Rome II

Gusington · July 09, 2014, 07:54:07 AM

Wow...that list does throw some perspective on Rome I vs. Rome 2, although some items mentioned, like seasons, have been added and other items, like culture specific HUDs, can be modded in. One feature I miss the most from Rome I is being able to walk around your cities during peacetime to see the improvements you've made over time.

All that said I still enjoy Rome 2 a lot and definitely think it gets an unnecessarily bad rap.

undercovergeek · July 09, 2014, 07:59:30 AM

wait til Warhammer comes out and the GW loonies start

JudgeDredd · July 09, 2014, 08:11:17 AM

I've played nothing but Rome II for the last few days!

I'm really enjoying it

mikeck · July 09, 2014, 08:35:07 AM

Shhhh....I made the mistake of saying the same thing at the "another site" and was attacked for it. So keep it in the low down..

Nefaro · July 09, 2014, 10:57:37 AM

Quote from: undercovergeek on July 09, 2014, 07:59:30 AM
wait til Warhammer comes out and the GW loonies start

I'm looking forward to the Warhammer Fantasy one.

If they don't half-ass it. Would it be surprising if they only released with half the major races and put the rest in DLC? ???

Sir Slash · July 09, 2014, 11:02:25 AM

I miss the city view too even if it took awhile to load. I tried to follow the people to see where they were going but they'd just disappear at the walls. I remember playing BI as the Huns and how hard it was to capture walled cities as you couldn't build siege equiptment and after you captured a city, it was a bitch to control public order without the tech to use the entertainment or sanitation buildings. The cultures played more differently than in Rome 2.

Gusington · July 09, 2014, 01:48:36 PM

I loved playing as the Huns. I think I won a Hun campaign too. Fear my horsey wrath!

Martok · July 09, 2014, 02:20:16 PM

The city view is the one and only feature from RTW that I truly miss. Otherwise, I find Rome II to be a vastly superior experience (especially in terms of AI and atmosphere/immersion), regardless of whatever qualities either game has or lacks. But again, everyone here knows I despised RTW, so I'm not exactly unbiased. ::)

MengJiao · July 09, 2014, 03:00:55 PM

Quote from: Martok on July 09, 2014, 02:20:16 PM
The city view is the one and only feature from RTW that I truly miss. Otherwise, I find Rome II to be a vastly superior experience (especially in terms of AI and atmosphere/immersion), regardless of whatever qualities either game has or lacks. But again, everyone here knows I despised RTW, so I'm not exactly unbiased. ::)

While I remember a few surreal moments from RTW, I think Rome II is a much better game. The naval warfare alone would make it much better.

Martok · July 09, 2014, 03:34:23 PM

Thanks MengJiao. Glad to know I'm not the only who feels that way.

Skoop · July 10, 2014, 11:09:14 AM

Quote from: mikeck on July 09, 2014, 08:35:07 AM
Shhhh....I made the mistake of saying the same thing at the "another site" and was attacked for it. So keep it in the low down..

I saw that thread, the scene sucks over there. Some real turds floating around ruining the pool party.
I heard a comment that we at grog heads are on Prozac because we like to play so many games.

mikeck · July 10, 2014, 11:19:09 AM

You should've seen what happened when I said that I was actually enjoying "x rebirth"
I said that the game was buggy missing a lot of features and incomplete...but at the same time I was having fun playing it and found to be fairly immersive. Oh my God I got ripped to shreds.

I just quit going. people can disagree on whether a game is good or not, it just doesn't seem to make sense to attack a person because they like a particular game

Martok · July 10, 2014, 11:24:34 AM

There's one guy in particular -- I won't name names, but anyone who's dropped in over there knows who it is -- who spews forth so much vitriol regarding our being "mindless fanbois" here, that I'm honestly convinced he's going to choke to death on his own bile.

I think he's just secretly jealous (whether he realizes/admits it or not) that we can actually enjoy games that were made in the last decade... ::)

Skoop · July 10, 2014, 11:41:16 AM

My thoughts exactly guys, love or hate a game, you can get the best intel here from like minded wargamers. That other site is just pages of nonsense threads with no game intel.

MengJiao · July 10, 2014, 11:51:31 AM

Quote from: Martok on July 10, 2014, 11:24:34 AM
There's one guy in particular -- I won't name names, but anyone who's dropped in over there knows who it is -- who spews forth so much vitriol regarding our being "mindless fanbois" here, that I'm honestly convinced he's going to choke to death on his own bile.

I think he's just secretly jealous (whether he realizes/admits it or not) that we can actually enjoy games that were made in the last decade... ::)

As a dedicated mindless fanboi...I'd just like to say this about that -- 1) there are plenty of games I have not played, but I generally don't offer opinions about them 2) There probably are some games I don't like, but then I usually don't have much of any use to say about them, so why would I bother? 3) Let's suppose there was a game that I didn't like and that I did play to some useful degree -- hopefully I could explain myself without denegrating people who were lucky enough to enjoy the game 4) and that's the penultimate point -- to enjoy something is to enjoy some good fortune and to enjoy something that other people don't like is to have a good fortune that they have not had and never will unless they change their lacking-in-enjoyment ways.
5) and here's the final point -- so if somebody says they don't like a particular game -- if you are magnanimous you can share your good fortune by explaining what is enjoyable about what they don't enjoy.