Three Moves Ahead 286: Valkyria Chronicles

Three Moves Ahead

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War Games, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, Strategy, Video Games, Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Valkyria Chronicles: a product of Sega's ill-fated R&D development team that was sort of set in Holland and loosely based on a conflict that may have been World War II (but wasn't). Rob is joined by Gamers With Jobs' Shawn Andrich and developer David V. Heron to talk about the 2008 Playstation 3 cult classic that has found new life on Steam, or a platform that closely resembles Steam.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:03.9	Joining me tonight, we have our friend, designer David Heron, of Disruptor Beam.
0:09.8	Perfect.
0:10.6	Oh, yes. Okay, cool. Not disruptor beam, not shrink ray, disruptor beam. Cool. Got it.
0:17.8	We also welcome our friend, Sean Andrich of Gammers with Jobs.
0:21.8	That's the lesser of the beams, I think.
0:24.3	Like as far as like a beam you want on your ship, a disruptor is kind of weak.
0:28.3	I don't mind saying.
0:29.2	It's the best beam.
0:30.7	It's like FTL vendor trash basically.
0:33.9	Like, oh man, disruptor beam.
0:37.0	Oh no, I guess.
0:38.5	Well, whatever.
0:40.0	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:42.2	So you're both here by your own request, as a matter of fact, because you discovered that because
0:47.7	Valcuria Chronicles has finally, after just six short years, been ported over to the PC,
0:55.8	we're kind of allowed to talk about it on three moves ahead.
0:58.2	Not that we dislike consoles,
1:00.9	but a PS3 only game was always probably a little too niche
1:05.2	within a niche for three moves ahead.
1:07.3	So now that it's on PC, it's rightful home,
1:12.5	we can finally discuss it. Rightful home.'s on PC, it's rightful home, we can finally discuss it.
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