Historical accuracy in video games...

[Firewind]

Re: Historical accuracy in video games...

What I meant was the AI in general. My main issue with 4-5 is mostly that the stages were too shorts and it was pretty much impossible to actually lose a stage unless you timed out or died. the AI actually advances on DW2-3 instead of just sitting there waiting for all of your men to slaughter. I remember setting up a stage on DW5, Yiling I think. I put the difficulty on Chaos and just sat there for 10 minutes watching the minimap. What happened was as soon as the troops on the frontlines had killed each other they just sat there doing nothing instead of charging down my now open flank to kill my General.

Well the only exception to that was in DW5: XL where you did the custom general storyline where you are some general's underling. Usually you would have to babysit your general until the timer ran out because the AI never advances. I called it "Babysit your general until the timer runs out of you go to go play a much better game like Samurai Warriors 2" mode.

DW3 also has a lot more troops on each map and you can easily get kill scores of 1100+ for each stage while in 4 and 5 you were lucky to break 500 even on the endgame stages.

[Durahansolo]

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Ah yeah I know what you mean now lol. I've always wondered why the AI would stand around staring at each other. Me and my niece got out DW6 last night and I'm pretty sure I've only played it a little bit since I bought it. (Why is my Diao Chan level 32? )

I remember babysitting the leader and it seems like when we used to play 99% of the time it'd be Cao Cao that'd be dying, It is always funny when they yell out they are struggling and you get over there and they have full health. I think it was DW4 that had duels and about 99% of the time I'd run, especially again't Lu Bu. Who the hell would want to fight him at level 1 on any difficulty lmao!

[Firewind]

Re: Historical accuracy in video games...

You always get the alert thing if an AI soldier as much as look at your commander funny. Unless you see another Ai general near your general on the map you really shouldn't worry too much about it.

And yeah I was glad they took duels out of the Warriors games from Samurai Warriors onwards. They were a pain. If you refused you lost a chunk of morale, if you fought to a draw the game would claim that you LOST and you lose a ton of morale even if you're playing as bloody ZHUGE LIANG and you just fought LU BU to a draw without taking a hit on Chaos mode. And if you even so much as looked at Diao Chan on that game Lu Bu would instantly go into his Super Sayian mode and proceed to kill everything in a 500 mile radius unless you actually fought in in a duel .

I would recommend getting Samurai Warriors 2 though, it's easily one of the best in the series and it's actually challenging on most difficulties without being infuriatingly hard. I would get it on the 360 if you can though. The PS2 version's graphics are horribly grainy and pixelated. It basically look like they made the game in 1080i then went and ported it to the PS2 without even bothering to downscale the resolution. The best way I can explain it is copy and pasting a picture into pain then resizing the picture until it's so huge and stretched out you can count each individual pixel.

[Durahansolo]

Re: Historical accuracy in video games...

I think I might pick up Samurai Warriors 2 today, and DW6:E sounded pretty good because of the a as well so I'll probably grab them both. I just noticed there was a Samurai Warriors 2: Empires, I might get that since I liked the create a player feature on the Empires games. Empires was fun because I made myself the emperor on my game and my niece was my bodyguard. That way we didn't have to worry about the emperor being babysat or killed.

I just had a n00b moment there. I played the first Samurai Warriors a long arse time ago and a few mins ago I decided to look up the characters and realized "OMG MOST OF THEM ARE THE DUDES FROM SENGOKU BASARA!" (Duh they're based on real Samurai and Ninjas Dura >_>) Excuse me while I go kill myself and then go buy this game.

I got $10 off @ Best Buy via Reward Zone points . At this rate I'll never finish any of the DW games because by the time I get on the band wagon new ones are coming out LOL!

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Soooo...I saw SW2: E was 39.99 New at Gamestop. I was going to buy it new but I got it used for 16.99 since they didn't have any at my store. Got to Best Buy and they're selling it brand new for 19.99, so I scooped it and DW6:E as well. Took the used copy back to Gamestop and the guy didn't believe me when I told him that Gamestop's brand new price was 39.99 for the game. "Oh no that must be a typo on the site because a $20+ difference between used and new doesn't make any sense." If he would've looked at the receipt, it said "You saved $23 by buying used..." So in that case not only is the website wrong but their whole system is too.