its been a long time since i did "sit and play" enjoyment... but i'm not sad about it actually... well the reason is i'm busy and the things i'm busy with are meaning more things than games right now.

i'm going to be married soon. surprised ? maybe, maybe not. but its the truth, not a joke. i'm really happy about it, its really great feeling, i hope you, people who didnt taste it yet, can taste these feelings too.

i want to apologize from all of you for not being active and not writing comments on your blogs. to be honest, i'm sorry but i think i wont be able to write much anymore, or at least for a while... i always had fun reading your blogs and sharing my opinions with you, i thank you all. take care of yourself, enjoy your life, enjoy your games :)

So I started Mass Effect few days ago and disappointed so far. I'm afraid i start to believe KotOR was just lucky hit or the real talent came from Lucas Arts since its their trademark already... I played Jade Empire special edition, almost hated it and now i'm playing Mass Effect and i'm really close to dislike it.

The game starts with character customization screen IF you choose to not be John Shepard but xXx ( your name enters here ) Shepard. Face customization is not detailed much compared to Oblivion but its not bad, I made a nice face even its abit typical. Then you choose your brief history (either you were succesful soldier or solo survivor from a failed mission ) and your class. The game starts... it looks cinematic but to be honest, it doesnt look impressive, at least i'm not impressed... then game starts... and its a shooter ? OMG... I chose Soldier-Engineer hybrid but i couldnt see anything different as skills yet... it disables your enemy's shield, 2 more and these are just like other shooter game skills... anyway lets continue to the game and here is our villain or as a prediction he is just bait villain ( maybe the real villain but it wouldnt surprise me to see a different, more powerful, more evil, etc villain because Saren appears just so early so it doesnt leave a big impression yet )and we continue for our mission. After a short time we see Saren plans to destroy the evidenceand leave the planet so we should defuse bombs while fighting his friends... but that is the exact point slapped my face so bad, i thought i was gonna die...the music in bomb defuse area is just terrible and its like from 80s... O M G! now this game is true science-fiction because it uses this crappy music from 80s, is this what these developers wanted ? I watched Terminator 1 ago just few days before playing ME and when I reached that bomb area in ME, what i first noticed was its terrible music... its almost the same bad music from Terminator 1... its like keyboard piano trash... argh i hated it and i started to doubt ME's quality in that second... that movie was in 1984, now we are living in 2008 ( 2007 to be exact, for game release date ) and you use that bad quality music for the sake of nostalgia ?or you still think there cant be done science fiction without that kind of crap ? argh...

I know sound/music quality is important in games but i never had an experience like this before... i mea, it seems i didnt play any great game with bad sound/music ( considering their time of release ofcourse( though i must say many 90s amiga games had amazing sound quality ) )... I was in a shock when i realized i'm listening to that music in ME... its just terrible...

anyway, after passing that place and breaking the item you suppose to get back to your captain, you continue your journey to report Saren to council. you meet the council but obviously no choice can change the result and the game shows that event like its the end of the world, now this was impressive... they made that scene good but after many disappointments i'm not ready to believe its a great game...

so Mass Effect is really disappointment for me, especially the gameplay... its like another shooter game with rpg elements... i know bioware means more about story and dialogues but so far nothing looks impressive with story or dialogues... i already started to skip some dialogues and that didnt happen in KotOR even though i was not knowing what i'm playing at that time ( before kotor i was not even sw fan and i didnt know it was such a great game, just played because my friend told me to ). so Mass Effect turned out to be disappointment so far with everything...

well yes Technically too... i think it needs really high system because i beat Crysis with on medium but still everything was great and detailed... ME doesnt look have alot of details but yet i cant run it on better graphics... i dont complain about graphics, its great, but technically it requires even more system than Crysis and thats insane for worse graphics ( worse compared to Crysis )... I was playing it on high but it forced me to play it on medium ( game crashed few times )and medium quality's shadows, blur is not good... compared to Crysis, its crap and yet i played Crysis on the same system with amazingly beautiful graphics ( even it was not ultra high )...

i think i should get Crysis Warhead because Crysis was amazingly beautiful in everyway... especially that new gameplay elements for fps was genius and so much fun. even though i dont care about graphics much, Crysis can change anyone's mind with its environment and details...

