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The Total War Series
Anyone picking this game up today? I've played the demo and it's pretty hot. It's been my dream to play a rank and file Napoleonic era game.
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Anyway, I have the game, it is very different from the other games in the series, as far as the grand strategy portion goes. In many ways it is a vast improvement - there are some great changes, such as no more moving diplomats around, diplomacy is instantaneous, just like Civ 4. In fact, the whole game feels very Civ 4-like. And you can pick your own generals now, rather than being forced to rely on the inbred cousin of the king to lead your army because he was the only guy around. So, you can think of it as Civ 4, set between 1700 and 1750 (I think... may be 1800), and you get to play out the land and sea battles in real time. I think I'm going to like it.
And a word of warning to potential Steam buyers - it's an over 10GB download. It tore my 40GB per month download cap a new arsehole.
While it may seem clunky, it's just the fact that you are trying to play it like Red Alert or Starcraft.
You people have a really low tolerance for shitty games. There are too many other things I could be doing. I'm not going to waste my time with something that is so incredibly flawed.
I do agree, however, that the interface for these games is poop. Some people are willing to wade through it to get at the good game, but I am not. Don't settle for mediocre when you can demand excellence. ^_~
The underlying ideas of these games are good, but they have the same issue that all of the old FPSs I love do: terrible interfaces, buggy play, and inaccessibility. I was only able to play Weapons Factory or MegaTF because I spend the time and energy to overcome the games' serious limitations. These games are no different.
With this game, some people have a problem with the controls, and some people don't. That's reflects poorly on the game compared to other games which almost nobody has any control problems with.
Perhaps if you were more specific about what makes the controls bad, I could perhaps see where you are coming from. In all the time I've put into it, I have yet to encounter any of the "men walking into tree"-like bugs you have mentioned.
I'll give the game one bonus point, though, it's not about who clicks the fastest. But then again, the game is really really slow! It's painfully slow. I spent most of the time just watching as my guys slowly picked off the enemies one at a time. I probably could have gotten the job done more quickly, but I was taking zero losses, and I was slowly wearing them down, so there was no reason to do anything.
If there is a game that is going to make the RTS not suck, this isn't it.
If what you are saying is true, then at best the game has a terrible tutorial. I have to assume that a game demo is representative of the actual full game experience. If it isn't, that's just tough shit. I don't have time to deal with it.
You're basically making the same argument for this game that people make for watching GaoGaiGar. Apparently the show is terrible, but in the later episodes it gets good! It's worth it to deal with all that bullshit to get the nugget of gold. Yeah, that would be true if I didn't have a treasure chest of easy to get gold right here.
Also, troops aren't intelligent, that's why they're troops.
Scott, you're being rather dumb. Stomping your feet because you can't deal with the tutorial. He's telling you to play the game. What you've done is comparable to hearing about and watching a preview trailer of GaoGaiGar.