Story Choice is so confusing

[Herbert]

Its confusing me alot. Like I chose Cao Cao and just entered chapter 3, but I guess the story isnt any different from any of the other Wei clan members. Yet if I finish up with Cao Cao and unlock the characters for other clans, the story for the other clans is changing at least a little bit, right?

But replaying everything with all 90 characters wont make any sense I guess - the sweet spot probably is once per Clan?

[NonplussedOne]

Most characters within a faction will have similar stories since they're, well, in the same story. There will be minor differences like cutscenes and which portion of the story they're in, but ultimately it's still ROTK, the major events are all going to play out the same way.

So to answer your question, just play the characters you enjoy playing, and as long you cover each chapter as each faction at least once you won't miss too much.

[Zanktus]

The story a little bit a big mix up. It doesn't really matter who you play, part of the story is for every faction the same. Then there are the main family routes. If you play Sun Ce (Wu) and after that the same Story with Zhou Tai (Wu) you get the same exact family story, just with some seperated lines for Zhou Tai (which are like 4 sentences in total).

So it goes like global story > family story > character additions.

I actually like it that way, you only start skipping tons of dialogs because you mostly replay the same stuff even with other characters.
So don't expect that there are really 90 different stories, the characters themself are more like a "flavour" to the faction story. Only "Other" characters are quite the exception, because they mostly do have a unique touch.

[Everybody do the flop]

I'm thinking of doing most missions for each character, so I get the full experience, though I may end up doing every other non-gold one.

[Dexter89]

I just completed Wei, took me 15 hours.
I started this game with alot of fun going here and there getting some random bases and enemy officers. But if you don't play mainstory for 5 hours and unlock the entire map for yourself, you will lose everything to the story 5 minutes later. So i only played as an assassin after that and went for the generals i needed to execute and nothing more. I killed most enemy officers about 10x, they just came back everytime i defeated them, really stupid tbh. You don't have a say in this game whatsoever. The story is written.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by xDexter010x:

I just completed Wei, took me 15 hours.
I started this game with alot of fun going here and there getting some random bases and enemy officers. But if you don't play mainstory for 5 hours and unlock the entire map for yourself, you will lose everything to the story 5 minutes later. So i only played as an assassin after that and went for the generals i needed to execute and nothing more. I killed most enemy officers about 10x, they just came back everytime i defeated them, really stupid tbh. You don't have a say in this game whatsoever. The story is written.

I disagree with you. I am 42 hoyrsin wei.yaun shao just killed. Iwont say i explored all map but quite a bit.

As i explore i build my network. Claim towns, find hideaways, specail furniture and accessories.

Sometimes interact with other officers who got drana going on.


By exploring i had sun ce ask for help . given he came to help kill yaun shao.

Before thati found yaun shu. Helped him. He sent food to sun jain.

Hell battle against dongzhong i had haung zhong himself come from the southand atttack.

Its little things like this that i explore and enjoy. No need to rush the game.

[Dexter89]

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

Originally posted by xDexter010x:

I just completed Wei, took me 15 hours.
I started this game with alot of fun going here and there getting some random bases and enemy officers. But if you don't play mainstory for 5 hours and unlock the entire map for yourself, you will lose everything to the story 5 minutes later. So i only played as an assassin after that and went for the generals i needed to execute and nothing more. I killed most enemy officers about 10x, they just came back everytime i defeated them, really stupid tbh. You don't have a say in this game whatsoever. The story is written.

I disagree with you. I am 42 hoyrsin wei.yaun shao just killed. Iwont say i explored all map but quite a bit.

As i explore i build my network. Claim towns, find hideaways, specail furniture and accessories.

Sometimes interact with other officers who got drana going on.


By exploring i had sun ce ask for help . given he came to help kill yaun shao.

Before thati found yaun shu. Helped him. He sent food to sun jain.

Hell battle against dongzhong i had haung zhong himself come from the southand atttack.

Its little things like this that i explore and enjoy. No need to rush the game.

That's what i'd like and tried, but i got punched in the face.

[*! Akster !*]

You can spend 50 hours claiming every minor bas eint he entire map if you like, but as soon as you do the main objective and move on tot he next chapter everything is reset.

If the game had a massive sandbox mode it would be perfect to me imo. Somehting like empies put intot his would be amazing.

At the very least they could do with having a truly free mode ocne you finish every single chapter, where every officer is accessible for that chapter, with mor eof a sandbox feel. Give you a reason to raise relationships, build and stuff.

Cant wait for empires!

