DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS

So this is my next game! Been playing for the past couple days. I can’t believe my eyes. Koei Tecmo has upgraded from half-assed to two-thirds-assed. It actually looks like something made in the last decade, actually has the warriors gameplay warriors gamers like, and they had no babysitter (publisher)!

Aside from a graphical face lift, they’ve added an overworld, and a stats upgrade system. In this particular game you play as a no-name character that you upgrade rpg style. So far I don’t see any point to the overworld, but maybe in a few years they’ll cobble together some more systems to have it make sense in a future title.

Some of the cut scenes are low quality, 30 fps, video clips. At least they’re 4k low quality 30 fps clips. In engine cut scenes are capped at 60 fps for some reason. I suspect both of these shitty things are because they originally made them for ps5/xboxsx and it matches the graphics settings on those systems. That and laziness.

I’m currently running at max settings at 2160p>60 (usually >80, often >100, HDR: On, DLSS: Off). It runs well, but it’s not exactly a hardware intense art style and they use geometry instancing up the wazoo… which begs the question, why does it run my cpu hotter than GOW Ragnarok? They’re definitely running some of the code too frequently.

I did have to pirate because poor, but would have purchased it on discount otherwise. I’m having fun though, will post more later!

Just beat it! Probably the best Dynasty Warriors game so far. Hopefully next time they have an actual story. This game has the same story line as the previous 4 million DW games, this one is just more in depth, but you could tell they were just fleshing out the existing legends. They could have easily removed all the story cut scenes and replaced them with a small text description on a single frame and the game wouldn’t have been any more or less enjoyable. There were far too many cut scenes for such a basic, dry, and dreary story line. In a future title they should focus on a small portion of the story and then just make shit up. That way it’s new story, and if they hire a good writer, also a good one. They also could have done away with the overworld. Hopefully in a future title they have an actual reason to have one.
All that said, the part gamers actually care about was really well done. Recommended if you like warriors games!

These games are so fun without really doing much, I will have to give this one a go.

Crap, didnt know this came out.

Crap, didnt know the game costs 80 euros.

Crap, didnt know I will have to wait 6 months for a heavy discount on this game to actually play it.