Normal Vs Hard/VH difficulty

**L'Impresario** · 08-16-2006, 15:59

Its still just a game...they can only go so far man...they can't guarantee you that three years from the day you first install the game, and after playing 40+ hours a week, that the game is still going to challenge you to your core. That's simply impossible.

It seems to me that playing vanilla RTW even half of the hours mentioned per week is the impossible thing here. Sadomasochism wasn't what the doctor suggested me.

**Puzz3D** · 08-16-2006, 16:10

Originally Posted by L'Impresario

It seems to me that playing vanilla RTW even half of the hours mentioned per week is the impossible thing here. Sadomasochism wasn't what the doctor suggested me.

The problem Alex is that you notice the problems in the game. Too bad you can't lower your intelligence level so that you don't notice the problems.

**WarMachine420** · 08-16-2006, 16:14

Originally Posted by Puzz3D

The problem Alex is that you notice the problems in the game. Too bad you can't lower your intelligence level so that you don't notice the problems.

Or you could just get a job and then playing 20-40 hours a week wouldn't be possible.

Again, this is why MOST gamers won't agree with you nor ever get to the level of disgust that you have. They have lives outside the game that they prioritize over it. You'll never see them make 5,000 word+ posts detailing mathematical equations on units. You'll never see them hawing and heming at such anal details. You'll also never see them play the game half of any day. Never.

This isn't to say that there's anything wrong with this behavior (as I've already stated in either this thread or another) but CA knows this well. They're more interested in 2 million of the mainstream gamer's than one or two of you Puzz. Your money's not greener than anyone else's and the majority of the money coming into CA will be from gamers who aren't this anal and concerned about the play mechanics. It's just a game for them, not life.

**econ21** · 08-16-2006, 16:25

Warmachine has now got a temporary ban, so I hope I can safely re-open this thread without it going any further downhill.

**danfda** · 08-16-2006, 18:42

Hrm, well, as an aside, I bought RTW and loved it. It was sweet, unlike anything I'd ever played. So I thought "Why not get Medieval TW, as it sounds sweet and must also be good!" I installed and played MTW, and haven't gone back to Rome since. I have absolutely no reason to, and no one I know will buy Rome from me.

And while I would love an updated, new-features-included version of MTW with a working 3D campaign map, I for some reason am wary of M2TW after having seen what went wrong with RTW (as outlined by Oaty in post #1).

Personally, I think I am entitled to be cautious about purchasing it (after all, I don't have a whole lot of money--college is expensive!).

**x-dANGEr** · 08-16-2006, 20:59

What's unrealistic: strong rock, paper, scissors or making the AI use its units better? You ever hear of combined arms? I hope you enjoy the kind of battlefield gameplay that's in RTW/BI because it looks like more of the same in M2TW.

Actually, in BI it's really enjoyable. Or at laest, I really enjoy it.. The only annoying thing is those tanks called clibs.. (There is no SPAM armies in BI nowadays.. Maybe except for a few ocasions, which get beaten down easily by a well oriented army)

**Nobunaga** · 08-17-2006, 00:04

Originally Posted by WarMachine420:
Most gamers would never DREAM of having almost 4,000 posts on a forum. Imagine if you have put something like just 400 hours of time into RTW. Mastering the game at that point would be expected...don't you think?

Well you you have 88 posts and have joined the community in july 2006 i.e one month ago. Puzz has 3,952 and he has joined the community in october 2000 i.e 70 month ago.

Then your rate of posting is 88 posts per month while puzz's rate is 56 posts per month. So by 6 years you will have more than 4000 posts