Well, I did my part and bought it... (no spoilers please)

Although I am planning on not playing it. I saw a partial list of the changes and averted my eyes as I wanted to be surprised. I have decided that I'll buy it in support but I'm going to wait for 8 so I can get a bigger rush of new things at once.

I just really hope 8 comes out fully localized with both language options. I know there are those that hate the idea of English being in these games anymore but I don't and my friends and I would really like to get maximum enjoyment out of the next installment.

Anyone else pretty much buy this game out of support?

It's been tough being a Koei fan as they've been struggling to stay relevant both in popularity outside of Japan but also in business practices with their unfortunate embracing of DLC.

What do you guys think?

Wait, so you paid $50 and you're not even gonna play the game? I... what? What are you worried about spoiling? Every character who was changed for this game will have an altered moveset (however slightly) for 8. You might as well play the game; it's extremely enjoyable and is packed with content that DW8 won't have.

Jin wins, btw. SOrry for spoilers, i couldn't help myself.

Fo_Fai posted...

I'm gonna have to second the DLC bullcrap. And no localization really irks me because I love hearing all the unique VAs in English and getting immersed in their characters.

"A dike?! Oh no!!"

Honestly, the hamminess of the English voice actors fundamentally breaks any possible immersion this game could provide. Of all the arguments to spend thousands of dollars to retain voice acting, this has to be the worst one I've heard yet.

If your such a good samaritan then why not to give the game to some needy people who will actually play?

Well, it's digital for one...

I still fail to see how some people automaticaly hate the game simply cause it has no english voice over.

I don't think it works exactly like that. More like some people would be less inclined to pay attention. I honestly don't run across a lot of people who say "Japanese? I hate it!" More like "Japanese? What the heck? Why is it in Japanese? Eh. Maybe I'll get it." And they don't. They don't have that perspective of "obviously it's from Japan so it's Japanese plus anime VA's are better!"

You come to this game for strategy and ability to conquer china your way,not to hear the same piece of line over and over again. Well unless your so pathetically needy that you require computer npc to tell you how cool you are.

Yep. You must be right. In fact, I think Dynasty Warriors was the first thing ever to have localized voices. Absolutely nothing in the world involves spoken language and they for sure don't have spoken Japanese in the Japanese releases. I mean, only losers like hearing spoken word. This is why all movies, games and television are all silent with text. This new phenomenon of people wanting to hear spoken word in their language is out of the blue silly.

But seriously it's no secret that people like hearing things characterized in their language.

And if anyone hates DLC then the question is why do you still play games? Almoust every game has one.

Why would someone be engaging in an activity that houses something they hate that once didn't house the thing they hate? Doesn't that answer itself?

Or have you only been playing video games since this generation. There are actually consoles that came before the Playstation 3 and X-Box 360 that didn't do these things. A person likely became a fan playing games back in those days and now hopes that some of these practices ceased or were dialed back. It's pretty simple.

I don't want this to turn into a "English Vs Japanese" discussion. I'm all for talking about being a Koei fan and what that entails/silly DLC practices, though.

Ever wonder why games are so littered with DLC yet we still get retail expansions as well? Seems like one of these isn't necessary...

What in the frig could POSSIBLY be spoiled about Dynasty Warriors, of all frigging games?


It is a series based on a 1700~ year old historical record's novelization, so the story is known to everyone, the characters are known to everyone, and the events are known to everyone. So it can't be story spoilers.

The game involves pressing the square button sometimes, and mixing it up by sometimes pressing triangle, R1, or circle. So it can't be mechanical spoilers.


I'm at a loss.