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Tales of the Abyss [3DS] |OT| "The wait better be worth it!" - PALland
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Not really complaining, just making an observation. It's a very good port all considered.
Hopefully it's successful enough for Namco to continue developing Tales series on the 3DS, since the 3D is a treat.
mocolostrocolos
Member
Game is very smooth. I really like it. I had a 25 euros discount coupon on game and got the only copy that my nearby store got.
Pretty awesome.
Pretty awesome.
slaughterking
Member
Yeah, you also hear a crackling sound from the 3DS speakers here and there. Not a big fan of that.
slaughterking
Member
Haha, even Amazon.de is already sold out and only 3rd party sellers offer it for 50 bucks. Has to be one of the lowest print runs ever.
Stop it you all. You are scaring me! I meant to wait for a (brief) price drop. If you continue, you'll make me buy the game right away, despite having no time to play it atm.
It's all your fault!
slaughterking
Member
Play.com seems to have it in stock, although it's probabaly one of the more expensive places to buy it. TheHut has "usually dispatched within a month" and BlahDVD doesn't seem to have even gotten it in yet ("new release - awaiting stock from supplier"). Yeah, seems like Bamco really botched this release. Glad I pre-ordered it.
The game is still available in amazon.co.uk -> http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005EVV02C/
So glad my copy will be here next week :|
So glad my copy will be here next week :|
slaughterking
Member
Oh wow, now the game is under investigation on Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B005JHLQ4I/
This release couldn't be any more fucked up.
This release couldn't be any more fucked up.
Ouch. Guess it's because it's English only?Oh wow, now the game is under investigation on Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B005JHLQ4I/
This release couldn't be any more fucked up.
I'll say this yet again, it's the retailers decision on how many they order and how they sell them (ie GAME not having them in store at all).
Namco's only fault is not marketing them that great in general (not just in europe) but distribution wise, it's the retailer decision as to how many they buy.
storafötter
Member
Oh wow, now the game is under investigation on Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B005JHLQ4I/
This release couldn't be any more fucked up.
What does that even mean when a game is under investigation?
kay T_T
storafötter;32993827 said:
They are investigating where they can find more copies!
slaughterking
Member
Yeah, that would be my guess, too.
storafötter
Member
I had a feeling it could mean that, well at least it is sought after?
Thanks for the clarification. I hope it doesn't put off German buyers even if it is lazy to not localize into more languages.
The sad thing is that only the US version is registered on one of the biggest online stores here in Norway. Another place says that it has 0 copies in the warehouse.
storafötter;32993827 said:
The article page on amazon.de says that the game is in english and german. But in fact, the game isn't localized. Only the manual and the cover should be in german.
Amazon says that some customers filed complaints because of that. That's why they investigate - which shouldn't take too long: Namco themselves said on their homepage that the game won't be translated into german many weeks ago.
Maybe amazon.de has contacted their supplier now, because they suspect they got a wrong shipment. Well, they should just take a look at the USK logo to make sure that this really is the german retail version.
Android18a
Member
Should I buy a copy of this to keep sealed and sell in 10 years?
When it comes to super-niche games like this, it obviously makes sense for publishers to offer up pre-order incentives or collector's editions so that retailers have some clue about the size of the audience.
Obviously Namco don't really care.
Oh you Germans and your localization wishes
intheinbetween
Member
well I got the game last friday at a GS store here in Spain. let me first say I got Dark Souls from the same GS store on its launch day, well here's the thing, while there wasn't any problem when I bought Dark Souls (tgey received plenty of units for every platform) this time they only received 3 copies of TotA. before I went to that GS store I had previously tried to get the game from three other retailers (a very big and well known onehere in Spain, FNAC and Game) but none of them had it, so in the end I was lucky finding a copy (even more, the only still sealed copy they had).
there's something else that makes me more mad at Scamco,and it is because the game seems to have just one PAL version. the spanish cover is the same as the UK and french ones, they have released the same package across all Europe, even the instruction manual comes mainly in emglish and french, with only 4-5 pages as a quick guide for other european languages.if I knew this before I would
have bought it from Amazon.co.uk
so,from my experience, what a bad launch, just when I thought Scamco couldn't do any worse...
there's something else that makes me more mad at Scamco,and it is because the game seems to have just one PAL version. the spanish cover is the same as the UK and french ones, they have released the same package across all Europe, even the instruction manual comes mainly in emglish and french, with only 4-5 pages as a quick guide for other european languages.if I knew this before I would
have bought it from Amazon.co.uk
so,from my experience, what a bad launch, just when I thought Scamco couldn't do any worse...
