PS3 Tales of Vesperia Hugely Upgraded
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 7, 2009 10:07 JST
- Tags: Namco, Ports, PS3, RPG, Tales of Vesperia, Tales Series, Xbox 360
Tales fans who have been awaiting Tales of Vesperia for the PS3 will not be disappointed; a significant array of upgrades to the game has been announced.
The upgrades planned:
The game’s main scenario will be enhanced with the addition of full voicing throughout.
New events and sub-scenarios will be added, along with many extra skits.
Additional ougi will be added.
Extra costumes will feature.
Events connected with the movie will be added.
As we saw, there will also be a new character, Patty Fleur, a piratically themed loli.
Presumably graphical upgrades will also feature.
Via Hachimaki.
PS3 Tales fans are thanking the Xbox 360 beta testers for their troubles in ensuring the PS3 version offers the best possible Tales experience for them to enjoy…
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I hope this significantly boost the PS3... eliminating that other thing...
i have all 3 so either way i'm overjoyed
Cry more fanboy.
Go lick up Kutaragi's ass while sucking Hirai's dick.
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OnLive will destroy all!
Do you really think big exclusive titles will be accesseble through OnLive? Keep wishing.
Why wish? It'll destroy all in a year's time.
In a year's time we still won't have fiber in most of the world. Probably the biggest weakness of OnLive and one that they can't fix on their own.
console fan boys fail.. the PC master race still stands at the top of the hill laughing at your atempteds
OnLive is a pipe dream, even if it does somehow work it won't be without significant drawbacks. no mods, crap graphics, reliant on internet. I'd rather install games on my computer thank you very much.
I hope that OnLive does a better job than Phantom did since it´s basically the same thing.
Phantom died a ugly death and for some reason it is rarely discussed.
I will believe this OnLive when I see it, not before hand. And with all the trouble there is they have to fix a lot of stuff. Which I don´t think they will do.
Signed up for the beta. Who cares about the rest of the world right now as OnLive is only launching in the US. To the guy who claims crap grahics, you obviously haven't looked at the video of Crysis on a crappy Dell.
Who are these people?
They are what the PC-fanboys call "The guys who can afford a gaming rig so we all go LOLOLOLOLOL while they play fps with their shitty controllers"
but on a site like sankaku id imagine it would be wwwwwwwwwwww instead :D
Either/or is acceptable, and yes fps is not as good on console as it is PC, only because of the constraints of the control medium. Back in the day Goldeneye 007 was the shit.
"Constraints"? Yes, because I want to fly through a game with such precise aiming, that every opponent shall fall to my feet because of my 'elite' sniper skills. It takes a real player to pull off a perfect head-shot with a shitacular thumbstick. For sure.
Yes you do want to fly through a game with such precise aiming, that every opponent shall fall to your feet because of your 'elite' sniper skills. It takes real skill to pull off 'a' perfect head-shot with a shitacular thumbstick. Hmm...that all sounds like what I said, or rather that what I said doesn't deny any of these points.
However...I'd like to see how you play FPS that have no "point" to them like CS:S, BF2142 or TF2 consistently well with a thumbstick. Not that there was anything particularly wrong with the thumbstick, but you will get owned by players equally as skilled with a mouse/KB.
lol,emo fan boy
NO U
Congratulations on eating an M$-Fanboy-*Exclusive*-Sucker-Punch!
Let me collect all your oh so sweet tears in a bucket so I can polish my PS3 with it. Maybe I'll let my X360 taste a little bit so it understands its own pain.
Other thing....? Oh, you mean the Wii!
PS3 needs some more games that get people's attention AND a lower price before it will do better...
Great to see the game gets upgrades, sad its happening on a Sony system:(
sad to see ANY game on a console exclusive. PC is so such a better format than console can ever dream to be.
My penis is a better platform to play on than PC. :|
I'm just glad it's coming to Europe on any platform.
Were there Japanese voice options on the NA 360 version? I really don't want to import if possible.
No there wasn't but the dub was excellent.
no it wasn't.
It was possible for certain people to believe it was good.
So that means its of a minimum standard. The rest of based on user preferrence.
Personal, I liked it very very much. I've heard both of the voices (from nico) and I felt the English voices did a very good job.
Oddly enough I preferred the dub over the original. And that's pretty well done IMO.
Still wouldn't hurt to have dual-voice overs
yea the dub was well done compared to others.
I hope all RPGs follow Vesperia's way. I would hate buy a 360 just for one or two games (I've done that before, but it's best to avoid this kind of thing).
