Tizoc’s gonna force me to play some FF9. I’m not very far into it.
This is why you’re my bro. You’ve got impeccable taste.
I might start posting up some sick FF9 tunes too.
Limbo is soooo good. It’s a shame that it’s so short.
Yeah I bought that a few days ago. Went for my perfect run today but died at the friggin pumps which crush you if you step on the wrong section of the floor. I always mindfuck myself at that part even though I know which one to step on.
i can’t imagine how stressful a perfect run would be. i started over and died on the first bear trap.
<-- old man memory.
I forgot how amazing Valkriya Chronicles was…I’m so mad that the sequels are PSP only!
If I could like this 1000 times, I would.
The US won’t ever see Valkyria 3 because of rampant piracy on the PSP. You have no idea how broken that news has made me.
The only other hope is that it gets an HD re-release on PS3 like they’ve been planning for other high-selling PSP games.
I remember reading somewhere that Valkriya Chronicles 2 didn’t make it to PS3 because people might be expecting too much for a sequel.
So in the end, as long as they made it on PSP, they have an excuse why they were limited on the creativity. However, I don’t know how true this is.
Speaking of, I’m surprised I still have my copy of Valkyria Conronicles.
I thought I sold that game months ago! :x
Wow, so unfortunate…if Sega had any clue how to market a game outside of Sonic this series could’ve gone somewhere…shit is really upsetting. :mad:
i didn’t like ff9. the animal characters just didn’t do it for me. i like that they tried to go back to ff roots though but there was something missing from it. when i got to ff9 i was playing ff10 already.
ff9 is amazing
right below ff7 of course /yao face
i’d argue that sega doesn’t even market sonic well… at all.
sega’s marketing is why they are doing so horribly in america, and without any desire to improve that over the past, say, 10-20 years, you get a company with no direction and no goal except to keep putting out random games (including 1000000000 collections of games from their best years) hoping something will stick.
last year alone they put out bayonetta, VC2, Resonance of Fate, yakuza 4, vanquish, sonic 4, and they also put out melty blood and vf5: FS in japanese arcades… almost all of those could be considered quality games, and with the right marketting, could’ve taken any one of those and coasted through 2010 with alot of confidence. but in 2010, they put out 136 skus over 6-7 Different platforms, most remakes and other money sinks, and almost all without any marketing whatsoever.
sega can make good games, but they couldn’t sell them to someone dying of boredom, and that’s unfortunate.
get a psp and play vc2 already. i don’t get why the psp gets so much hate. at first it was complaints about having no games then when the psp have games like vc2 i still here bitching. fuck man.
Nobody is hating on the PSP, I’m just saying a game like VC deserves the full console treatment, and the fact that Sega put a sequel out on a less capable platform speaks volumes on how they take care of their IPs. VC2 is still a great game, but how much people know about it? How much people pirate that shit that do know about it? Point blank releasing a sequel to a console game exclusively on a portable was a terrible decision, and because of that, Valkriya Chronicles will forever remain in obscurity.
I may be overreacting a tad, but playing VC on the PS3…it’s just maddening to know what Sega could’ve had but blew, it reminds me of FOX’s handling of Arrested Development (Uggggggh)…overall, Sega sucks.
How well did the first Valkyria Chronicles do out here in the US? From what I remember, its sales were really low, causing it to have a huge cut in price (around $30 I think) a few months after its release (here’s a 1up article about the price cut).
I mean, we can blame Sega all we want, but in the end, the majority of PS3 users never gave the game a shot (except for the small surge during the sale). A shame too, because Valkyria Chronicles is a great game.
Did Demon’s Souls do well or was it just a niche? Because word spread around quick and that game became big enough for a sequel.
i fail to see how you have a good game that gets universal acclaim, has a decent amount of appeal, and is insanely fun, but doesn’t get sales… how do you not blame that on sega’s marketing?
there’s a reason why you have marketing teams… to get people to pay for your product by convincing them that your product is worth buying. people get paid high 5-figures (sometimes 6) to get your product out there in the media, make your game visible, find a market and sell sell sell… it is one of the most competitive fields to be in because it’s so important…
you can blame negligence on the consumer all you want, call it the COD generation or whatever you want… but i know my brother went out and bought ff13 without knowing shit about it because the hype machine was in full effect. it was in every magazine, online blog, forum, commercial break, advertising nba games… he is your COD generation in its utmost, 16 years old and has never even played a FF game before, but he had that shit preordered before i did…
if sega would have put in 25% the effort square did they might have made 25% of what ff13 did and that would have been AMAZING for a sega game. good marketing will always get you sales, and no marketing means you continually flop despite the quality of your product.
Demon’s Souls did ridiculously well. So well, in fact, that Atlus lost the bidding war to publish the sequel in the US.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Valkyria Chronicles and Demon’s Souls have similar sales numbers, with the difference being that Valkyria Chronicles needed a huge price cut to get there. Demon’s Souls also received overwhelmingly positive praise, not only winning RPG of the Year awards, but Game of the Year awards as well (especially considering that Uncharted 2 also came out that year).
@ subt-L
You’re trying to compare Final Fantasy, a MASSIVE franchise, to a new IP of a fairly niche genre. People were talking about FF XIII even without Square Enix’s help.
well, if you’re just gonna ignore my whole post and whole point, then my bad.