Tales of Vesperia Beta Status Confirmed (site nsfw)

When it was first released, the Xbox 360 version of Tales of Vesperia attracted comments such as "Aren't these spaces a bit strange? Shouldn't there be more characters?" and even "I feel the loli content seems a bit lacking," and it seems the above image confirms these suspicions fully.

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[Gabe EatsWell]

Beta state only on flamebox 360. It only burns everything..

[Gabe EatsWell]

Thank God I'm a PS3 owner. I get to enjoy the FULL game. :D :D :D

[Cold 2000]

Its a pity 20 million people cant play ToV on PS3 since they dont speak japanese.

Oh well lucky Im a 360 owner. So I dont have to brag about the japanese version of ToV though I dont speak japanese and that will probably never see the light of day in the West.

Maybe if ur lucky enough it will come out Euro and State side by 2010 after FF13 lol.

[Obama]

Don't cry when its announced for NA. There's a reason that the English VA were called back to do some work on TOV you know?

[Unicron]

The US voice cast has been recalled, FYI.

[TheBlackSmoke]

The jap version has full english fyi.

EDIT: unicron beat me to it lol

[Hentai]

sankakucomplex is teh bomb!

[NaiNaiNai]

I paid 60$ for a Beta,

haha this gives me good reason to sue the company, cause thats illegal.
XD

[TheBlackSmoke]

@ nai

You talking about TOV or ODST?

[Cold 2000]

Thats what I said. Have fun with it in 2010 after FF 13...one year and a half after 360 owners.

Cant wait to move forward with new fresh JRPGS while u wait for ToV.

Oh ! Better start saving cash too because Star Ocean 4 might come out in the US in...2011 LMAO.

[Unicron]

I find that argument silly.

I just saw Gran Torino last night. It's no less of a great move than it was when it released just because I saw it later.

TOV is coming out with MORE content. I can't see how that's a bad thing. I also find it amusing that you propose that gamers are sitting and waiting for JUST TOV with nothing else available to play in the meantime.

Also, what does FFXIII have to do with anything?

The fact is, MS's tactics have backfired in a sense, and the ones who are suffering are the FANS. And that sucks.

[Infernostew]

@cold 2000
Someone's a bitter little fanboy. You're really banking on ToV not being released in the US so that everyone can't enjoy the game, huh? For the record, SO4 is being released worldwide in Feb 2010, you strike out on that one. Anyway, It really is unfair that 360 owners won't be able to get this content without rebuying it on ps3. I attribute the 'beta' status more to disc size/time restraints rather than than making the characters exclusive for the ps3 from the beginning.

[TheBlackSmoke]

@ cold 2000

Dunno if you checked but PS3 has Demon souls, white knight chronicles, Persona 5 (i can dream),final fantasy 13, TOV, and star ocean 4 between now and over the course of 2010.....meanwhile over on the 360 side.....crickets and tumbleweed.

Looks like you will be the one waiting for something to play, maybe square enix will throw another beta at you so make sure to report all the bugs you find so i have a better version kay?

[Cold 2000]

Oh come on...nobody is suffering lol.

In case u havnt realised the ONLY ones making a big fuss about this is the 500 or so japs who signed the petition and Sony fanboys.

Step back a little and you'll see that nobody really cares. 360 gamers got to play this one year ago... I havent heard anyone complain except for, once again, Sony fanboys .You can have it now, more than a year after the 360 version, if u wanna, no big fuss.

@the others above: have fun with our leftovers.

[Unicron]

No one eh? How about fans of the Tales series? You people on this site are so hellbent on focusing everything about MS, Sony, and Nintendo that you forgot people out there are fans of GAMES. I think Tales fans, and soon Ninja Gaiden fans have every right to be pissed.

"@the others above: have fun with our leftovers."

In turn, have fun beta testing incomplete products and using your money to fund better versions of 360 exclusives on the PS3. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is quite awesome now that they fixed the 360's shortcomings.

[TheBlackSmoke]

Yea the 10 360 owners who bought the beta a year ago must feel really cool right about now. Ps3 tov has already surpassed the sales of the 360 version in a week, guess MS need to just accept their demographic only likes games with masterchief in it.

