Author Topic: Tales of Symphonia Hype Thread (Read 32459 times)

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #100 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:48:30 AM »

I like "Raine" more than "Regal," though I really don't approve of "Genius" to "Genis" (dirty Namco

) and Colette's name change...(Collete is her name in the game, I believe...)

From that, I expect Kratos' name to be changed to Krapos...

CHEN · « **Reply #101 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:56:15 AM »

You... <points finger at Bill> ...dare insult the mighty Kratos?! You shall pay for this... oh yes... (not really)

BTW Raine is Refill's new name, not Regal. Silly Bill...

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #102 on:** May 07, 2004, 10:06:20 AM »

Oh whoops...I was thinking of something else... ^_^

And I'm hardly making fun of Kratos...I've even got his hairstyle going on...

CHEN · « **Reply #103 on:** May 08, 2004, 06:24:58 AM »

You look nothing like him! he's so dreamy ... *sigh*

Gamecubivore · « **Reply #104 on:** May 08, 2004, 06:36:25 AM »

*flaunts his anime hair*

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #105 on:** May 08, 2004, 07:09:32 AM »

I never said I looked like him...

But I do have the hair over the eye and red hair... ^_^

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #106 on:** May 08, 2004, 12:13:17 PM »

I look like Zorro. Zorro should be in a game.

chaos · « **Reply #107 on:** May 08, 2004, 04:12:11 PM »

I know its off-topic and everything but in Soul Calibur 2 Noboyuki Hiyma (Link OoT) also does Nightmare and Yoshimitsu
Fujiko Takimoto (Young Link OoT) does Taki
Takashi Nagasako (Ganondorf OoT and Tww) does Cervantes
Also did you know that the voice for the Skull Kid in Majora's Mask plays Link in the Wind waker (Sachi Matsumuto)

Well thats my pointless information for the day

Oh and I think Nightmare (Japanese) is way better much more emotion in him

And to bring it back on topic Tales of Symphonia will be class, it fixes everything thats can be annoying in RPG's control of your character in battles, no random battles and other stuff which I cant think of

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #108 on:** May 09, 2004, 06:15:19 PM »

That was very useful information, thanks.

Avinash_Tyagi · « **Reply #109 on:** May 18, 2004, 02:15:16 PM »

So its Kosuke Fujishima doing the charaters I was wondering why they looked familiar.

Kyosho · « **Reply #110 on:** May 19, 2004, 11:02:19 PM »

I just heard some of the dialog spoken in English... and it is very stale. GG stupid companies dubbing stuff. Dubs from Japanese/Chinese/Korean to English rarely are good. I really despise this part of American culture. Totally detracts from the game. Hopefully they fix it up by allowing an option to change languages before it goes gold (doubt it)

akdaman1 · « **Reply #111 on:** May 20, 2004, 01:10:54 PM »

Ign have a major TOS update.

Really has me excited for the game. Is the release date still the 13th of July?

Shin Gallon · « **Reply #112 on:** June 08, 2004, 11:36:09 PM »

Kyosho: You expected otherwise? The only time I've ever heard a dub that didn't suck was Kingdom Hearts, and that doesn't even really count because most of the characters were Disney and should be speaking English anyway.
Anything with an anime look and feel should have Japanese voices, though, because there's never been a good anime dub in history (I don't care what anyone says, the Cowboy Bebop dub was atrocious, especially compared to the amazing Japanese cast).
Frankly, the prospect of having to put up with English voices is really killing my desire to buy both ToS and Baten Kaitos...if they'd leave the Japanese voices alone I'd most definetly buy them both, no brainer.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #113 on:** June 09, 2004, 12:14:43 AM »

Funny you mention that, cuz Baten Kaitos is animated for English-speaking characters. (unless Namco pulled a fast one on me and made 2 sets of CG for 2 languages. The E3 trailer I have has me convinced it's geared towards English. I believe it's the same CG presentation for BK's original press conference; I vaguely remember seeing videos of the conference with japanese subs and english dubbing.)

"That was TOO CLOSE. You were almost a JILL SANDWICH!!"
-- One of the finer moments in gaming voice acting. The entertainment value is immeasurable.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #114 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:03:50 AM »

They can dub it with monkeys and I'll still buy it. I need RPGs!

Edit: I actually had a constructive comment to add here. I read the new impressions of the English version of the game, and I totally agree with Jonathan Metts' complaint that RPGs are becoming too angsty lately. I don't mind covering serious issues or characters having a bad day, but a lot of people seem to mistake depressing, melodramatic seriousness for good writing.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #115 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:35:03 AM »

Perhaps they're just seeing the success of Final Fantasy compared to more lighthearted RPGs?

akdaman1 · « **Reply #116 on:** June 09, 2004, 11:06:00 AM »

Actually Baten Kaitos voice acting is REALLY good. Dont bad mouth it until youve heard it.

Kyosho · « **Reply #117 on:** June 09, 2004, 01:00:00 PM »

As reported from IGN, Namco is giving you an option to turn off the voices. So it looks like i will be buying this game once again.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #118 on:** June 09, 2004, 01:49:01 PM »

Turning off voices? WOW, talk about 16-bit retro Tales right there.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #119 on:** June 09, 2004, 01:56:39 PM »

Not buying a game just because of the voice-acting is ludicrous... :\

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #120 on:** June 09, 2004, 02:26:05 PM »

Quite. Resident Evil's voice acting was deplorable but the game was still a lot of fun. Put your TV on mute if you have to- that technology has existed for years, it doesn't have to be built into the game.

Kyosho · « **Reply #121 on:** June 09, 2004, 02:39:50 PM »

ludicrous ... possibly. Unreasonable? My $$$, I can do what I want. If I feel it ain't worth it, then I simply won't buy it. People can bash all they want on the subject, but RPGs are meant to be an enjoyable experience, and if one thing detracts from that, then the consequence can be justified.

As usual you are full of ignorance MC. People still want to hear music + sfx.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #122 on:** June 09, 2004, 03:15:31 PM »

Actually, you could mute the game just for the cutscenes and then unmute once they were over...

But the option is there to turn them off so there's no point in arguing about it...

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #123 on:** June 09, 2004, 03:31:06 PM »

Yeah, I'm ignorant because I'm brainstorming new ideas for you to enjoy a game.

I figured you might mind missing out on the sound effects and music a little less than the entire game. Your welcome.

Gremio · « **Reply #124 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:26:44 PM »

Sorry to ask this out of the blue but does anyone know if there's going to be a way to turn off the English voices or switch over to the original Japanese voices in Tales of Symphonia? I haven't seen any info on it on the net plus I can't view any of the newer trailers either (only Quicktime and mpeg works on my comp). Much thanks

(and sorry if this may be redundant - too many pages to scroll through and I'm lazy

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