Is anyone else bored?

[The Wizard]

I think so too - RTW seems to be missing something. Something.

It's frustrating to me not to be able to pinpoint what that 'something' is - but this game seems to be missing some of the suspense and challenge of the previous games.

However, I've only just started my first game on hard and I'll suspend my so-called 'final verdict' until I've played this game a good deal, but for some reason I have the feeling that the limited amount of playable factions, plus the fact that none of the playable factions seem to have a very challenging, weak starting position (think Aragon or late Byzantium, and yes, now I'm forced to compare), that I won't be playing the original game for all that long...

An example.

To my surprise, and this in a negative sense, I found that I was annoyed with my first game, with the Brutii, and subsequently I chose the Julii, and once again I was surprised, or rather, shocked, to find that I was once again bored and annoyed with the fact that what I was doing, seemed to turn from cool into tedious (almost), and I wanted to play another faction, so now I'm playing the Germans, and hoping dearly to get that experience I got with my first game in MTW, with the Byzantines, which was so fun that I actually finished it (hehe).



~Wiz