DISCUSSIONS 05

[polizei]

catfish have taste buds all over their bodies
Well gather around children with a hot cup of talk! It's time for discussions! You take the question or topic I give you, you give me back an answer, and you get two random cards! Let's participate!

This round's question:

What Tale's game has your favourite plot?

This round ends on June 12th! Have a great two weeks!

Comments

[shadedwhite]

Hmmmm. This is a hard one! Because the more I look at it, I enjoyed the games more for their characters rather than their plots. Because most of the time, you're just looking at the plot and shaking your head. And some of the plots are pretty different and have their own twists! So I enjoy some elements more than others depending on how the characters react and if they aren't dumbed down for instances. Which happens a lot.

That said, I'm a Symphonia girl at heart, even if it's probably pretty simple compared to some of the rest.

[polizei]

[kippi]

UHHHHH NONE OF THEM? I'd have to say Innocence though, the whole past selves thing was sort of neato, although I wish it had been done by a team known for their story rather than their characters, haha. I love Tales but I play it for... everything but the plot...

[polizei]

[butterflysparkles]

My favorite plot? Probably Abyss, because it's about the only JRPG I've played where I was okay with its "fate"-based plot, and the direction it went with it.

[polizei]

[cautiousardent]

I have to say Xillia, actually! (Jude's side at least.) Not only do I love that (most of) the antagonists aren't actually villains (or, they're not text-book villains, at the very least), and they have such a definitive role to the plot, but because I think it's very interesting! I like how it's different from the other games, too.

The runner-up would be Vesperia, though, mostly because it's my favorite game.


/doesn't have a bias at all

[polizei]

your bias is fine because you put aside your favourite game for another games plot, so i'd say its not much of a bias at all! ten points to malador.

ignore rp account

[storm_flower]

MALADOR omfg you're so cute.

nu

[sharil]

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yes ///

[storm_flower]

hehe

uguu

[sharil]

♥

[igiko]

Hearts! I consider the writing to be strong all-around – if cheesy, but this is standard. The plot is not the most original piece of work out there, but it's honest and open, which gives Hearts an innocent undertone despite the progressively darker material. Given the cast the game boasts, this is a very smart combination.

[polizei]

i'm so excited for it to come over here /// i know next to nothing about the plot, so i'm very excited to hear your opinion on it.

[boywonder]

I think Abyss is my favorite game for basically everything, and the plot is no exception. I felt like things were better explained than in some of the other games, and I felt like the length was really great and I liked the character evolutions and the bittersweet endings and the shocks and the heartbreak. :3

[polizei]

[boywonder]

Thank you!

[meria]

Hmmmmmmmmm, I'd say that Abyss has my favourite plot. It had a lot of twist that I actually liked and didn't feel like 'making shit up as we go' (well okay some of it did like parts of the third plot but still)

[polizei]

[vilya]

I think...

...that this is harder than it looked. Hmm. I remember watching the trailer for Xillia (before it was officially announced for release here, even, I think) and really expecting a whole awful lot...and looking back, as much as I love the game to death, it didn't deliver entirely. Boo to me for having expectations based on the trailer, yep, and I didn't even think about how what I expected and what I got were really different until a few days ago. That said, I am probably voting for Xillia because it felt fresh, still. Some things were surprising and veered around the Tales-of formula more than most do.

SECOND PLACE goes to Vesperia - the big fandom joke that it has no plot aside - because of the humanness of it, I think. Yuri has brain cells is just your average guy, in some really human respects, who stuff happens to and for a while he gets dragged along through it; the decisions he makes, when he takes the action into his own hands, are often morally reprehensible and kind of "you're supposed to be the hero character...right?" and so even if the plot isn't entirely, er, glued together, you see it more like a series of life events...some of which the person living the life doesn't have a whole lot of control or choice over.

[polizei]

i'm curious, what exactly did you want that you didn't get?

[vilya]

It's hard to describe - in part because it was like three years ago that I saw this trailer, haha. I think, with all the rumors/info about how Xillia was going to be 'darker and edgier' than previous Tales games*, I expected...a grittier take on the way people treated each other, I suppose. There was this whole implication that Nachtigal was using his people as energy sources and/or as part of machinery experiments and while that's been touched on and plot-relevant in other Tales games I think I walked away expecting this one to feel more struggle-centered.

XILLIA HAS BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS IN IT AND VERY HUMAN ONES and I'd hate to think I sound like I'm complaining because. Absolutely not.

*In a lot of ways, it is darker and edgier. I think I love it so much because you walk away feeling triumphant and good about most choices despite that.

[polizei]

wait for xillia 2

just


wait

[vilya]

PART OF MY REQUIREMENT is that darker-and-edgier does not mean Evil Gets to Win or losing any characters I love a lot.

Shhh shh it's my escape I get to want the fantasy I want

I've heard a few (some intentional, which gets my goat, man) incidental things about X2 and I go around all I DON"T WANT TO KNOW because spoilers are not nice but also because I want to have hope in what it will be, you know? I'm afraid, a little bit, of bad outcomes.

I EXPECT SOMETHING AWESOME NEVERTHELESS.

[polizei]

i'm just in the dark as you are so i cant verify that evil gets to win or anything but all i know is this game will ruin us

i have heard there is a good ending, in a sense, so if anything you'll have that if the actual ending destroys us

[vilya]

answering me with hot schoolboy richard

damn

yeah i heard about the good-ending stuff too. pls good ending also be true ending!

i don't mind being ruined by a tales game though, xillia took a lot of risks and i ended up loving 98% of them even though it was breaking me

[polizei]

i can tell you if its the true ending or not but you said no spoilers so lmk

[vilya]

NO DON'T TELL ME NO SHH

I will wait to be broken in august