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[Isaac232]

Low sales? How could that be?

Man, I really want ToDR in English. I can't pay for all things that make me able to play the japanese game.
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I don't know if this has been mentioned already or not but Tales of Fandom Vol.2 is work in progress... from what i've read, the commercial for it is going to be on TV (japan) from the 23rd of August...

It seems that it'll only be out in Japan at the moment on the play station 2.

I DON'T HAVE ONE!!! DARN!!!

One way or another, it looks fun with new costumes... ( I mean Kratos in a doctors costume and collete in a nurse's...? XD)

here's the link to the site: http://namco-ch.net/talesoffandom2/product/index.php
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[Cloud]

[tairukun]

why oh why cant tales be as popular as final fantasy? that way we'd have all titles instead of spending extra money on importing. god i hate this. finally find an rpg i love and i have to go through complicated stuff just ot play them
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[JToTheP]

[Zacewing]

[Kaizakira]

[Mr Blobby]

[RyuHiroshi]

[Ryuuko]

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[AlliedG]

Its because Namco doesn't give enough money to there namco tales studio. I sound sarcastic but seriously if they put as much money into the tales games, as you see Tekken, Ace Combat, then you might actually see Tales of games become popular.

At least in US you got Abyss, in EU we got TOTA: RM which no-one knows about (especially in regards to previous games) and Tales of Eternia (its offical name) after that whole Tales of Destiny 2 mistake on PS (of course the IQ of Namco means Tales of Eternia remake was never released in USA but then again Tales of Destiny 2 never was in EU which is actually Tales of Eternia was)

In terms of buying merchandise in EU we are forced to find obscure comic book stores or go online to 3rd party distributors (you cannot buy square-enix, tecmo products directly from square-enix, tecmo site unlike in USA)

If it sounds confusing, it is confusing.

Main reason why I think FF sells well, is the whole FF7 3d reputation and the realistic character approach.

Tales might have better characters, storyline and superior combat system (it took FF 12 incarnations to get a decent combat system working) but it still looks like a anime and for a lot of games in the previous series it had 2D games which didn't appeal to people (when Tales of Eternia was brand new, FF has 3d graphics)

Basically customers like realistic graphics and fmv over actual gameplay.
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FF also has Advent Children
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[JToTheP]

[CloudHiro]

the main reasons why the tales series realllly doesnt do to well over here are two main reasons.

#1- Not publicised well enough. Not enough people really know about the tales series. In fact, I bet alot of the people who bought symphonia probably didnt even know it was part of a series.

#2- stiff competition. the games that have particularly low sales in the series over here usualy has some pretty big competition from RPG gameing jugernaughts such as square-enix and such. I mean, honestly, even if the games are miles better, most rpg fans just wont stray from the Square-Enix saftey zone. so many non-square-enix rpgs go fairly un-noticed. The exception being in this series is Symphonia. It had the advantage of being releaced on a system that seen so little in the way of rpgs, that at the first glance of a rpg being releaced on it the nintendo gamers pounced on it like a bunch of rabbid animals.