Whats the replay value on this?

[Zoey]

So I've never played a Empire version of DW before. If I understand correctly its sort DW choose your own adventure gameplay. With DW games playing as each character and seeing their personal stories gave it a ton of replay value. But what about this? How deep is the character development?

*edit* Oh and I guess I should ask is there a new game + mode for previous characters you beat it with?

[Bootleg VHS]

Not my video, but this guy explains what the game has fairly thoroughly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP0hyuRrpbU

Keep in mind this is a port though, the review is not about the PC port, and he's playing a japanese version. So look into whether or not the game will work for you if you plan on buying it, as an unoptimized shoddy port can end up being unplayable if it isn't patched.

[Wings]

You can carry over your weapons / items / strategies you have unlocked on previous empires playthrough and you can choose not to. It has a sort of a point system for it and the points you get from playing the game.

- as for the character development, it's all on you. there are event videos that happen when you reach certain goals that always shows the character you are playing, be it a custom officer or one of the original officers.

The replay value really comes from doing things differently in each playthrough and unlocking weapons and such. if you never use bonus points, it actually resembles a roguelike quite a bit.

[Tiedie Tundra]

there are options to set all previously unlocked items/weapons/stratagems to be available from the start of a new game, plus you can use the bonus points to unlock these things from the main menu.

(Red Hare would count as an item)

[Sol]

Originally posted by Wings:

You can carry over your weapons / items / strategies you have unlocked on previous empires playthrough and you can choose not to. It has a sort of a point system for it and the points you get from playing the game.

- as for the character development, it's all on you. there are event videos that happen when you reach certain goals that always shows the character you are playing, be it a custom officer or one of the original officers.

The replay value really comes from doing things differently in each playthrough and unlocking weapons and such. if you never use bonus points, it actually resembles a roguelike quite a bit.

You can carry over a "Title" but I have not seen an ability to carry over Weapons - I did have the ability to auto-create a Son my ruler had as a child.

[Tiedie Tundra]

Originally posted by Thadian:

Originally posted by Wings:

You can carry over your weapons / items / strategies you have unlocked on previous empires playthrough and you can choose not to. It has a sort of a point system for it and the points you get from playing the game.

- as for the character development, it's all on you. there are event videos that happen when you reach certain goals that always shows the character you are playing, be it a custom officer or one of the original officers.

The replay value really comes from doing things differently in each playthrough and unlocking weapons and such. if you never use bonus points, it actually resembles a roguelike quite a bit.

You can carry over a "Title" but I have not seen an ability to carry over Weapons - I did have the ability to auto-create a Son my ruler had as a child.

the options are in a seperate tab when setting the difficulty

[Wings]

Originally posted by GANuclearShadow:

So as a example if someone were to buy Red Hare with these bonus points the next game they would start off with said horse?

red hare saddle counts as an item. you can take the "unlock items" to get all the items you unlocked on previous run, including red hare and all the other items and equipment you had unlocked.
the cost of bonus points is always the same: 4000 for unlock weapons, 2000 for unlock items and 4000 for unlock stratagems if i remember right. one full run will give you enough bonus points to get basically everything.

[Grath]

the replayability is insane. Considering everthing that's been mentioned you can also not only replay the same scenarios with different kingdoms you can create your own ones or downloaded those created by other players.

this game is pretty much based around replayability.

[hickwarrior]

Originally posted by Grath:

the replayability is insane. Considering everthing that's been mentioned you can also not only replay the same scenarios with different kingdoms you can create your own ones or downloaded those created by other players.

this game is pretty much based around replayability.

I dunno about that. The game tends to fall into a sort of loop for me. I'll try to be evil later on, but right now... eeeeeh, no.

I am enjoying that loop regardless, but reading jim sterling's review did push me out of my high a bit.

[Spartanlemur]

It strikes me as the kind of game you'll come back to every few months to try something new.