>Remember when this was coming out
>The hype was extremely huge
>Finally releases
>People go from excitement to anger
What even happened?
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>Remember when this was coming out. >The hype was extremely huge. >Finally releases
I built a Phenom II 955 Black edition quad core computer with 8 homiebytes of dual channel ram power and a radeon HD6770 1 GB to play the game.
>what if it isnt good you spent so much money - asked my brother
>it will be good, imagine its like Rome Total war but they get to use 4 processors and so much more MB of ram and the new gpus, it will be amazing
Then it came out like a big sticky turd that leaves you so shitted up you cannot wipe it all and when you shower the water stinks up and you stink of shit even after showering/.
Feels like yesterday I was participating in the hype, full steam ahead, things were looking good, the one game was coming out, and it was going to be glorious.
most fun I had in a total war game to date
I'm still playing it, with DEI mod it really holds up as the best one
Then everyone forgot and CA went and did the same thing with TWW3
we knew the tww3 basegame would be lame in fairness, the basegame team are fricking morons , it took a year and a half for the dlc team to fix warhammer 2 into being one of the most liked total war games.
Now we can sweat though, the dlc team are putting out more complex and high quality dlcs sure but..Jesus fricking christ they really went overboard on the cost and development time, 6 months or so between major patches just isnt going to keep people interested
Riddled with bugs at release which took them ages to fix. But what they didn't realize was that the game had deep-rooted issues past the bugs at launch.
the triremes just sailing through the land in city battles was hilarious. what a pile of shit, frick CA
I think they still do that a decade later
BROTHER
CA had some serious technical drain between Shogun 2 and Rome 2 going off analytical breakdowns of the game. There was established mechanics missing like elevation in combat affecting things for example. And whomever on the design team forgot that legibility/readability on the campaign map was important. No one should have been surprised at AI being dumb, that is expected, but people were simply not prepared for the level of bugs and overall poor performance and bad design decisions.
>elevation in combat affecting things for example
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this.
It was buggy as shit making it unplayable for many, and even after the worst of the bugs were patched there is still the other problem which is its somehow even more barebones than Rome 1 despite a bigger map and more factions to play with
>want to split up your army to deal with a smaller force, well to bad since you can no longer due that since we saw one autist abuse a bug a game ago
>also your army must always have a general
>also general no longer give rousing speeches based off the situation
>also ai is now even dumber and fights are less dynamic but at least they are "cinematic"
>also due to new province system your city goes from many options that you have to priortize which building to make first to you just get a few slots, most of which you need to dedicate to food, public order, and a defense building since you can no longer make your own garrisions
>also on map details are even fewer now because why not lol
I can only imagine what's going to happen when Medieval 3 is finally announced.
>also general no longer give rousing speeches based off the situation
I'm still angry CA dumbed down generals so much. You'd think insane speeches and traits would fit perfectly for their Warhammer games and instead they just keeping removing features.
dont forget female generals.
>>also due to new province system your city goes from many options that you have to priortize which building to make first to you just get a few slots, most of which you need to dedicate to food, public order, and a defense building since you can no longer make your own garrisions
This was honestly the worst offender for me, it made campaigns such a bore to play. The province system with limited build slots prevented you from doing anything interesting with your cities. You essentially just had to pick the same few buildings over and over again or people would riot/starve.
Ironically, they managed to place the province system right in the unfun valley. Despite being deeper than the old system, it is not deep or exciting enough that you want to play around with it, and it is not simple enough that you can make a mental flowchart that you followed religiously like in the old games. You spend more time managing your cities, but that time is not fun.
its honestly amazing how a system that on paper would make you think more about which buildings you want just ends up creating the most generic easily followable path imaginable, granted the only one building being constructed was also a pain but with everything being available it added more depth especially if they were frontier cities, do you rush the better walls, the better military units, maybe invest in the local economy since you might take a break from conquest, ect, they should have further modified the build system they have combined the Rome/Med2 system with the one in empire/shogun two were you can build majority of buildings in your cities, but there are various towns you can specialize in along with adding more to how each region has its own specialities that can benefit you giving your more choice, maybe even have certain buildings that can give you tech only available if you conquer that area and hold it allowing knowledge to spread
it was inferior in nearly every aspect to the original and launched in an unplayably buggy state.
hows the MOD scene for the game? I remember in total war 1 I got to larp as the Dacians from this massive rework. good times
pretty cool IRL that roman troops started using those gladiator hand wrap things in this war because these curvy bad ass sword were causing people problems
Was the Thalx/Falk fricking up the Legionary's grip on their sword/shield, so the hand wraps?
it was also very good at boinking their helmets aswell apparently
that's a joke, not even a ballists bolt could fully pierce a 2nd century roman shield
dude.... anything with enough inertia behind it could pierce a roman shield, especially a ballista.
I hate CA so much it's unreal. They make their games unsatisfying on purpose.
Lots of reasons already stated in this thread, but one they forgot was false marketing. Especially anything surrounding the battle of Carthage.