragon Quest - 78M
4. Monster Hunter - 52M
5. Kingdom Hearts - 30M
6. Souls - 25M
7. Tales of - 20M
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "What I aim to examine in this article is the output of each of the major localization companies, in terms of what they released, what they chose not to release (including when they localized titles for other platforms but skipped the Vita version), as well as some brief commentary on the quality of their translations, before providing an overall rating on their support (outstanding -> amazing – > good -> solid -> poor).
A large part of the reason I love Vita so much is thanks to its brilliant selection of Japanese games and that’s really what I want to celebrate here, but also lament some of the missed opportunities we had along the way."
Good bring them to North America
Havent we been very vocal about Vesperia PS3 already?! XD
Didn't know this was an Xbox 360 exclusive.
Edit: never mind, there is a Japanese version of the game on PS3, my mistake.
Fcking M$ ruin the JRPG scene at PlayStation this generation with their dirty money.. & for what? to buy exclusivity no1 or almost no1 care about, what's the point to release this game on a console when 90%+ of the ppl who own the console play mostly shooters & don't give a fck about JRPGs, such a shame for JRPG fans who own a PS3 & cant play it.
People should give up about Tales of Vesperia on PS3. It's not coming here. It's been released 3 years ago and they clearly said a few times that they won,t bring it over.