Dynasty Warriors Online

[SanadaUjiosan]

So I'm not sure how people in this community feel about DW. I imagine there's a lot naysayers but I'll speak anyways.

The open beta for Dynasty Warriors Online recently opened up. The game will be free anyways, but I guess they're wanting to work out some bugs. Me and two of my friends (who have been loyally playing DW and most of it's offshoots since middle school) have recently been trying it out, and the consensus is that it's actually fun.

The parts that aren't the battles are a little clumsy and sterile, but the battles are interesting. There are of course tons of peons to fight and kill, and combat seems to usually center around capturing bases. There are different kinds of bases to take (some require you to kill x number of peons, some require you to kill all of the base captains) and the bases serve as respawn points for players (both enemy and friend) So naturally the game boils down to defending/attacking the bases. The battles I've been in so far have been relatively short (I think they are 10 minutes) and if no side can win, the victor is decided by number of kills by all the players.

Gameplay is naturally pretty action oriented (especially for what is being passed off as an MMO) and if you enjoy the DW formula you'll probably enjoy this. Give it a try, it's free, it's not huge, it's not that demanding.

http://dynastywarriors.aeriagames.com/

[Otherside]

I love Dynasty Warriors. Ever since DW2 I have been hooked. Nothing better than mindlessly bashing through a ton of generic mobs as Lu Bu/Guan Yu.

I will deffo give it a shot.

[smoth]

I used to like Xiahou Dun but then they gave him a staff last I recall

[Otherside]

Ye I didn't like how in the newer versions of Dynasty warriors they kept changing peoples weapons.

Wei Yan / Pang Tong / Guan Yu and Lu Bu for the lol OP factor are my faiv characters. So ye I mainly play Shu :p

[TheEpicMang]

I played dynasty warriors 4 a crazy amount

didnt like 5, it was too similar but a bit worse

always played it 2 player at my friends house

[smoth]

one thing you have to give DW, people have a FAVORITE and they play the shit out of him...

[Otherside]

Playing hard mode vs Lu Bu is always fun :p.

Watching him own every single general quickly. By the end the only way of making game challenging is waiting for all but your last general to die and seeing if you can speed run through all the enemy generals or take multiple ones on at the same time :p.





Fuck now I want to dig up my PS2 and play DW4 again.

[SanadaUjiosan]

I played dynasty warriors 4 a crazy amount

didnt like 5, it was too similar but a bit worse

always played it 2 player at my friends house

Funny you say that, I consider 4 the worst out of 3, 4 and 5, and 5 the best. 6 was atrocious.

DWO is pretty fun, but it can be irritating. There's too many "training" missions I think, and some of the quests have really low time limits. Challenging I guess would be a good way to describe it.

[KDR_11k]

I don't like how the peons don't really fight back, I prefer Zangeki no Reginleiv where enemies getting close are bad news.