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>>15549240

Is that name supposed to be a play on "Crimea"?

>>15549615

>surprised at the lack of references to previous games.

the DLC package has a few missions with the squad 7 guys, tough to tell if its considered canon or not but it's alright, you're likely to be way overleveled when you play it so it's kinda funny to do a mission with your megacock rangers then switch to the militia boys again. Amusingly/frustratingly enough, the sqaud-7 units seem to act EXACTLY like they did in VC1 so rosie and largo can move about 3 and a half fucking feet per use and the mission where you have to use them is a giant pain in the dick

>>15549744

Hopefully they don't get discouraged and axe the series. One of the post-game bios implies there could be a pacific-theater style war next between vinland and not-japan.

Haven't played it yet because I don't know if its censored or not.

>>15549803

I'm yet to find evidence of actual censorship in the sense of something in the game being removed so you don't see it. There's a few things in the translation that raise an eyebrow but can' confirm if they're nefarious or not yet. you can't look up skirts in the model viewer but you can in gameplay and there's fanservice costumes you can unlock

>>15549744

Nobody wants to play as the EU, Sega appealing to anti-facists trannies is why it flopped.

>>15549857

considering that one of the post-game units you can unlock is just supposed to be Arnold Swhazeneggar as the terminator, that might have been an actual translation

>>15549862

I didn't actually consider that I just unlocked him and stopped playing since the end game is kind of lacking.

>>15549873

yeah he's just arnie, he's a pretty good grenadier too

>>15549744

>Maybe a lot of people just bought it for the Switch, but I heard less than 10% of it's total sales came from Xbox… so that's a pretty big blow for VC and JP games in general for that platform

I'm going to buy it on swatch, if only because SEGA Europe denuvo'd up the PC port, and i've always try to support the games, save for that spin off, and 2. Also 10% of sales being Xbone isn't particularly any more daming than normal, nobody buys an xbox-anything for jap games since the 360 launch.

>>15549859

That's the main reason i passed on it. I might have enjoyed something like this years ago but knowing now what i know about WW2 i just find the whole thing depressing.

>>15549859

>>15549905

>muh redpilled public don't want the game

None of these games have EVER sold all that well, even the PC port of 1 everyone was championing as a success, judging by the stats we have, it pulled in about the same sales as the PS3 original, if that.

>>15549859

>>15549905

The Federation aren't the "good guys" in Valkyria Chronicles. Ever since the original games they were bastards. Gallia is basically a chunk of meat being fought over by two rabid dogs. The only reason you fight for the Empire in VC4 is because the Empire sacked your squad's hometown looking for Ragnite tech and Gallia being a neutral country didn't want to get dragged into a global conflict over a minor border town being sacked. So your squad left Gallia to sign up with those who were alread fighting so they could take their revenge on the Empire.

Even so, the Federation is an incompetent bunch of Jewish tricksters who get their asses handed to them enough that they've basically sold themselves to the United States - who are implied to be one of the puppet masters of the Federation since the Federation is too weak and inept to defend themselves.

Again, the next game (if there is a next game) is heavily implied to be a pacific theater game against not-Japan and not-Burgers - because the Burgers have been doing shady shit to not-Japan to the point where they might have to side with the Empire and declare war on the US. The secondary villain in VC4 is only a villain because he saw the heart of darkness that corrupts the Federation during his time in the intelligence agency helping the not-Manhattan Project - and promptly defected to the Empire.

If you expect the Federation to be the good guys here, this isn't really the series.

>>15549942

It does a pretty good job not painting either side as purely good/bad, with the exception of belgar everyone has their own motives which make sense, a lot of the imperial guys would easily be considered honorable, even the ones in the hot spring scene which praise traditional values, end up being shown in a nice light at the end of that little arc, granted it was heavy handed at points and was really there for fanservice and set up for true ending

What you should take from VC games isn't what side you're fighting on and that it's about the soldiers and their squad, it doesn't really matter who Squad 7 or Squad E was fighting for but that they're protecting their own home and ideals

>>15549942

>Again, the next game (if there is a next game) is heavily implied to be a pacific theater game against not-Japan and not-Burgers - because the Burgers have been doing shady shit to not-Japan to the point where they might have to side with the Empire and declare war on the US. The secondary villain in VC4 is only a villain because he saw the heart of darkness that corrupts the Federation during his time in the intelligence agency helping the not-Manhattan Project - and promptly defected to the Empire.

>>15549970

>It does a pretty good job not painting either side as purely good/bad, with the exception of belgar everyone has their own motives which make sense

Failure of this game aside, what are the odds if the next game actually features the pacific theater, that the japs are going to go into full on victim mode?

>>15549987

>that the japs are going to go into full on victim mode?

vinland certainly isn't painted in a good light from the story of this game but making America flat out villains would be really tricky. Maybe they could be bold and do a game where you play as both sides back and forth, granted that would mean smaller unit pools most likely

>>15549615

It sold alright for a niche franchise thanks to the switch bugmen, we may still get an HD remaster of the second and third games PS4 exclusive, but no valkyria chronicles 5.

>>15550019

Shame the game isn't more of a success. They could do a dual release of both a not-Japan & not-USA campaigns for $40 - each version telling the story from a different perspective. Then have a multiplayer mode where player levels and gear are set - but you get to choose which troop arrangements to deploy and what strategies to employ.

