Tales of Arise
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Vorph
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I didn't even bother to preorder it until today because of how shitty that demo was. ACG's review-in-progress sold me on it though. One thing I found amusing when I went to place my order is Gamestop is doing a 9PM (Thurs) pick-up which was intended to be for the latest wokeball cash grab edition but the dude at the store told me they ended up with far more preorders of Tales instead.
Vorph
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Xbox was easy choice for me. Smart Delivery makes it simple if I want to play it on my X1X when not at home, and Bandai Namco insists on shitting up every PC release with Denuvo. (Edit: NM, it seems Bandai came to their senses a while ago.)
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Derkon
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I think it was something on his end. Other reviews haven't had the issue and it lists full controller support on the Steam page.
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Intrinsic
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I know Steam controller reporting is wonky and most stuff will “support” a Dual Shock or Xbox one way or another, but I was going off this link before I bought today:
PC Version Details: No Denuvo, 144 FPS, Controller Support :: Tales of Arise General Discussions
- Just like Scarlet Nexus (and every other Bandai Namco game for the past ~2 years), Tales of Arise does not feature Denuvo DRM or anti-cheat - Data Usage/Data Collection agreement can be declined ("consent is optional, and you may play the game without loss of features") - Framerate Limit is...
Was going to mention earlier when Vorph mentioned Denuvo.
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AladainAF
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I'm sure this isn't correct, but if it is they will be crucified for that and be forced to support other controllers very quickly. That'll piss me off for sure. I only play with PS4 controller..
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No game would have "Steam controller" support only, the Steam controller isn't even in production anymore. Plus Steam itself lets you emulate controllers however you want. The store page mentions full controller support, and the link above mentions they even have the proper controller prompts(so ABXY for Xbox and X/O/square/triangle for PS which usually have to be patched in instead).
AladainAF
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Same.
That video above is very weird. The guy talking about the amazing music yet not liking past tales games all that much.
Motoi Sakuraba has been a long-stay in tales games music, and his music is always pretty fucking incredible.
Tales of Zesteria forever on music for me, though it's ALL fucking great. Huge Motoi fanboy.
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Thanks for the detailed responses. Just wanted to make sure, because I like being able to lean back and use my controller when playing these type of games. I hadn't looked too much into the game, just enough to think I might enjoy it. Love the cell shaded style, but prefer well done turn based to this jrpg action combat craze. And I do agree with that reviewer about your companions constantly shouting during combat. Noticed that in a gameplay video and it seemed a bit annoying.
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I know Steam controller reporting is wonky and most stuff will “support” a Dual Shock or Xbox one way or another, but I was going off this link before I bought today:
PC Version Details: No Denuvo, 144 FPS, Controller Support :: Tales of Arise General Discussions
- Just like Scarlet Nexus (and every other Bandai Namco game for the past ~2 years), Tales of Arise does not feature Denuvo DRM or anti-cheat - Data Usage/Data Collection agreement can be declined ("consent is optional, and you may play the game without loss of features") - Framerate Limit is...steamcommunity.com
Was going to mention earlier when Vorph mentioned Denuvo.
That's awesome. Gonna play it on PC with PS5 controller.
Vorph
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Ah weird, I could have sworn Enhanced Steam had a Denuvo warning on Tales of Arise when I went to the page to see if there was going to be a PC demo. I barely use my PC anymore though so it wasn't really in the running to begin with anyway.
And yeah, I highly doubt the controller thing is a universal problem; more likely something screwy in his Steam config.
Rajaah
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Yeah, I grabbed Berseria for $10.
The anime tropes jumped off the page with this demo. Hypercompetent and stoic female belittling her feckless yet jovial male partner? Check
That trope is on the same tier of annoyance as "male protagonist who has no idea that women like him and has never had a boner". The worst of them all though is "female character who flies off the handle randomly and punches a nearby male character"
But at least these games don't make their female characters into portly masculine brawlers with short hair and baggy clothes like American developers do
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Windows has native support for the PS5 controller? I hadn't even thought of connecting mine since you had to use some other software to get the ps4 controller to work and even then it wasn't as good as xbox.
AladainAF
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You do not need to use any software whatsoever for the PS4 controller to work. I sure didn't. Some people use ds4windows but I don't. It's just plug and go for me.
I also have a bluetooth dongle and play wirelessly without issue. Vibration, etc all works.
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Yeah PS4 works fine now, need a dongle for bluetooth though can't just work it directly I believe, or obviously can just plug it in. Some indie/older games might not recognize it properly however, but if you launch Steam first, you can use the Steam gamepad support to basically make it work with anything. That shit's like the old weird ass solutions that made Windows think it was a xbox gamepad, it'll make it work on any type of games as a generic gamepad if you need to, and you can reconfigure all the buttons or add macros or rapid fire or whatever in there too it's great. PS5 has even better support I think.
I've only used DS3/4/5 pads since I've never owned a Xbox, and while it was kinda shit on XP/7, with Win10 and Steam gamepad support changes it hasn't been a concern in like 5+years. Only issue is as I mentionned a lot of games, they use Xbox prompts by default and don't have a toggle or a detection for playstation prompts instead, so you often need a 3rd party patch thing, and some games it can't be done, but games have been getting a bit better about it(especially since it doesn't cost them fucking anything to add usually). Even xbox pprompts though it's not that bad once you get used to it, but took me way too many years to get used to the buttons being different than the Nintendo ones(largely because I don't play games THAT often with xbox prompts and only for short stints, so it took a while to overwrite years of my childhood playing NES/SNES and then later DS/3DS).
I've only used DS3/4/5 pads since I've never owned a Xbox, and while it was kinda shit on XP/7, with Win10 and Steam gamepad support changes it hasn't been a concern in like 5+years. Only issue is as I mentionned a lot of games, they use Xbox prompts by default and don't have a toggle or a detection for playstation prompts instead, so you often need a 3rd party patch thing, and some games it can't be done, but games have been getting a bit better about it(especially since it doesn't cost them fucking anything to add usually). Even xbox pprompts though it's not that bad once you get used to it, but took me way too many years to get used to the buttons being different than the Nintendo ones(largely because I don't play games THAT often with xbox prompts and only for short stints, so it took a while to overwrite years of my childhood playing NES/SNES and then later DS/3DS).
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Can I just interject for one second and mention that it is 2021 and the desktop Steam application is fucking worthless. The Windows 10 app store may actually be better. Maybe not but it is neck and neck. Don't even start on the mobile app. At least it works most of the time. I'm afraid any updates would make it even worse.
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