Dynasty Warriors legacy

What is considered the best of all DW games? Including the spinoffs? Just recently picked this one up and having a blast.. but it makes me wonder what Sup Forums thinks is the best of all of the ones currently released.. because there are many.

SW4 Empires.

Honestly every game after this never really felt as good. Although I do like some aspects of the Gundam series, mostly the combat and dash cancelling.

I like One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 the most because of the diverse movesets

Why is 8 praised so highly? I dont get it, you're forced to choose a different character every level instead of character specific campaign, I cant get into it because im constantly switching characters, I want to level one dude at a time and experience his story line

Samurai Warriors 2 or Dynasty Warriors 5

3XL is best with 4 close behind

Fight me

Anyone give that Warriors All-Stars a go?

They kept it like this since 7. It had a great campaign if not the best.

Dynasty Warriors 4

It really comes down to what you like.
Do you like challenges? DW3.
Do you like collecting increasingly powerful weapons? DW4.
Do you want to learn more about the characters in a musou mode personalized for each of them one by one? DW5.
Do you want to play a really shitty game they churned out because DW5 was too good and they had to take three steps backward? DW6.
Do you want to learn the history in a linear fashion from different perspectives? DW7.
Do you like Lu Bu a lot? DW8
Do you want to play another piece of shit churned out because DW8 was too good and they have to take three steps backward? DW9.

Not OP, but out of curiosity, what's your favorite?

Also, what about DW 2?

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I'm playing it right now. Characters that'd be a joke anywhere else are fun to watch if not play. Nobunyaga is my favourite for his cat rifle squads with both Deception characters coming in close behind for pulling traps out of nowhere.

The character interactions are great simply because they exist. Not all of them can be winners but watching Mitsunari spike volleyballs thrown by Sophie doesn't get old fast.

I'm playing this right now and I have a question. Why are horses so fucking slow?

I recently got it since it was super cheap. Forgettable as fuck story revolved around furries. It's a musou with Koei Tecmo characters. All they have is a story mode, but the game's map features levels with a different setup. I'm mostly going for unlocking characters and the forgettable story levels. You play as the leader with 4 other teammates, and they're all tethered to you so they don't focus on anything except what's in front of you. You can play as the other teammates as a temporary tag in or have them just use a special attack, which would both result in having to cool down. I find it odd as hell with William from Nioh, all his dialog is in English while everyone else speaks Japanese. He ends up talking to the other characters like how you have Han Solo talking to Greedo.

all horses except red hare and the black one aint Worth a damn.

LUBU KEKED BY DIACHAN

this is not fair. i love them both.

This is the absolute top, shame they based pc port on the ps3 version instead of the ps4

If by spinoffs you mean 'literally any musou game' Then its Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes, if you meant 'any musou omegaforce game' then its Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate.