Too much?

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So I've finally finished up WO completely- everyone at level 99 and max proficiency, with their PIs and 4ths with maxed out stats. That being said, how many people actually do play and max out everyone? I ask because over dinner with my roommate the other day, we were talking about games, and how I kinda soured him on the Warriors series because I would play it all the time. He was all, you should stick with a few characters and be done.

I know a lot of people have a select few they play, but I legitimately liked playing as most of the characters. I mean the DW games, I could count the people I didn't like playing as on one hand. Lu Meng and Zhang Jiao just suck, and I'm not too keen on Dong Zhou, Huang Gai, Pang Tong, and Huang Zhong either. (I guess that's 6, but its still closer to one hand than two) And even then, honestly, Pang Tong's WO incarnation isn't bad (I like his jump charge where he surfs his staff in the air), and there was a time when Huang Zhong wasn't too bad, I think they nerfed his arrows as the series went on.

SW2, Shingen and Hideyoshi were the only two I least liked playing as. I mean, they were hilarious in the games, I just didn't like being them. Though in WO I think they made it so Hideyoshi actually did damage (I've one shot-ed Lu Bu with him!), and had a great r1 special, but they ruin it by giving him that awful voice. And Shingen's not actually a bad character, his moveset just isn't my cup of tea. So truthfully, I liked all the SW2 characters. And as far as the SW series as a whole, Yoshimoto's the only one I hate playing as, but I've only played the WO-version of him, I hear he's actually good in SW2:XL. And speaking of, I'm dying to play Toshiie and Kojiro, but the other characters seem interesting enough to play as well.

But 42 out of 48 in DW, and 24 out of 26 in SW2 (or 29 out of 32 in SW2:XL), at that point, why not play everyone? Especially since the game requires you to play everyone at least a couple of times to unlock certain things.

Warriors Orochi: Ranmaru PI

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Warriors Orochi

Well, and here I got Akechi's Personal Item the first time without trying too hard. Meanwhile, Ranmaru's Personal Item I failed 5 times before getting it the 6th time.

The faq doesn't seem to make it clear enough the serious time crunch under which you're working while trying to get Ranmaru's Personal Item. It also doesn't make clear whether or not the tasks that it lists for you to perform must be done in a certain proper order (if not, that may've helped the time crunch some). It also doesn't make clear how many task forces show up that you need to stop. It's too vague to be a walk-through, and it's too specific to be just a listing of tasks you need to accomplish, so it was just confusing for me to try and figure out what I really needed to do during my umpteen attempts at this.

First time I tried, Sun Ce died, so I lost the stage. I hate it when that happens. Second time, I took too long. Fail. Third time, I let the second group of engineers go and they burned my main camp. Fail. Fourth time I thought the guy in the upper-middle of the board (behind Sakon) ran away because he was no longer in his spot when his number came up on my list (he was actually over with Lu Xun so I didn't realize he was still there), so I ran out of time. Fail. Fifth time, Gan Ning got to the docks before I could kill him. Fail. Sixth time, with some INTERIM SAVING (that I didn't end up needing), finally, I got it. :P


( Ranmaru's Personal Item: how to )

Whew!

So dissapointed with Dynasty Warriors 6...

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So, I don't know if news has reached everyone here yet, but...

Dynasty Warriors 6 hit shelves today in Hong Kong, and rather than new additions to the character roster, seven characters got the axe. (Six if you don't count Zuo Ci...)

Da Qiao
Xing Cai
Jiang Wei
Pang De
Zhu Rong
Meng Huo
Zuo Ci (We pretty much surmised this, though...)

And only 17/41 remaining characters actually have a Musou Mode. :/

I'm EXTREMELY bummed out, considering Da Qiao was my favorite character in the entire series. -.-; She's pictured in the artwork for Xiao Qiao, who did not get cut, but she's definitely not playable, if she even makes an appearance in the game at all.

Xing Cai seems to have been liquidated entirely, as she's pictured in Zhang Fei's character art work, but as a chubby toddler.

Everyone else is completely MIA.

Here's a link to art book scans for those who are interested.

http://bbs.a9vg.com/read.php?tid=777659&fpage=1&toread=&page=1

Discuss. -.-;;