Krizzx wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 6:24 pm
Another new Sega Genesis game called Metal Dragon is coming out next month. Its apparently a port of an Amiga game and its a parody of Metal Gear, but it looks decent.
It looks more like Capcom/Sega's MERCS & SNK's Shock Troopers. Looks damn good. Yeah sure the story parts are a Metal Gear parody, but the actual game looks like 80s era Rambo run n guns like the Ikari Warriors.
I sure wish Shock Troopers were as popular as Metal Slug, coz it sure makes way more sense to see the Ikari Warriors + Leona in a Shock Troopers game over Metal Slug. The original Shock Troopers even had much more complex gameplay than Metal Slug, but they handicapped themselves with the 2nd game when they tried to make it much more cartoony like Metal Slug and lowered the roster down to 4, instead of a team of 3 out of 8.
LOL Milky was actually the best character from the original coz she was the fastest and she had the best melee attack, where she shoots you with a beretta at point blank range. I mained Loki & the Rambo/Native American up until I realized how fucking broke Milky was. (Yes she's called milky coz she's a big titty blonde lol.)
Marie Bee is also pretty good coz she's almost as fast as Milky & has a much better special attack, but she isn't as abusive since she has a normal machete melee attack which isn't as fast as just shooting motherfuckers in the brain.
Milky can outright kill most fools in 1-hit & cancel most attacks coz she's that damn fast with her sidearm.
I finally got Valkyria Chronicles after hearing about how good it is for so long, and holy shit it's really fucking good.
VC was easily the best tactical strategy game out on the market up until Three Houses took the throne back in 2019. (I'd argue that VC still has much better map design & combat, but 3Houses is a much bigger game with far more content & classes that it never gets boring. Except for the Persona school bullshit. I mean combatwise, 3h never gets boring.)
I was either going to get a Valkyria Chronicle game or Wargroove (Indie Advance Wars) during Switch's new year's sale but I went with VC since I might actually be retarded enough to buy the cheapass looking Advance Wars reboot coming out this year for a full $60. (Strategy is my fave genre now, ever since Fighting games became a bunch of boring ass esport 'competitive' bullshit where the gameplay is always goddamn boring and not at all as strategic as 90s era fighters.)
The funny thing is, Valkyria Chronicles used to be a million seller (during an era when that was considered a big deal.) and was considered a killer app during the PS3 era, but SEGA as usual let their own goddamn series die. Why the fuck do they always do this? Sega's incompetence lost them the Shining Force devs, to Nintendo of all people lol. They completely mismanage Streets of Rage. They kill off Eternal Champions even though it was popular in the USA. They let Dragon Force die. Sega lets every goddamn successful game (that isn't Sonic or Yakuza) die.
Sega are so fucking dumb that they won't bother to do anything with Streets of Rage despite how Streets of Rage 4 sold over 3 million copies. That's far better sales than any non-football manager or Total war game that Sega has ever done. SOR4 beats the fuck out of Sonic & Yakuza's yearly sales, lol.
Look at what they did to Sakura Taisen, a series which was only popular in Japan, but when they tried to revive it due to its Saturn-era popularity what the fuck did Sega do? They turned the latest Sakura Wars game into a fucking Musou shit, exactly like what they did to Valkyria Chronicles, ayy lmao.
We're lucky that Valkyria Chronicles 4 even came out at all. I want to get it, but I'm looking for the Switch physical version which seems to be out of print in the USA.
I was always turned off by how anime & hentai it looked. I don't have a problem with that, it's just that generally, most games with a hentai artist have terrible gameplay.
I mean generally, motherfucking King of Fighters, Xenoblade 2, & Fire Emblem itself have had hentai artists and they're still good. I'm just saying, if it's a new property that you're unaware of, you assume it's going to be some lame Gust or Nippon Ichi shit.
What makes Valkyria Chronicles so good is the gameplay which actually plays a lot like Codename STEAM, and the story, which honestly comes off like a serious war epic set during WW2. The music of course, is top of the line stuff since it's composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto, who has always had a good history with Sega.
What I like about Valkyria Chronicles is how it's semi-real time. It's a pure turnbased game but enemies will attack you during your turn which forces you to be efficient & economical with your decisions, otherwise you'll be killed during your turn if you take too long to make a move while out of cover. Enemies still try to kill you when you're behind cover.
During the mission when you finally get a tank, Alicia died about 4 different times coz I was still coming to terms with the combat system.
During my first turn, I ran to the left side to hide in between two building. This allowed her to point blank shoot anyone who ran right past by her. Too bad she eventually got exploded by the tank lol.
My 2nd time I just tanked where she started, to which she got a grenade thrown at her, lol.
