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[Keyrock]

Valkyria Chronicles is better than good, it's great.

[Majek]

Goddammit, a sequel on PS4 as well as a remaster. They better get that released in English . Hell i'll take Asian version if it has English text like Demon's souls had. 

 

And they way it looks is a good thing as it will always look good.

 

edit: Oh not a SRPG ... still want it.

 

edit2: damn hype slowly vanishing ... media vision ... ugh.

Edited November 19, 2015 by Majek

[Oerwinde]

I know there are a lot of Star Control fans out there (I only played 3), but anyway, Stardock announced they are making a new one.

 

Edit: I guess thats actually old news, but they announced the founder program to allow fans input into the new one.

Edited November 19, 2015 by Oerwinde

[GhostofAnakin]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-11-18-deus-ex-mankind-divided-delayed-until-late-august-2016

 

DX Mankind Divided delayed until Fall 2016.

 

That sucks.  I was looking forward to that.  And I'm an impatient SOB.

[Keyrock]

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-11-18-deus-ex-mankind-divided-delayed-until-late-august-2016

 

DX Mankind Divided delayed until Fall 2016.

 

That sucks.  I was looking forward to that.  And I'm an impatient SOB.

 

Sounds to me like...

 

You never ask for this...  

...delay.

Edited November 20, 2015 by Keyrock

[Katphood]

PS2 games with trophy support?

 

I'm in!

 

 

Valkyria Chronicles PlayStation 4 Version Announced.

 

Sweeeeeeeeeeet. I never got around to play that game, looking forward to the HD Remaster.

[Mamoulian War]

Well, unless they offer emulation from my own PS1/2 disks, I will stick to emulators on PC :-/

[HoonDing]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/345350/

 

pre-odrered

[Mamoulian War]

well hope you will not get as disappointed from it, as I was :-/

[Oerwinde]

Final Fantasy XIII is the only single player FF game I put less than 5 hours into. Everything about it was just... Meh.

[Mamoulian War]

FFXIII was for me pretty interesting, despite not the best of games, FFXIII-2 was much better, LR:FFXIII was just

[melkathi]

Some might remember me posting screenshots from a game called Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries, staring red ridinghood.

The game was a kickstarter I had backed. It released earlier this year but was not the commercial success the studio had needed and thus they went out of business.

Last month we suddenly got a kickstarter update from some people calling themselves Rebellion who had bought the IP. And they wanted to let backers know that they would look into fulfilling outstanding rewards, because, well, because.

So today I received my letter. It's nothing "big" - I had mostly digital rewards - but hey, I'm impressed that in this industry someone decides to fulfill the obligations someone else couldn't.

[Gizmo]

...but hey, I'm impressed that in this industry someone decides to fulfill the obligations someone else couldn't.

I wish someone would do that [again] for Fallout.

Edited November 22, 2015 by Gizmo

[Hurlshort]

 

...but hey, I'm impressed that in this industry someone decides to fulfill the obligations someone else couldn't.

I wish someone would do that [again] for Fallout.

 

 

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but have you not played Wasteland 2?

[Lexx]

Wasteland 2 really isn't like (the original) Fallout, though.

Edited November 22, 2015 by Lexx

[sorophx]

the original Fallout isn't that good of a game, though. it's a great RPG, but its mechanics don't hold up today. I wish someone would make a game, that's like Fallout at heart, but with modern graphics and UI, better companions, and improved combat.

[Lexx]

but its mechanics don't hold up today.

Please explain.

Edited November 22, 2015 by Lexx

[Humanoid]

I just want a developer to understand that "turn-based isometric" is not synonymous with "party-based".

[WorstUsernameEver]

I just want a developer to understand that "turn-based isometric" is not synonymous with "party-based".

Well, both Underrail and Age of Decadence are single-character turn-based isometric (or pseudo-isometric, whatever) titles. But the problem is that controlling a single character offers a limited amount of tactical options in a turn-based, grid-based environment.

[Undecaf]

But the problem is that controlling a single character offers a limited amount of tactical options in a turn-based, grid-based environment.

 

 

There are certain limits for sure. But doesn't it ultimately depend on core combat design (pace, action options and fine grained they are, HP system, encounter design, what ever goes with the territory) whether those limitations as per lacking a party to control are really all that relevant?

 

I don't see it as a problem, it just calls for a tad different take than a party based design.

