Valkyria Chronicles -Sega RPG from Skies team.

[Edgerock]

Official Website - http://www.sega.com/valkyria/us/

Features
* Made by a team composed of many former Skies of Arcadia developers.
* Music composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto.
* CANVAS graphics engine: Non-photorealistic stroke-based rendering offers a unique graphical style.
* Novel gameplay, combining elements from RPGs, TBS, RTS and third person shooters.
* Fantasy setting inspired by 1930s Europe.
* Dual audio option (choose between English and Japanese voice acting).
* Optional 4GB HDD installation, though "the disk load times were fine as they were" (nofi).

Basics
* Release Dates: 2008-10-31 EU, 2008-11-04 US
* Genre: SRPG
* Platform: PS3
* Publisher/Developer: SEGA


* Demo available on PSN (worldwide)

[Segaholic2]

It is a good game but no online play sucks.

[Cuckooguy]

I'd rather read your own personal opinions than read that giant wall of text, if you please.

[Green Gibbon!]

Infact, most of that giant wall of text was against forum policy and has been removed.


I wasn't interested in this until I heard it was from the Arcadia team. (But the character design still makes me nauseous.) Are there any changes to the US version? Voices or whatever?

[Cuckooguy]

It's dual audio, so you can choose between voice acting.

I know nothing else.

But you could've figured that out by reading the OP post, I guess.

[Segaholic2]

The American voice acting is surprisingly competent. And it has John DiMaggio playing a really gay soldier.

I don't know if they changed anything else but you'd have to be a pedant to give a shit anyway. Oh wait.

[Green Gibbon!]

At least I don't have semen-snorting porn on my hard drive.

[Segaholic2]

Have you been snooping again? At least stay out of the incest pedo necro babyfur diaper bukkake scat folder.

[Green Gibbon!]

Dual language options pleases me greatly. I think we're at a point where there's no excuse for that not to be standard. How about character name changes? Anything at all that might offend a pedant of my caliber?


Incidentally, how's Little Big Planet?

[Ritz]

It's incredible.


(This video also doubles as a wholly accurate metaphor for the Sonic series as of late. Any game which enables you to make such poignant statements deserves Game of the Year status by default.)

[Segaholic2]

LittleBigPlanet is great. Honestly, I've been playing the PS3 more than all other systems combined lately.

[Green Gibbon!]

I would've picked it up by now if my PS3 wasn't 7000 miles away, but it should be en route to me along with the game as we speak.

[Segaholic2]

What are you doing in Japan or wherever the hell you are?

[Locit]

And it has John DiMaggio playing a really gay soldier.

Seriously, this is one of the best parts.

[FlashTHD]

"create.play.share. but only if we allow it."

So uh, which one of you dudes was flapping their lips about this game being amazing, again?

[Delphine]

That doesn't make the game less awesome*, it makes the people in charge assholes.

*Having yet played it, I can not agree or disagree on it's awesomeness. My roommates seems to like it, though.

[Segaholic2]

"create.play.share. but only if we allow it."

So uh, which one of you dudes was flapping their lips about this game being amazing, again?

I was going to change your title to something about being a crybaby bitch but then I saw someone already beat me to it.

[Ritz]

"create.play.share. but only if we allow it."

So uh, which one of you dudes was flapping their lips about this game being amazing, again?

Does a nine page message board thread on another site seriously constitute "news" now? Here's a novel idea ... Stop ripping off other games' level designs and come up with something original! LBP is a great game, and a little bump in the road over some unoriginal user-created content (whether an 'homage' or not) is not going to diminish my enjoyment of this title.

That said, how long do you suppose it'll take for someone to set up an unofficial, unmoderated server?

[gr4yJ4Y]

The thread is more than nine pages long now, including a claim that a level based on the PlayStation 3 was taken down. Destructoid rightly points out the absurdity of a console exclusive being unable to refer to that console.

Wow. I don't think anyone is going to think Sony made any of these levels, assuming this is on a user-content server. And I don't think they'd be mocking Sony or anything like that in the level, given what system it's on (though I know I could be wrong).

Penny-Arcade called this though, didn't they?

[Baba O'Riley]

That doesn't make the game less awesome*, it makes the people in charge assholes.

*Having yet played it, I can not agree or disagree on it's awesomeness. My roommates seems to like it, though.

It's incredibly involved while being intuitive at the same time.

Thankfully, I got to play the Silent Hill 2 level before it disappeared...

FOREVER.