I find it hard to believe they won't restock when there's clearly some demand for it. However, this is bamco we're talking about, so who knows.
Clearly they didn't think it would sell well enough to warrant the further printing costs/translations. Which is funny really, they mentioned they thought the game would sell 250k. Fat chance at this rate.
airmangataosenai
Member
Very happy our friends on the other side of the Atlantic can finally play this fantastic game, enjoy it!
I was waiting for a slight drop below 40 too... and now it jumped up to 50+ -_-
I'm not sure on how to proceed from here on... - the only sure thing: I wont pay more than 40.
GameStop.ie still have it in stock for 30. I don't know how much shipping to mainland Europe is though.
MiloFoxburr
Member
They only ship to Ireland and the UK.
Thank you for posting this, much better than paying £35 from Amazon. Almost as cheap as my Bee.com order so I decided to go for it.
Namco-Bandai and raising the awareness of a Tales game? You're funny
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
No. It's just Namco being unable to convince retailers to stock the game. Same thing happened to Pacman & Galaga Dimensions (the only time it ever came to stores was through the pre-owned bargain bin)
Nah. They probably made most of their file size savings from trimming down the size of the FMV (from 512 x 480 down to 400 X 240) and using a more modern video codec. They might've had to reduce the sound quality of a few voice samples though I guess (which is probably why you're only hearing a bit of crackling with a few voice samples, rather than all of them)
Still waiting for my copy to arrive... grr...
RpgN
Junior Member
That sounds reasonable, only...isn't it a bit odd that many stores do have it on sale and pre-orders yet they haven't received anything yet? The stores that don't want to have it in stock, don't add it to the database, isn't that how it goes?
For instance, Bart Smit, the biggest Dutch retailer when it comes to games (and toys in general), doesn't sell it. You won't find it on their site and employee's don't know the game even exists. Your explanation sounds fitting to this example.
Sadist said:Namco-Bandai and raising the awareness of a Tales game? You're funny
Well...I didn't necessarily mean big sales but pushing the small base they have, to buy the game early and perhaps create a slightly bigger demand?
It's not much of an effort on Scamco's part, more of a lazy attempt to get more sales in a quick way.
-Stranger-
Junior Member
To any fellow aussies, does JB have this game?
I haven't had a chance to go to see.
I haven't had a chance to go to see.
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
You're right, it is odd. Namco probably didn't ship enough copies (maybe they decided to reduce shipment numbers after the likes of Game rejected them?)
slaughterking
Member
The game hasn't even entered the 3DS Top 10 in the UK. Nobody should be surprised, but yeah...
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Well it isn't being sold in retail stores. Of course it wouldn't appear in the 3DS top 10, nobody even knows it exists outside of us forum dwellers!
CrankyKong
Member
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
amazon.uk upped the price, they must be selling better than they thought. So glad I had it preordered at 30.24£
Yep. I can confirm that despite their laziness to make a product page for it on their website pre launch (they have one now) they did have copies on the shelf by at least day 2. The amount of stock seems pretty decent too.
Anyway, more impressions:
- I hate the Cheagles. In a perfect world Mieu would have burnt down his own nesting ground with himself and all the other Cheagles inside.
- I find it rather ironic that the skits didn't make the cut for the English dub and yet they're the only dialogue segments that cant be sped up with button presses. It's kinda eerie watching the portraits go through their full animation sequences in near (and sometime absolute) silence.
- Looks like Namco's budget for this port was smaller then I originally thought. The UI is hideously unoptimised for the small screen. Fonts are all over the place.
- Battles are still fun.
Voiced skits are a core feature of the series in Japan, but Vesperia and ToS-R were only the first ones where Namco bothered to voice skits for Western releases as well.