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Dynasty Warriors 8 + XL (PS3) / CE (PSV/PS4) |OT| Don't Pursue Lu Bu (In Next Gen)
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The armors texture is better and the lighting is more realistic. Theres some stuff that doesn't look as good to me though.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Pre-ordered this for my PS4! First DW game I'm playing so hopefully I didn't really miss too much.
riskVSreward
Member
Is this gonna retail for $60 at launch? (NA PS4)
Haven't played one of these games since the second one. I'm sure its come a long way, it looks crazy fun!
Haven't played one of these games since the second one. I'm sure its come a long way, it looks crazy fun!
ArchedThunder
Banned
I want to try some Warriors before Hyrule Warriors comes out, would 8 PS4 be a good jumping in point in terms of gameplay?
Yeah I noticed this too :/ Amazon not getting it?
dragonflys545
Member
Already pre-ordered! Can't wait for that next-gen hack and slash goodness.
dragonflys545
Member
Yes! It's one of the best Dynasty Warrior games in the series.
dakkumauji
Member
No real idea why. Even the official site doesn't list Amazon as having anything other than the PS3 version for some reason and Koei Tecmo America is very scatterbrain for addressing some stuff.
Yup. Just the XL content.
Samurai_Heart
Member
Hope for some more Vita impressions to decide when I'll get it or when I get a PS4~
Iorv3th
Member
What about the ps4 version?
dragonflys545
Member
I need to know this too.
rockman zx
Member
Still waiting for the european release, on PS4, japanese vocies are day 1 DLC?.
***Warning post again on the Vita version of DW8XL- expect bad framerates***
Cross-posting from the Warriors Community thread. I really don't want to see anyone get burned by this port.
My hope is that Koei has worked on the Vita port since the Japanese release, but since the patches didn't help much, I doubt it.
Cross-posting from the Warriors Community thread. I really don't want to see anyone get burned by this port.
My hope is that Koei has worked on the Vita port since the Japanese release, but since the patches didn't help much, I doubt it.
buddha0991
Member
But videos I saw on the patch showed major improvements
It definitely looks better from the resolution and textures alone. The framerate is still all over the place (slightly better than PS3) and is unfortunately not a constant 60 FPS or even a constant 30 FPS.
But the biggest improvement is the enemy pop-in-- it's gone! You get an extremely large amount of enemies on-screen now and the framerate does not suffer for it.
And just to note, the blur effect can be turned down or turned off completely in-game at any time.
Like I said:
I keep on posting about this because I don't want to see people buy this port and feel burned by it. It's not up to the same standards as the other musou games on Vita. The sound quality is also bad. I was hesitant to order Sengoku Musou 4 because of this, but footage that popped up of it looked good.
If you don't think the framerate problems will bother you, by all means get this game on Vita- all the content from the PS3/PS4 versions is intact and you can use your save files from either version with it. Just want to warn people about the technical problems is all.
xDUMPWEEDx
Banned
I can't decide whether to get this on PS3 or Vita. Either way I'll be waiting because Diablo III Reaper of Souls launches on the same day.
Just to add, I just got Sengoku Musou 4 (Samurai Warriors 4) on Vita and PS3 this morning. The Vita version has a great, stable framerate and the sound quality is very good. I'd sell off DW8XL now if it were easy enough to do so.
Lightning4Ever
Banned
I'm going for Vita personally. I'm not as easily bothered by framerate as some people are.
It would have to be truly unplayable for me to care. If it's just some drops now and then I'm fine with it.
Holy shit, I did not know this at all and it was really getting on my nerves.
Sounds pretty good. Probably will buy it then since it's only $20 more than just XL on the PS3 by itself. Just have to finish off the DW8 trophy list before I move on though.
Yeah, I'm glad it's optional. The effect is "next-gen" in some ways, but it's really, really annoying and at times makes me think I'm playing Dynasty Warriors 64 or something.
Lyte Edge I like your avatar
Anyone know how the save are gonna work between PS3 and PS4 ?
LOL, thanks!
