Draugoth
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Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force have announced Dynasty Warriors: Origins for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam). It will launch in 2025.
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Dynasty Warriors Origins coming 2025 for PS5, Xbox, PC | State of Play
GutsOfThor
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This is the important thing to know. If open world, count me the fuck out.
Generic
Member
I will be fine with open-world if they reduce the padding.
newtypepilot
Member
DO NOT PURSUE OPEN WORLD LU BU!!!
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I’ll be sure to play this game for 30 minutes before once again remembering how boring DW is.
Puscifer
Member
I'll never forget my dumb ass actually doing this for the first time
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Ill need info on what they are doing with the gameplay first.
Dont be too radical and just make it fun.
Im actually surprised it looked quite pretty for a Warriors game.......im down.
Dont be too radical and just make it fun.
Im actually surprised it looked quite pretty for a Warriors game.......im down.
Pasta la Vista
Gold Member
Visually its looking pretty good, but I never put more than like 10 hours into a musou game before I get bored.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Im into it. Looks good
Magic Carpet
Member
Musou, Thank you, I knew there was a term for this type of mowing the lawn sim.
DragoonWalker
Member
Looks like ass. Thought Dynasty Warriors might finally evolve their gameplay to be more weighty, more visceral with all the new horsepower available in the new gen. Nope. Same old PS2 era floaty shit. Same old lack of physics. Everyone who gets hit has the same canned animation and flies away like pebbles. Weapons hitting your enemies have no impact or physical contact. Stagnant.
TransTrender
Gold Member
"Origins" in a game title is usually a kiss of death these days.
StereoVsn
Member
It was fucking terrible. I got it for like $10 on Amazon price mistake and felt that I overpaid.
StereoVsn
Member
Yeah, it’s weird how they never bother to invest a bit more in the engine or the game itself.
I think the various spinoffs are usually better. I liked DQ ones, Fire Emblem, and a few others.
Edit: P5 Musou was surprisingly decent as well.
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DragoonWalker
Member
For sure, easier to suspend disbelief because of cartoony visuals.
I like Sengoku Basara myself, still jank but animation and weight is handled far better, plus different controls for each character. Too bad they didn't localize 4...
MadchesterManc
Member
Glad they've ditched last gen as there's way more enemies on-screen and it looks like a good upgrade over DW9.
keepthemeyesopen
Member
Very excite. The visuals and scale look fantastic for a DW game. I have recently been playing 8 a lot so I'm looking forward to this.
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keepthemeyesopen
Member
How have you not heard of Dynasty Warriors?
Matt_Fox
Member
The series has - justly - been criticised in the past for yearly releases which changed or improved very little. However it has been a few years now since the last Dynasty Warriors game so this new one will scratch an itch for a lot of us fans!
It's a pure, unapologetic arcade game - snazzy logos, silly button-mashing gameplay, over the top arcade style music, and characters making OTT declarations of how awesome they are or how they cant believe they've just been defeated.
Gaming's become rather serious in the last decade, and they dont make 'em like this anymore!
keepthemeyesopen
Member
I wonder, is this genre considered "niche" still after 23 years? I have loved this series since DW2 and it's just amazing how it's kept on going for decades.
Giallo Corsa
Member
I enjoyed both Gundam Musou games and also the Berserk one.Fist if the North star was also really nice featuring more "weight-y" gameplay compared to their main series.
Samurai warriors (4) was also pretty OK
Their spin-offs/crossovers are - for some reason - more enjoyable to me compared to the main series (Dynasty/Samurai).
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MadchesterManc
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I'd say it probably is still niche, even with the positive Nintendo collaborations. I've been playing since the original on PS1, back when it was a fighting game instead, and the main series doesn't really seem to have grown in popularity much. The spin-offs and collaborations seem to to do much better and there such a huge variety of those these days. I still remember being hyped for Hyrule Warriors and grabbing a WiiU, so It's probably more about how they're marketed given the formula doesn't change outside of minor tweaks
Matt_Fox
Member
I think it qualifies as niche, particularly in the West (the series tends to hit number 1 in the Japanese charts). Most DW titles average around one million copies, some sell a bit more some a bit less.
After quite a hiatus I'm really pleased to see this new entry, and it looks like next gen only so it can really impress with the number of combatants.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
It’s a game where you run around a map hacking your way through thousands of defenseless enemies. It’s good for some mindless fun but I feel like the formula got stale 20 years ago.
