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How is Valkyrie Profile Lenneth not on PSN?

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Junior, please.
Without question, one of the all-time great RPGs.

Is this just Square being Square? Do they just hate making money? How can we make this happen?
 
It's on US PSN, is it not? It's such a shame that it's not available in EU. I actually want to play again. I never got the proper ending for the game.
 
SE just fucking sucks at making PSP games available. I don't know what kinda licensing issues this one could have, or if they're just stupid. I'd buy the shit out of this.
 
we also don't have Crisis Core or the Star Ocean PSP remakes on PSN

Square is just dumb

CronoShot said:
Same reason Birth by Sleep, Crisis Core, and both Star Oceans aren't.
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KH is because of Disney for some reason (probably the same reason Kingdom Hearts 1.5 didn't get a digital release)

so it's not for the same reason as the other PSP games
 
I just recently replayed Star Ocean: Second Evolution and VP: Lenneth on my old PSP Go (no typo), and both are truly magnificent ports. Why Square-Enix hasn't brought these on to the PSN store and subsequently the Vita is beyond me. Fucking licensing.
 
Don't understand it too. Really want to play it again, as well as Star Ocean 2.
I still push for it whenever possible, like that #jrpgvita thing, but at this point I guess it will never happen.
 
Square Enix tries to figure out its fans want, and then releases a mobile f2p game instead. Valkyrie Profile 3: Microtransaction Edition, coming soon to IOS and android.
 
bluecapsule said:
Square Enix tries to figure out its fans want, and then releases a mobile f2p game instead. Valkyrie Profile 3: Microtransaction Edition, coming soon to IOS and android.
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I would cry if that happened.

I'm like a Shenmue fan, desperately clinging onto a past love, hoping it returns with the number 3 attached.
 
Square-Enix doesn't want your filthy fucking money unless it's coming via microtransactions, Lightning support, or shitty smeared remake atrocities. So just shut up, buy their feces and put a smile on your face.

I can't believe how much I hate this company compared to just 6 years ago.
 
batbeg said:
Square-Enix doesn't want your filthy fucking money unless it's coming via microtransactions, Lightning support, or shitty smeared remake atrocities. So just shut up, buy their feces and put a smile on your face.

I can't believe how much I hate this company compared to just 6 years ago.
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I remember from the SNES to PS2 days, Square Enix was the company that could do no wrong in my eyes.

I think things started to go wrong with FFXII, its protracted development and the final product not really resembling what we'd been promised...it's all been downhill from there, aside from some of their portable output.

Star Ocean 4, Infinite Undiscovery, the FFXIII games... :( :( :(
 
You can play it on Vita, just not officially. and it looks like smeared crap with a non-toggleable shit filter, but obviously the gameplay is still intact. The new CGs are cool (the jelanda one is just...wow.) It also does decently over remote play since it's just a JRPG with light platforming stuff.

I have no answers as to why square sucks so hard though...lazy lawyers? lol
 
batbeg said:
Square-Enix doesn't want your filthy fucking money unless it's coming via microtransactions, Lightning support, or shitty smeared remake atrocities. So just shut up, buy their feces and put a smile on your face.

I can't believe how much I hate this company compared to just 6 years ago.
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What's wrong with FFX/X-2 HD? Oh I get it, it doesn't have the bloom of Wind Waker HD...
 
Chacranajxy said:
Lenneth is still a trash port of a great game.
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Hey, I got to play that game because of the port. Otherwise, I would've never experienced its greatness. I wasn't going to shell out 100 bucks for a PS1 copy.

To answer the OP, SE is stupid, plain and simple.
 
I'm going to tweet and email them to see if that will make a difference... probably not but it's better than doing nothing at all, maybe someone will take note.

Hashtag #VPonPSN if anyone wants to join me
 
Wasn't Valkyrie Profile Lenneth and the Star Ocean ports/remake all done by TOSE? Maybe there is something there.