I haven't done save transferring from PS3 to PS4 (I have vanilla DW8 on PS3 and Shin Sangoku Musou 7 Moushouden on Vita and PS4), but I have done save transferring from PS3 to Vita and from PS4 to Vita in all the various multiplatform musou games that have come out since last year. It's basically like a cloud save that is tied to your PSN profile. There's a save/load options menu with upload/download options- takes just a second or two to upload and download saves in any version of these games.
It was absolutely unplayable pre-patch. Now it's better but noticeably bad on some stages. There was a particular level that was really awful for me pre-patch that I've been trying to find again (forgot the name...it's not the burning ship stage) to test.
Lightning4Ever
Banned
I think I'm okay with that then.
Portable DW8 is just so appealing to me. Especially with cross save.
From the Japanese trophy list doesn't seem like it contains the OG DW8 trophies.
dakkumauji
Member
Could it be Hu Lao Gate after you get past Lu Bu where Dong Zhuo decides to set the city on fire and make everything single digit FPS, lol.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Whoa, forgot about this as well...
Got into Dynasty Warriors back in January with 8, had a blast. Didn't beat all the scenario modes, but I guess I can pick up where I left off in XL.
If I have digital of the original, can I get the physical XL and transfer my saves?
Got into Dynasty Warriors back in January with 8, had a blast. Didn't beat all the scenario modes, but I guess I can pick up where I left off in XL.
If I have digital of the original, can I get the physical XL and transfer my saves?
I want to say it was a more-open battlefield with a dull, wintery-look. Green grass fields but a grey sky. For some reason I can't find it and it has to be one of the first stages you play...it should be in free mode! But I don't see it! XD
bagandscalpel
Member
That sounds like Hu Lao gate, since they always seem to make that battle either in the snow, or under heavy cloud cover.
There is an open battlefield in the early part of DW8's Hu Lao gate where you have to save Yuan Shu and fight Hua Xiong, maybe you're thinking about that?
dakkumauji
Member
I believe so. The save is I think tied to your PSN account and I think the physical can mix-joy with your digital copy.
Does sound like Hu Lao Gate.
It's Wei's first stage and Shu's second stage.
I went to preorder it on Amazon as well and no luck.
BMX Bandit
Member
I haven't really played one of these games since the ps2 but reading the op sounds pretty promising. A couple questions to anyone who might know:
The image posted shows coop for basically every mode for ps4 but I just wanna make sure that its like play through the campaign with a friend no draw backs coop. If they join they save all their stats and stuff on their system etc.
Also is there loot in this series now? I saw weapon crafting in there in the op just wondering how deep that goes/if there are random drops or what.
The image posted shows coop for basically every mode for ps4 but I just wanna make sure that its like play through the campaign with a friend no draw backs coop. If they join they save all their stats and stuff on their system etc.
Also is there loot in this series now? I saw weapon crafting in there in the op just wondering how deep that goes/if there are random drops or what.
xDUMPWEEDx
Banned
You can always try GameStop. I'm pretty sure they have it for sale on their website.
otakuderek
Member
Gamestop said they would have it Tuesday so I threw down a preorder there. Can't wait!
gigantor21
Member
Urgh, so jealous. I WANT IT NOW!
This will be the first entry in the main series I've played--I've only played DWG1 and 2, along with DWNext. How is DW8 different from those?
BMX Bandit
Member
Any buddy know?
EGOMON
Member
Need answer to this too
Terra_Ex
Member
I'm extremely late in catching up on the XL news but I see they added Lu Lingqi, I made sure to request her in that dynasty warriors survey they put out a while back (and while I'm sure my request had no effect, I like to think it did), hopefully she'll remain a series mainstay in the future. Very excited, will definitely be buying XL when it releases, really enjoyed 8.
dakkumauji
Member
Don't know about co-op. I do believe you might need to have the stages unlocked for both people (which was the case for WO3) but never tried DW8's co-op.
There's loot in forms of weapons. Every officer drops a random weapon upon defeat while playable officers drop their own weapon upon defeat.
All come with a random assortment of skills which you can use to fuse with other weapons and such.