MagJamz
Oracle Knight
Riki want to play with Monado. :3
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Post by MagJamz on Mar 3, 2015 20:17:59 GMT -5
After playing Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles with my sister, I wanted to find other multiplayer RPGs. I searched through Nintendo.com and that was when I first saw Tales of Symphonia. I gave Symphonia the usual treatment for games that I have interest in purchasing and went through YouTube. When saw gameplay footage for it, I knew that I had to get my hands on it ASAP. Well, here is my story. I would like to know you all got started with the series.
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Post by aifread on Mar 3, 2015 23:12:56 GMT -5
Like many, my first was Symphonia. It was a novel thing for me at the time since as a Nintendo fanboy who started with the N64 I didn't have much experience with console JRPGs. I remember seeing the trailer for it and noticing the music was eerily similar to the final overworld theme to Golden Sun 2. It wasn't until years later that I discovered Sakuraba did both. I watched my brother play it for a while and I was hooked to the point that I ended up playing through it several more times than he did.
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Post by Lee Traxin on Mar 4, 2015 0:00:35 GMT -5
My first was Abyss. I had just finished Final Fantasy 10 and was looking for something new to satiate my RPG needs. I was in a Gamestop when I saw a used game case for Tales of the Abyss and thought, "Why not?" Never once regretted that decision and I stuck with the series afterwards.
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Post by yuuxi西 on Mar 4, 2015 4:13:43 GMT -5
I played a bit of Symphonia when I was younger, but my first real Tales was Abyss. I thought Tales Of had a unique approach to JRPGs (as someone whose RPG resume is soaked in Final Fantasy and MegaTen.) which is why I kept on with the series up to now.
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Post by PanbanRichard on Mar 4, 2015 7:06:14 GMT -5
Back in 2004, everyone in the first actual forum I frequented were talking nonstop about Symphonia. Turn the dial 8 months later and I decided to step out of my Nintendo 1st Party comfort zone again and rented it. Rest is history as they say.
Nice to see a lot of people who started off with Symphonia and Abyss again. I've been seeing too many people who started in 2011 as of late that I wonder what happened to the older crowd at times.
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Post by Viktor Forslund on Mar 4, 2015 8:23:55 GMT -5
Symphonia was my first, as well. My brother bought it and brought it over, and it very quickly became our go-to game for co-op shenanigans, alongside Super Smash Bros Melee. It wasn't until a few years later that I actually got a copy of the game myself. Been hooked since, pretty much.
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Post by jizzle701 on Mar 5, 2015 3:19:02 GMT -5
My friend brought over a Nintendo power where symphonia had been featured I was interested in the still photos of Lloyd doing Tempest Collete's angel feathers ...anyway I rented it, loved it and that's all she wrote
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Derman
Oracle Knight
I still don't have a knife tag on my golden birth knife
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Post by Derman on Mar 5, 2015 5:45:17 GMT -5
My first Tales was also Symphonia, though I only saw a few hours of it when my cousin was playing it. About 2 years after I somehow had developed some nostalgia for those few hours watching that game and I dug up the Phantasia for SNES and played it with emulator. A while after I played Eternia, and pretty much after that I started following the stuff happening around Tales. I still have those memories of Symphonia from my childhood and every time I play Symphonia I notice how differently I saw the game when I was younger.
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Post by fateoffate on Mar 5, 2015 23:11:01 GMT -5
My first was Eternia. When I see the cover and back side, I thought "Oh, this looks like fun". Performing combo with Reid is fun as heck. I don't know it was a series that time.
Several years later, I found Legendia and play it. It's fun for the first playthrough but it feels lackluster. After that, I started to do research on tales series including watching stuffs on youtube.
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Post by Feriku on Apr 28, 2015 14:31:16 GMT -5
I got into the series late. Even though I love RPGs, and even though my friends pestered me to play Tales of Symphonia for years, I just never did. Then Namco was holding a giveaway on Facebook where two commenters would get a limited edition copy of Xillia. Since the game had good reviews, I entered... and ended up winning. Then I played it and fell in love with the series.
