I have noticed that many seems to love rome total war the most in the series. Having played total war from rome I would say it is the worst. Rome vanilla has so many problems, listing some of the most important. .Bad BAD AI. .Romans the only faction with depth. .Ahistorical as fuck (Egyptians need to say more). It might not be a bad game for its time but its not nearly as good as the modern ones. If you don't believe that there is people who says its the ''BEST GAME EVAR'' then go down to twcenter.
Agreed. It has bad AI, utterly terrible textures, historically inaccurate units and such, outdated gameplay mechanics, Gamespy is shit and I think the only reason that there's people playing it still is because the majority of people tend to have very average PC's that can only handle that particular Total War game.
Because it has actual provinces, and not the shit Empire has? Seriously, let's cover the Americas and India in provinces, because that's where everyone will be playing! Napoleon was pretty boring, as you could play, what, five countries? Woop-tee. Rome had fucking elephants. Fucking. Elephants. Now, I haven't played Medieval 2, nor Shogun 2, but those seem to be the best. I found Empire and Napoleon very lacking, and while they're fun to play for a while, there's hardly any replayability as all factions are just about the same, and you end up conquering the entire world anyway. The only thing you really pick is the colour of your line infantry, with the occasional unique unit.
They should definately go and play Medieval II. Hell, i'm sure Empire is within the reach of most by now.
One of my favourite things about Rome was the variety of the different units of the factions. It was fun to bring you roman legions up against chariots in the deserts of the East, or to be a barbarian faction trying to break a hoplite phalanx. For me that was the bast aspect of the game, something which Empire and Napoleon, due simply to their time period, lack. I do prefer both Empire and Napoleon to Rome, but it is fun to play now and again. And of course..
But it had guns and cannons that made them useless, In my opinion medieval 2 is the best the rest are crap, although i never played NTW or shogun.
Personally I simply like that period and find the atmosphere nice. I also find the battles in Rome Total War much more fun than the battles in Empire Total War. Rome Total War also had a nicer map than Empire, which consisted of a couple of provinces in Europe, a shit ton in the India and America, and a province for France.
I loved romes single player but the multiplayer was a joke, Half the factions were crap compared to the others, I mean seriously, Why would you play a barbarian faction if the only way you could even possibly win a straight up fight was in a forest or snowy enviroment ?, When you could pick a faction like rome and spam op units like urbans and praetorians which practically ate any other unit up, Then ya had seleucids which was like WHAT THE FUCK ? they have cataphracts which are insanely good, Sliver shields which beat alot of phalanx units one on one and basically every other unit under the sun , Alot of people usually go * Well you got to get better tactics * Trolololololo you don't need to be a mastermind if your unit's are obviously better then your opponents as long as he doesn't do somthing insanely stupid he,ll win it's just common sense, not to mention all the noobs, Lol no Art guys ! * picks greek city states spam's spartans and noob squares up on a hill * Yeah real fun. /end my rant.
Nobody likes the campaign. That is why there are mods that make it so much better. If you ever tried Europa Barbarorum, you would fall in love with the campaign. What people really like about is the multiplayer, and the fact that CA won't make another total war set in classical times.
I actually find the Rome campaign awesome. Historically, it's terrible, but then again, that seems to be the case for just about any Total War game. I haven't tried any mods yet, though, mainly because they take half a fucking year to download.
I highly recommend you try out Europa Barbarorum. It is as realistic as you could possibly get, and gets historical accuracy down pat. There are literally thousands of units, and they even go as far as making specific units for independent factions. (like syracusan hoplites and massilian hoplites). It doesnt take that long to download and the install is fairly easy.
I'll probably check it out later on, it looks interesting enough, and I've heard a lot of good things about it. Does it fix the strange Steam R:TW bug that has been showing up recently?
What? I don't know, but the video I posted directs you where to go to get directions on how to get it to work with steam.
Well I have played much Europa Barbarorum but this thread is discussing vanilla Rome. You're point is invalid.
Well, I'll see about the bug later. It's kinda annoying, really, I can't start up Rome without killing the Steam process (because shutting it down normally is apparently impossible or something), deleting some file and restarting it.
Well that's...odd. You see, that is one of the reasons many people still love Rome Total War. The mods.
This. I don't really play the Total War games for history, I immerse myself in the setting with little regard to realism. I don't play Rome as a simulation. I play Rome because I want to have fun. What divides Rome lovers from haters is that Rome is the most arcadey. It's the most historically inaccurate, it has the wackiest units and mechanics. It's why I love Rome. It's a game, and I play it as a game. To date, Rome is the game that progressed further from its predecessor than any other by a mile. Obviously if you play Napoleon or Shogun II first, then Rome can hardly compare. Those games are meant to be progressions and improvements on Rome, and six or seven years worth of improvement at that. But when Rome came along no game was anything like it and nothing could compare to it. Its amount of content was unprecedented, it was complex and it absolutely holds up pretty well even today, if you just want to have fun and can look past its flaws and weaknesses compared to a game seven years later.