[Omega Archetype]

Well after owning both of those games on 360 (Star Ocean and TOV), I'm not mad. Of course I have the option of picking up them both on PS3 as well (which I may do with Tales since I got rid of my 360 copy,) because I refuse to be a blind consumer.

Sure I won't lie, I prefer my PS3, but even still, I'm not going to deny the 360 and Wii either. Ultimately it's about the games and without owning all three systems (or 4 if you include the PC,) you get left out and I refuse to do that. I owned all three systems last gen and now own all three of the current-gen systems. That's the only way to go IMO.

[TheReaper42]

There there.. everything will be all better.

[STK026]

look, I have the 360 version of ToV and I plan on getting the PS3 version of it aswell.

However, all these "beta status confirmed" articles kinda make me mad, not because I feel my game was incomplete or anything like that, considering that even without the improvements the PS3 is getting the 360 was great and felt complete to me.

They anger me because all of a sudden, something that has been done in the past numerous times (selling a game, adding stuff in a subsequent port) has suddenly become a way to attack a game, it's original console and the fans who bought it. When the Twin Snakes has been released, I don't remember people calling MGS a beta, when Kojima re-releases a game with additionnal content (substance, subsitence), I don't see people calling the original game a beta, was UT3 on PS3 a beta version of UT3 on X360? Or what about those who bought the Godfather on the previous generation consoles, did they pay for a beta of the Don's edition?

And what about Game of the Year editions, do they make the original game look like a beta aswell? I mean, games like GoW2, LBP and Fallout3 will all have a GOTY edition packed with content that wasn't in the original game, and people who bought the game at laucnh have technically payed for the development cost of all the add-ons found in the GOTY edition (even more for those who also bought the DLC).

TL:DR PS3 fanboys should stop taunting X360 fanboys with the "ToV on X360 beta status confirmed" and 360 fanboys should stop trying to deny the fact that the PS3 version will be better.

[Rob0g0rilla]

I only paid $30 for both of them(luckily for me it wasn't full price). That picture pretty much confirms the 360 version was incomplete and rushed. There really is no bashing this, it's the truth. It was hinted at that a character was missing in the 360 version when ToV first came out. But honestly, if it's a good game and it's loaded with this much content, I don't see the problem with buying it again. It's obvious you didn't enjoy this game as much and feel the need to pretend no else cares about this game anymore(which isn't true). Don't get mad at Sony, get mad at Microsoft for paying for exclusivity.

[Immortal Kaim]

These 'Beta status' articles and the people agreeing with them are downright pretentious. So what if the game comes out on the PS3 with more content, it doesn't diminish the fact that TOV on 360 was a full game in its own right.

I think it's fantastic that Sony makes it a prerequisite that the game coming later must have extra content, to compensate for the time difference between releases, I just think it's arrogant to claim that TOV on 360 is somehow not complete.

[cyberwaffles]

shut up Cold, you're stupid. there's been plenty of games that i ended up playing years after their release and they're still awesome. i finally played MGS1 about 2 years ago and the game came out in 98 and i still found the game amazing.

TOV is going to be a game that will feature more content than the 360 version, has full english voice over, and will come around eventually. you act like because the 360 version came out first it's already superior but look at games like ninja gaiden sigma. i guess that mantra of good things happen to those who wait is true.

[Snoogins]

It seems quite a few people are upset that Tales of Vesperia has made the jump to the PS3, so much they consistently try and lessen the impact in their own pitiful, delusional fanboy minds. I cannot wait to buy this game when it hits North America (anyone who says differently is grasping at straws) as I am a fan of RPGs. Considering the new content, it will definitely be worth the wait.

[god_o_war]

@ cold2000

i dont think its called left overs if you get more than the original dish...

[mastiffchild]

Uni, you're so right. All of this just serves no set of gamers any favours.Cold can labour under the illusion that getting something first no matter how lacking in content, tech issue ridden or, in one case, broken a game is is a good thing but I suspect he even realises he's very wrong.