and plus note has spoiler about Uncharted so read it if you wont blame me;

aliens are not welcomed in damn adventure games... I beat Uncharted recently and i was enjoying ALOT. its great game, really good AI makes the game so much fun ( i like how one of them tries to get your attention and others tries to sneak ), has amazing environments second to Crysis and nice character. but when i started chapter 16 i was like WTH!! WHY WHY WHYYY?!?! so yea from chapter 16 to 20 i didnt have fun thanks to these alien kinda freaks... i didnt enjoy one bit... they were dumb too... running to you directly or attacking you once then running away ( well if they would hit you twice you would die anyway :lol: )...and they were ugly... I wish they wouldnt include those things so my enjoyment wouldnt be divided... still its "must have" game for any PS3 owner, amazingly good...

wohoo ranting ranting ranting... but Crysis and Uncharted were great games especially compared to all new games made me feel disappointed in this gen... Mass Effect is just another disappointment but i'm open to any ideas about how should i play it... i think i'll start as Vanguard since i'm not far from the beginning... but the game is BORING... damn...

Bravo for your ridiculous staff and their management...

I dont care this notification/suspension stuff since i was suspended for the first time but today i noticed i have a message and when i checked it, it was about "Subject: Terms of Use Violation - Point Loss!". I dont care about point loss or anything but what i'm pissed off is ;

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if it would have 360 version, they would review 360 version at that time but...

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that is my message and it says;

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so yea its offending for anyone who does his job BUT not for gamespot staff in my opinion because here is a simple proof;

while that game is released on almost all platforms they only reviewed 360 version... i dont need to argue about their bias among platforms its just undeniable fact anyway, but this simple example helps my message to be NOT trolling. also they left many ps2 games without reviews even they put those games on mainpage ( ps2 mainpage ) themselves... i dont care about their late reviews, because obviously they lost all credibility among game developers/publishers so they cant get the games before release like all other sites... i liked gamespot before, i thought their reviews scores were close to my tastes/thoughts but obviously its not the same anymore and new gamespot is big failure compared to previous one...

i think i may be banned if any mod sees this blog but i dont know, i dont care.

Hurray!! Tekken 6 is on 360 ( ofcourse not happy! )

Though MGS4 pushed PS3 from back alot to make it continue in the race, Sony still didnt learn the importance of exclusives and idioticly lost their another Big Exclusive Tekken...

Let me remember what was lost... Ridge Racer, Ace Combat, Devil May Cry, Grand Theft Auto ( timed exclusive ), Final Fantasy XIII ( actually PS3 lost SquareEnix, so many RPGs ), Virtua Fighter and now Tekken... and PS3 gets 360 exclusives only after 1 year if its lucky... so PS3 is now officially second rate console...

Though i dont care from my point of view, because i wont get 360 anyway and i'm happy with what i get ( MGS4 is alone enough but Uncharted, Motorstorm 2, Little Big Planet, White Knight Story, Valkyrie Chronicles are my happy games :P ), but from greater view Sony is obviously losing and with the last month's sales, they start to lose even in Japan, thats really big problem.

I believe Little Big Planet will help, because this game will be really huge, but still it seems it doesnt have enough impact to be huge on sales, i see many people says "its not my style" even they accept its goodness. If Killzone 2 turns out to be flop too, PS3 will be buriedafter its death...

So lets pray for PS3 now, it was good console, it has the best game ever MGS4 but still it wasnt enough to stay alive... Rest in Peace now...

and with current generation JRPG is dead, yay we should thank m$ and sony for that, mostly sony...

i know JRPGs are not true RPGs because there is nothing you do freely in these games as role playing but still many people enjoy them because of their fancy characters, presenting even cheesy stories in amazing ways, really good musics and fun gameplays. however, if you dont give them to right people, ofcourse they wont be appreciated just like current generation...

JRPGs appear on 360, FPS games appear on PS3. my biggest whining is, Sony idiots believed crappy Halo hype so much and forgot their own 2 generation consoles' crushing victory with action and rpgs... and started to try making something rival to halo hype... they chose to make resistance, haze, killzone (2), etc. and all of them turned out to be crap or just good games and none of them reached "WOW ITS GREAT" status... ofcourse while they are focusing on fps games they abandoned one of their main genre, jrpgs...

people bought 360 for more fps games and bought ps3 for more jrpgs mainly... 360 owners had 2 fps at the beginning and they thought they are getting what were they looking for but it stopped but ps3 owners didnt get single noteworthy rpg...

