Comments on: Warriors Orochi

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:25:55 +0000

The thing is, in Dynasty Warriors, you really are the lone wolf that saves the day. Sure, you’re doing it on behalf of an army, but damned if they can actually accomplish much without you.

And I don’t know if I’d actually expect less pop-up. I just played DW6 on PS3, and while that system isn’t as powerful as a high end PC, it’s a lot more powerful than the PS2 ever was. Their use of that power? They made everything a lot prettier. Meanwhile, entire armies can pop into existence right next to you.

By: The Fanciest Of Pants

The Fanciest Of Pants — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:29:26 +0000

I’ve be re-playing the crap out of samurai warriors 2 lately with a mate. Really another title for this series should be “Everyone except the character I’m currently playing sucks”. Still, destroying armies single-handedly has it’s charm and the persistant levelling-up and new weapon grabbing is pretty addictive.

Definately grabbing this, no more 10-yard pop up :D

By: RobotLiberationArmy

RobotLiberationArmy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:05:55 +0000

I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played of the DW series in terms of sheer kill-legions-of-people-ness. Perhaps not the most intellectually accomplished series, but fun.

By: darkripper

darkripper — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:55:56 +0000

I’m kinda embarassed by my love for the Dynasty Warrior series. It’s pure crap, the bastard child of side-scroller beat em ups.
BUT, it’s the whole concept of running on the battlefield, feeling like a cog in the great machine of warfare that it’s fascinating. We often are generals or lonewolves that save the day; we almost never are one of many. And that’s the reason Call of Duty or Dynasty Warriors are succesful titles.

This Orochi Warriors however it’s pure cash-in, not worth of the attention of this fine blog :)

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:14:10 +0000

“It’s Lu Bu!” – possible my favourite cue to run away and hide behind a blockly horse.

If the standard fighters in the series could take on armies single handed, the monsterous Bu could happily murder mountains and decimate seas.

By: Clicky

Clicky — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:03:39 +0000

I liked the very rare PC version of Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper very much, played that for ages. Also good for same-keyboard multiplayer, which is very rare these days.

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:53:14 +0000

With the home console market in Japan dying (except for the Wii), the Japanese developers are here to save PC gaming. \o/

By: drunkymonkey

drunkymonkey — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:44:41 +0000

DW3 was the one I had, and I played it for months.

I’ve played Bladestorm a few times, and seeing the Japanese depiction of the Hundred Years War is AWESOME.

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:39:36 +0000

Also, from the press release:

“Bringing our unique brand of tactical action to PC is also a very significant move for us as we look ahead to achieving much more on this platform. Warriors Orochi is just the first step as we look towards a number of new releases on PC in the coming months.”

Interesting. :)

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:02 +0000

Now that’s rather unexpected. I liked the little of DW I played on the PS2 (a couple of demos, if I remember correctly), but the technical limitations were a bit too obvious on that platform.

Seeing how, as fluffy bunny says, Koei are also a PC developer, do we not need to expect a terrible port?

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:14:01 +0000

I guess I’d like to try this. The Warriors-series is one of those things the otaku nerds are always going on about, so it’d be interesting to see what all the noise is about.

Also, if it sells, maybe Koei will consider English-language releases of some of their other PC-games, like the latest Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Which would be cool.