Who would you like as a playable character...?

[Fiery]

Should Koei ever come out with another (that would be, what, the 800th RoTK-based game they made?) Dynasty Warriors game, which of the Novel's characters would you like to see become a playable character?

Personally, I would love to see either Liu Chan (goodness knows he was certainly used a lot in DW5, though the poor guy didn't have his own model) get a part, or Guo Jia. Or both.

Wu and Shu have two strategists, so why can't Wei?

[Lady Crane]

Yes, I agree. I'd really like to see Liu Shan/Chan get a model since, as Koei gets more and more realistic about their time-periods and when their characters were actually alive, Liu Chan's part becomes quite important... he does take the place of Liu Bei, after all... being his son and all. But I think Koei may be reluctant because Liu Shan/Chan never did much, unless you count the surrendering part, and Luo Guanzhong never really got the chance to elaborate on his character much. After Zhuge Liang's death, things moved quickly- at least, that's what I found.

And Guo Jia would be nice to have around, as you said. In fact, isn't he in a few other Koei games...?

[tigermask]

I want to see more minor kingdom officers. I'm sick of playing Zhang Fei in the Yellow Turbans. Wheres Liu Pi, Zhang Man Cheng, or Zhang Bao? Or why does Dong Zhuo have none of his officers either? Wheres Li Jue, Jia Xu or Hua Xiong? Yuan Shao can have Tian Feng and Yan Liang or something! There seems to be no reason to have the minor kingdoms in there other than the fact that you are playing the same character from one of the Three Kingdoms, just a different story.

/rant off

But if it were the Three Kingdoms then Shu should get Ma Su or Mi Fang. Wu should get Lu Su or Ding Feng. And Wei should get Deng Ai or Yu Jin. Those would be some good additions since they played a good part in history.

[Fiery]

You're completely right. I want to see the Yellow Turbans get some more officers as well. They should at least get the Zhangs all in there, being as they were the main leaders.

And come to think of it, YES LU SU PLZ (sorry). I loved him in the book, if I remember correctly...

But I was really happy with the fact that they added Zuo Ci, just because I liked him... though I don't know what the point of adding him to a fighting game was. But I digress...

[tigermask]

I think Wei should get Wang Men. If I remember correctly he was one of Wei's top generals. I'm pretty sure he held one of the highest ranks in the Wei army at one point. I'm not sure though, but I do know that he was a really strong leader.

[Leon Kinotolian]

I want to see Gongsun Zan, Liu Biao, and Huang Zu as playable characters, personally.

- Zan, because he challenged Yuan Shao's supremity early on, starting with the battle of Jie Qiao(?). Plus, the leader of the Bai Ma Cavalry should be more important than to be an NPC.

- Biao, simply because he protected Jing. And it'd be nice to see him wearing that hat he sports on RTKX.

- Zu. Let me see... He led Sun Jian into an ambush that killed/injured him, and fought Sun Quan's army(DW-wise, not sure on RTK) for a good while.

[tigermask]

Yeah, but if those characters were in them, what army would they be in? I don't think Koei should add more minor kingdoms that will have only one or two officers in them. They already have enough minor kingdoms.

[sunce360]

Um, I vote for Lu Bu's Advisor, Chen Gung and the Nanman Warrior, Wu Tugu. They were characters that were vital to the winning of certain battles for their armies and I think they would be welll accepted.

[youngboy]

tigermask said:

I want to see more minor kingdom officers. I'm sick of playing Zhang Fei in the Yellow Turbans. Wheres Liu Pi, Zhang Man Cheng, or Zhang Bao? Or why does Dong Zhuo have none of his officers either? Wheres Li Jue, Jia Xu or Hua Xiong? Yuan Shao can have Tian Feng and Yan Liang or something! There seems to be no reason to have the minor kingdoms in there other than the fact that you are playing the same character from one of the Three Kingdoms, just a different story.

/rant off

But if it were the Three Kingdoms then Shu should get Ma Su or Mi Fang. Wu should get Lu Su or Ding Feng. And Wei should get Deng Ai or Yu Jin. Those would be some good additions since they played a good part in history.

I completely agree, I'd also like to see Zhong Hui, Cheng Pu (come on he was there from the start! He even had his own weapon name!) and maybe Zhang Bao (fei's son, I mean they made Guan Ping so they should make his oath-bro)