Tales of Valkyria

I can and I will.
I've already sexualized squares and cubes before.

dude what

2nd pic is not a square. Lips ruin the equal sides.

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Second game had a shit story, but the gameplay had slight improvements.
The third one almost perfected it, although it has too many classes, some of which you'd rarely, if ever use.

This thing looks like pure shit.
They're calling it a spin-off but I think they're just putting the name of the series on a completely unrelated game to give it more attention.

Fuck this.

But swords are a weapon.

DO NOT SEXUALIZE THE GEOMETRIC SHAPE

Sorry, the firearms.

From what I recall from the demo everyone carries both a rifle and a sword and all shooting is mostly just to thin down shit to a point where you can engage everything left in one localized melee without shit plinking at you from the sides.

The character designers had to turn up the edge, holy shit.

It would be better if they followed Napoleonic era infantry tactics, where soldiers fire until they run out of bullets, then affix bayonets and charge. But that wouldn't work with guns like the ones it the trailer. So it must be fucking magic defences and shit like that.

What are you?

Napoleonic infantry tactics also don't work so well when the attacking side only has three soldiers.

More, you say?

I only ever played the original Valkyria Chronicles. It was great.

When the fuck did this shit turn into energy swords and edgy "special snowflake" characters? Where are the fucking guns and army/militia uniforms? The only pseudo-futuristic shit in the original was the Valkyria lance, and there were only two of those.

ban this sick filth

REPORTED

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That's retarded as fuck.
The whole point of having a firearm is so you can harm the other side without risking your own skin too much.
Even ancient and medieval generals would first spend days and weeks skirmishing and probing each other's defences before the final clash which was short and bloody.

There are some who theorize that infantry never engaged other infantry in melee during that era. Bayonets were used to fight off cavalry and look menacing, not stab other foot soldiers.

The tank was the best one in the series, but I'll admit the super moves were awful except Kurt's.
Like I said, there were too many classes. Gunners, fencers and techs need removing.
The story is your above average JRPG shit. I'm not sure what you were expecting.

Actually it's even more retarded than I remembered, shooting enemies just deals minor damage and briefly debuffs them, if you close to combat range while they're debuffed they take extra damage.

It's standard JRPG Fare, it's shit

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That's too many enormous goofy swords for anime world war. I disapprove

That's an insult to Tales games. Tales usually at least has decently paced combat. If you watched the gameplay videos from TGS, this game looks slow as hell with only one or two attack options being worth using.

What the hell is going on here?

Looks like complete trash shitting all over the first game.

Then again, 2 did that as well, so I guess it's too late at this point to be saying this.

VC was never good tbh

Not the same world or some shit.

I don't even know where to start

I thought this IP died when the sequel to the first one was PSP only?

Did the third one have cowtits?

What a mess, all i wanted in a VC game was a more serious story with less if none fantasy crap with more freedom( a walkable HUB with better character interaction with events and stuff) and mission variation, a less linear story with branching paths( Tactics Ogre: LUCT style), stop rewarding rushing over tactics but NO FUCKING WAY RIGHT SEGA? instead we get a hack and slash mess with some fake strategy elements and some cliché characters with gigantic weapons.

Fuck you, 3 is pretty good but 2 is a abomination.

Who does this appeal to? Even as a faggot who prefers Tales combat over VC's combat as a whole, this combat doesn't appeal to me either. The visuals are nice, I guess, but the gameplay needs to go back, and I didn't even like VC that much.

This isn't the same timeline as the other 3, right? There's so much potential for anime-alternate-history, why do they feel so compelled to be Final Fantasy? Tetsuya Nomura was a mistake.

I really dont care about the retarded story, I only wanted was

where are the tanks?

The Japanese would never make a game about that, for all sorts of reasons Now that I think about it, I'm surprised Kantai Collection even exists but goddammit, ragnite powered ships and cannons, naval battles, island hopping, maybe some submarines or boarding other ships. Fuck.

Christ those character models are overdesigned and ugly as fuck. The jakey animations do them no favors either. Also, no water-color art aesthetic means that all of the comfy is being stripped the fuck out in favor of "le edgy action RPG".