Most people bought the PS3 for a couple of games- Final Fantasy XIII, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Gran Turismo 5. Anything else is just filling the gaps between those three games.
You forgot KZ2. Anyway yea that about sums it up. However the 360 is having a pretty bare year. The only game I want to pick up is MW2.
Stupid question. What does ougi mean?
It means "special attack in which I announce long windedly my attack and then proceed to leap around in the sky for thirty seconds."
Lol so true. It's flashy, long and has some sort of catchy name. It's not an RPG without those things ^^
Yeah i'm looking forward for new flashy special attacks.
ougi = final attacks, super special moves
That kind of thing.
Pirate loli? Game of the Year.
Maybe I need more hope than a Haruhiist, but I hope these changes translate to the European 360 release.
Eh, I might have to buy the game again.....Although at a much much later date.
Well, that's good. Now Star Ocean just needs to port with this kind of upgrade, and my 360 will be sitting in the corner like my Wii.
You probably dont even have a 360, because if you did you would be busy playing games on it, stupid sony fanboy
I was going to get all indignant on you, but I'm just honestly impressed someone with forty-seven chromosomes such as yourself can not only use a comma(still need to work on those periods and apostrophes though!), but also took the time out from fellating the pallid, near flaccid phallus of Bill Gates to post your utterly scathing reply that totally put me into intellectual checkmate. For serious.
This must be what it is like to see Cro-Magnon man gradually evolve.
Grammar checks?
Solid job man, for a second I didn't think you would have a comeback for that witty insult he gave you.
Keep up the great work bro.
Anon's comeback was hilarious, you sir are a savior amongst saints.
PS3 fanboys will eat that shit up full price year later.
Hilarious, i guess they are able to, specially when you buy an overpriced console to watch blurays.
It is interesting to see the how PS3 fanboys everywhere starting to claim TOV as one of the best RPGs they have ever seen. They hated the game a lot before.
You mean hated it for not coming into PS3 console when it was announced as an XBox360's exclusive? o_O'
Suck on this 360!
Suck on what? You see, when you have a job you don't need to be a flamer. I mean I get it... You could only afford one console so now you're stuck defending it. Obviously since you bought a ps3 it must be the better console XD
Having bought all 3 next gen consoles I can honestly say that the 360 is the more entertaining system out right now. After completing all the sub par so called exclusives the ps3 becomes a formidable dust collector.
And ToV coming out on ps3 is not news. The game is so damn boring. Ive played rpgs for the last 20 years or so and I gotta say WOW!!
Such a poorly executed game. The horrible voice overs, the long idiotic dialogue, the story no one could get into, not to mention the retarded characters.
ToV is PHAIL
Oh, sad that ToV is comming to PS3 huh xbot?
CRY SOME MOAR
Anyone with all 3 consoles knows the Wii is the fucking dust collector
Have fun with your "entertaining" red rings
Can someone kindly donate their PS3 to me :3
Of course, just come to my house and i will give it to you ^^
So that's how you get them into your house...
Paging through comments just to enjoy all the fanboy cross-fire, but this is the only one that got a real laugh outta me :D
Care to help me find Anon's house? *(^O^)*
Well damn. I was pretty thorough in my two playthroughs of the 360 version getting all but 5 achievements. Not sure i want to start all over for new content.. as tempting as it is..
Artefact, if you're going to report gaming news, at least try not to be biased towards your console of choice.
Most gaming artciles I read from you are either hoping for a PS3 version or trying to degrade 360 owners...
I owned this game for the 360, and while it was a fun romp, it's certainly not worth double dipping on for a few additional features that have no bearing on the main story, especially when it's released a year later when most people are done and dusted with it and traded it in like myself.
It's great news for PS3 owners of course, and the additions make up for the long wait, but I hardly think 360 owners will lose much sleep over the news.
i have both systems and i intend to buy the ps3 copy as well. glory to tales
The Xbox is not a console of great interest to those concerned with Japanese games.
I own all 3 consoles so I can get the best each has to offer, and from developers all over the world, however, this gen, I have to say 360 has lead the way in terms of JRPG's, which is the only real concern for me in terms of Japanese games (not including the obvious well known brands that make it multi-format worldwide anyway).
PS3 seems to be getting most of them a year later, with additions of course, but I'd much rather play them as they're released and then move onto other stuff, unless of course they're absolute gems, which tbh, hasn't happened so far this gen, but if it did, I'd double dip on a PS3 version.
My Chihaya disagrees. Both her im@s and dream club versions.
