I haven't played my playstation in ages, and I kind of want to play an expensive looking cinematic open world action-adventure game next.
zestiria is the only tales game iāve played (also did not finish it) and itās bland to the point of being actively bad ā skip it for real
having fun predicting & picking the one that will get the least votes every time (and itās usually the one I would recommend anyway)
i.e. etrian odyssey, lufia
@connrrr Phantasia or Symphonia. sāwhat Iād do. but if I had to pick one of the ones you postedā¦ Vesperia.
only because thatās the only one Iām familiar with at all (rented it on 360 one weekend and tried to co-op with a buddy in 2007 or whatever.)
@brillpickle your post made me realize I can vote for more than oneā¦. going with dark cloud 2 because it has the least votes so far and is as sick as the rest of thoseā¦ all good picksā¦.
@captain I know Symphonia is beloved! I figure if it comes up as much as its PS2 counterpart there must be something to that. Those were just the three that intrigued me the most at the time.
@Tradegood I totally missed that Abyss had come out on 3DS! Is it a good port??
Yeah! The only difference is the spaghetti button is mapped to the touchscreen instead of the R stick.
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@connrrr Abyss 3DS has 30fps battles vs PS2ās 60fps (looks better overall), but PS2 has long loads (fixable with an HDD though, or emu I assume) and a wonky world map. (Abyss is a bit bloated tho).
If one must chose a Single Tales Game here are the flavors (roughly):
- Team A: Destiny 2, Rebirth, Destiny R, Graces* (more gameplay/battle system focused)
- Team B: Symphonia, Abyss, Vesperia (more story/world building focused)
- Team C: Graces*, Xillia 1/2, Zestiria, Berseria, Arise (mix of the above, more āmodernā with interconnected fields rather than world map/dungeons)
- spinoffs/old/etc: various teams with varying success
Later games of each team are better realized but all have their own neat quirks and are nice ājunk foodā videogames (Iāve played almost all of them because I like dumb low budget rpgs with fun systems and tropey-but-usually-likeable anime characters).
maybe I can stream a Full Realism attempt to circumnavigate the globe in flight simulator. If I crash then thatās it, permadeath style
@bnn this is a useful breakdown, thank you! I do want to play one of the older sprite-based games in the series sometime as well.
@Tradegood Looks like we have a winner. This is me now:
I laughed real hard the first time I saw the reveal at the end of this ad, but weāll see who gets the last laugh.
Finished Citizen Sleeper today. Good choice, everybody!
Hey, this looks like fun!
@kyleprocrastinations Iām gonna go to bat for Chain of Memories here. Itās a strange take on a card game; thereās kinda nothing like it.
Feesov it is then! I toyed with the idea of playing the game with the least votes so I can save the perceived better choice for later, but Iām trying to stop postponing my joy. I played a little shad val tonight and itās pretty chill so far. The character portraits are beautiful and this looks like a good group of guys and gals.
Iāll start with suikoden once Iām done with all this semesterās uni stuff
it wonāt let me build a poll 
now iāll never know if i should play ys origin, dragon quest xi s, yakuza 5, dragons dogma, or tactics ogreā¦ā¦
@MoH try adding the poll after you made the post. the feature shows right above the edit button
thats a tough one bc you should play them all, but my suggested priority from high to low
Tactics Ogre
The Haruka chapter of Yakuza 5, then if you still want to play video games after that,
Ys Origin
Dragonās Dogma
Dragon Quest XI
The rest of Yakuza 5
Ok hereās some switch games I havenāt touched or booted even once.
Also 10 is max. Another one that you can say in a reply I guess is Lofi Ping Ping
@treefroggy I voted for Ace Attorney because I think itās the āBest Gameā in this group, but with how youāve been speaking lately re: being unimpressed with recent large-scope releases, I think the simplicity and honesty of Kirby would also be a great choice for you in particular at this moment in time.