[sorophx]

 but its mechanics don't hold up today.

Please explain.

 

what I mean is, in its original form, Fallout wouldn't work for me, if I saw it for the first time today. it has many little things that annoy the hell out of me. like the interaction menu, the way the inventory is set up, the way combat is paced, character movement in turn-based mode, camera perspective (I can't count the times I missed a door or a stairwell because of how they're placed behind a wall so it just blends into the wall) etc.

 

and then, of course, the companions... I played FO2 before trying the original game. by the time I got to playing Fallout I already knew to avoid taking companions with me, so I went through most of the game solo (taking Tycho with me to save Tandi and killing him when at the raiders' hideout, because he already had become annoying by then). 

 

to be frank, I think Fallout Tactics has aged a lot better than Fallout has. that game I like replaying simply for its level design.

 

what I really like about Fallout is the SPECIAL and how combat is designed around it. in my opinion, Fallout's interpretation of TB combat is second only to Jagged Alliance 2.

[Humanoid]

 

But the problem is that controlling a single character offers a limited amount of tactical options in a turn-based, grid-based environment.

 

 

There are certain limits for sure. But doesn't it ultimately depend on core combat design (pace, action options and fine grained they are, HP system, encounter design, what ever goes with the territory) whether those limitations as per lacking a party to control are really all that relevant?

 

I don't see it as a problem, it just calls for a tad different take than a party based design.

 

 

I thought Fallout (and moreso Fallout 2) was interesting enough for me to like its systems. Certainly with location targeting, and the different punches and kicks you could do as unarmed (as poorly documented as they were). I do admit I likely prefer simpler combat systems to most people though, since to me it's not at all the part of the typical RPG that I enjoy.

[Serrano]

 

 

...but hey, I'm impressed that in this industry someone decides to fulfill the obligations someone else couldn't.

I wish someone would do that [again] for Fallout.

 

 

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but have you not played Wasteland 2?

 

 

I've not played Wasteland 2. I've been stuck at the character creation screen for two days. I can't become even passably adept at every skill and my completionist  compulsion is stopping me from progressing until I find a way. Even the Witcher 2 prologue wasn't this much of a challenge.

Edited November 23, 2015 by Serrano

[Oerwinde]

 

 

 

 

 

 

...but hey, I'm impressed that in this industry someone decides to fulfill the obligations someone else couldn't.

I wish someone would do that [again] for Fallout.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but have you not played Wasteland 2?

I've not played Wasteland 2. I've been stuck at the character creation screen for two days. I can't become even passably adept at every skill and my completionist compulsion is stopping me from progressing until I find a way. Even the Witcher 2 prologue wasn't this much of a challenge.

You create a party of 4. Split your skills amongst all 4, and plan for which companions you'll take.

[Gizmo]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but have you not played Wasteland 2?

I think that WL2 is the best [ersatz] Fallout game since Fallout 2, and that they know it; and planned it that way.

(But it isn't one, not really.)

 

what I mean is, in its original form, Fallout wouldn't work for me, if I saw it for the first time today. it has many little things that annoy the hell out of me. like the interaction menu, the way the inventory is set up, the way combat is paced, character movement in turn-based mode, camera perspective (I can't count the times I missed a door or a stairwell because of how they're placed behind a wall so it just blends into the wall) etc.

 

 

and then, of course, the companions... I played FO2 before trying the original game. by the time I got to playing Fallout I already knew to avoid taking companions with me, so I went through most of the game solo (taking Tycho with me to save Tandi and killing him when at the raiders' hideout, because he already had become annoying by then). 

 

to be frank, I think Fallout Tactics has aged a lot better than Fallout has. that game I like replaying simply for its level design.

 

what I really like about Fallout is the SPECIAL and how combat is designed around it. in my opinion, Fallout's interpretation of TB combat is second only to Jagged Alliance 2.

No future Fallout title would need (or likely use) a 2D engine.   It would be 3D; (3D doesn't mean first person for those that assume it does). All of the graphical issues that Fallout had would be forgotten with the use of a 3D engine.  Personally, I think that a Fallout title done using Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity framework could really shine.

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I thought (and still think) of Fallout Tactics' Turn based combat as the best combat the IP has to offer ~so far.

(Though I might have thought differently had Zenimax acquired 'Super Hot', and based the combat mechanics of FO4 on it.)

Edited November 23, 2015 by Gizmo