Sega very happy with Valkyria Chronicles' Steam launch
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DigitalDevilSummoner
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This just came to me; putting your old stuff on the bargain bin is great en' ol but could something useful come out of this and will Sega localize Valkyria Chronicles III ? Possibly handing the port over to HexaDrive ?! Daydreaming...
First playthrough, I felt the same thing but it really shines during the second time you play and start completing the challenges.
First playthrough, I felt the same thing but it really shines during the second time you play and start completing the challenges.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
New porting house based in the UK called Little Stone's been credited for VC.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Crazy pipe-dream: SEGA ports Dreamcast games with the ability to toggle on-disc DLC. It'd be great in cases where the hacking community hasn't worked its magic on the disc contents.
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
In what way is it "in the clear" ?
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
With sales like this, it certainly won't be forgotten like Quartet, Eternal Champions, and other SEGA IPs the company doesn't think will sell.
GayForMaster
Banned
60 fps Vanquish? I think my dick would exceed its current peak dimensions.
Zeyphersan
Banned
What other SEGA games do we need?
Bayonetta? Jet Set Radio Future? Yakuza? Vanquish? All the Atlus games?
LITERALLY THE ENTIRE WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Bayonetta? Jet Set Radio Future? Yakuza? Vanquish? All the Atlus games?
LITERALLY THE ENTIRE WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Nightengale
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SEGA: We're pleased to announce that we will be bringing the next localisation of Valkyria to the widest platforms available globally.
NICE!
SEGA c'mon baby gives us dat optimized PC Vanquish!!
Thats day one all day for me.
Fine Ham Abounds
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A.K.A. the Yulogy
SatelliteOfLove
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This clashing breadth of variety was once the norm. It has now returned on a new venue.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
I could see them doing that alongside either a new game or a PSP sequel, actually.SEGA: We're pleased to announce that we will be bringing the next localisation of Valkyria to the widest platforms available globally.
I never played the series but I was captivated by the art design. Is it wrong to want the first two remade running emulated model 2 arcade code? I'm so odd.
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
This logic seriously upsets me: Why other ?!
How about a game doing well means that the franchise will be strengthened instead of more random stuff be thrown into the bargain bin ? Why should I care that Sega is pleased if it doesn't lead to anything productive -like the VC III localization-. Binary Domain on steam lead to nothing and I can live with that because it possibly didn't sell that well. Now it actually happened: a port did in fact sell. Does that mean anything to me as a gamer ? I usually avoid Sega threads because they remind me of their gross incompetence as publishers.
I can see we are collectively daydreaming.
Krusenstern
Banned
Boy, you really seem to not be happy about any of this. How is bringing a game to a new platform NOT productive? To a system where the right game can sell like crazy.
They shouldn't be stopped to bring over games that people actually want only because Binary Fucking Domain, a game which barely anyone asked for, didn't not sell.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Sorry, you lost me at bargain bin
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
Don't make me sound like the bad person, I am merely being pragmatic. And you are answering your own question. They are bringing a game over, they are not making anything new.
The reason I mentioned Binary Domain (which is a killer game and I played thanks to the Steam version) is simple: whether a port sells or not the end result is the same.
Why ?
When a product's life on the "shelf" has come to an end since it's no longer lucrative, it's moved to the "bargain bin", where shop intents to more greater volumes at a lower price. The problem is that we are talking about a product that has been abandoned or discontinued.
Let's be honest, calling for other games, means we actually agree. No ?
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
This makes no technical sense. Altered Beast 3D is designed for the 3DS' screen resolution, and M2 has enough projects with other clients that not even Okunari could make them do the job. Maybe SEGA would give VC Duel instead, assuming the whole company's out to troll us with what we least desire. And Dengeki Climax, for that matter, would out-perform expectations thanks to Steam's waifu tribe.
SEGA's killer franchise, Sonic, isn't doing well at the moment (Boom project having failed and Sonic Team's game up in the air), and the executives have stated an interest in developing title for the digital market. They're more likely to consider Steam trends when planning new products for West and East; a new Valkyria Chronicles has potential to succeed worldwide on this platform.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Speaking completely pragmatically, Sega porting Valkyria Chronicles to PC is more useful to me than anything they did for the past five years. If you asked the logic behind "why others?", my answer would be "as a gamer, I want those."
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
Exactly.
Perfectly acceptable but that's not the context in which I used "productive".
