Rome II

[GDS_Starfury]

Spartan Hoplites for me :)

I once had 2 badly beat up Spartan units moving through Germany on their own trying to get to a repair town.  they got jumped by a full stack of barbarians including cavalry but no siege units.  I backed them into a corner and proceeded to watch them kill everything on the map.

[TheCommandTent]

Spartan Hoplites for me :)

I once had 2 badly beat up Spartan units moving through Germany on their own trying to get to a repair town.  they got jumped by a full stack of barbarians including cavalry but no siege units.  I backed them into a corner and proceeded to watch them kill everything on the map.

That would have been cool to see.  These are the kind of things that make me love playing games like this.

[Kushan]

Shogun 2 was the best of the series and with a Green Man voucher the price drops 25% to 45.00.

Not that I would use it, but whats this voucher you mention?

[undercovergeek]

Why would you not use it?

You go to gmg, buy the game and at checkout it asks for any voucher codes for a discount, enter code, get discount, hibernate til game is released

[Gusington]

Yeah what geek said. Green Man Gaming...try it out (Jack Torrance voice)

[undercovergeek]

"Creative Assembly have made a game with so many graphics, with such incredible fidelity and scale, that it puts every future-generation explosion and racing car to shame. And it's a STRATEGY game. Now, can be quite curmudgeonly about this sort of thing – a strategy game should wear a sturdy cloth map and very little else, but playing Rome, as it strutted around like a peacock, flexing its tailfeathers, I was inclined to applaud vigorously."

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/01/hands-on-total-war-rome-ii/

PRE-ORDER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Martok]

PRE-ORDER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

No. 


For all that CA may have partially redeemed themselves with Shogun 2, there's still no way I'm getting drawn into their hype machine again.  I let it happen twice (once with RTW, and again with Empire), and was badly burned both times.  No more. 

[undercovergeek]

lol - this was aimed specifically at you!!!  :P

read the words of wisdom

[TheCommandTent]

"Creative Assembly have made a game with so many graphics, with such incredible fidelity and scale, that it puts every future-generation explosion and racing car to shame. And it's a STRATEGY game. Now, can be quite curmudgeonly about this sort of thing – a strategy game should wear a sturdy cloth map and very little else, but playing Rome, as it strutted around like a peacock, flexing its tailfeathers, I was inclined to applaud vigorously."

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/01/hands-on-total-war-rome-ii/

PRE-ORDER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stop tempting me.......

[Martok]

lol - this was aimed specifically at you!!!  :P

read the words of wisdom

An admirable attempt 'geek, but you'll find I absolutely cannot be swayed in this case.  I've not been even remotely tempted to pre-order this one, no matter how appealing it appears to be.  :) 


The preview coverage for Rome 2 has been too similar to the preview coverage for the original Rome for my comfort.  Then, as now, the game has been receiving virtually nothing but loud praise, with everyone hailing this as the greatest thing since sex, fire, and the wheel combined.  Given my previous experience with RTW, this automatically makes me wary. 

Now in fairness, I suspect that this time the game really is worthy of the hype.  However, I'm still not pulling the trigger on it till well after release.  I'm happy to let you guys go first and be the guinea pigs.  ;) 

[Gusington]

Rome 2 is looking very different than the original in almost every way. Check out the hands on article that RPS published today: www.rockpapershotgun.com.

[undercovergeek]

Rome 2 is looking very different than the original in almost every way. Check out the hands on article that RPS published today: www.rockpapershotgun.com.

sigh, i mean, like 5 posts up Gus!!!

[FlickJax]

Rome 2 is looking very different than the original in almost every way. Check out the hands on article that RPS published today: www.rockpapershotgun.com.

sigh, i mean, like 5 posts up Gus!!!

LOL

[Gusington]

Sorry Geek. You're so undercover I didn't even notice. But one look at that hands on article and Martok will see that Rome I and Rome II can't be compared fairly. It's been almost 10 years between them, after all.

[undercovergeek]

as you can see ive tried - hes a stubborn, immovable rock - we could really fk him up and buy it for him!!