Japanese Samurai-Orientated Games

[lalalax3]

here is a game by koei that might be helpful

信長の野望~革新
http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/kakushin/
pretty fun game, played since 1

and its easy to extract character portraits from all koei games.

ppl from them sangou mod took portraits from this game's counterpart,
Sangokushi X, also by koei

[Wundai]

looks cool, a bit like Orochi Warriors which is currently on my harddrive

[lalalax3]

well, Orochi Warriors is made by koei also,
oda shares the same design, in all sengoku period games, and also with cao cao, they r like twins.

but this is a strategy game, unlike all the mouso beat them up style.

[Wundai]

A strategy game, hmm interesting
Haven't heard of strategy since Samurai Warriors 2: Empires, in Koei Games

[lalalax3]

this game is fairly old, also very famous lol
1st release is in 2005, and a revision was released in 2007
Nobunaga's Ambition I is released in 1988 haha
I am proud to say I played all 12 of them

[Wundai]

haha a real hardcore fan I'd say

Edit: Oh and lalalax3 I have a proposal, why don't we turn your thread into a
"Japanese Samurai-Orientated Games" thread?

We don't have one yet yes or no?

[lalalax3]

sure, that would be awesome, i have big collection

[Kagemusha]

And puff! The thread changed its name miraculously.

[Vagabond]

hm , the game link is in japanese, could you post an english link ?

[Kaigenji]

here is another nice game

http://www.ezgame.com/Takeda3/

[Wundai]

Coolness!

I'll post some screens of Samurai Orientated Games
You, my friends can have the honor of telling me from which games the screens are (they are all for the PC, no console stuff here)
All can be clicked to enlarge

[Kaigenji]

i think the first two screens are from jedi knight 3 mod^^
the second is from onimusha and the last from the samurai warriors series maybe it looks like that^^

sry for my english its not very well^^

[Kamos]

That last one is Warriors Orochi which is about 50% Samurai Warriors so I can cut some slack.

[Kneißl]

Last one looks lika dynasty warriors, but DW is based of china :O. IS the last game made by Koei?

[Kamos]

Warriors Orochi has SW and DW combined by some Snake demon named Orochi, it is made by Koei.

[TomteOfDoom]

Man I remember finding Nobunagas Ambition II on HOTU years ago, and I was like, "this game is old as ", but then I played it anyway, and I was definately sold. Too bad I can't play it on my new computer.
It was classed as "abandonware" back then, don't know if it still is.

Anotherone that used to amuse me, also found on HOTU, was 'Sword of the samurai', actually made by Sid Meier. One of his lesser known masterpieces I guess, but that game is ancient.

[furinkazan]

I played 'Sword of the samurai'. It was a great game
I liked to sneak in a castle to steal an object or to kill an enemy, but when you were discovered by the guards, the alarm went on and the castle was like an antnest with soldiers running everywhere.
The graphics are no more appealing but a game like thet would be nice to be redone with new graphics.

[Rigochu]

here is a game by koei that might be helpful

信長の野望~革新
http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/kakushin/
pretty fun game, played since 1

and its easy to extract character portraits from all koei games.

ppl from them sangou mod took portraits from this game's counterpart,
Sangokushi X, also by koei

This game is called Nobunaga's Ambition in english. There hasn't been one released in the united states until recently. Here is the link to the website: http://www.koei.com/risetopower/

a preview of the game:

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/840/840939p1.html

There are also 2 other Koei strategy games based on feudal Japan, Kessen 1 (based on the battle of sekigahara):

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/strategy...rgames;title;2

And Kessen 3 (based on Nobunaga's exploits):

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/strategy...rgames;title;1

Personally i like Kessen 1 more, even though Kessen 3 is newer.

[Earl Grey]

I sincerely hope "Takeda 3" makes it over to us - played the first one and really liked it, the second one was just more of the same, so there's plenty of room for advancement...

[Wundai]

Kaigenji nice one mate, you got them all

Yes I luv em Samurai Games too, at this moment I'm playing Way of The Samurai 2 (PS2 emu on PC) its very cool with many different moves for the Katana, and one of the coolest things is sheething(did I write it well?) your Katana,
I don't know why I like it so much but it just gives you the feel while your enemy bleeds to death on the ground, and you just stand there for 2 seconds and then sheeth your katana like some kind of superhero...hmmmm great

Btw in Germany again, so the replys will become lesser again