I am going to guess that the PS1 title is not happening for the same reason that most of the Voice actors changed for the PSP remake and why Brave Fencer Musashi and the Megaman Legends titles are not on PSN. Voice Acting licensing and royalties. The voice actors cast for these PS1 titles were not hired for the use of their voice in this game in perpetuity. They were probably cast and contracted for Game release on console X, including reprints on that same console. Ports would need to be recontracted (which is why I think Megaman 64 and Resident Evil 2 had some voice acting weirdness).

These contracts makes getting games with voice acting (especially union jobs like Brave Fencer Musashi) on the store much more difficult. Sometimes it can be resolved, but I guess that SE and Capcom have decided that the work to resolve these conflicts is not worth the amount that they would sell on the store.

Some of these issues probably plague a lot of old UMD only PSP titles as well, and it is a shame...
 
Dragon said:
What's wrong with FFX/X-2 HD? Oh I get it, it doesn't have the bloom of Wind Waker HD...
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1. My avatar is from Smash, not WWHD, sorry to ruin your sorry attempt at trolling based on avatar.

2. Where did I say anything about FFX/X-2 HD?

3. Since you brought it up, I don't know what's wrong with it, but since FFX was the first Final Fantasy game I ever hated, I guess what I'd find wrong with it is that it's still the same game, presumably.

Satisfied?
 
batbeg said:
1. My avatar is from Smash, not WWHD, sorry to ruin your sorry attempt at trolling based on avatar.

2. Where did I say anything about FFX/X-2 HD?

3. Since you brought it up, I don't know what's wrong with it, but since FFX was the first Final Fantasy game I ever hated, I guess what I'd find wrong with it is that it's still the same game, presumably.

Satisfied?
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Trolling? It was pointing out hypocrisy really. And yeah it could be from Smash I guess.
 
Dragon said:
Trolling? It was pointing out hypocrisy really. And yeah it could be from Smash I guess.
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...hypocrisy? My avatar being from a game (which you were unable to correctly deduce) suddenly means I'm a hypocrite for thinking what was once my favorite publisher is now a steaming pile of shit? You're gonna have to walk me through the steps to that conclusion there bud. Sorry if I offended your love of SE, but they offended my love them long ago.

Edit: Lol, you thought I meant X/X-2 HD, I geddit. I was talking about their shitty phone remakes.
 
Why did Nier and Drakengard get localized when Dragon Quest 7R/X and FF Type-0 are stuck in Japan? Why does Square do stupid things? We will never know. Please understand.
 
Thinking on this more, I would probably pay full price for this title if it got a digital re-release.

Hear that Square! $40 for Lenneth, and I'll do the same for Star Ocean 1&2 and Final Fantasy Crisis Core.
 
I would pay full price for the SO1 and SO2 ports if I could play them on my Vita.

Begaria said:
Lightning Returns is as close to a new Valkyrie Profile we're ever going to get.
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Don't say things like this.
 
Thorwaldsson said:
I love Valkyrie Profile 1 and 2... a shame Covenant of the Plume was kinda shit.
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It was certainly different. I don't hold out much hope for the series continuing, and that's OK.

I am worried about it disappearing completely though, and that's something that could easily be prevented if Square Enix would just listen to the demand that's clearly out there.
 
canedaddy said:
What's so bad about the PSP version vs. the PS1?
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Characters not in the party were unable to change or learn skills nor were they able change or remove equipment. The PSX version(US) allowed out of party members to change and learn skills as well as change or remove equipment without being added to the party.

Lenneth would unequip all her skills and equipment when switching between sword and bow. The PSX version(US) 'remembers' the previous setting when switching weaponry and is automatically equipped with the skills and equip.

Lenneth version doesn't have sorting option.
 
I loved Valkyrie Profile, despite only being able to play the Lenneth version. I would buy a PSN release in a heartbeat, along with a bunch of other titles that should be on there :/
 
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