• Total War: Rome 2 will find homes for 117 factions, and might just run on your laptop
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It's good that they're making it work well on integrated graphics, although I hope that they're not just focusing on Intel's chips. AMD's laptop APUs are quite the performers too, and deserve recognition.
I do not remember the last time I have been so excited for a game.
Holy shit
CA are some of the best dev's left out there.
Thats going to be some long, long turn times right there...
[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;40061144]CA are some of the best dev's left out there.[/QUOTE] If you overlook the shit they pull with cutting content to release as DLC then ya CA are pretty good
[QUOTE=]Spec-wise, Rome 2 will cater to the laptop brigade with support for low end machines, including those with integrated graphic chips. Creative director Mike Simpson was apparently “very specific” about the game’s scalability, and said that CA had worked with Intel and other manufacturers to adapt Rome 2 for modest rigs. CPU usage will also reportedly be more efficient on low end PCs.[/QUOTE] Most excellent. My laptop's a couple years old and can only just handle recent releases if I minimise every fucking graphics slider. Don't care so much if it looks like arse, just that it runs and runs at a decent framerate.
[QUOTE=-nesto-;40061268]If you overlook the shit they pull with cutting content to release as DLC then ya CA are pretty good[/QUOTE] I never bought any DLC for any of their games and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. Empire and Shogun2 seemed fine to me.
[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;40063030]I never bought any DLC for any of their games and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. Empire and Shogun2 seemed fine to me.[/QUOTE] I heard the last expansion for shogun 2 was actually worth the money. The one with all the guns.
[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;40063030]I never bought any DLC for any of their games and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. Empire and Shogun2 seemed fine to me.[/QUOTE] He might mean all those extra factions and units they sold off for Empire and Shogun.
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;40063140]I heard the last expansion for shogun 2 was actually worth the money. The one with all the guns.[/QUOTE] Fall of the Samurai was an Expansion pack, really, as was Rise of the Samurai. They actually added a new gameplay variety. However, their selling of clans as DLC was a bit stupid, in my opinion.
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;40063244]He might mean all those extra factions and units they sold off for Empire and Shogun.[/QUOTE] All the Shogun factions felt pretty similar as is anyway.
They're pretty much carbon copies of each other(minus Hattori, Ikko Ikki, and Uesugi). Imagine that 2 of those are paid DLC clans :v:
But all the factions being almost identical was a deliberate choice they made. They thought making the factions mostly the same would offer a more pure form of strategy. Which is fine because it offers some variety in the games in the bigger picture. Most of the total war games have hugely different styled factions.
[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;40066930]But all the factions being almost identical was a deliberate choice they made. They thought making the factions mostly the same would offer a more pure form of strategy. Which is fine because it offers some variety in the games in the bigger picture. Most of the total war games have hugely different styled factions.[/QUOTE] I agree but imo part of the charm of Medieval 1, 2 and Rome was the factions with different playstyles. Empire took most of that out and while it was still fun I don't think I ever really got into it as much as I had Medieval 2 and Rome. That said, I play the shit out of Shogun 2 so I guess that says it all really.
That's what I loved about Shogun 2. You can crank it up so high even high end systems struggle, but I could also play it on a shitty school laptop that couldn't even run TF2 properly.
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