Surprisingly enough, I've beaten Rid in informing about a Tales game!
Ah, thanks Fran from Meristation for the links.
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Rid Hershel
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"Re(1):Some new images of Tales of Symphonia."
, posted Fri 4 Apr 04:49
Hummm... looks better than it did in the first dootage, but still, why not on 2D? T_T
Sensenic
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"Re(2):Some new images of Tales of Symphonia."
, posted Fri 4 Apr 06:02
quote: Hummm... looks better than it did in the first dootage, but still, why not on 2D? T_T
Well, just wait and see. Perhaps it'll have something good... Who knows?
Any info can be translated from there?
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Satoshi_Miwa
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"Re(1):Some new images of Tales of Symphonia."
, posted Fri 4 Apr 10:54
Love the Fujishima character designs, but like Rid I wonder why this couldn't have been 2-D (Would of fit the designs alot better...)
Time Mage
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"Re(2):Some new images of Tales of Symphonia."
, posted Fri 4 Apr 11:17
quote: Love the Fujishima character designs, but like Rid I wonder why this couldn't have been 2-D (Would of fit the designs alot better...)
I think that the Tales of Symphonia desings aren't from Fujishima. They look like the ones of Tales of Eternia. Maybe Rid can clarify this.
And, btw, the character designs look very good.
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Satoshi_Miwa
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"Re(3):Some new images of Tales of Symphonia."
, posted Fri 4 Apr 15:57
quote: I think that the Tales of Symphonia desings aren't from Fujishima. They look like the ones of Tales of Eternia. Maybe Rid can clarify this.
quote:I think that the Tales of Symphonia desings aren't from Fujishima. They look like the ones of Tales of Eternia. Maybe Rid can clarify this.
And, btw, the character designs look very good.
Those don't look too much like Mutsumi Inomata's doing. I don't know, the designs look a little too plain to me. I like Lloyd or whatever they decide the guy in red's name to be, but the other two seem pretty boring. Even though the girl has rings for weapons, which is neat. Hopefully there'll be something more interesting to the characters as more information shows up.
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Rid Hershel
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"Art"
, posted Fri 4 Apr 17:09:
These are NOT Mutsumi Inomata's (Eternia, Destiny) designs, that's for sure.
Fujishima's? Maybe they are, they have some of his distinctive style, but it's hard to tell with such motionless sketches...
Speaking of which, I NEED new éX-Driver ovas...
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Satoshi_Miwa
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"Re(1):Art"
, posted Fri 4 Apr 18:38
quote: These are NOT Mutsumi Inomata's (Eternia, Destiny) designs, that's for sure.
Fujishima's? Maybe they are, they have some of his distinctive style, but it's hard to tell with such motionless sketches...
Speaking of which, I NEED new éX-Driver ovas...
It doesn't help that the magazine is a bit away in the pictures, so we can't really look at the pic. But it does look like his current style from the AMG comics...
Mosquiton
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"faux SD art style"
, posted Sat 5 Apr 10:50
Man, I just don't dig the FFIX/Suikoden 3 style semi-superdeformed characters. It's absurd, and quite dorky. If you're going with a detailed 3D model, why not make a realistically proportioned character?
Not that they have to be realistic in all cases, the cast in Chrono Cross was nice and stylized. But trying to replicate the big-headed 2D sprites that were used out of necessity (to show expression) in the 16-bit days in high-detail 3D seems to me like a bit of a cop out.
FFIX and Suikoden disappointed me though. Sure, Cecil and the gang in FFIV were represented by superdeformed sprites in battle... but they had realistic character portraits. The Suiko III cast looks like they're all suffering from some kind of genetic growth-inhibiting disease!
I'm not saying there's not room for this particular style (seems to work for Evolution, even though the games themselves aren't that great), but I'm tired of seeing it replacing 2D art...
Actually the bottom line is that I don't like these designs too much. I'm feeling long-winded today, sorry.
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Time Mage
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"The scans in hi-res."
, posted Sun 6 Apr 03:05
The more I see the in-game graphics, the less I understand the supposed need for 2D sprites. The 3D models look as detailed as the designs, with facial expresions and all.
, posted Sun 6 Apr 05:20
I'm with Time Mage here, looking carefuly, the characters look beautiful in the pics... Maybe finally the cel-shading system is starting to look more like 2d animation? that's a good sign.
Mosquiton
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"mommy, I'm BIG!"
, posted Sun 6 Apr 18:20
I still think they all look like either gigantic 10 year olds or adults with bizzare growth-inhibiting diseases...
"Some new images of Tales of Symphonia." 
