Dynasty Warriors producer says the series still can’t be called a success in the West

GamesMarkt: How successful is the Dynasty Warriors series in the West? And how important is the Western market for the series, given that almost 70% of user reviews of Dynasty Warriors: Origins on Steam are in Chinese?

Tomohiko Sho: "I believe that the 'Dynasty Warriors' series is not yet in a position to be called a success in the West. On the contrary, I believe that there is a great potential for the series to gain many fans in the future. With our latest title, 'Dynasty Warriors: Origins,' we were able to attract new fans in addition to those we have had since the PlayStation 2 era. The Western market is very important, and I believe that if there is a next title, we will gain even more new fans."

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I get the feeling Japanese devs are so California brained these days that if they lost 100,000 sales in Asia but gained 10,000 in the West by making some westard musou this would make said Jap dev happier.

Why even bother chasing "success in the west" with a setting completely impenetrable to the west at large? Are they retarded

they need more movie slop in their games to make it in the west

The series is the same fucking game for 20 years now. Of course no one plays it except die hard fa s

I think they FINALLY nailed the gameplay and scale of combat just right. Now bring it back to 100+ playable characters.

to me it makes sense. this was the dynasty warriors game that came close to their licensed spin-off sale figures.

It will be better if they bring destiny mode back

DEM WORRYERS BE NASTY

But it nailed the gameplay BECAUSE there aren't 100+ characters

With our latest title, 'Dynasty Warriors: Origins,' we were able to attract new fans in addition to those we have had since the PlayStation 2 era.

That's why people still talk about 5, 7 and 8 but everyone forgot about this game within two weeks.

Is this game "litty"?

Just because you started with them doesn't mean anything.

7 and 8

the only reason people talk about these is because they're turds unlike Origins which is great

Stop treating them like a serious company. They are going to grift off their current hard work with same shit for the next 20 years. They want to make easy slop and only had to do the hard choice to invest and actually improve the overall state of the game because they were at a pure bottleneck.

He said they want to make a lord of the rings dynasty warriors to break into the west

bump

Too late, Conquest was a thing

I disagree. It's still the same weightless, tensionless, hordes of literally useless "soldiers" it's been since 6. Only the ps2 games got it right

utter woke nonsense

stop making excuses for vidya companies

Yeah, it's not about the scope. Ten or a hundred or a thousand soldiers are functionally the same amount if they're not a threat.

I'm not even one of the CaC beggars and I still think the protag being such a blank slate besides a mysterious background, and the way the character relations work, feels like we should've been customizable rather than granted a grand total of one costume earnable, and one other that was pre-order only. They don't want swaths of playable characters with a gigantic roster at my fingertips? Then let me make whoever, since I can already use some of their movesets as is. Not the goddamn twink.

Conquest always felt like the lord of the rings version of star wars battlefront to me. Regardless, I'd love to get either another lotr conquest or lotr dynasty warriors

Why are they so desperate for western money if the game is inherently going to appeal to the Asian market primarily?
It's akin to retarded publishers thinking female market is untapped for games like Call of Duty and they're actually missing out on half the sales because only men buy them. Butchering your Sengoku or RotK game in ANY way to appeal to the westerners will not work and it can only backfire and lose you the audience you already had. Like when Capcom localized Sengoku Basara with "Devil Kings". Nobody liked that.

Westerners will never be as profitable as Asia, especially now that the Chinese are buying games. If they really want to rebalance the budget accordingly, then remove the expensive western voice actors and their unions and their shit pronunciations and their shit ghetto voice ranges.

I thought japs were high IQ and good at math.

That's why they're called "westacucks". They all have Inafune's brainrot.

I thought japs were high IQ and good at math.

Turns out retarded executives and higher-ups are universal. And the man in charge of Omega Force is just one of many of them.

Why are they so desperate for western money if the game is inherently going to appeal to the Asian market primarily?

Because they've watched Nintendo, From, Crapcom and others make an absolute killing over the last decade by selling to the West rather than the JP market. Of course they're too stupid to see the crash coming.

if u want to sell it in the west add actual women next time and stop with the sloppy character interactions, and make the males not look like females.

Faggots should make a Dynasty Warriors set in the American Civil war, and yes both Lincoln and Davis would be playable.

That's mostly the big boys like crapcum, squenix, and smega. KT already had experience with wokies in cali and their solution is stop selling to the west and the good thing about KT is they still stronk on their refusal to bend kness to the wokies "you no rike bikini and titties, no sell game to you"

The Nintendo musous sleptwalk past a million and the best selling musou is Hyrule Warriors AoC. The easiest way to grow the brand in the west even if you have to pay the Disney tax or the Warner Bros tax or whatever is do a licensed crossover.

Ziluan is such a bitter monkey's paw for me desu. I actually wanted cute Kpop twinks in vidya but when we finally got one he's a mute default preset for create-a-character that director decided not to allow customization for relatively late in development.
In a game famous for diverse character roster that harkens back not just 25 years ago since the first installment but hundreds of years ago because they're Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters. And I liked how the character looks but he's a complete misguided waste in his implementation for this game.

Meaning it pissed everybody off, everybody (rightfully) shat on him and him being a Kpop cutie only poured oil to the fire. So the onlooking devs will take it to heart that the problem was the pretty twink on top of being the wrong protagonist decision for the game.

Just when they finally mustered up the courage to model proper epicanthic folds for a male character, we're in danger of regressing back to neanderthal brow ridge gorilla men like so many Japanese games out there. Grim.

nice

Origins is really good but I wish they would do a DLC with character campaigns.

get better english voice actors and make better PC ports and then I will buy your game

can't they just add the usual playable characters + free mode? it's probably among their best games otherwise

Because these devs all saw Capcom and Fromsoft make 10+ millions on Monster Hunter and Elden Ring and they want a slice of that pie. KT still has no recognized brand seller that sells millions in a matter of weeks. Like Nioh is probably their most successful game series to date and still struggled to reach 2 million in a couple of months meanwhile you have shit like Nightreign sell 2 million in day or two based on Fromsoft brand recognition alone.

still £65-80

lol wonder why

They can but they're retarded. They didn't even greenlight the sequel to Origins right away despite it selling a lot.

origins was already incredibly gay so im not sure what else they could do to appeal to the west besides the fabled LOTR or Star Wars musou they keep wanting to do

A<Got mine for free. The game was good but not 60$+ kind of good.

it's another general rush game like all the modern dw games

Samurai warriors was better. I haven’t tried the new ones though. I disliked the camera in DW

There has never been a DW game where general rushing wasn't the best option

I paid half of that on launch on cdkeys

I feel like in the ps2 games you had to control the map and the reinforcement points on the map since if you just skipped everything and charged a general you'd likely get killed easily.

yeah i was going to but its always out of stock now. often the case you have to get in early on that site. the price slowly goes up as they start going through stock, too.

have lelouch as the MC

barely speaks

Why do they even bother

Even if he couldn't shut the fuck up, he'd still be a unnecessary dogshit character that ruined the game.

maybe insert more gay flirting I bet it would help

Maybe don't sell that shit for 80 bucks.
Also I want to put my penis in Zilean.