I'm angry right now over NGS2. Well actually over the fact that I bought the 360 game as I'm as impatient as the next man and was under the impression that the "Sigma trick" wouldn't work for Sony/Tecmo this time. I liked the game but it was spoiled by one of the worst, sticky cameras in the history of games. So when it finally got announced for PS3 with several extras I was interested and when it appeared they'd even fixed my two problems with the game(the camera and the gore-I don't dislike blood and guts but in NG2 it was so OTT it made scenes hard to see properly)I was sold. But now I'm not so sure. Why should I reward Tecmo with yet more of my money when , seeing as they CAN fix the damn camera they could patch it in for the game I've already paid them for?

Sadly and scandalously they won't do it-which I think is shocking and might mean I can't bring myself to pay for another NG at this point even if I would like to play the game without the broken camera and see the extras. TEcmo wins, MS wins, Sony wins-gamers lose whether they had to wait for the full game or got fleeced paying for a glorified QA test0and even more so when there's a tech issue like the camera here or one of several in SO4. I don't see any gamers winning here and the blame lies with the devs who're being very greedy, imo, MS just tried to break Japan but the devs just took the cheques to aid development and as soon as they could made the PS versions and don't go back and patch the existing 360 games which , due to being rushed out tend to have some problems.

Whatever, the Japanese timed exclusives have helped no gamers at all and it's mainly the devs who're happy while Sony get their extras and MS got their exclusivity what did we get? The choice of half a game/a semi broken game now for full price OR the full game/game with pointless add ons/year old port for full price at some point in the future? I'm sure in a normal woprld neither option seems that good and to pretend that EITER is brilliant is to miss the point and run the risk of being fanboyish as, for me, there's nothing good in this situation for either PS3 or 360 gamers and as an owner of both I'm liable to fall for one or the other every time this happens(played the buggy SO4 360 but am waiting years for the full western Tales and will possibly buy both NG2 and NGS2!).

Can't we stop trying to score points and admit that we're all getting a sh1tty end of the same stick while the devs/MS/Sony all got something out of this mess?

[Nitrowolf2]

lol Hentai site again
thxs for beta testing 360

[Kamikaze135]

Is this guy serious? It's funny though, lol. I just hope nobody takes it seriously =X

[Static-X]

Confirm what we already know...

[Sunny_D]

Once again, thank you Microsoft for funding game development. :)

[Sunny_D]

Thank you, Microsoft!

[Peter North]

Is it just me or is the Flopbox an outstanding Beta machine.

[FiftyFourPointTwo]

Its an outstanding heater too you know. ;D

[Obama]

Thank you for beta-testing again bots. Now go test out ODST. O wait it flopped nm. ;)

[LordMarius]

Click if you like Hentai, lol

[v1c1ous]

*sigh*

this is sad.

the webmaster of sankaku complex noticed all the traffic his website is now getting from n4g and is now making every other article a bash-360-thon for hits.

so sad :/

EDIT: protip, he's done about 3 articles on the same sh*t about ToV a day for almost a month

[Redempteur]

lol you think that site with the amount of things inside need trafic from n4g ?

Did you browse the site before saying this ?
or are you just pissed off that this is all true

[v1c1ous]

i been going to it for months. have it as one of my bookmarks. (won't state my reasons, but should be obvious why if you go to it)

artefact, the poster of the articles, was always known for his anti-360 stance, but it wasn't a cpl days ago that he really upped the ante after his "360 dead in japan" article really gave him a boost in BS.

[baph777]

One of the best posters at vgchartz about the truely good games coming to Wii said Sankaku is a reputable site.

[Redempteur]

"lol you think that site with the amount of things inside need trafic from n4g ? "

and i'll answer ...

NO . i guess you should complain at every other blog that get posted on n4g instead ...

[v1c1ous]

cause while i always tolerated artefacts' stance, his recent catering to the console war bullcrap is annoying.

i want him to stick to japanese idols, boobs and butts. not this ps3/360 war crap. i get enough of that in every other website i go to.

[JeepGamer]

Gaming websites have been bashing the 360 for page hits for awhile now, do you suppose the reverse will work?

