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[flohen95]

This may be the last chance the franchise has, so I hope people pick this up.
I've already said in the PEGI thread that I don't really play on PC (it just isn't for me), but I'm seriously considering buying the game again for a platform I don't even play on, because there might be a ever so slight chance of the franchise being revived, in the last moments before it's believed-to-be-inevitable death.

And even if it isn't, I'd be pleased to give some money for the best SRPG series right after Fire Emblem. Valkyria Chronicles is one for those games that I hold very dear to me, and sadly a series that I discovered far to late (early last year), which meant that I had to buy the games used - I'll try to remedy that by buying the PC version.

I encourage everyone who's on the fence about buying this: Do it. You won't regret it. We've yet to see the price (we do, no?), but it probably won't be that high (considering the game's age), and even if it were 40$/€ or whatever, it'd still be worth it. Do it, people.

 

[aspiegamer]

Permadeath occurred only once or twice for me, though. So it's not that big of a deal.

If anyone ever let Edy die, so help me, I will personally hunt you down...

 

[Gipsy Danger]

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Day One.

 

[Cesky]

Fuck yeah!
It was about time.

 

[alexandros]

Neat! I will definitely buy it, because I love strategy games and I want to support more Japanese games coming over to PC.

 

[Jb]

Well this is pretty random, but awesome nonetheless. One of my favorite game of last generation, I'm happy that more people will get to check it out now

 

[Deleted member 59090]

OMG YES! I will double dip the **** out of it.

 

[dejan]

VC was one of my first PS3 games. I'm glad to see this being re-released on my gaming platform of choice.

 

[Mibuokami]

Day 1 for sure. Gladly double dip.

 

[tsab]

Haven't finished it on PS3 yet. Will gladly buy it on PC to restart
Do the petition work guys? If yes where is Shenmue HD?

 

[impact]

Ha! Get out of here. It's the best game Sega made this past decade.

well yea I agree, cuz Sega makes mostly shit.

Sega didn't make Bayo or Vanquish so I don't understand your point. Our statements are both correct.

 

[Shadow Ranger]

Amazing news.

Hopefully it'll be a great port.

 

[toastyToast]

Did not expect this at all. Game looked lovely but it really could have used some AA. Hopefully they package it with the DLC too.

One-woman-army Alicia will rise again.

 

[Elvin Atombender]

I hope this means they are working on a new game as well.

 

[TaroYamada]

well yea I agree, cuz Sega makes mostly shit.

Sega didn't make Bayo or Vanquish so I don't understand your point. Our statements are both correct.

It seems dumb to me to not count games they funded and own but even looking at their in-house content you are wrong. Even Sonic had an upswing last gen with Sonic Generations/Colors. Then there's Yakuza, Total War, Company of Heroes 2, Football Manager, Alien Isolation, Virtua Fighter 5, SEGA Rally Revo. Then digital re-releases/updates/ports for franchises like Nights, Jet Set Radio, Virtual-On, Daytona USA and SEGA Rally.

 

[danthefan]

Holy shit.

Day one.

 

[Orniletter]

I´m always happy when a former (third party, which had no reason to be exclusive in the first place...like being funded by a first party etc.) console exclusive gets preserved for the ages on the PC.

Man, this opens the door for more HD port like Skies of Arcadia.

PCGaf, you know what to do.

 

[Huggers]

Amazing. One of the best PS3 games for sure. Criminally under played as well

 

[Durante]

well yea I agree, cuz Sega makes mostly shit.

Sega didn't make Bayo or Vanquish so I don't understand your point. Our statements are both correct.

Right, let me amend my earlier statement: the best game Sega made or published this last decade. (Sorry Alpha Protocol, you're second best!)

 

[dreamfall]

Right, let me amend my earlier statement: the best game Sega made or published this last decade. (Sorry Alpha Protocol, you're second best!)

Whoa! No Yakuza love?! Profound sadness.

This is amazing news. Will gladly buy it on PC.

 

[TaroYamada]

Whoa! No Yakuza love?! Profound sadness.

This is amazing news. Will gladly buy it on PC.

Inorite? Durante on acid confirmed. edit: Just want to thank everybody for showing their love & excitement today, made it all worth it Remember to sign the petition.

 

[Unai]

Amazing!

 

[Human_me]

I always wanted to get this on the PS3 but just sort of forgot about it.

I'm glad its now coming out on PC. Will most likely buy Day 1.

 

[Joey Ravn]

More power to the PC is always welcome. Make it rain, Japanese devs!

