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Originally Posted by TB666
[...]Yes maybe CA would lose money over historical nit-pickers but lucky for CA that is a very small group. The money they lose from you they easily make up by the mainstream audience so you can see that you are in a very powerless group.[...]
Actuall, they didn´t lose money on him, he bought the game, after all. Whether he likes it or not is of little consequence for the current sales number.
And face it, the times where computer games were a niche product are gone for good, the current gaming industry figures about 30 billion $. The publishers are interested in games they can sell to a broad market and not highly risky hardcore-fan products, so expect anything that´s distributed on a larger scale to be somewhat mainstream-compatible, more or less. Rome, for that matter, already is quite a specialized game, as Activision´s CEO I´d been rather sceptical about it´s chances. Yes, there are a couple of fan forums, but try and estimate the total number of real hardcore fans, you´ll probably not get all that high. Plus, there´s all those buyers who never made it to any of the forums.
Re: Historical Accuracy: How Important Is It to You?
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Originally Posted by Steppe Merc
Ludens, that is what many see when they think of realism. We don't want (nor can we) and exact replica of history.
We want realistic units that existed, and we want to aproximate the military, social and political reality as close as possible the beggining of the period, and approximate as close as possible future unit, social and political evolution.
That's what I want too. ~D So what are you arguing against?
Re: Historical Accuracy: How Important Is It to You?
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Originally Posted by Steppe Merc
Ludens, that is what many see when they think of realism. We don't want (nor can we) and exact replica of history.
We want realistic units that existed, and we want to aproximate the military, social and political reality as close as possible the beggining of the period, and approximate as close as possible future unit, social and political evolution.
I agree with Ludens, I would love a game like that if it would still be fun to play, however I can't see anything close to that anytime soon.
Re: Historical Accuracy: How Important Is It to You?
I've always liked the mix of realism and fantasy that the total war series has had. And let's remember that previous total war games have also had their fair share of fantasy units (kensai anyone?) I really hate it when people bitch and complain about how fantasy RTW is and blah blah blah blah. It was never designed to be total realism!. It was designed like the previous games as a nice blend of realism with the odd injection of fantasy for fun. And I think it works very well.
