Does anyone play the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series? I just got RTK 10 for my 16th birthday (which was on the 20th), and I haven't been able to stop playing it.

What do you guys think about these series? As far as I'm concerned, everyone could learn something about the Three Kingdoms era just by playing RTK a bit.

What are your comments on the RTK series?

Well Sean, :) I've played IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and I think I enjoyed most fun on the V series, can still remember my friends were with me playing on it whole day and whole night long!!

Wow, that's pretty cool yo... Maybe I should buy one...

To me, the most fun I've ever had playing it was when I had three friends over, and we were playing RTK 8. We each chose an officer. My friends all used lords (like Cao Cao, Meng Huo, Dong Zhuo...hoping the battles would be similar to those of the DW series), while I myself used Lu Bu. (100+ WAR stat. Yippee.)

My friends being the rulers...while I was an officer of Dong Zhuo's...so, the first chance I got, I resigned and made my own force, and creamed Dong Zhuo. Sun Quan and Cao Cao followed soon after.

*sigh* That was fun, but a tad short. Well, to me, it was fun, to them...probably not.

hm,it has a multiplayer? you can play it with friends too o.o
a new party game,yea thats what we need (lol).
can you post the homepage of RTK 10,10 is the latest one?

I've played VII, VIII, IX, and X. I didn't like IX, but VII is good, VII is excellent, and X is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

what do you do on in the rotk games i was goin to buy one of them but i didn't what i was letting myself in for

Well, technically, it's not a multiplayer mode, but since the game allows you to control up to eight different officers, I did it with three other people, and we each controlled one officer.

It's up to you if you want to call that "Multiplayer."

Basically, if you've played Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires...It's a little like that, except the portraits for the officers look nothing like their counterparts from the DW series. You, being either the vassal or the ruler, raise an army and crush your opponents. The events follow history, but there are some things in the game that didn't happen in history. So, I guess it follows the novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, as there's that Shu guy, named Zhou Cang, that didn't appear in actual history, but he's there anyway.

Note that you can only control one officer in 10, Koei mistakenly put multiplayer on the back of the box but amended it on their webpage. I've played most of the games aside from 9, which I can't find anywhere. 10 is probably my favorite, though I've yet to actually finish any scenarios.

Hmm...I never noticed that, but it is pretty funny how they put 1-8 players on the back of the box.

However, it's far more in-depth than DW4E. You must balance and conserve resources, forge alliances (not just through a one-click proposal), and defeat your enemies via strategy, rather than hack and slash stuff. Stats and skills are important, and you can form personal bonds with other characters.

thank you which would you think i should get

I'd go with X. It's a bit more complicated, but it has a tutorial feature that teaches ou as you go, rather than 7/8's help Screen. However, if cost's an isse, then go with 7. iIt's prolly cheaper.

i'll see how much x is if its too much than i'll get 7

If you are a major grammar King, don't get VIII. It has the WORST english ever. Such as:
-The Xia Pi of Gao Gan has switched to the side of Cao Cao.
-In Cao Xiong's bio it says Ku Bu instead of Lu Bu.

Man.... i totally dont understand anything what you guys talking about. Maybe i need to buy one and try it my self.

I recently saw RTK10 at the game store and I looked at the back cover and it looks like a PC game. A ncie one, if I may add.

I thought all of them were made for PC? the ROTK ones....

Really? I saw the ROTK10 game for the PS2. I assumed that the some of the other ROTK games were also for the PS2.

I love that game, brings me back into 2nd Century China, I remember I tried making my own force, I failed miserably. I remember this one time I got my friend into it, and "persuaded" him to betray his force.

The Music is awesome, it'd be great if someone'd get a copy. It's the kind of music you wanna be listening to when playing Go.

Hmm...Not a bad idea. Listening to RTK music playing a board game.

