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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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Baloonatic
Member
Have you seen Lu Bu?
Absoludacrous
Member
Is there any point to playing the older story modes in the PS4 version? I'm assuming there's no way to reverse import my save and get credit for them if I ever get a copy of the PS3 vanilla game.
Lu Bu is notorious for being a badass in the series and most of the time if you fight him early on, you will die.
BadAss2961
Member
I say let him fight Lu Bu with his raw character.
You cut through hundreds of enemies thinking you're unstoppable. Then you run into Lu Bu, hit him, then watch as he doesn't flinch before he one-shots you. Game over... It's like a rite of passage for every DW player.
You cut through hundreds of enemies thinking you're unstoppable. Then you run into Lu Bu, hit him, then watch as he doesn't flinch before he one-shots you. Game over... It's like a rite of passage for every DW player.
Justice_Bolt
Member
Lu Bu is a beast... that's why. 
dakkumauji
Member
Cause we wouldn't want you to rage quit after losing a stage cause Lu Bu one-shot you.
I believe you'll still need to unlock the character (get their first playable stage) in story mode in order to use them in free mode still for the Vita/PS4 version.
Unless they made everyone unlocked from the start.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
I've got a random musou question? How come they pronounce Cao Cao's name now (sauw sauw) and not (cow cow)? I've played DW3, WO2 and WO3 and it's always been the later. Why did they change this?
BadAss2961
Member
Dat minute long musou.
I think they switched it to the correct pronunciation. The damage is already done though -- i'll always call him Cow Cow.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That's actually a closer approximation to what his name is actually supposed to sound like.
I have to admit, though, the crappy B-movie dialogue and botched pronunciations of the early DW games did have an amusing appeal to them, kinda like Resident Evil. I always did change the voices to JPN if I had the chance, however.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
I remember for the older games the type of voice acting they gave wang jian made me very, very, sad lol
I blame the old school challenge mode for finding the musou pots in the crowd of people
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
The only thing I don't understand is, if it wasn't the correct pronunciation, why did it take nearly 5 or 6 different sequels to get it right?
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
Cow Cow do you intend to end it here at Chan Ban?
Why is this simple plain uninteresting dialog forever impeded into my head?
I just don't know.
South Eastern winds? Zhuge Liang! He is a devil!
ProfessorMoran
Member
The series is based on historical characters and there's only one way things actually turned out, everybody got fucked, Sima Yi won, it might not be as fantastical but the series has gotten completely out of hand in terms of having any semblance of sanity and it's high time they rein it in. Not saying it should be like Romance of the Three Kingdoms though.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
Would you guys recommend the movie Red Cliff?
KnightHart
Member
I'm probably late on this realization but there's also a question attached to it.
I only just noticed DW8 XL CE on the PS4 doesn't include the vanilla DW8 trophies and only seems to include the XL trophies. Is there a reason for this?
I only just noticed DW8 XL CE on the PS4 doesn't include the vanilla DW8 trophies and only seems to include the XL trophies. Is there a reason for this?
I enjoyed it a lot but watch the original 2 movies instead of the butchered Western release (in which they tried to put the content of both movies into one).
BadAss2961
Member
Well... After dozens of games based on the same shit, historical accuracy has to take a backseat. lol
You can get both versions of the film in the west, in the UK anyway. The 2 movie version, which is awesome, and the condensed one (which is horrible).
Yes, I actually imported the 2 movie version from the UK.
Yeah, it was just so jarring at first. Could the characters be saved at all? I noticed in the gallery, there's some battles I skipped with "???" on them.
Yep, easy as pie after I took your advice. Got to level 99 leadership experience in about 12-14 battles.
The last Dynasty Warriors game I played was number 4 on the PS2. I see that they've made the story more grounded in actual history, but is it just me or do the battles not seem as epic as they were in the early PS2 games? The maps seem a lot smaller, and I remember how excited I used to be to get a horse and charge across the map to relieve a surrounded unit. Now I don't even use the horse at all. I also remember fighting elephants as well lol
Red Cliff is excellent, assuming the 2 disc version. I was actually recommending it to a friend of mine the other day who is a Dynasty Warriors fan but has never really known the historical significance behind the games.
I bought this game on Saturday from Gamestop. It's the best looking one ever, no question, but I am not a fan of the blur (Depth of Field?) and hope the patch to turn it off comes soon.
Otherwise I find this version to be quite excellent!
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
Impulse buy complete.
Giolon
Member
Battles that say ?? on them have special objectives in them that may allow a character to live through the battle and/or appear in later battles. Once you complete a story line, all of the ?? will be revealed to see the what the objective is. When you complete all of them within a story, it will open a hypothetical path (vs the historical path) for the Story.
