Talk:Dynasty Warriors

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Contents 1 Soundtrack/music 2 Stage Infomations 3 Anachronisms 4 Individual Game Pages 5 Zhou Tai 6 Anti-Feminist Chicas 7 Character listing 8 Zhong Hui 9 Criticism for English Dub? 10 Grammar style

[edit] Soundtrack/music

I really think there should be a section or at least a mention of the music of the series, which is notable for being making extensive use of hard rock, which is fairly unsual for a video game series. Shaolin Samurai 18:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stage Infomations

It would be really great if someone who owns DW5 to help me edit this section, I can provide Japanese names for the stages but I cannot give more info due to the fact i still did not own DW5 :-< -User:Mouselmm

• Battle of Xi Liang (179-180)
• Battle of Ji Province (180)
• Battle of Liang Province (180)
• Struggle for Nan Zhong (182)
• Battle of Nan Zhong (183)
• The Yellow Turban Rebellion (184)
• Battle of Si Shui Gate (191)
• Battle of Hu Lao Gate (191)
• Battle of Chang Shan (198-199)
• Battle of Jing Province (192)
• Battle of Wu Territory (197)
• Battle of Wan Castle (197)
• Battle of Xia Pi (198)
• Battle of Guan Du (200)
• Guan Yu's Escape (200)
• The Trials of Sun Ce (200)
• Battle of Xia Kou (208)
• Battle of Chang Ban (208)
• Battle of Chi Bi (208)
• Escape from Chi Bi (208)
• Battle of Tong Gate (211)
• Battle of Cheng Du (214)
• Battle of He Fei (215-217)
• The Invasion of Nan Zhong (215)
• Battle of Mt. Ding Jun (218-219)
• Battle of Fan Castle (219)
• Battle of Yi Ling (222)
• Conquest of Nan Zhong (225)
• Battle of Tian Shui (227)
• Battle of Jie Ting (228)
• Battle of Chen Cang (229)
• Battle of He Fei Castle (234)
• Batttle of Bai Di Castle (234)
• Battle of Wu Zhang Plains (234)

Whopper 22:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anachronisms

I wonder if this series presents to us, the audience (gamers) an anachronistic portrait of the Three Kingdoms era?

- Well for one thing, Diao Chan definitely wouldn't have been such a kick ass martial artist outside this game.

Comparing to the Sangokushi Series, Dynasty Warriors has always been on the anachronistic side of the Three Kingdoms. Most proofs are mentioned in the article such as Zhou Tai's Katana and Ling Tong's Nunchaku. Most battles never existed such as the invasion attempts of Nan Zhong with forces other than Zhuge Liang's Shu. Most people have argued the historic + novel contents have been washed down since Dynasty Warriors 4. mouselmm 01:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Individual Game Pages

Should there not be seperate game pages for each game? For almost all other game series, each game has its own page.Viper Viper 06:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Most games have so much in common.. other than small changes, DW3 introduced more characters and stages, DW4 added new charges, new item levels and weapon upgrades, DW5 puts a new Musou rage and evolution attacks.. if they seperate i doubt they will ever get out of sub status mouselmm 03:36, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I do think they should start having their own page. Keep this one as a DW(Series) or something similiar, but it should be broken up, especially for the handheld/PC versions (no matter what small alterations there is). Keero 09:26, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree. There were some notable changes between most of the games (some that actually made a difference to the gameplay!) and besides, if I want to find information about Dynasty Warriors 4, I don't want to sift through a whole page about the other games in the series. It's not like Wikipedia's running out of space, guys... (1,500,000 article milestone recently) Dragonfly888 17:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zhou Tai

Zhou Tai's weapon is an "Eastern Sword", not a katana. Zhou Tai is Chinese, not Japanese; as such he wields a bastardized katana like blade added into the game by the developers. Someone should edit this. (I would personally, but my browser is a bit odd and I can't get it to post.)

Actually, Zhou Tai's weapon is a katana, wielded, as far as I know, in a form similar to iaijutsu. His second tier weapon bears this out, as it is indeed called Katana. Straightforward, no? --Dal 13:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, not all the weapons are in proper times or realistic, so I don't think it's a problem.

[edit] Anti-Feminist Chicas

Hey, I made a comment in the Qiao's character descriptions about people thinking they're anti-feminist, and it was suggested that all the chicks are anti-feminist and husband-oriented. I think this comment belongs either in the individual female character's sections, or in a section of their own. However, I don't even think it's true. I mean, Zhen Ji can't be all caught up on Cao Pi, he wasn't even playable in most of them. And Zhu Rong doesn't fight for her husband, in her musou mode she just for for the thrill of it, both of them do. Diao Chan does her own thing, and SUn Shang XIang doesn't even fight on her husband's kingdom (Liu Bei), and Xing Cai has no husband, so this makes no sense. The only ones I've ever heard criticized for being specifically anti-feminist are the Qiaos and Yue Ying, so I'm reverting. Karwynn 14:31, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Character listing

I'm going to go ahead and be bold by splitting the character listing off from this article into List of Dynasty Warriors characters, as the main article right now is *way* huge (82 KB). UOSSReiska 18:44, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

And done. I left a brief character listing on this page (sorted by the order they're listed on DW5's character select screen). UOSSReiska 21:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zhong Hui

I know he's not a playable character, nor do I think he was even mentioned in this article. I just thought I'd point out the fact that he appears in the Battle at Wu Zhang Plains in DW5, and according to his biography he would be nine years old at that time. Just noticed.. Cao Wei 02:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism for English Dub?

Cao Cao, should be pronounced as "Tsao Tsao," but it is spelled as Cao Cao, so blame the Pin-Yin system?! Kenimaru 09:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't matter. Pronunciation is always the same, be it Wade-Giles or Pin Yin system. So in this case, it is an incredibly stupid mistake on the dubbing part (poor research). If it must be read Cow Cow, the Pin Yin would have been Kao Kao. Suredeath 18:33, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes I agree with Suredeath. Either way, the English dubs are done poorly. I wonder why they have not corrected the pronunciations. Is it so that the English speaking audiences can remember the names easier? It's hopelessly hilarious to me, rather than offending.

[edit] Grammar style

Because some of the names, battles, and other phrases contained in this article are unfamiliar to many Westerners, I recommend we use commas after the penultimate items in series to aid the readers' eyes and provide swifter assimilation. I know people are picky about their commas, so I figured I'd ask first. Thoughts? TEPutnam 11:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)