TaroYamada
Member
Binary domain was a good third person shooter guyzzz. I put like 80 hours into it or some crap. Love nagoshi nagoshter.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
But Vanquish is the GOAT third person shooter, just ahead of or minus RE4.
I really should give Binary Domain a try.
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
It's leagues and bounds better than the other Sega/Toshihiro Nagoshi produced shooter Yakuza dead souls.
Scrooge McDuck
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Mmm, then I must admit I don't understand your derision. I understand that you want them to put out something new and localize Valkyria Chronicles 3. I want that too, but putting more value to it just by the virtue of it being more "productive" is not really "pragmatic" to me.
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
Why now ? Square and Sega -as publishers- port games all the time. From on the other hand did nothing. It was Bandai the publisher that did. The problem is that Japanese publishers have given up on producing high profile games, at least with some consistency.
Sega -the publisher- being "happy" irks me the same way people get mad at ubisoft for making money for crappy games. In non of these cases we the gamers see anything in return. I just couldn't care less about Ubi or EA.
Sega is my EA !
what...exactly do you want to "see in return" besides the game you paid for?
Tizoc
Member
...but it doesn't have playable Majima Goro.
...but man a Yakuza Dead Souls on Steam would be ace, framerate was whacko in the original PS3 ver.
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
the devil is in the details: it's not what's useful to me or you, it's the collective of people that have payed for VC on every platform that essentially call for this. it's a franchise, we can all agree that great games should not be abandoned.
Zeyphersan was bothered by my using of "bargain bin" but still by calling for "other" games recognizes that porting a game (even if it's successful) does nothing for the franchise. which is really sad.
very good question: when I buy full retail price (the "shelf" life span of a game) I want to show my support to the studio as well, not just own the game for the sake of having it in my collection or the satisfaction of playing it sooner. I want to vote with my wallet to encourage / finance in advance more of this. It's the only way to sent the message in a concrete way that I will support them in their next venture.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Exactly, and that's why I don't understand your derision. You are upset by people wanting more PC ports and even questioned the logic behind it. But you said yourself that it's not about me or you. Obviously there are also a collective of people who want the ports of Valkyria Chronicles and other games. You want what you want. I want what I want. People want what they want.
Can't people want them, anyway? You said that "we gamers don't get anything in return" but I feel like you are only counting a subset of "gamers" there. Could you clarify?
TaroYamada
Member
More PC ports or rather efforts to increase the size of the audience for SEGA IP, isn't a bad thing. The choice wasn't Valkyria 4 on PS4 or Valkyria Chronicles on PC, it was Valkyria Chronicles on PC or no Valkyria Chronicles for sometime.
JumpJeff84
Member
Good to hear!
1. Shenmue
2. Skies of Arcadia
3. OutRun2
4. Panzer Dragoon Orta
5. Super Monkey Ball 1
6. Planet Harriers
7. Daytona USA 2
8. Jet Set Radio Future
9. Gunvalkyrie
10. Otogi
11. Vanquish
12. Bayonetta
13. Border Break
14. Virtua Fighter 5
15. Phantasy Star Online 2
Just release the goddamn games.
Didn't expect it to make it back to #1, even for a short while. It's pretty impressive given the full-priced competition.
I'm not at all convinced of that. The character action game genre isn't that popular on PC.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Didn't DmC do pretty well on PC? But yes, I do feel Bayonetta is a riskier bet than something like Vanquish or Resonance of Fate.
DarkLordMalik
Member
I hope this results in a VC HD collection on PC/PS4/XBO and a VC 4 release.
Tuulenpoika
Neo Member
Great to see VC doing so well, it deserves it. Not getting it though since I already own the PS3 version.
Skies of Arcadia HD, on the other hand... I would LOVE to play that on my Vita.
Skies of Arcadia HD, on the other hand... I would LOVE to play that on my Vita.
publicpwnerer
Member
Now we just need Shenmue 1+2 HD, and Jet Set Radio Future.
Not a problem. Easy to apply PC fan translations as opposed to consoles.
GhostTrick
Banned
Well... Metal Gear Rising seems to have done pretty well. Now it's a Metal Gear game...
But to be fair, I think character action game genre would be popular on PC if we had the correct titles. Beside MGR, the only other title we had this generation was DMC4... as for DmC... well...
it's best to ignore that guy's posts on pc games. happens every time.