this generation presents fps to jrpg lovers and jrpg to fps lovers and noone is happy or is appreciated... we saw some jrpgs but none of them were truly great and even good ones were not talked, discussed much... blue dragon = flop, lost odyssey = bigger flop ( or just good for some ), eternal sonata = good but forgotten after 2nd week, infinite discovery = noone even talks about this garbage, tales of vesperia = only good rpg in this genre and yet noone even talks about it...

people who appreciate jrpgs in 360 community is minority... and the thing is 360 community is more graphic-oriented people... if you remember the last generation, ps2 owners were the happy side because even though xbox and gc were superior technically, ps2 owners didnt care about graphics much, they were appreciating their games but ofcourse that doesnt mean they were enjoying bad games and with their support they had the best games one after another...ofcourse ps1 history was a factor too...

now ps3 bends to graphical superiority without gameplay... and with 2 graphical junks, players cant get their fun games... while wii crushes both of them without any graphical feature... i wish they could sacrificeabit graphical features for more fun games... or at least they would try for both, just like MGS4...

in this generation, i played Assassin's Creed... what a boring game...i thought i was dying to play it and i really liked it at first, i played first 3 same missions but since they were different cities i continued enjoying different environments, smooth moves... but with 4th mission's start i realized nothing will change anymore... i'm ok with same main mission, because we are playing an assassin so our job is to assassinate but WTH with mini-missions before main missions... all of them are the same and you have to do them to be able to complete main mission... i didnt beat the game yet... oh also story is totally MGS2 story's one focus with further analysis... its good but used in wasted potential...

i played Devil May Cry 4... wow the game looks great and on PC screenshots i saw more enemies than ever... seriosuly i expected some action but after playing first 3 lvls with totally 10 enemies in big maps... i realized this game is empty... also it somehow didnt even try to suck me in, a DMC fan... where is DMC3 where is DMC4... full vs empty...

i played Call of Duty 4... yeaa really nice game, it starts good, it continues good and it ends good but damn it ends after 5th mission ?? so i realized single player is just there to fool me...i played its multiplayer once and i thought its nice but playing single player made me realize this game is nothing close to even 8.5... if it was a mod, like CS, i would accept that its mp only but its a game like half-life but there is no single player... i really feel like i'm fooled...

i played Oblivion... wow the amazing world to explore ? not really its not that big as you first thought but still good. so okay lets play it ? oh no thanks, after escaping the dungeon the game ends there... one of the most boring game i've played... but okay i'll give its reward, its good game for anyone has strong will...

after playing these boring, disappointing games i met Metal Gear Solid 4 and it was like finding a traesure... anyway, you know what i think of these games...

so this generation is full of low quality multiplatforms and wrong kind of games for wrong players...

i definitely believe, if those jrpgs would be on PS3 they would be more appreciated. even they would be mediocre, just good games. because its like hunger, if you feed a hungry person, he will love whatever you give him and there is no need for him to think its the best or the worst, he will just love it and enjoy it...

oh also SquareEnix's fall is big factor too...but anyway, lets pray for our dead jrpg genre... if you have a Phoenix Down, use it, maybe it will be resurrected ?

and yesterday i managed to play my PS3 with my big old junk sdtv... since the last saturday i have a PS3 and MGS4 but couldnt play it after i tested it at shop...tough luck you say, yea but at last i managed to solve it and now its ticking.

PSP's XMB ( CrossMediaBar ) is here as well and with so many more options. it looks cool as usual but damn, it looks more than a console. the first thing i wanted to try was Star Wars the Force Unleashed demo because i already installed MGS4 at shop... but it needed updated and i did it. i'm amazed that it found my network without asking any question ( i had trouble with ps2 before ) and i created an account... but damn sony for making all countries differently and when i found out i was not in any region that can use PSN store i was pissed and made another account with Sparda user :lol: so my PSN ID is LegendaryDarkKnight from SpardaTheLegendaryDarkKnight. and at last i started to download SW: tFU and with neat feature "continue on background" i was downloading it and was using my PS3... but ofcourse this is a feature with firmware updates because while i was searching i found this article. it seems PS3 was really terrible at first but now it works great and i'm glad.

and the time has come... for Metal Gear Solid 4. I put my disc into my PS3 and it started ( i told you i installed it at shop ) so with new game option i started with Solid Normal this time... i was shocked that my tv was showing PS3 graphics very nice so now i even think to not buy a hdtv, i'm undecided, but there is definite point of this story, MGS4 graphics are amazing...the game started and i was like a newb' "what the hell are these controls ?".. after playing all MGS games, i was in shock, i never felt like this. i was scared, seriously... but thanksfully it was because of i was playing prologue...after i did nothing Snake himself ( got tired of me it seems, he is really impatient, only 1 minute passed while i was trying controls )crawled under a truck and another video started and after few steps another video and that was the real deal...

