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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:06 pm
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If any of you are familiar with the Dynasty Warriors series, then you should know who Koei is.
I've been paying attention to their games lately, and a recent announcement of theirs has forced me to lose all faith in them as a company.
The Dynasty Warriors series had gone literally unchanged through 4 sequals of the game. Dynasty Warriors 3-5 were recycles of Dynasty Warriors 2, using minorly upgraded graphics engines each time, with zero gameplay change throughout.
Until Dynasty Warriors 6. New gameplay. Which is good. But then there were only 12 real characters, the others simply became clones of eachother. Character count goes from 42 I believe, to 12. The amount of levels declined from over 50, to 11.
And now, instead of focusing on the potentially series-saving DW7, they've been putting out multiple versions of Dynasty Warriors 6, each with tiny perks unique to each version.
As of a few days ago, they are now up to 6 versions of DW6, each with something unique miniscule in each, instead of just adding these additions onto the original DW6.
It's an a*****e move, forcing loyal completist fans to pay for a full-price game for a minor perk in each reiteration of the game.
So for me, I've given up on Koei..
At least the Samurai Warriors series is still in good shape.
So, for those of you who know Koei, what do you think of their business practices? Do you think there's any practical reason to create so many versions of the same exact game to lure customers to spend more money?
And any other game companies you feel have questionable marketing and production?
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:56 pm
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Moonlight_HuangHou Captain
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:14 am
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Square tends to make good RPG's, but lately they've been hitting a streak of rather generic releases. I am however still looking very forward to Final Fantasy XIII.
Companies have definitely forgotten about good storytelling in place of good graphics. It's the struggle to have the prettiest game. Graned, there's some games out there with beautiful graphics and amazing storytelling. Fallout 3, Bioshock, and perhaps Fable 2.
Ma Chou's switch to the great sword was a surprise. I don't really like his character design either. He used to be embroidered in golden dragoon-type armor. Now he's down to leather padding and a circlet. Hopefully when Dynasty Warriors 7 comes around, they fix his whole design.
Koei Warriors, a huge fansite for the company, has even admitted that all the DW6 re-releases has them a bit pissed. To get everything the Dynasty Warriors 6 series ((may as well be a series of its own)), you'd have to spend over $300, when you could easily have $60 for the base game price, and have the new characters, stages, and modes as DLC for $10 a pack. It's pretty money-grubbing.
Quite the opposite, Blizzard's an amazing company. Too bad they take upwards of 8 years to create a single game. They're probably the slowest game company in existence, but the final product always comes out to near perfection.
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:45 pm
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Moonlight_HuangHou Captain
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:50 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:11 am
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Moonlight_HuangHou Captain
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:01 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:42 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:47 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:48 am
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Moonlight_HuangHou Captain
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Moonlight_HuangHou Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:52 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:10 am
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Honestly, I'm an obsessive Sims fanatic. And, well, the games on the PC have been awesome, but the ones on the systems, well... actually, I'm talking about the ones on the Nintendo DS. I recently got The Sims 2 Apartment Pets (because my computer recently died and I can't play any of those versions anymore crying ) God, it sucked!
That's something else, too. It seems like some companies are giving out everything to one system or another, and if they create it for something else... it feels like they've done little to nothing. i.e. The Sims 2 for PC is great. Everything Sims made for the DS... just awful. And Harvest Moon: all DS games were wonderful. Tree and Tranquility for Wii, and Magical Melody for Gamecube.... severely lacking in storyline...
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:13 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:21 am
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Black_Angel_Flowne Honestly, I'm an obsessive Sims fanatic. And, well, the games on the PC have been awesome, but the ones on the systems, well... actually, I'm talking about the ones on the Nintendo DS. I recently got The Sims 2 Apartment Pets (because my computer recently died and I can't play any of those versions anymore crying ) God, it sucked! That's something else, too. It seems like some companies are giving out everything to one system or another, and if they create it for something else... it feels like they've done little to nothing. i.e. The Sims 2 for PC is great. Everything Sims made for the DS... just awful. And Harvest Moon: all DS games were wonderful. Tree and Tranquility for Wii, and Magical Melody for Gamecube.... severely lacking in storyline... Does this mean you got Sims 3? ^^ Since your a sims fan? I've never played Sims before. It's very popular. I think I played on a video game console but that was only for a few min and it was too repetitive though for my taste. But I've heard lots of good things about #3.
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Moonlight_HuangHou Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:30 am
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Moonlight_HuangHou Black_Angel_Flowne Honestly, I'm an obsessive Sims fanatic. And, well, the games on the PC have been awesome, but the ones on the systems, well... actually, I'm talking about the ones on the Nintendo DS. I recently got The Sims 2 Apartment Pets (because my computer recently died and I can't play any of those versions anymore crying ) God, it sucked! That's something else, too. It seems like some companies are giving out everything to one system or another, and if they create it for something else... it feels like they've done little to nothing. i.e. The Sims 2 for PC is great. Everything Sims made for the DS... just awful. And Harvest Moon: all DS games were wonderful. Tree and Tranquility for Wii, and Magical Melody for Gamecube.... severely lacking in storyline... Does this mean you got Sims 3? ^^ Since your a sims fan? I've never played Sims before. It's very popular. I think I played on a video game console but that was only for a few min and it was too repetitive though for my taste. But I've heard lots of good things about #3.
Quote: "My computer recently died and I can't play any of those versions anymore crying " So, no, I have not played The Sims 3. And while it looks good, I still think The Sims 2 is still a lot better. But when I get a new computer, I'll probably be right in the store buying the Sims 3 anyway! ^^ I actually really like the games they made for like bigger systems. But yeah, they can be a bit... boring after constant playing. From what I can tell you, the PC versions are always better, but you usually have to buy a lot more expansions and stuff. I've spent about 200 dollars just for the full set of the Sims 2... Another problem: memory space. Most of the expansions take a lot of memory, and so most of the expansions are just gathering dust in a shelf.
Hmm... Well, Ok, there's way too much stuff to say on The Sims, so I'll just make a game review right now... It might take a little bit, though, soo...
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