Post thy Truely Epic Battles

**Sir SillyDuck** · 11-23-2006, 20:07

Headlocked, Randarkmaan, Seogorath maybe even most because of starting this, and the others, Thanks for the great stories. All are captivating..

Headlocked, about your comment on the game, the AI and all: I couldn't agree more. This game is Digital Gold.

**absents** · 11-23-2006, 20:19

Right, I guess not every person has high standards and doesn't mid being fed crap, since that's all they've been eating since childhood?

**Sir SillyDuck** · 11-23-2006, 20:39

Oh thy of small faith and imagination, go eat a horse turd (whoa, just roleplaying here moderator!).

Truly absents, I have played more computer games than I can count on my hands, even if my hands had 50 fingers each. A significant part of those were wargames, strategic games, etc. This game just isn't dissappointing me. I'm trying honestly to see something that turns me off, but I just can't find it! Off course there are things like an enemy coming to a siege with too few infantry (dont bring a knife to a gunfight), but these things are REALLY incidental. Commonly though, I am pleasantly suprised by as good an AI I have ever seen. He attacks when He is strong, he offers peace or refrains from attacking when weak. His battles are mostly excellently fought, for an AI. And that means it has tricks, it waits and let you come or it just rolls over you, not too many obvious repeatitive errors.

Sorry you are dissapointed, for god knows why (are u playing VH/VH?), but frankly I don't really care to hear you guys foaming over for what is really a VERY GOOD game.

**absents** · 11-23-2006, 21:12

You have played a lot of games. That does not prove anything.
I guess being around during the golden age of FPS shooters (96-03) has spoiled me somewhat, seeing as each new game had to push the curve in some way due to painstaking competition. CA has no competition to it's TW title. None. Nada. Zilch. Zip.

The series has stagnated. The last real gameplay enhancements were seen in MTW. After that, the game got new graphics, and that's it. M2TW adds absolutely NOTHING of value over RTW, there are no new gameplay elements and whether or not the AI is improved is at best, debateable.

I am dissappointed. Dissappointed, because no other company is taking a proper crack at this genre, and it's costing us, the fans, many headaches.

**Sir SillyDuck** · 11-23-2006, 21:48

Well, I'm sorry you are dissappointed. I don't know much about FPS, except doom/doom2 and a bit of BF and CoD/CoD2 (in the years inbetween, I saw nothing that attracted me personally). What I do know is that those games focus more on action than strategy.
The games I liked most were Close Combat 2 and Shogun. Strategy there comes first, not reflex-ability, or the ability to make good headshots. It calls for more for things like maneuvring and anticipation.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying FPS don't need strategical insight, certainly not the later, groupwise like BF and CS. But it is significantly leaning more on reflexes and hand-eye coord. than strategy, compared to TW.

In TW, it is like master Sun says: Strategy without tactics is the longest road to victory, tactics without strategy is just the noise before defeat.

I guess what it boils down to is that I find you are not speaking for 'the fans', not by a long shot.

**absents** · 11-23-2006, 21:50

No, you didn't get it at all. I made a comparison. The genre of the games in comparison has no relevance on the validity of the argument.

**Sir SillyDuck** · 11-23-2006, 21:58

Ah, forgive my stupidity. I will try to read between the lines more. Frankly, I still seem to try to understand what is galling you and your companions in sorrow. I realize I should refrain from that, for it has no use. I simply don't encounter the suicide attacks or all the other 'major bugs' I hear about. We just live in different worlds I guess.