Interesting insights into the mindset of a person who likes ETW in its current state

[hellenes]

Three words: Lowest Common Denominator.

From his other reviews, it would appear that he is about 13 years old. He's not looking for a complex game - he doesn't care about the passive AI. He probably hasn't played any of the other Total War titles so he doesn't know what he's missing. He's not concerned with the historical context. He's not looking for any depth. He probably already had a Steam account so he could play Half-Life or Left for Dead. He's a 13-year old fanboi. (Not that there's anything wrong with that) Give him some great graphics and effects and he will be happy until the next game of the week comes along.

He is who CA were targeting with this release of the game - the Lowest Common Denominator. In fact, I'll bet if enough people like that kid go out and buy the game in it's current state, it will never get patched to a level of quality comparable to the other TW titles... Why should CA opatch it, when that kid is going to be bored with the game in a month, and downloading something new into his Steam account?

Youre forgetting that CA had stated just before RTW came out that they are targeting 10 years olds as their new customers.....you should understand that youre buying the license to use their ENGINE....not the game itself which is not design for you....
Thanks god I hate the era...back to M2TW+mods for me...

[MadKow]

I'm 42 years old, and am fairly happy with the game as it is. I've been playing games, namely strategy games, since the days of the ZX Spectrum. They were never perfect. Never. I still had fun.

The only thing that makes me say "fairly" is the fact that the latest patched introduced CTD's in my stable installation, so in order to fix some people problems, they messed with some that didn't had any. I got over it by doing the workaround provided somewhere else (patch file rollback).

Since no one here can guess how stable the game will be on the OP computer, it's impossible to tell if it is a good idea for him to purchase it or not.

Now for the flame part: i don't think it's good idea to call someone a 13 year old (as if it's a bad thing in itself) when you act like a 16 year old (which i personally think is a poor age to have and everyone should skip).

[Tsavong]

So he said

This game is defenitly worth $50.00. It has great replay value awesome interface sweet graphics and super good campaigns.

And from that and the other short reviews he has written you conclude he is the Lowest common denominator, a term is used figuratively to refer to the "lowest"—least useful, least advanced, or similar. Seems quite an offensive to say to me.

And I don't even see anything wrong with his review Empire has replay value, a easy to use interface and nice graphics even on my 8600GTS.

Oh and I'm not 10 I'm far older.

[PBI]

One could argue the OP is trolling.

I'd be interested to hear what other motivation there is for starting a thread purportedly showing that those who like ETW are immature, in a forum dedicated to ETW.

[Vuk]

So he said

And from that and the other short reviews he has written you conclude he is the Lowest common denominator, a term is used figuratively to refer to the "lowest"—least useful, least advanced, or similar. Seems quite an offensive to say to me.

And I don't even see anything wrong with his review Empire has replay value, a easy to use interface and nice graphics even on my 8600GTS.

Oh and I'm not 10 I'm far older.

That is a good point. The wording used implies that 13 year old gamers (I was one once :P) are inferior and something low. Not exactly a polite thing to be saying about people. I know that at that age I was a history nerd, an ammature programmer, and had pretty good tastes in games. I think I would have been quite offended at that statement.

[Quickening]

I'm 25, love hardcore strategy games like Europa Universalis and Galactic Civilizations and I think that Empire Total War is awesome as it is.
Seriously have some perspective. You really think the average buyer is burrowing deep into the stats to see whether this or that is historically accurate, balanced or whatever? They aren't. They're enjoying the game.
It's a shame that there are some people having crashes and what not, but I, and a lot of other people have had no problem at all with the game.