My favourite memory of DW6 is of playing through Lu Bu's story, turning up at famous battles such as Guan Du and Chi Bi and causing chaos. And, of course, the final stage, at Hu Lao Gate, when almost the entire character roster had allied against you!
Lu Bu's introduction in Hu Lao Gate on DW6 remains the greatest Lu Bu intro cutscene yet. No grand speech about how great he is or how pitiful everyone else is, he just storms through the rear, bodies flying all over in near silence, only a single soldier pointing out his presence. Sadly, the Flash attribute with a full musou bar turns an event into just another fight. Not even killing Diao Chan makes it better.
Probably the most in depth review of Dynasty Warriors 6 on TH-cam. This was my first Dynasty Warriors game, so I was not aware of all the differences. 10 years later, it's still my favorite Dynasty Warriors game. Also, i believe Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and Lu Bu are the coolest in 6.
I didn't really enjoy DW6 as much as the other games in the franchise, but the designs were top-notch. Only a few characters have a meh design, but no one is at their worst either.
Give everyone story modes and no clones and this is one of my favs all time tbh. At least as good as Dynasty Warriors 5 vanilla, maybe better do to overall quality of life improvements.
Huh... I actually get it now. There's a reason why everyone hates the game and I enjoyed it. #1 has to do with appreciation for the finer and subtle nuances. It was less of a game to me and more of an experience. Well, I've always been able to deeply immerse myself in content well. And #2 was that I played the PS2 version of the game. I must say, the additional characters really added to the game. Ma Chao, my favorite character, was playable with a fantastic and enjoyable weapon/moveset. Cao Pi's subtle badassery was forever imprinted in my brain in a particular scene with the Red Hare. The relationship between Ling Tong, Gan Ning, and Lu Meng added memorable emotional depth. And Taishi Ci's 1v1 with Sun Ce seemed to serve as a unique semi boss fight within this non-boss game. I really do have different memories than most people. I don't play Dynasty Warriors to satiate artificial desires of mowing down hundreds of enemies. I don't play Dynasty Warriors to grind for artificial trophies. I play it because Lu Bu is the biggest beast in the game, Sun Ce is interestingly charismatic, Cao Cao's ambition is founded upon his liberal insight about society/the world, and Zhang Liao is a talented skilled warrior yet humble and worth aspiring to. I see now... They're archetypes to me. It was more than just a game.
I got it on my 360 first. It was a long time until I tried the PS2 version, and I will say that it was improved as far as the content and story. But I just haven't sunk a lot of time into it because I can't help but want to play it in HD. Like the game has a chance at being better than it is. But it's good that people can enjoy this game. I have a friend who loved this entry. I honestly think he played it more than me and he's not as big a Warriors fan. lol
I think your viewpoint is spot on though. Major PS2 era fan and I think people focus too much on the renbu system. The biggest problem with this game that became a trend is Clones and lack of story modes for every character. If they changed those two things and kept everything the same I think this game would’ve been loved. People would’ve wanted the combo system back but there’s no way they’d have gotten away with a release like 7, a game that actually changed the tone and core of the series imo
Don't lie to yourself you know for a fact you don't play these games just for what's going on in their head you play these games for their combat mechanics.......
Dynasty Warriors 6 was my entrypoint into the franchise. For a set of training wheels to the franchise, its competent. Empires is also super stupid fun and I love it
+Cozy Camper It's good to see someone have this opinion. After I beat the story and maxed out my favorite characters, I stopped playing it and leant it to my friend who loved it. I find the classics (DW2-5) more realistic with 4 being the most as far as costumes, movesets, weapons, and environments goes. 4 is also my favourite along with 8.
@@ChrisGildart 4 is such a classic. DW4 was the first one I ever played. I then went back and played DW3. This was on the original Xbox. I went over to a friend's house to play D&D and his older brother was playing Dynasty Warriors 4 fresh from Block Buster. I jumped in with his friend and him and all three of us kicked ass on the battlefield! Man what a good memory. We played all damn night.
DW memories are some of my favourite to hear. I remember hanging out with some friends who were playing DW3 together. I didn't ask about the game or anything, but I noticed a dude with a giant sword. I later picked up DW3XL at a pawnshop and found out that was Xiahou Dun. He is still my favourite character.
@@ChrisGildart I liked Dian Wei and Liu Bei when I started but later I found Pang Tong and Wei Yan. Damn I miss DW4 Pang Tong. That and that one dude in 5 or 5 Empires who had the deck of cards. Zuo Ci.
Pros: * 6 is one of my favourite DW games from the soundtrack perspective. * The stages are very nice. 6 has my favourite versions of Xuchang, Hefei and Guandu. * Animation runs smoothly. * Despite the stories being more on the "What-If" side, they are enjoyable. Lu Bu and Diao Chan has my favourite stories. Cons: * Combat is easily the weakest aspect of the game. Clone movesets and the renbu system are the key problems. * Getting past big gates can be a real chore. Thankfully it was less so in 9. * Easily one of the grindiest games in regards to levelling up. Thankfully not so much with getting weapons and horses. * AI can be a pain in the ass even on the lowest difficulty. As someone who has been speedrunning this game, it does get annoying when officers that can easily be taken out with a few hits be incredibly competent with defense.
This needs a remaster but with more playable characters personally I'd love if the orochi was added as playable characters the only way you can unlock them tho is if you complete all mouso modes and get all characters to level 25
Yep. The worst things about this game imo were the clones, cut characters, lack of story modes for everyone, and then last, renbu system. Otherwise, it had a lot of cool and innovative features I wish stayed.
Really enjoyed your videos. It's a crime you don't have many subscribers. Now onto my rant: I think that DW6 gets a little too much unjustified flak. It had some great things going for it and the series but because of the enormous critical and fan outcry a lot of it got cut. The renbu system was bare-bones but it had real room to grow. Attacks were flashy without being overly ridiculous like in post 6 games and running and combo charges were pretty cool. Counters looked amazing and rolling was pretty useful and made battles more tactical, as did the special attack tomes. Duels made a comeback and were the best and most atmospheric in the series. And last but not least, there were sieges, which were my favorite part of the game. Defending your engineers while they set up rams and ladders, and then climbing up walls to get rid of ballistas before breaking down the gate and mowing down the defenders was an absolute blast. I really hope at least some of it comes back in 9.
+Special_Agent_Goodwrench Dynasty Warriors 9 is looking to be shaping up really well. I might have to do a video on it some time. I agree that Dynasty Warriors 6 gets a lot of unneeded hate, but even when I played it for the first time I felt like a lot of changes were just executed in the wrong way. It had the potential to change the Musou series, but it was not fated to be.
Sweet. Looking forward to it. And yeah, I get why others felt that way, even though (and to my surprise) I really enjoyed 6. I wrote it off for the longest time because of the terrible word of mouth and played it only after 7, which is a shame, because gameplay-wise I actually prefer it to 7, warts and all. Here's hoping Koei won't be too afraid to implement new ideas in 9 (and bring back older ones that worked) but won't do them half-baked like in 6.
I'm pretty sure I've done that fairly recently. "Do I want to grab the rest of the achievements on DW9 for Xbox One, or do I want to work toward those last few achievements for DW6 on 360?" Sometimes you just want to finish things up and move on. lol
@@ChrisGildart i think in the updates nowadays, 9 looks better than play we have story mode for every character, i have xiao qiao and da qiao the best characters for me and i hate 6 dont do story mode to xiao qiao and in 7 she didnt ever appear on story mode, but in 9 the qiao sisters has a lot to moments and i love it
I take it that you wouldn't be a Sex Gravy fan then, he hates the Qiao sisters, I like them though I wouldn't say that they're my favorite females(that'd be Diao Chan, Zhenji, and Lian Shi). I don't know which one I prefer, I mean 6 certainly was better made(sometimes I would be in the middle of a combo, press Triangle and when I do whoever I'm playing as attacks someone not even remotely on screen, and sometimes it takes like 10 minutes for enemy officers to show up on screen when I am fighting them in 9), but 9 at least has characters I like that are new
I just discovered this channel, and I'm loving it. As for this game. If I were to rank DW 6, it would probably be somewhere in the middle (not the best, not the worst). That being said, DW 6 is my absolute favorite aesthetic in the entire series!!! Whenever possible in later games, I always 6 to DW6 designs (even getting it as DLC is I have to)
DW6 was my first and for that I am grateful. I would unironically write an essay about what it did good, and what it did poorly. To sum it up, DW6 did a lot of small things right and a lot of big things wrong.
I started at 3 and all the nostalgia that comes with the game and the games following it. I would still say 6 is my favorite. It felt like a proper evolution to me personally, and it's flaws would've been etched out over time(I.E. movesets, stages, ect). The PS3 was super hard to develop for and that's what they went with and then ported it to the 360. All in all it felt great to me.
