What Are You Looking Forward To Most In Empire?

[Polemists]

The excitment over at TW center forums is a bit on fully tilt, even more so then here (no 9 page threads here).

That said the game looks very good and lots to be excited about, each day that ticks away is one day closer to the glorious game :)

[Monk]

The excitment over at TW center forums is a bit on fully tilt, even more so then here (no 9 page threads here).

That said the game looks very good and lots to be excited about, each day that ticks away is one day closer to the glorious game :)

More like rabid. You could lose an arm over there in their demo thread!

The more I think about it, I'm really looking forward to the AI and the merging of the diplomatic and military AI schemes. Not having a faction being torn between trying to do two conflicting things at once would be nice, and then there's the battle AI which I'm itching to test. Unfortunately the only way to truly test them both is to get my hands on the retail product so i'll just have to wait.

[Polemists]

More like rabid. You could lose an arm over there in their demo thread!

Yes....that's not me in that thread......that's that OTHER Polemists in that demo thread....lol

I'm really looking forward to the AI and the merging of the diplomatic and military AI schemes.

The more I look at the maps the more excited I get about trade theatres and the possibilities.

Unfortunately the only way to truly test them both is to get my hands on the retail product so i'll just have to wait.

Yes....unless you know CA provided us with something, perhaps a small set of files that would help DEMOnstrate how the game works properly.

[Colovion]

In the end, I'm looking forward to playing Total War because Creative Assembly is one of the only development teams I fully respect and admire both for their work as well as the way they treat their fans. I've played their games for years and they always get me to come back when their new incarnation of lovely historic entertainment. I was talking with my father recently about when I began playing video games and how without games like Civilisation, Age of Empires and Total War I'd not have been drawn into the intrigue and spectacle that history holds.

Past games may have frustrated me at times but truth be told, many of those annoyances were likely born from the over-skeptical viewpoint the internet fosters. Heck, I still don't enjoy playing RTW without the EB mod; perhaps I'm too picky now that I've been indoctrinated into the mindset that the game has to be a certain way, a certain balance, flawless, etc. Anyway, I'd likely not even notice various flaws in the game if I played it first before shuddering at the threads of issues declaring "XYZ is unbalanced! ABC is glitchy!" because only once I've read such things do I peer at them in a new, negative light, where they were once nearly imperceptible. Kind of like that squeaky door you barely noticed until someone mentioned it to you and now it grates on your nerves.

In short, I'm looking forward to being enveloped in the atmosphere of the campaign map, marching my troops into battle, smiling at the drifting smoke of freshly fired muskets and relishing the lingering echoes of fleeing foes!

[knoddy]

Yes....that's not me in that thread......that's that OTHER Polemists in that demo thread....lol



The more I look at the maps the more excited I get about trade theatres and the possibilities.



Yes....unless you know CA provided us with something, perhaps a small set of files that would help DEMOnstrate how the game works properly.

you sir are a god amongst demo fanatics BOOOWWWWWW DOWNNNNNNNNNNN


hehe

i must endeavor to the TWC forums to view this monstrosity.

EDIT: btw im lookin forward to an end to the speculation and worrying, all these people posting threads about how there worried bout certain features cos of 1 bad line in a review or 1 bad thing in a vid they saw. wait for the game b4 u start trashing it shesh!

[Boohugh]

All the above (apart from Steam!), but I voted for improved AI (both campaign and battle) because I'm just itching to see if it really has been improved as much as CA claim

[ainamacil]

Hats, wigs, and facial hair was barely edged out by guns.

In both Medievals, I was all about the late game when I could first field culverins and arquebusiers. So what if my primitive musketmen take appalling casualties when they actually have to engage in melee? That's what the meat shields are for!

As you might guess, I LOVE the Americas Campaign and the Britannia Campaign. Spanish Dragoons and Mounted Calivermen are my buddies.

As Metallica said in their excellent cover of Whiskey in the Jar, "some men like to hear, to hear the cannonballs roarin'..." This man is one of them.

[Polemists]

Well I think today i'm at this stage

I'm Too Busy Drooling With Anticipation To Answer!

It's still a little under a month away but still can't wait :)