I think I died a 3rd time when I tried climbing up a ladder but I was confused by the controls so she got gunned down while she was standing, kek.
My fourth time I died, I finally stationed Alicia at the watchtower where she was sniping the shit out of everybody, long enough for the tank to arrive. After the tank arrived, she got shot in the face and fell to her death.
I fucking love Valkyria Chronicles, this game is so goddamn brutal with how it depicts you being killed. You'll fly around everywhere like a ragdoll, and the shocking deaths will really stick with you, as if to reinforce in to you, "don't do that again". The moment I saw an excited Alicia, gleeful that reinforcements have come only for the next turn sequence to start off with her getting shot in the face by a sniper and I saw her fall off the watchtower and get crushed to death by the fall (she was already dead, but that added insult to injury.), I was like
"Damn. I need to do better. This can not happen. Not like this."
It's a rated teen game, but like Urban Reign some of the death animations are brutal.
You get a forced gameover when she dies, during that mission anyway.
Unlike Fire Emblem, you can't just turn back time once your character dies. They're dead for good. Although you have 3 turns to try to patch them up before they permadie.
I always get Valkyria Chronicles confused with that WW2 era Anime strategy game that was released on XBox3shitty, Operation Darkness which had you fighting Nazi-Werewolves lol.
It's a badass concept but the gameplay is nowhere near as polished as Valkyria Chronicles.
Speaking of which, Sega is in danger of being bought out by Xbox. (They just bought out Activision Blizzard for 70 billion.) I'm at the point where I don't even care anymore though. If Xbox buys them out, I hope they fucking replace all of the Japanese management. Sega has been shit for decades due to those incompetent morons who are still the same exact fucktarded assholes who've been around since the 1980s. Nintendo's Yamuichi never considered those morons as legit competition and with good reason.
Sega seems to be the most likely Japanese acquisition imo, because they're actually the cheapest (yes even Capcom is worth more now, lol.) but not only does Microshit get Sonic, they'll also have full access to Atlus's catalog which means that Persona (a series that's famous in Japan & amongst weebs) would become a Xbox exclusive. Koei Tecmo was actually far more profitable than Sega was last year. Sega last two fiscal years (which includes this one) have been abysmal at best & they've been de-ranking since the pandemic.
Xbox is going for a full monopoly control of the gaming industry by simply buying everyone out. Which sure it's actually against the law, but when has the USA ever gave a shit about the law? AYY LMAO! Xbox was originally designed to kill off the Japanese market anyway, but it took them until now to finally say fuck it, and start buying everyone out.
All Xbox has to do is buy out EA Games and they will effectively kill off the entire Playstation brand since Playstation 4's best selling games are all EA games & Activision games, lol.
If you're a Nintendo fan, you don't really need to worry about Xbox coz they've constantly tried to buy out Nintendo, but they get laughed out of court every single time due to how Pokemon & Mario alone, are both juggernaut franchises which make it hard to buy out Nintendo. Especially since
the Pokemon ip is so fail proof that you'll be forced to buy out 4 companies just to own the Pokemon ip, lol.
I'm constantly amazed by just how smart Nintendo plays the game. Nintendo started out as a bunch of strong-arming gangster types who forced all third parties into one-sided contracts during the NES & early SNES era.
(Ironically it was actually Sega Genesis who helped killed off Nintendo's illegal monopoly over the gaming business.)
When Xbox bought out Rareware, they did it with the sole intention of acquiring the Donkey Kong Ip, which didn't happen. As I said, Nintendo are some smart ass motherfuckers. Nobody in the gaming biz plays it as smart as these guys.
Xbox was able to buy out Activision Blizzard coz they just bought Blackrock & Vanguard's shares and then waited for Activision Blizzard's stock market worth to dwindle down to an 'affordable' price due to that manufactured outrage of Bobby Kotick. (
That's generally how hostile buy-outs occur. It's always an inside job.)
Seriously this alleged Sexual Harassment bullshit was just a fake news hate campaign from the start, simply to lower the value of Acti/Blizz's stock value.
When you look into these cases, a lot of what's being labeled as sexual harassment is just typical slapping a girl in the ass type of bullshit which is normal. There was not a single actionable crime at all. It was all fluff, to get actual virgin nerd prudes (The American gamer populace), to raise hell on social media to lower the goodwill of Blizzard which in turn hurts Activision.
The long game is that Xbox wanted to own the Call of Duty brand, and you fucking American gamer retards fell for it!!!!
The problem is, Millennials SJWS are extremely anti-social and live 24/7 online where they believe they're enacting social change.
Not realizing that they're being used by Big Corporate interests to widen the class divide between the poor & the billionaire class.
