Valkyria Chronicles for PC [Nov 11, £14/20/$20, has all DLC, 60fps/1080p+, $14 GMG]

Dragoon En Regalia said:
Can't wait for Deadly Premonition to run through OS/2 with wheel drivers for car steering.

VC's sticking at #15 on my end, but look at dat Football Manager just below COD.
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Does a company make a driving wheel specifically for sim driving games that have blinkers and wipers and everything? Because it would be kind of hype to play Deadly Premonition with that, considering it has controls for blinkers and wipers.
 
Lain said:
That's not true though.
VC2 is a good, portable game with flaws. The game-play is just as awesome as the first game with the big drawback of the grind to upgrade units which is a sore point in the game.
The smaller maps are a downgrade compared to the first game but that's the nature of a portable entry, plus the restriction wasn't even that big of a drawback and offered a certain degree of planning.
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The gameplay really really isn't as good as the first. It suffers heavily from the claustrophobic maps and asset re-use.

VC2 is the Dragon Age 2 to VC1's Origins. Heavily flawed, worse than the first, asset re-use, but some good ideas and somewhat fun to play. Except both are better than their DA counterparts :P

Horse Armour said:
This exchange on the Steam forums made me laugh:
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Especially since I really, really don't give a shit about XP. The fact that GeDoSaTo doesn't work on it should be a clue :P
 
Will pick up during a sale, dat backlog is enormous as it is.

Although I do hope it does sell well, would love to see Vanquish and Bayonetta on Steam, hopefully this leads to more Japanese games coming to PC, like Dragon's Dogma :(

Game seems hella niche, but on PC anything can find an audience.
 
Durante said:
The gameplay really really isn't as good as the first. It suffers heavily from the claustrophobic maps and asset re-use.

VC2 is the Dragon Age 2 to VC1's Origins. Heavily flawed, worse than the first, asset re-use, but some good ideas and somewhat fun to play. Except both are better than their DA counterparts :P
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Have you played VC3 with that fan translation? I'm nearing the end of the game (last battle in Chapter 19/20), and I'm sad to say that VC3 suffers from largely the same problems as VC2. Asset reuse, the same claustrophobic maps, even more grindy than VC2 for mastering potentials, and since it runs parallel to VC1 it suffers from the "me to" status of the story, and tries to make the VC2 protagonists cooler in hindsight (yeah, you meet them to). I mean, it's a bit better than VC2, but it still doesn't come close to VC1. I don't recall the Nameless or Kurt Irving ever coming up in VC1 or VC2.
 
xHiryu said:
Will pick up during a sale, dat backlog is enormous as it is.

Although I do hope it does sell well, would love to see Vanquish and Bayonetta on Steam, hopefully this leads to more Japanese games coming to PC, like Dragon's Dogma :(

Game seems hella niche, but on PC anything can find an audience.
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Part of the problem tbh. If we don't get Bayonetta or Vanquish, I'm holding you personally responsible. :P
 
Durante said:
The gameplay really really isn't as good as the first. It suffers heavily from the claustrophobic maps and asset re-use.

VC2 is the Dragon Age 2 to VC1's Origins. Heavily flawed, worse than the first, asset re-use, but some good ideas and somewhat fun to play. Except both are better than their DA counterparts :P
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I guess the smaller maps and asset re-use really didn't bother me that much. I even liked the smaller, broken up maps since I thought they fitted a portable release. The grind to switch classes was what really annoyed me with the game, but even then it never changed the fun I had during battles, it was just lotsa sadness at the end when I didn't get the drops I needed.
 
Did my part guys, just bought it in the hope sega brings more PC games over. Hope I like it but if not no biggie.


I do this in any sega related thread: SEGA give me Yakuza 5 and Ishin.
 
Valkyria Chronicles is one of the finest games of its generation.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-12-16-valkyria-chronicles-retrospective

Since I'm starting to get wistful, let me say one more thing. If I was the guy able to announce launch titles for the next PlayStation (as if!), I'd promise another Valkyria game. The PS3 never saw a sequel, and while two spin-offs titles were made for the PSP, only one of those reached Europe. Those Valkyria Chronicles aren't being told any more and I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to hear them again. Who wouldn't want to revisit this series with a new console that could realise it in even bigger, even grander terms?

But that's an old gamer's fantasy and I'm sure you've heard enough of my war stories by now. It's time for me to go, since my retrospection is becoming introspection and I feel a sudden desire to load the game up once more, just so I can look over the medals I've won and read the stories of my squadmates. Perhaps I could even start another game and fight that war anew, learning from my mistakes and saving those soldiers I lost last time around. That war stays with me, you know. Some things you never forget.
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UnrealEck said:
One day hopefully Crapcom will bring Dragon's Dogma and stop dicking around with rehashes of Resident Evil games.
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We all want Dragon's Dogma, but slow down there.

