DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires

Bad port, do not get, yuck

After origins, I wanted to try empires. Seems like the type of game I would love. But the controls really kill it for me. I dont have a controller, prefer just keyboard stuff. Thats how I played origins and it felt great. This is an old game, and the key bindings really shows.
My hope is that they make a DW origins empire or something, cause I would play the heck out of that.

For me who played Empire mode for the first time this game is good

i love dynasty warriors 8 Empires

nice game i like it

Grab it on sale, rebind those controls and go conquer China, good dumb fun

This game feels worse than XL and XL played near flawlessly. This port is super rough to play, and controller prompts take a minute to configure, if you can get it to configure. Pretty bad port for arguably one of the best DW numbered entries available on PC.

i love making characters on here and being creative and i love the dynasty warriors franchise. this game is my favourite of them.

Entertaining

After spending some hours with the PC version (I've around 100hrs on xbox) I'd like to mention the PROS and CONS (from a franchise fan perspective)

PROS:
Instantly I'm going to mention the Character creation. Even though is not super deep the fact that you have too many slots to save characters is just insane. Be creative and make tons of them. I got inspired by other videogames and even other things like action figures or books to recreate those characters

Following the first point, i'd say the customization in general. You can create your very own kingdoms with your created characters which opens countless possibilities.

DW8 mechanics and weapon variety. Self explanatory and the widest of all the games in the franchise with weapons/styles. I love me some whacky weapons and also the regular sword and what not.

Replayability. I know, it gets repetitive, however, it is also replayable every now and then which will work perfectly as a pallete cleanser

Overall content along with DLCs makes it a really good pack for fun. Its not a GOTY by any means but that doesnt means its bad

CONS
Lack of content in empire mode. A lot will agree that this entry missed very good opportunitites to improve the overall empires experience. I played DW7E as I read that its the best in the empires series along with SW4E both are very good solid empires entries and they couldve imported the formula from both games with all the variety of things that DW8 has to offer

Bad port. It is true. I dont like at all that even though you connect a controller it wont replace the display with the buttons instead it keeps showing the keys lol not a deal breaker personally but it was such a basic thing that shouldnt even exist

Maybe that its a bit outdated? Visually might not be the most appealing game you can tell and this might make people turn their eyes somewhere else

If you're a fan of the franchise and you'd like to try this I strongly recommend it but just get it at a discounted price

GG

sw4 emoires to steam plese

dw7 empires is better tho, but this game is worth playing too. definitely love how you can instantly conquer a kingdom by defeating the ruler of said kingdom

Had to return the game. After several hours of troubleshooting, I was unable to make the game acknowledge any controllers(including Xbox) I have tried to play with. When it says "Partial Controller Support," I don't know to what extent it means partial because my experience was that there was no controller support.
I'm not going to play a game designed for a game pad with a keyboard.
If you're okay with that, go ahead and find out if the game's worth playing for yourself.

Terrible controls simply down right disgusting felling to play on keyboard or controller. It was not given the love it had on console at all.

Great game, terrible port.

Loved this game on the Xbox One. This port is...rough

I played this game when I was younger and I still really enjoy it. Losing hours taking just "one more turn", but I do find button input isn't responsive all the time. As well I had some crashes, but turning off v-sync solved it. This game is really good but just something stops it short from being great but I can't put my finger on it. Oh character creation is also really nice.

Cathartic

DO NOT BUY. I could not figure out why but no inputs weather from keyboard or my controller would work. could not get passed the title screen! no help found online either.

Very Interactive

Saw some reviews warning about the controls being poor, figured I'd be able to remap them or something or that they wouldn't be that bad. I was wrong. They are that bad.

I LOVE DW but this is terrible...

Controller support is a pain - Spent about 20 Min actually getting it to work..
No English DUB which is more of a nit-pick from me...

No Contoller UI just like DW8

Save your money and Get DW8 or I highly recommend Dynasty Warriors Origins.... 100/10!!!

WORST GAME EVER, CONTROLS ARE VERY HARD

not bad

This is my comfort game. Just mindless fun. Totally recommend.

the gameplay is quite repetitive, yet somehow I keep coming back to it every once in a while

the game is bored

Terrible port.

I like slaying a gazillion people in one swoop of my axe or somethin

Yes

TL;DR: Despite being the older Empires game, this is the superior title. It plays like an older warriors title.

That out of the way, let me clarify this about the game: It is an old title, and it shows. But unlike its sequel/downgrade in DW9R, this does right what that game does wrong. Walk with me and we'll discuss the pros and cons.

Pros

01. The game plays like a Warriors title. This may not seem like something important at first glance, or may even seem like it should be a no-brainer, but the fact that DW9E lost the plot and forgot to make itself into a hack-and-slash, commander focused playstyle for capturing bases and overcoming challenges puts this as a point in the book that needs to be said.

02. Character creation is simple, but good. You aren't getting anywhere near Skyrim, but there are enough options here to have fun with and you can customize your custom character's abilities quite well, giving them a far more unique approach and flair to things compared to the sequel.

