Bladestorm Comments by Rob Fahey

I quite enjoyed the Japanese PSN demo. Not sure if it's a buy yet, but it was quite fun. (even thouh I had no idea what to do)

Is this anything like Kingdom Under Fire? I suppose I should try the demo myself and find out.

Lose the fluorescent combojunk on screen and we'll talk.

Looks promising.

"A quick trip to Wikipedia confirms that since the series debuted on the PlayStation 2 in 2000, we've had 18 assorted Dynasty Warriors titles"

Actually it debuted in 1997 on the Playstation. It might not have been a Dynasty Warriors game in the sense of the word these days, but it was still the first game in the series.

Bloody hell Shinji, you've been busy. How many articles in one day?

@JMM: Are you sure this is out for PS3? EG usually have the available formats o the left hand side of the title. It only states 360. Or is it an oversight ono their part?

I did greatly enjoy Dynasty Warriors back in the day. Did get a bit bored after the 3rd or 4th one, but if they're going to make variations like this then I'm interested.

It is satisfying being part of a big battle and having a direct influence in it. It's the sort of series which will benefit a lot from technology, the more enemies on screen the better.

@morris - Like I said, played the demo. This is one of the games which was originally a PS3 exclusive, alongside FI. An oversight on EG's part.

Linky

Sounds like Kessen mixed with traditional Warriors, which is okay with me. I always felt the lack of seperate unit types and no good heroes hurt Kessen. Bladestorm seems to have fixed these.

What are the 18 titles?

1) Dynasty Warriors
2) Dynasty Warriors 2
3) Dynasty Warriors 3
4) Dynasty Warriors 3 Xtreme Legends
5) Dynasty Warriors 4
6) Dynasty Warriors 4 Xtreme Legends
7) Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires
8) Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper
9) Dynasty Warriors 5
10) Dynasty Warriors 5 Xtreme Legends
11) Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
12) Dynasty Warriors 5 Special
13) Dynasty Warriors Advance
14) Dynasty Warriors (PSP Edition)
15) Dynasty Warriors Vol.2
16) Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighters Battle

Then there's the upcoming:-

17) Dynasty Warriors BB
18) Dynasty Warriors 6

What am I missing?

EDIT: I've added another I didn't know about, but they're not all out in the UK, as usual.

DFawkes: The Xbox 360 version of DW5 was called Dynasty Warriors 5 Special, and was slightly different to 'vanilla' DW5.

Cheers Uiruki. that'd have bugged me for ages :)

It's coming out on PS3 as well, that's an oversight on our part. The version Koei actually showed us was the PS3 build.

Fudce: I was ignoring the 1997 title because it was a beat 'em up, and in Japan at least, it had a different (albeit similar) name - the "numbered" series didn't start there until 2000.

OMFG!!!!PoweroftheCELL!!! What happened to my posts? Vanished into thin air?

That's even funnier, posting it in the 360 section about a PS3 version.

My posts disapeared too.

JMM - From what I can gather, both versions will be identical - but, yeah :)

miiguel, Kryon: Your posts were deleted because they were nothing but a personal tirade directed at another poster who had said something perfectly valid, and were a blatant attempt to stir up yet another dull flame-war. As usual.

Shinji: that's a precedent which can seriously damage this foruns, imo, but you're the Andrew Ryans of EG so you certainly know better.

on-topic: It's no looker, atleast not when compared to Skate.

It's hardly a precedent, we delete flaming trolls on a regular basis. The guy made an innocent enough comment and got leapt on with four consecutive posts from you two, all of which were personally aimed at him. That's out of order, and we've deleted stuff along those lines plenty of times before.

So If I went into what I believed to be a PS3 thread and said something like "yeah it looks teh worse than Gears of war" (as f3rrari has done) would that not be considered as me making "a blatant attempt to stir up yet another dull flame-war" or wouldn't that count?

Would f3rrari have made this comment had he known this to be a multi-plat title? I think not but it's OK for him to do it as he's a Sony fanboy anyway Shinj it's cool, we all know where your loyalties lie :)

yeah..., I mean, I get personally aimed on a daily basis here (today included, about two posts above ;) ), and never saw such thing, and I liked it that way.
But..., fair enuf, I guess.

"all of which were personally aimed at him"

Thats a clever play on words, yes our comments were in reply to his but there were no 'personal' remarks/insults towards him as a ..erm..person involved.

You could put Jeremy Kyle out of a job with spin like that!

