SO uh, will my Valkyria Chronicles I bought for my PS3 work on the PS4?
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80Maxwell08
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No the PS4 has no backwards compatibility. There's talk of streaming later on but for now nothing.
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They can kiss my streaming ass.
Vaarna_Aarne
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IIRC PS4 doesn't play blu-rays either, so there's no reason to scrap your PS3 that does that job well too.
The PS4 definitely plays blu-rays
Vaarna_Aarne
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Well then I did not recall correctly.
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Hey Vaarna, didn't you have some sort of psychological training? What do you think of Calhoun's rats?
Vaarna_Aarne
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Psychological therapy (still ongoing), not training. But I do have some attempt at biological training. And from that I can say that Calhoun's results are very logical. The environment is always very fast to correct to population sizes, and species have something of a "maximum" number of contacts and proximity they can maintain (you may have heard of the monkey sphere). Removal of the normal limitations also means eventually exceeding the capacity of the individual organism to handle the state.
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it's interesting the correction comes from a 'internally' propelled population crash. Possibly successive crashes in isolated populations woulds lead to adaptation by modifying the psychological baseline of the population.
edit: for the topic, never use orders, it's a waste of movement points. To get A rank you need to finish the mission in 2 or 3 turns, and using a order is like removing at least 2/8 of your movement points. Much better to place a out of ammo unit in standby at the end of their move if you can and calling another one into the fray, or placing a unit in standby to leapfrog into a captured base if at the party limit. This is made easier by the dumbish AI which will capture a zone with a dangerous enemy like V2, but not never moving that dangerous enemy to the corresponding base where your soldier is a sitting duck, preferring to spawn reinforcements there, often much inferior (like scouts or wide machinegunners), so it's even worth it capturing a base even at the end of a turn, since 90% of the time you can whether any counter attack and cause the enemy to waste time capturing it again. On the next turn, activate your soldier again, kill the reinforcement, capture the base, standby and spawn something appropriate to kill everyone on the other side.
In fact, it's even worse, in that the AI will move more than one unit to capture a unguarded base, leaving the enemy units (geographically) closer to their deaths when you recapture it on the next turn, which makes what could be a dumb, but moderately effective delaying tactic much less potent.
Of course, if you can, you should capture the base AND kill whoever is on the other side on the same turn, which is why defense in depth is dumb in this game.
Also, it's often possible to kill 2 standing soldiers by careful positioning, more with the commando flamethrower or the fencer.
edit: for the topic, never use orders, it's a waste of movement points. To get A rank you need to finish the mission in 2 or 3 turns, and using a order is like removing at least 2/8 of your movement points. Much better to place a out of ammo unit in standby at the end of their move if you can and calling another one into the fray, or placing a unit in standby to leapfrog into a captured base if at the party limit. This is made easier by the dumbish AI which will capture a zone with a dangerous enemy like V2, but not never moving that dangerous enemy to the corresponding base where your soldier is a sitting duck, preferring to spawn reinforcements there, often much inferior (like scouts or wide machinegunners), so it's even worth it capturing a base even at the end of a turn, since 90% of the time you can whether any counter attack and cause the enemy to waste time capturing it again. On the next turn, activate your soldier again, kill the reinforcement, capture the base, standby and spawn something appropriate to kill everyone on the other side.
In fact, it's even worse, in that the AI will move more than one unit to capture a unguarded base, leaving the enemy units (geographically) closer to their deaths when you recapture it on the next turn, which makes what could be a dumb, but moderately effective delaying tactic much less potent.
Of course, if you can, you should capture the base AND kill whoever is on the other side on the same turn, which is why defense in depth is dumb in this game.
Also, it's often possible to kill 2 standing soldiers by careful positioning, more with the commando flamethrower or the fencer.
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Finally finished this game (3+ years?) last night. Fucking great from beginning to end aside from cringe inducing writing and anime cliches at times. It's not always horrible though and can even be good. I liked Welkins' character, Rosie, Largo, and Faldio. Even Selvaria had believable motivations. Nothing memorable about Alicia, but at least she wasn't too angsty.
Also appreciated lack of oversexualiza-
Ah fuck. Obligatory teenage girls in bikinis. I hate anime.
So I should skip everything on my backlog and go straight to Silent Storm it sounds like? I was thinking since I enjoyed this so much I should finally attempt a Company of Heroes playthrough, or one of the more strategic RPGs like Gold Box.
Maximilian was pretty typically retarded "I'm going to destroy the world because I had a bad childhood herp a dur" nonsense. Ending scene was absurd - why the hell did the Marmota explode?
Also appreciated lack of oversexualiza-
Ah fuck. Obligatory teenage girls in bikinis. I hate anime.
So I should skip everything on my backlog and go straight to Silent Storm it sounds like? I was thinking since I enjoyed this so much I should finally attempt a Company of Heroes playthrough, or one of the more strategic RPGs like Gold Box.
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Yea, Silent Storm is 100% worth it. Best thing to come out of Russia ever. Silent Storm: Sentinels is even better.
Hmm I still need to play X-COM too... and I still haven't finished Advance Wars: DS...
I need 1000% more free time.
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I want to play this game but own no PS3. I hate this.
No PS3 emulators around I guess?
No PS3 emulators around I guess?
80Maxwell08
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They are in the works but nothing of substance yet.
http://www.pegi.info/en/index/global_id/505/?searchString=Valkyria Chronicles
Now I know on what to spend my next videogaem moniez.
Now I know on what to spend my next videogaem moniez.
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MY GOD... there doesn't exist a pic/gif/clip that will properly represent my reaction, but I will try nonetheless.
I'm adding this to the RPG Codex Curation and the CRPG Book RIGHT NAO!!!!1111
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Hey bitch, wake up!
Whaaaat. Wow.
lol, I must have prophetic powers.
The day before yesterday I was reading this thread and thinking this might be one of the few jRPGs I could maybe appreciate. "Too bad there's no port and I can't even play it on my room mate's PS4, I thought."
WELL, GOSH
The day before yesterday I was reading this thread and thinking this might be one of the few jRPGs I could maybe appreciate. "Too bad there's no port and I can't even play it on my room mate's PS4, I thought."
WELL, GOSH
damicore
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Haven't felt this hyped for a game in a while!
Holy shit, one of the best PS3 exclusives comes to PC.
Won't buy it tho, still have my PS3 CD, but still
Won't buy it tho, still have my PS3 CD, but still
Baron Dupek
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Hawley dowley!
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