My graphically inferior PSP Chihaya would like to disagree to that....but she cant render the pixels to do so. ;____;
Did they add new Promotion Events for Chihaya in PSP? Endings? Anything significant?
Is it even fully voiced?
Touch scenes included?
All that. yeah.
Any events you'd like to recommend?
Artefact's reply further proves he's a PS3 fanboy. Star Ocean 4, iDOLM@STER, Dream Club, Time Leap, Clannad. How could you say the box is not a Japanese games console? Well, at least for otakus!
When it gets like at least 100, like the PS2 did then its a otaku console
PLAYSTATION 2 FANBOYS UNITE! DOWN WITH 360 AND PS3 XD
Oh absolutely agree.
PS2 is the best otaku console ever made.
PS2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PS3=360
Given that even the PS2 is still outselling the 360 in Japan, I'd say it's valid to state that the Xbox 360 is not "a Japanese games console."
The fact of the matter is that the only reason the Xbox 360 has any "Japanese" titles at all is because of generous contributions from Microsoft. Who knows whether the PS3 will recover, but the Xbox is still far from the level of the PS2 for these games.
Icy-nee-san deserves a medal~
All hail PS2 for getting Arcana Heart 2 Sugoi!!, an awesome wetdream FTG for Moe otaku.
I have always been wondering how all these "moe" games keep ending up on the 360.
sad and true. I'm definitely gay since i bought it, and, as time goes on, every day i feel like regretting it. sooner or later i guess i'll switch...
Artefact lives in Japan so I'm going to take a guess and say you own a PS3?
Sony and Nintendo is the main console of interest for Japanese games, in which I have purchased even though XBox360 may have more games at the moment. That and I don't have much confidence in Microsoft systems.
you realize that this isn't a "professional" website in the sense that they are paid to do this. They can be biased towards anything they want to be.
Artefact can post whatever he feels regardless of his bias and whatnot, it's perfectly fine seeing how it's his own website to begin with :P
Sure didn't know artefact preferred the ps3 to the 360.
I'll keep that in mind.
Really? You can tell he's a ps3 fanboy right away :p. Everyone has their own preferences though, sad that he's not very objective, however.
Or rather, it is easy to tell you are an Xbox fanboy unhappy with critical coverage.
I am happy for ps3 users as I realize that Vesperia will be enjoyed by more at no cost to me.
However your bias, Artefact, is decidedly unhealthy. You go out of your way to bait, taunt and demean 360 users. I must assume you gain sadistic pleasure from this. I strongly recommend treatment for your psychosis.
Critical coverage is not a catch all phrase to disguise your personal agenda of putting down the 360 for the PS3. Nor is a moral blanket to comfort yourself when you play the role of a deprived RPG fan spoiling for a fight.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/04/07/otaku-rage-over-ps3-tales-betrayal/
The only thing ps3 has is a few lukewarm exclusives that dissapoint all the "hardcore" gamers (RE5, MG4 and DM4). I waited for so long for these games to come out. They did and they were all shadows of what made them great.
Whats left? Multiplatform games that ALWAYS look better and have better online on the 360 than the ps3.
Like you I await the various ff13's I am sure. There was a time where sony would have my undying devotion just based on the exclusives... not anymore. The days of sony owning all the major exclusives are long gone. (gone with good reason - common sense prevails)
Then ToV comes out on ps3 and a flaming war ensues. ToV sucks. ToV sucks hard. It wont help the ps3 much. It will in the sense that RPG lovers are deprived (as am I), so they'd buy anything.
I have all 3 consoles... maybe if I had just one of them, I could be a little homo too and do whatever I could to defend the one purchase I could afford... Seriously, theyre all equally good. Sony is just better at hype.
You on the other hand just suck. Stop reviewing games cause you can't. Just post random puke on random forums like all fanboys do.
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My angry xbot senses are tingling
PS3 Tales fans are thanking the "Xbox 360 beta testers" for their troubles in ensuring the PS3 version offers the best possible Tales experience for them to enjoy…
Thank you XboX people.
Your welcome, we beat the game before you and have munched all the goodness already, we are happy.
Too bad we ps3 players will see the true extended ending movie when the "real" game comes out. Then we'll see if you are still happy for beating the game
Its no more real then any other version of Vesperia.
There will of course be some added material in the hope that 360 owners will double purchase. But overall, some may not want to collect their 2nd copy of Vesperia for just a handful of extras.
Your happiness is good and I'm happy for you but this doesn't diminish our ability to enjoy what we already have done.