So If I went into what I believed to be a PS3 thread and said something like "yeah it looks teh worse than Gears of war" (as f3rrari has done) would that not be considered as me making "a blatant attempt to stir up yet another dull flame-war" or wouldn't that count?

No, because you'd be talking about the game, not the person. That's what you seem to have missed here - that, and the fact that this is a multi-platform game. Tell me, would you have been so quick to leap to its defence if we hadn't messed up the platforms on it when inputting the article?

Didn't think so. You're even more guilty of exactly the same thing of which you accuse the original poster. Now pipe down - if you want to talk about games, feel free, but if you want to play at silly childish playground arguments, find another site to do it on.

Another aseptic forum was born.

Later.

Im actually quite interested in this after reading the preview. Wasnt really a fan of the Dynasty Warriors series and Im glad Koei are moving in a different direction.

Wanted to make a witty comparison between the DW series and the design of the Porshe 911 (something along the lines of being nearly exactly the same with every new iteration) but, unfortunately, Im not that funny.

OoooOOOOoooh! Calm down!

"No, because you'd be talking about the game, not the person. That's what you seem to have missed here"

There you go again, I seriously don't remember throwing any names or insults at him personally (because I didn't) but anyway. chill out, are you still mad at me about that whole 'gay gamer' post I made about you last week?

Not in the slightest - I'm paid for the work I do on EG, and as such I don't mind taking whatever slings and arrows people may choose to throw :) I don't ever delete comments aimed at me, but like the other mods, I *will* step in when I see people deliberately and maliciously trolling other users. Which is what you just did, and the fact that you didn't bring his parents' marriage into disrepute while doing so is neither here nor there.

I've explained why your posts were deleted, and I'm not planning to spend my Saturday evening discussing it any further with you.

Fair enough, but just because you have the power to silence others does not automatically make you right ya-know and to be fair this whole furore was really all your fault for messing up the platforms anyway, so lets just all be grown up about it and blame you for doing your job (that you get paid for) incorrectly :)

/runs like the wind

When I see this title, all I can think of is the fictional videogame 'Bonestorm' from The Simpsons. As such, I don't think I will ever be able to play this.

lol, Id actually quite like to play Bonestorm

Another game from Koei and another blond ladyman on the front page.

Check this evidence out!

I Knew it all along!

PS. In the name of comedy, please don't ban me:)

/Runs away again

Well spotted JMM. :)

Ofcourse you will, that's what the SDF do, Besides you have no choice but to stand and fight mate, it's not like you've got anything better to do like play a decent game, is it :) and I totally sympathise man, it's only natural to want to fight if you're angry about something, I'd be angry too if I'd paid £425 for a haggard toothless three legged dog of a console with no decent games but I'd be even more angry with myself for believing Sonys hype and actually buying into it, infact I may even have killed myself by now if I were you :) But as long as you still have faith in Sonys PR bullshit and teh POwazERs of tEh Cell you will never see the light :(

was playing the jap demo, and the game seemed quite good, but i couldnt really work out was on going on as i cant read a dam character of japanese.

Played the Japanese demo and that managed to bore me as hell. Didn't even bother to finish. Why do game designers think it's a good idea to put an active time battle bar into a game like this?! I get it that super attacks etc. shouldn’t be available continuously but not being able to perform a basic attack or block for a period of time?! It’s just ridiculous. You run towards enemy, press a button, watch attack, perform block, run away, wait till your bars are recharged and repeat again. When you’ve decimated the enemy troops, you wait till the next wave arrives and do the same again and again and again and again until you decide to end the game.

Les - hold R1 for your basic attacks with the squad and ur guys will also run towards the targets. u dont have to use the specials all the time (well u do if ur the archers)

(sorry if u already knew that).

I quite liked the demo. It's more Kessen than Dynasty Warriors, but frankly I can't get enough of koei's games. Orochi, Bladestorm and Gundam Warriors all in one period :) im a happy bunny.

@ Lead

Thanks, wasn't aware of it. :)

Though it doesn't have much impact on the core mechanics of the game. It's still "press a button/wait for the bar to fill up again/press the button again", etc., etc.

People seem to be under the misguided impression this is Dynasty Warriors Europe, which it isn't. It's an RTS in console clothing. I've been using identical tactics to those I'd use in Medieval:Total War 2, and they work really well.

You HOLD RB to attack. When charging a unit into battle, it'll give them a small speed boost, then the skirmish ensues. I admit it can be borin holding a buton, waiting for the squad to end the battle, but like a normal RTS you can end battles faster through smart use of units and their special abilities.