This is the first one i played and i LOVED it as a kid and played it with my brother. Probably my favorite xbox 360 game i got to play as a kid and I still think it's fun with friends.
It's honestly not a terrible game, but coming from DW3-5 I felt it just wasn't the right fit for the series. It's very similar in my opinion to something like Star Fox Adventures. It's a decent game, but not a good Star Fox game. Dynasty Warriors 6 is a decent game, but not a good Dynasty Warriors game. That being said, I played this a lot with my friends. I had one friend who really liked this version of Sima Yi and my other friend's favourite was Zhao Yun. So those two and Xiahou Dun are like the only characters I have maxed out.
@@ChrisGildart Well it's likely because I've never had another dynasty warrior's game to compare it to. I only remember me and my brother yelling at eachother to go places and accomplish things on the battlefield and if all of the games are like that but better I'd want to check those out too
The definitely are. Especially the classic ones like DW3-5. DW7-8 have more of a narrative driven map style, but if you're going for the 5 and 6 star weapons in DW8 you'll definitely want a friend to help you out with some of the other things going on. I would recommend DW4 for the classics and DW8 for the newer style.
@@ChrisGildart Actually the thing that made me like DW 6 was the difficulty, general personalities and satisfaction of doing stuff like leveling, taking bases and it just blended so well but it sounds like the other games are even better, which would you suggest the most?
DW5 has the bases for you to take over, but is a little less difficult. DW3 & 4 have the difficulty, but not the bases. Honestly, I'd still recommend DW4, but maybe check out my other reviews on the games just to see what they're like.
As awful the cloning was in this title, I really look at Dynasty Warriors 6 with a kind heart and mind because it felt very unique and refreshing compared to the other games
Nostalgic Vibes... My first Dynasty Warriors that I was playing during my childhood days was DW4, a purely Masterpiece DW game in my opinion. My favourite Dynasty Warriors games of the Entire Franchise will always be 3, 4, 5 and 6 on PS2. 🤷🏻♂️✌️
I played this when I was a kid, didn't realize it was a bad game. Even though its bad, ngl the soundtracks slaps. My mom and I played this when I was a kid, we had a great time. Man, I guess whats good of it is just the memory of playing it with my mom. I miss this game, really makes me feel nostalgic
Incredible review man. I remember when this came out and seeing how much they really dropped the ball on it. Infinitely pressing square was the dumbest concept ever. This definitely started marking the shift in soul for the warriors series too. Battles started feeling less like actual battles. In DW3 or 4 it was tough to get more than a 100 or 200 kills per stage so it felt a bit more grounded. Which cannot be said about any warriors game they release today. The musous are obnoxious in everything past 6. You press it once and it kills like 100 enemies just like that. You're ending stages with kills in the thousands. I really think going a more realistic battle route was the way to go. Or at least keeping the same gameplay as 3 and 4. I also don't know what happened to the ai but they seriously just stand there waiting for you to kill them. In 3 they would actually block attacks and then fight back. The difficulty in current games is just increased by making them hit super strong but they still just stand there like idiots. There could be a whole video done on how much the series has changed from 3 to 8. I didn't even bother anymore with 9 so god knows what happened there.
I can see what you mean. 6 did decrease the overall quality of individual peons and make you able to rack up KOs faster. But going back and analyzing it at least on higher difficulties it still had the warriors spirit and difficulty of the older games much more than 7 onwards. 7 kept the enemy counts from 6, but got rid of all the battlefield/war simulator stuff and went straight 1 vs 1,000. Officers don’t even ride horses anymore for goodness sake. I think the actual biggest issues with this game wasn’t even the renbu system (though I don’t like it). If this game released with story modes for everyone and zero clones with everything else the same, I think it’d have a strong argument for being better than DW5 vanilla. 6 just shifted the way battles work, they were still epic imo and you were still part of an army though, but future games just took the enemy counts from 6 and then did as you say.
6’s battlefields are really immersive. I didn’t realize how much until going back and playing the old games from the new ones. It was on an interesting track that may have worked if Koei went the right way. DW7 was the start of a level of laziness I fear has doomed the series imo.
Unpopular opinion: I thought DW6 had some of the freshest, most original, and unique character designs, and loved the new, more fantastical direction they were taking the series. Sima Yi, Dian Wei, and Gan Ning (among other characters) REALLY benefited from having some more interesting and unique weapons too. Once more characters were fleshed out in the ps2 port and empires, they were on track for some great things. While the combat system wasn’t the best, I’d say it was leagues batter than what we got in 9. I wish they would have stuck with this art direction at the very least.
I may hate most aspects of DW6, but the art and design direction was top tier. Most of these stages are more memorable than other games. Just sucks it's not that fun to play. lol
This was my first ever experience with the series, I played this game SO MUCH as a child. Now I'm 13 going on 14, and I have two other games: DW8 Empires & DW9, And I Love Both. I can't play the game that started my love for not only this series, but Chinese history in general because we got rid of our XBOX 360 about a year ago. and for me, games are like music: It doesn't matter if it's good, it only matters if I had fun with it. And when it comes to DW6, I'm probably going to have so much fun if I ever play it again.
Lol,this was my first warriors game I've played and I had SOOOO much fun with it,maybe it was because I was 8 at that time and just had a ton of time on my hands. I know it is weird,but DW4,6,8 ; SW 2,4 and the WO series will always be the most fun for me
If I can make a point about the combat. While I dont like the weapon clones, the limited musou characters and the lack of special weapons. I can definitely appreciate that those that did have variety also had some basis in real life weapon styles/techniques. I felt that it gave additional realism to an era where weapons were much more simplistic and common.
MR T DOES ????? Same I played it a few years ago when I was younger and felt like playing it again so bought it again and got every character within 3 days
What made me love this game was the Empire series that fixed a lot of things I didn't like about the original game definitely love it Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires was really fun to play
I absolutely despised the character redesigns in this game. Alot of characters just didn't feel like themselves. Gan Ning went from someone who actually felt like a delinquent pirate previously, in this game he felt like an anime character in fantasy armor. Zhou yu went from an elegant swordsman who not only embodied the intelligence of war, but also the fire of Wu with his perfected DW5 design that made him look much more combat oriented with his red headband and the loss of loose sleeves. In 6 it felt like they just made him an "elegant" caricature like Zhang he with an over the top dancing weapon that betrayed the subtle elegance of his swordsmanship in previous games.
I personally liked DW6 might b nostalgia/bias being my 1st owned warriors game, played it with friends at a friends place after school till we beat it/unlocked everything and I got my own copy. I did play DW5/DW5E/DW tactics and the Tessen games but they were my friends games they brought over.
I love Dynasty Warriors 6. You missed the part where Sun Shang Xiang and Yue Ying (before she gets her unique weapon) have bows. You didn't mention the actual innovations they made; it's not just RPG mechanics, they added in the fully fleshed third faction mechanic from Warriors Orochi, and actually better, as the yellow faction COULD actually be either allies or enemies. And also you missed the single best Musou Mode from all the games, which is Lu Bu's, and how his entire story is just gatecrashing major battles and effectively forcing a 2v1 scenario. So fun.
*Pros* *Heavily improved visuals, many characters' designs were more exotic, animations look great *Kickass soundtrack *Awesome weapon designs (the clones, unsurprisingly, got the coolest weapon designs since they only had one design instead of 3) *Ironically, fewer "clones" than 7 *Still maintains satisfying grinding system *Several new convenient features and attacks (i.e. horse summon[though this was in Warriors Orochi], dodgeroll, grapple attacks while guarding, charge dash attack [all of which got scrapped and never readded for some reason]) *Even more enemies and officers are present on screen, adding to carnage *Improved pronunciations *Overall voice quality improved in a way *Camera rotation *Empires added in the uncloned characters from the PS2 version with the PS3's graphics, added Meng Huo (who was readded in the PSP version), removed renbu, and brought back unique horses and character creation *Cons* *Seven characters were removed, no new characters were added, and almost half the roster got cloned movesets (which also didn't get their own Musou stories) *Some character design/voice/weapon alterations were a bit controversial *Not enough stages, instead settling for several scenarios per stage *While the voice quality itself improved, the acting and dialogue is a significant drop from 5's satisfyingly convincing performances. Cutscenes are much blander and only have a few BGM tracks. *Musou attack strings aren't unique *Only three different weapons per character with little variety *No items *No Xtreme Legends or new modes in general *PS2 version had, obviously, heavily downscaled graphics and removed several features like swimming and dueling *Aerial charge attacks were all the exact same ground slam attack *Only a 2nd unlockable costume per character rather than 4 total Also, Jiang Wei and Da Qiao were readded in Strikeforce 2 (Japan only) with unique weapons (as later seen in 8), and then promptly recloned again in 7 . Cryptic.
