Wed, Apr 01, 2009 | 21:21 BST
Tales of Vesperia for PS3, tons of other Tales stuff in Jump
The latest issue of Japan’s Jump magazine has confirmed Tales of Vesperia for PS3. Never saw that coming.
There was lots of other Tales related stuff included. And here it is:
- Tales of Graces will be released for Wii later this year. Not much else is known other than you have to protect people and you have vowed to “never lose anyone again”. Right.
- Tales of Versus will arrive on PSP with four-player fight mode. Yuri (Tales of Vesperia), Luke (Tales of the Abyss), Shing (ToH) and Richter (ToSKoR) have been revealed. Possibly Lloyd as well.
- The PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia will include a new character named Patty Fleur.
Hit the link below to see a couple scans of the magazine. Doesn’t look like an April Fool to us.
Thanks, Kombo.
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Posted in: Hot, Namco Bandai, PS3, PSP, RPG, Wii
Tags: Tales of Graces, Tales of Versus, tales of vesperia
27 comments
#1
Suikoden Fan
01/04/09, 9:23 pm
assuming this is true, does that mean that vesperia will be released this year in japan, next year in us and the year after for EU?
#2
KillerDD
01/04/09, 9:24 pm
Meh, I won’t believe this until tomorrow
#3
Patrick Garratt
01/04/09, 9:36 pm
I sincerely fucking hope this isn’t bullshit.
#4
Patrick Garratt
01/04/09, 9:37 pm
Look: http://kotaku.com/5194343/tales-of-verperia-ps3+bound-more-tales-spun
#5
SERAPHEMZ
01/04/09, 10:01 pm
Are the Tales games generally good? Never played one b4.
#6
Gekidami
01/04/09, 10:05 pm
They tend to be ok, they actually use a type of real time battle system (atleast the ones i’ve played did) so i find them more interesting then Final-Over-Hyped-Fantasy.
#7
SERAPHEMZ
01/04/09, 10:11 pm
Cool.. so were they exclusive to 360 ?
#8
Gekidami
01/04/09, 10:15 pm
Tales Of games have been around since the SNES days, randomly pick a system and you’ll find a Tales Of game for it… Apart from the PS3 till this announcment lol.
#9
ecu
01/04/09, 10:15 pm
Namco just shot themselves in the foot.
I don’t know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I’m an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It’s not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Tales of Vesperia for either system, nor will they purchase any of Namco’s games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Namco has alienated an entire market with this move.
Namco, publicly apologize and cancel Vesperia for PS3 or you can kiss your business goodbye.
#10
Gekidami
01/04/09, 10:18 pm
M’yea… I bet the PS3 version tops sales for the week it comes out in Japan…
#11
SERAPHEMZ
01/04/09, 10:36 pm
Ecu – dont the japs love the PS3??
#12
Michael O'Connor
01/04/09, 10:41 pm
Say what?
#13
ecu
01/04/09, 10:55 pm
Whoosh!
#14
SERAPHEMZ
01/04/09, 10:56 pm
^ was that your comment going over our heads?
#15
ecu
01/04/09, 11:02 pm
I thought more people would “get” it.
Oh well.
#16
Michael O'Connor
01/04/09, 11:05 pm
Oh wait. Let me guess.
Sarcasm?
It tends to help to offer some hint as such. You know, what with the lack of vocals to work with.
#17
ecu
01/04/09, 11:07 pm
Blerk will know!
#18
hitnrun
01/04/09, 11:09 pm
WHOOOOOOSH!
If you were parodying PS3 fanboys of yesteryear, you should have done it more verbatim. Threatening suicide would have been a nice touch.
Incidentally, the Japanese do have strong and unique moral ideals that outsiders consider traditionalist, as do Americans, Britons, and Canadians. They just fail to live up to them as frequently as the rest of us
#19
Bleak Harvest
01/04/09, 11:17 pm
Fake until proven otherwise, also I feel that I’ve read ecu’s comment before… was it a copy-pasta?
#20
DrDamn
01/04/09, 11:59 pm
@ecu
I got it.
#21
DrDamn
02/04/09, 12:02 am
It was a comment originally made about FFXIII coming to the 360 … but sheesh if you need it explaining …
#22
SERAPHEMZ
02/04/09, 12:05 am
got any link to the original post..
#23
ecu
02/04/09, 12:48 am
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11960243&postcount=1766
#24
Michael O'Connor
02/04/09, 3:33 am
Oh, I remember that guy…
#25
lelik
02/04/09, 3:45 am
i got it right away but only because I saw that godamn youtube video. It was so freaknasty that it is now ingrained into my brain permanently. good god does that kid need to die.
#26
Blerk
02/04/09, 9:06 am
Heh heh.
Anyway, we all knew this was coming eventually, right? I mean, they only accidentally announced it once or twice already.
#27
No_PUDding
02/04/09, 1:49 pm
ecu, I am sure a few poeople who didn’t psot understood… I do.
Is it any good? Would be a good entry point with which to experience my; i don’t know, 3rd or 4th JRPG EVER?