Who from TMD plays Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

[brianpk80]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms has always been my favorite series for consoles.  Given the audience overlap between Magic and other strategic games, I'd imagine more than a few people here know of or play the series.  Part 11 just came out on Wednesday and it's fantastic.  I've been playing it in my off time (limited, bleh) for the past week so I'm wondering if anyone else is playing it. 

Cheers,

-BPK

[Imsomniac101]

I played it for a while, but it was soooooooo dull. I mean I am of Chinese stock, and it is a part of my heritage and all, but the way it was presented was very boring. The music was the same, where they would loop that same annoying music, and the combat is old hack n slash.

[brianpk80]

I played it for a while, but it was soooooooo dull. I mean I am of Chinese stock, and it is a part of my heritage and all, but the way it was presented was very boring. The music was the same, where they would loop that same annoying music, and the combat is old hack n slash.

Ouch.  Which RTK was it?  The combat tends to change frequently in each installment of the series but I can't think of one that's hack and slash.  Dynasty Warriors on the other hand, which is based on RTK, is all hack and slash. 

-BPK

[Smmenen]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms has always been my favorite series for consoles.  Given the audience overlap between Magic and other strategic games, I'd imagine more than a few people here know of or play the series.  Part 11 just came out on Wednesday and it's fantastic.  I've been playing it in my off time (limited, bleh) for the past week so I'm wondering if anyone else is playing it. 

Cheers,

-BPK

I own the new one for PS2 (and by new I mean like a year old), but I still haven't actually played it.  I've mostly just read the manual.

I'm a HUGE fan of Nobunga's Ambition for the original NES.   

[brianpk80]

[I own the new one for PS2 (and by new I mean like a year old), but I still haven't actually played it.  I've mostly just read the manual.

The newer one is pure top-down strategy while the one I think you're mentioning is Part X, a hybrid of strategy and many RPG-lite elements. 

I'm a HUGE fan of Nobunga's Ambition for the original NES.   

Nice, I liked Nobunaga's Ambition as well.  There was a sequel for it for SNES called "Lord of Darkness."  They omitted the title "Nobunaga's Ambition II" for the U.S. market, presumably to name it something more glamorous (?), but an inadvertent effect of that was that many fans of the original NA had no idea it was the direct sequel.  IIRC, Nobunaga's Ambition had only rulers and no subordinate officers, but Lord of Darkness brought in a very dense cast of subordinates.  I liked it the most in that series (of the lone two).

Are you familiar with the Kessen series?  Kessen I and III are more cinematic albeit slightly less strategic renditions of events in Nobunaga's Ambition.  Kessen II is the same idea but set in the Three Kingdoms period.

-BPK