[beardpapa]

Actually, SanCon was a pretty dead site despite how much of those "articles" he had. I think it wasn't until his site appeared as a link in Danny Choo that it started getting hits. I think SanCon didn't get submitted to N4G until recently as a "source" and that's when it started getting a bigger influx of visitors. I believe it's kinda obvious that SanCon's been getting more visits per day since that first N4G submission.

[baph777]

It will be announced that Tales of Vesperia PS3 will be available in the West exclusively on the PS3 this Christmas, can't wait to see what the 360 fans say then. Their comments will be so funny.

Almost as funny as Microsoft funding development for Star Ocean and Tales of Vesperia on PS3.

They've already called the English voice actors back into the studio to record extra scenes according to vgchartz.

[militant07]

can some body copy/past the article in a comment, i cant acsess the site its blocked its mean its contain illegal stuffs like nude/hentai..etc

and i was going to get the ps3 version after i loved the x360 version but NO i changed my mine even though money is no problem at all, but next time they should respect thier fans, so ill ditch them for it.

EDIT @below : i think i said I own a "PS3"

[baph777]

that you bought the wrong console.

[No FanS Land]

Baph777

No but it is that the game was touted as exclusive and there was no possibility for a PS3 version, at that time for the fans while Scamco KNEW they would develop a PS3 version months later.

[baph777]

They would develop a PS3 version a few months later. Why? Because you can't make an exclusive Japanese game on the 360 and expect it to earn back its investment. I mean are you going to spend the money to make a jrpg that won't sell more than 125,000 copies in Japan?

Now, if westerners had shown their loyalty to MS and rushed out and bought more than 125,000 copies of the game on the 360 in Europe and America maybe the game would have remained a 360 exclusive.

But it sold so poorly that Namco had to discontinue it in America.

The blame really needs to be put on Microsoft's Western fans for not purchasing it when it was released in the West and on Microsoft to think they could buy their way into the hearts of Japanese gamers.

[0din]

Apart from the Hentai sh!t, everything else is good especially the JAPANESE GIRLSSSS (can't stop drooling):p

[devilhunterx]

This site ran 3 articles of "TOV XB2 is a beta". WE GET IT ALREADY.

[NoxiousD]

I don't know how to feel. The PS3 was a very expensive console and a lot of sony fans could not afford the console, this was the case with many of my friends who now own one due to the price drop. I feel microsoft knew this was happening and rushed namco bandai, to rush out the game without the dlc being released. They wanted this game to boost 360 sales.. Now that the game is being released on ps3, fans are calling foul. But everyone knew that the game was going to go multi platform its not that much of a shock seeing that the game was leaked for ps3 on various magazine its not that uncommon for this to happen.

[chisox100]

Ninja Gaiden 2, Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean IV.....I guess mass Effect 2 will be a beta test on Xbox as well

[AK46]

mabye the dvd 9 didn't enough space for the game and they had cut some content out.

[TheDesperado]

This is usually the case with 360 "exclusives."
The 360 players want everything NOWNOWNOW and they get to beta test for the PS3 players which get to play the 360 "exclusives" later, and are playing proper, finished retail products while the 360 people are beta testing, so it's winwinwin for PS3 peeps.

It's a slap in the face to Microsoft, who hauls bags of money at these developers just to be pissed all over by them when they give PS3 owners the superior version.

Star Ocean 4, Bioshock, Oblivion, Tales of Vesperia, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 etc the list goes on and on

[justlikeme]

Clearly the lack of space in dvd9 is why there is lack of content on the 360 version.

[Roper316]

The devs said and delivered what they were contracted to say and supply to the 360. So my question to the 360 only owners is this.

Would you rather have the game released at the same time as the PS3 version and get everything in the game?

Or do you prefer 3/4's of the game a few months earlier then the PS3 version which will end up being the full version?

I own both a 360 & a PS3 and I would rather have them launch at the same time with the same content and I would spread the multiplats evenly over both consoles. But I see no reason to buy a game 6-12 months earlier when I know a superior version is coming out at a later time on a different platform.