Anticipating Release

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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

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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

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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