What i think is wrong, not that it matters.

[MadKow]

I have been having enough fun with Rome 2. That said, like apparently many others, I have this feeling that something is missing. I’m not one to make a big fuss about balance, some fantasy in the name of game play, or even bugs, as long as they are not too serious. So what was it?

The other day I think I discovered what I was missing. It can be summed up as an emotional bond. And I believe it’s directly related with the missing family tree, the loss of that feeling of taking a young 16 year boy and turning him into a King, by way of countless victories, on one side and on the other, the way units and legions are now integrated. You no longer get the sense that those man that do the fighting and win battles for you are endurable entities. Their glorious deeds are now share with every unit, old and new, In a way that makes everything too abstract.
Total War is about grand strategy and tactical prowess, but, at least for me, it was also about making heroes, and having small stories of great men, and women, on which an empire was built. Be them a great general, King or Emperor, or a bunch of battle hardened bad asses.
Now it is all too abstract. Maybe more realistic, in some ways, but lacking in drama.