I just hope the port is decent. There's no need to fully rework a relatively-old PS3 game, but at least SEGA could give us some resolution options and solid framerate. Yeah, I'm talking about FFXIII.

 

[deleted]

That's fantastic news! I'll gladly double dip - never played more than a few missions on PS3.

 

[TimmiT]

Did this just come out of nowhere? I haven't heard any rumours or anything and PS3 only releases rarely make it to PC.

PEGI leaked it, which seemingly caused SEGA to just announce it early.

 

[squall211]

Man am I loving this trend of getting more JRPGs onto steam. Hopefully this version will have much better load times than the PS3 version. That was my only gripe with the game when I played it the first time.

 

[Durante]

Man am I loving this trend of getting more JRPGs onto steam. Hopefully this version will have much better load times than the PS3 version. That was my only gripe with the game when I played it the first time.

That's one thing I'm 100% sure of.

 

[GhostTrick]

That's one thing I'm 100% sure of.

So... now that Valkyria Chronicles is coming, that it seems you're not involved with that... is that 100k dollars offer for a port of a game still count ?

 

[robin2]

This conversion always made lots of sense to me.
I hope (believe) it'll do well on pc. I'll be on it as soon as I can.

 

[GhostTrick]

This conversion always made lots of sense to me.
I hope (believe) it'll do well on pc. I'll be on it as soon as I can.

There's no place for hope, only wallet vote !

 

[TheBowen]

Nice. Hoping for good port and decent pricing and will buy

 

[Antiwhippy]

Now if they can release a remastered VC2 without the whole fucking resource grinding thing.

 

[Canis lupus]

Hopefully it'll be on GoG

More power to the PC is always welcome. Make it rain, Japanese devs!

I just hope the port is decent. There's no need to fully rework a relatively-old PS3 game, but at least SEGA could give us some resolution options and solid framerate. Yeah, I'm talking about FFXIII.

That's the minimum thing to ask for and the reason I double dip on pc, settings to play with. There's no reason to buy it again if it's basically just the console version.

 

[Nillansan]

This is being ported in response to the campaign, so yes.

Do we know this?

TaroYamada knows. Seriously.

 

[scotcheggz]

SHIT

Will be double dipping for this, will look ace on PC res

 

[Robert J. Sullivan]

It came totally out of nowhere, that's what makes it so awesome.

Of course, if you think about it, Sega porting the best game they made in the past decade which is also a perfect fit for PC to PC makes perfect sense. But that's just another reason not to expect it.

that RE4 UHD was also out of nowhere
fired up steam on day and saw my activity feed plastered with people doing shitty status update for a game that had a giant "4" icon

my heart nearly stopped

 

[Lime]

This is the thing that bugged me the most about Valkyria Chronicles:

So dumb.

 

[MaLDo]

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

DAT 100 million steam audience.

 

[Uthred]

It is anime. It is "good anime" if you know what I mean, but you still get things like a cute pig mascot thing that keeps popping up. There is a beach scene and a magical girl with giant breasts. You need to be able to deal with this.
The story is nice enough, but doesn't make a huge amount of sense. You need to just kind of roll with it all.

Must have missed the beach scene and magical girls in Grave of the Fireflies, which is weird, what with it being anime and all. Medium isnt genre.

The story held together well enough I thought. They used the not-Nazis pretty well.

 

[mileS]

Not sure why I didn't end up getting this on ps3. I did take part in our gaf attack on twitter though! Have always had an interest in it from the different take on strategy and obviously the art style, the amount of love on gaf as well excited to play this for the first time on PC. I bet if anything I'm in a position that other people envy.

 

[Harmen]

Nice! Hope it does well enough for them to consider expanding the series.

 

[raven777]

Hopefully they keep the dual-audio option in the English version like PS3.

VC is one of my favorite games in PS3 and I am willing to play this again on PC.

any chance they will get some sorts of achievements? PS3 version lacked trophy so I wonder if they are going to bother with any achievements.

 

[Falk]

Public service announcement that Valkyria Chronicles also did get a decent anime adaptation that's totally worth checking out.

(If you speak Japanese, at least)

 

[KojiKnight]

Was not expecting this, I'll have to put some money aside to buy this when it's out.

 

[Usobuko]

Nice! Hope it does well enough for them to consider expanding the series.

Lower the expectation for this.

 

[TheSlySoul]

Glad you PC gamers can play this game. It is very fun. You may want a controller though since I have no clue how they will map the keys.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

oh god this is such good news

 

[IronicSonic]

Let's do this.

Thanks you SEGA <3