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Post by UnheardPhantasm on Jun 1, 2015 12:58:47 GMT -5
Mines is actually, kinda sad. When I was in 9th Grade (about 5 years ago), I saw an ad for Tales of Vesperia in a Shonen Jump and was instantly attracted to Judith. Cuz...reasons. I was in the library at the time, and read the Prima Guide for it since I just wanted to learn what I can about the game. I get home and the game is the only thing on my mind, and sometime after just ogling the game from afar (I only had a Gamecube and a DS at the time, and I hadn't played Symphonia yet) I come across Clip's and Omega's channels. I read on the interesting plot and such in the guide and saw pictures, but when I saw how smooth it played, I was hooked.
Luckily, I had a friend who lent me his copy of Symphonia when he told me I should try ToS before getting into the series. Me and my brother played a casual run on hard mode as the Kratos/Lloyd duo, and I was quite impressed with the game. By the time I was done, Christmas rolled around, and I had a 360 and Vesperia in my grasp. And it played just as smooth and fun as I imagined it to be.
I still to this day attribute the fact that im a fan of it now to Judith for that absolutely silly reason in hindsight. Maybe one day, I'll give her the tribute she deserves.
*My friend also let me play ToS2 which was cool I guess.
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Post by frubam on Jun 6, 2015 9:31:56 GMT -5
pan: The magic has worn off for older players; or maybe its just the community at times, lol =0b. I actually started with Eternia. I had played Star Ocean 2 on a whim while working at Funcoland(with their renting system), since I was big into jrpgs since the snes days and absolutely LOVED it =03! I had heard of Eternia(called Tales of Destiny II in the US) when it released, but it wasn't until a bit later(maybe a month or so) that I read an article about the SO/Tales of connection. Grabbed it the next day, and fell in love all over again =03. Story wasn't as good as SO2, but the gameplay was funner. I then, jumped back to Tales of Destiny(psx) only to lose interest about 20% through the game because of its archaic battle system and lack of connection to the Eternia story(thought Eternia, named Destiny II, was a sequel) =0(. Once Symphonia was out, I found out that it was a franchise series. The rest is history =03.
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Post by Hiro the Half-Elf on Nov 22, 2015 4:13:32 GMT -5
It was the turn of the century: Tales of Symphonia wouldn't be released for another two years. SNES emulation had finally become quite stable, with Snes9x and ZSNES in active development with most of the SNES' library finally functional, even tricky games like Phantasia were solidly emulated. It was in this period that DeJap released their now-infamous patch.
At the time, I hadn't yet begun to follow romhacking translations. I was a neophyte to the SNES, having grown up with a Genesis, and I wanted to dive right into the library of RPGs I had never gotten to play: I lucked out and the first three games I grabbed were Final Fantasy IV Hardtype (the fan-translation), Chrono Trigger, and Tales of Phantasia.
Phantasia's aesthetic drew me in: The chunky, expressive character sprites, the muted yet colorful palette, and Motoi Sakuraba's excellent score... It clicked with me, immediately from that first trip into the woods to hunt boar. "I didn't even know they made RPGs like this."
...so that was my first encounter with the franchise. I never actually saw Tales of Destiny until much later, despite owning a Playstation (At the time, I was mostly just renting PSX games anyways, back in the Blockbuster heydey, and they never ever had ToD). A few years later, I saw Symphonia advertised in Nintendo Power and thought "why are they making such a big deal of this" (mind you, they only had screencaps from the opening video and never once referenced Phantasia, so it was hard to imagine what they were hyping)- somehow it didn't click with me until it was out that it was a direct sequel to Phantasia. Well, you know, that's just how it is in middle school.
Haha, and I got caught in the orbit of the Tales fandom around that time, too. Some of my friends (on the Secrets of the Seven Stars forum- lookin' at you, PanbanRichard!) started to get excited about Symphonia after it came out, and while I was never deep into the fandom, I clearly have never fully escaped it.
Sakuraba's been phoning it in for a long time now, but way back then... Loved it.
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Post by dragonstrike on Mar 14, 2017 11:15:04 GMT -5
One of my friends hunted down a copy of Tales of Symphonia because he was looking for a new jrpg to play. He didn't care for it that much. I was looking for a new game to play so he let me borrow it. I have been hooked ever since. I even bought his copy from him.
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