Would you buy NTW

[Skott]

Undecided. I havent read much about it to be honest. Not really excited or much interested at this point. That could change however in time.

[Krauser]

Undecided, but probably not. This feels like an expansion pack. It seems like each campaign will be about the same size as M2, but no new gameplay features or improvements. I rarely buy expansion packs because they are usually another 40 hours of the same thing.

Now, if it was an expansion pack I might buy it if they promised to fix the AI in ETW. I don't think patch 1.4 will be enough for the AI. This is just not likely though, and I can wait until someone else tests it for me anyways.

[Lord Nelson]

I have to say, for me its the diplomacy thats a let down. the fact that one minute spain are your allies and the next they are atttacking everyone is ridiculous. None of the A.I talk to you and try to broker deals, all they do is run round the map trying to start fights which wasn the case historically. Ca seem to have forgotten that while this may be a Total War game, that doesnt mean you have to be at war all the time! There isnt that much wrong with the game its just the diplomacy really for me. But its such a linchpin of the game it makes it kinda unplayable and more like a game of Age of Empires.

So I'm waiting till late september when the patch comes out. his is CA's last chance to prove to me they are not a bunch of money grabbing *****. If they fix it I will buy The add-on. If not Im afraid they wont see another penny from me. Sorry CA.

[Hooahguy]

undecided, but leaning towards no. would rather spend the money on guitars and other stuff. useful stuff.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

45% say no
I wonder how many will eventually cave in.

[antisocialmunky]

Depends on if you define 'cave in' as 1)Buy it early on or 2)Buy it after people give good reviews.

[Prussian to the Iron]

I probably won't, but I'm still undecided. Mostly because, with heavilly modded Oblivion and the full version of Mount and Blade, I'll be kept very busy for a while. I'll probably finish playing Warbands (releasing in february I believe) about the time a Rome 2 or Shogun 2 comes out.

[Dead Guy]

Until CA settles for a campaign complexity they can code a decent AI for, I won't be interested in their products. Even if it means going back to the risk map, it's preferable to the random movement (or perpetual non-movement) we have now.

[risker]

I'm undecided but if it's anything like E:TW then I'll definatly not buy it. ETW was hyped up so much it hurt when I figured it didn't work on my PC. But that's normal, most people who bought ETW knew they had the PC for it, unlike silly me...


But even then the amount of complaints for bugs is more than the complaints for it not working...disgraceful.

I can just about play the campaign (veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slow) and the AI is atrocious. I know games from 2002 with better AI, let alone MII:TW (IMO, some disagree) where you could at least have an alliance that lasts 2 turns...



They obviously knew they were so decided to pull the plug on ETW and make NTW. I've never seen another TW game go out so early.

After seeing ETW, I can't understand why other creators arn't having a go at the TWesque type game. To hell with "tradition" they would get my vote so long as they produce some better stuff.

RTW 2 will hopefully come out that way they can show if they really have improved apart from graphics.

[Tsavong]

Other developers have tried a Total War type game, turn based campaign with real time battles, Imperial Glory is an example of one but its battles are quite poor. You could not drag units around to set there formation and there didn't seem to be any friendly fire they would just shoot though each others back.

ETW may have disappointed some but Total War is still the king of its hill in my book.

[A1_Unit]

I'll buy NTW.

[caravel]

Other developers have tried a Total War type game, turn based campaign with real time battles, Imperial Glory is an example of one but its battles are quite poor. You could not drag units around to set there formation and there didn't seem to be any friendly fire they would just shoot though each others back.

It doesn't stop other developers from having a go though does it? IMHO games developers nowadays tend to stick to what they know and this is why there are no new daring and innovative games any more - just the same old rehashed stuff.

[Tsavong]

It doesn't stop other developers from having a go though does it? IMHO games developers nowadays tend to stick to what they know and this is why there are no new daring and innovative games any more - just the same old rehashed stuff.

No it shouldn't and there were good things in IG like a diplomacy screen instead of diplomats running around... hummm. I think if more tried to make games like TW they would probably come up with new and different ideas of what should be in said games and how they should play which cant be a bad thing.

They would all face the same problem of trying to make good AI as computers can't think, yet.