Shogun 2 is $7.50

[Adder]

Buy it so you can experience the glorious history of the nippon master race

[TheDopp]

Buy it so you can experience the glorious history of the nippon master race

I bought the Total War complete pack based when it came out based on the raving my old boss did on the series. Started playing Shogun 2, played for three hours, deleted my Windows partition.
I get the appeal, I'd probably love Rome or one of the others, but that was just seven kinds of boring on top of nine kinds of too hard.

[Adder]

Too... hard?

[SatanicPsycho]

Buy it so you can experience the glorious history of the nippon master race

I bought the Total War complete pack based when it came out based on the raving my old boss did on the series. Started playing Shogun 2, played for three hours, deleted my Windows partition.
I get the appeal, I'd probably love Rome or one of the others, but that was just seven kinds of boring on top of nine kinds of too hard.

Agree with that 100% I did the same thing... however I did already down a couple of them on CD...

Remembered liking it, so bought and installed them all, played them all for a few hours each, uninstalled them all and never looked back.

Just not a style of game I like anymore, personally. Great price though, so definately worth giving it a go.

[TheDopp]

Too... hard?

You start the game with 14 different calvary, 64 different ground units and like 2 different long range units. And each one acts nothing like the others. The AI was programed with the same code as IBM's Watson. And all that is within the first 40 seconds of the game.
it was designed for veterans of the series, not folks who have some RTS experience and enjoyed the mayhem of Lords of the Realm 2.

[Snarf]

Actually the AI isn't too bright most of the time. THey do some incredibly stupid things at times. Though as an rts the AI is pretty exceptional.
As far as difficulty goes you can always turn down the difficulty which changes how the AI acts in several ways.
If you want to play on the harder difficulties because on hard and above, the ai is going to start gunning for you.
Though really, even if you aren't a veteran I think you can enjoy shogun 2. Just put it on a lower difficulty and slow down/pause the game if the battles get too hectic.
Also I loved lords of the realm 2.

[Adder]

You start the game with 14 different calvary, 64 different ground units and like 2 different long range units. And each one acts nothing like the others. The AI was programed with the same code as IBM's Watson. And all that is within the first 40 seconds of the game.
it was designed for veterans of the series, not folks who have some RTS experience and enjoyed the mayhem of Lords of the Realm 2.

Nearly every clan starts with some spearmen units and a few archers, no one starts with that many units, you are confusing me.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

I started with the atlas from mechwarrior help me im no good at this game :(

[TheDopp]

Nearly every clan starts with some spearmen units and a few archers, no one starts with that many units, you are confusing me.

It was the start of the campaign tutorial or something. I dont know. Basic units that looked more or less exactly the same had minor variations in ability and they introduced those abilities and units without properly explaining why the hell I should care.

Also I'm sad that GoG doesnt have Lords2 now that I've mentioned it. Sigh.

[Adder]

It was the start of the campaign tutorial or something. I dont know. Basic units that looked more or less exactly the same had minor variations in ability and they introduced those abilities and units without properly explaining why the hell I should care.

Also I'm sad that GoG doesnt have Lords2 now that I've mentioned it. Sigh.

Every building and unit has an encyclopedia button that you can click that will tell you pretty much everything about whatever you click on.