All they had to do was re-make VCIII's missions to VC's standards with updated graphics fitting a home console release, and add a bit more padding to the story.

>why does kantai collection exist
To get money from military otaku and to make cute ships

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I honestly don't know. I play a shitload of different genres and really enjoy genre hybrids and the demo footage does absolutely nothing for me. The shooter bits look way too rigid and pointless and the melee combat is pure damage sponges for everything but the fodder troops and looks extremely spammy. If you want action-y melee combat then slow paced cover shooting works directly against that.

I can't swallow this shit. It looks like they simple can't figure out whether to pander to generic animay consumer, operators or waifufags so they just shove them all into a pot and stir until it turns into this thick mucuous shit that I can't really make out the texture.
The duster is acceptable, some faggot sergeant may be a bit too edgy for common sense but THIS
THIS CROSSES THE LINE

Remember, if you dont buy it, they will cancel VC4!

It's fucked.

The problem with 'tales of' serie is, they release them too quike! There is no major platform! The Battle system sucks!

I"m actually confused about it. Valkyrians were super technologically advanced, and something about a long ago war destroyed a lot of technology.

But setting that war in 1853 seems a bit too recent

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Did his contract with Sega expire yet so he can finally make the Selvaria Doujin(s) he's always wanted to make?

I see no problems here

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RAITA is a he, there is a second artist also called Raita who you might be thinking of.

that .gif perfectly represents how i feel about gaming nowadays, everything looks so bland and "industrial" made, no soul, no passion.

i hope is vanilla

Wow, that looks completely fun, actually.

They turned Valkyria Chronicles into JRPG 40k.

I'm surprised they didn't fuck the brand into oblivion with waifu dating sims

3 was complete dogshit. Absolute fucking trash.I literally had to tie myself to the chair to fish playing through that abhorrent shit-heap.

I'll be waiting.

Why?

I've never even played the game, man.
I just want to get beat up.

just give it time.

is this the new chess?

play it user, it runs perfectly fine on ppsspp, it's basically VC minus Overpowered Scouts, a better story and more mission variation.

Who thought this was a good idea?

there is a pic from a magazine of the devs talking about how retarded they are

Even Kek wants this degeneracy to stop. checked

For you SEGA I give a very hearty

FUCK YOU!

By the dark gods how do you fuck up like this?

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Of course it'd be more cinematic trash.

for gameplay

how unbelievably stupid, they really don't know what made people love VC at all.

Well, it's not as bad as i was expecting, but now i just want to play battalion wars again.

Is granny voice narrator the the new Morgan Freeman?

why cater to the fanbase if you can board the mobile kiddies train knowing that the fanbase will buy it anyway.

I've never gotten my hands on 3, but I remember 2 being an absolute let down. It advanced everything in terms of gameplay, but the characters were so generic and the story was a mess. It had neat customization, but the maps were so repetitive. Even the final bosses were virtually identical.

II was my first VC game, because I never had a PS3, and even I thought the "military academy" it's really just high school storyline and characters were bullshit. As a game itself, it's pretty much fine. Fucktons of missions, lots of visually distinct characters, a good mix of units (most of which are in practice, optional), a good translation of the core VC experience to portable. The biggest problem was the dumb-as-fuck AI which can't move a unit multiple times per turn and the tank being OP as fuck. Missions pretty quickly turned into a routine of rushing an enemy camp with the tank, rotating the tank to toss enemies out like a fucking mosh-pit, and retreating all non-vital units out of the area and placing them in the newly connected map - then Zerg Rush with scouts when the Tanks AP were too low to be useful. Rinse Repeat.

There's a number of missions (usually side stories or main story missions) that force you to switch it up a bit, but generally it's just a base rush.

VC III more or less left the gameplay formula alone, streamlined some of the classes (which I barely noticed because I never use much outside of Scout, ShockTroop, Sniper, and the occasional Lancer), and gave it a decent storyline again with better characters.

The original VC was actually the last one I played. Picked it up when it was ported to the PC. I was considering picking up the PS4 port simply because it's more portable, and I can take to friends houses and play it to spread the word about the series easier - but if Azure Revolution is where the series is going in the future, then I don't see a point in that.

Also, I want to fuck that reporter.

also, there's not nearly enough porn of Lydia