Shogun 2 Total War.

[baptistsan]

I think Shogun Total War was one of the first PC games I ever bought. Absolutely loved it and wasted hours of my life conquering Japan. Medieval War came along and I thoroughly enjoyed that too. Rome Total War was where it went all wrong for me. I just couldn't get to grips with the way you navigated around the map, it just wasn't as intuitive as the previous games. I shamefully have to admit, I gave up with it and have never touched any of the later Total War games.

But now Shogun 2 is nearly with us and I'm really excited about this game, sad I know. But my big fear is that it will play more like Rome than Shogun. I need to download the demo and have a play, but until then, has anyone else looked at the game?

[BigHeartedTone]

Installing.....


Anyone else got it today?

[chris watton]

I have it - but have become too addicted to World of Tanks to try it out yet!

[Daston]

Tried the demo and my PC stuggled to run it!

Intel Q6600
4gb Ram
260GTX

I need an upgrade me thinks. Although downloading it on steam 16gb!!!! Its going to take me days lol

[DJC]

Downloading it as we speak.

God I love Total War.

And how could the OP not deal with how you navigated round the maps on Rome? It was p1ss easy.


Good job my old laptop packed up last month and gave me the chance to buy the new monster i7, ATI Rad HD5650 1GB, 8Gb of RAM...oh yeah baby

[Mastodon2]

The first one was an amazing game, but I did not pursue the series after that, and gave up on PC gaming.

[MadMullah]

i play medieval 2 total war quite often

love that game

shogun was awesome - really fantastic!

gonna wait till its a bit cheaper till i shop for it

still feelin burnt by the crap that was civilisation 5.

wtf was going on there?!

[DJC]

I felt quite cheated by Civ IV

Basically CII = pure awesomeness.

[MadMullah]

iv still isnt too bad

i agree the best sequel was 2

5 is just kiddie pc stuff

[FourWheelDrift]

I have Rome, Medieval 2 and Napoleon and Rome still gets played more (just more than Napoleon). No interest in the original Shogun or this one but if they make a new Rome using their current game engine I will buy it.

[DJC]

I have them all aswell.

Have now played this all day its pretty good

[JagLover]

FourWheelDrift said:

I have Rome, Medieval 2 and Napoleon and Rome still gets played more (just more than Napoleon). No interest in the original Shogun or this one but if they make a new Rome using their current game engine I will buy it.

I haven't got Napolean yet (computer wouldn't be able to take it). But recently of them all i've played Rome:Barbarian Invasions far more than Medieval 2. Playing as the western empire is actually a genuine challenge, whereas all the factions in Mediaval 2 are of an equal difficulty rating (ie fairly easy even on the hardest level of difficulty).

[Ross1988]

I purchased this, as I'm a huge fan of the total war series. Not disappointed.

Wish the Japs had better boats though.

[chris watton]

I like it, although I wish it was Rome 2. And how the hell do you stop rebellions every other turn! As soon as you leave a small garrison in a city, a couple of turns later, no matter what I do - even lowering taxes, the city rebels!

[Ross1988]

Do you have enough food? Replaced religious buildings? Build a sake den or whatever there called.

Get a few ashigaru units as well.

[DJC]

Standard Total War tactics.

Decide if you are going scorched earth and loot and leave. Or occupying, so vassel or dont loot and concentrate on nailing down the city for a few turns. Then its military units, cultural/religious, civic and food production. Ive always loved that about TW, it takes the Tank Rush tactic out of the game as needing to convert cities strips your army, so you have to stop and plan, you cant just Blitzkreig your way through.

[DJC]

One question though and this is more Steam related.

Wtf is with this downloading everything? How do I just play my game without it deciding I need to download more crap from the steam servers each time they come up with something? Why dont I get a choice of "do I want to download now?". How do I just play this game offline without it needing to connect to the steam servers each time?

[chris watton]

DJC said:

One question though and this is more Steam related.

Wtf is with this downloading everything? How do I just play my game without it deciding I need to download more crap from the steam servers each time they come up with something? Why dont I get a choice of "do I want to download now?". How do I just play this game offline without it needing to connect to the steam servers each time?

I have tried changing this many times on my Steam client games, but for some reason it always reverts back to 'download automatically' very annoying!

[DJC]

How do you change that download setting?

[chris watton]

DJC said:

How do you change that download setting?

Right click on the game in your Steam library and click 'properties' A small screen comes up and click on 'Updates' - and the option is in there.