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Post by odderz on Oct 28, 2010 16:17:56 GMT -5
Living in the UK, it's rare we even get some of the Tales games the US does, so it's bloody hard works playing them. I've only played 6 Tales games...
And DOTNW would be the first non-Mothership game I've played and, my God, it was bad.
I mean, I love Tales games, so I enjoyed it, but it seemed like such a drag, and I was only playing it just to see what Lloyd was up to. I guess I expected it to live up to the greatness, or at least attempt to live up to the greatness of Symphonia.
I mean, am I alone in thinking that this game was, when compared to the other Tales games, poor?
I told my friend that it was; "good, but probably the worst Tales game I've played so far." his reply was; "Nahh, it can't be, the worst is Phantasia I think." Which I slapped him for. But he just hates retro-graphics I think.
BUT YES... Are all the "escort" titles this shoddy, or is it just this one? Or is it actually amazing and I just don't see it?
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Post by Dede on Oct 28, 2010 21:17:51 GMT -5
It's no where as bad as Phantasia. imo
Narikiri Dungeon 2&3 are good, Radiant Mythology 2 is great... 1 not so much. VS uhhhh... well it's how horrible but not that good.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 29, 2010 17:28:46 GMT -5
No, you're not alone in holding those sentiments about the game. Since I'm not really that fond of Symphonia and I didn't expect a spin-off title to be really great, I had kind of low expectations for the game from the start. Even so, the game still managed to disappoint me.
I wouldn't pass up the spin-offs just because of DotNW, though. Spin-offs can't hold a candle to the main titles, but they're generally alright... not great, but not horrible, either.
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Post by Umbra on Oct 29, 2010 20:10:33 GMT -5
DOTNW is the only spin-off title I have played but I agree with you that it did not live up that well to the original Symphonia, story-wise at least. Comparing DOTNW to Phantasia, I would say DOTNW at least a decent battle system, I could not stand Phantasia's battle system at all. The music for DOTNW was not that bad either.
Regardless, DOTNW doesn't really stand out that well to me just because the story, or lack of a fitting sequel, hurt the game badly, imo. Now I can't judge all non-mothership titles by DOTNW, but I would expect them not to be as great as the main games.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 29, 2010 21:17:26 GMT -5
Ah, true, Phantasia's battle system was horrible and not fun at all. I cut it some slack because it's old, but it definitely didn't age well.
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Post by miken-chan on Oct 30, 2010 2:27:53 GMT -5
DotNW was...well, it wasn't -that- horrible for me, but then again, I'm the weird one who thoroughly hates Abyss now...not that it's bad, it's just it's so overexposed and hyped when for me it was originally just a mid-level kinda good game. I just could have done without the 2 manga spinoffs on top of the main one for ToA. Overall, I could have also done without DotNW. It added nothing to the already solidly-finished ToS and I really really wanted to strangle Emil and Marta sometimes.
Narikiri Dungeon 3 was somewhat fun, RM1 was so-so, RM2 I'm playing right now and having a good amount of fun with. And uh...Tempest -doesn't exist-.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 9:43:23 GMT -5
I see all escort titles are good & fun except the mobile titles & the early Narikiri Doungeon...
RM,RM2,Vs,DotNW,& NDX are all fantastic games & I don't see anything bad in them.....
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Post by Shin Izanagi Rizki on Oct 30, 2010 10:21:40 GMT -5
I don't think so. Especially VS and Radiant Myth series. Those are really good IMO
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Post by LaZyEnErGeTiC on Oct 30, 2010 11:04:46 GMT -5
The Radiant Mythology games are actually fun. 1 was okay, but 2 is really better (thought I haven't really finished it). 1 was fun in terms of you get to see the other characters together but storywise... it was kinda boring. and to answer your question, no. Not all escort games are that bad. You just have to find the right ones
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Post by ღAdante Forma on Oct 31, 2010 12:40:45 GMT -5
Being an owner of /every/ spin off game, I can say with some confidence that DotNW is the worst one. I've easily sunk over 200 hours at least into each tales of the world Title, VS is great in bursts, and though Short, even Tempest is better.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 31, 2010 14:50:44 GMT -5
Huh, surprising to hear you feel that way. I always got the impression you really liked the game.
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Post by ღAdante Forma on Nov 1, 2010 10:50:01 GMT -5
I do, however, I prefer the others. XD Just goes to show how much I love all Tales games.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2010 12:53:36 GMT -5
so AC's Decus himself admits that DotNW is not the best Tales....
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Post by Yume Hanabi on Nov 15, 2010 5:47:17 GMT -5
DotNW is better than the other spin-offs in terms of storyline and new characters (and battle system so far imo), but one might have more fun playing the Radiant Mythologies.
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Post by feder on Nov 28, 2010 21:16:13 GMT -5
DotNW is better than the other spin-offs in terms of storyline and new characters (and battle system so far imo), but one might have more fun playing the Radiant Mythologies. Ditto. To me, The RM games are dead boring, but dotnw was actually fun.
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