Valkyria Chronicles - discussion of the anime also welcome

Ah_Pook

im all for voting with my wallet, but only if what i buy is worth buying on its own merits anyway. i mean ive bought all the disgaea 3 dlc released so far, im not at all adverse to buying this kind of thing to show my support for awesomeness. if it was $5 for the whole shebang it wouldnt even be a question, and im only on like the second mission of the actual game. $15 crosses my personal line out of impulse buy territory though.

-Loki-

Ah_Pook wrote: »

$15 crosses my personal line out of impulse buy territory though.

Heh, my PS3 and PSP were impulse buys, so a $15 (probably be $30au for me) impulse buy to me isn't that big. I'm only on the 4th mission and I know I'll buy the missions when they hit PSN immediately. Hard EX mode? Not so much.

Radikal_Dreamer

What I don't get is how are the Edy's mission and Selvaria things the same price? I mean, if I remember correctly from when I looked it up Edy's is just one fight while Selvaria's is 4.

Grayjack72

-Loki- wrote: »

Ah_Pook wrote: »

$15 crosses my personal line out of impulse buy territory though.

Heh, my PS3 and PSP were impulse buys, so a $15 (probably be $30au for me) impulse buy to me isn't that big. I'm only on the 4th mission and I know I'll buy the missions when they hit PSN immediately. Hard EX mode? Not so much.

I'll end up buying all of them, even though I know I'll never beat the Hard EX missions.

Rent

Grayjack72 wrote: »

-Loki- wrote: »

Ah_Pook wrote: »

$15 crosses my personal line out of impulse buy territory though.

Heh, my PS3 and PSP were impulse buys, so a $15 (probably be $30au for me) impulse buy to me isn't that big. I'm only on the 4th mission and I know I'll buy the missions when they hit PSN immediately. Hard EX mode? Not so much.

I'll end up buying all of them, even though I know I'll never play the Hard EX missions.

Yeah, and all this is a day one purchase for me (somewhat of a necessity; I'm going back to my parents' house on the 18th and when I do I'm leaving my PS3 with them)

Grayjack72

Rent wrote: »

Grayjack72 wrote: »

-Loki- wrote: »

Ah_Pook wrote: »

$15 crosses my personal line out of impulse buy territory though.

Heh, my PS3 and PSP were impulse buys, so a $15 (probably be $30au for me) impulse buy to me isn't that big. I'm only on the 4th mission and I know I'll buy the missions when they hit PSN immediately. Hard EX mode? Not so much.

I'll end up buying all of them, even though I know I'll never play the Hard EX missions.

Yeah, and all this is a day one purchase for me (somewhat of a necessity; I'm going back to my parents' house on the 18th and when I do I'm leaving my PS3 with them)

I'll buy it the day my PS3 returns.

Chance

Ah_Pook wrote: »

ive bought all the disgaea 3 dlc released so far, im not at all adverse to buying this kind of thing to show my support for awesomeness.

Holy Hell, there's new Disgaea stuff released all the time. I don't even want to think of how much you spent, but it's gotta' be close to the purchase price of a new game by now.

Also, Rent - leaving your PS3 with your parents? Awuhhhh?

Oh, as well...

Ah_Pook wrote: »

$15 crosses my personal line out of impulse buy territory though.

For me it's $20, but either way this doesn't qualify as an impulse buy (for me). You can't call it an impulse buy if you knew you were going to purchase it six months ago when you heard about the Japanese version of the DLC.

NickTheNewbie

I totally bought it today on sale for $30. Here we go!

Rent

Chance wrote: »

Also, Rent - leaving your PS3 with your parents? Awuhhhh?

I'm going on a fun trip to a foreign country next month! I'll be gone all year!

Spoiler:

It's Iraq

NickTheNewbie wrote: »

I totally bought it today on sale for $30. Here we go!

Get a VC sig you

SkutSkut

This, Siren, Disgaea 3, MGS4, dammit I don't have enough money to get a PS3, stop making me want one of you! Stupid PS3.

Chance

Rent wrote: »

I'm going on a fun trip to a foreign country next month! I'll be gone all year!

Spoiler:

It's Iraq

Ach, we'll miss ya Home Slice. I sure hope you got some boring techie job and you won't be the one disarming IEDs or manning the roof-mounted machine gun.

Rent

Chance wrote: »

Rent wrote: »

I'm going on a fun trip to a foreign country next month! I'll be gone all year!

Spoiler:

It's Iraq

Ach, we'll miss ya Home Slice. I sure hope you got some boring techie job and you won't be the one disarming IEDs or manning the roof-mounted machine gun.

Thanks
And yeah, I'm a radar mechanic
I fix

(Those things intercept artillery rounds and are able to plot a location and trajectory of incoming artillery...no ragnite round detection though )
So I'm gonna be stuck on a base all day...probably posting on the internet about how hot it is :lol:

Grayjack72

Rent wrote: »

Chance wrote: »

Rent wrote: »

I'm going on a fun trip to a foreign country next month! I'll be gone all year!

