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Warmachine: Tactics (Kickstarter, Inspired by Valkyria Chronicles, FFT, XCOM)
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Wiktor
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This sounds terrible. Why in the world would you want that in PC TBS?
Weltall Zero
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Looks stupidly awesome, frankly. I'm a sucker for magitek/steampunk mecha. Let's hope it turns out great.
Saying they are "inspired by" a bunch of games is now a dick move if they weren't a part of their dev teams, now? What nonsense is this?
Because people loved in in VC? And people play PC games with gamepads now? It's not the 90's anyome, you know.
Saying they are "inspired by" a bunch of games is now a dick move if they weren't a part of their dev teams, now? What nonsense is this?
Because people loved in in VC? And people play PC games with gamepads now? It's not the 90's anyome, you know.
Wiktor
Member
Those people are ..what? 2% of audience? You could just as well as for joystick-based mech-sim controls.
Weltall Zero
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Did you miss the fact that Valkyria Chronicles has a large audience both within GAF and without? Or are you one of those who believe that "PC gamers" and "console gamers" are two separate, non-overlapping audiences with opposite tastes? Again, that simply seems like living in the 90's.
Apparently you missed the fact that Valkyrie Chronicles bombed so hard that they not only switched platforms, but stopped translating them into English. Your definition of "large audience" is comical at best.
* I fucking *loved* Valkyria Chronicles btw.
Weltall Zero
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Games that "bomb hard" don't get two sequels. They also don't get one of said sequels released in the west on the PSP of all systems. It wasn't the biggest seller ever, for sure, but one million worldwide for a console strategy game with no big names attached to it? That's pretty damn good.
That's beside the point, anyway. Valkyria Chronicles' lack of selling has nothing to do with using action components, and I find it weird to suggest that it would have done better without them. How many people do you know of that were turned off by its system? Now, how many do you know that loved it precisely because of them?
Article on IGN: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/07/...-kickstarts-the-tabletop-games-digital-future
Doesn't have any new information and they even get some facts wrong (Calling the mercs unlocked warcasters) but exposure is exposure.
Doesn't have any new information and they even get some facts wrong (Calling the mercs unlocked warcasters) but exposure is exposure.
demosthenes
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Already well funded, but I just threw in some money.
TaroYamada
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Really excited about this title, now I await Dawn of War III's announcement! The two should compliment eachother rather well.
Wiktor
Member
So you need people who fit all of those criterias
PC gamers who also own PlayStation 3
Strategy fans who prefer to play with pad on PC
PlayStation 3 owners who like Valkyria Chronicles (which didn't really set the charts on fire)
Each of those groups might be sizable ( I doubt they are, but it's possible), but people who are in all three at the same time? That's niche and it's just not rationall to expect small team to waste time on making separate inferior control scheme just for those people. Not to mention what a headache would that be in multiplayer.
Wiktor
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Warmachine battles tend to get pretty big scale-wise.
TaroYamada
Member
Yeah, it would. Furthermore, I would have preferred direct control, Valk's style/control is hard to step back from in SRPGs. Game still looks great though and I'm still interested.
Wow! How the fuck did I miss this?
Sounds like they are REALLY going all out with it. I played the table-top version quite a bit a year or so ago, but lost time to do it(been meaning to pick it up again). Really fun game; plus the models are fucking amazing to paint.
This looks downright awesome. Definitely dropping some cash on it!
Similar type of game, but Warmachine focuses more on squad based combat and warcasters(basically commanders), whereas Warhammer is more "army" focused and more broad. Think of it like the differences between DoW and DoW II(army vs squad) games.
Someone had a rough table-top emulator of it awhile back(basically just some generic table-top game emulator that could be skinned for different games) that I used to play and I always wanted a more "gamey" version of it. This looks sooooofucking good.
Sounds like they are REALLY going all out with it. I played the table-top version quite a bit a year or so ago, but lost time to do it(been meaning to pick it up again). Really fun game; plus the models are fucking amazing to paint.
This looks downright awesome. Definitely dropping some cash on it!
Similar type of game, but Warmachine focuses more on squad based combat and warcasters(basically commanders), whereas Warhammer is more "army" focused and more broad. Think of it like the differences between DoW and DoW II(army vs squad) games.
Someone had a rough table-top emulator of it awhile back(basically just some generic table-top game emulator that could be skinned for different games) that I used to play and I always wanted a more "gamey" version of it. This looks sooooofucking good.
Tye The Czar
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Tye The Czar
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Maybe that?
Unless you were expecting the Honjou Raita part of VC to be what influenced them, then sure, I don't see it.
Isn't that the same Raita/Zettai Shoujo that brought us this?
God I wish he would draw up some KS doujins.
Bumping an old thread 'cuz I can't make a LTTP.
Got into Warmachine in the last couple of months so I thought I'd check this out, been playing it the last couple of days. The game's got a lot of heart, is basically cool, but boy does it wear its low production values on its sleeves. Rough voice acting, totally un-animated "cut scenes", sort of janky menus, pretty frequent but not game-breaking camera bugs. This game is like 19 layers of polish shy of being solid.
I can't really tell how deep it goes into Warmachine yet. There's a single-player campaign that starts with Cygnar, don't know if it carries on to other factions. The kind of skirmish mode lets you do Cygnar, Cryx, Protectorate, and Khador, each with pretty good model variety. The steam page has screenshots including some Trollblood dudes but I can't tell if that's an unlockable faction or just a couple models in the campaign or what.
I really wanna like this game. Might stick with it a bit since Warmachine got its hooks into me pretty deep. Not sure I can recommend it though.
hehe vindicated re Valkyria Chronicles PC
Got into Warmachine in the last couple of months so I thought I'd check this out, been playing it the last couple of days. The game's got a lot of heart, is basically cool, but boy does it wear its low production values on its sleeves. Rough voice acting, totally un-animated "cut scenes", sort of janky menus, pretty frequent but not game-breaking camera bugs. This game is like 19 layers of polish shy of being solid.
I can't really tell how deep it goes into Warmachine yet. There's a single-player campaign that starts with Cygnar, don't know if it carries on to other factions. The kind of skirmish mode lets you do Cygnar, Cryx, Protectorate, and Khador, each with pretty good model variety. The steam page has screenshots including some Trollblood dudes but I can't tell if that's an unlockable faction or just a couple models in the campaign or what.
I really wanna like this game. Might stick with it a bit since Warmachine got its hooks into me pretty deep. Not sure I can recommend it though.
hehe vindicated re Valkyria Chronicles PC
CertifiedFP
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If there was ever a valid use of thread necromancy, this was it.
Can we get some crow served up in here for whoever said that Valkyria Chronicles wouldn't work with mouse and keyboard control?