My favorite Tales of game by far would be Tales of the abyss, not only does it have a better way of strategy it has an interesting story line. The only flaw about it is all the back tracking.

Tales of Phantasia. The only Tales game I've ever played so far.

Yeah Ive been wanting to try that game, I haven't played that one yet. The only Tales of games Ive played would be Tales of Destiny 1 and 2, Tales of Symphonia,Tales of Legendia and Tales of the Abyss.

Never played a Tales of game "Wots it about?"

Never played a Tales of game "Wots it about?"

Only thing I can say is, "many different things". It's kinda like FF, almost all the games of the series have no continuity with and are indipendent of each other.

I'll have to go with Abyss too. Since they actually took the good route of adding free-run in battles added practically a whole new dimension to the game. After playing Abyss for 200+ hours I tried to play my old favorite Tales game, Tales of Symphonia. Got into a battle, then I realized that it fails. >_>

Lol so true, Tales of the Abyss really took a good turn in the series I love free run you can actually run away from attacks freely instead of being crowded by your other party members in a narrow corner. XD

Tales of Phantasia(PSX>SNES>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GBA):)

Symphonia fails when you get trapped in a corner in a battle, and can't manuever away from the enemy. The golems in that first dungeon were case of this. Your only choice is take a beating, and if you're under-levelled, die.

Abyss is truly my favorite Tales game, but I've only played Symphonia, Legendia, and Abyss.

Legendia is funny. It's a fun game to play. But it's a joke compared to Abyss, considering plot, characters, and graphics. Legendia does sport a classy soundtrack, though. Features some of the first orchestral work that I've heard out of a console RPG in awhile.

Have only played Tales of Phantasia, but i am planning to buy Abyss

Suikoden II

Tales of Symphonia would have to be my favorite. Before I played it I had only played Phantasia for about 3 hours on an emulator. Now I've beaten Symphonia, Abyss, Tempest, Legendia, Phantasia (in that order), and also played a bit of Destiny. I couldn't stand Abyss' loading times, and the addition of Free Run made the game to easy. Sadly, it seems to be the standard now...

Tales of Destiny.

Tales of Destiny Remake Version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLDJBlKgBU)

WAIT I MEAN TALES OF PHANTISSSSSDSFGG%$&*($#FSJGCI

Tales of Eternia because me and my brother play together and battle monster.

Tales of Destiny, absolutely love that game! Following that would have to be Symphonia, then Abyss (They practially tie though :D ).

Tales of Destiny ps2

Abyss, by far

Tales of destiny...PSX
2D is still the best for me <3

Tales of Abyss and Legendia, Legendia has lots of funny parts while Abyss has a pretty interesting storyline. Tear FTW baby :D

BTW, has anyone heard of Tales of the World? It seems every "Tales" is present there O_o

I'm pretty fond of Legendia, so much it's one of the few RPGs I've actually played and finished. Abyss had me bored minutes into the game and. Those were the only Tales of games I've played but my Gamecube and Tales of Symphonia have been ready for years now. Maybe one day...

The best 2 are Tales Of Symphonia and Tales of The Abyss also ppl look at this new Tales exclusivly for the Wii
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/ToS2_TGS07_Trailer_Lloyd_Cameo.JPG
for those of u who played TOS i think u know who this is
Next image: being its for the Wii it got good graphics
one more thing

Tales of destiny...PSX
2D is still the best for me <3

It had a pretty great story, but the high encounter rate, plus the stupidly easy difficulty kind of dragged it down. The remake version on the PS2 fixes those problems.

Tales of Destiny 2 for the PS1. (The one with Reid and his friends) Awesome battle graphics. Very original story. Likable characters. Great music.

Tales of Rebirth, a very good tales of game

Tales of Symphonia
because it's like the oooonly one to be released in Europ along with Eternia and Phantasi

nin i sooo want Tales of the Abyss ( � .� )

flonne r u in love with etna?

