Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
mintylurb said:Seriously, so many good games out now and coming out soon. I'll probably pick this one up next year or when it hits $20.
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This game should be a priority.
mintylurb said:Seriously, so many good games out now and coming out soon. I'll probably pick this one up next year or when it hits $20.
Huh?! Why would you do that?Hcoregamer00 said:Don't make me post crappy Japanese fanart of her.
Hcoregamer00 said::/
This game should be a priority.
Yazuka said:Huh?! Why would you do that?
Kagari said:I agree.
Ah, well that's true. =/Hcoregamer00 said:Because good official art of anything related to the game is few and far in-between.
So if we were to continue this trend of posting game art, it would eventually go to crappier art.
Dr. Kitty Muffins said:I feel like I'm apart of something special just by knowing about this game before its release. I've never felt this way before about an upcoming game. It is like i know I am laying witness to a sleeper hit unfolding before my very eyes.
Tiktaalik said:Does anyone else think that releasing this game at this time is a huge mistake? I'm well within the market that Sega is hoping to sell this to, but even I am not going to pick it up until well after the holiday game rush.
Hcoregamer00 said:So true,
Valkyria Chronicles is a high budget game (that will likely receive some critical acclaim), and you know it will sell like SHIT.
As much as I want the game to succeed and sell 300,000+ copies, there is no chance in hell. The game will likely not even get past 150k, especially since Sega is stupid enough to publish it in November, instead of September like originally planned. Good job guys, put a big budget strategy RPG right between big Sony games like Resistance 2.
Hcoregamer00 said:True, and Sega should have launched Valkyria Chronicles in August/September before the Sony lineup is released.
After all, when someone has to choose between Resistance 2 and Valkyria Chronicles, they would likely chose R2. As opposed to the PS3 lineup in August that is pretty barren except for D3, and Valkyria definitely has more potential to go "mainstream" compared to every other SRPG out there.
Never mind, I should rephrase that. They had the potential to go "mainstream" but wont because they were stupid enough to release it in November. It is a horrible decision for two main reasons:
1. It is right after the JRPG onslaught on other platforms, and most RPG gamers have more than just the PS3 console.
2. It is in between the Sony lineup, which is absolutely stupid because the same people who would buy these games may be privy to experiment if the game was released in a dead zone.
Valkyria will be a bomba, quote me on it. Shove it in my face if the game sells more than 300,000 copies in the USA. Hell, you can even ban me for week if that proves to be true.
well......speedpop said:If it sells or not is really of no consequence to me, I merely get to enjoy a game I've been waiting a good while to play. I'll let the sales worry the executives at the company and the sales crew on several gaming forums.
Just hope that Sega take the engine by the scruff of the neck and make more games using it.
Katana_Strikes said:Great thread. Loves the quotes part. Nice touch!
BTW anyone from the UK who's interested in this game pop along to the hut:
http://www.thehut.com/hut/9997576.product
With the HALLOWEEN discount you can get it for a £25.93. Amazing price!
I've just ordered my copy at that price.
speedpop said:If it sells or not is really of no consequence to me, I merely get to enjoy a game I've been waiting a good while to play. I'll let the sales worry the executives at the company and the sales crew on several gaming forums.
Just hope that Sega take the engine by the scruff of the neck and make more games using it.
Tiktaalik said:Does anyone else think that releasing this game at this time is a huge mistake? I'm well within the market that Sega is hoping to sell this to, but even I am not going to pick it up until well after the holiday game rush.
Fournier said:It will be my first RPG for PS3
el Diablo said:Nope. Great timing as far as i'm concerned, people who want an original next gen (sorry Disgaea 3) JP styled S/RPG will finally have it (been waiting since launch myself). The fact that it's around the holidays gives you no excuse not to buy it.
BlazingDarkness said:7 days bitchesss!!
Volcynika said:I hate you, Europe!
Oblivion was my first PS3 RPG.Hcoregamer00 said:Unless your first RPG is Eternal Sonata, Disgaea 3, or Enchated Arms, then your First RPG is this game.
GeoramA said:Oblivion was my first PS3 RPG.
I don't get this argument. it seems to assume that for some reson the other games released around this time are inherently more worthy than VC, and that it can't go up against them. I vehemently disagree. If I could only buy one game in all of October and November this would be it. (Luckily I'm not in such a position)Tiktaalik said:Does anyone else think that releasing this game at this time is a huge mistake? I'm well within the market that Sega is hoping to sell this to, but even I am not going to pick it up until well after the holiday game rush.
Durante said:I don't get this argument. it seems to assume that for some reson the other games released around this time are inherently more worthy than VC, and that it can't go up against them. I vehemently disagree. If I could only buy one game in all of October and November this would be it. (Luckily I'm not in such a position)
Quixzlizx said:The story is happening. It's supposed to look flat.while someone is flipping through a book
Hcoregamer00 said::/
This game should be a priority.