Have a good time with Vesperia. We're moving on to newer titles. I don't know how much time you dedicate to your gaming, but there's always something else I want to play. Aside from S04 and im@s, I hope to finish koitake before dream club comes out. I can't possibly return to every title that gets a couple of extras.
If this becomes a trend, then many 360 titles are going to appear on the PS3 in about a year or so after their 360 debut. If that's what you hope, then you might want to hope Vesperia sells really well. And also that a reasonable amount of 360 owners double purchase.
Be nice to 360 owners, you need their help if you want to have more old 360 titles ported over.
I wouldn't mind if a few PS3 ones drop our way too.... Disgaea is awfully cute.
¡Yes, people must be nice with the betatesters!
... anyways, I dont have neither the 360, the PS3 or the Wii, so screw you all. :P
touche.....
Thank you for your patience in letting us go first.
Here you can have our hand me downs and castoffs. Glad to see our used games are still able to bring happiness to some deprived poor souls.
Glad to see that we'll be getting the complete game while the poor souls who paid for the beta-testing ended up with a rushed, incomplete one.
Glad to see that the complete game are announced long before the beta is released in EU.
Why in the hell won't you bastards talk about Tales of Graces????
Stupidity of fanboys never ceases to amaze me. What a bunch of nerds.
No fanboy consider himself a fanboy eh
I hate console wars. Actually, I hate companies that release games on only one platform. I liked it better when all you needed was one system if you were looking to play genre "fill-in-the-blank" games. (Atari, NES, SNES, N64, PS2). I'm planning on getting a PS3 (to play RPGS, mainly JRPGs) but it irks me to know that regardless of which next-gen system I get there will be games I want to play available only on the other system.
They need to make nice and marry their console departments so I can buy a PSBOX.
You know what developers want from you the most? money, money and only money. They dont care if the game brings you satisfaction, they dont care about disregarding half of the promises they make when announcing the game, and of course they dont care about your wishes as long as ppl pay money. So, be a good boy, and buy every console out there to satisfy their greed. Or better yet, just fuck them all.
If you're getting it mainly for JRPGs, wouldn't you get the 360 instead? I play mainly RPGs as well, and I have 3 JRPGs for the PS3 and 10 for the 360.
For JRPG... better go back to the PS2, PSOne and SNES. So sad... the actual gen of consoles is sad, sacchin, alice, china, sad.
I think you said that a little backward. Don't you mean that you hate companies that release games on multiple platforms?
Why would you have a problem with multi-platform releases?
Can’t wait for this to come out now. Too bad I can’t get it right away. There’s too many good games I need to play, so this one will have to wait. It’s definitely not because I don’t have any money and am completely broke. Definitely not it.
"PS3 Tales fans are thanking the Xbox 360 beta testers for their troubles in ensuring the PS3 version offers the best possible Tales experience for them to enjoy…"
LOL this comment~
Xbox 360 beta testers !!!!!!!!
I'm laughing louddddd
Time to get a PS3, I suppose.
Want to get the definitive version, after all.
'Sides, I need a Blu-Ray player.
The only reason to get a PS3, is tu buy an overpriced bluray player.
I rather have something blue that can play something that something red that can't.
Don't really like the new character that much...I am not sure the upgrades warrant playing through the game again. I hope the extra scenarios would be the deal breaker...
Recently I became to find Tales games really boring. They comes out too often and requiere too much time and nervs spent on grinding. Is this one really outstanding and worth playing?
Personally, no. It's starts off fairly well, but goes majorly downhill mid-game and doesn't ever really recover.
It got to the point where I just sped through the rest just to finish and move on to the next game.
Vesperia is only bad if you don't like the characters.
Yes, the plot is nothing to write home about, but the characters are some of the best Tales has ever produced.
Saved the game for me. Best Tales after Phantasia.
Really? I would rank the first Symphonia (as overrated as it is) and Abyss over Vesperia.
The only character I really cared for in ToV was Rita though.
Yuri was like...for a lack of a better reference, Jack Bauer. You got your naive princess, screwup turned reliable, girl performing her duty, staple beast character that was just there and staple Raven character type (whom I will not discuss due to spoilers)
See. Raven was fucking awesome. So was Judith. And the dog. Sure, Karol sucked but he got a lot better, and Estelle was a white mage who used a sword. That alone...
It was how they took stereotypical characters and made them interesting that I really liked.
And Yuri being Jack Bauer is a bad thing?
Also, I thought Symphonia was terrible, but that was because I hated the entire cast. So very, very much.
