How long people will play/mod RTW? [Archive]

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Charge

10-06-2007, 23:18

Just curious, how much time this most popular TW game, although not the best, will remain playable, and it's modding actual. Any ideas?

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General_Someone

10-16-2007, 04:29

Hard to say for sure. It mostly depends on if any newer, better, or more modable games come to takes its place. For right now I would say RTW has a future.

Makanyane

10-16-2007, 07:55

Yeah, M2 has some attractions, but needs a much higher powered computer than RTW to play, and Empires when it comes out will probably need something faster still. So many people will end up staying with RTW until they upgrade their computers for other reasons. It also has a slightly different feel and is more naturally based around the earlier eras, so if you are interested in the earlier/Roman based time period you might choose to stay with it.

I was never involved with the first MTW, Shogun etc. but I think they still have a reasonable amount of players.

Mad Hoplite

10-17-2007, 02:44

I can only talk about myself but I think this game will last a lot. You know, I've been modding it for a year and a half and I don't feel like starting again :dizzy2:

Besides, I really like the time scope. Punic wars, diadochi, roman civil war...

And don't forget there are still some promising mods in the horizon! (Hegemonia anyone?)

The only chance of my uninstalling this game passes for CA releasing a Rome 2: Total War with a proper LAN campaign multiplayer... :yes:

(IMHO, nothing can beat a game with some friends, each on a different roman family. THAT WOULD BE SICK!)

But this will not happen at least in the next two or three years, so for me there's R:TW for ages.

Makanyane

10-17-2007, 07:23

The only chance of my uninstalling this game passes for CA releasing a Rome 2: Total War with a proper LAN campaign multiplayer... :yes:
Ah, yes, that was a long lost dream of mine too, had given up hope so much I hadn't thought to mention it.

CA's arguments for not making a proper multiplayer campaign seem to ignore the number of households that have LAN connected computers so could play out long term multiplayer games. :no: