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Op maandag 22 augustus 2005 19:42 schreef Chocobo het volgende:

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Jij bent ook geen realtime RPG gamer toch? Hoe is de battle engine ?

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Op dinsdag 23 augustus 2005 08:36 schreef Chocobo het volgende:

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Bij Play is die 39 euro,....

Lucifer's Call (Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne )
In stock.
Usually dispatched within 24 hours.
our price: EUR 39.99 Delivered

Of betaal jij in Canadese dollars ?

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Op dinsdag 23 augustus 2005 00:28 schreef Chocobo het volgende:

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Maar met DC ben je alleen en met .Hack met 3 of 4 toch? Is er nog wel overzicht?

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I played my copy for about 30-45 mins. Really brief impressions, since I don't have time right now:

- Music is all orchestrated, and very nice
- Anime scenes are really good-looking and well-done
- Voices seem okay so far; nothing spectacular, but nothing bad, either
- The transition between scenes, on first impression, seems a bit rough. Lots of very brief/minor things happening followed by two seconds of black screen/loading, followed by more brief/minor things, etc. etc. It might just be like this at the beginning, though. Who knows
- The low-poly, almost SD in-game character models look straight out of a PS1 game, which is disappointing, and their animations are kinda rough and janky. It's weird, because the animation in battles is really nice
- The game world is really, really beautiful. Perhaps this the SD characters were a trade-off for the nice world visuals?
- Battles... so far, I don't understand them. They seem really overly simple at first, so I don't think I'll be able to appreciate the battle system until I have A) more characters, and B) more skills. Right now, it's just button mashing and running back and forth. FWIW, the battles in the first 30-45 mins of Rebirth were much more exciting and strategic

My first-hour impressions are almost NEVER indicative of my final thoughts on a game after spending many hours with it, so please don't take these brief notes as overly negative. I'm really excited to spend some quality time with it and play more, as it seems to have a lot of promise. It also seems "different" from most of the other Tales games (prolly because it wasn't designed by Tales Studio), which is kind of nice.

Anyway, more to come when I find more time to play...

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Op woensdag 24 augustus 2005 11:02 schreef Chocobo het volgende:


- Battles... so far, I don't understand them. They seem really overly simple at first, so I don't think I'll be able to appreciate the battle system until I have A) more characters, and B) more skills. Right now, it's just button mashing and running back and forth. FWIW, the battles in the first 30-45 mins of Rebirth were much more exciting and strategic

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Op woensdag 24 augustus 2005 12:17 schreef Chocobo het volgende:

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Heb geen problemen met random battles mits wel in de juiste proporties.

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Op dinsdag 23 augustus 2005 11:28 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:

Die nieuwe ToL screens Wat een gezellige screens zijn het Fantastische art

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Op woensdag 24 augustus 2005 19:08 schreef Chocobo het volgende:

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Ok, here are my impressions. I got this 2 hours ago (thx to a relative who works at postal office), thursday morning big present for me xd

Low-risk spoilers ahead...no story related

Graphics: Very good, they are very colorful and have a lot of style. Heights are really awesome.
The first city is really big, you can't enter all places at first but it is still 6 o 7 maps. The design is awesome and very colorful again. When you see a sign, it shows a big map of the city showing interesting places and where you are.
Characters sprites, well, the game has a long range view, so I can see little details from outside. But inside battles, they are very very detalied, very unique although I only have 2 at the moment. When counting exp, gald and such, they move a lot with crazy moments (Senel cracks his bones and falls to the ground xddd). The movement is far better from other tales, motion capture owns.
Animated sequences are awesome as usual, Productions I.G owns. I've seen the opening one, another at starting game...and no more. But there are a few artworks as backgrounds or at special events who are pretty the same quality.

Sound: Hmm...lets start with voice acting. Senel voice doesnt match him, but that can be because I hate Shinn from GSD...The other characters are good matched I think (moses own) but I can see a lack of emotion at early stages. The Phenomenon Bombers (whatever) are really good voice acted. There is a lot of voice action in this early stages.
The OST is pure AWESOMENESS. In a normal forest you can hear a voiced orchestra song, awesome. The 1st city theme matches the style perfectly. It is the really big change I see to tales series. I think this change is for good, we want diversity. The battle theme is also very nice, the winning song isnt.

Gameplay: The menus are very traditional, we have cooking back for good. I noticed that every item shows a 2D-sprited image, very nice.
You can move quickly around maps, not so quickly in the world map. There are random encounters everywhere (not crazy, good timing). I saw a type of healing spot and the normal save spot in the first zone of the game.

Battles: Ok, we reach the core of the series. It does NOT dissapoint. You start with 1 character and 1 skill, that makes the first battles very simple, yeah. If you know the series, I felt like playing Tales of Eternia. At first, you can only slash and guard. But when I got another character, man, thats going better. Battle animations are extremely nice along viewtiful backgrounds.
Skill system looks good and traditional, I got maginken and another skill, used them 50 times and I received a combo skill of the two. I'd say it again, the battles are simple at the beginning, but like in ToE, I'm sure they will be crazy at the end.

Overall: Excluding story, it feels like a good, new tales game. It has its own unique features (characters,environments,OST...) which are very nice. I can't find a low point in the game so early. The battle system is probably very traditional, we have been accustomed to changes lately, this one resembles old tales games, and that is good too. I'm pretty sure it won't dissapoint real tales gamers. I would like to see how story develops but I'll have to wait for USA version

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Sony Europe heeft bekend gemaakt dat er voorlopig nog geen plannen zijn om de Europese Playstation2 goedkoper te maken. Op de Amerikaanse en Aziatische markt is de prijs van de PS2 al geruime tijd aan het zinken. Ook de competitie van de PS2 laat hun prijzen al aardig zakken in Europa. Tot aan de kerst zal Sony in ieder geval nog vasthouden aan de huidige prijs.

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Op donderdag 25 augustus 2005 12:59 schreef King_of_cubes het volgende:

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Op donderdag 25 augustus 2005 14:45 schreef P-Style het volgende:

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Ach joh... ¤150,- is toch niet zo vréselijk duur voor een nog altijd leuk apparaat!

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Op donderdag 25 augustus 2005 15:08 schreef King_of_cubes het volgende:
Nee klopt maar ik had m toch liever snel voor 99 euro gezien

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Op donderdag 25 augustus 2005 14:56 schreef Chocobo het volgende:
Rogue Galaxy scans

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Op donderdag 25 augustus 2005 15:40 schreef Chocobo het volgende:
Deze komt ook wel hier

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Op donderdag 25 augustus 2005 15:50 schreef Chocobo het volgende:
Jak fans..... deel 2 of deel 3. Welke is leuk om mee te beginnen of welke is beter !

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Op donderdag 25 augustus 2005 15:11 schreef P-Style het volgende:

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Als 'ie ¤99,- is, dan koop ik er zo drie bij! Omdat het kan!