The diplomacy is just pathetic compared to Paradox games, as it's basically not there. Now i know that Rome 2 isn't exactly a prime example of a good TW game, but even going back to Shogun or even Medieval i just couldn't enjoy them anymore. And after i went back to play Rome 2 i found it severly lacking in every single aspect. But in the end for many battles they grew very samey, so after getting the initial better results i would usually just let the battles play out automatically, since i couldn't be bothered to suffer through them.Įmpire was less good than Medieval 2, but i still got a lot of fun out of it and the same goes for Shogun 2.Īfter Shogun 2 i got into the Paradox grand strategy games, namely CK 2 and Europa Universalis 4 and enjoyed them immensely. They were great for difficult battles, were you could get the victory even with all odds stacked against you. It was a lot of fun, though i noticed that i used the realtime battles less and less. The same went for Medieval 2 that released a few years later. It was a lot of fun to conquer my way through Europe and finally conquer Rome and call it mine.

My first TW game was Rome, which i played on a very bad PC, resulting in all my roman legionairies walking on stilts.

What does Total War really has going for it as a Strategy game? Since the new Total War game is currently getting it's marketing campaign going i thought it might be a good time to have a discussion i wanted to have since Rome 2.

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