PSA: Game Discounts

[frunk]

Galactic Civilizations 3 is 50% off.  It hasn't been released yet.  I don't think that's a good sign.

[Grey Fox]

It's not but its also an indication that the original price point was crazy.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

42 EA classics are 60% off at GOG this weekend.

[Caliga]

Beyond Earth just went on sale for 50% off on Steam.

Is it: worth that.

[Syt]

Discounts on Steam:

Alien Isolation: -75%
Valkyria Chronicles: -66%
Most stuff Total War: -75%
Dawn of War II -75%
And lots of other SEGA stuff heavily discounted.

[Lettow77]

 Aint nobody from round here want to touch no Valkyria Chronicles

[Caliga]

Aint nobody from round here want to touch no Valkyria Chronicles

Relax.

[Lettow77]

I sure wasn't worked up, Cal- I just wanted to forestall any misguided purchases. Valkyria Chronicles is way out of Languish's comfort zone, and is also bretty bad.

[Caliga]

Why is it so bad?

[Lettow77]

Problems within Valkyria Chronicles

Gameplay- The first and most obvious area, Valkyria Chronicles gameplay is a semi-turnbased "tactical" game with very repetitive gameplay. Ostensibly a 1930s-esque tactical wargame, it can be hard to accept an infantrymen taking 30+ shots because the person holding the gun was a "scout" or so on. Features are introduced in a trickle-feed, and gameplay is heavily interspersed with long, extensive cutscenes. Just about everything has input for grinding, but it's just numbers going higher rather than interesting new features- your tank's damage output gets higher while the enemies you are fighting get tougher HP and so on, making it all a wash.   The game was a lazy port to PC, and even as a console game had outmoded ideas about interface, making saving, loading or quitting very time-consuming affairs. Where most games can be exited by tapping escape twice, Valkyria Chronicles makes a chore of maneuvering multiple screens.

Setting- Overt anime setting; this hardened military force is of course over half girls, as young as twelve. Dialogue is insufferable, and suffers from hideously off-base subtitles or a terrible dub in either case. While shooting for an anime military appeal would turn off most languish users, it doesn't even do it very successfully- the girls simply aren't cute, by and large. All the tropes are there, though- of course you live with a subservient quite little sister, and of course she isn't blood related and has romantic interest in you. Japanese takes on an alternate 1930s European military engagement are a bewilderingly large genre, and this is about the worst.

[Valmy]

Japanese takes on an alternate 1930s European military engagement are a bewilderingly large genre

Well I guess that is sure better than 1930s Japanese military engagement being a bewilderingly large genre.

[Syt]

"94% of the 2,663 user reviews for this game are positive."

[Razgovory]

All the tropes are there, though- of course you live with a subservient quite little sister, and of course she isn't blood related and has romantic interest in you.

Is that a big fantasy in Japan?  Here, that's creepy.

[Neil]

All the tropes are there, though- of course you live with a subservient quite little sister, and of course she isn't blood related and has romantic interest in you.

Is that a big fantasy in Japan?  Here, that's creepy.

I would imagine there's a fair section of their shut-in or near-shut-in culture that craves the love of a harmless, innocent supportive girl.  Real girls would be a bit too scary.  It's kind of an evolution of the 'fall in love with your childhood friend' trope, tailored for a generation that never had any childhood friends of the opposite sex.

[Duque de Bragança]

Aint nobody from round here want to touch no Valkyria Chronicles

Too late. Bought for my PS3 back in the day. Liked it a lot.