ToD:R holds the top spot of any Tales of games I've played. It was just so....fun in general.

ToR is great too. The storyline is a bit...boring though. It's basically the same thing as Phantasia and Symphonia, what with racism and all that. The battle system however saved it

TotA is great despite the bad graphics and bad loading times. The battles get pretty intense and the storyline isn't that bad either.

ToL holds a place in my heart as being the first seriously funny RPG I've played. I also don't get where the hate comes from. It's a solid game, albeit a bit slow. And the soundtrack is to die for.

So yeah, those are my favorites. I exclude ToD2(The real one, no Eternia) and ToS on the grounds that they suck.

I played Symphonia (CD broke down after 4 hours of play time :( ), Destiny II, and Abyss. They're all cool, but I particularly like Destiny II since its a lot longer than Abyss and the world is more open ended (underwater places pl0x).

Abyss though had nice boss battles, especially the hidden ones whose quest to meet the boss takes you even to the end of the game.

I'm still trying to look for a working Symphonia CD so I can give my damn critique >_<

So yeah, those are my favorites. I exclude ToD2(The real one, no Eternia) and ToS on the grounds that they suck.

Disagree there, ToD2's TT-LBS and the storyline really made it incredible.

I prefer ToP for teh SNES it had its funny perverted moment in that made me laugh out

1. PS2 Tales of Destiny remake (soon to be ToD:r Director's Cut)
2. PS2 Tales of Symphonia
3. PSP Tales of Destiny 2
4. PS2 Tales of Rebirth (PSP soon, right?)
5. PS2 Tales of the Abyss

1. Tales of Destiny (PSX) - i envy those who know japanese. i sooo wanna play director's cut. if you feel the same way, please sign this petition (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/TalestoUS/)!
2. Tales of the Abyss - great game overall
3. Tales of Legendia - good visual, excellent soundtrack, funny and deep characters

i haven't played Symphonia or Phantasia, so i can't judge them yet, but i believe they're the series best according to many surveys.

This thread kind of amazes me.

I hope everyone plays tales of phantasia. In terms of battle, it lags behind the others, because it was the first one created...

but tales of phantasia has by ""FAR"" the best storyline and musical score.

As much as I enjoyed playing tales of the abyss, legendia and symphonia, they don't really compare to phantasia's masterful work.

I played the PSX version, it is by far the best version of Tales of Phantasia. Though I might have to disagree there on the count that I find the story in Tales of Destiny and Tales of Destiny 2 to be superior, albeit marginally.

I played the PSX version, it is by far the best version of Tales of Phantasia. Though I might have to disagree there on the count that I find the story in Tales of Destiny and Tales of Destiny 2 to be superior, albeit marginally.

The storyline...

But tales of destiny is considered the weakest of the series. By a long shot. I can't even remember the storyline in either one. And the soundtracks were forgettable as well. The battle theme in TOD2 was fucking AWFUL. I turned my volume off so I wouldn't have to hear it.

Remember, I am talking about the Japan-only release on the PS2 Tales of Destiny 2, which follows the story of Stahn and Rutee's son, Kyle and the people he meet in his adventure.

The soundtrack on that is far from forgettable.

Tales of Symphonia it the only one I played and beaten.

Thinking of getting Tales of The World: Radiant Mythology for the PSP later on.

Tales of Symphonia was my favorite.

I'm thinking of getting part 2 for the Wii, my friend told me about it.

Tales of Rebirth is my current favorite with Destiny and Destiny 2 not far behind.

Tales of the abyss got me hooked. It made me laugh my arse off more than once

Phantasia, for sure.

1. Tales Of Symphonia
2.Tales of the Abyss
3.Tales of Destiny Remake(never played it but the Burst Calibur is great)
4.Tales of The World (the GBA ones 2&3)
5.Tales of Legendia (weird game but good ost)
Rated from 1-5

Tales of eternia is the only one i've played (it was awesome). I didn't even know it was part of a series lol.