The biggest CON for me with this game was the drastic change in HP Bar Size :'D I remember playing the Demo and just going, "Oh... Oh no, this ain't it" and never wanting to play this version of DW ever again. I'm happy with 3 and 4 :)
People just complain about clones and Renbu in DW6 and ignore everything good that was present. DW6 set up a lot of great things that could've made the next game so much more dynamic, but nope; All that whining about clones in DW6 got us DW7 which was hot garbage.
Idk for some reason, I really enjoy DW6, though I do agree the combat wasn't good. The other new changes were so refreshing like graphics, story, animations, music, etc. I thoroughly enjoy DW6E as well.
I actually wish they were able to bring the dw8 gameplay but give it dw6 atmosphere. The animations, music, maps and especially the way AI is constantly crowding and running around filling the screen looks so chaotic and feels so good whereas earlier and later entries the peons were so stiff and dry.
I think what I'm trying to say is in dw6 you don't feel lonely. Even if ally/enemy NPC didn't really fight they didn't just stand still and static and the maps are filled with constant motion. I still remember running up mountains paths with your ally NPC and tons of peons crowded together it really made you feel like you were part of an army whereas every other entry youre alone running into static enemies that stand still until you get close enough to just circle you
I don't mind DW6, but find it's just not my style. I didn't like the combat system at all and found it less complex than previously when wasn't complex to begin with. But I agree that DW6 did quite a few things right in my book.
hahahaha i play the ps2 version first and i love it. but now i play the pc version and get anoyed bcause it lack waepon type and move set from the ps2 version(ma chao is good with gs lol). but i still love it
I Love DW6. I got all trophies on 360 haha I love the designs for this game too. When ever the newer games come out and have the DW6 costumes for sale as dlc I buy them and use them instead. Also got all trophies on Empires too. DW6 was a fantastic game for me. Haha
It’s funny how this one is hated that much. It actually was this game or 7 that were my introduction to Dynasty Warriors/Musou games so for me this holds a very special place for me. Me and my brother had Beyond a blast with this game and would play it for hours when we were kids. I recently got Pirate Warriors 4 and I absolutely love it, it’s so much fun and brings me back to this game with memories. I can’t wait to see the next game and what not for that series because I definitely can’t wait to see them do the whole story of one piece and use everything they’ve learned and add those characters
I personally started with DW3XL, so DW6 changed a little too much for me. Kinda felt like it was handled by a completely different company. But it's not all bad. Also OPPW4 is definitely one of the best out there!
i honestly liked lubu's costume here. he looks like a proper warrior than in 7 that he looks like he is wearing bell bottom pants. i just can't shake off that lu bu will start dancing to 80s music
I like this combat system it looks more fluid you can keep on movement,also if you win a chain your character made something is not like others dw when if you win you just push then for nothing i get impressed first time that i play it.
I personally didn't find it to be all that great honestly. It was the best of all Warriors games at the time, but there were better ones out there at the time too.
@@ChrisGildart But you gotta admit making a character and then creating a waifu and some buddies and going to find them in the officer mode is a fun thing!
I played a DW game when i was like 8 and i cant remember which cause they all look the same All I can remember is one line every time I would encounter another another group of enemy soldiers something along the lines of "If you're so eager to die ......"
I feel like that's DW5 because when you approach an enemy base the troops tend to say different lines depending on the type of base. I think that's an attack base line.
it is just me or did anyone think dw 6 mechanic is the most exciting warriors game ever, if you guys hate the renbu system is okay but what makes dw 6 is exciting to play is we are required to do the dodge movement and pay attention to every enemy attack (especially in chaos mode) where I really enjoy the gameplay. I think every warriors game should include the dodge mechanic into it's very gameplay especially when fighting officer. I too are a long time warriors game fan, but everytime there is no dodge mechanic on its game its feel very bland gameplay and not challenging.
Dammm dw5 was so good it was like they changed everything to that shit of dw6 and don't get me wrong i had dw6 and the empires version lol i wish they could do a remaster to dw5 or make a dw10 like the previous dw 3,4 and 5
Really enjoying the DW videos so far! Can't wait for you to cover 7, it's my personal favorite out of all the Warriors games, Dynasty or otherwise. I hope your channel manages to get enough recognition, your content is scarily good! Also, what's your PSN ID? I'd love to drop you a friend request so we can play something sometime. If you accept fans, that is.
Dw6 was fun at first (I had ps2 version) and I'll say of every single character I played with (all of them) cao pi was honestly the only one I liked which was sad the weps killed me but I remember the only wep I think they improved on was cao Pi's (mainly because they gave ppl alot of slow Bulky weps and I don't like no slow characters ) it was fun for a play threw but never going back I'll stick to 5 empires 4normal and warriors orochi
well, I love this game before the enviroment, graphics (and it's quite hard, like old era Warrior) and Renbu system, I mean It was something new I hope they can bring Renbu system back, without clone moveset :3
With DW8 I always liked to play with Liu Bei's DW5 costume. Give him the blades was great, give credit to Liu Bei's historical fame as a great swordsman... But they took Liu Bei's royal looks... And royal moustache... So once again a polemic DW(first 6, now 9) makes an undeniable good choice for Liu Bei (now for his looks, which are, once again, royal as fuck)
@@bbk9742 Not just that, but in DW5 Sun Jian, Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo had very similar movesets. Besides historical accuracy, the twin blades gave him strong identity. A pity no WO had a duel between the twin blades master from China vs the dual swords master from Japan.
Pros: - "Welcome to China" track, best in the DW series Cons: - Literally everything else - They cut Zhu Rong! Gets its own con b/c *how dare they!!!!* SW2: Introduces calling your horse Chris: Not a peep DW6: Copies SW2 Chris: Praises DW6 for adding the ability to call your horse O_o This review was so oddly positive for such a bad game. It was a really informative review even if I think you were too kind. You actually went in depth on the gameplay and mechanics. Why didn't you do this on the SW reviews?
Someone mentioned this already, but Dynasty Warriors 6 for PlayStation 2 was released in North America, if you are still interested in picking It up. ;)
Man you got me fully back into the musou genre. Watched most of your vids few weeks ago and the craving came back. Anyways idk if you have played dragon quest heroes 2 but i remember you saying you wanted to try out dragon quest. Its way more dragon quest than dynasty warriors plus its a good challenge. If you have what did you think of it?
People shit on this game, but 100% honestly I kind of liked it, it felt like a breath of fresh air even if I didn't like some of the changes they made. I know the addition to a block attack was also cool af back in the day (shame they discontinued it instantly) since it helped me a lot on higher difficulties. I know it's extension game, Empires, was also really nice, its combat with the added abilities you could equip felt good. All in all, despite all the flaws, the entirety of DW6 and its extensions had the vibe of the "rule of cool" thing that just had a different feel to it. My only real complaint is that story mode in 6 was buried rather hard, only allowing certain characters to have a musou mode. I know that made me just straight up not play half the roster with that change until Empires hit, which by the way, was the last Empires game to get English voiceacting, which is beyond infuriating (especially since in DW8E they actually straight up promised us they would have English voiceacting, but lied)
Thats quite enlightening to hear. Never known that the PS2 content is much better than the other one. I think this game was my most favorite followed by DW8 and DW5 in that order was because the ps2 i played with. Hear my positive opinion strictly for PS2 version, The reason is : 1. The character design (PS2) was amazing, at least the one with an actual Story line and not so much with the character that you called clone sweep though. I agree that was rubbish. For perspective, take it from a guy who only play DW5 SW2 Orochi1-2 and not the previous title. The new design is like breath of fresh air and kind of inovative. Zhao Yun in particular is awesome and his moveset(will elaborate later) complement with his look. The biggest and big props to Koei is Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun family and Lu Bu new design. Liu Bei before dw5 is completely garbage and like generic officer. His new look make him young, vibrant, full of energy and fit to his idealistic view (and sometime kind of naive) and also what make him able to recruit all those capable people while having nothing. Cao Cao DW6 design is absolutely perfect. He looks ruthless and sometime menacing. And last, Lubu armor is amazing man, why they did not think earlier that full black armor LuBu with special red aura in Hulao Gate is terrifying ? 2. Story line and cutscene (Ps2) This one is kind of mixed for me but leaning toward positive. I know that its weird when Liu Bei and Cao Cao is in battle of Wuzhang plains but its good you know, not everything has to be follow real history. The character dialogue interaction in battle is also good. Also there are quite substantial ammount of "cinematic cutscene" not just you know shit in-game cut scene that looks akward. I especially liked when they make cutscene for major things like successfully traps, ambush or things that change the flow of battle. 3. Moveset and cutscene(PS2) I know that the Renbu moveset in DW6 is garbage and its the truth. What i like is the movement tone in character that felt more like classic KungFu, you know what i meant ? For example, Zhao Yun run/dash triangle attack make him a flying human spinning blade and if you are in "special state" it extended after he spin to stab opponent mid air and smashing to the ground. Also the cutscenes too suport my idea, like for example Zhang Liao cutscene in HeiFei where he jumping from a tall hill is badass. I want more things like that in future game. And Musou attack, starting from this game finally musou attack does more impact and feels heavy when it connect to the enemy and with the (sometimes) elaborate ending animation is welcomed and good. Koei too must felt the musou animation is good too because its used in future release My biggest gripe was why there's no character complete moveset list in game, do you know that i have to rewatch countless DW6 trailer in Orochi 2 to know how do i do the Zhao Yun special state Dash triangle attack ? And whats more the fucking secret graple attack. How do i know to do that, using L1 /guard and triangle/square without moveset list ? The novel idea such as creating Battering Ram, Cattapult/Trebuchet and Ladder is also good. And jumping from a hill to inside an enemy base make the enemy npc in state of confused and coloring them purple (lol) and also my favorite was Fire attack Special ability that make the enemy base on fire and weaken npc, arrow rain when timed good make the enemy think they caught in trap and ambush (directly stated in battle notification/battle log) if they are in your base if timed right and IT'S NOT SCRIPTED at ALL. Last one also my most favorite was the deadlock/clashing sword system with the meter from SW2 and unique animation if you win it. though the button mashing is annoying and better if its random input combination to win it. Although the weapon change is terrible (wher muh xohou dun podao and Lobo halberd) my best memory of the game was instantly died to LuBu flying Fuma Shuriken in Hulao Gate LMAO. I was fucking shocked to witness that for the first time. And with that said, I wish they port PS2 DW6 to PC and make Warriors Orochi 1,2,3 PACK port for PS4/5 or PC (all platform)
I personally find myself going back to DW9 more than DW6. I only go back to DW6 out of obligation. Whether for videos or for those last two achievements on 360 that I haven't popped.
