Tony.Uk
TonyUK
How many of you have been playing ETW? How does the game compare to BTS and which do you prefer?
I absolutely hated Rome Total War. I figure I will probably not like the others either. Bummer, I quite liked the idea.
I actually picked up Rome: Total Realism (the mod for RTW) just recently again...hadn't played it for roughly a year according to the numbers next to my save game.
In all, the Total War series have the advantage of RTS battles, but I think the empire management is just clumsy and doens't have the depth as well as the epic scale of Civ. It's a trade-off, which one you are feeling at the moment. I've obviously chosen Civ4.
Pretty much hit the nail on the head there. RTR is great though, and buefifully done. I'd wager the modders spent 5 times the man hours with the art and balancing then the devs did. Though overall I think gamers don't realize that devs have corporate masters to answer to, so I don't fully blame them. It really is a shame the TW games hardcoded the AI in the .exe, because really after all is said and done, the horrible AI is the overarching flaw in the TW series, and if they just let modders play with it, they could end up with some good development in that (much like CIV did, in that they used a modder to program and their AI for BtS).I actually picked up Rome: Total Realism (the mod for RTW) just recently again...hadn't played it for roughly a year according to the numbers next to my save game.
In all, the Total War series have the advantage of RTS battles, but I think the empire management is just clumsy and doens't have the depth as well as the epic scale of Civ. It's a trade-off, which one you are feeling at the moment. I've obviously chosen Civ4.
The total war games are great. Though due to the terrible AI of them (we are so spoiled with BtS), and they triviality of the economic system, overall they end up feeling quite lacking. They are great to play for a couple moths, but they loose their replayability much faster then CIV does. At least that's been my experience from them.
Now my dream strategy game would be a CIV economic engine, combined with the combat engine of a TW game. That would be strategy crack.
Pretty much hit the nail on the head there. RTR is great though, and buefifully done. I'd wager the modders spent 5 times the man hours with the art and balancing then the devs did. Though overall I think gamers don't realize that devs have corporate masters to answer to, so I don't fully blame them. It really is a shame the TW games hardcoded the AI in the .exe, because really after all is said and done, the horrible AI is the overarching flaw in the TW series, and if they just let modders play with it, they could end up with some good development in that (much like CIV did, in that they used a modder to program and their AI for BtS).
I am thinking on getting ETW ( I love the TW series, but the awesome concept is completely broken in RTW and MTW II because of the horrible, horrible AI ( "oh I'm Russia and have a boat near a portuguese city, that is my ally. Let's blockade it and start a war...." Real game situation....... ), but it seems from your comments that they didn't adressed the core flaws of the series