I swear every time one of these games is announced the initial reaction is “oh shit this looks amazing, can’t wait for a next gen DW”, then it releases and everyone goes “oh…yeah it’s the same game I’ve played 1000 times before”
I guess someone must keep buying these because they keep on cranking them out. It’s worth playing if you’ve never played one before.
The_hunter
Member
The Chinese setting and high fidelity graphics. Never played this style of game, it's different enough from other stuff on the market that it interests me.
What would you guys say is the main appeal of this combat style?
What would you guys say is the main appeal of this combat style?
Killjoy-NL
Member
Never understood the obsession with this series.
Utter shallow trash.
Utter shallow trash.
MadchesterManc
Member
It can be a simple button masher up to medium difficulty, or you can up the difficulty further so you need to make use of combos, blocks & abilities. Either way its pretty easy to pick up & play.
Katajx
Member
I loved Samurai Warriors 1 and 2. The Gundam games were fun too.
keepthemeyesopen
Member
It's a very simple combat style but what makes up for it is how over the top it is. The sheer number of enemies you KO all at once never seems to get old for me.
March Climber
Member
They are the original versions of what a MOBA game is today, along with Dota. I found them fun on harder difficulties
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cireza
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That's too bad. You might think that this is endless, brainless farming, but actually Musou games are management games. Stages are usually superbly balanced in higher difficulties, and the challenge is being able to do everything you have to do in the time you have at your disposal. These are purely optimization games, with stages that can last a bit so you have to plan maybe 15 minutes or more, and this can be very engaging. The first Hyrule Warriors is still my favorite (20ish FPS on Wii U, my eyes still hurt). Some stages to obtain Level 3 weapons are incredibly tight and challenging in this game (in the Quest mode).
I also spent quite some time on other titles that were released on Xbox in the past, including Arslan (which was quite fun) and Warriors Orochi 4 (good fun). Attack on Titan should also be noted because it has awesome gameplay mechanics. Omega Force are REALLY good at making these games.
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Killjoy-NL
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Really? I like moba.They are the original versions of what a MOBA game is today, along with Dota. I found them fun on harder difficulties
Always seemed like mindless button-mashing when I played it back in the days (the original I think).
March Climber
Member
It is depending on which difficult you play on, and also if you focus too much on the mobs. The hardcore loop of the game (at least in the PS3/PS4 generation of games and spinoffs that I've played) was about fighting the other commanders(with their own special abilities), while also defending certain designated zones so that your army doesn't lose too much ground. It was a delicate balancing act that can be challenging on harder difficulties.
My only gripe with some of the older DW games was the fact that the action itself(and combos) was limited. They improved this with some of their 'Warrior' spin-offs of other I.P., so I'm hoping that they take what they've learned from those spin-offs and incorporate it into this new DW.
This is essentially a fresh start after the last mainline DW game came out in...
2018
Hudo
Member
It seems the failure of the last DW game really caused them to rethink stuff and take their time for this one.
tmlDan
Member
I don't even know how tf that would work.
I'm a massive DW fan I don't think open world would make any sense lol
keepthemeyesopen
Member
For me personally I thought it was a no brainer, having it open world only seemed natural considering DW maps in general were very open. Not open world mind you but more sandbox or mini sandbox. I think it could have worked for DW 9 it just wasn't executed well.
PatientGamer
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Remember playing this back in the PS2 days, haven't touched this franchise since then as I felt it was just way too easy & repetitive.
Has anything changed since then? Besides the enemies on screen, the graphics don't seem all that tbh.
Has anything changed since then? Besides the enemies on screen, the graphics don't seem all that tbh.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Theres pretty substantial differences even between Dynasty Warriors 2 and 4 and in turn between 4 and 6 we dont talk about 7 and 8 was great.
That was the last Dynasty Warriors before this one.....Dynasty Warriors 8 was the last one.
We dont know what returning and/or new mechanics are in this one, but it looks like a warriors game thats a start, we just need more information.
March Climber
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I would love for Sega to somehow get their composers to collaborate with Omega Force. For some reason I always felt like Sega’s arcade-style of music would fit rather well with DW games. It’s a mixture of that rock that DW is known for, but with a bit of that jazzy melodic flair added in that Sega is known for.