Anticipating Release

[Guillaume le Batard]

An interesting observation: after many, many, months of anxiously awaiting this game, I have reached a new level of hype-exposure: Total Burnout!

I don't know how I did it, but I actually exhausted my desire for this game before it has even been released.

I have no one but myself to blame... I've been scanning the major forums, the official site, and the PC gaming sites for updates on a daily basis for far too long. Titillating myself with screenshots and thirty-second faction videos... I think its just been too much exposure.

I 'm sure I'll buy the game, but without my overwhelming desire to have it as soon as humanly possible, I think I may wait to hear what people have to say about it.

Novel concept!

Guillaume

PS - I wonder the expansion pack will be?!!

[Marius Dynamite]

An interesting observation: after many, many, months of anxiously awaiting this game, I have reached a new level of hype-exposure: Total Burnout!

I don't know how I did it, but I actually exhausted my desire for this game before it has even been released.

You are not alone. I am in the same boat.

I know it sounds very moany to say that we have been given too much information on the game because we all beg and pester for more info.

However someone must draw a line and say 'No, We are not giving any more info away. It is for your own good that we do not tell you anything. You will be happier latter.'

I blame the system.

[Dan.o6]

Spend the last 20 or so days playing other games, and when MTW2 is released you'll be like "w00t omfg already?"

[Puzz3D]

Don't come back to the forums after you buy the game either because you might find out about a bug that will spoil your playing experience when you could have continued playing in blissful ignorance.

[Polemists]

I am two sided on this coin. While i realize there are quite a few things we have all seen that we would have been happier not knowing (Such as the event movies, which will now not be nearly as much a surprise).

Still I think there comes a stage where the dev crew should just say here is your demo enjoy. The demo was and still is a great deal of fun but for many people the demo was released to early. I doubt there are many people it will hold for 20 days of non stop playing.

I think that yes we do all beg for info. Honestly though there is nothing you are going to find out though at this stage in any screenshot, unit preview, or faction video. I am happy ign is fallin behind in there faction previews a little bit, even if they put another one up i think i'd just watch the movie. I would like to be surprised a little bit and see some units and go, "Hmm that's neat, didn't know we had that".

I love the game, i will buy the game, but i agree it's just kinda bleh for next 20or so odd days.

[Martok]

Don't come back to the forums after you buy the game either because you might find out about a bug that will spoil your playing experience when you could have continued playing in blissful ignorance.

LOL. (I hadn't taken you for the snarky type.)

[Aracnid]

I really enjoyed the demo but after I had played both battles a half dozen times I got bored. The AI is so heavily scripted, and you can't choose your deployment, units or even to a large extent tactics. I really enjoyed playing the demo but after you have watched the French knights kamikaze 5 times it gets kinda boring, even if the way you pikemen fly backwards is amazing.

[Monarch]

I'm not as hyped up now, but not because of taking in all the info, I was so hyped up because I didn't have anything to play (romes got boring, as has even the ntw2 mod with no updates released in a good month) so m2 looked to finally solve my bordom issue. But then I picked up Dawn Of War for £7 and you only have to look at my unhealthy gaming hours (xfire, look down at siggy) to see my bordom is nicely cured!

So m2 will just be another game, also I'm [almost] equally looking forward to the dow expansion that ships in the UK in a couple of weeks :)

[Phil17]

I have to say, that i didnt know about its release until about 3 weeks ago and was thrilled, it seems like years though. Im still buzzing from the new game release hype (better than any drug ).

[screwtype]

An interesting observation: after many, many, months of anxiously awaiting this game, I have reached a new level of hype-exposure: Total Burnout!

I don't know how I did it, but I actually exhausted my desire for this game before it has even been released.

LOL, you've put it very well. I must say I've been feeling much the same way. I was quite excited by the initial announcement, but the closer it's come to release, the more "ho-hum" I feel about it.

I think it's partly that, quite frankly, after playing three games, two expansions and several mods in the series already, I simply have no burning desire left for more of the TW experience. I think it would take something pretty special to rekindle my enthusiasm, and nothing I've read about M2TW makes me think it's going to be that special.

I think what would really get me excited about the series again would be if they did a complete makeover of the campaign game, and gave us a really complex and logically consistent world to play in. But I'm afraid they haven't moved far enough forward on this front - and they probably never will, because it's not where their focus is. So it looks like it's going to be pretty much the same old one-dimensional campaign, albeit with a few tweaks like castles, and the return of some tinsel from the earlier games.

Don't get me wrong, I will probably still end up buying it, but this time I don't think I will mind at all waiting six months for the bugs to be ironed out, a couple of enhancement patches, a good mod or two, the opinion of other orgers and last but not least a price drop to make the whole package when I finally sit down to it that much more tasty

[Censor]

For the obsessed:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...63#post1274863

[Polemists]

This is why I don't do mods way to elaborate and confusing lol.

[Censor]

You just need to put some effort into it.

[LadyAnn]

I think what would really get me excited about the series again would be if they did a complete makeover of the campaign game, and gave us a really complex and logically consistent world to play in.

Am usually burned out of SP after 1 single campaign of any game in the series, so... I guess am not representative of players :)

Anniep

[screwtype]

Am usually burned out of SP after 1 single campaign of any game in the series, so... I guess am not representative of players :)

Anniep

Yeah, but that's from the micromanagement, not the complexity

If it the campaign was more interesting, you probably wouldn't feel that way.

[Guillaume le Batard]

I think it's partly that, quite frankly, after playing three games, two expansions and several mods in the series already, I simply have no burning desire left for more of the TW experience. I think it would take something pretty special to rekindle my enthusiasm, and nothing I've read about M2TW makes me think it's going to be that special.

My post was really meant as a bit of a laugh at my own tendencies to put waaay too much emphasis on the importance of games like Total War... but I do see your point.

In fact, perhaps not so coincidentally, I wrote my post after going back and trying yet again to play a campaign of RTW/BI this past weekend. I simply can not get very far into Rome or BI campaigns before wandering off to do something else.

I don't know if I am burned out on the process of the Total War campaign (manage funds, develop troops, expand, and repeat), or if I'm just preparing myself for the dissatisfaction I felt with Rome and BI.

Guillaume