Rome Total War II

[Cursed Platypus]

there you go

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[KoolNoodles]

Brilliant.

 

[DemonKing]

Ha Ha- less than 20 minutes of gameplay before writing his review - and most of that was probably configuring graphics options.

Gotta love the media.

 

[Kattze]

Every reviewer must have at least 10 hours or so of playtime before they have any right to any verdict.

 

[Space Satan]

Gaming jewrnalism at its finest.

 

[Spectacle]

Why on Earth are there achievements that include "no autoresolving"? Who thought it was a good idea to encourage players to not use a feature that speeds up pointless and one-sided battles?

 

[Trash]

Yeah, I feel that way too about Shogun 2. But I think it was Rome 1 who began the series popamoleness with its dumbshit AI, making finishing the game a simple matter of patience. No ?

Rome still moved the series forward into fresh territory with what amounts to a revolution of new gameplay features and core principles. Didn't always work out for the best but that game was ambitious.

 

[Spectacle]

Yeah, I feel that way too about Shogun 2. But I think it was Rome 1 who began the series popamoleness with its dumbshit AI, making finishing the game a simple matter of patience. No ?

Rome still moved the series forward into fresh territory with what amounts to a revolution of new gameplay features and core principles. Didn't always work out for the best but that game was ambitious.

If nothing else, the visual upgrade from going to 3D soldiers was immense. Battles in Shogun and Medieval looked like a blurry mess, while in Rome and beyond they actually look like armies clashing.

 

[aris]

1. can't wait to play this when I get home
2. Time to crush some italian whimps roman soldiers and cheese-eating surrender monkeys gauls with my mighty germanic tribe

 

[Disgruntled]

Unleash the dogs of war!

Somehow im still hyped despite all the shit. Probably cause this is my first pre-ordered/on release game in years.

 

[Storyfag]

there you go

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More game companies should do that

 

[Space Satan]

So, who actually checked loading times on SSD?

 

[Cyberarmy]

It is on!

And I'll be at work for 8 more hours -__-

 

[aris]

1. It's probably much faster, like pretty much everything on a SSD. Fortunately I have one

 

[titus]

So, who actually checked loading times on SSD?

The prologue loads in 17 seconds for me. Not too bad

 

[Space Satan]

So, who actually checked loading times on SSD?

The prologue loads in 17 seconds for me. Not too bad

And average battle?

 

[titus]

And average battle?

10

 

[Space Satan]

Shorter than Shogun 2 - I can live with that. And wht about time for every faction to make a move?

 

[Spectacle]

It is on!

And I'll be at work for 8 more hours -__-

I came to the office an hour early today, just so I could leave early too. 5 hours left, then ROMA STRONG!

 

[Raghar]

Kinda wonder how long would pirates take to crack it.

 

[titus]

Shorter than Shogun 2 - I can live with that. And wht about time for every faction to make a move?

Around 25 seconds for a turn in the main campaign.

 

[Steve]

Fucking steam didn't allow me to set the preload location, the game is probably on my HDD instead of gayming SSD.

 

[Spectacle]

Fucking steam didn't allow me to set the preload location, the game is probably on my HDD instead of gayming SSD.

That's why I didn't preload. Steam is most of the time fairly convenient to use, but the directory handling is fucking atrocious.

 

[Mortmal]

there you go

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More game companies should do that

Absolutely amazing, i knew mainstream reviewers were bad , but not that bad. Unbelievable only 31% of them played one hour minimum...

 

[Raghar]

there you go

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So baseline is 32. From that line we can say 2/3 of reviewers played more than 10 hours.
This is exactly why I review ONLY cracked, or freeware, games.


Also note these 2.9 who did spend significant efford could be theirs children or betatesters.