after the video ended now i had the full controls, but still i was scared because it was still different...i played some, helped militia, killed some pmcs for getting used to controls...i played till i met and passed Drebin. after i thought how will i sell weapons i find, i saw it was automatically done and i said "now thats genius" because i didnt want something like RE4, a shop that follows me. it may be unrealistic but seriously i dont care in this kind of situations...

then i closed the game because it was late for me... but i noticed something, i learned what is Epic... its Metal Gear Solid 4... i mean wow the game is really different and amazing. after playing dull and disappointing current gen games like Assassin's Creed, Devil May Cry 4, Call of Duty 4( well, i didnt start multiplayer yet, just once butthat doesnt count , so SP was so short and thats disappointing) or Oblivion , Metal Gear Solid 4 was amazing to feel and definitely EPIC with its cinematics...i dont care about graphics much, i can play even pixelated games ( i play assassin's creed on DX9 (winxp) with "multishaders 1" option ) i dont mind as long as game is good ( well i liked AC at first, till i noticed every single quest ( yes even miniquests) is the same... but MGS4 graphics are great, even on sdtv and that camera usage is even better than before...

now i understand...Metal Gear Solid 4 is the definition of "Epic", i played little but it showed its quality enough. GOTY ? not enough for this game...

And today's topic from our forums is... Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic III.

Today I read alot of KotOR related discussions, some blogs, some topics. Actually the first one,ali_kerem's blog, slapped me in the face and made me think to write this blog, then while I was checking forums I saw KotOR3 related topics and then another blog ( long live random tracking... ) and mangaminx's blog... What hit me in ali_kerem's blog was KotOR2's negative parts. And now I'll come from that and start talking about KotOR2 and maybe KotOR3.

KotOR was really great game, it made me Star Wars fan. It was so detailed in dialogues and story, it truly made you felt it and your choices in those dialogues were affecting your character ( dark/light side ) and the result in the end, also those twists were so great. When I beat the game, I felt great, especially the dark side end. Then I played KotOR2 ( surprising ? ), it was again very detailed in dialogues and now we had something greater that is affected by these dialogues. You could affect your allies too, to teach them to become Jedi. When I noticed this first in the game ( I dont watch trailers nor I knew that game at its time anyway ), I was amazed and tried to make all my allies Jedi...and I did, it was great game, until... you find all Jedi Masters and regroup. I went to Jedi Enclave and then... I was shocked, I was like "Whats happening here ?", except Master Vrook other Masters were talking to you totally opposite of what they said earlier and then movie comes in. I was again "What happened all of a sudded ? " the game went out of control and I found myself opposing a Sith Lord. Ookay, so I beat that sith and I see a video that I leave and the ship explodes. While I was watching it and thinking, now what will happen I see myself I'm on a totally new planet. What ?!? What happened ? How did I end up here ?!? What happend to my crew ??...After my shock, I continued playing, after my efforts to make everyone Jedi, I was all alone in the last planet... Anyway, then I beat the game and another disappointed person... seriously its the Worst Ending any game can have. Beat the last guy and you'll see credits, yes thats all...

Obviously with this rushed game KotOR2 was just a cash-in for Lucas Arts and advertisement for Obsidian ( their first two games are both Bioware games' sequels KotOR2 and Neverwinter Nights 2 ). I even found this text on the net "Due to the rush to production, many cutscenes - including this one - were cut". KotOR2 was really big disappointment after KotOR and now we have KotOR3 news, as MMORPG...

Before World of Warcraft, MMORPG genre existed ofcourse, Ultima was great success at its time and there were alot of free MMORPGs but nothing became this succesful. WoW showed the world MMORPG market better and it can make good money. Of course with WoW success some companies were drooling. People started to be bored with WoW, now companies should act to catch these fugitives. And one of them had an evil thought... people loved KotOR and even KotOR2 was rushed it was succesful enough and people were waiting for news about KotOR3... there is a succesful name, hungry fans, so all we need is a shepherd for these sheeps. If we make KotOR3 as MMORPG money will flow, lets do it... Yes, probably these were thoughts before production. And we at last heard these news, KotOR3 will be MMORPG, some of us felt disappointment, others were just wanting to see it to be sure...so the wait starts...