This one is the Black Sheep of the series. I hate this game, I prefer DW2 over this. I didn't feel like I'm hitting something, the combat system is just so weird. It's hard to find something positive about this game other than some character designs.
+nemesis3587 I do enjoy this more than DW2 personally because I find there's more to do in it. Even though we lost so many characters in the cloning sweep, I still think this has more to stand on and more to offer the player than DW2. Also, I may not have gone into detail, but I think the level design for this title was pretty on point. Most Warriors titles have memorable stages, but I think DW6 had the most expansive and detailed maps up to this point.
this may be very late but in ps2 version whenever u play split screen, the game is horribly lagging in in slow motion whenever you're fighting a lot of officer n soldiers on screen , i tried to find out on gamefaq and someone said it's because the game was not supposed for ps2 version
only things I hate about this game is the fact that the rare horses are just probabilities and literally Renbu, like why! it kills the fun if your playing on harder difficulties.
I'm commenting before even watching 2 seconds of the video. 😂 Is that my cue to say DW6? Oh here we go... I've been waiting for this one Chris, hehe. 😅
Another con for the empires expansion: Some of the DLC shows up in the store on the PS3 but is completely undownloadable. It can't even be claimed. The Xbox 360 version doesn't have this problem. I don't know if this is just a problem with the EU/UK version of the game or an issue on Koei's end but this has been an issue for as long as I have personally owned the game on PS3.
This game in my opinion has a lot of goods but had still many bads mostly in terms of combat But here are the thing I feel this game holds over others Elevation and ways of traveling climbing ladders jumping off cliffs swimming in water. Character designs are best in this game in my opinion it is guan you and zhao yun have best models in this game also zhao yu Truly map designs/ fun maps like he fei castle and the yellow turban map Where if you go to the center by using a scroll with a fast runner character like zhao yun the right side with multiple flame traps or the left with explosive magic traps that was awesome also I love the enemy variety in the game as well how attacks on castles were done by defending engineers to make rams or ladders to attack also I felt like fast fuck when gates are closing and you make it by a hair into the base. Also something not important but when I was a kid it left an imprint on me and that’s how dead foes corpses were left on the map cause the way I saw it as a kid it was creepy so please kiddies have a seat and let me tell you tale One day when I was a weeder lad I was at my cousins and one was playing dynasty warriors 6 on the mission battle of chibi He was zhao yu the allied forces were being bashed down to a pulp with moral almost empty and he was making his way into a ship he was in but was knocked off and had to swim a lot to get back in when he got back all he we could see was the dead bodies of wu soldiers everywhere barley any of the wei troops but May were wu and that left an imprint on me cause that’s the first in a game I saw so many dead on screen it dint scare me but it did shock me a bit obviously bodies disappeared after walking around but man all there was red everywhere it was a pretty messed up scene and some will say this is stupid and true but it made it feel more like an actual war and to add it was xu zhu who killed them. Other than that this game is a disappointment maybe one day a Xtreme legends will be made but doubt it but hey if it gets people off en for 9 it better than nothing and koei get to 9 empires or legends dammit.
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"He's no longer Cow Cow"
lmao that was hilarious
literally everywhere
This guy again here
Yea...sucks they didn't continue the correct way to say the name in English.
My favourite memory of DW6 is of playing through Lu Bu's story, turning up at famous battles such as Guan Du and Chi Bi and causing chaos. And, of course, the final stage, at Hu Lao Gate, when almost the entire character roster had allied against you!
That story was awesome! As much as I dislike the gameplay of DW6, they did a lot of things right.
Lu Bu's introduction in Hu Lao Gate on DW6 remains the greatest Lu Bu intro cutscene yet. No grand speech about how great he is or how pitiful everyone else is, he just storms through the rear, bodies flying all over in near silence, only a single soldier pointing out his presence.
Sadly, the Flash attribute with a full musou bar turns an event into just another fight. Not even killing Diao Chan makes it better.
Probably the most in depth review of Dynasty Warriors 6 on TH-cam.
This was my first Dynasty Warriors game, so I was not aware of all the differences. 10 years later, it's still my favorite Dynasty Warriors game. Also, i believe Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and Lu Bu are the coolest in 6.
I didn't really enjoy DW6 as much as the other games in the franchise, but the designs were top-notch. Only a few characters have a meh design, but no one is at their worst either.
Chris Gildart
True, and Zhao Yun was like a White Knight huh. He really fits the hero of the game.
Lu Bu is the coolest in every game lol
It was my first Dynasty Warriors game too. I played Samurai Warriors 2 first though.
@@galanakagalactus903 SAME!
I absolutely loved 6. I loved leveling up characters, earning horses, breaking bases, and using the tomes to obliterate enemies
Give everyone story modes and no clones and this is one of my favs all time tbh. At least as good as Dynasty Warriors 5 vanilla, maybe better do to overall quality of life improvements.
You forgot about a pro.
The soundtrack,I don't know why I like this game's music so much as someone who never played it
I personally prefer DW4, but Warriors games always have great soundtracks.
This soundtrack SLAPS
Huh... I actually get it now. There's a reason why everyone hates the game and I enjoyed it. #1 has to do with appreciation for the finer and subtle nuances. It was less of a game to me and more of an experience. Well, I've always been able to deeply immerse myself in content well.
And #2 was that I played the PS2 version of the game. I must say, the additional characters really added to the game. Ma Chao, my favorite character, was playable with a fantastic and enjoyable weapon/moveset. Cao Pi's subtle badassery was forever imprinted in my brain in a particular scene with the Red Hare. The relationship between Ling Tong, Gan Ning, and Lu Meng added memorable emotional depth. And Taishi Ci's 1v1 with Sun Ce seemed to serve as a unique semi boss fight within this non-boss game.
I really do have different memories than most people. I don't play Dynasty Warriors to satiate artificial desires of mowing down hundreds of enemies. I don't play Dynasty Warriors to grind for artificial trophies. I play it because Lu Bu is the biggest beast in the game, Sun Ce is interestingly charismatic, Cao Cao's ambition is founded upon his liberal insight about society/the world, and Zhang Liao is a talented skilled warrior yet humble and worth aspiring to.
I see now... They're archetypes to me. It was more than just a game.
I got it on my 360 first. It was a long time until I tried the PS2 version, and I will say that it was improved as far as the content and story. But I just haven't sunk a lot of time into it because I can't help but want to play it in HD. Like the game has a chance at being better than it is. But it's good that people can enjoy this game. I have a friend who loved this entry. I honestly think he played it more than me and he's not as big a Warriors fan. lol
I'm getting it for both PS3 and PS2.
I think your viewpoint is spot on though. Major PS2 era fan and I think people focus too much on the renbu system. The biggest problem with this game that became a trend is Clones and lack of story modes for every character. If they changed those two things and kept everything the same I think this game would’ve been loved. People would’ve wanted the combo system back but there’s no way they’d have gotten away with a release like 7, a game that actually changed the tone and core of the series imo
Don't lie to yourself you know for a fact you don't play these games just for what's going on in their head you play these games for their combat mechanics.......
