Shogun 2 Total War.
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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?
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?
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).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.
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.
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?
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?
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!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?
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