I still use Horses a lot, especially since you can call & auto-mount now. Some battles really do require the speed you need to get to Officers or bases in time to save them.
riskVSreward
Member
Loving this game, cant wait for the patch to fix DOF. It would be nice to be able to move the hud elements around, the map is huge and I wanna push it more into the corner. Played some split screen, wished we could do a vertical split but it wasnt too bad.
Let the grind commence!
Let the grind commence!
Several of the Wu stages are like that. You simply can't make it unless you use a horse. Effectively mandatory for some hypothetical objectives.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I dunno if the recent ones can do this (I haven't played this series since the last PS2 game) but it was neat when you could equip the right combinations of items to give you musou gain even when performing a musou attack. I think I had musou meter gain+, and a lightning element, and for some reason whenever enemies hit the ground, the AOE lightning proc would generate musou for me, even during a musou move. This was pretty OP with Sima Yi, as in a crowded stage like Wu Zhang plains, with enough enemies around, I'd be holding down the circle button for like fucking 3 minutes. Shit was crazy. I think I did this in DW3XL (The best one).
Beats me. I guess they finally got tired of all the complaints in the mail, and whoever is in charge decided to give a shit.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
I dunno if the recent ones can do this (I haven't played this series since the last PS2 game) but it was neat when you could equip the right combinations of items to give you musou gain even when performing a musou attack. I think I had musou meter gain+, and a lightning element, and for some reason whenever enemies hit the ground, the AOE lightning proc would generate musou for me, even during a musou move. This was pretty OP with Sima Yi, as in a crowded stage like Wu Zhang plains, with enough enemies around, I'd be holding down the circle button for like fucking 3 minutes. Shit was crazy. I think I did this in DW3XL (The best one).
Beats me. I guess they finally got tired of all the complaints in the mail, and whoever is in charge decided to give a shit.
I mean seriously all the other characters who are chinese speak normally, yet someone felt that it was necessary to make one guy have some sort of "asian english" accent...
AdawgDaFAB
Member
Red Cliff is really damn good. I even liked the SSX sappy side story, xP. My biggest gripe is that I wish Cao Cao's troops got more focus than being generic villians.
That's actually one thing DW7 certainly did greatly. I loved Wei's story mode in that game. It is nice to see them as actually people and not just "the evil ones who must be defeated". Here's to hoping it's as good in 8.
That's actually one thing DW7 certainly did greatly. I loved Wei's story mode in that game. It is nice to see them as actually people and not just "the evil ones who must be defeated". Here's to hoping it's as good in 8.
There's one specific ability I like that increases the item drop rate significantly. So I can pick up musou restoring items while I'm in a raged Musou attack. It's AWESOME!!!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Considering how little resources we have in the US for that kinda stuff, dont sweat it. The game itself is a combination of all sorts of things plays, books, actual history etc of the three kingdoms period. So its not like its 100% accurate. If anything will at least drive an interest to look up information and such. I dont think there really are that many fans who were originally well versed in Chinese History before playing Dynasty Warriors.
Its kind of like Japan with the Samurai Warriors series, people may know some stuff about what happened, but they dont know all the fine details or everyone who appears. Outside the big names like Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Tokugawa.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
I'm really hoping Chaos difficulty brings a challange. The game seems far too easy with good weapons and item set ups. We will see.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Its going to be the usual. Every named character blocks and then getting juggled forever by enemies till you die.
Yeah I really got into the Three Kingdoms period after playing Dynasty Warriors 4 back in the day. But since every side seemed to win the story mode in that game I did my own research to find out the actual history. I still haven't bothered to read the actual Romance of the Three Kingdoms book though.
dakkumauji
Member
Yep, that's the whole hypothetical or what-if battles.
Yu Jin: spear using guy with elements
Zhu Ran: FIRE BOW
Fa Zheng: Cloth traps
Chen Gong: Shadow soldiers
Lu Lingqi: That cross halberd thingy
So I guess the closest will be Zhu Ran but nothing like Zhuge Liang's laser beams.
I mean it's not impossible, but it just takes forever. It isn't hard if you abuse the whole storm rush. Amusing he doesn't weapon switch before hand.
Well if Chaos is too easy, try Ultimate difficulty. Death by a million arrows, woo.
They got rid of the whole every kingdom wins in the end for the historical story modes now. Though some of the kingdom stories ends in some weird places.
oconnomiyaki
Member
Delayed in New Zealand.
Why you forgot ARROWS?
Dem goddamn ARROWS. It worse when you get hit you don't get staggered by it because it means stream of ARROWS will deliver death unnoticed.
NoSkillz187
Member
Damn all these games makes me tempted to get a Vita. How does this game run on the Vita? How is the FPS?
Infernal Monkey
Member
What's up with the water in the Vita version? Unless you look at it from a certain angle it's just a solid block of colour.
