mue 26 wrote:You really might as well be playing DW 3 in my opinion as when you compare 8(!) to it its virtually unchanged (and not in a good way) only with slightly better (but still poor) visuals.
BTW its actually up to 7, 6 in Japan because we count the fighting game and they don't.
As for looking the same:
sure its the same character, he looks mighty different, the texture work has been upgraded quite a bit and its also been upgraded in terms of locales, and enemy troops. On top of that, with a few hundred enemies on screen, and a constant 30-60 FPS which is something old DW games, especially 4, couldn't do.
mue 26 wrote:Fair enough, but to be honest I find the "additions" koei adds to DW each new installment to be insanely trivial, and I feel they've done very little at all to spice up/improve/or innovate on the series since 2002
adding multiple weapons for 30+characters is trivial? making a multi-tiered map that loads in one chunk and has high res models and AIs on every tier running at the same time is trivial? Online multiplayer, new strategy modes, expanded story that covers start of the jin empire, all trivial?
mue 26 wrote:And in my honest opinion FOTNS was pretty awful, with really bad level design, mission structure and boss battles, it had some good ideas but the execution wasn't enjoyable for me.
so a beat em up, had a linear mission structure and bosses that were cheap and had a certain trick to beating em.
sounds familiar.
Joking aside the misson structure was fine since it was following the manga, it had a lot of dramatic elements and cutscenes because the majority of the story mode was a story mode, and the free mode basically had no structure because, well it was a free mode.
now i'm not saying Omega force is infallible, theres plenty of tings to pick on them about, and the price of their games is one of them, you hit the nail on the head, they shouldn't be 60 because they just aren't that polished, but its very unfair to call them out as developers when they're doing a very good job.
OL wrote:I actually have a soft spot for Koei in their "historical simulation" period, back during the early-90s. I'd personally call that their prime. I'm not even that big into strategy games, but Nobunaga's Ambition, Liberty or Death, and the like are all pretty cool, not to mention stuff like Inindo (an 8-bit-style ninja RPG), and their Uncharted Waters series (New Horizons is awesome).
I'm dying for like a Kessen 4, i got nobunaga no yabou for ps2 but that did little more than make me want a new suikoden (bandit kings of ancient china). I have a soft spot for those old historical strat games too, there was also one about the khans and the founding of the Yuan dynasty but I can't remember the name.