The Tales RPG series is a popular RPG series in Japan made by Namco with a few games being localized for North America or Europe. Namco wanted an RPG to compete with the likes of Square's Final Fantasy and Enix's Dragon Quest (who are now Square Enix). The developers of Tales of Phantasia left Namco to found tri-Ace who now make the Star Ocean series of games, but the Tales games are still made internally by Namco. RPG is an abbreviation with several different meanings: Rocket propelled grenade (from Russian Ruchnoj Protivotankovy Granatomiot) RPG-7 Soviet Cold War rocket propelled grenade launcher RPG-29 Modern Russian rocket propelled grenade launcher RPG programming language RPG, a band from Richmond, Virginia. ... Namco is a company based in Japan, best known for developing video games. ... Software localization is a process of translating software user interfaces from one language to another. ... Square Co. ... Final Fantasy (Japanese: ファイナルファンタジー Fainaru Fantajii) is a popular series of role-playing video games produced by Square Co. ... Enix was a company that produced Japanese video games and mangas. ... Dragon Quest ( Japanese: ドラゴンクエスト), previously known as Dragon Warrior in North America, is a series of Computer role-playing games created by Enix, now Square Enix. ... SQUARE ENIX (Japanese: スクウェア・エニックス) is a Japanese producer of popular video games and manga. ... Tales of Phantasia (or sometimes Tales of Fantasia) (Japanese: テイルズ オブ ファンタジア) is an Super Famicom game from Namco, released in 1995. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Star Ocean is a franchise of role-playing video games developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix (originally Enix). ...

Battle System

The games in the series have a rather unique battle system compared to other standard RPGs. It has been likened to a fighting game's battles (like Street Fighter) and is called the Linear Motion Battle System, or LMBS for short. Usually the player has direct control over one character (usually the main character) at all times and can move and direct this character in any way the player chooses. By pressing the attack button along with the direction buttons in different directions, the character can perform different kinds of attacks, like slashes and thrusts or ground-to-air and air-to-ground type attacks and the character's weapons usually have different attack values for a slash or a thrust. At any time, the player can bring up a menu which pauses the action and allows them to select an item or an ability to use (and the target), a spell to cast (and the target), change a character's artificial intelligence tactics or escape from the battle among other things. The later games in the series allowed for up to four players to join in a battle (requiring the MultiTap for PlayStation consoles) instead of computer control. There have been a number of enhancements to the Linear Motion Battle system as the series has progressed as well, with Tales of Symphonia having a 3D battle system, but still keeping the linear motion aspect. RPG is an abbreviation with several different meanings: Rocket propelled grenade (from Russian Ruchnoj Protivotankovy Granatomiot) RPG-7 Soviet Cold War rocket propelled grenade launcher RPG-29 Modern Russian rocket propelled grenade launcher RPG programming language RPG, a band from Richmond, Virginia. ... This article is about the video game. ... The Linear Motion Battle System (LMBS) is a fighting paradigm in video games. ... Artificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i. ... The original PlayStation was produced in a light grey colour; the more recent PSOne redesign sports a smaller more rounded case. ... Tales of Symphonia (テイルズオブシンフォニア Teiruzu obu Shinfonia) is a role-playing video game produced by Namco. ...

Game List

The following is a list of the games, their release dates and systems. Games without mention of a North American or European release date are, or were, marketed exclusively in Japan.

Main games

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Spin Offs

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Upcoming Games

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External Links

• Official Japanese Tales Series Website (http://namco-ch.net/taleschannel/index.html)
• Official English Tales Series Forum Board (http://tales.namco.com/forums/)