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I actually wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Tales of Symphonia. o.O; Er, I mean, I wouldn't know of the series, that is. I first saw Legendia on the shelves, and I'm one of those late gamers, at least when it came to RPGs. I was playing FPS games and platformers...I couldn't tell you what the hell an RPG WAS five years ago. XD

I saw Legendia two years ago, and I asked my friend about it, and she hates the entire series (except Tales of Rebirth and Tales of Destiny II - the true sequel, not the renamed Eternia). She told me negative things, I forgot about it, but it kept nagging at me because I saw Tales of Phantasia sitting on the shelves too...

Later, I saw a clip of Symphonia, and the friend that doesn't like the series bought it for me. XD While I liked the game, I was also playing Magna Carta: Tears of Blood mostly, and playing ToS on the side. For anyone that is familiar with the fans of that game...most people hate that game, and most fans are actually just fans of the artist. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? sad Too bad...the game has an excellent story that only looks predictable for the first fifty hours in. XD Shitty load times, glitchy a bit, and yeah, the gameplay could be improved, but way more fun than Symphonia. razz

However, ToS got me interested, and I picked up ToP. Still playing it on GBA - it takes me FOREVER to play a portable game. My eyes get weird, and I'm going blind in my right eye so it's hard to play for more than an hour at a time. Great for playing during lunch at work though. >>; Uuuh, anyway, I bought ToA shortly after it came out, and that's what REALLY got me into the series. I didn't like it at first, because I didn't like Luke at first, but I absolutely LOVE that game now. It's my favorite one, I think. Let me finish ToP first, then I'll get back to you. o.O; I have Legendia, which sadly, I don't like too much so far, but I'm not giving up on it.

I also bought Tales of the World, but I don't see that as a full Tales game. I want Rebirth badly...and all the other games, I admit it.

2D, 3D...couldn't matter to me. I'm weird; I started playing RPGs when the graphics were getting good, but I love older games. Take for instance that I'm one of the only people who likes the first game in the Shadow Hearts series and I like Koudelka (it's a prequel to SH) but the newer games were "meh" for me...and I played the second one before any of them. o.O;

Uuuh, I didn't even realize until a few months after I finished ToS that there was such a problem...then I visited the forums here and saw the fanfiction and fanart...and I'm sick of it, too. I mean, one thread is fine, but it seems ridiculous.

There are other games in the Tales of series, and most are better or I don't know enough about them to judge. ;P I definitely don't see why people would get upset about a Tales of fan not swearing that ToS is the greatest thing ever...I'm glad I never run into one of those kinds of fans. That would piss me off. I'm a fan of the series.

I was happy I found this guild, because I can talk about MORE than ToS. Do a guild search. You'll find PLENTY of ToS guilds. :-/

I'm not sure a movement against ToS is really necessary, but then...maybe it is. Depends on how extreme you're talking. o.O; I mean, the people that make the repeat threads are all pretty dumb anyway, when they can easily find a ToS thread that's been around longer...