I'm not saying KotOR3 will be bad, I hope it becomes good because Star Wars universe is very convenient to be MMORPG. Huge galaxy, many planets, traveling among them, dog fights with space ships, duels with lightsabers ( Jedi Academy showed me how fun is that ), two sides ( dark/light ), many force powers, many races etc., but the idea behind it is not good. Just like KotOR2, this is a cash-in for developers. I wouldn't mind if it turns out to be great but I'm worried... Anyway, I hope it becomes great so we can enjoy Star Wars universe as bigger than ever.

May the Force be with You!

Well yea you all heard yesterday's news, Final Fantasy XIII will be on 360 and even at the same time as PS3...

i wanted PS3 to be better because for 2 generations they were the best and they served so well that satisfied us more than we expected... so I want this to be continued with PS3 but late release, almost all games were multiplatform and weak exclusives till MGS4... people were waiting MGS4's release and MGS4 had big impact on PS3 sales and the game was great too... now people started to wait for FFXIII on PS3 but yesterday SE announced they break their promise and FFXIII will be on 360 too...

i dont care m$ side, they try to do everything they can, its business but if you give hope and promise someone to help, you should better not break it... they gave hope to PS3 but it seems it was for crushing it because yesterday's announcement was definitely the biggest and worst hit for PS3, backstabbing ? it went through heart...

recently, SE was releasing all crappy games, so many spin-offs instead of new, innovative games and you all heard their "if anyone tries to do something new, he/she will be fired" but that was because of their weak spin-offs.. they thought if they make a game with FF game it will sell anyway and started to mass production till they realize they are losing repuation and money...

i think SE even deserves bankruptcy now... they left their best era so long ago... look at PS1 games without FF names, Xenogears, Vagrant Story, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve, etc. they are all still favorites of many people and they are all different and were new in their time. now all SE does is producing games based on FF name with old ideas...

now to make up this loss, to stop bankruptcy, they accepted the cash from m$ to not risk with sales on PS3... they didnt believe the essential FF numbers' fans. well yea if you are in debt its usual to search for money but if there is a promise you made, there is no reason to break it...

well i'm terribly disappointed with FFXIII news and now i dont even care about this game, it will be just another average multiplatform game because now instead of improving the game, they will spend their time for 360 port.

again m$ tries hard to get rpg audience but 360 audience is FPS gamers mostly, i dont know this will work but it wont work on Japan anyway and PS3 is bigger on Europe too so again it will be for American players which choose fps and multiplayer over rpg and single player...

m$ can try anything, like i care, it wont be appealing for me... their greatest games are on PC or will be on PC but this is big loss for PS3... loss for SE in their repuation and fans...

oh yea of course there is another big reason for this, Sony is cheap... so they deserved it too...

yea some of you say "like SE cares about what you say" but still there are people think like me... I dont respect Square Enix anymore...

well i'm sorry for not replying my previous blog but i was suspended next day... the reason is unknown to me... and i dont care anymore...

my guess is i used "report abuse" about someone who wrote ignorant and rude words for gamespot community, us, and they found it unnecessary disturbance ? or another illogical guess is... i used "report abuse" option for 3 times in a day and i was automatically suspended because they dont even check why i'm using it, valid reports or not, automatic suspension for overused report abuse option... so if there are 10 offensive posts in different forums, topics, you can only report 2 of them ?... well thats illogical reason of course but other than these i cant think of any reason for myself to be suspended...

so i spent 7 days without gs and i think this made me think of leaving... now i met the new staff with a suspension which i cant understand the reason and i'm not happy to meet them... i saw some new mods and always thought how those became mods, even with their simple comments i saw their incapability but it seems there is no quality requirement to be mod here anymore... this is not for all new members ofcourse and not even about the person who almost banned me but i agree with others that complain about new staff...

i was using gs for checking blogs so we can share our thoughts, emotions through our messages... but i think recently some friends here cant login much too... yea i login here while at work too so it was nice to spend some time but i think without gs, time still flows...

i'm sorry to not join your blogs to share my thoughts, though i still participated in those quizzes as you noticed with TLK name, but without expressing your feelings, thoughts i find that reading blogs is not that much fun... yea now i regained my ability to comment anywhere but now i dont feel like it... thank you gs staff, you killed another user...