03. In Empires mode there are other things to do. Far more in it than DW9E there are many more things you can do. Raise your own kingdom, become emperor (RNG event), be an assassin, be a free agent forever, betray your lord, and so much more.

04. CUSTOM INVADERS. This is something that, somehow, is still running and I don't know how or why. But when you have entire units of others peoples custom characters floating about and entering the game later on as old generic commanders die out or just replaced over time it gives some fun RNG to every Empires campaign. I had the Cat Girl alliance fighting Naruto Ninjas for the Northern half of China. It's hilarious as an option, and a lost one in the sequel.

05. Lastly, it's fun. Nothing more, nothing less, it is a fun game. If you are a fan of older Warriors titles, it is a fun time. Not as fast as some new ones, but you can have some pretty fun battles in it. I had to buy enough time for my armies to take the map and connect the main camp to the enemy's because Lu Bu and five of his boys were trying to rush the opposite way and just rush my main camp and no one but me could handle them.

Cons

There are some cons. Don't get me wrong. Translation isn't the greatest, some cutscenes and events are woefully incomplete, I wish there were MORE enemies on-screen and this much DLC at these prices are pretty much a crime to me...But if you don't care about the additional cosmetics, don't care about the castle or scenario pack, don't care for the additional edit voices? It's a great game. DLC is fine if you buy it on sale, but I sincerely say only buy the edit parts as that's where you'll get most of the enjoyment out of it. It's better than DW9E, so if you're making a choice between the two I am giving you a whole-hearted endorsement of this game.

Horrible optimization and experience on both keyboard and controller. Doesn't even have online.

I really wanted to love this game, but it's tough to fully recommend it. As a fan of Warriors hack-and-slash games, I found it hard to enjoy. Compared to Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires, this title falls short in many areas. While it's still fun in parts, there are several aspects that feel lacking. My advice: don't buy it at full price. It's worth a try, but there's much better out there.

Horrible PC port!

Unplayable on Xbox controller, unplayable with keyboard/mouse, and unplayable with the Steam controller support enabled or disabled. And for the few keys/buttons that do SOMETHING, there is no way to remap the key bindings (well in Steam you could but not really because it's a mess of a PC port, and that's not Steam's fault).

I've asked for a refund, but I really wanted to play the game because I played it on PS4 and loved it.

Dynasty Warriors 8 - Great game, some many would say the best in the series up until this point.
Dynasty Warriors: Empires - also loved by many as an alternate way to play the Warriors games.

Put the two together - Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires. 😁

Though I will say after 1 play-through there's pretty much no point ever to play it again really.

The combat is either stupidly easy, or really, really, really terribly tedious. Never actually challenging. You go from wiping the floor with everyone 1 battle, to it taking half an hour just to kill 1 officer the next. It's almost as if the game has decided it wants to pretty much make x battle impossible for no reason, unless you have over an hour on your hands and don't mind effectively grinding to get to the main camp.
Enjoyable to zone-out to and play, but really I think the main title of DW:8 is a better bet all-round.

Oh also, even though I'm using an xbox controller on PC, half the menu stuff still just tells me buttons for keyboard. And there's no 'Window: Borderless' screen mode, so if you have dual monitors and want to click off the game, be prepared for it to graphically screw-up and force you to reset half the time, espcially if you're in the menus and no actually in a battle.

Empire mode is fun

I liked 7 more but its still fun. What would be rally nice if they added the older games.

GOOD GAME AND FUN AND LIKE IT

Either feel like an immortal God or like a pointless minion depending on the difficulty level. fighting hordes of enemies that are simply not up to the task of holding back the sheer amounts of main character energy up until the point you come across a "named" unit that tries(and usually fails) to match your anime like power.

All these positive reviews? Did you all not have any problems with controller on this game? It was basically unplayable on ps4 controller. delayed commands, R1/L1 were broken. I ended up getting a refund because I was not gonna be a keyboard warrior gamer.

Imo this is the best one

Why is "X" back and "Y" confirm on an xbox controller?! Tried to edit the controller scheme through Steam and it just broke everything. Complete ass.

I've played this a TON PS4 and it's a great game on there, just a complete mess of a PC port.

Dynasty warriors but make your own scenario type stuff.

I certainly missed the ones where you train in the dojo before becoming an upstart officer but this one has decent balance between gameplay and background work.

amazing empires game

if the pc port was better (atleast on Warriors Orochi 3's level where you can make it 1440p and change the confirm button) i would enjoy it more. this game starts off very easy but quickly becomes a huge slog once you get near the end of an empires run. better than DW9E tho.

DW7Empires is better tho, really wish it was on steam aswell.

don't buy this game for the regular price, only giving it a thumbs up because it's better than 9

If only they did better with this game could be amazing.

Bad controls and optimization, kinda frustating , i got it cheap but, still i feel kinda cheated, i like the main series(even thought we don't get a new amazing game since 2010s), it hurts to left this here, i'm going back to playing space marine 2

CONTROLLER SUPPORT IS SO ASS

This game deserves a lot more love than it's getting. Amazing game, and the negative reviews are most likely because of the lack of English Audio. With English subtitles already there, it's not much of a problem for me.
As for the gameplay and the OSTs, it's a really good game.