| Ka-pi96 said: Although to be perfectly honest, for new officers I'd rather see some additions to the other category. Would love to see Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shu added. They add a bit to what's there already, but if DW9 continues from 8 in offering hypothetical scenarios too then both of those could really add a lot. What if Gongsun Zan had beat Yuan Shao rather than the other way round? What if Yuan Shu had been able to properly establish the Zhong kingdom as he tried to? Time to add a 5th kingdom don't you think? |
Yuan Shu is long overdue, that's for sure. They even increased his role in DW8, so now the need is greater than ever. Not sure about Gonsun Zan though. He sure has potential, but adding him would require considerable efforts due to his story being almost completely ignored so far, so I don't think it's going to happen. I'd like it to, though.
Personally I kind of think it might be better if the strict division into kingdoms was abolished from the games. There's a lot of characters that have history even before joining their 'kingdom', and the games mostly focus on the time before the kingdoms were actually a thing. It's strange seeing all the characters talk about kingdoms possibly as early as before the year 200, whereas Wei was officially founded as late as 213. I think getting rid of the strict division into kingdoms could benefit the series by emphasizing the somewhat chaotic nature of the era, and by making it clearer that the kingdoms came from factions forming around certain individuals (i.e. Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan) that were originally just warlords, just like a lot of other people.
I've also been thinking it could improve the narrative and quality of the story mode if there was just one grand story mode instead of one for every kingdom or character. I don't think it's going to happen though, since KT seems to be more interested in individual generals than the big picture. Having just a unified story mode would almost certainly make the characters feel more distant because it's hard to be on one side in one battle and on another side in the next one.
