Is The Game Really That Bad?

[HeyApple]

What's with the negative reviews?

[Rei]

90% of reviews are from chinese people complaining because there is no chinese dub/subtitles. The game itself has some problems with optimization.

[dannyj147]

Most of them are from Chinese players since there is no native Chinese language support. Others look to be performance issues.

[Sawt0othGrin]

I really don't want to say anything concrete before I get more time into this game, it's only fair. And this is coming from a place of love for the franchise and the "Warriors" formula of gameplay. The open world isn't doing this game any favors. It's honestly kind of pathetic if anything. You spend so much time moving around on horse back going to little squable to little squable. I know that later in the game you get to these full scale invasions so maybe that will be a saving grace? Like a really big battle. But so far the combat system, while flashy and cool, allows you to destroy things well above your level rather easily so my time playing was spent just B-lining for my objective target, bursting him down with trigger attacks, and then moving on to the next quest via horse back unless I could fast travel.

Again, I hope I'm wrong. This is a VERY early impression but it hasn't been a good one.

[Azur lane enjoyer]

Originally posted by Rei:

90% of reviews are from chinese people complaining because there is no chinese dub/subtitles. The game itself has some problems with optimization.

Really ?

I read all review it's full of english lang and all said about performance.

[Arcamir Wraith]

https://youtu.be/fE12Z9YJJtg

I think it's not just chinese players bichin' about no naitive chinese language support.

The game actually have problem!

[whatever]

And those who played this game and the other DW games know that this is a bad DW game.

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Originally posted by Sawt0othGrin:

The open world isn't doing this game any favors.

That's an understatement if I've ever heard one. :P

The entire series was build around a closed-area mission-based level design; everything was tightly packed so that 95% of the time if you attacked, you hit about 30 enemies at once...something that was the main draw of the series. The fairly small stages allowed for a massive number of enemies onscreen so that it felt like the dictionary definition of a power fantasy, something that an open-world can't even remotely handle due to the world's size. It'd be like turning Serious Sam into a game that wants to be like Life is Strange or something that Telltale makes; it goes contrary to the entire nature of the game and every possible reason longtime series fans would want to spend a single cent on a given game.

[Date]

I played in the regular ps4 so not gonna talk about the performance since it's so atrocious.

First of all, the open world is really hit and miss (miss most of the time) I also agree that the travel time is too long on horseback. I say decrase the scale of the map and add more density to the open world.

Hunting never feels good but you'll have to do some of it to get items and materials, you can ignore it at the later stage of the game.

What I will praise is the combat, I just think it's the best it has ever been. you can actually do proper combos now and do some dash cancels and loops, defnitely feels more aciton-packed, although I would like for them to add more depth and variations to some of the move.

I don't really have a problem with the pacing of the battles, some skirmish-heavy story and then a major battle down the line (chibi, chengdu,etc)

so far that's What I could think of.

P.S: game's still downloading on PC so can't give word on port performances.

[[☥] - CJ -]

The performance is fine, no issues here, and the game looks good.

The only thing that sucks for me is the lack of keyboard prompts.

[Tet]

I've put a few hours into it now and don't find it terrible but it doesn't quite feel like the old Dynasty Warriors. It has a ton of glitches but hopefully they fix them over the next week or so.

Also your horse launches like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rocket sometimes when you try to jump over a railing. So that's a thing.

[baconboi]

The worst part of this game has to be the open world, considering the closed areas in previous installments was a big thing that made the combat enjoyable. The areas were packed with enemies to slaughter and the game kept up it's momentum that way.

The inclusion of an open world also seems like an attempt to add in unnecessary padding to increase the longevity of the game, which being honest wasn't at all needed as you could easily get 100+ hours out of DW8 and still not unlock everything and experience all that the game had to offer.

Can easily say this is the most disappointed I've been with a game release in a long time.

[Playahater#1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgGag7p0HbI
Performance is fine? Awesome graphics? What world are guys living in?

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Originally posted by Quinton:

Performance is fine? Awesome graphics? What world are guys living in?

One where the term "YMMV" doesn't seem to exist. :P

['Spect]

From what I've seen a good part of the performance on systems using Nvidia can be fixed by setting the Nvidia control panel to use the high performance GPU instead of integrated graphics. Seems to happen a lot with games that start out with a configuration window before starting the game proper. Had the same problem with a few other games where I had to manually force use of the GPU

[Andrew]

I enjoy it as a mindless timesink.