Spoiler:

It's Iraq

Ach, we'll miss ya Home Slice. I sure hope you got some boring techie job and you won't be the one disarming IEDs or manning the roof-mounted machine gun.

Thanks
And yeah, I'm a radar mechanic
I fix

(Those things intercept artillery rounds and are able to plot a location and trajectory of incoming artillery...no ragnite round detection though )
So I'm gonna be stuck on a base all day...probably posting on the internet about how hot it is :lol:

No Ragnite detection?! So you're screwed if the enemy starts firing ragnite rounds?

Rent

Grayjack72 wrote: »

No Ragnite detection?! So you're screwed if the enemy starts firing ragnite rounds?

Y...yes we are... OH NOES D:
NONE OF OUR RADARS HAVE RAGNITE DETECTION
THE EMPIRE COULD STRIKE THE US AT ANY TIME TO EXPOSE OUR CRITICAL SECURITY HOLE D:D:D:

gjaustin

I'll probably get the DLC where you play as the Imperials, but I doubt I'll get the other ones. Especially if the Edy DLC is only a single mission.

Now if Hard EX mode affected the missions and not just the skirmishes...

Grayjack72

Rent wrote: »

Grayjack72 wrote: »

No Ragnite detection?! So you're screwed if the enemy starts firing ragnite rounds?

Y...yes we are... OH NOES D:
NONE OF OUR RADARS HAVE RAGNITE DETECTION
THE EMPIRE COULD STRIKE THE US AT ANY TIME TO EXPOSE OUR CRITICAL SECURITY HOLE D:D:D:

Maybe Leon and Kries at R&D can do something about this!:!:

ValkyriaX01

Since you'll be in the desert, shouldn't you keep a lookout for unusual desert formations or ruins? Maybe you'll run into a Valkyria!

The Lord of Hats

ValkyriaX01 wrote: »

Since you'll be in the desert, shouldn't you keep a lookout for unusual desert formations or ruins? Maybe you'll run into a Valkyria!

Rent, if you ever come across somebody who's glowing blue and carrying a lance, run. Don't wait for them to do anything, just run like crazy.

Rent

The Lord of Hats wrote: »

Rent, if you ever come across somebody who's glowing blue and carrying a lance, run. Don't wait for them to do anything, just run like crazy.

What if they promise candy?
Delicious, delicious Gallian candy?

ValkyriaX01

"New intelligence reports that opposing forces somehow came up with a new improvised anti-vehicle weapon. It consists simply of a launch pole and an Rocket Propelled Tip which can be deployed with a Bipod for additional accuracy. Watch yourself out there."

Anyway, if you ran into a Valkyria, I was going to ask if you could get her autograph... but then again, if she's not on your side, it'd be a bit hard to do. But if they offer candy...

Rent

ValkyriaX01 wrote: »

"New intelligence reports that opposing forces somehow came up with a new improvised anti-vehicle weapon. It consists simply of a launch pole and an Rocket Propelled Tip which can be deployed with a Bipod for additional accuracy. Watch yourself out there."

Anyway, if you ran into a Valkyria, I was going to ask if you could get her autograph... but then again, if she's not on your side, it'd be a bit hard to do. But if they offer candy...

On the one hand, it's a unstoppable war machine of death, foretold through centuries of oral history
On the other, mmmm chocolate

Spoiler:

We're all trying to max the thread out so we get a new one, aren't we

Kaseius

Here, let me help.

Good luck out there, Rent. Don't forget your ragnaid.

ValkyriaX01

I don't know about the others, but I'm merely melding fantasy and reality via words while waiting for Sunday to roll around (new VC Episode Raww to DL).

Also, if for some random reason you see a squadmate (preferrably a tank commander) in love with a recon girl, and vice versa, "Don't you dare touch her!"

Shivahn

Rent wrote: »

Spoiler:

We're all trying to max the thread out so we get a new one, aren't we

Spoiler:

The other one ended like one page after this. So we're almost there.

Rent

Kaseius wrote: »

Here, let me help.

Good luck out there, Rent. Don't forget your ragnaid.

Hehe, thanks

As an aside
This marks my 168th post in this thread
I wonder how many of those posts had the phrase "Get a VC sig you" in them
Probably an embarassingly high percentage

Edit: I'm reverting my av/sig to ol' Welks once we get a new thread

Doctor Fink

Rent wrote: »

Kaseius wrote: »

Here, let me help.

Good luck out there, Rent. Don't forget your ragnaid.

Hehe, thanks

Do a good job throughout and your superiors will be impressed...but not surprised.


Anywho, bustin on through and just finished up Chapter 11...
[CH. 11 Spoils]

Spoiler:

Man, talk about a downer after taking forever (which is 17 turns) to crack that nut of a map. Isara shall be missed...until the new game plus.

The song is lovely, as well.

The Reverend Dr Galactus

Sig. Whaddaya think.

Chrono Helix

Good sig. It took me a moment to remember how 'widwife' came about.

Rent wrote: »

Chance wrote: »

Rent wrote: »

I'm going on a fun trip to a foreign country next month! I'll be gone all year!