1st = Tales Of Phantasia

1st = Tales Of Phantasia

dam i cant believe i forgot that but its a tie between my first fav

Symphonia. Now, if only I could escape from the multiple animes, soundtracks, and manga versions of ToSymphonia, I could get around to actually trying the others.

Did you guys hear ToS2 is coming out?

I've played Symphonia, Phantasia and Abyss in what I think was that order. I find them all a bit bland but I'd probably go for Abyss. Nothing wrong with Symphonia in comparison though. I'd like to play Vesperia and Symphonia 2 if the opportunity and free time go hand in hand.

Tales of the Abyss, hands down. Symphonia was good too, but I think the storyline for Abyss had a lot of "WTF" and "OMG" kind of twists in there. Abyss also had so much more character development than Symphonia did, simply for the fact that the characters in Symphonia start out as friends already, while characters in Abyss had to go through the process of getting to know and trust each other. And yeah, Free Run was a nice addition - I like having complete control over my characters. What's the point of a 3D battlefield if you can't utilize it?

I really want to get my hands on Tales of Rebirth, but it seems that the US isn't ever gonna get that one *cries* Looking forward to Tales of Innocence and Tales of Symphonia for the Wii though.

I'm not sure when the Tales of franchise got all these games. I only played three before the novelty of their fighting engine wore off. And of them, I'll pick Tales of Destiny II or Eternia, as I believe it's called originally. (The one with Reid and Farah). But the stories all kinda sucked by reason of clich�.

Tales of Symphonia is EPIC!! Thats how awesomely epic it is.

TALES OF PHANTASIA

Im sorry. It beats the others in pretty much every category in my opinion. and klarth. OMGKLARTH. much love for male summoners, FOSHO. hes my favourite tales character ever. but Dist, Peony and Jade were pretty damn awesome. And Cless is my favourite main character to date.

I thought the characters in ToS were a little too flat and generic. And the dialogue was INCREDIBLY cliche. I still love it though.

Abyss is hands-down my favorite - it was just incredible - but Symphonia holds a place in my heart as well.

Legendia has endearing characters, but the actual gameplay got SO repetitive after awhile that it would get boring. I had to play it spread out over months so I wouldn't get bored :(

My favorite is a tie between Tales of Destiny and Tales of Symphonia

I've only played Abyss and Legendia and I thought they were both great. They both have their goods and their bads. They both had a good storyline I thought with intresting twist but I thoguht Legendia had more witty dialog(when apporprate) and the characters you spend the most amount of time with were intresting. However in Abyss I thought it had more intresting dialog and I like the battle system more(Evil characters appeared more intresting with the exception of Guy and his fear of girls). So I really can't say which one I like.

Yeah, Abyss is my favorite, mostly due to the epic win that is Jade. The battle system rocks too, though sometimes I found myself missing the combination attacks from Symphonia.

Symphonia is a close second . . . it may be a cliche storm but it's a decent cliche storm.

where is the love for
TALES OF PHANTASIA ?

@ Firebrand-X: holy shiat. best signature ever plz.

I liked Symphonia best. But thats probably because I have a lot of good memories from junior high linked to the time in which I was playing it...

Although, Abyss comes in really close.

where is the love for
TALES OF PHANTASIA ?


Stolen by Tales of Destiny and Leon/Judas. :3

My favorite has to be Vesperia with Abyss in Second. However, the gameplay was better in Vesperia, but I liked the story for Abyss better.

Stolen by Tales of Destiny and Leon/Judas. :3

I agree.
Love Tales of the abyss as well

My favourite Tales game would be
-Tales Of Destiny
-Tales Of Eternia
-Tales Of Rebirth
-Tales Of Legendia
-Tales Of The Abyss
-Tales Of The World

I'm going to have to go with Symphonia. I put quite a bit of time and effort into it. It was quite a lot of fun.

