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On July 20 2011 21:35 Laids wrote:
I'm not sure why anyone would want a Rome 2 when Europa Barbarorum 2 will be coming out on the medieval 2 engine :<

On February 19 2012 17:15 ELA wrote:
Has anyone heard any rumours about this yet? It's been almost 8 months since they annonced that they were developing a new game - I just broke 300 hours played on Empire: Total War - Excellent game, my favorite in the series along with Rome: Total War.

A Rome 2: Total War would be sick-sick...

On February 19 2012 18:49 RyN wrote:


This. I would pay whatever they asked for an updated Rome TW T_T

On February 19 2012 18:54 ELA wrote:


Aye, I tried getting into Shogun 2, but couldn't.. I don't know, the 'world', if you will, is just not that compelling to me.. Empire was the last good game they made, Napoleon was very disappointing as well

I think Rome is the best of the series, then medieval 2 followed by Shogun 2.

On February 19 2012 20:10 Lann555 wrote:
Series went to total shit after Rome. I think the first Medieval and Rome are by far the best in the series. M:TW 2 was decent, but it was buggy/slow compared to Rome and the AI seemed even dumber then before. Very moddable though so that saved it.

Empire/Napoleon were so bad and I feel cheated for spending money on them. Haven't tried Shogun 2 yet. The setting doesn't allow for that much unit variety (which is what made MTW1 and Rome so good).

Really a shame, since the series has so much potential. It could become epic again with a few changes

-Made it moddable again. Mods gave this game endless replayability, untill they made it nearly impossible to mod with Empire.
-Fix the damn AI. If a bunch of amateur modders can make an AI that is 10x better then the standard AI, they should look to hire some of those kids.

As far as time periods go, I think Bronze age would be awesome. Sumeria/Egypt/Persians in Ancient times would be so awesome. Otherwise another Rome would be great too as there is so much you can do with that setting

On February 20 2012 06:29 Attican wrote:

I agree with most of what you said, I definitely think Rome was the best of the series, especially due to the moddability of the game letting modders take a good game and making it amazing. Medieval 2 was also pretty good and also has some great mods, but it's not quite the same, mostly because the battles look like they're in slow motion sort of.

I bought Empire when it came out and I was bored to tears by it, the graphics requirements for that game made it nearly unplayable on my computer (though that's not the game's fault), the memory requirement was also huge, something like 22 GB I think.
And then there's the really confusing lack of settlements, I'm pretty sure France had one city and Spain had two, wtf?
Because of this I skipped Napoleon as I am certain I would have regretted buying it and I'm not really interested in the Shogun setting.

If they don't make Rome 2 or Medieval 3 while learning a lesson from what modders can create out of their games then I probably won't bother buying whatever they're making. Bronze Age could be interesting but I think it would be a bit too limited in its scope.

On February 20 2012 14:48 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Goddammit why would you bump this without having any new info on what it is =/

I've been waiting for this forever and got so excited when I saw it bumped lol

Definitely in the Hoping-for-Rome-2 camp though, Rome TW is one of my favorite games ever, so good they even made two TV shows about it (Time Commanders and Decisive Battles).

On February 20 2012 18:38 ManicMarine wrote:
I've loved Total War ever since Rome. I've played 100 hours of Empire but I'm still not sure if I really like it or not lol. Need to see Rome 2

Did anyone else find Shogun 2 really, REALLY boring? All the factions are pretty much identical, they all have the same units. The reason Rome was so good is that it's set in a time where there was a clash of not just armies, but army styles. The Europeans, the Romans, the Greeks, the Eastern Empires, they all had very different fighting styles. Playing as Greek based empires was entirely different from playing as the Parthians.

On February 21 2012 03:01 andrewlt wrote:
I must be the only who didn't really like Rome. Medieval 1 was the best in the series for me. I'm playing Shogun 2 right now and it's the most polished game so far. The biggest problem is that the setting doesn't really lend itself to having a variety of different play styles and units. That restricts the replayability of Shogun 2 as the biggest differences between factions are their starting positions.

The reason I disliked Rome is that it was the least faithful to its setting. The fact that I was in college taking Roman History as one of my last general education classes at the time the game was released didn't help things. Armies evaporated on a charge. There were too many joke units. Cavalry and missile units dominated the battlefield. Historically, this era was dominated by spear and sword infantry and the battles featured very low casualty rates compared to later time periods.

I'm not a big fan of mods. I think many of the people who enjoy Rome are playing some realism mod of some sort. Rome certainly had the most realism mods out of all games in the series.