If you build it....... Friday will come

[Gusington]

Yeah W8 if you do an AAR can you also post where you ordered the game from? You also mentioned that PC versions are available...are there any in English that we can order here in the US? I have no knowledge of Japanese or Chinese.

[tgb]

Ugh.. they were crap then.. Airplane ruled!!!.. Hot Tuna!

You too? I have a great t-shit, 10 years old, unfortunately now full of holes.  It simply says "If you don't know Jorma you don't know Jack".

Last time I saw them was about 20 years ago at The Paradise. Great show!

We should probably take this to another thread  :).

They come through Tucson every few years.  4 or 5 years ago I took my wife (her first time seeing them,although she's a Deadhead), we had 2nd row seats and she loved it.  Acoustic, iirc.  They came through again back in January with Leon Russell, but I was working and we couldn't go. I would have loved to see that show.

[tgb]

Yeah W8 if you do an AAR can you also post where you ordered the game from? You also mentioned that PC versions are available...are there any in English that we can order here in the US? I have no knowledge of Japanese or Chinese.

I would be interested as well.  The last Koei game I played was Romance XI, and I think that was the only one release here in the last 20 years.

[W8taminute]

^I will for sure!  Look for it soon under the console wargaming section.   ;)

is it PS4 exclusive?

No you can also get it for PS3 as well.

I use www.yesasia.com to import my games.  You can also try www.playasia.com as well.  I'm happy to report that I've never had any issues getting games from them. 

The only way I've heard of people getting their hands on a PC version is through various individuals who buy local and sell globally.  Unfortunately the cost is way too high in my opinion and some of these guys are thieves.  Still, people do report that they get the games for PC and patches which convert most of the menus and texts to english.  Check out the forums over at www.kongming.net for more information.  Yeah it doesn't make sense to me to get the PC version because of the costs which is why I got PS3 and PS4 in the first place.  Those machines are region free and the console version of these games are a lot more affordable to get and from reputable dealers like the ones I mention above.

Here are two examples of how to get the PC version of these games:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-PC-Nobunagas-Ambition-Souzou-w-Bonus-JAPAN-Nobunaga-no-Yabou-import-game-/131118884569?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item1e874b66d9

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1563942

[Jarhead0331]

^Are the console games convertible to english language?

[W8taminute]

^Are the console games convertible to english language?

Unfortunately no but I'm working on translating the manual.  These games are not that hard to play it's just a matter of learning which button to press in order to issue certain commands.  Then there is the menu items you need to select depending on the circumstances.  Like when you want to build a market in a fief you could accidentally hit the build farm instead.

I'd be happy to share my translation results in an AAR down in the console forum.   :)

[Gusington]

Damn...seems like a lot of work with gray market material. Well at least there is Shogun 2 for now.

[MengJiao]

There will be banished, Rome 2, and eu4 Austria - no gaming all week - it's good to be back

   Probably only Panzer Battles PBEM and solitaire.  Maybe a little RoF.

  And that is roughly what happened.  Lots of Panzer battles and a little CLOD.

[JasonPratt]

Note: traditionally the Nobanuga's Ambition and R3K games are turn based strategy games with RPG elements; and there are versions available in North America for both the consoles and PC. Just not the latest one (yet).

The action beat-em-up series (which has a number of light tactical/strategic developments in the past 10 years or so) is Dynasty Warriors (for Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and Samurai Warriors (for the Shogun wars), plus the Orochi series (which combines characters from both series in a more overtly fantasy campaign). I'm pretty sure there are PC ports, and always NA localization. Some of the 'Warrior' line don't get PC ports, such as the games based on the anime One Piece storyline (I've played the first game and it's pretty decent) and various Gundam series mashups, but they often do have NorthAm localizations.

There was a far more purely strategic series for R3K storyline only called Dynasty Tactics (1 and 2, no reason to get 1 really as 2 has more details but the same story), for managing large armies during R3K campaigns; only for consoles so far as I know, and was last published (in North America anyway) in the PS2 era. I adore my PS2 copy.  ;D It has cinematic scenes running in the background when various things happen on the battle map.


The Kessen series is an RTS, somewhat like the "Warriors" series except for groups of companies, with increasing amounts of RPG bling, heavily based on the same art and mechanics of the other series. Kessen 1 (as the Japanese name would imply) dealt with the Shogun storyline, but was superceded totally by Kessen 3. Kessen 2 used the R3K storyline, and looks pretty primitive compared to Kessen 3, but is still a fun way to blow a weekend. All three games were only for consoles in North America I think.

The latest Kessen game (so far as I know) to be released in North America isn't called Kessen. It's called Bladestorm: the Hundred Years War, and is set during Britain vs France's late medieval war which ended with Joan of Arc. It is very excessively awesome, although it didn't get good reviews for some reason. :) But (in North America at least) it's only available for PS3 and XB360.

Lots of reviews at Gamerankings for Bladestorm: http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html?search=Bladestorm&numrev=3&site=

An absolutely epic video LP can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmstZ5V0Js&list=PL5D951A6DDFB2777C

First video:

[W8taminute]

Bladestorm was indeed a fun game.   :)

[Gusington]

Thanks guys...where can I get a not-latest version of these?