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[ShadowDuff]

I have played every Dynasty Warrior game since they started making them and IMO they need to add the following:

1. Create a Custom Character! Should be in every game they make from now on.

2. Weapons and officers should be completely upgradeable. For instance, actually make killing soldiers worth something. So i kill 1000 soldiers and get 100 Weapon Points to put into like a skill tree or some upgrade system with some depth. Not just 10 "skills" like the character upgrade system that branches like a twig.

3. A battle should be more strategic to the point where you should be able to place your troops within a certain area on your side of the map. Also there should be strategy points, like the tiny bases that are pretty much useless, that if you take them over you get a bonus to strength, defense, or morale.

4. Make the levels more explorable and worth navigating by adding hidden equipment for officers. Therefore officers should be able to equipment different pieces of armor giving boosts to stats as well as looking awesome.

5. Conquest mode was awesome, but it would be even better if forces were actually fighting for control of the land, and whomever character you choose, you stay with them and you shape your own adventure. So you'll start off as a ronin, and can choose to try and lead a revolt to start your own force in a land or join a force as a soldier and get promoted based on your performance in battle. This way if you are defeated, its not game over, you may just take a cut in pay, or get demoted and keep going. Also since your getting paid have weapons, animals and items to buy.

6. Actually have a home and be able to build a family. Sounds kinda lame, but wouldn't it be cool to have a kid with one of the women like Diao Chan in game and have them grow up to fight beside you! Their stats and growth would be based on whomever the parents were and their stats.

Overall i'm sure there are plenty other things other gamers would enjoy being added but i think these would make it an even better experience.

[yan yan]

on ur 5th suggestion they have the empire games for that reason

[leedpart]

I think they should also add back bodyguards. it was good having them and levelling them up to be better equipped and better at fighting. also they should make it better online with custom battles where you join a team and fight the others and level up an online custom character up.

[Simikojiromisunari]

Yeah i enjoyed my bodyguards fighting lu bu on DW4

[3Kingdomz]

There are quite a few things they need improvements on so I'll break it into sections:
Modes- First off the modes are a bit whack in this game, koei has 2 real modes for you to choose from and tries to bribe you that gallery and encyclopedia are modes.  They removed free mode which is crazy considering in conquest mode the only battles you can play through are a bunch of randomly generated made up battles, and the couple of battles you can do with each faction aren't very detailed.  I'm not saying conquest mode is horrible but the easy solution to the many problems they are facing with criticism is to offer Story, Conquest and Free mode.  To fix this problem they tried to add on dlc from other dw games where you can download the levels from those games to play, but the updated versions featured in this game should automatically be available to play outside of story mode.  Koei deciding to stick more towards what historically happened in these times is a great idea, but it can leave some parts of the game dry, so they should incoporate some kind of other mode like "fantasy mode" where you play through shu,wei,wu or jins dynasty going off what battles might take place and what might of happened if they conquered the other dynastys (like DW4).  Another idea I've pondered for awhile and I can't understand why Koei hasn't thought of this yet is to have a mode where you can  choose a map to edit to make your own level.  It could have very basic mechanics like putting soldiers down, placing officers, a simple ambush trigger/siege tower appear etc.  This would add so much depth to this game and increase the replay value drastically.
Character Customization- I felt dw7 was a small step forward from what they screwed up in dw6 with character customization.  DW6 was super bland with so many characters having the same weapons and movesets but they chose to give back a couple officers weapons and make so many cloned movesets which is really annoying and repetitive.  I feel this game pretty much has enough playable characters at this point in their franchise and their main concern should be to customize and round out these characters.  They should all have a unique weapon or atleast final weapon, and if this can't be obtained koei could at the very least make their movesets different than the other officers sharing the same weapon as them.  To take full advantage of the weapon switching system they could even tweak a couple moves of how different officers use each weapon, I don't believe this would take a lot of effort.  Adding in some nonsense characters like guan suo almost direct clone of ling tong and Xiahou Ba with Guan ping seems pretty lazy and a waste of time to me.  I personally don't like the leveling up system in this game either, I enjoyed DW6 and the previous games because it took quite a bit of time to build up your character while in this one it seems really easy.  I kind of miss the items you could equip on your officer as they added some customization to them, ya I know they have certain skills they can learn but its definitely not the same.  The new horse/animal system seems pretty cool but it seems almost pointless since you can't even use them in the real battles you would have access to in free mode.   
Gameplay- I can't complain to much about the gameplay in this one as it is for the most part pretty good but there are somethings I would like to address.  In the bases some gates will not open for you making it very frustrating, and you can sometimes get locked inside them which is stupid, why wouldn't they have the slope/ladder you can use to get out in DW6.  I felt that the combat was dumbed down a bit from DW6, I actually thought that combat system was a bit better than the new one (not massively but a fair amount).  The musous don't seem as spectacular as they did in DW6 either.  I also miss the gate captains, I know the bases kind of take over their roll but I don't see why they couldn't have both in the game. 

This is all the issues I can possibly think of right now, I'm sure there's more but these are the main ones on my mind.  I'm not trying to hate on this game as I enjoy it a lot I just think koei hasn't really made big improvements to this game since I've started playing it back when DW2 came out....  If there was a way for a bunch of us to put our ideas together and submit it to them it would be great.  I've played this game for over 10 years now and would love to see it become the game that I've always thought it had the potential to be!

[zhou-gundam]

idk how long Koei can keep the DW series going , but if they do make a 8th title. I hope they add the Bodygaurds back, i miss those guys/gals .  add free mode back, i know conquest mode is 7 was kinda like free mode, but i kinda wanted to run thru a story mission with someone else. if your not going to add free mode can you let us choose the character for the stages kinda like DW4 . And last how about cross-platform play with the PSVita, i'm on the go most of the time and i would like to continue my DW gameplay on the go.

[Simikojiromisunari]

They should remake the old DW game for the xbox360/ps3, i would love to play DW4 again.

[emerl103]

characters: anyone alive after the battle of wu zhang plains in any force. they have to be born after year 200 or somethin. specific characters:lu kang and alot of young people but throw some veterans in too.. basically i want them to focus more on the later times