Does amazon get that? >.>Hcoregamer00 said:Thats okay, they get the game early, but we got the artbook/world guide
Durante said:Valkyria Chronicles isn't flat, in fact it has very well done and unique shadowing. That those shadows are subdued is an artistic choice that, in my opinion, goes well with the whole sketchbook-style presentation. You obviously disagree, but it's clearly a matter of taste. I for one prefer the original look of the screenshot to the one you "improved".
Hcoregamer00 said:Thats okay, they get the game early, but we got the artbook/world guide
What do you mean? I found it very quick for an SRPG. What specific part could be faster? The menus are already very responsive and well laid out and the characters move as quickly as possible while still being able to control them and retaining some kind of "realistic" animation.rhfb said:Any way to speed the game play up in the full version? I enjoyed the demo, other than the fact that it was way too slow.
Durante said:I don't get this argument. it seems to assume that for some reson the other games released around this time are inherently more worthy than VC, and that it can't go up against them. I vehemently disagree. If I could only buy one game in all of October and November this would be it. (Luckily I'm not in such a position)
shift J said:Just a heads up, it's in Circuit City's 11/9-11/15 ad for only $44.99!
shift J said:Just a heads up, it's in Circuit City's 11/9-11/15 ad for only $44.99!
el Diablo said:It's based on the argument that the other titles are big budget franchises that people already know. I have a sliver of hope for VC though because it's in a genre by itself. Resistance 2, Gears 2, Fallout 3, all those games are aimed at a totally different audience. I keep hearing that J-S/RPGs are dead and that there's no market for them, yet i constantly hear people bitch about the lack of them on the PS3. Hopefully these people will put their money where their mouth is (i will be) and delay the purchase of yet ANOTHER FPS for VC.
now I would buy it at that price, to bad I'm in Canada :'(shift J said:Just a heads up, it's in Circuit City's 11/9-11/15 ad for only $44.99!
Durante said:I don't get this argument. it seems to assume that for some reson the other games released around this time are inherently more worthy than VC, and that it can't go up against them. I vehemently disagree. If I could only buy one game in all of October and November this would be it. (Luckily I'm not in such a position)
ukiraros said:As Hcoregamer00 mentioned in the demo thread about the artbook. The artbook is already available at my EBGames and I just brought it back home. It's not a hard cover and it's about 32 pages. It's actually pretty nice.
Tiktaalik said:The argument is valid because SRPG fandom is extremely niche, even among hardcore gamers. For an SRPG to do really well it has to go above and beyond folks like yourself (with Disgaea avatars) and also draw in folks like myself, which have bought many SRPGs in the past, such as Fire Emblem, FFTactics, and Advance Wars, but for whom the genre remains of smaller interest when compared to other genres.
If Sega has planned this game with a budget so that it can be profitable on only the backs of super hardcore SRPG fans that would have this game as #1 on their list, then Sega is in good shape. However if Sega is hoping for sales from hardcore gamers where SRPGs are only #3 or #4 on their favourite genre list, they could be in trouble, since so many other games in other genres of interest to hardcore gamers are coming out in this time frame.
Considering how high budget the title looks, It's certainly possible that it can't be profitable without drawing in hardcore gamers that are not SRPG fans first, so that's why I'm questioning the release date. It probably could have been better to release when there was a lighter schedule, so that hardcore gamers would have less offerings to look at, and a high quality SRPG would rise to the surface as a game worth looking at. As it stands it looks to me that it could easily be lost among other high profile titles such as Fable 2, Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, Dead Space and many, many, many more.
el Diablo said:It's based on the argument that the other titles are big budget franchises that people already know. I have a sliver of hope for VC though because it's in a genre by itself. Resistance 2, Gears 2, Fallout 3, all those games are aimed at a totally different audience. I keep hearing that J-S/RPGs are dead and that there's no market for them, yet i constantly hear people bitch about the lack of them on the PS3. Hopefully these people will put their money where their mouth is (i will be) and delay the purchase of yet ANOTHER FPS for VC.
Well if they don't have the artbook guess i'll have to bring this over to gamestop and get them to pricematch it. At $45 there is absolutely no reason that people interested in this game shouldn't buy it.
Speaking of the artbook what are the details on this? Is it Gamestop only? Is it shipping before the game, is it a release day first come first served pickup or what? This info would be really helpful in the OP.
Note also that he said this about the graphics in the recent demo thread, before you think the game looks badFafalada said:That's tech - and tech is cheap (well, relatively speaking).
High-end Art assets aren't - but Val assets are high-end by PS2 generation standards, not PS360 standards.
In other words, the art style and rendering technology allowed them to make an excellent looking game with assets that aren't any more expensive to create than last-gen ones.Fafalada said:Great execution across the board. And it looks great to boot (It really looks better in person then any of the videos I've seen in the past).
KeioSquad2 said:Anyone that loves games or loves what makes gaming great, should buy this game.
KeioSquad2 said:Anyone that loves games or loves what makes gaming great, should buy this game.