So far I only played 2 of the games. Tales of Symphonia, and Tales of Phantasia. I liked both of them. Phantasia, If you watched the anime, is based off of the Valhalla War, and then Symphonia is Based off of Ragnarok. Apparently, Symphonia leads into Phantasia. Even though The Valhalla War Started Ragnarok.

Symphonia was great, I just wish that Kratos, had a Formal Outfit. or the NGC, had the Biker outfits (Zelos & Sheena), Ninja Outfits (Lloyd & Kratos)

Those looks COOL

Tales of Abyss in my definate last. Symphonia in first...

Tales Of Eternia of course^_^

Tales of the Abyss. Asch is one of my favorite characters in any JRPG I've ever played. It's a shame the Tales plots are pretty average, though.

destiny and symphonia.
though abyss is very good too, but not really my favorite.

only played symphonia, i dunno if they even released the others over here it was very good though i have to say

only played symphonia, i dunno if they even released the others over here it was very good though i have to say

where is here.

From what I know they were all released in

Japan
U.S.A
and the UK, so they should be all around the world.

Tales of Phantasia (GBA) and tales of the world (PSP)

First tales game was Tales of Symphonia and loved every bit of it :D

Even had likeminded friends that invite me over to do multiplayer control playthorugh.

Tales of Abyss in my definate last. Symphonia in first...

Might I ask why Abyss would be last? Not that I'm judging you or anything; just curious. :)

I honestly can't decide over which Tales series I like best. One thing I've noticed about the series is that there'll always be a character who sticks out from the rest, which is good.

I liked Arche in Phantasia more than the other characters in that game. Sure, we've seen her type before, but she made the game more interesting. The other characters really just didn't have the charisma that was noticing. It was like "Let's go here!" "Ok!" "Let's save the world!" "Yes!"

I liked Reid in Eternia 'cause...well...his crave for food, I guess. Kinda reminds me of myself. :P

Jade in Abyss because he was like a breath of fresh air. Finally, someone who's saving the world that isn't some teen still battling with their hormones and angst! :)

only played phantasia so far and thats been enough to convert me into a tales fan i have definately must have more of this series looking forward to getting abyss next

Tales of Eternia (In PSX, which known as Tales of Destiny 2). Because, together with my brother, we can fight together (maybe) to the end of the game.

JFTR, I thought Reid was a chick at first.

Tales of Symphonia. Hands down.

Tales games I've seriously played:
Phantasia (Playstation version, better than SNES)
Destiny 2 (or Eternia)
Symphonia

Of those, I like Phantasia the best, then Destiny 2, then Symphonia. Symphonia was my first Tales game, but I happen to like the 2D ones better. I can't wait until Tales of Hearts, if it comes out in America.

When I played Phantasia, I played it for two days straight (minus sleeping and eating) and still didn't beat it. That game is soo long and addicting...

I love Symphonia soooooo much. And I'm actually very surprised that people actually liked Abyss so much. To me the characters have absolutely no chemistry together and, the girls are all annoying and I'm not even finished with the game yet!!!

Don't get me wrong, it has it's moments when it was pretty entertaining, but it lacks a good, non-confusing storyline. When it started to get into the sephiroths and the inner and outer world I simply gave up..*laughs*

If you need to explain every little detail about your world that's not a good thing. Now I'm not sure about the other Tales games, but If anyone has a good review of Phantasia I'd love to hear it.^^

(And sorry if I made any Abyss fans upset)

I like Abyss the most, and i feel Abyss >>Symphonia in terms of characters, the Symphonia characters are quite Cliche, Abyss breaks a quite a few cliches

Such as the female lead not being a fighter, in Abyss, Tear was the one with actual combat experience and Luke was the pampered princess, that being said Symphonia was awesome too

same as me...since i only play abyss....and recently TotA anime has been release...so i really enjoy this game