Having modern versions of Resident Evil easily available is also important for game preservation purposes.
 
Found a 25 dollar gamestop giftcard in my email that I thought I had already used. Guess I know what i'll be doing after my history exam on tuesday.
 
Well there is no way I won't buy this, especially with the DSoA, the Durante Seal of Approval :P

Downloading the demo of VC was literally the first thing I did when I got my PS3 and a bit later then the full game. Will be great to see it live again on PC! :)
 
Amazing that twice in a row this would be the game I went to after dealing with bad news out of Halo.

First, back on PS3, this was the game that restored my faith in gaming after Halo 4's awfulness put my into such shock I was planning on retiring the hobby if not for picking this up after seeing it recommended on TVTropes - Now with the leak of ADS in Halo 5, well, guess I'll be playing this instead once more.
 
jooso said:
Comfy couch gaming with the PS3 version or superior graphical quality with the Pc version. Decisions, decisions..
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Steam BPM, wireless Xbawks pad, in home streaming for comfy couch superior graphical quality PC version. Though I have a TV/monitor and output my PC via HDMI from said TV for the couchy experience.
 
I've been playing this all weekend, it still holds up, plays really well and looks great. There's a couple of PC version knocks though, graphics settings are pretty bare bones. More disappointing personally is the m&k controls. It works, although you need to tinker with the mouse sensitivity, but you can't use enter to select actions, it's all on the mouse, which would be fine but you can't use the cursor on the menus

The way the game works with aiming factoring stats and luck you might as well use a controller anyway
 
First of all, are you sure you're allowed to talk about the game?

Secondly, press space or rebind your keys if you don't like that.
 
B_Signal said:
I've been playing this all weekend, it still holds up, plays really well and looks great. There's a couple of PC version knocks though, graphics settings are pretty bare bones. More disappointing personally is the m&k controls. It works, although you need to tinker with the mouse sensitivity, but you can't use enter to select actions, it's all on the mouse, which would be fine but you can't use the cursor on the menus

The way the game works with aiming factoring stats and luck you might as well use a controller anyway
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Durante said:
First of all, are you sure you're allowed to talk about the game?

Secondly, press space or rebind your keys if you don't like that.
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The shadows betray you, because they belong to me!
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Since were still on the topic of batman.
B_Signal pulling the rug from Durante.
 
B_Signal said:
I've been playing this all weekend, it still holds up, plays really well and looks great. There's a couple of PC version knocks though, graphics settings are pretty bare bones.
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Who needs graphics settings if the game can be maxed on 2007 era hardware?
 
MrT-Tar said:
I already own the game on PS3, but I'm still getting a little hyped. I went out a bought this today:



I've only had a quick look at it, but it's really indepth. I think it'll be my favourite gaming artbook after the Zelda Hyrule Historia
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It's an amazing book, if you like the game you have to buy the artbook, no excuses.
The sad thing is that it really makes you want another game, SEGA pls.
 
Durante said:
First of all, are you sure you're allowed to talk about the game?

Secondly, press space or rebind your keys if you don't like that.
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I've just sent a panicky message to my editor, he didn't forward on any embargo details, and he didn't mention anything when I told him my plans for content, so it might be ok... maybe

with the controls, I suspect it's something that will be patched, it's nothing major, it either needs a change of button prompt or remapping, hardly game breaking

now let's all forget I posted until Tuesday :)
 
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Interesting to hear about a lack of graphics options. Not that it would hurt VC if toasters can play it, but that would say a bit about CANVAS' limits.
 
Kikujiro said:
It's an amazing book, if you like the game you have to buy the artbook, no excuses.
The sad thing is that it really makes you want another game, SEGA pls.
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Honestly. Even if it doesn't involve Gallia specifically, there are other potential theaters in the fiction to tell an all-new story.

Japanese Valkyrur descendants could be hilariously awesome, especially with the way the franchise (first game, at least) plays with tropes.
 
Tecl0n said:
The aiming system is something like Alpha Protocol?
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The aiming is stat-based - it's a strategy RPG after all. You aim at something and the game shows you a circle representing the area shots will fall into, the size of which is based on unit level/buffs, distance, weapon type and level and so on.

Edit: I just finished writing the first draft of my article by the way. About twice as long as it should be, but that's my usual MO :P
 
Bought it to support more consoles games on PC and to thank Sega for listening, going in almost blind, all I know it's similar to Fire Emblem.
 
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