Spoiler:

It's Iraq

Ach, we'll miss ya Home Slice. I sure hope you got some boring techie job and you won't be the one disarming IEDs or manning the roof-mounted machine gun.

Thanks
And yeah, I'm a radar mechanic
I fix

(Those things intercept artillery rounds and are able to plot a location and trajectory of incoming artillery...no ragnite round detection though )
So I'm gonna be stuck on a base all day...probably posting on the internet about how hot it is :lol:

You'll still be around to order people to get VC sigs, right?

I'll probably have the new thread up by the weekend. And it'll be a NEW OP this time.

Chance

I lol'd Reverend.

Houk

good god i am in love with this game. pity i wont have any serious time to devote to it till the end of this month

and i love that you can get vyse and aika from the very beginning. so awesome!

Interpreter

No idea if it was mentioned, but apparently there will be Valkyria Chronicles inspired Little Big Planet costumes coming soon(?) on PSN as well. More stuff to get I suppose.

CarbonFire

Interpreter wrote: »

No idea if it was mentioned, but apparently there will be Valkyria Chronicles inspired Little Big Planet costumes coming soon(?) on PSN as well. More stuff to get I suppose.

That was a fan made fake I'm afraid. No official word yet on VC-themed LBP DLC, but I'd sure go for it if they did make it 8-)

Corporal Carl

Do my eyes deceive me here : http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=212835

where it says

Sega has given out the pricing and release date for its Valkyria Chronicles DLC that's due to be released on April 16 for £3.19 (€3.99). And if you still haven't played it, sort your life out!

The new content is:

* Hard EX Mode - fight your way through the entire Imperial army, where the enemies are more lethal and your main tank Edelweiss is unavailable. You'll have to be more strategic in order to overcome your opponents.

* Edy's Mission "Enter the Edy Detachment" - six members have been separated from Squad 7 and on their journey to reunite with their squad, they stumble upon a tiny village under attack by the Imperial Army. Play as Edy and command your outnumbered team to defend the small village from annihilation.

* Selvaria's Mission "Behind Her Blue Flame"- Taking place right after the outbreak of Gallian battle lines, you play as Johann, a young and meek engineer assigned to Selvaria's troop. See the action as it unfolds behind enemy lines and experience the war play out through the eyes of the enemy.

In other words, am I correct in understanding that you get all these goodies in a single, low-priced DLC? :P8-)

Rent

Doctor Fink wrote: »

Rent wrote: »

Kaseius wrote: »

Here, let me help.

Good luck out there, Rent. Don't forget your ragnaid.

Hehe, thanks

Do a good job throughout and your superiors will be impressed...but not surprised.

That's gonna be the new "thing", huh
I like it

Anywho, bustin on through and just finished up Chapter 11...
[CH. 11 Spoils]

Spoiler:

Man, talk about a downer after taking forever (which is 17 turns) to crack that nut of a map. Isara shall be missed...until the new game plus.

The song is lovely, as well.

Spoiler:

Man, you're like the only one who likes that song besides me
Also, ISSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAARRRRRAAAAA:cry::cry:

Wren

Rent wrote: »

Chance wrote: »

Rent wrote: »

I'm going on a fun trip to a foreign country next month! I'll be gone all year!

Spoiler:

It's Iraq

Ach, we'll miss ya Home Slice. I sure hope you got some boring techie job and you won't be the one disarming IEDs or manning the roof-mounted machine gun.

Thanks
And yeah, I'm a radar mechanic
I fix

(Those things intercept artillery rounds and are able to plot a location and trajectory of incoming artillery...no ragnite round detection though )
So I'm gonna be stuck on a base all day...probably posting on the internet about how hot it is :lol:

what if I fire my railgun at you. what then, tough guy?

Rent

Chrono Helix wrote: »

You'll still be around to order people to get VC sigs, right?

Most likely

Oh and Galactus your sig is fuckin' amazing

Wren wrote: »

what if I fire my railgun at you. what then, tough guy?

...sssScience?

PeregrineFalcon

Still trying to figure out a way to screencap the "Order" screen and issue the "Get A VC Sig You" order. (How many CP would that cost anyhow?)

Also, what if the glowing blue lady has two back-spraining, beautiful, bouncy arguments in favour of her side?

Rent

PeregrineFalcon wrote: »

Also, what if the glowing blue lady has two back-spraining, beautiful, bouncy arguments in favour of her side?

It would be enticing, no lie

PeregrineFalcon

Rent wrote: »

PeregrineFalcon wrote: »

Also, what if the glowing blue lady has two back-spraining, beautiful, bouncy arguments in favour of her side?

It would be enticing, no lie

Selvaria did always want someone to think of her as a human, and not an ancient weapon of war.

Well, I got your primal human behaviour right here. :winky:

Cantido

Actually I'm not too crazy about Selvaria. Her development is not very interesting until near the end.

Spoiler:

I'm talking about when she's conversing with Alicia, the only other laser-lady she's ever seen. Then she blows herself up for her dick of a not-boyfriend. So much for that. Because who is scared of that pussy Maximillian?

Most excellent titties though.