Zhang Liao is still alittle Bit**
I killed off the whole Liu line
Zhuge Line and Guan but can't get the Zhangs though
and Zhang Liao is still with them and Liao Hun is the leader now since every time the new since I've killed alot of people within that army

started a new game Cao Cao is beating the hell out of Sun Ce and I beating the brakes off Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu and Yuan Shang man me and Cao Cao are just whipping ass and taking names then when I got done taking out those guys I sumbitted to Cao Cao so now is force is the only in the land well Ce is there but its just a matter of time before I end the Sun line

When you make a new officer in RTK10, what stats do you generally give it? When I made Lu Xia, I gave him 100's for every stat, but he didn't live that long.

If I were to make a guy that corrsponded with my stats in real life, I think the highest stat would probably be around 60 for charisma.

I create what I feel like
with Cao Song
its Cao Cao son so you know his POL,INT,CHA is 100 and WAR is just a random thing I go back and foruth with the D-Pad then stop what ever it is I leave it

When compared to a regualr joe thats fair enough but how about comparing that to Liu Bei or his ilk? 60's quite high. (Yuan Shu only has 44...)

I don't know, maybe you are a very charismatic guy! But are you judging that by yourself or how it would be if you were a warlord?

I usually don't go too far with the stats, its a bit ridiculous to overshadow the main characters. Unless you're going for an all out fiction war!

Hanzomaster, I believe you mean Cao Cao's father.

Playing as a character with low stats can actually be quite fun if you are a ruler. Need to employ some seriously talented officers quickly though. :D
I'm playing as Yuan Shu at the moment. Lu Bu's my oath brother... :huh:

no My CAW name is Cao Song and Cao Cao is his father I just took Cao Cao's father name and made it his son name to

Oh, that explains it then.

By the way, why do people call it CAW? Isn't that Create A Wrestler? :blink:

it that to
and Create A Warrior to

Ah, I've just never seen it refered to as such. Also because many of the characters aren't exactly warriors.

Following from that, I'd be interested to know what character types you guys prefer to play as. For example, do you prefer warriors or strategists? Characters with high Int or War?

I personally prefer advisor/minister style characters but I like average stat sovereigns too. I think high stat characters make the game a little easy... (Like Liu Bei being able to recruit every officer in the game real fast with high Cha stat)

A mix of both for me like Cao Cao they mess up on his WAR since well back when he fought he was quite good his WAR should have been around 80-85 but its in the 70's which is stupid

The one thing I like to do with MY CAW is to join Shu then when I'm a viceroy I gain alot of land then betray that fool and join Wei with all the land I got then go on to crush Shu and Wu now thats fun times

Heh Heh, a sinister strategy, but a strategy nonetheless. Actually thats quite an imaginitive way to play it. I usually just choose a character and go unless some sort of event occurs along the way. (Like having a really lame leader who doesn't expand his land whatsoever)

I really want to get this or these games sean so that I can be introduced to this three kingdom world truely. Have you played em sean, probably have but just tell me what they were like if you don;t mind,

If you cannot stand sitting down for well over three days just trying to beat the game, don't bother getting it. That's pretty much it. It's a good way to learn about the Three Kingdoms era...

Actually, scratch that. It isn't.

ha never mind, no just joking i've thought about getting it many times before so yeah. Whatever I won't have the patience but I may suprise my self

It's one of the worst for eating time all right. Especially because somtimes you don't seem to be making much progress and you keep playing anyway. You don't get a whole lot done in 20 hours... Still its hyper addictive if you get a good game going.

really that's cool i'll really try get it and tell you about it when I do just for fun. It sounds interesting, how is the gameplay set up by any chance?

Compared to my WAR stat, which could be, like, in the low 20's?

Hey, every character (Even Liu Shan) has good stats. Even his CHA is in the 60's, only 'cuz he's Liu Bei's son.

...Actually, isn't Huang Hao's highest stat, like, 15 or something for INT?

We should make a "Give yourself and others RoTK stats!" thread. Those are fun.

Sure. Want to make it? I want to see who's the first to declare themselves with 100's on all stats.

How would you rate this game?