Anime 15 Years of Decline by Creative Assembly

[A horse of course]

Here's to many more years of Day 1 DLC, tablet controls, bugs, downs syndrome campaign AI, retard-baiting battle mechanics and spoilt princess modder tantrums

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Notice at 2:33 the growling of an Orc. Another hint that Warhammer is in development.

 

[A horse of course]

Notice at 2:33 the growling of an Orc. Another hint that Warhammer is in development.

That's merely an aural representation of SEGA's insatiable greed.

 

[Got bored and left]

Here's to the cool games they used to make. *sigh* I feel like playing Medieval II again.

 

[Tzaero]

Thats nothing....

33 years of decline and buggering your beloved studios.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

EA wasn't bad until John Riccitiello took over as COO.

 

[Executr]

Thats nothing....

33 years of decline and buggering your beloved studios.

Curiously, the first game, Shogun, was published by EA.

I just hope that CA finally ditches the Warscape engine and work on the AI for their next TW games. (Not to mention the DLC milking and the decreasing on modding capabilities for newer titles)

 

[Beowulf]

[...] I just hope that CA finally ditches the Warscape engine and work on the AI for their next TW games. (Not to mention the DLC milking and the decreasing on modding capabilities for newer titles)

Yeah, we can hope, but I we shouldn't kid ourselves - they will most likely go with new animations and more cinematic experience stuff, whatever that means.

 

[Bradylama]

They said they had worked on the AI in the last game and LOOK WHAT HAPPENED.

 

[Beowulf]

To be fair, it doesn't look like AI fault, rather bad terrain type definition/recognition. But yeah, one can find a shit-ton of examples on youtube how bright the AI was at the release (and some time after). They definitely worked on itm but I'm not certain if the real improvements came from limiting it's behaviour via hard scripting; rather than actually, you know, improving it.

 

[Norfleet]

Seems like pretty clever AI to me, if he's managed to invent a Sandcrawler.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Orks and clever AI does not compute. But I hope they use a native 64-bit engine and have DX12/Vulkan support.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Thats nothing....

EA

33 years of decline and buggering your beloved studios.

The only really good thing I remember about EA is the fact that they used to publish some niche titles in the late 90-s. At least The Creed somehow got published... but then Thrill Kill wasn't, though it was more violent only by a slight margin.
Fuck EA.

 

[Overboard]

Curiously, the first game, Shogun, was published by EA.

Sometimes, two wrongs do make a right.

 

[Burning Bridges]

They only went full retard with ETW, up to that it was acceptable.

 

[sser]

A little too much nostalgia seeing Shogun. The year 2000? Fuck. I remember getting that when it came out. And also helping my friend install it on his Gateway. I don't think Gateway even exists anymore.

Also, pretty obvious fantasy game at the end there. And while I think the Total War games have gotten incredibly bad, those Kingdoms or whatever games caught my eye, but I'm a sucker for turn-based.

 

[Norfleet]

Orks and clever AI does not compute. But I hope they use a native 64-bit engine and have DX12/Vulkan support.

Sounds like the perfect justification for shit AI right there. Now they won't have to write a clever AI, because it's canonically accurate for the AI to be stupid.

 

[Ladonna]

EA was awesome in the 80s and early 90s. They funded many a good game back then.

As for CA, I gave up on them after the Empires farce. Medieval II and Rome really needed mods to shine too. Haven't looked in on their games since.

 

[Beowulf]

Orks and clever AI does not compute. But I hope they use a native 64-bit engine and have DX12/Vulkan support.

Sounds like the perfect justification for shit AI right there. Now they won't have to write a clever AI, because it's canonically accurate for the AI to be stupid.

Not only that. Since the factions are all at war, they don't have to pretend that any kind of diplomacy system is working, and every faction will eventuall wage war on you (even the single province ones).
And, as a late game boss, we will force the player to fight an unexpected civil war/secret heresy/whatever BS. That should keep them interested.

 

[Ovplain]

The first Rome - Total War<3