In my opinion, Rome Total War got it dead right with the system requirements. I have an ancient 1.7 Celeron with 768 MB of Ram and a GeForce FX 5200. Despite this, I can run Rome with damn good graphics and large unit scale with absolutely zero slowdown. There are games of a far lesser scale that somehow manage to fare far worse.
As for Medieval 2, well if the minimum specs (1.8 Intel Processor) are tobe believed then Id say that they have done it right again and hit the perfect balance. Im not stupid. I know my PC is ancient and needs replacing and Im certainly not going to be annoyed because M2 isn't able to run on it. Thats progress.
In conlusion, with Rome, they got it dead right. Epic and beautiful game, more than reasonable system requirements.


Also I always have a million topics for debate I just wanted to see if anyone else had any. If we're really stuck for topics in future then I'll always have one.