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Blackadar · 12-19-2014, 11:03 AM

I was tempted on Rome:TW2 and it's even on my wishlist but I decided not to buy it.

1. We've been playing essentially the same TW game for 10 years now. I'm not talking about just the fundamentals of the game. I'm talking about the game itself. Same game, prettier graphics, different setting for over a decade. There is nothing fundamentally different in Shogun than there was in the original Rome or Medieval. When it comes to strategy games, I think the TW series has shown the least innovation of any major series in the last 15 years.

2. I have had massive technical problems with the TW series for quite some time. Rome ran fine on my systems. So did Medieval and even Medieval II. But they broke something in Empire to the point that I couldn't even load the game for 3 months due to a bug they put into a patch. Napoleon wasn't as bad, but still crapped out on me from time to time. Shogun 2 ran poorly and has a tendency to crash at the worst time - exiting a battle - meaning that I lose HOURS of non-saveable game time (can't save in battle) repeatedly. This is with entirely different PCs. Shogun wasn't always like that, but again it started happening after one of their patches. There's nothing fun about replaying a battle 3 times because the game crashed twice exiting it after winning.

So after remembering all of that, yeah, well...no Total War. I'll wait for the EU IV sale, though I dislike buying those games because they tend to fuck up the base game every time they release some major piece of DLC (plus you end up paying about 3x over for the game because of the necessary DLC that fixes problems in the core game).

12-19-2014, 11:03 AM	#2437
Blackadar Retired Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fantasyland	I was tempted on Rome:TW2 and it's even on my wishlist but I decided not to buy it. 1. We've been playing essentially the same TW game for 10 years now. I'm not talking about just the fundamentals of the game. I'm talking about the game itself. Same game, prettier graphics, different setting for over a decade. There is nothing fundamentally different in Shogun than there was in the original Rome or Medieval. When it comes to strategy games, I think the TW series has shown the least innovation of any major series in the last 15 years. 2. I have had massive technical problems with the TW series for quite some time. Rome ran fine on my systems. So did Medieval and even Medieval II. But they broke something in Empire to the point that I couldn't even load the game for 3 months due to a bug they put into a patch. Napoleon wasn't as bad, but still crapped out on me from time to time. Shogun 2 ran poorly and has a tendency to crash at the worst time - exiting a battle - meaning that I lose HOURS of non-saveable game time (can't save in battle) repeatedly. This is with entirely different PCs. Shogun wasn't always like that, but again it started happening after one of their patches. There's nothing fun about replaying a battle 3 times because the game crashed twice exiting it after winning. So after remembering all of that, yeah, well...no Total War. I'll wait for the EU IV sale, though I dislike buying those games because they tend to fuck up the base game every time they release some major piece of DLC (plus you end up paying about 3x over for the game because of the necessary DLC that fixes problems in the core game).