@@darkenedpsynoid Both. I haven't even played Warriors Orochi 4 and it doesn't interest me because it looks like there is no story.
Dynasty Warriors 6 was my entrypoint into the franchise. For a set of training wheels to the franchise, its competent.
Empires is also super stupid fun and I love it
Even if the rest of tge community hate s it, DW6 will be my favorite. It just felt really realistic compared to the others.
+Cozy Camper It's good to see someone have this opinion. After I beat the story and maxed out my favorite characters, I stopped playing it and leant it to my friend who loved it.
I find the classics (DW2-5) more realistic with 4 being the most as far as costumes, movesets, weapons, and environments goes. 4 is also my favourite along with 8.
I know right?
@@ChrisGildart 4 is such a classic. DW4 was the first one I ever played. I then went back and played DW3. This was on the original Xbox. I went over to a friend's house to play D&D and his older brother was playing Dynasty Warriors 4 fresh from Block Buster. I jumped in with his friend and him and all three of us kicked ass on the battlefield! Man what a good memory. We played all damn night.
DW memories are some of my favourite to hear. I remember hanging out with some friends who were playing DW3 together. I didn't ask about the game or anything, but I noticed a dude with a giant sword. I later picked up DW3XL at a pawnshop and found out that was Xiahou Dun. He is still my favourite character.
@@ChrisGildart I liked Dian Wei and Liu Bei when I started but later I found Pang Tong and Wei Yan. Damn I miss DW4 Pang Tong. That and that one dude in 5 or 5 Empires who had the deck of cards. Zuo Ci.
Pros:
* 6 is one of my favourite DW games from the soundtrack perspective.
* The stages are very nice. 6 has my favourite versions of Xuchang, Hefei and Guandu.
* Animation runs smoothly.
* Despite the stories being more on the "What-If" side, they are enjoyable. Lu Bu and Diao Chan has my favourite stories.
Cons:
* Combat is easily the weakest aspect of the game. Clone movesets and the renbu system are the key problems.
* Getting past big gates can be a real chore. Thankfully it was less so in 9.
* Easily one of the grindiest games in regards to levelling up. Thankfully not so much with getting weapons and horses.
* AI can be a pain in the ass even on the lowest difficulty. As someone who has been speedrunning this game, it does get annoying when officers that can easily be taken out with a few hits be incredibly competent with defense.
Don't forget, not only did Japan get a PSP port of DW6 Special, they got Empires on the handheld too.
Yup, and there's Japanese exclusive content in the PSP version. I've uploaded some gameplay of it over on my second channel.
All I know is I was delighted to see the 3-way battles! Unexpected and welcomed!
They are always a lot of fun. Was so happy this game carries that over from Samurai Warriors.
Except they don't last at all because at some point two of the factions join up to fight you so the three-way battles in dw6 were non-existant
I loved DW6 and was quite disappointed when a lot of it’s great features didn’t get carried over to the next games.
Triggerino Kripperino siege battle was one of them , always played hulao gate just for taht
This needs a remaster but with more playable characters personally I'd love if the orochi was added as playable characters the only way you can unlock them tho is if you complete all mouso modes and get all characters to level 25
Yep. The worst things about this game imo were the clones, cut characters, lack of story modes for everyone, and then last, renbu system. Otherwise, it had a lot of cool and innovative features I wish stayed.
Really enjoyed your videos. It's a crime you don't have many subscribers. Now onto my rant:
I think that DW6 gets a little too much unjustified flak. It had some great things going for it and the series but because of the enormous critical and fan outcry a lot of it got cut.
The renbu system was bare-bones but it had real room to grow. Attacks were flashy without being overly ridiculous like in post 6 games and running and combo charges were pretty cool. Counters looked amazing and rolling was pretty useful and made battles more tactical, as did the special attack tomes. Duels made a comeback and were the best and most atmospheric in the series. And last but not least, there were sieges, which were my favorite part of the game. Defending your engineers while they set up rams and ladders, and then climbing up walls to get rid of ballistas before breaking down the gate and mowing down the defenders was an absolute blast.
I really hope at least some of it comes back in 9.
+Special_Agent_Goodwrench Dynasty Warriors 9 is looking to be shaping up really well. I might have to do a video on it some time.
I agree that Dynasty Warriors 6 gets a lot of unneeded hate, but even when I played it for the first time I felt like a lot of changes were just executed in the wrong way. It had the potential to change the Musou series, but it was not fated to be.
Sweet. Looking forward to it.
And yeah, I get why others felt that way, even though (and to my surprise) I really enjoyed 6. I wrote it off for the longest time because of the terrible word of mouth and played it only after 7, which is a shame, because gameplay-wise I actually prefer it to 7, warts and all. Here's hoping Koei won't be too afraid to implement new ideas in 9 (and bring back older ones that worked) but won't do them half-baked like in 6.
+Special_Agent_Goodwrench Well, they are changing the combat system to be more intuitive apparently. Only time will tell if it's any good.
i can agree that combat stuff is pretty bad, but the aesthetics and atmosphere in DW6 is lovely! My first and favorite game 😍
Would still play this over 9 anytime
I'm pretty sure I've done that fairly recently. "Do I want to grab the rest of the achievements on DW9 for Xbox One, or do I want to work toward those last few achievements for DW6 on 360?" Sometimes you just want to finish things up and move on. lol
Would still play 9 over 6 anytime
It's hard to say now. I'm at that point where I would rather play any other Warriors game than 6 or 9.
@@ChrisGildart i think in the updates nowadays, 9 looks better than play
we have story mode for every character,
i have xiao qiao and da qiao the best characters for me and i hate 6 dont do story mode to xiao qiao
and in 7 she didnt ever appear on story mode, but in 9 the qiao sisters has a lot to moments and i love it
I take it that you wouldn't be a Sex Gravy fan then, he hates the Qiao sisters, I like them though I wouldn't say that they're my favorite females(that'd be Diao Chan, Zhenji, and Lian Shi). I don't know which one I prefer, I mean 6 certainly was better made(sometimes I would be in the middle of a combo, press Triangle and when I do whoever I'm playing as attacks someone not even remotely on screen, and sometimes it takes like 10 minutes for enemy officers to show up on screen when I am fighting them in 9), but 9 at least has characters I like that are new
I just discovered this channel, and I'm loving it.
As for this game. If I were to rank DW 6, it would probably be somewhere in the middle (not the best, not the worst). That being said, DW 6 is my absolute favorite aesthetic in the entire series!!! Whenever possible in later games, I always 6 to DW6 designs (even getting it as DLC is I have to)
Glad you enjoy the videos!
They took too much Liberty with the fashion in dw6....... a lot of the fashion was over the top
DW6 was my first and for that I am grateful. I would unironically write an essay about what it did good, and what it did poorly. To sum it up, DW6 did a lot of small things right and a lot of big things wrong.
I agree with that. It's a lot of one step forwards, two steps back.
I started on dw6 so I have a lot of love for this game
I started at 3 and all the nostalgia that comes with the game and the games following it. I would still say 6 is my favorite. It felt like a proper evolution to me personally, and it's flaws would've been etched out over time(I.E. movesets, stages, ect). The PS3 was super hard to develop for and that's what they went with and then ported it to the 360. All in all it felt great to me.
This is the first one i played and i LOVED it as a kid and played it with my brother. Probably my favorite xbox 360 game i got to play as a kid and I still think it's fun with friends.
It's honestly not a terrible game, but coming from DW3-5 I felt it just wasn't the right fit for the series. It's very similar in my opinion to something like Star Fox Adventures. It's a decent game, but not a good Star Fox game. Dynasty Warriors 6 is a decent game, but not a good Dynasty Warriors game.
That being said, I played this a lot with my friends. I had one friend who really liked this version of Sima Yi and my other friend's favourite was Zhao Yun. So those two and Xiahou Dun are like the only characters I have maxed out.
@@ChrisGildart Well it's likely because I've never had another dynasty warrior's game to compare it to. I only remember me and my brother yelling at eachother to go places and accomplish things on the battlefield and if all of the games are like that but better I'd want to check those out too
The definitely are. Especially the classic ones like DW3-5. DW7-8 have more of a narrative driven map style, but if you're going for the 5 and 6 star weapons in DW8 you'll definitely want a friend to help you out with some of the other things going on. I would recommend DW4 for the classics and DW8 for the newer style.
@@ChrisGildart Actually the thing that made me like DW 6 was the difficulty, general personalities and satisfaction of doing stuff like leveling, taking bases and it just blended so well but it sounds like the other games are even better, which would you suggest the most?
DW5 has the bases for you to take over, but is a little less difficult. DW3 & 4 have the difficulty, but not the bases. Honestly, I'd still recommend DW4, but maybe check out my other reviews on the games just to see what they're like.
As awful the cloning was in this title, I really look at Dynasty Warriors 6 with a kind heart and mind because it felt very unique and refreshing compared to the other games
Nostalgic Vibes... My first Dynasty Warriors that I was playing during my childhood days was DW4, a purely Masterpiece DW game in my opinion. My favourite Dynasty Warriors games of the Entire Franchise will always be 3, 4, 5 and 6 on PS2. 🤷🏻♂️✌️
I played this when I was a kid, didn't realize it was a bad game. Even though its bad, ngl the soundtracks slaps. My mom and I played this when I was a kid, we had a great time. Man, I guess whats good of it is just the memory of playing it with my mom. I miss this game, really makes me feel nostalgic
I feel you.
I seriously looove this game. 8 and 6 are my favourites
I didn't mind 6, just thought it lost a lot of the mechanics I enjoy about Warriors games. 8 is absolute top notch Warriors content in my opinion.
Chris Gildart at least, you gotta give it to them for trying something new
Oh I do. That's why I don't shit too much on DW6 and 9. They may not be good in my opinion, but you'll never get anywhere without experimentation.
Chris Gildart True
Mine too
Incredible review man. I remember when this came out and seeing how much they really dropped the ball on it. Infinitely pressing square was the dumbest concept ever.
This definitely started marking the shift in soul for the warriors series too. Battles started feeling less like actual battles. In DW3 or 4 it was tough to get more than a 100 or 200 kills per stage so it felt a bit more grounded. Which cannot be said about any warriors game they release today.
The musous are obnoxious in everything past 6. You press it once and it kills like 100 enemies just like that. You're ending stages with kills in the thousands. I really think going a more realistic battle route was the way to go. Or at least keeping the same gameplay as 3 and 4.
I also don't know what happened to the ai but they seriously just stand there waiting for you to kill them. In 3 they would actually block attacks and then fight back. The difficulty in current games is just increased by making them hit super strong but they still just stand there like idiots.
There could be a whole video done on how much the series has changed from 3 to 8. I didn't even bother anymore with 9 so god knows what happened there.
I can see what you mean. 6 did decrease the overall quality of individual peons and make you able to rack up KOs faster. But going back and analyzing it at least on higher difficulties it still had the warriors spirit and difficulty of the older games much more than 7 onwards. 7 kept the enemy counts from 6, but got rid of all the battlefield/war simulator stuff and went straight 1 vs 1,000. Officers don’t even ride horses anymore for goodness sake. I think the actual biggest issues with this game wasn’t even the renbu system (though I don’t like it). If this game released with story modes for everyone and zero clones with everything else the same, I think it’d have a strong argument for being better than DW5 vanilla. 6 just shifted the way battles work, they were still epic imo and you were still part of an army though, but future games just took the enemy counts from 6 and then did as you say.
6’s battlefields are really immersive. I didn’t realize how much until going back and playing the old games from the new ones. It was on an interesting track that may have worked if Koei went the right way. DW7 was the start of a level of laziness I fear has doomed the series imo.
Unpopular opinion: I thought DW6 had some of the freshest, most original, and unique character designs, and loved the new, more fantastical direction they were taking the series.
Sima Yi, Dian Wei, and Gan Ning (among other characters) REALLY benefited from having some more interesting and unique weapons too. Once more characters were fleshed out in the ps2 port and empires, they were on track for some great things.
While the combat system wasn’t the best, I’d say it was leagues batter than what we got in 9. I wish they would have stuck with this art direction at the very least.
I may hate most aspects of DW6, but the art and design direction was top tier. Most of these stages are more memorable than other games. Just sucks it's not that fun to play. lol
Dw6 is legendary one of the best ones
This was my first ever experience with the series, I played this game SO MUCH as a child. Now I'm 13 going on 14, and I have two other games: DW8 Empires & DW9, And I Love Both. I can't play the game that started my love for not only this series, but Chinese history in general because we got rid of our XBOX 360 about a year ago. and for me, games are like music: It doesn't matter if it's good, it only matters if I had fun with it. And when it comes to DW6, I'm probably going to have so much fun if I ever play it again.
I played since I was 8yrs old now I’m 27. 🔥🔥 still playing the classics!!
Lol,this was my first warriors game I've played and I had SOOOO much fun with it,maybe it was because I was 8 at that time and just had a ton of time on my hands. I know it is weird,but DW4,6,8 ; SW 2,4 and the WO series will always be the most fun for me
DW4 and 8? I might not be much of a fan of 6, but you have good taste my friend.
If I can make a point about the combat.
While I dont like the weapon clones, the limited musou characters and the lack of special weapons. I can definitely appreciate that those that did have variety also had some basis in real life weapon styles/techniques. I felt that it gave additional realism to an era where weapons were much more simplistic and common.
Went and played all the PS2 dynasty warriors. I honestly like more about 6 than others.
Meng huo was amazing though in dw6 empires so much fun to use.
yea that style of him was very unique should've kept him
DW6 wasnt that bad when i was playing i loved it
i kinda did to but specifically dw6 empires
MR T DOES ????? Same I played it a few years ago when I was younger and felt like playing it again so bought it again and got every character within 3 days
MR T DOES ????? Just completed musou mode with every character
dw6 only the empires, the original 6 is horrible
I enjoyed 6 but I do recognize it is a bit of a downgrade in terms of cast. The actual gameplay is pretty fun albeit unbalanced
What made me love this game was the Empire series that fixed a lot of things I didn't like about the original game definitely love it Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires was really fun to play
I absolutely despised the character redesigns in this game. Alot of characters just didn't feel like themselves. Gan Ning went from someone who actually felt like a delinquent pirate previously, in this game he felt like an anime character in fantasy armor. Zhou yu went from an elegant swordsman who not only embodied the intelligence of war, but also the fire of Wu with his perfected DW5 design that made him look much more combat oriented with his red headband and the loss of loose sleeves. In 6 it felt like they just made him an "elegant" caricature like Zhang he with an over the top dancing weapon that betrayed the subtle elegance of his swordsmanship in previous games.
"Especially in the west it's been reviewed at times without even being played"
Well that's the west's fault, not the games.
That's kinda the point I'm making.
I personally liked DW6 might b nostalgia/bias being my 1st owned warriors game, played it with friends at a friends place after school till we beat it/unlocked everything and I got my own copy. I did play DW5/DW5E/DW tactics and the Tessen games but they were my friends games they brought over.
I love Dynasty Warriors 6. You missed the part where Sun Shang Xiang and Yue Ying (before she gets her unique weapon) have bows. You didn't mention the actual innovations they made; it's not just RPG mechanics, they added in the fully fleshed third faction mechanic from Warriors Orochi, and actually better, as the yellow faction COULD actually be either allies or enemies. And also you missed the single best Musou Mode from all the games, which is Lu Bu's, and how his entire story is just gatecrashing major battles and effectively forcing a 2v1 scenario. So fun.
As a Sun Shang Xiang main for DW6 that comment in the video really confused me lol.
best game in whole serie
I wish I could enjoy this and DW9 as much as other people. I do like the character designs and the maps in this game a lot.
Nope
5 still the best with the cool crossover with Samurai Warrior and the best music/theme
Cmon. The lu bu story was badass and lu bu was badass as well and the soundtrack was good
*Pros*
*Heavily improved visuals, many characters' designs were more exotic, animations look great
*Kickass soundtrack
*Awesome weapon designs (the clones, unsurprisingly, got the coolest weapon designs since they only had one design instead of 3)
*Ironically, fewer "clones" than 7
*Still maintains satisfying grinding system
*Several new convenient features and attacks (i.e. horse summon[though this was in Warriors Orochi], dodgeroll, grapple attacks while guarding, charge dash attack [all of which got scrapped and never readded for some reason])
*Even more enemies and officers are present on screen, adding to carnage
*Improved pronunciations
*Overall voice quality improved in a way
*Camera rotation
*Empires added in the uncloned characters from the PS2 version with the PS3's graphics, added Meng Huo (who was readded in the PSP version), removed renbu, and brought back unique horses and character creation
*Cons*
*Seven characters were removed, no new characters were added, and almost half the roster got cloned movesets (which also didn't get their own Musou stories)
*Some character design/voice/weapon alterations were a bit controversial
*Not enough stages, instead settling for several scenarios per stage
*While the voice quality itself improved, the acting and dialogue is a significant drop from 5's satisfyingly convincing performances. Cutscenes are much blander and only have a few BGM tracks.
*Musou attack strings aren't unique
*Only three different weapons per character with little variety
*No items
*No Xtreme Legends or new modes in general
*PS2 version had, obviously, heavily downscaled graphics and removed several features like swimming and dueling
*Aerial charge attacks were all the exact same ground slam attack
*Only a 2nd unlockable costume per character rather than 4 total
Also, Jiang Wei and Da Qiao were readded in Strikeforce 2 (Japan only) with unique weapons (as later seen in 8), and then promptly recloned again in 7 . Cryptic.
I loved Dynasty warriors 6 I did try to get full achievements before I accidentally deleted my save file
The biggest CON for me with this game was the drastic change in HP Bar Size :'D
I remember playing the Demo and just going, "Oh... Oh no, this ain't it" and never wanting to play this version of DW ever again.
I'm happy with 3 and 4 :)
People just complain about clones and Renbu in DW6 and ignore everything good that was present. DW6 set up a lot of great things that could've made the next game so much more dynamic, but nope; All that whining about clones in DW6 got us DW7 which was hot garbage.
I personally prefer DW7 over DW6. I'd be interested to hear what you like in DW6 over the other games.
Dude
U need to play PC version
So many Clone
Rather playing on ps2 than pc
at start i hate it, but then i just feel the uniqueness from this game and then it's just become my top 3 fav dw series along with 5 and 8 !!
This game is a lot more fun with the guard/roll cancelling
This was my first warriors game btw!
Idk for some reason, I really enjoy DW6, though I do agree the combat wasn't good. The other new changes were so refreshing like graphics, story, animations, music, etc. I thoroughly enjoy DW6E as well.
Though I don't like DW6 as much as the other games in the series I'll still go back to it to play a bit here and there.
I actually wish they were able to bring the dw8 gameplay but give it dw6 atmosphere. The animations, music, maps and especially the way AI is constantly crowding and running around filling the screen looks so chaotic and feels so good whereas earlier and later entries the peons were so stiff and dry.
I think what I'm trying to say is in dw6 you don't feel lonely. Even if ally/enemy NPC didn't really fight they didn't just stand still and static and the maps are filled with constant motion. I still remember running up mountains paths with your ally NPC and tons of peons crowded together it really made you feel like you were part of an army whereas every other entry youre alone running into static enemies that stand still until you get close enough to just circle you
Tbh i loved this game, yeah it did have flaws but it had good things as well
I don't mind DW6, but find it's just not my style. I didn't like the combat system at all and found it less complex than previously when wasn't complex to begin with. But I agree that DW6 did quite a few things right in my book.
I love dynasty warriors 6
Dynasty Warriors 6 was smooth looking af and then after that it looked like a damn cheese grater
Horse Combat was only good on Ma Chao before in the previous games.
Very true my dude.
7:07 how could you make Ling Tong fight with a spear?! I know that he always using a 3-arms-nunchaku
hahahaha i play the ps2 version first and i love it. but now i play the pc version and get anoyed bcause it lack waepon type and move set from the ps2 version(ma chao is good with gs lol). but i still love it
I wish the HD games got the content from the PS2. I still to this day do not know why they didn't at least release it as DLC.
I Love DW6. I got all trophies on 360 haha I love the designs for this game too. When ever the newer games come out and have the DW6 costumes for sale as dlc I buy them and use them instead. Also got all trophies on Empires too. DW6 was a fantastic game for me. Haha
It’s funny how this one is hated that much. It actually was this game or 7 that were my introduction to Dynasty Warriors/Musou games so for me this holds a very special place for me. Me and my brother had Beyond a blast with this game and would play it for hours when we were kids.
I recently got Pirate Warriors 4 and I absolutely love it, it’s so much fun and brings me back to this game with memories. I can’t wait to see the next game and what not for that series because I definitely can’t wait to see them do the whole story of one piece and use everything they’ve learned and add those characters
I personally started with DW3XL, so DW6 changed a little too much for me. Kinda felt like it was handled by a completely different company. But it's not all bad.
Also OPPW4 is definitely one of the best out there!
i honestly liked lubu's costume here. he looks like a proper warrior than in 7 that he looks like he is wearing bell bottom pants. i just can't shake off that lu bu will start dancing to 80s music
I like this combat system it looks more fluid you can keep on movement,also if you win a chain your character made something is not like others dw when if you win you just push then for nothing i get impressed first time that i play it.
Hahaha i like how you tell about the conts, you be like getting close to the mic and yelling
Hei, i love this game
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Good video bro
Thanks dude! Glad you enjoyed it.
I'd add a con. Pop in enemies, lack of unit formation, and the base strength score.
Is no one going to talk about how dope the character creation was in DW6 Empires?
I personally didn't find it to be all that great honestly. It was the best of all Warriors games at the time, but there were better ones out there at the time too.
@@ChrisGildart But you gotta admit making a character and then creating a waifu and some buddies and going to find them in the officer mode is a fun thing!
I played a DW game when i was like 8 and i cant remember which cause they all look the same
All I can remember is one line every time I would encounter another another group of enemy soldiers something along the lines of "If you're so eager to die ......"
I feel like that's DW5 because when you approach an enemy base the troops tend to say different lines depending on the type of base. I think that's an attack base line.
C Stone rah i see u bare on drill vids lol
has anyone else noticed that the costumes from D8 used D5 as an inspiration? xD
it is just me or did anyone think dw 6 mechanic is the most exciting warriors game ever, if you guys hate the renbu system is okay but what makes dw 6 is exciting to play is we are required to do the dodge movement and pay attention to every enemy attack (especially in chaos mode) where I really enjoy the gameplay. I think every warriors game should include the dodge mechanic into it's very gameplay especially when fighting officer. I too are a long time warriors game fan, but everytime there is no dodge mechanic on its game its feel very bland gameplay and not challenging.
Base on what you said about the ps 2 port I picked it up and I'm loving it
It's honestly better than the PS3 and 360 versions.
Dammm dw5 was so good it was like they changed everything to that shit of dw6 and don't get me wrong i had dw6 and the empires version lol i wish they could do a remaster to dw5 or make a dw10 like the previous dw 3,4 and 5
i don't like how angry this review seems
Really enjoying the DW videos so far! Can't wait for you to cover 7, it's my personal favorite out of all the Warriors games, Dynasty or otherwise. I hope your channel manages to get enough recognition, your content is scarily good!
Also, what's your PSN ID? I'd love to drop you a friend request so we can play something sometime. If you accept fans, that is.
Bearfax I don't know if I'm big enough to have fans get haha. But my PSN is Sytothe_DOF and I'll always accept requests.
Dw6 was fun at first (I had ps2 version) and I'll say of every single character I played with (all of them) cao pi was honestly the only one I liked which was sad the weps killed me but I remember the only wep I think they improved on was cao Pi's (mainly because they gave ppl alot of slow Bulky weps and I don't like no slow characters ) it was fun for a play threw but never going back I'll stick to 5 empires 4normal and warriors orochi
My favorite dw games are
6(so nostalgic, my favorite)
8( the best one yet)
3:54 "Fuck you game " LMAO
It's how I feel.
well, I love this game before the enviroment, graphics (and it's quite hard, like old era Warrior) and Renbu system, I mean It was something new
I hope they can bring Renbu system back, without clone moveset :3
Hope in 10 or 9 empires we get dw6 type of level design.
I doubt we'll see it if they do DW9E. But maybe in DW10.
If i recall dw6 borrow the element from warrior orochi weapon; standard, power and speed
"updating their patent" good lord Chris, that joke took me a second but it was very clever.
I'm glad someone enjoyed it lol
There's only one thing about DW6 that no fan denies as great decision: Liu Bei's twin blades.
That was a great decision. Though I sometimes pair up the twin blades with the general's sword in DW8 when I'm playing as a classic costume.
With DW8 I always liked to play with Liu Bei's DW5 costume.
Give him the blades was great, give credit to Liu Bei's historical fame as a great swordsman... But they took Liu Bei's royal looks... And royal moustache...
So once again a polemic DW(first 6, now 9) makes an undeniable good choice for Liu Bei (now for his looks, which are, once again, royal as fuck)
Liu Bei wield twin sword was historical accurancy
@@bbk9742 Not just that, but in DW5 Sun Jian, Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo had very similar movesets. Besides historical accuracy, the twin blades gave him strong identity.
A pity no WO had a duel between the twin blades master from China vs the dual swords master from Japan.
Pros:
- "Welcome to China" track, best in the DW series
Cons:
- Literally everything else
- They cut Zhu Rong! Gets its own con b/c *how dare they!!!!*
SW2: Introduces calling your horse
Chris: Not a peep
DW6: Copies SW2
Chris: Praises DW6 for adding the ability to call your horse
O_o
This review was so oddly positive for such a bad game. It was a really informative review even if I think you were too kind. You actually went in depth on the gameplay and mechanics. Why didn't you do this on the SW reviews?
My favorite dynasty warrior
Someone mentioned this already, but Dynasty Warriors 6 for PlayStation 2 was released in North America, if you are still interested in picking It up. ;)
I already own it. That's how I was able to get some footage for the video.
Man you got me fully back into the musou genre. Watched most of your vids few weeks ago and the craving came back. Anyways idk if you have played dragon quest heroes 2 but i remember you saying you wanted to try out dragon quest. Its way more dragon quest than dynasty warriors plus its a good challenge. If you have what did you think of it?
I've played them, but I want to get into one of the main line Dragon Quest games. I own a few, its just finding the time is all haha
People shit on this game, but 100% honestly I kind of liked it, it felt like a breath of fresh air even if I didn't like some of the changes they made. I know the addition to a block attack was also cool af back in the day (shame they discontinued it instantly) since it helped me a lot on higher difficulties. I know it's extension game, Empires, was also really nice, its combat with the added abilities you could equip felt good. All in all, despite all the flaws, the entirety of DW6 and its extensions had the vibe of the "rule of cool" thing that just had a different feel to it. My only real complaint is that story mode in 6 was buried rather hard, only allowing certain characters to have a musou mode. I know that made me just straight up not play half the roster with that change until Empires hit, which by the way, was the last Empires game to get English voiceacting, which is beyond infuriating (especially since in DW8E they actually straight up promised us they would have English voiceacting, but lied)
This is my favorite Dynasty Warriors even if the combo system is barebones but Empires was better than Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires
Anything is better than 4 Empires 😛
Yo this guy said all the grudge that i had against this game 😂
The PS2 version never came to Europe so I never got to play it. Very sad for UK player here XD I love DW6 empires and I've been playing it recently XD
Thats quite enlightening to hear.
Never known that the PS2 content is much better than the other one.
I think this game was my most favorite followed by DW8 and DW5 in that order was because the ps2 i played with.
Hear my positive opinion strictly for PS2 version, The reason is :
1. The character design (PS2) was amazing, at least the one with an actual Story line and not so much with the character that you called clone sweep though. I agree that was rubbish.
For perspective, take it from a guy who only play DW5 SW2 Orochi1-2 and not the previous title. The new design is like breath of fresh air and kind of inovative. Zhao Yun in particular is awesome and his moveset(will elaborate later) complement with his look. The biggest and big props to Koei is Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun family and Lu Bu new design.
Liu Bei before dw5 is completely garbage and like generic officer. His new look make him young, vibrant, full of energy and fit to his idealistic view (and sometime kind of naive) and also what make him able to recruit all those capable people while having nothing. Cao Cao DW6 design is absolutely perfect. He looks ruthless and sometime menacing.
And last, Lubu armor is amazing man, why they did not think earlier that full black armor LuBu with special red aura in Hulao Gate is terrifying ?
2. Story line and cutscene (Ps2)
This one is kind of mixed for me but leaning toward positive. I know that its weird when Liu Bei and Cao Cao is in battle of Wuzhang plains but its good you know, not everything has to be follow real history. The character dialogue interaction in battle is also good. Also there are quite substantial ammount of "cinematic cutscene" not just you know shit in-game cut scene that looks akward. I especially liked when they make cutscene for major things like successfully traps, ambush or things that change the flow of battle.
3. Moveset and cutscene(PS2)
I know that the Renbu moveset in DW6 is garbage and its the truth. What i like is the movement tone in character that felt more like classic KungFu, you know what i meant ? For example, Zhao Yun run/dash triangle attack make him a flying human spinning blade and if you are in "special state" it extended after he spin to stab opponent mid air and smashing to the ground. Also the cutscenes too suport my idea, like for example Zhang Liao cutscene in HeiFei where he jumping from a tall hill is badass. I want more things like that in future game.
And Musou attack, starting from this game finally musou attack does more impact and feels heavy when it connect to the enemy and with the (sometimes) elaborate ending animation is welcomed and good. Koei too must felt the musou animation is good too because its used in future release
My biggest gripe was why there's no character complete moveset list in game, do you know that i have to rewatch countless DW6 trailer in Orochi 2 to know how do i do the Zhao Yun special state Dash triangle attack ? And whats more the fucking secret graple attack. How do i know to do that, using L1 /guard and triangle/square without moveset list ?
The novel idea such as creating Battering Ram, Cattapult/Trebuchet and Ladder is also good. And jumping from a hill to inside an enemy base make the enemy npc in state of confused and coloring them purple (lol) and also my favorite was Fire attack Special ability that make the enemy base on fire and weaken npc, arrow rain when timed good make the enemy think they caught in trap and ambush (directly stated in battle notification/battle log) if they are in your base if timed right and IT'S NOT SCRIPTED at ALL. Last one also my most favorite was the deadlock/clashing sword system with the meter from SW2 and unique animation if you win it. though the button mashing is annoying and better if its random input combination to win it.
Although the weapon change is terrible (wher muh xohou dun podao and Lobo halberd) my best memory of the game was instantly died to LuBu flying Fuma Shuriken in Hulao Gate LMAO. I was fucking shocked to witness that for the first time.
And with that said, I wish they port PS2 DW6 to PC and make Warriors Orochi 1,2,3 PACK port for PS4/5 or PC (all platform)
Most DW fans: Dynasty 6 is the worst Dynasty Warriors game!
DW9: challenge accepted! 😅
I personally find myself going back to DW9 more than DW6. I only go back to DW6 out of obligation. Whether for videos or for those last two achievements on 360 that I haven't popped.
I've heard that they were rushing the game to catch the PS3 release and that's why it had so much less content.
This one is the Black Sheep of the series. I hate this game, I prefer DW2 over this. I didn't feel like I'm hitting something, the combat system is just so weird. It's hard to find something positive about this game other than some character designs.
+nemesis3587 I do enjoy this more than DW2 personally because I find there's more to do in it. Even though we lost so many characters in the cloning sweep, I still think this has more to stand on and more to offer the player than DW2. Also, I may not have gone into detail, but I think the level design for this title was pretty on point. Most Warriors titles have memorable stages, but I think DW6 had the most expansive and detailed maps up to this point.
this may be very late but in ps2 version whenever u play split screen, the game is horribly lagging in in slow motion whenever you're fighting a lot of officer n soldiers on screen , i tried to find out on gamefaq and someone said it's because the game was not supposed for ps2 version
Thats normal for Koei's games :)
I love dw6
only things I hate about this game is the fact that the rare horses are just probabilities and literally Renbu, like why! it kills the fun if your playing on harder difficulties.
I love 6. I had it for PS3.
Looks like I am getting this for PS2. Especially with that extra content. The cons suck but I can deal with it.
I'm commenting before even watching 2 seconds of the video. 😂 Is that my cue to say DW6? Oh here we go... I've been waiting for this one Chris, hehe. 😅
SereneGamer I had a feeling most of my KT Family friends were going to be interested in this one. Let's just say... it gets heated.
Chris Gildart I'm on break at work, chilling in the Car. Literally watching the whole thing before I have to go back on shift.
SereneGamer Nice! Hope your work day isn't too bad dude.
Another con for the empires expansion: Some of the DLC shows up in the store on the PS3 but is completely undownloadable. It can't even be claimed. The Xbox 360 version doesn't have this problem.
I don't know if this is just a problem with the EU/UK version of the game or an issue on Koei's end but this has been an issue for as long as I have personally owned the game on PS3.
I think DW6 had the best characters design in the series.
I really like the siege battle in dw6
This game in my opinion has a lot of goods but had still many bads mostly in terms of combat
But here are the thing I feel this game holds over others
Elevation and ways of traveling climbing ladders jumping off cliffs swimming in water.
Character designs are best in this game in my opinion it is guan you and zhao yun have best models in this game also zhao yu
Truly map designs/ fun maps like he fei castle and the yellow turban map
Where if you go to the center by using a scroll with a fast runner character like zhao yun the right side with multiple flame traps or the left with explosive magic traps that was awesome also I love the enemy variety in the game as well how attacks on castles were done by defending engineers to make rams or ladders to attack also I felt like fast fuck when gates are closing and you make it by a hair into the base.
Also something not important but when I was a kid it left an imprint on me and that’s how dead foes corpses were left on the map cause the way I saw it as a kid it was creepy so please kiddies have a seat and let me tell you tale
One day when I was a weeder lad I was at my cousins and one was playing dynasty warriors 6 on the mission battle of chibi
He was zhao yu the allied forces were being bashed down to a pulp with moral almost empty and he was making his way into a ship he was in but was knocked off and had to swim a lot to get back in when he got back all he we could see was the dead bodies of wu soldiers everywhere barley any of the wei troops but May were wu and that left an imprint on me cause that’s the first in a game I saw so many dead on screen it dint scare me but it did shock me a bit obviously bodies disappeared after walking around but man all there was red everywhere it was a pretty messed up scene and some will say this is stupid and true but it made it feel more like an actual war and to add it was xu zhu who killed them.
Other than that this game is a disappointment maybe one day a Xtreme legends will be made but doubt it but hey if it gets people off en for 9 it better than nothing and koei get to 9 empires or legends dammit.
Also duels made a return