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Total War: Rome 2 |OT| I Came, I Saw, I Came
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Bruce Campbell87
Banned
I'm really excited after I wrote the RPS review. I suggest you to read that review, I think will have the most GIANT Total War ever made.
The water makes me wet
Everything about this game make me wet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tToPo66BX8
This has to be a joke? That is the dumbest AI i've seen since Empire, an entire army chases down 1 unit of camel archers? Really? Hype deflating
That looks terrible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tToPo66BX8
This has to be a joke? That is the dumbest AI i've seen since Empire, an entire army chases down 1 unit of camel archers? Really? Hype deflating
Obviously an anomaly otherwise we would've seen it before, even in controlled environment. I honestly cannot be bothered by this because I very much doubt this will be the case with more than a few units that'll more than likely be patched out.
It's either that or no blood at all as far as I know. It's to keep the T rating.
Right, but they don't have to charge for it. Release the game blood-free for the T rating (and to make it easier to release in territories which don't allow blood) and give away the DLC for free in countries where it's allowed.
Chance Hale
Member
The water makes me wet
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I don't know why but I always try to shy away from the waters in pretty much every strategy game for as long as I can. The increase in multitasking probably frightens me
And I hope the blood dlc comes quickly this time around, really added a lot to the physicality of battles in Shogun II. I want to crucify barbicans damn it!
Well, not that extreme but some nice stains and decapitation animations are nice
At least it added a bunch of animations, too. The real shameless stuff was the saints and heroes DLC.
Looks amazing. I'm just hoping it doesn't have the same problem Shogun 2 has: when selecting a lot of units at once my framerate plummets. I don't have to be close to them, but when I select all my units (has to be a lot, not just two or three) my FPS can go from like 100+ to <30. Did anybody else have that?
honeymustardn
Member
It's a historical battle which implies there's a level of scripting in it.
I guess I'm skipping this one. The lack of decent AI which leads to very repetitive battles is a really big turn off. It doesn't help that it doesn't seem to run very well on very good hardware. I was really looking forward to more army customization but that seems to be rather simplistic. Naval battles are still as boring as ever.
What a shame, I was really looking forward to it.
What a shame, I was really looking forward to it.
Cameron122
Member
Sethosssssss you're back
Sounds like the AI is pretty poor, which I expected anyways. Hopefully patches can alleviate it a bit, but it will probably be up to modders.
Another complaint seems to be the complexity in comparison to Shogun 2, which was a simpler Total War game in comparison to Empire.
Otherwise, I'm liking what I'm reading.
Another complaint seems to be the complexity in comparison to Shogun 2, which was a simpler Total War game in comparison to Empire.
Otherwise, I'm liking what I'm reading.
PeskyToaster
Member
It irks me sometimes about how inconsistent reviews are on when they take off points and when they don't but oh well. I think I just get mad about the reviews because I don't want them to scare away other people from one of my favorite series. That said, I am super excited to start playing and unite the world under my banner...or under the boots of my armies.
Enosh
Member
christ, an almost full army takes up 1/3rd of the screen with the unit cards, who the hell thought that was a good idea...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tToPo66BX8
This has to be a joke? That is the dumbest AI i've seen since Empire, an entire army chases down 1 unit of camel archers? Really? Hype deflating
bonesmccoy
Banned
I've yet to see something in the 'good, not great' reviews that seems like an actual departure from what CA usually offers up in its TW games. Which makes me wonder if the previous 2 installments (Shogun 2 and Napoleon) might have been getting the benefit of the doubt, whereas Rome 2 is not.
edit: Thinking specifically here of the AI complaints. Napoleon's AI was remarkably easy to goad into making suicidal attacks.
edit: Thinking specifically here of the AI complaints. Napoleon's AI was remarkably easy to goad into making suicidal attacks.
The CPU would shit all over itself.
If you are serious: there is about 0,1% chance. TW games are meant to be played with keyboard and mouse.
The only RTS (So I hear) that works even remotely proper on consoles is Battle For Middle Earth 2
I can't imagine it'd be fun playing TW with a controller.
What about GPU Compute?? :-(
Mind you would would probably feel the need to gimp it like that abomination, Civilization Revolutions.
PS4 has a track pad remember? Surely there is a way...
I'm converting my Mac for this so I'm not that bothered but it's a ball ache. Would be great to just play it on PS4.
BurntToast
Neo Member
That's the wrong question. The real question is why would you want it to?
I too have a 955 but I remain optimistic.. I hope my 7870 picks up his slack! Maybe I will need to give my 955 some OC juice to make things better tho
I can't imagine what sort of compromises would have to be made for this to work with a controller, even if it has a trackpad. Besides, their audience is on PC and that's what they should prioritize.
exmachina64
Banned
Phenom II x4 955 BE? That's what I have, and an AMD 7870. I can run shogun 2 fall of the samurai at a pretty good fps at max settings (sans AA). Any word on how well Rome 2 will run?
Total War with a gamepad? impossible
Exactly the same, but my 955 is untouched so far.
No word, but I am expecting to be underwhelmed at first, and satisfied with a patch at some time in the future. I am willing to compromise some unit detail and shadow quality for smooth gameplay and smooth image quality and some nice effects.
In my favor is the fact that I game on a 1680x1050 , monitor. Overall I have my fingers crossed, we'll know soon enough!
Pretty slim I'd say.. with a game with so much hype, I guess they wouldn't want the urge to play to be quenched by a demo, and they would be looking for that impulse buy, imo. A demo would probably hurt their sales at this point.
I'm sure it will get better over time, but still that is not too bad. Apparently there is a setting above ultra, "extreme" though. I guess the extra sauce above Shogun 2 is mostly there.
There is a pre-load
Its been up for almost a week.
Hm, maybe there'll be one in a few months but around that time I'll probably buy the game anyway.
Well most of the major bugs should be fixed by then.
Edit: Been watching volound's playthrough of Shogun 2 all day ... Like no joke, it's been like close to atleast 9 hours :S
I think I might actually enjoy watching someone play rather than actually playing
Hargenx
Member
Oh god how I miss that, now I feel like a fool...LOL