Quote Originally Posted by Lysimachos View Post
I can't follow why people are so excited about RTW2 (or TW:R2 or whatever). RTW Vanilla was abomination; only the mods of great depth made it more than superficially playable. And - with all due respect to the efforts of the modders of ETW, NTW and TW:S2 - the limitations to modding of the recent titles just don't allow a transformation into greatness like it was possible in RTW and M2TW.

Don't get me wrong, Rome 2 Vanilla will certainly be much better than RTW Vanilla: I consider Shogun 2 CA's best Vanilla game yet and I expect that Rome 2 will hold up to that standard. However, that is not the standard that made me spend thousands of hours with RTW and M2TW, RTW-mokds and M2TW-mods, to be precise.

Rome 2 would be a fine game, but - mark my words - only serve to disappoint.
I think, and the reason I chose to post this info in this sub-forum, that most people do look forward to the next EB as opposed to RTW2 itself.

I mean come on..even if it was the exact same game at least it will have naval battles