Rome 2: Opinions/Rating

[Tibe]

Did some screens aswell in Khorins example. I did(well, still kinda doing, but in a less motivated way now) the Athenian campaign.

Well now, took me a while, but I finally got here. Not because it was hard, but because I had other places to murder:

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A nice defensive position these lads have been at for maaaaany turns now. Althou Rome fell quite some time ago and they are very far from home now:

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Owned this place some time ago. Due to certain events I had to rush it and take craploads of towns in very few turns, eventually the entire area destabilized and went to complete hell, so I had to leave a huge chunk of it behind.

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I agree, this game is just pisspoor. Im playin in "hard" and I steamrolled over everyone, having very few bumps along the way. I played the other TW games in medium and got my arse so royally screwed I never even tried the higher difficulties. Its fucking hard difficulty and the AIs armies loosely still consist out of javelinthrowers and slingers with like 2-4 squads being acctually useful unittypes. Either I suddenly became a military genius or something is deeply wrong with the game.

[Overdriven]

Well playing an MP campaign where another player controls the AI army makes things way more interesting. The guy I'm playing with invaded gaul and via some interesting tactical play both armies got utterly decimated. He only won because the timer ran out and he was defending. He only had 2 slinger units left and I had spear nobles.

Makes invading things much more tactical and diplomatic rather than steam rolling. Atm that mp campaign is the only way I'm playing RTW atm.

[Fredom]

The game is making me sad at
All the damn time I wanna play PATCH -.-the moment...
PATCH PATCH PATCH PATCH PATCH PATCH

[Fips]

The game is making me sad at
All the damn time I wanna play PATCH -.-the moment...
PATCH PATCH PATCH PATCH PATCH PATCH

Oh no, they are trying to fix things, how horrible!

[Leesin]

As if it wasn't bad enough that they released a badly optimized, unbalanced and buggy game, they then have the nerve to try and fix it with patches, vile fucking scumbags.

[Tibe]

Oh no, they are trying to fix things, how horrible!

It is bad. They should have had the proper game in the release. Instead they tricked everybody into buying a fucking betaversion and decided to fufill their promises in a later date.

[Fips]

It is bad. They should have had the proper game in the release. Instead they tricked everybody into buying a fucking betaversion and decided to fufill their promises in a later date.

Woulda shoulda coulda, they fucked up pretty badly and made me never ever buy one of their games again and probably a whole lot of other players decided that, too and now they are at least trying to fix it.
Also, i don't think they are going to fulfill any promises, because that would mean they'd have to throw over a lot of their gameplay decisions they made. What they need to do is to offer Modders a good way to mod their game so they can do whatever the fuck they wanna do so we can get a nice Rome2:Total Realism or whatever mods there will be (Because there will)

[darmaster]

i have to say, best total war game for battles was empire total war imo; best one for campaign, probably medieval 2. i didn't enjoy at all shogun 2, this one is just a little better (with patches), but yes, i'm disappointed too.

[Nightmare798]

Oh no, they are trying to fix things, how horrible!

you know this gave me an idea for joke

how many patches does it take to make total war rome 2 playable?

it should have been playable upon release.

[Leesin]

you know this gave me an idea for joke

how many patches does it take to make total war rome 2 playable?

it should have been playable upon release.

How many dicks does it take to fill up Nightmares fartbox?

Infinity

[Lt_Anders]

What happened to the age of limited patches?

Things were so much better back in the day. Hell, the console market mentality has invaded the damn PC market. Hype it up, get pre-orders, and then post release patchs to fix everything.(Probably because we have corporations now, and had far fewer back then)

Last game, truly, that I will pre-order. I was hoping that something would be good, but I just can't handle it.

AI continously puts there men in Forced march stance, so I'm getting tons and tons of Ambush battles, which is even EASIER to do that regular battles. I like it more than the flag battles, but man, AI is beyond help. Never felt like i HAD to go beyond Normal to enjoy a game. I have to play on HARD just to get SOMETHING from the game...

[Tibe]

i have to say, best total war game for battles was empire total war imo; best one for campaign, probably medieval 2. i didn't enjoy at all shogun 2, this one is just a little better (with patches), but yes, i'm disappointed too.

Meh, never really felt attacked to Empire, nor Napoleonic. The one that I most deeply got engaged in was Medieval 2. Shogun 2 is what I would call a Total war average. I had average fun with it.

[Molly]

What I love about Medieval 2 and missed in every other TW that came after it, including and especially in Rome 2 considering how much more todays hardware could handle... Unit diversity!

Medieval 2 has so many cool units and you can actually differ them from each other on the battlefield... and you actually knew which building to build so you would get the units.
I still dunno how to get units out of buildings or just stumble across them by accident, so annoying. Why isn't there a proper tech tree somewhere?
Or is there actually one and I haven't found it yet?

Said it so many times before: Thank god I didn't pay full price for the pre-order or I would have been GTX mad...

[Christo]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/02/06/face-off-is-the-rts-genre-dying/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0

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[Overdriven]

i have to say, best total war game for battles was empire total war imo; best one for campaign, probably medieval 2. i didn't enjoy at all shogun 2, this one is just a little better (with patches), but yes, i'm disappointed too.

Did you not play empire on release? Half the battles ended up with the ai in a massive seething clump at the edge of the map. It's why I find it laughable when people say this is the worst release. Empire had a much much worse release in terms of quality.