Oh and half the plot was a Final Fantasy X ripoff. The other half was directly from Phantasia with a less cool villain.
I can agree with pretty much everything you said, except that YurixEstelle are not TidusxYuna. The latter couple even had a kiss scene, for crying out loud! And it was very touching too.
I eagerly await for its release in America; I have a PS3, so no worries there.
Uh. I meant that Symphonia was an FFX ripoff. Just like how Abyss was an FF9 ripoff.
Wow.... just wow.
Namco bandai! You pulled a Symphonia on me again =_=
just like ToS for ps2, watch how it doesn't come to the US....
Mother Fuck!!!
If I knew it was going to be better for the PS3 they I would have got it for the PS3 instead of for my Xbox360.
God Damn You Game Companies!!!
I understand ur frustration. Same thing with Ninja gaiden 2 and Sigma 2 >_>
the only way i buy this again is if they rewrite the whole godamnplot and give Duke and Alexei the respect they deserve, and Zagi too.
Alexei and Zagi deserve respect?
I can imagine a subquest involving Zagi's backstory, but not Alexei. He's too traditional serial villain.
Duke, however, has a lot of respect bestowed upon him by both the game and the characters, and he has this big series of subevents throughout half the game that's easily missable, but expands upon him a fair bit.
what i mean was that they haved more potential
I even don't know this game...being a 360 owner, I'll just give my best wishes for the PS3 owners.. enjoy the full-voiced game...
That's good. I approve.
I might not find the desire to replay Vesperia yet again for a handful of extras, especially if i have to pay for another copy of Vesperia, but i'm happy more people get to enjoy it.
This will boost fanart, doujins, and all sorts of positive externality spillovers.
Might have to visit nico if some of the extra skits are really worth watching.
So how many multi system owners will buy the PS3 copy *as well* for the handful of extras?
PS3 fanboy/Xbox fanboy. Doesn't seem to be much difference in the level of dipshittery.
agree...
Dammit... still one month till i can get a PS3.
man, I don't wanna spend more money on the same game. Why must they remake games with upgrades!? I wouldn't have gotten ES for the 360 if I knew I could get a better version for my Ps3 if I waited! Companies should have to say when they are gonna make another version during the release!
Did someone say PIRATE LOLI??
Yes, apparently one other commenter made mention of this. I'm...a little disappointed?
faaaaaaaaack x360 shafted by japan AGAIN
gg, time to go find a ps3
Clearly ToV was meant for the PS3, just that stupid Microsoft has to get in the way of this generations Japanese games: first its timed-exclusives, then its delaying FF13... but at least Namco saves the best for last.
In response to the console wars
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PC rules all
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Woo PS3 ppl, the tales games should ALWAYS be fully voiced, no matter the language :D
Hear hear!
Interesting. I've never played a Tales game, but my friend has been trying to get me to play Tales of the Abyss. I keep declining since I don't think I have the attention span to play such games but I may consider picking this up to see why people like these games so much.
Reason why I love playing these games is not solely for storyline but more emphasis on the battle system usually. It's probably my only favorite action rpg's that's easy to learn but can still be a challenge on some things. Try it, it's tons of fun and a good time-killer ^^
The battle system is the best thing about Tales games.
Turn-based and ATB systems need to go die in a hole.
Hopefully some improvements on breast physics and panchira as well.
Seeing that Xbox 360 would get FFXIII as well, I think it's good bargain. Xbox 360 people shouldn't feel too bad about it.
Bad? The enjoyment of PS3 owners does not diminish 360 owners' ability to enjoy Vesperia.
We're happy for you.
you misunderstand fanboys the fact that someone else can own something they can ruins the experience for them.
they should go all out with rita
this just gives me a reason to buy it again. i love owning all consoles! =3
I own all consoles but I don't like wasting money on games already beaten... Unless it has a new hentai movie in it then FCK YEAH I'll buy it, otherwise... nah.
These fanboys discussions here are horrible... I actually prefer the China ones and "first" posts over them (if that is possible).
Anyway, ps3 has Disgaea 3. That game suffices for the entire generation. I won't mention the other good games because I fear I may trigger some "must reply" fanboy action.
Oh well. This just means I will need more funds to get both versions. If I find that the added on content is any good.
Played Tales of
*Destiny 2
*Eternia
*Havent touched Abyss yet
Yup, loads of time to buy the PS3
Only douchebags buys PS3. You can tell who has a PS3 just by looking.
Just like apple fanboys.
lol butthurt.
Do you have a Bill Gates poster above your bed?