How much do you play ETW?

**antisocialmunky** · 07-19-2009, 14:13

I havent' played ETW since patch 1.2 treid to fix things. I mean, the game works but I dunno. I'm just not inspired to play it. Thus I was wondering how much other people play it compared to the other TWs(as I still play RTW via EB quite often and MIITW for the awesome mods).

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**Fisherking** · 07-19-2009, 14:24

1.2 took a lot out of it but 1.3.1 has put most of it back.

I do think it will finish as a very good game. The CA staff is committed though some of the changes have not been for the best at times. I think it will be sorted out well.

**Hooahguy** · 07-19-2009, 14:55

i, for one, hated M2TW. im not sure why. i bought the game, played about 5 hours of it, made a movie using M2TW, then put it away and uninstalled it, never to be touched again.

RTW was different. it was so good. ive played probably around 200 hours or more of RTW, mostly with EB though. but ive played more consecutive hours with ETW than RTW or EB. at most, probably 2 hours at most with RTW. with ETW. a least an hour, at most 5 hours.

**Zarky** · 07-19-2009, 16:23

More than any other TW game.
RTW was excellent, lots of rebellious provinces and barbaric factions so you didn't really have to rely on numbers but you could really beat enemy with superior troops.
M2TW wasn't as good in my opinion because for most factions there were little other options than to fight people you were supposed to be friends with (fellow christians or muslims for example). And even if Crusades was big thing in the era, it was impossible to really fight muslims when the fun was over after couple provinces.
ETW is great because there's no pope and if you don't want to expand somewhere anymore, you can just choose to colonize India or Americas. Aside from diplomacy the game is best TW game so far.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-19-2009, 16:36

i dont think its possible to have played it more than RTW or M2TW, which have both been out for a couple years, as opposed to empire total war, which has only been out for 4 months.

anyway, i used to play it a ton, but then i got Oblivion, and that takes up most of my game time.

plus every time i go to play it, i immediately have to fight this one batle, but my puckle guns are glitched, so it makes it hard to move.

**Skott** · 07-19-2009, 16:56

When each new game comes out I switch to it and pretty much abandon the previous game it seems. ETW is my main game right now until something else catches my fancy. Is it my fav TW game? Not sure. I liked them all for various reasons. I cant seem to decide which of the TW games is my fav.

Side note: Yes, they were all buggy at release and I dont excuse CA for that. They need to stop releasing buggy games!

**MasterPhantom** · 07-20-2009, 20:18

I played ETW more then I did M2TW, but not very much, kind of sluggish on my computer sadly.

**gardibolt** · 07-20-2009, 20:46

Don't play it at all; it won't run. Wasted fifty bucks.

**Xipe Totec** · 07-20-2009, 21:02

I play ETW as much as possible. I think about it on the throne, in the shower, when I'm cooking and eating. When I go to bed I think about it until I fall asleep, and then I dream about it until I wake up. I never play it before breakfast though. That'd be crazy.

**ReluctantSamurai** · 07-20-2009, 21:38

Not at all. And I probably won't, ever. I played M2 for only a few hours, got fed up with the same old, same old and gave it to a friend. I still play RTW & mods every so often, but Samurai Warlords still gets the most gameplay (STW modded to play on MTW/VI) and will probably remain my favorite.

**Fisherking** · 07-20-2009, 21:40

Hmmm...

Too much.

I looked at my stats once on steam...it was like 144 in two weeks, and that is with weekends off...not as much now but still too much.

**Quickening** · 07-20-2009, 22:52

I don't play it at all now. It's a frustrating mess and attempting a campaign is almost unbearable especially when you have to sit for ages even on fast forward while the AI slowly, so very, very slowly tries haplessly to climb about four ropes to get through your defenses. It's painful and depressing. I've totally given up on this game and I'd be willing to bet everything I own that the patches will soon stop coming and once again a Total War game will have failed to achieve its potential except this time more spectacularly than ever before.
Medieval 2 is and will undoubtedly continue to be the pinnacle of the series for me and that's what I'm playing at the moment. I really had hope for Empire. Bought the Special Forces edition and the DLC to but now I give up.