Well each tales game is its own stand alone storyline that takes place in a original fantasy world. The characters are often quirky and prone to comedic conversations throughout the main storyline. For example, Tales of Vesperia - Skits - The Old Man's Cooking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OtLxnATIhY&feature=related.#ws)<br/><br/>Each story usually has its own plot twists and turns and does involve saving the planet or at least all humanity from certain doom. My favorite in the series is "Tales of the Abyss." In that game an ancient experiment disrupts the regular flow of mana and causes a terrible miasma to cover the earth. In order to save the people from it the ancient race raised the contiental crust of the earth above the miasma. The population forgot about this over time, until the main villians start destoying the pillars. The game also crosses into other realms of the world, including religion, politics, racism (though that is more prominant in Tales of Symphonia), and other things. Ultimately my rp will be recycling some concepts from the pervious games and  puttingthem into the rp with new twists and such. I do hav e a plot worked out, but I would rather keep it secret.