Out of the small fraction of Tales games that I've played (Tales of Destiny, Tales of the Abyss, and Tales of Vesperia), it has to be Tales of the Abyss. The story is interesting and has enough twists and turns to keep the cliche parts from being painfully obvious (unlike Vesperia). The characters, while initially coming off as being somewhat bland, really grow on you over the course of the game, even the annoying ones. The music, while having a few pitfalls, is top notch, and I'm actually surprised by how much I liked Shinji Tamura's pieces (he composed most of the town and dungeon themes). Vesperia's battle themes may be a bit better, but Abyss is overall more consistent and Karma is so much more enjoyable (even as an instrumental piece) than Ring a Bell.

Vesperia is a close second. It's better than Abyss in some respects, namely graphics, voiced skits, and Yuri's awesomeness as the main character. However, it loses points for the dull story, lack of a true villan (Alexei's close, but Van is so much better), and static characters who are essentially the same at the end of the game as when you first meet them. Oh, and Jade > Raven (as the requisite sarcastic "old man") and Asch > Flynn (as the badass foil for the main character). 'Nuff said.

They all pretty good. Tales of Phantasia has a special place in my heart I played that since the first translation came out and loved it...

Tales of destiny was OK, I just thought they didn't improve the gameplay at all enough from ToP so it brought the game down. I did like the story and the talking sworidians or whatever they were called lol.
Never played the sequel.
Never played symphonia or its sequel

Tales of Eternia was great. I loved the gameplay and the story and world was pretty good, just a little too childish for my tastes. Whats up with main guy characters from this game wearing short shirts that show off their abs ? a little too feminine for me... so the main character doesn't really appeal to me. Almost seems like a really gay version of He-Man or something LOL. But the awesome gameplay and alright story almost made up for it.

Abyss... Great Gameplay, Great Story, just a little childish. And the main character can almost rock the ab exposing clothes without looking like a complete tool ;)

havent played any later ones

EVERY TALES GAME!!!!!! RAHH! Tales of the Abyss ;o

Tales of the World 1 and 2
Tales of VS.
Tales is my passion!

Tales of Symphonia but it's the only one I have so that's not saying much. I got it for the Cube at best buy on clearance for $10.

Tales Of Destiny

Ohhh Leon Leon Leon <3333
Or, in JP case, Lion~

Ohhh Leon Leon Leon <3333
Or, in JP case, Lion~

Did you know that the name "Leon" bascly means "Lion"?
Leon = Leo the Lion


My Tales love is Sheena.

Hell yeah I knew!

Sheena too! :swoon:

Man, I love every Tales character!!

While only average for CQC when compared to everyone else, the summons are pure awesome; this one time I had Sheena and stared a combo with my little brother as Lloyd hitting right after my 4 hits then I got a summon, (still have no idea how she gets into the mode) call forth the fire guy and before his attack ends my brother starts a super combo thingy and Genis & Raine have the starfall thingy so we managed to kill what ever boss we were fighting in under 1:30.

:swoon:

Overlimit mode is attained by hits! She can only summon when she is in her overlimit mode ;o
Also, during the Unison attacks

If you enter Overlimit mode by hitting and getting hit then how come on several occasions she just achives it when she was just standing there?

I find it Alanis ironic that most people after seeing her artwork think I like Sheena just because of her voluptuous tits and chastise me for it when the only other options are a 14 y/o blonde girl who looks and sounds 8, and an adult woman in a little girl's body.

LMAO!! Raine is <3 too. That's funny though.

Also, you have to command her to start summoning! Use your techs!

Thing about Raine is my brother took to Genis pretty quickly, so Raine was kinda like girl-me in the game until Zelos' infatuation with Sheena became evident.
I know how to use techs, I had her Explosion, Health Steal, Defence Lower, & Fumble cards on her B moves and 2 of her summons on C stick up & down. Her crystals gave her
2X speed, +1 hit, and some other thing. I had her wear her formal dress whenever the foes weren't so murderous.

