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Site Questions & Governance: The Citadel Quarter => Archived boards May 2017 => Site Archive => Questions and Suggestions - The High Court => Total War Discussion - The Balcony => Topic started by: Jubal on June 01, 2010, 06:59:09 PM
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Which game did you play first?
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For me it was Shogun, and I absolutely loved it. One of the best TW games I have played, the only close competitor being RTW.
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MTW, my friend and I thought it was awesome until RTW came out. We still laugh about the fighting animations and eastern horns. :D
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Medieval was my first, and tbh it's still probably the most thought-provoking and challenging game of the series. The change to tile-maps made everything LOOK an awful lot better, but actually ended up decreasing the AI capability. The MTW AI on hard settings was the best thinker of the series.
Rome's a better game, don't get me wrong (and more moddable, yay!). But I do have a good nostalgia for Medieval TW.
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I have voted for Rome, because it was the first TW game on my computer... I've played Medieval on my friends computer a long time ago...
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The change to tile-maps made everything LOOK an awful lot better
I don't know, I quite liked the paper map style, felt more strategic and was more immersive IMO.
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rtw :ninja:
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RTW, although I wonder how I came to know this series. I was looking for a game that expanded the unit capacity (compared to the unit number limitations that AoE imposed). RTW just killed me when I got it.
I'd play the older ones for the supposed better AI, but I doubt they will run for Win7 64 bit :P. I also doubt I could stand seeing sprites fighting each other
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I also doubt I could stand seeing sprites fighting each other
Indeed.
I really enjoy the atmosphere of the campaign of Shogun, just as Mark said, but yeah the battles just don't do it for me so I autoresolve them.
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You guys are weird ... I love sprites...
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Med 2 I'm ashamed to say. Avid fan of RTW though. Best in the series.
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I still haven't played any of the games past Rome, just never appealed somehow.
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I've only played Rome. I don't even own it but my friend has lent it to me for the past couple of weeks. I'm now avoiding him so I don't have to give it back. :D
I'm gonna buy it and Medieval 2 when I get me some money. I would get, say, Empire but the age just doesn't really appeal to me. But a redo of Rome with better graphics and such would be excellent. And naval battles. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. B)
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Naval battles are the only thing I've ever felt I wanted to add to Rome, true. Better graphics maybe but mehhh.
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MTW2 is just perfect in my opinion...
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For x reason I still prefer the simple combat animations from RTW than the sliding figurines that teleported meters away to start their fighting animation that appeared in ETW, NTW and now S2TW... it just doesn't look right now.
I just got ETW and NTW on the Steam sale... best deal I ever made. Thanks goodness I had gotten RTW on steam too (I got the retail as well :P)
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The AI was never up to the standards of M1 though. The M1 AI could reallllllly give you a run for your money compared to later titles.
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Funny that they totally messed it up, although understandable, since they changed the whole engine.
On the side note, I finnaly found how to check the threads that I posted! Fell like a genius now :P
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or me it was Shogun, and I absolutely loved it.
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The AI was never up to the standards of M1 though. The M1 AI could reallllllly give you a run for your money compared to later titles.
Huh, weird.
I find MTW2 AI quite challenging.
On very hard settings it get's bat poop aggressive and packs a punch.
When I say that it packs a punch, it actually means that it attacks with 3 full armies every few turns.
Not to mention that keeping an existing alliance, or let alone making a new one is completely impossible.
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Hahaha! When I played TWM2 I never had allies. Within a few hundred turns I owned three quarters of Europe.
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Try playing Third Age TW at very hard settings.
Not that easy.
Just try finishing a short champaign within the time limit.
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Medieval I was the first i played too, as i was never really much interested in Shogun - all the armies in it were too similar. I remember having to reload a lot of battles in Medieval Total War - and sometimes just having to reload from an earlier campaign save because i couldn't win that battle.
Wish Rome II had anything like the atmosphere of medieval I or Rome I but sadly it doesn't - especially because of the mediocre music, lack of much sound of troops marching and fighting and poor animations.
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What? It really doesn't have marching sounds? I've been following the game quite closely (maybe even too much), but I never noticed that, or read anyone say that. Are you sure it's just not your case of a corrupt file or something?
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Medieval was my first TW. Never played Shogun.
I remember my Danish Campaign well. :)
I also loved the atmosphere surrounding the campaign map along with the music. Good times :)
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God, MTW forever!
That music was killing me!
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Medieval: Total War / Medieval: Total War: Viking Invasion Double Pack.