Dynasty Warriors 9

I actually tried this and it worked. If it's anti-piracy, it failed like the rest; however I would have to give them kudos for creativity.

Just learned you can charge the Trigger Attacks, that's neat.

AoT 2 comes out in just over a month. Really looking forward to swinging around and slicing napes again.

Low fps is a huge problem in this game. New combat system may look bad at first, but it breaks if you have slowdowns. You're supposed to combine various trigger attacks together to form a more controllable combo.
The problem is this combat is very fps dependent and the game just doesn't work like it should if you have it below 60. Consoles like base xbone or base ps4 have it even worse with 15 frames per second.

This is one of those games where everything is so genuinely terrible my only instinct is to take pity and find redeeming qualities.

I've never understood if that image is supposed to convey "cancer throughout time" or if it's supposed to portray "memes throughout the ages" because if the former I find the first two to be inaccurate and annoying and if the latter then I find the final inaccurate and annoying. For the former two were common speech at the time and the latter has been annoying, cancerous and low-effort since the very beginning. Niggerspeech and such.

I always have that issue with Koei games. First it began with Warriors Orochi series when 1-2 games i tried to find redeeming qualities in story mode and asian mythology surrounding it, and then in 3rd ultimate i found fun only on high miasma levels of gauntlet mode with combat changing items adding parrying and invincibility frames. Then in SW4 i tried to have fun with character movesets and adored storyline until i hit the 50 level cap and got bored, haven't played expansions yet. In DW8 Empires i was disappointed by how lacking the events were, and how i couldn't port character levels into next campaign, but still tried to roleplay my own kingdom and had fun with customization options and playing on chaos.

In this game i am even more on disappointed side of the fence. Like the concept of a good open world china game somewhere within the developers idea, but the realization is so terrible that it makes the whole idea look wrong. I am waiting for Empires expansion, because open world is only viable for that kind stuff, but i fear they will manage to fuck up that one too. Reminder DW7E had more events and endings than DW8E, it was a huge fucking downgrade in who you could be.

It's clearly about anons becoming jaded. There was a time where everything was epic for the win. Now everything cringeworthy gets cracked down hard.

Never liked empires too much myself. I just wonder how DW will look like moving forward. A return to form seems likely, but who knows, they could stick with DW9's idea. As a spinoff series, preferably.

And others…

Steam workaround for controller support DOES work for pirated versions of the game. It was a serious pain in the ass to setup, but you register DW9 as a "non-steam" game, then follow all the other instructions.

Even that didn't work for me at first, but I think running steam as admin helped for some reason. Not sure exactly what I did tbh, but it works now.

DW6 was the best, those people can fuck off. DW is about exploring battle options by doing different shit in the battles, and the level design made that fun as fuck in 6.