Tales of Vesperia Becomes Feature Rich on PS3
Since being announced for the PS3, Tales of Vesperia has seen a slew of updates added to the PS3 version. These have come in the form of new playable characters like Flynn, new quests, items and added dialog. Well now it looks like two changes have been made to the PS3 version that fix issues found in the 360 version.
The first change is the ability to skip non-animated cutscenes. For anyone who plays a game more than once, this is a great addition and a feature that should be standard in most games today. Pressing the Triangle button will now allow you to skip past scenes.
The second change is a bit more minor but still a very useful change. When you find an object out of a chest you will now be given an extra box on the screen that tells you what the item does. This saves a user from having to hop into the menu to see what a new item does.
Tales of Vesperia releases in Japan this Thursday the 17th. No word yet on a Stateside or European release.
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9 Responses to “Tales of Vesperia Becomes Feature Rich on PS3”
Pleeeeeease come out here. I haven’t played a JRPG from this generation yet and I’m losing hope!
Fw 3.1 is live!
LOLZ…Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope International just been announce for the PS3. Did I not call this since the game was first announce that it was coming to the PS3?
Hot diggity damnity I can’t wait to get me some Tales of Vesperia.
@theHater I think it was stupid for people to assume that the Star Ocean Last Hope game would not come to the PS3. Even though it was a possibility. The companies making these games have pretty much stated that they want to try and boost the Japanese 360 numbers in order to drive competition to the PS3 and 360 rather than the Wii and PS3 in Japan hoping to get more out of things overall by market competition since the Wii really isn’t playing with the big boys anymore.
Plus how can RPG makers resist the fucking Blu-Ray. I’m surprised Blue Dragon hasn’t been announced as well as the Last Odyssey so that they can see how much data they can cram into those babies.
Grandia 3 was a great game but it was fairly short for a 2 disk game. Star Ocean Till the End of Time was a great game, but it didn’t have that many cinemas in order to prevent 3 disks it looks like, on top of the fact that there is so much gameplay there.
I think companies are just waiting to see what they can do with the PS3 and trying to test the waters while they wait for more of the PS2 fanbase to make the PS3 jump so that they aren’t stunted in profits by hitting at the wrong time.
This is all just my own speculation though. I’m not an industry insider, it’s just my own personal outlook. As with everything, take it with a grain of salt. I could just be talking out my ass.
In the mean time I’m going to work on Cross Edge because I plan to hopefully 1 day have every single RPG platinum on the PS3. So far I have completed Disgaea 3, working on Cross Edge, then later need to do Sacred Angel, Fallout 3, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
I myself cannot wait to play this because lets face it, most Tales games are awesome, well with the exception of Legendia.
Glad to see that the wait for this game is netting us a better version and this will come stateside.
This seems to bethe standard treatment these days , release the beta version for the 360 and then once they work out the bugs and add more features the PS3 gets a more polished product.
Some ps3 love.
@Makai Agree! But If you would really look at it. JRPGs are played better on a PS format rather than the xbox. It is one of my main reasons that I bought a PS3 instead of an xbox 360. I hope JRPGs would make more appearance on the PS3.
[...] Tales of Vesperia was originally released ‘exclusively’ on the Xbox 360 in 2008. PS3 fans of the series felt that Namco Bandai had turned its backs on them. When it was revealed last year that a port of the TOV was hitting the PS3 in Japan last September with new content, characters, and more, fans of the series rejoiced and expected a US translation soon. Namco Bandai has stayed mum on the topic until now. They recently revealed to GamePro.com that they have ‘no plans’ to release it here in the United States: NBGA have no details regarding this issue at the moment. [...]