Total war: Three Kingdoms vs Koei: romance of three kingdom

[Berserker]

I would say Total wars three kingdoms is much better than Koei. Let check total wars 3 kingdoms out if you never hear that. What do you guys think about both of game? Please, leave a comment below.

[Kevana]

They're both different genre. I play both and enjoy both. I don't see the point you're making here.

[Berserker]

Koei three kingdoms is very important in my childhood. Playing this game over 20 yrs. The game play is much simplified that seems a mobile game. The good things are gone from previous generation. They also don't have enough improvement.

Total wars 3 kingdoms had been sold over 1 million copies in first week with very positive comments on stream.

I hope people could discuss 3k in both companies here and Koei team also see their challenge and keep the improvement. They are losing fan base and market share. That's very sad when I saw this RoTK 14.

[Aerys]

its complicated to compare it to total war because total war is stil more rts oriented, the system during governning phase has never been good if comparing to nobunaga and rotk since empire total war, but if you want to compare this to previous game, this is one of the worst

[Gerd]

Total War games compared to Koei games are like checkers compared to chess, i prefer Koei games because there is much more strategy involved

[Ger]

You simply cannot compare them. If 3 Kingdoms world were a racing game, "Total War 3K" would be "Arcade Mode" and "RTK" would be "Simulator Mode"

[Berserker]

It looks like Koei in sweet spot. They don't really have challenge and fan still love what they do now. I just feel they should be better than what they do now.

[slaudicina]

I'm not big a fan of WEGO games. That's why I play the KOEI game

[Blizzrd]

I didn't mind total war 3k but my biggest issue is that I'm not a fan of RTS. I'm more of a tactics gamer myself which is why I enjoy the RTK games more (and why I'm excited Baldur's Gate 3 is going turn based). If there was a way to turn a turn based mode in TW3K then that would be really fun. I know they never will because that's the main appeal of that game and I respect that, but that's why RTK will always be for me. RTK13 was probably my least favorite for this reason but it was slow paced enough that the battles almost felt turn based.

With that said, I still find myself going back to TW3K every once and awhile as its a nice change of pace, but RTK will always be my usual go to.

[BloodyPork]

Total war is ugly. I like this game much more.

Total war will never be better unless they fire their art director and completely change their design philosophy aesthetic wise.

[General Plastro]

Originally posted by BloodyPork:

Total war is ugly. I like this game much more.

Total war will never be better unless they fire their art director and completely change their design philosophy aesthetic wise.

At least its not Attilla Total War, the worst looking total war game to date... with piss filters everywhere!

[slaudicina]

How about all the other ROTKgames?from Koei? How do they stack up against this game?
Thinking of getting RTK13

[Berserker]

Originally posted by slaudicina:

How about all the other ROTKgames?from Koei? How do they stack up against this game?
Thinking of getting RTK13

The RoTK 13 is not bad. I have a good time with that. But I'm looking forward for better game play. I'll suggest you to wait it on summer sales.
Total war 3 kingdoms is better for me. I could see hero in action. I feel they are alive. Something more and better. But it's again that is room to improve in character, chapter, settlement improvement and the most important thing is deeper personality and ability, that make them unique. I can't wait to see more DLC and patch.

[Berserker]

Originally posted by Berserker:

Originally posted by slaudicina:

How about all the other ROTKgames?from Koei? How do they stack up against this game?
Thinking of getting RTK13

The RoTK 13 is not bad. I have a good time with that. But I'm looking forward for better game play. I'll suggest you to wait it on summer sales.

Total war 3 kingdoms is better for me. I could see hero in action. I feel they are alive. Something more and deeper. But it's again that is room to improve in character, chapter, settlement improvement and the most important thing is deeper personality and ability, that make them unique. I can't wait to see more DLC and patch.

[BloodyPork]

Originally posted by slaudicina:

How about all the other ROTKgames?from Koei? How do they stack up against this game?
Thinking of getting RTK13

I prefer 14. Although I've played all of the RTK games from 6 onwards, each at least 50 hours or so. I think all Koei strategy games (from super old stuff like gemfire to kessen to dynasty tactics) are worth playing, no matter how flawed they are, simply because there are no competition.

The western games, while it can also be fun, will never be able to capture the same feeling as these japanese games, mostly because they are aesthetically ugly. But even if say, you use the DW portrait mod on TW three kingdom, that game is just shallow outside of combat and the combat gets repetitive/tedious quick especially for people who already play over 200+ hours total in past TW games. They are all really similar/reskins of each other, unlike koei ROTK which is very different each iteration.

[Dev]

It might sound silly but I prefer ROTK because of how the generals are drawn. The generals portraits are drawn so close to how I would imagine they would look like when I read the 3K novel, and it adds a lot to the immersion, and I bet most people here are fan of the 3K settings. Meanwhile the generals look sooooooo not impressive in Total War 3K.

I did use the portraits mod for TW3K, but their ugly 3D models is still there.

That said, if TW3K's art is as good as ROTK (which I do not see it's happening), I will probably like TW3K more than ROTK.