well, i thank you all who accepted me through their blogs because even though some people dont like random trackers, i found all of you with this method... well its the only way for someone new anyway. i enjoyed here alot, it was fun but i always knew it would end someday... though i didnt expect it to be this soon...

anyway, for a time, i dont feel like to be active but maybe i'll be active again... maybe after one week, i'll even forget about it ? i dont hold grudge much but when i do, it never ends... this is not something like that so, for now its just weirdness... yea weird...

yea yesterday was the first half-final match Germany vs Turkey and it ended 3-2 with Germany's win. I know I was like a Germany fan before and wrote everywhere they would win the cup but I'm sided with JUSTICE more. Yesterday's match was ruined with terrible referee and in the end he helped Germany to win obviously. Turkey completely deserved that match but against referee they couldnt do anything.

The referee stopped at least 3 attacks of Turkey and all of them were just infront of the lineman. It all began with referee didnt give Germany's penalty and then Germans gave amazing pressure to the referee so he turned out to be a German. In front of lineman Germans pulled a Turk and the referee gave foul to Germany after Turkey lost the ball. it was not even funny, it was totally devastating.

Germany had only 3 shots that was reached to goal, and 2 outs, so Turkey's goalkeeper, Rustu was beyond terrible and ate all 3 shots... Turkey had 10 shots, 6 of them to goal, 2 goals, 4 saves from Germany goalie Lehmann. Germany players were obviously controlled the referee and it was pathetic that Ballack, a world star, was acting like that. Seriously, I definitely have no respect for him anymore...

I was talking to a friend from Polland after match and that person said the referee was Bribed. I didnt want to believe that at first but when you think of it. To not show the obvious he didnt give Germany's penalty but that was the only wrong for Germany... He didnt give Turkey's penalty, he cut Turkey's 3 attacks and gave totally free free-kicks... Germans were like talking to referee and falling to ground and referee was giving foul immediately... it was just like a theater play, all planned...

though i still dont want to believe the referee was bribed, the referee were terrible and ate all Turks' efforts and gave the match to Germans...

i hate when my enjoyment is ruined... well yea Turkey - Croatia referee was terrible too because we all saw the EXACT positions and he gave yellow cards to Turks and didnt even whistle for foul to Croatia... but still he couldnt stop Turkey's winning so noone talked about the referee. But Turkey had 9 losses with yellow cards and injuries, they came with substitutes to this match and they almost beat Germany with substitutes. Germany definitely didnt deserve to win, even FIFA president Blatter said Turkey deserved that match...

yesterday was ruined with the referee so i hope tonight we'll see a better game. Russia, who beat Netherlands that crushed the last World Cup champion 3-0 and humiliated France 4-1 and Spain that kicked Italy out from the tournament. Statistically Russia wins because they beat the tournament's best team Netherlands, they are young and fierce. Spain, they try hard, thats good thing, just like Turkey so you cant never know who will win this match. The winner will face Germany in the final...

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I played Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes yesterday ( I couldnt see the first goal of Turkey actually >.> ) and its really just like jaykho213 said, DMC in Dynasty Warriors. Its colors are less and better and looks graphically better than Dynasty Warriors just because of that. even its japanese its easier to understand than SRW@3, I beat the first level with ( ah i heard his name in the game but forgot now... ) the first character of the first option...the game is nice but, triangle button doesnt continue your combo like DW, it has 2 different attacks that can be changed with L1. After doing your combo ( 3-4 hits ) when you press triangle its over... that is something i didnt like in the game... circle button is just like DW, rage move. your rage meter fills and you do it.

another dislike is japanese language just because i cant understand it >.>

there are many conversations while playing and ofcourse historical references so to not understand these makes me sad. I like Dynasty Warriors because its based on history, its not just a game. its historical revival of real events. ofcourse the gameplay is not realistic and there are some exaggerated events, but still its based on real events and this make like the game even its just stress reliever game and same for Samurai Warriors. DW is based on China history, SW is Japan. in DW5 i was really disappointed because in DW4 i liked its character + weapon lvl ups. it was like abit rpg with hack&slash style.

I dont know SB2H gameplay completely yet but its just like its name, based on Heroes more than events. Colors are good and graphics look good but it seems capcom were lazy to not add mouth movements while talking for characters. it looks terrible for that graphics and compared to DW series...

i hope i'll enjoy this game more, if you like DW style historical stress reliever hack&slash games and if you dont mind japanese, this game looks good.