Romance of the Three Kingdoms

[Hugar Twriker Eats Spam]

So a recent post in the "What You Play Today" thread reminded me about this great game. So I thought i would create a topic talking about its greatness as well as ask question. Is there a big difference between the number and if so what are those differences and which one is better?

[KevinStorm]

I bought one of them that came out on the PS2. It's unbelievably boring.

[IAceI]

haha whiskers in this topic (wub)

And basically its just each version, the newest one will be around X or XI i imagine?

I have RoTKVIII - not played it in a long time but it's such a good game. In the hands of the right person RoTK is possibly the most enthralling game out there.

[whiskers]

I personally prefer the ones where you play as a singular force, rather than just as a single officer. As for the numbers, I have played IV, VII, IX, X, and XI, and have enjoyed all of them in some way. VII and X are the ones of those that have play as an officer, as does VIII (which I haven't played.) I'm really enjoying XI.

I hope that made sense, I've got a concert I'm going to, so I need to type fast.

Nice to see I jogged your memory!

[StevenRichardsRules]

I acquired RTK XXI the other day. Pretty fun, though I'm quite bad at it. The first time I played, Sun Jian made short work of me right away. My current game had me doing pretty well, controlling the bottom half of the map until the Nanman spammed me to death. I have three cities right above them now but haven't bothered to go after the ones I had before. Fucking Nanman. I hate how they just appear out of nowhere.

[Magus978]

Been playing RTK 2 on the SNES Emulator again. Also playing IV as Qiao Mao, trying to recapture my glory days

Massive failure on both ends.

[Ruki]

I remember renting one on PS2...I was an officer or something, and I was skipping the wars (taking a hands off approach), and somehow I became the leader. It was cool. Then I tried the next game, and I couldn't skip the battles, and I sucked at it and didn't enjoy it.

[StevenRichardsRules]

It's fucking hard. Maybe it's because I really don't know much about the game but it's tough. Maybe you have to be good at micro-managing or something.

[Mick]

I really kicked ass in RTKII on the SNES. The original on the NES....not really my thing, but then again, I was very young.

I'll never forget the massive bidding wars over Lu Bu.

MWAHAHAHA CAO CAO, I HAVE LU BU!

"Sir, Lu Bu has defected!"

>_<

A lot of those old Koei games were great; my personal favorites were Nobunaga's Ambition on the NES (awesome replay value), Genghis Khan, again on the NES; Gemfire (on random system here, it was a pretty cool game), and ROTK2.

[KevinStorm]

The best KOEI game I played was PTOII on the SNES. Even my dad was addicted to it.

[StevenRichardsRules]

What the hell is PTOII?

[Magus978]

Pacific Theater of Operations II (Strategy game based on World War II).

Pretty good, but I liked the first one more. It was simpler (if you can believe that about Koei's games)

Edited January 22, 2009 by Magus978

[Farmer Reil]

Pacific Theatre of Operations II. Naval sim, was a bit boring... but most naval sims are, due to the fact that naval warfare is the least fun warfare ever. Except possibly nuclear warfare, as Defcon proved.