Valkyria Chronicles 3 is actually for the PSP! + RGG: OTE

[George]

Added more VC3 scans to the original post, including the 2 in this thread.

[Suzuki Yu]

totally insane! TOTALLY INSANE!
i was like Wha... !

i can't believe that i am so excited for the game now!

[Suzuki Yu]

VC3 scans
http://www.gamingeverything.com/2010/9/ ... an-3.jpg#s

[George]

Man, I just uploaded the scans. Don't take it away from me after I announced it.

[Sieghardt]

all from my man Varion:

Number 01 - Imuka. One of the heroines (the one on the right). Darcsen. Something about her village being destroyed by the Valkyria.
VA: Asano Masumi

Number 07 - Kurt Irving. Used to be a genius military officer, but through certain circumstances became part of the Nameless. The guy in the middle.
VA: Nakamura Yuuuichi

Numvber 13 - Riera Malseris. Valkyria, but she isn't aware of it, and after being the only survivor (of numerous battles I guess), she became known as a Reaper and ended up in the Nameless. The obvious girl on the left.

From the interview
Obviously I understand there are those who want the game to be for the PS3. However, over two years after the release, rather than simply a new game where the game systems are marginally improved, we feel like we need more different ideas. But if go with that, we won't be able to say this is the same series. We've worried thinking about a plan for this for a long time, but we're yet to think of a revolutionary enough idea that feels like 'it'."

"So if you thought of a new idea, you'd make it for the PS3?"
"Yes. We want to make the game on the most fitting hardware for the idea."

gameplay details
-VC2's shitty mission grinding system has been scrapped, you progress through story missions like VC1
-the minimaps stay but they will be bigger
-there will be setpieces like the Batomys and other exciting events
-the number of classes has been reduced and they've been made more unique

basically other than being on psp it seems like they've listened to the complaints of the fans, hooray

[Suzuki Yu]

you know i am angry and all but i kinda respect what the producer said in this interview

[SOUP]

The only real complaint I have about Valkyria Chronicles II is that the way you gain what you need to change your character job classes is a bit too random. Hopefully they'll make that a bit easier.

Reducing the amount of character classes does make sense, as a lot of the final ones in VCII are pretty much the same class with altered stats (sniper that fires 3 shots at once vs. sniper that can deal serious damage to armoured vehicles). The game has about 35 classes, but most of those are sub-classes of the 10 that are actually different. As long as they keep the Fencer/Mauler class, I'll be happy.  Boost a Fencer's stats with a Melodist (Buffer class), and they can down even the toughest boss in about 3 hits.

[Aki-at]

Shame Valkyria Chronicles is not returning the to Playstation 3, though not too surprising when the original Valkyria Chronicles has not shifted much over 400,000 (And keep in mind it only did 30,000 on it's debut month in America) as I said in the comment section, game obviously did enough to warrent a sequel, but not enough to warrent a HD experience, which is a shame, but what can you do?

[Aki-at]

Also, for those complaining about realism of Yakuza and what not, spoilers from Yakuza 2 below...

[spoiler:26wc2r3p]A GIANT GOLDEN OSAKA CASTLE CAME OUT OF THE FLOOR FULL OF SAMURAIS AND TIGER PUNCHING, insane action is all part of the series[/spoiler:26wc2r3p]

[MadeManG74]

Shame Valkyria Chronicles is not returning the to Playstation 3, though not too surprising when the original Valkyria Chronicles has not shifted much over 400,000

Yeah, it would have been nice, but Valk didn't really set the world on fire. I think it had potential to be a big series, but I can understand Sega keeping the costs down.

As for Yakuza, I think this is really cool! At first I was a bit 'huh!?' but now I think more about it, this is a chance to just make some crazy batshit game that's completely unrelate to the rest of the series but still featuring all our favourite characters! This sort of thing is really rare in any medium, and it's nice to see something so wild from a series like Yakuza.

Hopefully it's packed to the gills with stuff that's too far out for even the regular Yakuza series, meaning it needs to out-do Tiger Punching.

[Aki-at]

Yeah, it would have been nice, but Valk didn't really set the world on fire. I think it had potential to be a big series, but I can understand Sega keeping the costs down.

Yeah do not get me wrong, I would love to see Valkyria Chronicles appear back on the Playstation 3, but realistically speaking, it would not probably sell too well even with marketing, the SRPG subgenre sells overall the least compared to the other subgenre's in RPG, even Nintendo's Fire Emblem series has a hard time selling and that is probably the biggest, in terms of consistency anyway, SRPG series out there.

It be a great thing to see it back on home consoles, but it really is not financially viable to be honest. Cannot always take risks, the group managed to lose $500 million in the space of two years in 2008 and 2009 after all.

[CrazyT]

I wonder what Nagoshi says in that interview (it's an interview right??)

[Sega Uranus]

I pretty much had the same reaction as Mang on Yakuzambies (yes we will all have to call it that now). A lot of people I am talking to about this just straight out hate the concept entirely, but as long as it is a spinoff I think it sounds like it could be cool. I think this kind of setting has a lot of potential to be maybe the most fun in the series, and that says a lot.

I think Valkyria Chronicles is better suited to handhelds honestly. This does not really effect me at all.

[CrazyT]

I think the valkyria games indeed suit better for the handheld, at the moment. I agree with Shinji Motoyama. If there were a sequal on ps3, expectations would be huge and could only destroy the franchise with bad ratings and such.

Expanding the gameplay on handhelds is a smart choice and wil only have a positive outcome if there comes a VC on the ps3.

Also I don't own a ps3 so it's all good for me!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[George]

Sorry, I love VC1 on PS3 and they work very well on the PS3. I would not mind a side game being done, along with a PS3 game. But damn, everything about (quality wise) VC1>VC2.