There are some graphics mods linked in the OP here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=930289
I suggest getting at least the high res character textures and my high res unit icons pack.
I don't think turn based RPG is the term anyone would use to describe VC but yeah get itThe only turnbased rpg I've ever played is pokemon. After hearing all the positive things about this game and it being cheap, I have to ask, should I get it?
The only turnbased rpg I've ever played is pokemon. After hearing all the positive things about this game and it being cheap, I have to ask, should I get it?
If anyone's curious about VC's gameplay, check out Giant Bomb's Quick Look of the old PS3 version from years ago. It's an early mission and gives a decent showcase of how the game actually works. They also did a QL on the PC version, but I haven't seen it.
The only turnbased rpg I've ever played is pokemon. After hearing all the positive things about this game and it being cheap, I have to ask, should I get it?
The only turnbased rpg I've ever played is pokemon. After hearing all the positive things about this game and it being cheap, I have to ask, should I get it?
VC1 was a pretty good game. Finally beat it last year on steam.
Still liked VC2 more though. BUT im the 1% for that so I wouldn't listen to me at all.
Sure, why not.
*Tosses a copy on the backlog pile*
Ahah, thisSure, why not.
*Tosses a copy on the backlog pile*
Finally bought it.
Hope my laptop can run it...
Such an over-rated game. Neither myself nor my friends enjoyed it.
You hear all these people talking about what a great Strategy RPG it is, but its audience is geared to one group: anime fanatics.
It's one of the shallowest RPGs you can ask for. On the story side, you have zero interaction, just watching stilted anime slides that drag on forever. On the mechanic side, advancement is as vague as possible. Instead of advancing soldiers, you just advance soldier types, and instead of picking how you advance them, you just move them along a linear progression path. Leveling them up is just holding down a button while your XP fills a bar, then "ding!" they level up and you assume something changed.
It's also one of the shallowest Strategy games. The enemy AI is pathetic, and will frequently waste turns bouncing units back and forth in the fog of war rather than take another shot with a unit that's clearly in LOS. Enemies are clearly running under a very simplistic script that can easily be abused, and it sucks all the challenge out of the game once you understand the massive gaping holes in the AI's capabilities.
Worse is the nature of the port itself. We're talking Dark Souls bad, but without the fan patch to fix it. 70% of your time in-game will be spent meandering through menus, yet you can't even use the fucking mouse. I remember it takes almost a dozen key presses just to save the game, and that's something you need to remember to do because the game doesn't auto-save between chapters. Have a game crash (which will happen) and you could lose hours of progression.
It's just a mess, and I'd only recommend it for people desperate to consume some B-tier anime story in a D-tier game.
Thanks for this review. I always hear praise about this game but no one says exactly why the game is good, I suspected it was mostly people in love with the art style/presentation.
I'm kinda surprised that TekGryphon has been banned for talking shit about VC and not for his delusional theories on how Apple is the devil and everyone sane in their mind should switch to Android.
I'm kinda surprised that TekGryphon has been banned for talking shit about VC and not for his delusional theories on how Apple is the devil and everyone sane in their mind should switch to Android.
Thanks for this review. I always hear praise about this game but no one says exactly why the game is good, I suspected it was mostly people in love with the art style/presentation.
Dammit. Why do they always do this when I have no money![]()
You call me antagonistic, yet anyone reading this thread is going to go "Damn, he called it like it was".
I said my review was going to be met by a never-ending circle jerk of one-liners and gifs. I was right.
I'm more surprised by the fact that the one thing he liked about the game is one thing that it had been mainly criticized for -- its anime-esque plot. It was the gameplay that the game was predominantly praised for.I'm kinda surprised that TekGryphon has been banned for talking shit about VC and not for his delusional theories on how Apple is the devil and everyone sane in their mind should switch to Android.
Just ran that through Google Translate:
"Thanks for saying something that 'confirms' my preconceived notions even if your opinion is an absolute minority and my reasoning for my preconceived notions were super flawed to begin with."
Do it for Catherine.
I'm about 4 or 5 missions in, and I have to say that the lack of mouse support in menus is the most annoying thing about the game so far.
And it's pretty annoying.
The game itself seems okay. I'm not really feeling the urge to keep playing it like I do with other strategy games I've played like X-Com or Fire Emblem. I just don't think I'm clicking with the whole half turn-based, half real-time aspect of the game yet.
I wasn't a SRPG fan before playing this game.
I became a SRPG fan by the time I was finished.
I have the PS3 version.
Is it worth getting the PC version too?
Man, I think Sega's probably still high on the absurd (pre-)Day One sales numbers VC got when it first came out on PC, because there's literally no other reason for this sale to be happening so far after the usual post-holiday money spending.
And yeah, the game doesn't "work" with KB/M very well. It could use some of Falcom's console <-> PC menu mastery.
it works great in the actual gameplay. just for some reason they decided it wasn't worth making it work in the menus, I guess. That gets annoying because you spend kind of a lot of time in the menus and in book mode
it works great in the actual gameplay. just for some reason they decided it wasn't worth making it work in the menus, I guess. That gets annoying because you spend kind of a lot of time in the menus and in book mode
In retrospect I think even if there was mouse controls in the menus, using the keyboard solely would still be faster. The game's HUD and Book Mode isn't really conducive to mouse use. Pretty much every selection option is in list form.
Not saying that mouse control wouldn't be nice to have. Far from it. Just an inconvenience to those used to using the mouse for the majority of their PC actions.
As far as I know, it seems the controls of the PC port are direct emulation (Alright, maybe not the TacMap cursor, but everything else feels like it) of the Dualshock inputs, so I don't think menu mousing was in the realm of things.
Yeah, but the book menu, the major focal point, makes full use of 2-dimensional space, and is infinitely more suited to a mouse than four-way inputs.