Why wouldn't it? It's Warscape again just building on what they have with Rome 2. If they showed a very early looking game, I'd have been hugely surprised.
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Why wouldn't it? It's Warscape again just building on what they have with Rome 2. If they showed a very early looking game, I'd have been hugely surprised.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
youll get me back when you put out a warhammer or other fantasy based TW game
It may not be what you wanted still, but I think you have a minority opinion view at this point. Tastes vary, but the general view is that the game now is much improved.
Wiktor
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I'm not sure if fantasy TW would be a good idea. I would like CA to make a game like this, but calling it Total War wouldn't feel right.
Jibbajabbawockky
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You might want to start a new campaign too. I noticed that some of the changes with AI and stuff didn't really work with some of my campaigns I had going from around launch but when I started a new campaign, the game played a little differently.
Last month? The Emperor Edition was released only 9 days ago. It's the single biggest update since release and what's people are referring to when they say the game is fixed.
http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_15
Obviously it's not perfect yet and never will be just like the previous Total War games but it can finally be considered good. It only took them a year but it's finally what it should have been at release. I hope the they continue to update it despite Attila.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
dosnt have to have the TW branding on it but as long as it plays similar to TW that would be great
Rawket Lawnchair
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Rome 2 is great, I just passed the 100 hour mark with the game this week, finished a campaign as Baktria and started a new one with Rome and tons of mods. Glorious.
Warhammer Fantasy sure looks different nowadays
isn't that like the Golden Horde in Medieval
isn't that like the Golden Horde in Medieval
Unbound By Death
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lukeskymac
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Thanks for the links; I opened it again and was scratching my head at "Emperor Edition". I'll begin a new campaign after I finish my Athenian one.
So far, I won't judge the campaign itself as the patch notes make clear that a lot of the most important changes aren't available in old saves, and I haven't fought a battle yet as I'm at that point the campaign where you just steamroll/autoresolve everything, but I'm pretty disappointed that the campaign map still has horrible performance. It just doesn't look good enough on any setting to justify its miserable framerate on an overclocked GTX 780. It constantly going below 30fps while actual battles mostly stay above 60fps is something I'll never understand.
Reading anything having to do with Rome 2 is tiring as you have to wade through all the drive-by one-liners of "hope it's better than the garbage that was Rome 2, amirite?".
OK, yes, it wasn't CA's best release, but the damn thing still got a 76 metacritic. X: Rebirth it was not.
I feel a little bit like I am the "Leave Total War alone!" brigade, but I don't like the idea of one of the very few somewhat AAA strategy games getting so pilloried when the gameplay it offers is fairly unique even among strategy games, much less games as a whole, and the devs have done a bunch to make up for the launch issues.
OK, yes, it wasn't CA's best release, but the damn thing still got a 76 metacritic. X: Rebirth it was not.
I feel a little bit like I am the "Leave Total War alone!" brigade, but I don't like the idea of one of the very few somewhat AAA strategy games getting so pilloried when the gameplay it offers is fairly unique even among strategy games, much less games as a whole, and the devs have done a bunch to make up for the launch issues.
There's plenty legitimate criticisms to make about Total War games, R2 in general but it's like people are ignorant of the fact it has been patched consistently throughout the year into something that doesn't resemble the admittedly hot mess that it was at launch.
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Was hoping for Medieval 3. Never had much interest for this part of history, but I'm sure some people will be happy that they are doing something new.
I would LOVE a Warhammer 40k total war game.
Canis lupus
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But it's AtiLLa 
Finally we get a game about the Hun/Turkic steppe warriors!
edit: they still focus on Rome? meh
Finally we get a game about the Hun/Turkic steppe warriors!
edit: they still focus on Rome? meh
Anton Sugar
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GOD THIS
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Lame... they removed the basic Rome II from the store and aren't discounting the Emperor Edition. Of course all of the DLC is discounted if you had already purchase the game.
Also, you can currently get every Total War game, including Emperor Edition, for 4 cents more than just Rome II: Emperor Edition.
Apparently the majority of fans only care about Rome anyway.But it's AtiLLa
Finally we get a game about the Hun/Turkic steppe warriors!
edit: they still focus on Rome? meh
The only thing is you don't get the DLC/expansions for those games in the master collection. Something like Med2 Kingdoms feels like really essential (most mods are based off that) and most of the DLCs for the later games are pretty fun to use as well.
Technically Emperor Edition = Rome 2, just patched up to the most recent, since they gave the Second Triumvirate Civil War campaign for free anyway. Little confused why it didn't get at least a token 50/66% off though.
exmachina64
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Your time will come.
Turin Turambar
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They got the rights of the Fantasy version, no the 40K one.
Damn it. Well, I'll still take that.
I don't understand posts like this. You know, when they inevitably do release a Warhammer game, you have the option of not buying it.
I'll have to agree to disagree about the state of Rome 2 at launch. I don't think it was nearly as bad as people are saying. X: Rebirth was a hot mess at release. Rome 2 was rough, un-optimized, and a little buggy, but ultimately a very serviceable game (I put in about 50 hours in the launch week with maybe 2 crashes). I think a little bit of the reaction from people is because it was worse than other Total War's and I think a certain kind of person is less forgiving of niche title/genre issues just because they're niche.
But yes, I do not think Total War or CA is beyond reproach - just that there is a limit to how much reproach they appropriately need to get. All these drive by trashings of the game after it's become so much better (even after CA had already gotten so much of the money already) are just counterproductive at this point as they tell CA that it isn't worth it to fix a broken game.
There's just a lot of baggage involved with making a Rome sequel, which is why everyone got so pissy about it despite it being pretty decent like 8 or 9 patches in. Granted I didn't really jump back in until like 13 or 14 anyway, but at launch it really didn't capture me as much as I was expecting.
People already up in arms about Attila which is hilarious, and hoping they can basically mod Rome 2 back into Attila because they 'hate this time period'.
People already up in arms about Attila which is hilarious, and hoping they can basically mod Rome 2 back into Attila because they 'hate this time period'.
thequickandthedead
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Managed to play this at the booth, only for the free t-shirt though.
s_mirage
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Because I don't want a Warhammer game in the Total War series, simple. The Total War series has always been based on periods of history and I want that to stay that way.
A Warhammer game in its own right, that is not part of a series, is better for everyone. It keeps the Total War series reality based, avoiding the risk of diluting the fanbase, and enables a Warhammer game to be its own thing without being tied down by expectations of having to play exactly like a Total War game.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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So Rome: Barbarian Invasion 2?
I quite enjoyed the first one, mind you.
I quite enjoyed the first one, mind you.
-tetsuo-
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You still have the option to not buy it. And it isn't better for everyone, considering myself in people in numerous threads on numerous forums have been asking for Total Warhammer. The two IPs are basically perfect for one another.
FlowersisBritish
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This looks cool, but I really wish they'd do a fantasy game or something weird.
Really all I want is Total War Westeros.
Conflict NZ
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Thank god it's not Warhammer, I can't stand that franchise and I would've had to avoid Total War until the next release in ~2 years.
s_mirage
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There's nothing stopping them making a Total War like game (except interference from Games Workshop), it just seems to me that they'd have far more freedom from expectations, and it would be less divisive (I know I'm not the only Total War fan who feels like this) by making the Warhammer game separate from the Total War series.
Chance Hale
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Need to get back to Rome II, good to hear it's finally been fixed. Launch was a disaster, and the broken combat wasn't helped by the braindead diplomacy.
Nice to read that they brought the family tree back for Attila. Rome II just had some weird omissions all around.
Nice to read that they brought the family tree back for Attila. Rome II just had some weird omissions all around.