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Acevil on 22 March 2009

It has been pretty obvious this game was being overtracked, but does that take away from the game?

Also why bring Tales into this, it has yet to be released in Europe, for final results.



 

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sabby_e17 on 22 March 2009

if the game had trophies i would definatly get it :(




richardhutnik on 22 March 2009

And why am I the only one protesting Guilty Gear Overture not even getting 30,000 sales worldwide, according to VG Chartz?
http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=27771&region=All



Chrizum on 22 March 2009

It isn't that overtracked, if at all. Those NPD numbers are for US only, VGChartz tracks Canada and Mexico to for Americas. So it's at 85k + 10% = 94k. It might be overtracked by 5k-10k but that's hardly noteworthy.



Acevil on 22 March 2009
Chrizum said:
It isn't that overtracked, if at all. Those NPD numbers are for US only, VGChartz tracks Canada and Mexico to for Americas. So it's at 85k + 10% = 94k. It might be overtracked by 5k-10k but that's hardly noteworthy.

 

You are assuming that it actually did reach 85k (in US) now, which for some reason I doubt it.



 

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mibuokami on 22 March 2009
Kasz216 said:
theprof00 said:
no sequel in the works?
Is that why they are releasing new content?

Well I mean... it's a battle about a war... so...

 

Any sequel would be in the vein of Fire Emblem where it's set either before or after the war...

and unlike most games today this game was good and actually made it's ending conclusive and self contained rather then the BS "Hey lets leave room open for a sequel even though this is a new IP... in fact lets not give a clear ending."

So if they did make a sequel it would take the storyline creators time to think up things...

What would it be about?

Set in the future with futuristic weapons? Set in other parts of this world? If so where? And what are they doing? Revolution in one country? Set it in the past? Use our weapons for Melee too? Or maybe that great war?

Gotta keep the dev team working during it. Doubt it will get a sequel though which is sad.

 

While I doubt that a sequal is in the making due to the game's lack of commercial success, Valkyria Chronicle's game world has HUGE scope for sequals simply due to the fact that what we've witness is a very minor confrontation in a ongoing struggle between 2 much much bigger super power. The antagonist of VC was merely a prince, the Empire is far from crippled and the Federation is definitely not the 'good guys' if their action in the game is anything to go by.

The possibility for a starting point in the next game could be endless. Empire, Federation or even the mysterious Valkryie, there are so many avenue that could be explored in VC's game universe.




Chrizum on 22 March 2009
Acevil said:
Chrizum said:
It isn't that overtracked, if at all. Those NPD numbers are for US only, VGChartz tracks Canada and Mexico to for Americas. So it's at 85k + 10% = 94k. It might be overtracked by 5k-10k but that's hardly noteworthy.

 

You are assuming that it actually did reach 85k (in US) now, which for some reason I doubt it.

What do you think it's at now, then? It can't be at much less than 85k. Definitely not under 80k. That means it might be overtracked by 12k or something. Wow.

 



Acevil on 22 March 2009
Chrizum said:
Acevil said:
Chrizum said:
It isn't that overtracked, if at all. Those NPD numbers are for US only, VGChartz tracks Canada and Mexico to for Americas. So it's at 85k + 10% = 94k. It might be overtracked by 5k-10k but that's hardly noteworthy.

 

You are assuming that it actually did reach 85k (in US) now, which for some reason I doubt it.

What do you think it's at now, then? It can't be at much less than 85k. Definitely not under 80k. That means it might be overtracked by 12k or something. Wow.

 

 

Overtracking by small number, and with Canada and Mexico it should make it up, but for somereason I don't see it at 10k in Febuary.



 

Badassbab on 22 March 2009

I think Americans are bored of JRPG...they are much more interested in WRPGs now as are a lot of us. The amount of unoriginal JPRPGs that were being churned out in the past has hurt the likes of VC. Still, I'm not sure how much of a marketing push Sega gave VC and whether that style of JPRG is appealing to an Ameican audience as opposed to the FF style.






Kasz216 on 22 March 2009
mibuokami said:
Kasz216 said:
theprof00 said:
no sequel in the works?
Is that why they are releasing new content?

Well I mean... it's a battle about a war... so...

 

Any sequel would be in the vein of Fire Emblem where it's set either before or after the war...

and unlike most games today this game was good and actually made it's ending conclusive and self contained rather then the BS "Hey lets leave room open for a sequel even though this is a new IP... in fact lets not give a clear ending."

So if they did make a sequel it would take the storyline creators time to think up things...

What would it be about?

Set in the future with futuristic weapons? Set in other parts of this world? If so where? And what are they doing? Revolution in one country? Set it in the past? Use our weapons for Melee too? Or maybe that great war?

Gotta keep the dev team working during it. Doubt it will get a sequel though which is sad.

 

While I doubt that a sequal is in the making due to the game's lack of commercial success, Valkyria Chronicle's game world has HUGE scope for sequals simply due to the fact that what we've witness is a very minor confrontation in a ongoing struggle between 2 much much bigger super power. The antagonist of VC was merely a prince, the Empire is far from crippled and the Federation is definitely not the 'good guys' if their action in the game is anything to go by.

The possibility for a starting point in the next game could be endless. Empire, Federation or even the mysterious Valkryie, there are so many avenue that could be explored in VC's game universe.


But there in lies the problem.

The Federation aren't the good guys.

Unlike say Ogre battle where you can place each sequel in a new outside territory gearing up for your empire to be stronger then the evil one...

This doesn't happen in VC because both sides are evil dicks... so you basically end up with a scenario that's identical to the first game.

Nuetral country gets attacked.  This time by the federation to change it up probably... and we're back to square one basically.

If there was a sequel there is a lot that would have to be discussed on how the game would progress what the next story would be.... etc.

So why not keep the team busy till then.