Rome II: Thoughts from Late Roman Players, please!

**wulfgar610** · December 12, 2013, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Diocle

Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm!!!!! Great actor!
His Devil was pretty nice, almost a good person! You think, but .... but ... the devil is a nice person and also intelligent!

... the Swedish .... strange people!

Instead I've found really disturbing the actress, impersonating Gabriel the angel, Tilda Swinton! Nice woman but absolutely cold, I've never seen a face so cold, .... she is so cold that she becomes expressive!
Interesting woman! British military family of ancient traditions: Her grandfather invented the tank!

She was Communist and in the same classroom with lady D! Interesting woman ....

I hear she has some good Turkish delight.

I see you're looking for an English mistress...............with spanking?

**Diocle** · December 13, 2013, 07:52 AM

double f...... post! Sorry!

**Diocle** · December 13, 2013, 07:53 AM

She so deliciously perverted ..... and so British!

... interesting woman! Anyway on her mouth the Turkish delights are absolutely disturbing! So, No thanks I don't like the mistress, I prefer more sweet, soft and Romanic women ....

The story written by the Tolkien's friend, is nice but the Universe of Narnia is not so good as The Lord of the Rings. Even if, after many years, I prefer the Silmarillion, in which there is more epicness.

**GeorgiBG** · January 02, 2014, 04:41 AM

Well, I will never look at R2TW (at least with this laptop) but I have a little update on my status: After patch 8 and CIG expansion FINALLY the game loads in campaign mode! I will close my eyes for the corrupted backgrounds, buttons, graphics and the AMAZING lagg which I have on lowest settings...

So what I learned from R2TW:
1. 8 patches were needed for a "stable" game. At least 8 more are needed for enjoyable and responsible game.
2. Never listen to pre-release promises from CA like "it will work well on integrated graphics cards" and "it will have the same specs as S2TW".
3. "We have 40% bigger budget for this game" - really? Or you mean 40% less?
4. In modern games the graphics are amazing, the gameplay is

ed!
5. When new technologies arrives the AI is getting more stupid.
6. More GB's means more bugs.

7. STW, MTW, RTW ARE THE BEST!!!

PS: I have a personal prediction that R2TW will have 10 patches in total and MAYBE one last expansion after that. Better remember my words... I think that CA realised that R2TW is disaster FINALLY...

**BroskiDerpman** · January 02, 2014, 08:49 AM

Here's the plan;

Milk what's left,

run away.

~Yours sincerely, CA.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

**Diocle** · January 02, 2014, 09:30 AM

Sorry Broski, I need to do what I'm doing ....

The issues of RTW2 are there because RTW2 is a game constructed for multiplayer, so all the features we abitually love in the TW games are all gone, I mean that more than an incomplete game, RTW2 is a diffrent game compared to the previous titles, the point for CA is bringing the serie in the Universe of PSP or XBox or whatever else console crap, so who cares about campaign map, who cares about AI, who cares about quality, they needed a good basis to start their new console life so, like Dr. Frankenstein, they had to transform the body of an old RTS game into a new body suited for console gaming, and as for Frankenstein the job result has been so so ...
.... anyway, and this is the point, now they can say: 'Job done, mission accomplished ... we are ready to start a new life in the crap univeres of Console gaming!' what can I say? ...Complimets!

The sad part of the story is that to do this job they used the Roman History ..... and here I begin to feel the anger mounting in my head, .... being a squadrist anger and a murderous one, I can only post this video taken from an interesting movie produced by the Italian TV, about the last terrible and desperate days of the Fascism in Milan in 1945 .... to give you a vague perception of my anger!

I deeply hate those who spit on the Roman History (1:28) ... and those who succeed in transforming me, an old Socialist, into a damn Fascist bastard (1:35) ...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**BroskiDerpman** · January 02, 2014, 10:08 AM

Funny thing is that multiplayer is the most barren part in Rome 2; it's barebones, an afterthought from CA. Heck Rome 1 is more complete, at least that had an global lobby plus dedicated servers.

