I Play Dynasty Warriors
The first time I played it I think it was Dynasty Warriors 2-4. It was at a friend's house and probably the first time I had ever played a Hack'n'Slash game as I was 7-9. (It was on PS1 or PS2 and I'm 21 now.) I remembered the game/franchise when I was around 11 or 12 and got Dynasty Warriors Advance as Gameboy Advance was my primary console growing up other than PC. (The ones I spent the most time on anyway, I also played on PlayStation one through three and other consoles at the houses of friends. (Like Xbox and GameCube.)) Anyway, I enjoyed playing the game as I have with all the Koei games I've played.
I picked up Dynasty Warriors 6 for PC sometime after, not too long after. (Might have even been before for all I know.) I stayed on that game for at least a year, two years, or a few years then got Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires for PS2 and shortly after, DW6 as well for the console. The only one I got on PS3 was DW6E which left me disappointing in one key way, levels don't carry over when you start a new conquest or whatever they are called. (I prefer DW5E over DW6 and DW6E, but there are things I liked in DW6 and DW6E) (I spent more time on DW5E than any other Koei game from what I know, probably around a few hundred hours. Half that amount on DW6 and a fourth of that amount on DW6E. I probably spent around sixty hours at least on Dynasty Warriors Advance.)
Around the same time I picked up Samurai Warriors 2: Empires which was sort of refreshing since it had a pretty different theme, different weapons, a somewhat different combat (Not too different, but more than between the DW games I've played.) I would say it ranks up there with DW5E in enjoyment, though there aren't as many characters. I never had the chance to play any Warrior Orochi games. (I spent around double the amount of time on this game compared to my time spent on Dynasty Warriors Advance, though it deserved more play time, honestly.)
Now onto more recent events. I picked up Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition on Steam while the Steam Summer Sale was going and I've been loving the game. It carries over levels like before DW6E, there's much more characters, it has all the stat trackers like in DW6 (Like total K.Os on characters and stuff.) You can level up three times as high compared to the games I've played previously. (Max level was 50 int he games I played, it's 150 in this one.) There's more weapons. (Six for every character.) Characters have their original weapons, like Xiahou Dun has his old scimitar and Lu Bu has his old halberd or whatever it is, Dian Wei's ball and chain flail, and the weapons still exist, but new characters took them. (New characters took the weapons that replaced old weapons in DW6. Also, there's a lot more than I listed.) From what I've seen of DW8E, it's not nearly as good as DW8XLE. Some other nice additions are that the combat is better in my opinion, at least compared to DW6. There's more to combat, not that it isn't still repetitive. But when you enjoy something, you don't care that it''s repetitive, because that just means you get to enjoy the same thing continuously. That's why there's a lot of people that don't like the franchise as well, because of the repetitiveness.
I picked up Dynasty Warriors 6 for PC sometime after, not too long after. (Might have even been before for all I know.) I stayed on that game for at least a year, two years, or a few years then got Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires for PS2 and shortly after, DW6 as well for the console. The only one I got on PS3 was DW6E which left me disappointing in one key way, levels don't carry over when you start a new conquest or whatever they are called. (I prefer DW5E over DW6 and DW6E, but there are things I liked in DW6 and DW6E) (I spent more time on DW5E than any other Koei game from what I know, probably around a few hundred hours. Half that amount on DW6 and a fourth of that amount on DW6E. I probably spent around sixty hours at least on Dynasty Warriors Advance.)
Around the same time I picked up Samurai Warriors 2: Empires which was sort of refreshing since it had a pretty different theme, different weapons, a somewhat different combat (Not too different, but more than between the DW games I've played.) I would say it ranks up there with DW5E in enjoyment, though there aren't as many characters. I never had the chance to play any Warrior Orochi games. (I spent around double the amount of time on this game compared to my time spent on Dynasty Warriors Advance, though it deserved more play time, honestly.)
Now onto more recent events. I picked up Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition on Steam while the Steam Summer Sale was going and I've been loving the game. It carries over levels like before DW6E, there's much more characters, it has all the stat trackers like in DW6 (Like total K.Os on characters and stuff.) You can level up three times as high compared to the games I've played previously. (Max level was 50 int he games I played, it's 150 in this one.) There's more weapons. (Six for every character.) Characters have their original weapons, like Xiahou Dun has his old scimitar and Lu Bu has his old halberd or whatever it is, Dian Wei's ball and chain flail, and the weapons still exist, but new characters took them. (New characters took the weapons that replaced old weapons in DW6. Also, there's a lot more than I listed.) From what I've seen of DW8E, it's not nearly as good as DW8XLE. Some other nice additions are that the combat is better in my opinion, at least compared to DW6. There's more to combat, not that it isn't still repetitive. But when you enjoy something, you don't care that it''s repetitive, because that just means you get to enjoy the same thing continuously. That's why there's a lot of people that don't like the franchise as well, because of the repetitiveness.
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