DHGF: So the Dynasty Warriors series has essentially become a franchise that only reaches out to a select few people, largely because the franchise has been pushing the same general concepts and mechanics out to fans for the better part of its lifespan. The market doesn’t seem to like this, on the whole, and while one could make the argument that the franchise is essentially no worse off in concept than the Madden franchise, people like football over running around slaying hundreds of dudes, so we can see where this might break down a bit. Personally, I’m not a fan of the core games, and only the oddball releases like the Empires games or the games based on franchises other than, well, Dynasty Warriors, interest me. Dynasty Warriors Gundam is such a franchise, as while the games are essentially the same house with a new coat of paint, playing as giant robots who blow up other giant robots is more exciting than the alternative, even if I don’t follow the Gundam franchise in the least...
"Giant robotic suits piloted by the universe’s worst philosophers go head-to-head in furious space battles. Who will survive!?", writes Matt Jonas.
Pixels or Death's Joseph Rush writes, "We start this episode of After Dark with a big heaping dose of “Mike on Mic,” where Mike Potts dishes on his gripes with the Mass Effect 3 ending. Then, Mike and special guest Dylan dive head first into the dense minutiae of the Gundam universe, all while Joseph tries to sit back and make sense of it all. If there was ever anything you wanted to know about giant robots, this is your podcast."
OGPlanet Launches Gundam Video on Demand in North America. Fans and players of the popular SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online can access Gundam series from the OGPlanet site
Musou games change things up a helluva lot more than the average big franchises, from Call of Duty to Madden, etc., etc.
I'm tired of people playing one game for an hour and assuming that ALL of the others games were mostly identical to it, because "the videos kind of look the same."