Dynasty Warriors 9 is happening - we've known that for a while now - but publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force have both been suspiciously quiet on the subject. As regular readers and fans will know, a new Warriors game is seemingly announced every other week, but the Japanese companies are certainly taking their time with Lu Bu's latest.
There's a reason for that, though. Speaking in Famitsu, Omega Force brand manager Kenichi Ogasawara says that "the evolution from Dynasty Warriors 7 to 8 was insufficient", alluding to the fact that the two games are very similar to one another. With Dynasty Warriors 9, however, the developer's looking to wow people with its official announcement. Ogasawara comments: "When the time comes to announce it, it's going to have a greater impact than you can imagine." Bold words.
Are you looking forward to Dynasty Warriors 9? What would you like to see from the next instalment? Swat your foes like flies in the comments section below.
[source famitsu.com, via blog.esuteru.com, gematsu.com]
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The only way I can imagine any noticeable difference in game 9 is if they go F2P. Which I don't think they'll do, but that's what popped in my head. Unless they go FP view and make it for PSVR. Has there ever been a FP mosou game? I guess Serious Sam might have been close, though of course that was a shooter.
They are lots of IPS with one piece, farlan etc . surprised there's 9 . 3rd one was probably my favourite . biy stake after 8 similar games ha
lot things like see in dynasty warriors 9 that one character called zhou cang he would be so cool play as in game but for story could look at 3 and 5 think about add that in the game so all characters have they own so that way we don't get chosen about 4 in one story i like see that in dynasty warriors 9 base of 3 or 5 story bit
They really need to change for a better performing engine. Gameplay of warriors shouldn t change too much.... It still must be a Warrior game after all!
I'm very much looking forward to it. There's definitely a lot they can do to shake things up. People might say the series doesn't change much, but go back even to 6 and see how different it is to 8 (to play; watching 20 seconds of a Youtube video doesn't really represent a game). Then go back to 5 or 4. They feel totally different, even verging on unplayable nowadays, some may say.
They can make the battles more dynamic, something they've worked on steadily as the series moved on. The player's actions affecting what events occur and the course the battle takes. They've already toyed with the player being able to build structures on the battlefield - they could take that further. The series has had RPG elements for a long time now but they could add greater customisation, maybe even differing movesets based on level up choices. That's without mentioning the actually feel and flow of the combat (again, compare something like DW5 to DW8).
@rjejr There was Samurai Warriors Katana on the Wii. It's genuinely one of the worst games I've ever played in my life. In the earlier games in the series you could go first person to shoot arrows, so that kind of counts, a bit.
Dynasty Warriors 5, Samurai Warriors 2 and 4 are my all time favorite Warriors games. I hope that Dynasty 9 is on par with Samurai 4 (which in the genre it's a masterpiece).
@Matroska Shooting arrows is a bit too stationary, I was thinking about all the melee attacks. Probably wouldn't work well at all, Lana's bouncing off the walls move would probably literally give a player whiplash. And every character has a disorienting tornado type spin move. Yikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Bj_8UkI-0
When will we see Warriors Orochi 4.
Maybe go darker, or more outrageous characters"Master of the flying guillotine" anyone?
@rjejr Samurai Warriors Katana for the Wii was First Person.
I think the game play should be different, I would love to play this game with an assassin's creed like fighting game play.
The missing parts in dynasty warriors now days are the bodyguards and army numbers will be much better if they were applied 😊😍
And also to be more realistic in fighting instead of powers, one of the best dynasty I ever played was dynasty warriors 3 it felt more realistic but still the rest dynasty were enjoying and fun
@rjejr There was a first person Samurai Warriors game for the Nintendo Wii, but it was mostly on rails and wasn't very good at all. Then again, who knows, they might try again and it might be good...
all i want in dw9 is versus mode back!!! got no idea why did they remove it, especially now, where you can play it online.
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