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geebsKoei's done China's Romance of the Three Kingdoms with Dynasty Warriors, and that period around Nobunaga (and a little beyond) in Japan with Samurai Warriors. I still think them doing a Western themed one would work. They just came out with Bladestorm for the PS3/360, centered around the Hundred Years war, but alas, that's a real time strategy game similar to their Kessen series (Kessen II was a more mystical version of RotTK, Kessen III was called "Nobunaga's Ambition").
Owel, its too bad its not a Warriors game, because the character designs do look pretty cool. It looks like the main English general is Prince Edward, and the main French general is Joan of Arc? Though why does Prince Edward have a dark knight look about him? His outfit almost looks like Nobunaga's. I guess he was called the Black Prince. Not being a history buff, there's names I recognize, but I couldn't tell you anything about their actual historical significance like John Talbot, Gilles de Rais, La Hire, or Henry Percy. (but they are all wiki-able, apparently)
Of course, like the other games, it seems to take liberties with history, as they have characters who are Chinamen, Nipponese, African, and Indian. And I doubt people of such descent participated in the Hundred Years war.
In any case, the videos on that site, it kinda looks like the Warriors games, only it seems like its played like those Total War games. I dunno, it would be cool to have a game that combined both, but I don't think that would ever work. Your player controlled character should be able to dominate the battlefield, losing the whole "strategy" aspect, since your fighting skill can bring your side back from the brink and onto victory. It seems like you do have some control over certain units, but it seems the attacks you have/abilities you can do are stat and "point and click" based as opposed to "ability at playing action/adventure or fighting games" based.
Owel, its too bad its not a Warriors game, because the character designs do look pretty cool. It looks like the main English general is Prince Edward, and the main French general is Joan of Arc? Though why does Prince Edward have a dark knight look about him? His outfit almost looks like Nobunaga's. I guess he was called the Black Prince. Not being a history buff, there's names I recognize, but I couldn't tell you anything about their actual historical significance like John Talbot, Gilles de Rais, La Hire, or Henry Percy. (but they are all wiki-able, apparently)
Of course, like the other games, it seems to take liberties with history, as they have characters who are Chinamen, Nipponese, African, and Indian. And I doubt people of such descent participated in the Hundred Years war.
In any case, the videos on that site, it kinda looks like the Warriors games, only it seems like its played like those Total War games. I dunno, it would be cool to have a game that combined both, but I don't think that would ever work. Your player controlled character should be able to dominate the battlefield, losing the whole "strategy" aspect, since your fighting skill can bring your side back from the brink and onto victory. It seems like you do have some control over certain units, but it seems the attacks you have/abilities you can do are stat and "point and click" based as opposed to "ability at playing action/adventure or fighting games" based.
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Date: 2007-10-10 08:54 pm (UTC)Although Edward is almost always now called the "Black Prince", there is no record of this name being used during his lifetime. He was instead known as Edward of Woodstock, after his place of birth. The "Black Prince" sobriquet "is first found in writing in Richard Grafton's "Chronicle of England" (1568.) [1] Its origin is uncertain; according to tradition, it derived from an ornate black cuirass (piece of body armour) presented to the young prince by Edward III at the battle of Crécy.
It is possible that the name was first coined by French chroniclers in reference to the ruinous military defeats he had inflicted on France or his cruelty in these.