/v/ - Video Games

>>15869539

Pirate both. In my opinion, 4 is the better game. It's a little more polished and refined and has some nicer quality of life features. WotS3 is still a fun game, but it's got a lot of stuff locked behind janky busywork, like needing to spend time grinding money or endlessly cycling days doing practice duels with a specific character to make them like you before you go go back to actually playing the story just to get a specific ending which is slightly different, but painfully easy to fuck up.

Both PC ports are buggy as all fuck. Get the console versions if you can. That said, I'd recommend 4 first, then 3 if you really like the nitty gritty aspects of 4 (sword optimization, gaming the honor system, etc) and it's also more stable.

They are isolated stories with no connection to one another if that worries you.

>>15869595

>>15869550

Id recommend 3 before 4 because 3 is less polished. Imagine playing a good game then having to enjoy its less polished predecessor.

But also because 4 was too wacky for me.

Did those fucks at Ghostlight even fix the ports? I was unable to even run 4 despite exceeding the requirements.

>>15869653

4 added a config variable to remove bloom and that's it IIRC. I got it to run a couple months later after pirating it thanks to a driver update.

>>15869595

Guess I'll pirate it on PS3

>>15869624

I thought it would be one of those game series where if you come late to it it's better to get the newest and most polished one.

>>15869595

I find it a bit odd that 4 apparently had no physical in NA through XSEED, but in PAL got one at the hands of NISA, which I obviously don't trust since I have to assume they didn't just do distribution, PAL usually using more languages NA. Though, having a CFW PS3, pirating the NA one seems a valid option

It's been a series I've considered before, but haven't had much of a chance to ask: Is there good reason to play 1 or 2, or are the games generally "more of the same, but with refinements" (barring Samurai Western I suppose)?

>>15869539

As anons pointed out previously 4 is much more polished and has a lot of quality of life features that are lacking in 3. On the other hand the story is all around watcky and more cartoonish than 3's more realistic approach.

To keep it short, if you don't want to grind and google obscure mechanics as well as fight the shitty controls as much as your enemies, try 4.

If you want a more serious story and don't mind a myriad of bugs, CTD's and overall broken game design, play 3.

I would also recommend you download a ps2 emulator and get 1 and 2, those are bretty good also.

>>15869883

I remember the PSP versions of both actually got translated (mostly just dumping the PS2 English script into the PSP release), though I have no idea where to find them (or the ISO for that matter now that all the sites with Nipponese isos are dead). Playing those is likely better because you can now fast forward through cutscenes (and due to the replay focused nature of the game this helps a ton)

>>15869926

Psp felt more polished but if i remember correctly only the first one was fully translated not the 2nd.

>>15869926

https://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_2_ISOs/Way_of_the_Samurai_2_(Europe)_(En,Fr,De)/154840

literally right there.

>>15869944

Yeah, checking the page for WoTS 2 PSP here >>15869955 , progress is listed as follows as of 2014:

>Progress: 45%

>Menu : 80%

>Main Story : 75% (buggy)

>Warrior’s Challenge Mode : 1%

>Weapons : 100%

>Items : 45%

>Multiplayer : 95%

>Audio : Retained Japanese voices

they completely ruined the combat in 4 and i personally hate meiji period stuff. also the wackiness went over the top in 4 in my opinion. i think 3 is the best in the series despite the optional qte and harakiri mode is awesome

>>15869624

Playing the whole series in order will make you appreciate the improvements and changes, while also making you bemoan the loss of certain mechanics. If OP has the time, then I'd say get the ISOs for 1 & 2 on PS2 and play those, then play 3 and 4 in order. You can get a lot of mileage out of all the games while only putting about 10-20 hours into each one.

>>15869985

yeah seems about right i remember being irritated i had to go back to ps2 an finish the game.

>>15870056

Pretty much but he specified between 3 and 4. 2 and 3 were my favorites.

>>15869988

I didn't hate the Meiji era stuff it had the shapings of a great story. But the sisters, their fathers, and the pigmen had me questioning what the hell the developers were on. They were so cartoonishly evil they were a detriment to the game as a whole

>>15870103

Is there even that much content that would have to be newly translated anyhow? Couldn't they have started by ripping the script from the PS2 version, find which lines/scenes synced, and then work on translating the new stuff after establishing a base that could then be tested while they kept working? Or are the PS2 English scripts by Bam! shit enough to have warranted ground-up translation?

just looked up to see what the wots team is doing. turns out the studio was disbanded last year. sad!

I can't play either because of a goddamn 30 fps lock.

I remember enjoying WOTS2 back on ps2.

>>15870317

Sauce? I didn't even know Acquire was divided into internal teams.

3 PC is missing some add on stuff if I remember correctly.

Go with 4 if you want to fuck a loli.

>>15869595

>Both PC ports are buggy as all fuck

Yeah, I was on QA and the fact they even got the games to function is a fucking miracle, jap devs are truly the peak of retardation when it comes to code

>Get the console versions if you can

4 is mediocre to shit on PS3 (unplayable on Xbox) and 3 is downright disgustingly bad. The PC ports run at a locked 30 fps but the console versions struggle to hold 20, with 3 frequently going single-digits. There's also some bugs on PS3 that were fixed for the PC release (the vsync bug, broken weapon titles, etc.)

>>15869539

Both. 3 and 4 are both good games but have very different strengths. WotS3 has a bigger world and better combat but 4 has a better everything else with a ton of QoL improvements. Don't use a guide if you play them, the metric fuckload of secrets and such give the game a ton of replay value.

>>15871327

3 PC is just a port of the english PS3 release, so it's missing the Plus content from the JP-exclusive rerelease

>>15869662

I also bitched and moaned at them until they added the option to toggle the HDR and change the FoV in the ini file. Turning off HDR is a little buggy but makes the game look way better.

>>15870915

WOTS2 also runs at 30. 1 was the only one that actually ran at 60, though it rarely got that high on actual PS2 hardware.

I always thought it was weird that there was a nigger with an afro who wanted to fuck a japanese woman in the first one.