An age of heroes! And we're a Kpop star?

[Thel]

Surrounded by legends from decades of Dynasty Warrior games. And we play a Kpop star? Hoping there's some kind of customization to make them into a great warrior rather than a 16 yr old kid.

[๖ۣۜMk137]

Yeah Dynasty Warriors might just be done at this point. DW4 or bust

[ingosupercute]

I was thinking the same thing. Ain't no way I'm gonna play as Kpop Soyboi.

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜMk137:

Yeah Dynasty Warriors might just be done at this point.

Indeed. This game will be an 80€ story mode experience, which means after 20-30 hours you're done. In a normal Warriors game you'd then continue to play many more hours trying some of the many characters that are being offered, Origins only has 9 weapons so you'd only get to try 9 of them and when had this series ever so few options to toy around with?

The thing about resetting this series has always been: It doesn't work. The old fans will hate the new game. New customers are the target audience, but the appeal of musou and the reputation of the franchise make it very difficult to lure them in.

I won't be buying this game, but my expectations are it will get pretty good press and player ratings, but sell far behind expectations. Then Koei will close the series for good and instead concentrate on what works for them: Soulslikes with Asian style, Nioh, studio Gust, Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the Asian market, and one time licensed games such as Hyrule Warriors.

[Ensign]

Originally posted by koinzell:

it was conformed by those who played it that there's no character customization.
you can find and unlock cloth for him tho.

Thats sort of a relief.
I heard from those that played that you CANT unlock more clothes for him. That everything is the same because of cutscenes and animations needing him to be in the same outfit and appearance.

So its not true? We CAN have more outfits? Great.

[Synth]

whats with u morons and kpop stars? yall gay for them? dont understand the pointless use of the term. main character looks like any typical hero character. go rub 1 out, dont post ur gay fantasy here.

[giroexspress]

Originally posted by Synth:

whats with u morons and kpop stars? yall gay for them? dont understand the pointless use of the term. main character looks like any typical hero character. go rub 1 out, dont post ur gay fantasy here.

buddy why is your mind runnin to jerkin it? why are YOU so heated because someone used one of the MANY terms for this kinda thing? what, would it have been better if he said it was a "shonen protag" or "isekai MC"? it's a bland term for a late teens early 20-something guy that isnt bad to look at

[ingosupercute]

Originally posted by giroexspress:

would it have been better if he said it was a "shonen protag" or "isekai MC"? it's a bland term for a late teens early 20-something guy that isnt bad to look at

Personally, I feel both of these would not fit the character. Isekai main characters are usually (=not always) rather unremarkable looking guys on purpose. Because the whole premiss of the show is gonna be change a boring average loser life into something exciting and heroic.

I also feel like Shonen protagonists are usually way more flashy and overdrawn. They come of unrealistic and usually look like someone you would not encounter in the real world.

The reason why I think the DW Origins main character looks like a Kpop star is: He seems to be under 20, his facial features are feminine, his skin is very smooth and quite frankly especially around the eyes it looks as if he was wearing makeup. And he got the characteristic hairstyle. I simply don't know any other group of men who look like this.

[koinzell]

TBH. he dos look like a flashy korean manhwa protagonist.
"that time i got transported into a Dynasty warrior historic game world as a nameless mob".

if its Shonan jump then he would look like a kid that never shuts up about "team work & friendship & loli harem".

Kpop star idol description also fit.

[Space_Lettuce_OG]

I am with you on this one. The player character looks like a soft weakling, not a mighty warrior.
The fact that there is no character creator, or at least other character options, is a major disappointment. Still the other improvements to the formula are pretty great, best upgrade in the franchise I've seen in many years. So, I'll still enjoy it, and just pretend the character doesn't look like a weakling with no muscle mass.

[Thel]

Originally posted by Synth:

whats with u morons and kpop stars? yall gay for them? dont understand the pointless use of the term. main character looks like any typical hero character. go rub 1 out, dont post ur gay fantasy here.

My bad Grandpa. The main character looks inexperienced, far too young, and customization has been a stable in most games for 20 years.

Is that better to help you understand or are you so sexually frustrated you see sex everywhere?

[lexia88]

There won't be a character creator? D: whaaat

Ok I'm honestly a bit disappointed. I don't particulary hate the MC (he looks a bit emo though), but the setting of "nameless nobody joins an epic war" sounds like it's MADE to have a character creator. YOU could be that random dude.

... so, can we name him at least?

[Velmoria]

There could be lore that MC worked as eunuch.

[koinzell]

Originally posted by Ensign:

Originally posted by koinzell:

it was conformed by those who played it that there's no character customization.
you can find and unlock cloth for him tho.

Thats sort of a relief.
I heard from those that played that you CANT unlock more clothes for him. That everything is the same because of cutscenes and animations needing him to be in the same outfit and appearance.

So its not true? We CAN have more outfits? Great.

im not sure TBH.

the player review video i saw said that there are cloth for him, he didn't bother to check the outfits or the requirement to unlock them.

[Darc strider]

sorry buy not being able to play as famous officers killed any hype i had. why bother, this isnt DW

[Mikeblade]

the whole point of dynasty warriors was to play as the characters from romance of the three kingdoms if where not doing that in this game it's not a dynasty warriors game at all. still going to try this tho

[Chortles]

Originally posted by lexia88:

There won't be a character creator? D: whaaat

Ok I'm honestly a bit disappointed. I don't particulary hate the MC (he looks a bit emo though), but the setting of "nameless nobody joins an epic war" sounds like it's MADE to have a character creator. YOU could be that random dude.

... so, can we name him at least?

You can name him; the Japanese default is Nameless and the English default is Wanderer, and I've seen footage wherein Wanderer was replaced with a YouTuber's username. As it so happens, I believe he said that Origins' story does fit a fixed character more than a create-a-warrior, however it could have been rewritten for the latter so not doing so was a choice...

As mentioned by koinzell, you can unlock more costumes; I've seen one, and the pre-order incentive is the Nameless Warrior Garb from Wo Long, modified to fit this character's animation skeleton instead of Wo Long's defaults...