Rome 2 Total War and Europa Barbarorum

**Trax** · 05-04-2013, 16:13

Originally Posted by DaciaJC

Yup. Not to say Medieval II is a bad game, but if it wasn't for the prospect of EBII, I probably wouldn't have bothered buying it.

No it's not a bad game and I'm going to play some mods while waiting for EB.

As a matter of fact it's probably a better game than RTW because the AI isn't completely braindead.

**ziegenpeter** · 05-05-2013, 09:38

Originally Posted by Trax

No it's not a bad game and I'm going to play some mods while waiting for EB.

Hey! Which mods, if I am alloud to ask? I havent found any that were at least a little bit accurate. DotS is still in the making...

**cahtush** · 05-05-2013, 10:05

Originally Posted by ziegenpeter

Hey! Which mods, if I am alloud to ask? I havent found any that were at least a little bit accurate. DotS is still in the making...

Stainless steel and Broken crescent improves on it, but it's nowhere near EB's levels.

There's Third Age too, if you're interested in LotR.

**Trax** · 05-05-2013, 12:54

Originally Posted by ziegenpeter

Hey! Which mods, if I am alloud to ask? I havent found any that were at least a little bit accurate. DotS is still in the making...

I bought it last year but installed it only few weeks ago. I've been playing Broken Crescent.
Probably the least frustrating Total War experience I've ever had. Diplomacy really seems to work.

**Cybvep** · 06-13-2013, 12:03

I've just finished watching the E3 demo. What can I say? It looks like an arcade game. I probably won't even get it before the first major realism mods come out and I certainly don't plan to buy a new computer just for RTW2. If it turns out that the game isn't very moddable, then I probably won't buy it at all.

**Ailfertes** · 06-13-2013, 12:20

Seconded. It looks far too fast, silly, and based on gimmicks.

**Cybvep** · 06-13-2013, 16:00

What I cannot understand is why the CA keeps using the same old, stupid, unrealistic and ridiculous "synchronised flying soldiers" effect during charges. Come on, it doesn't even look cool. In LOTR, the overpowered Rohan charge doesn't send orcs flying, the projectiles fired from trebuchets just smash the enemies etc. What is the appeal of this effect, then? Wouldn't even a casual gamer want to see something more brutal and less silly?

**Blxz** · 06-15-2013, 07:58

The price alone is bad enough to turn me off. US$80 is a little high for me to stomach, especially with the aussie dollar losing ground to the US dollar now. CA has, for me, been in a steady quality decline since rome1 and medieval 2; each subsequent game has been worse than the last. I still fail to understand why so many people liked Shogun 2.