I like Abyss the most, and i feel Abyss >>Symphonia in terms of characters, the Symphonia characters are quite Cliche, Abyss breaks a quite a few cliches

Such as the female lead not being a fighter, in Abyss, Tear was the one with actual combat experience and Luke was the pampered princess, that being said Symphonia was awesome too

Everything that was said here, pretty much. Abyss is my favorite Tales game, with Symphonia being my second favorite, and Vesperia my third. Still have yet to play any of the others besides ToS2, which was good at best.

Tales of eternia, I really love meredy and his language

Tales of Symphonia

I loved Tales of Rebirth for its more mature story (and less cliched characters compared to the likes of Symphonia).

Tales of Symphonia was fun with 4 people... Abyssion was kinda easy with our team. I was the healer, my friend was Lloyd, my other friend was Kratos, and a girl who can kick any of our butts in button mashing was on Genis.

To get a glimpse on how fast she is... I forgot which Mario Party it is, but the one with the hammer hitting the button to do the Thwomps (or the wall thingies), she got somewhere in the 200s. >.<

Tales of Symphonia was fun with 4 people... Abyssion was kinda easy with our team. I was the healer, my friend was Lloyd, my other friend was Kratos, and a girl who can kick any of our butts in button mashing was on Genis.

To get a glimpse on how fast she is... I forgot which Mario Party it is, but the one with the hammer hitting the button to do the Thwomps (or the wall thingies), she got somewhere in the 200s. >.<

Props to her. I'm treable at thumb button mashing, whenever I have to do it I usaully just put the controller on my lap and wail on it with my pointer.

I only played Tales of Vesperia and it's one of the best games I've ever played. I will try Tales of Symphonia soon and Tales of Graces after that.

Props to her. I'm treable at thumb button mashing, whenever I have to do it I usaully just put the controller on my lap and wail on it with my pointer.

I taught her the way to do it, since it was a GC controller (with the A button really big). Hold the controller with both of your feet (from the side) then using both index fingers of both hands button mash like crazy.

I've played Phantasia, and it was fun. I may try Tales of Symphonia or Tales of Graces later, whichever my sister decides to try first.

I think my favorite will always be Symphonia. I had played Destiny II (Eternia) before it but Symphonia was the first to really bring me in to it with it's story and gameplay. I think I played through it 3 or 4 times to try to unlock everything.

Favorite Tales game will always be Phantasia. I think it being the first Tales game may be why. First time playing it through Emulation (wasn't released here yet) I was fascinated by the fact that there was an opening song and such. After that I was hooked. Too bad the GBA version wasn't as impressive.

the remake of tales of destiny 1 on the ps2

Dragon Tales of course.
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Dragon Tales of course.
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lolololololol on the floor. Funny shnit. Good puns are far and even farther in between.

Tales of Destiny two. They started alot of things in this one that really stuck threw out most of the series. Any one seen the ultimate chief lately.

I only played Tales of Vesperia and it's one of the best games I've ever played. I will try Tales of Symphonia soon and Tales of Graces after that.

Vesperia is fucking fantastic! So far, Abyss is a close second.. Need to play Symphonia but I feel like the combat will be lacking without free running.

Tales of Phantasia on GBA but I'm looking to buy Tales of Abyss, Destiny and Eternia

I've played Phantasia (the three versions), Destiny & Eternia, Never finished either of them.
But I Phantasia for the PSX is the one that I liked the most.

Tales of the Abyss. I've beaten it at least 3 times - great game.

Kayfabe - I think Symphonia has free running (gotta learn the skill though). I have to find out.

Kayfabe - I think Symphonia has free running (gotta learn the skill though). I have to find out.

No, it doesn't. Free running was introduced with Abyss.

My favorite one way Tale of Symphonia for sure. Awesome story, graphics, and battle system.