>>15550046

I'd take a hard pass on a VC2 remaster but getting VC3 on a proper platform and localized could be beneficial to the series getting recognition, i still haven't played that one but i hear it was solid

>>15550050

>Shame the game isn't more of a success.

it's cut a funny little niche out for itself, it won't be a hit with the mainstream ever from how it plays and tells it story so maybe SEGA can figure that out and not lose money on it

>>15550331

belgar works because he's a rouge agent in the end so you don't fall into "imperial = bad" but his logic isn't fleshed out enough, he more or less just wants to detonate valkyrias because that's it

>>15550361

I kind of liked that about his crew that they were acting independently(mostly) but yeah his motivation is completely fucked, I get that he wanted to continue Alberts research into Valkria nukes, It would have been better if he was continuing it for his own way of bringing about peace but in the end all he wanted to do was blow himself up and accomplish nothing with the nuke?

>>15550378

there's a few things that fall flat upon scrutiny in the story but not enough for me to hate it or talk shit, belgars ultimate motives being one of them. Another being the "help the rebels" section which felt like it was missing a chapter or something. The characters journey held up these issues though, Raz's sacrifice came out really well and actually had me feel for the crew, and the ceasefire right as they're about to pull the bombs trigger was a bit better delivered than expected because it felt less like an ex-machina and more like a a moment for claude to become frustrated with his mission and purpose. I liked it a lot but it coulda used a tweak for sure

>>15549204

>The Empire did nothing wrong

>kills best valkyria

>nothing wrong

t. imp

>>15550423

I thought the ceasefire before the bomb was done well, its the "lets get back on the ship and rescue Angie but now where just going to give up until the ship says it wants us to live", I thought that part could have used a bit more work since we already had decent conclusion on the bridge with Minerva, Claude, and Riley

>>15550432

No

>>15550432

yes but these screengrabs leave out the last bit where it shows that the imperial soldiers aren't necessarily bad people despite being on opposite sides of the war

>>15550462

>where just going to give up until the ship says it wants us to live

The cinematographer is really at fault for that, because the situation doesn't look inescapable at all. I get that ragnite might have some living source and could perhaps bend the ships will a little bit but the staging of it seemed off

>>15550475

I get the theme of it since all game they talk about ragnite being able to "speak" but I just think it would have been better if they used their own resolve to get themselves out of it.

>>15550480

Having your squad mates risk their ass to save you there probably woulda been the most satisfying solution after all they went through

Is it cracked yet?

>>15551082

>>it has denuvo

>I don't know if I should bite the bullet this one time.

Get the console version goy. Consoles don't have DRM. :^)

>>15551082

Get it on console?

>>15551088

>>15551093

>implying I have a current gen console

There's no Nip in the steam version and I don't own a PS4 and will never buy one so I'm not going to play it ever I guess.

>>15549928

Thing is, even assuming it was meant to always sell poorly, the niche that would have played it was alienated by the translations and HOL UP shit.

Remember how Dead or Alive literally died overnight once they told how they were going to be more e-sports and less revealing?

>>15549204

Damn is japan pozzed out now too?

I think they added that last line just so it wouldnt be taken as serious.

>>15551385

Surprised this isn't mentioned more.

>>15549163

Never played this before. Why the ancap flag?

>>15549615

>>15549744

>-I think it sold like shit, so it might be the last VC game.

That's wrong. It sold fairly well on PS4, but pretty badly on Switch in Japan nearly every third-party game sold like shit on Switch in Japan anyway

>02. Valkyria Chronicles 4 62,921 New [PS4]

>14. Valkyria Chronicles 4 5,596 New [Switch]

>>15551724

obviously forgot my sources

PS4 version first week sale https://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20180328082/

Switch version first week sale https://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20181003044/

>>15551410

That's the shittiest voice acting ever. Make a clip of that in nip and I might be able to tell you something about the localization accuracy.

The fact that you can't hang all spies and all spy collaborators immediately is disappointing

>>15549163

>class

Shocktrooper, something really satisfying about pumping some full with lead

>character

Klaus

>map

anything that is built around you killing lots of enemies without having to worry about taking too long to get a good rank

>squad story

Only played two so far, neither of them really stood out to me

>good

It's an improvement on VC1 in pretty much every way; combat is really satisfying, characters are nice, story is actually pretty good, and a great variety of maps and missions

>bad

Game still ranks you on how quickly you beat a map, I wish they would base it more on how many enemies you kill or how well you kept your squad in tact, and some bosses feel a bit bullet spongy but nothing too bad, apparently there have been more than a few localization fuckups I wouldn't know because I don't speak Nip or read moonrunes

What would you guys like to see in future VC's? I hope they expand the size of the battles; instead of you deploying ten guys and two tanks in battle against 20+ enemies I'd like to see it more along the lines of you deploying 20+ against 50+, and with more tank variations- throw in playable tank destroyers, self propelled artillery, flakpanzers, etc, and maybe make a heavy infantry weapon class like heavy machine guns or anti-tank cannons to give the player more defensive options, and a few more environments like swamps or jungles.

>>15554406

>What would you guys like to see in future VC's?

A little more objective variety, i enjoyed the missions where capturing camps wasn't the goal

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