Cool glad Graces is out, now where's Abyss?

[DWN - (Infinity)]

Should've done Abyss before Graces. I think Bamco as a company ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks for many reasons(rushing games to market before they're ready, DLC overload, DLC that isn't worth the money, too many anime arena fighters, etc.) but this is currently the one on the brain.

why the ♥♥♥♥ wouldn't you do Abyss first? Graces was on Wii and PS3. Pretty recent. Abyss was on the 3DS and no one cared because it was the 3DS and people wanted it on pc or a hd console.

[Jay RPG]

- Because this one was easier to do?
- This one was quicker to do so they could release it in January to kick off the 30th Anniversary year and the Remaster Project (they've already confirmed more Tales remasters are coming)?
- They had the source code for this one and may not have the source code for Abyss (or have the inferior 3DS assets only meaning that Abyss is a much larger undertaking than Graces F)?
- Abyss is older and is a bigger undertaking, requiring a larger team with more Tales devs rather than being outsourced to TOSE like Graces f was?

Just a few of the possibilities, might be none of them, might be a combination of them.

[chris100185]

Yea, Difficulty is going to be a big driver for the order that these come out in. Also sales potential which has an inverse relationship with the Difficulty. That is, the 2D games will likely require the most work while having the lowest sales potential. I would feel fairly comfortable betting that Xillia 1 will be next followed by Xillia 2, and then Abyss or Hearts R

[Minneyar]

Even if they do still have the source code for Abyss, porting code that was designed for more modern architectures is generally easier than code that was written for older systems. If being older makes a remaster more relevant, there are plenty of other games that should come before Abyss. Besides, Graces f is a better game, so why not do it first?

[Make]

Besides porting the code, they also have to localize these games in other languages as well. While Abyss on the 3DS was released in Europe, it wasn't translated to French, Italian, German or Spanish (only came with instructions how to play). Meanwhile Graces was at least translated to German and French.

If you read some Chinese reviews for this remaster, people say the Simplified Chinese localization is not so good.

Might as well mention that both Vesperia and Berseria have language related bugs, which remain unfixed. Vesperia crashes in Team Tournament when playing in Russian and Berseria hangs up in the fishing minigame when playing in Traditional Chinese. So, they have to do a lot of language related quality assurance testing. It remains to be seen if Graces has any language related bugs.

[DWN - (Infinity)]

Originally posted by Minneyar:

Even if they do still have the source code for Abyss, porting code that was designed for more modern architectures is generally easier than code that was written for older systems. If being older makes a remaster more relevant, there are plenty of other games that should come before Abyss. Besides, Graces f is a better game, so why not do it first?

it really isn't that simple imo. the characters and world are worse. The combat is better, though.

[Luna ~]

The one you want is gonna be a long time, Its easier to port over the PS3 jail games and get a real frame rate and resolution than it is with abyss; unless you want another PC Symphonia fiasco