Sneaky Release of Nobunaga's Ambition

[undercovergeek]

complicated is good - not knowing why is bad

[Grim.Reaper]

Thanks for the info.....not ready to pull the trigger yet but certainly could happen at some point, especially if I find it cheaper someday:)

[BanzaiCat]

Thanks for the info.....not ready to pull the trigger yet but certainly could happen at some point, especially if I find it cheaper someday:)

+1

Played the hell out of this on my old Nintendo NES. This and a few other Koei titles, but cannot recall their names offhand.

[jomni]

Thanks for the info.....not ready to pull the trigger yet but certainly could happen at some point, especially if I find it cheaper someday:)

+1

Played the hell out of this on my old Nintendo NES. This and a few other Koei titles, but cannot recall their names offhand.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Bandit Kings of Ancient Chines, Le Empereur(?), etc.

This one is so different because it takes some of the boring turn-based stuff.  The flow of the game play of this one is quite fluid.

[BanzaiCat]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms...that was definitely one of the others. Thanks, jomni, for the memory jog.

[tgb]

If you have treasures it's pretty easy to get a general's loyalty up with gifts.

One thing I want to mention because it's sometimes overlooked is how good the interface is for a game this involved. Despite a system of menus-within-menus and dozens of things you might be able to do every turn, you always know which choices are and aren't available and which targets are viable for those choices.

In too many grand strategy games you either have to scour the map or study a spreadsheet in order to find opportunities for action.

[Nefaro]

Thanks for the info.....not ready to pull the trigger yet but certainly could happen at some point, especially if I find it cheaper someday:)

+1

Played the hell out of this on my old Nintendo NES. This and a few other Koei titles, but cannot recall their names offhand.

PTO I & II were great, also.

If they made a modern one with similar gameplay, I'd be all over it.


Isn't the last Romance of the Three Kingdoms released in English, for PC, number.. 11?  Think it originally came out around 2008.  Gamersgate sells it.

[JasonPratt]

Yes, Rot3K 11; it was a port from PS2. Generally 9 has been regarded as the best, but I don't know if that got a PC port. There haven't been any more localizations since then, except on iOS, which got some good industry reviews. So 11 is the last I know about on any large system. Though I expect Koei has been releasing them still in Japan.

[JasonPratt]

Koei has kept its Dynasty Warriors (and related titles) releases up to date; One Piece Warriors 3 (same engine, different property) was released only a week or two ago.

They even released a localized and updated version of Bladestorm to PC a few months ago, which uses their Kessen game system (making the beat-em-up gameplay of the Warriors system into more of a real-time-strategy game).

I wish they'd spare some ergs to release an updated Dynasty Tactics game, though I guess it wouldn't do me any good since even if they localized it for North America they might only release it for PS4. :(

[jomni]

Isn't the last Romance of the Three Kingdoms released in English, for PC, number.. 11?  Think it originally came out around 2008.  Gamersgate sells it.

Yes.  11 is quite tedious to play.

The coming ROTK 13 will be in the same engine as Nobunaga by the looks of it.  Game will be out in October in Japan so add another two years of localization if they ever do it.
http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/sangokushi13/system2.html

The Musou hack and slash games are easy to localize compared to these deep strategy games.

[endfire79]

Thanks for the info.....not ready to pull the trigger yet but certainly could happen at some point, especially if I find it cheaper someday:)

+1

Played the hell out of this on my old Nintendo NES. This and a few other Koei titles, but cannot recall their names offhand.

PTO I & II were great, also.

If they made a modern one with similar gameplay, I'd be all over it.


Isn't the last Romance of the Three Kingdoms released in English, for PC, number.. 11?  Think it originally came out around 2008.  Gamersgate sells it.

PTO  1 was my favorite - for some reason the music stuck with me.  Another favorite was Uncharted Waters #1 (#2 was too kiddy-gamey).

[W8taminute]

No.  But I just noticed that they're called relief forces.  Does that mean I can only call them in when I'm attacked?

They will come to your aid even when you are the one doing the attacking.  First though you must have at least a 6 month ally treaty with them.  Remember though that if you ask for their troops to help you it costs trust points.

I already covered that.  I have a 2 year alliance and 40 trust points and the option to ask for support is still grayed out.

During the realtime portion of the game pause the action then click on the ask for troops button.  You should then be given the option to ask that clan for help.  Also if you have a coalition setup with other clans you can either ask them for troops or they will automatically send them.

With tribes you need to get their interest in you greater than %70 then they will automatically send troops to your aid.  I have yet to ask a tribe for help because they just send me the troops when a war breaks out.  With allied clans you usually have to ask for their help.

[Nefaro]

Thanks for the info.....not ready to pull the trigger yet but certainly could happen at some point, especially if I find it cheaper someday:)

+1

Played the hell out of this on my old Nintendo NES. This and a few other Koei titles, but cannot recall their names offhand.

PTO I & II were great, also.

If they made a modern one with similar gameplay, I'd be all over it.


Isn't the last Romance of the Three Kingdoms released in English, for PC, number.. 11?  Think it originally came out around 2008.  Gamersgate sells it.

PTO  1 was my favorite - for some reason the music stuck with me.  Another favorite was Uncharted Waters #1 (#2 was too kiddy-gamey).

Same.  I enjoyed the original PTO more than the second. 

Would be nice to have a new one.  Running the whole Pacific theater is a lot of fun when you don't have to fight the tedious interface of WitP.

I've seen someone doing a current youtube LP series on PTO II.  I recall attempting to run one of them in an emulator, years ago, but the screen resolution of those old console games is terribly small.

[spelk]

This video takes you through most of the options and explains a little bit about each..

[W8taminute]

That's the best video I've seen so far that explains the game without having the commentator act like a clown.  Thanks for sharing.