Valkyria Chronicles 2: “We Have Too Many Male Fans”

Just give me a Selvaria and I'm good to go.

I've actually seen some bits and pieces of the game and it's online features... not much was shown though.

it looks pretty good for a PSP title, especially an RPG on the platform.

the gameplay looks to be the same fair, most likely an effort to keep the game familiar, while being on a whole new system.

from previews, I can guess that this game will probably be good, I can't place my bets on whether it will match or surpass the original, so I'll just wait and see.

also, for fans who want to keep this series alive, I'd say give it a try. the game seems to have some heart to it, even if the developers seem to be putting an emphasis in gaining a new fanbase...

If this game was for the DS this would make more sense. Alot of females do own portables in Japan but I am almost certain the number of female psp owners is much than the number of female DS owners (not to mention the overall # of DS owners is much higher as well)... gosh you're really not thinking it through Sega.

Can't say anything till I played it. Hope it's good...

they gotta put more bishonen in it if they want a larger female fanbase

just more reason not to buy the game.

What? They expected otherwise originally? A school setting...are you fucking kidding me?

I'm so pissed off right now, I don't even know what to say...

This is one dude that doesn't care

I like the anime of Valkyria Chronicles very much, and have the game, but haven`t installed it yet.
After reading this i won`t.
With this decision by game company it seems they desperately aim to go bankcruptcy.

As long as the gameplay is as good, and they add multiplayer versus modes for PSP, I'll be happy.

I really wanted to like the first game, but the ranking system just threw me off. Your rank gets punished for using strategy in the first game, but the only way to get the best rank is to have one person run straight to the goal so you have enough CP to do it as fast as possible. I just couldn't get into a game where all the main gameplay was about letting my characters get shot a million times in favor of faster field coverage time.

Business wise, this is the best decision they could make, actually. Of course male fans are butthurt that there are a few characters for female players now, but that is because male fans generally have huge issues with females playing videogames.

See all the nerds here pretending that women don't or rarely play games. It's really cute.

We're in the game, fragging you in shooters and ruining your base in Strategy Games, deal with it ^_^

This is just like the morons in Hollywood.
"Our 'R' rated movie just made millions of dollars. If the sequel is 'G" rated, just think how much more money we'll make!"

lehnerus2000

So if I understand well, they want this to be like the anime, so since the anime was bullcrap then they want the sequel to be bullcrap!

"In comments on their official blog, they offer the following sentiments..."

Indeed, they offer sentiments and don't make much sense.

Hmph. As a female gamer, I was proud to have an all-female army. It will be a sad day when I'll have to include some useless men on my team.

Wow, talk about stupid. "We're kicking 95% of our userbase in hopes of getting the 5% magnify tenfold."

"We're not going to be making gameplay improvements."

"We're throwing out the old storyline wholesale and pretending it never happened."

Forget all this bullshit about how many female gamers there are and how many male ones there are and how the characters will change it - they're just running headfirst towards making a shit game, period. Yaoi fanservice is all it'll have. 'Girl Gamers' like to play actual GAMES too. There's cheaper ways to find fanservice. And more enjoyable ones, too.

Danm Artifact can you be any more pessimist?

WHAT.
this is VERY NO

Am I the only one who's wondering who drew that last picture? It doesn't look like Raita Honjou. The style looks so familiar, especially that grin.

I watched the anime but i didnt play the game yet, idk im not a fan of shooting games,so should i really play it, i mean is it worth it

please keep this "awesome!" logic a secret from kotick

imagine what he will do with modern warfare 3 to get more female customers

oh and about the MGS thing

people only like raiden because of his mgs4 comeback

kojima learned his lesson with mgs2 when he created raiden to appeal to the female population

at elast read some history sega since mgs2 is an exellent "not rushed" "not exploited" game that did poor because of fan backlash

Most Eastern cultures pride themselves on "Ancient" wisdom, and there sure are some profound realizations from there, but the "Western" world knows a thing or two...

There's the story of "The Greedy Dog".

