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Missing Link is also an entry.
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be careful, i *believe* that you might need a ps3 in order to transfer the game to the vita. Some games cannot be bought directly on the vita probably due to licensing issues.
I dunno if this was ever updated for VC2 but i just had to do it the other day for the Sega Genesis Collection.
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Alienware will have another Twitch stream tonight...from their Twitter
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And to reiterate (because I asked before), you just need to be logged in, following the channel and watching the stream.
ashecitism
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Just finished chapter 2 of TW1. Was this the dreaded swamp section? Because it wasn't bad at all.
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I have heard that VC2 is a much more animu game compared to VC1 and that there's a hell of a grind in VC2 that is nonexistent in VC1. care to elaborate on those points?
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mcfishstick
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Yo steamgaf, what is your opinion on Lethis?
I've played through the tutorials and really like it. It's like the Pharaoh/Zeus/Caesar city-builders, where you build houses and upgrade them through building services and industries.
Most citizens are workers but there is a smaller class of bourgeois which require automatons to staff bourgeois specific buildings. Instead of electricity there is steam power with steam pipelines rather than electric cables, and instead of horse-drawn carriages trade is made via hot-air balloon.
I haven't got round to the campaign but I think its about 20 missions long and there's a sandbox mode. The cities looks suitably steampunk and are inspired by Jules Verne novels and Studio Ghibli's art style. The developers also seem quite active in the steam forums.
All true to some extent.
The setting is a military acedemy, which could be interesting, but is just an excuse to have the school setting with the usual tropes. The characters are pretty bland and standard, not exactly bad, just nothing special anymore. There are fewer maps that get reused often, especially the training grounds. You need materials to craft things and these materials are to be farmed in repeatable missions, it's not that bad, just a lot worse than VC1.
The game isn't bad, it's jsut a lot worse than VC1 and a major disappointment when you're coming from there.
Haunted
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Isn't Valkyria Chronicles 2 the one that cranks up the animu school bullshit up to eleven? If so, that sounds pretty accurate to me.
Jawmuncher
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I prefer the characters to those in VC1 and felt I did less of a grind than in VC1 as well. Though that was probably due to the portability factor. know I'm in the minority though.
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Haunted
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Huh, i totally forgot about that game. I wouldn't mind UNIEL.
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VC1 had no real grind. It was just story mission after story mission. You had to repeat missions and operations if you want to 100% the game.
But I canÄt excuse the characters. Munchy, Munchy.
I liked the many classes though and that you could train your guys as you saw fit. I want a sequel that incoperates that. Lots of people hated the melee classes, but I loved them. How could you now love giant ass hammers and blades?
I wouldn't call VC2 terrible but it's definitely a colossal step down from the first game in pretty much every way. I sort of hope that they skip porting it to PC and just go straight to 3.
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True, about the new version of Xrd still being location tested. I just don't have the best of faith with ASW games in terms of what version we get. That said I hope.
I want Under Night first though as the devs said they would do a PC version.
I want Under Night first though as the devs said they would do a PC version.
VPN. I guess days of nuuvem are soon over.
There's a bunch of new summer sale deals over at http://www.wingamestore.com
Hola VPN still usable? I've heard bad things.
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I legit felt more playing VC2 than I did VC1. Dunno why, maybe because it was my first VC but story and character wise I just really enjoyed. VC1 isn't bad by no means, but I guess I just prefer the grimness of war with a bit of a light hearted flavor like in VC2 as opposed to how it was handled in VC1. Which I know is all kinds of out of whack, but that's just how I take it.
Shame we never got 3 though, since that was bsdically a mix of 1&2 I hear and better for it.
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Jaw, just admit that you were into the waifus of VC2.
It's ok, steamgaf don't judge like the rest
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I could write a thesis on how bad VC2 was. Not just the characters, but the embarrassing balance of the battle system.
I'm not going to ramble about it or whatever, but I'll hold back about it in case Sega decides to port the game anywhere. Franchise is on too tight of a rope already, if not already dead.
VC2 has a bigger grind to change classes. You have to find and use the drops with the characters you want to change to a certain class. It's the only annoying aspect of the game for me and can be a sore point for people that want to experiment or frequently change classes.
More animu... well I thought VC1 was just as anime as it gets. It's just that in VC2 the guys are in a training school and the story follows the highschool tropes of anime and manga, plus the main guy is an idiot so it just becomes more apparent because of this change in settings and main cast personality, but I'll always maintain that VC2 is just as anime as VC1 was. VC2 just has a more relaxed and silly atmosphere.
That's stretching it
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It feels the same but buildings are divided by time period. There's the colonial period where you use farms ranches and mines as the main source of industry. World War era introduces more military and entertainment buildings, Cold War brings Tourism and the Modern Era is bring lavish hotels, skyscrapers and entertainment buildings.
I really liked the era system, but it does somewhat limit you in the early game if you enjoy the tourism aspect. Speeches are also taken out but there's a radio host who makes comments and announcements on happenings and the buildings you've built. The only major problem is an artificial difficulty in the form of rebels, who can appear and rebel even when everyone is 100% happy.
It also adds an edict system, with options such as free rations, secret police, free healthcare, wi-fi, and hosting the olympics. There's also a simple legislation system where you can pick 1 of 3 options for a number of things like army education level.
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I have no shame, I would have let it be known if that was the case. Though I guess I am a sucker for that army school setting.
Thanks foir the impressions. I've played 3, got 4 but couldnt get that much into it. Looks like this could be a nice shake up on things.
What do you mean? Apart from the horrendous new design did they change something else?
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The new "classes" are either:
1) Weaponry from the last game now locked behind an arbitrary drop requirement
2) Shitty classes that don't do anything new and are handicaps/waste of turn
3) Incremental upgrades like Scout -> Scout Veteran -> Scout Elite which aren't different classes, just straight buffs, which hilariously enough is also locked behind the huge grind
4) Classes that completely break the balance of the game; I won't spoil anything for anyone willing to still play VC2 but telling the crouching/ducking system to go fuck itself probably wasn't the best way to design the game
EDIT: I forgot that Engineers are now 100% worthless because of the ridiculous health of your own armored units and that Armored Techs are now the minesweepers. <- acknowledged by the developers themselves lol
Tizoc
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Yo steamgaf, what is your opinion on Lethis?
There's an OT for it
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1070396
Basically a city builder with no combat elements, which to me is good since I like my city builder games without combat. Will grab it once I clear my credit cards though @o@
iGNORE IT in favour of gameplay, I'm skipping cutscenes and ish just to fast forward through the game
Well I did. Two mails, no reply. I even asked them to refund before the game's release and haven't viewed the key yet. One dude on twitter is in the same situation, if I don't receive a reply tomorrow I'll try to get my money back the hard way.
Cheers!
I have all 3 books, the first 1 twice. They are packed with so much information and designs, really awesome stuff.
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So it got worse.
Some of their deals are geolocked apparently. So US can't see deals from South America.
Tizoc
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IMO VC3's designs are quite good from what's in the image.
VC2 is the weakest.
I have all three
including the anime designs book, oh god why
Really the first book is the best one.
I'm halfway through VC3 and I really do like the character designs, they have so much breadth, life and character among the whole cast (shoutouts to Alfons). It still has more of an anime vibe than VC1 but it doesn't detract from the game at all, unlike VC2 where they pulled characters out of the anime garbage can.
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