How much do you play ETW?

**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.

**Alsatia** · 07-20-2009, 23:54

I don't play it much, if at all. I got this rush of excitement when I bought the game but the excitement faded as I played the game. ETW doesn't seem to stick like previous games have. I now mostly play RTW mods with the occasional M2TW campaign.

**Durallan** · 07-21-2009, 04:16

loved Medieval 2 Total War, I don't seem to remember minding all the battles in medieval 2 total war as much as I do mind the battles in empire it seems. I loved the whole royal families aspect and traits on my generals and such, while ETW has kept the traits, theres no royal family tree to obsess over and make sure yer royal family keeps going strongly!

**Sturmwolf** · 07-22-2009, 07:17

I happily threw that ETW CD out the window! !!! the game was junk from the onset, with so many countless CTD's with Ship/Fleets. Game was nothing more than a bunch of marketing Hype, not thoroughly tested/proven before release by CA .

a damned shame, STW- Great game. RTW- outstanding. MTW M2TW, both excellent. ETW- just a fancy candy wrapper! useless! !!!

I'll give East India Company a try, when it is released. Somehow I have a feeling that game will work just fine, error-free, since CA was not involved!

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-22-2009, 16:14

Originally Posted by Sturmwolf

I happily threw that ETW CD out the window! !!! the game was junk from the onset, with so many countless CTD's with Ship/Fleets. Game was nothing more than a bunch of marketing Hype, not thoroughly tested/proven before release by CA ( Who shall now be forever named Clueless A**holes, instead of Creative Assembly).

a damned shame, STW- Great game. RTW- outstanding. MTW M2TW, both excellent. ETW- just a pile of Sh*t in a fancy candy wrapper! useless! !!!

dude, stop ranting in every ETW thread. its annoying. odds are its either your computer, or your disc. get the hell over it.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 07-23-2009, 21:47

Heh, and I have yet to open up my ETW that is wasting my hard-drive space. I am thinking I will soon either delete it or move to a disk, as I have not yet bothered with the game and I have had it since its release.