Dog gets a piece of meat, then walks off to eat it. He stops by the water to drink also, and sees his own reflection in the water. Of course, he's a dog and doesn't get that his reflection is himself, he thinks it's another dog with another piece of meat. So he decides to bully this other dog out of its piece of meat and opens his mouth to bark. The meat drops from his mouth and goes into the water. So now the dog has no piece of meat...

Well, big companies become like this effectively, as due to "PC" a vocal minority can get them to put off the majority or quash the "Edge" they have.

A shame. I still wanna play the first game.

Guess that yaoi manga of Senjou no Valkyria didn't work out.

If they really wanted to appeal to females, they would've made better looking guy characters of CANVAS quality. If the new Valkyria or blond chick is a potential love interest, then the female fanbase is sure to go down the drain.

Hmm...I thought both male and female fans were supposed to get into this game, but 95% male!? Come on.....*sighs* I know I like Valkyria Chronciles, but even I know that girls would like this game even more than me, so what the heck....?

First off, I'd like to admit that I know relatively little about the gaming market and its demographics.

With that out of the way, I think that the way they are going about it seems wrong, but I understand their sentiments. A 95% male audience isn't just more males than females, it's completely dominating. Wanting to expand their audience isn't in itself necessarily a bad thing. I know a bunch of girls that love to play RPGs (my friends and I) so gaming isn't just for guys. I admit I haven't played the first one (though that's because I'm banning myself from playing anything else until I finish Persona 3 -.-;), so I can't say if the game is clearly a "guys game" or if it does need a little bit of maneuvering if it wants to successfully attract a female audience.

In any case, changing it to a bishounen game isn't the right way to do it. Wow. Do they really think that's all it takes to gain revenue?

Since when has a game's fan base not been mostly male? Last time I checked the only games popular with females were things like Wii Sports.

they can be forgiven for this bold move if they release a vc2 ura with all the male characters ditched in favour of female ones. ;)

so they dropped their male audience for a female audience i don't see how this will help at all

wait. they wanted to compare their game to metal gear solid? isnt that game mostly male based fans? hence why it had a strong following throughout?

their reasoning phails.

I'm a girl and I don't really like this. The first Valkyria Chronicles was fantastic, and I love that it showed females in a strong, positive light, and alongside men.

In this one it's just more faggot bishounen with the girl out of sight because clearly women have no interest in female characters.

I hope it sells terribly, but it probably won't because women are suckers for bishounen, though admittedly not as badly as the men that'll buy absolutely anything with an moe girl on the front.

I can't really put this down as badly as I want though...because look at how many games sell just because it has cute girls in it. It is a shame that this had to happen to this series, though...shows every company will be a sellout for the right price.

I'm a little baffled. They create a game with semi World War II themes. This includes military, tanks, guns and toss in added a bit of shonen-style superpowers in the mix. Now they want ALL THIS to draw in the female otaku audience!?

I dunno, but all my marketing lessons seem to find this all counter-productive.

It's funny that they mentioned Metal Gear.

MGS2 shifted more towards Raiden to attract new fans, but his reception was mixed at best.

Well with the current look of the character designs and settings and the apparent lack of any substance going into the plot for this or depth in it's characters...now they just need to replace the tanks with mechs and it's the next gundam series.

I'm more concerned that the sequel looks like horrible moeblob, schoolgirls in mini skirts in war?

Fuck this sequel

Sounds like fail near the level of Endless Eight...

“We Have Too Many Creepy-Otaku Fans”

Oh shi~. Prepare for yaoi and bishie fangirls squealing around Gamespot forums and thousands of Male Character A -x- Male Character B fanfiction and creepy fanarts overpopulating in Deviantart.

well this was an awesome marketing plan, lose all your dedicated male fans and gain a bunch of stupid girl fans that could just drop it in a second for another bishonen out there, yeah lets see how far the sequal will get lmao

The 3rd game better be on the PS3 & it better blow my mind.

Aaaah how cruel. Well if they don't want guys playing it then they just need to add a few how to take care of 'a period' segments in there somewhere.