[ingosupercute]

Originally posted by thiz:

Its confusing me alot. Like I chose Cao Cao and just entered chapter 3

As you play with one character, you will notice lines going down from them to the next story chapter. Depending on who you play as that line might end earlier or last very long. For example if you chose Dian Wei as your story character you are done rather soon because he dies defending Cao Cao from assassins but if you chose Xiahou Dun he will live as long as Cao Cao. It is also possible to pick characters that start in one faction but later work for another faction.

It basically is like a theatric piece where actors step upon the stage at one point and leave it at another but the story keeps going.

[Zanktus]

The character stories are quite the bummer. I really do like the storytelling itself, but it is not really character based at all. I've started my 5th character now (everyone is Wu) and it is always the same story. There is only the difference that you character has like one sentence extra for each chapter where he talks to himself. And if you have a character like Zhou Tai who barely speaks at all, then you actually have 0 character story added.

I totally understand that they wouldn't do 90 handcrafted stories (which I hope they would in the future tho), but it's a letdown that they added like nothing to the character you are playing. There are exceptions, especially the "Other" characters, but that's it mostly.

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by Zanktus:

The character stories are quite the bummer. I really do like the storytelling itself, but it is not really character based at all. I've started my 5th character now (everyone is Wu) and it is always the same story. There is only the difference that you character has like one sentence extra for each chapter where he talks to himself. And if you have a character like Zhou Tai who barely speaks at all, then you actually have 0 character story added.

I totally understand that they wouldn't do 90 handcrafted stories (which I hope they would in the future tho), but it's a letdown that they added like nothing to the character you are playing. There are exceptions, especially the "Other" characters, but that's it mostly.

Honestly, DW5 was a lot like that, where most characters did the same levels over and over, but you did get personal information from the people you play as, like what they think of the situation.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

Originally posted by Zanktus:

The character stories are quite the bummer. I really do like the storytelling itself, but it is not really character based at all. I've started my 5th character now (everyone is Wu) and it is always the same story. There is only the difference that you character has like one sentence extra for each chapter where he talks to himself. And if you have a character like Zhou Tai who barely speaks at all, then you actually have 0 character story added.

I totally understand that they wouldn't do 90 handcrafted stories (which I hope they would in the future tho), but it's a letdown that they added like nothing to the character you are playing. There are exceptions, especially the "Other" characters, but that's it mostly.

Honestly, DW5 was a lot like that, where most characters did the same levels over and over, but you did get personal information from the people you play as, like what they think of the situation.

I really think most people are over reacting. A story is a story. One major story story per faction. One for major players liek Guan Yu. But how many ways can you retell the story Furthermore why would you need to?

We know the story. Use that time, money, and resources and put it into content. You know something like ambition mode, an endless eclipese like berserk. A g game function like all star warriors team ups, a charge attack like arslann. Ice feature like berserk fight where you slide.


Story is nice but it is really unneccessary. They could of done more thingst o earn the weapons than just buy them. You know do chaos mode all side quest and mega boss in hard mode in xxx mission with xxx officer to get xxx scroll.

Vs story.....

[Zanktus]

Story is actually the only reason I have put 30+ hours into this mess. I don't mind if they can't do a unique story for every officier, but it should be more than just one sentense saying "I won't surrender". Which is actually true for Zhou Tai.

In older DW games you played the faction story, or main character storylines yes, but here you have to replay specific faction stories a lot more because of the number of characters. So a little bit more would have been nice.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Wei Wu and Shu are near identical stories

The other factions(Jin and Other) are where things change a bit and you dont end up doing half the stuff you already did in the other 3.

[PrincessK]

out most of the DW series i'm glade they did it this way...for instant lu bu story in DW8 is dumb...its way untrue but showing what if lu bu pay attention and listen too his advisor for once and don't go on rampage killing lol.

[PrincessK]

Originally posted by Zanktus:

The character stories are quite the bummer. I really do like the storytelling itself, but it is not really character based at all. I've started my 5th character now (everyone is Wu) and it is always the same story. There is only the difference that you character has like one sentence extra for each chapter where he talks to himself. And if you have a character like Zhou Tai who barely speaks at all, then you actually have 0 character story added.

I totally understand that they wouldn't do 90 handcrafted stories (which I hope they would in the future tho), but it's a letdown that they added like nothing to the character you are playing. There are exceptions, especially the "Other" characters, but that's it mostly.

Zanktus you know don't have play every character...your main fouces unlock every chapter to play any faction with any character on free mode. probly first DW that don't have a complete everyone story achievement..Although there some characters you got play like for instants Deng Ai to unlock the last character there is another person but forgot who lol.