CA will never make good MP imo, they don't have the capability to do so as they essentially never try to fix up their mess. Now somebody has to mod the game to create semi balance.

Until there is dedicated servers MP will always be a joke which is only fun to play with friends. Even then I doubt CA will ever make good MP, TW arena sounds like a joke; who would play that junk instead of DoTA or StarCraft.

Console isn't MP, it's more of streamlining the game itself to better suit console controls. MP on consoles would be a joke in trying to control your units let alone press all those pointless ability buttons. When TW ends up on console I'd be long gone playing something else better or rather design my own game the way I wanted to.

TW is a Turn based plus Real time tactics, not RTS.

I have a link somewhere in this thread on a former CA dev who quit right before Empire who now designs his own games, nobody probably read it but it shows his point of view on design and it got buried under pictures of women; it conflicts a lot with CA's modern inexperienced staff's view on design choices. (Check their meta critic profiles, many of the staff who designed Rome 2 are supposedly inexperienced)

**Diocle** · January 02, 2014, 11:11 AM

...Even then I doubt CA will ever make good MP, TW arena sounds like a joke;

Indeed, but ... this is the furture, ... at least, this is the future they have chosen.

**BroskiDerpman** · January 02, 2014, 11:40 AM

:'( Rest in peace Total War.

**Diocle** · January 02, 2014, 02:46 PM

Well, Broski, maybe I'm too pessimistic ...

**Emperor Caesar** · January 03, 2014, 12:57 AM

I will say that I'm having trouble with keeping myself immersed in the late game for Rome 2. I still need RO so I can play Late Empire.

**Diocle** · January 03, 2014, 05:23 AM

Originally Posted by Emperor Caesar

I will say that I'm having trouble with keeping myself immersed in the late game for Rome 2. I still need RO so I can play Late Empire.

May I ask why? I mean, what happens in the late game?

**Emperor Caesar** · January 04, 2014, 03:02 AM

There aren't many powerful factions left to challenge you in the later game.

**Diocle** · January 04, 2014, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by Emperor Caesar

There aren't many powerful factions left to challenge you in the later game.

If you think, Emperor, that their old beautiful game named Medieval Total War, had three Campaigns to play, from Early to Late Middle Age ....

I mean that CA had solved the issue of the 'boring late game', more than ten years ago, but then .... they deleted this wonderful feature (as a lot of other intelligent stuff) from their games, so the Late Campaigns in the TW Serie are ALWAYS boring, ALWAYS! Form RTW, to Med2, from ETW to Napoleon and Shogun2, the late Campaigns are boring! It's a classic!

**GeorgiBG** · January 05, 2014, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by Diocle

If you think, Emperor, that their old beautiful game named Medieval Total War, had three Campaigns to play, from Early to Late Middle Age ....

I mean that CA had solved the issue of the 'boring late game', more than ten years ago, but then .... they deleted this wonderful feature (as a lot of other intelligent stuff) from their games, so the Late Campaigns in the TW Serie are ALWAYS boring, ALWAYS! Form RTW, to Med2, from ETW to Napoleon and Shogun2, the late Campaigns are boring! It's a classic!

I don't believe that the latest camapign years specially in RTW are boring. Many times (when I play as the red Romans in vanilla game) my "blue" and "green" friends are making me serious headaches. But if you are not friend with the republic (if you are Carthage for example) you can destroy them early and after that the game is fairly easy.

Of course this is just my opinion.

**Diocle** · January 05, 2014, 02:38 PM

The reds the blues and the greens ... what memories Georgi! What memories!

Anyway I hated the greens, with all those f..... machines .....

**BroskiDerpman** · January 10, 2014, 03:59 PM

Yeah, ironically the Romans were way more aggressive in vanilla RTW.

Still waiting for CA to give back the pre RoTS menu screen for shogun 2 with it's music.

**Diocle** · January 11, 2014, 08:12 AM

You can believe me or not but I never played against the Romans in RTW! I played the Seleucids but I stopped when I reached the Romans, then one time I played the Germanic tribes but, I fought against the Valerii (the green) and we all know that the Valerii cannot be considered Romans!