Game News Total War: Attila announced

[Whisky]

Tags: Creative Assembly; Sega; Total War; Total War: Attila



A new Total War game has been announced: Total War: Attila. Focusing, naturally, on the campaigns of Attila the Hun and the Dark Age era.

It is expected to be released sometime in 2015.

 

[Icewater]

Is Rome 2 Not Shit™ yet?

 

[muds_animal_friend]

No. Rome 2 is entirely constructed from shit. It's a layer cake of shit with an extra side helping of shit. Even the most basic elements are shit. The unit cards for example. It takes a special kind of stupid to design unit cards where the status icons all overlay one another so that only one status is visible at a time. That alone makes me want to punch the screen, and it's only one single aspect of one single area of the game. If a wino staggered in off the street, pissed on my keyboard, smeared my monitor with his own excrement, and smashed his empty bottle of buckfast over my head in righteous indignation that I actually wasted money on this hideous abortion of a game, it would still be a better experience than actually playing the game.

 

[Icewater]

Well, damn. I've been a fan of Total War for a long time and while I heard Rome 2 was pretty disappointing I hoped they'd have patched it up by now. Guess not.

 

[Dreaad]

Can't wait for their "historic" and "tactical" interpretation of cave men armies with advanced warfare technology featuring the battering ram.

 

[Zeriel]

Well, damn. I've been a fan of Total War for a long time and while I heard Rome 2 was pretty disappointing I hoped they'd have patched it up by now. Guess not.

No amount of patching can fix it. Rome 2 is actually really remarkable in another way: even the greatest mods can't salvage anything worth playing out of it. It truly is a singular creation whose sheer mediocrity will be remembered for years to come. It's the Sim City 5 of its genre.

 

[Shannow]

That's because it's vastly less moddable than the last good CA games. (No, Shogun2 is not good, just weirdly overrated on the codex.)

Also: That trailer was pure shit. As if Attila would compliment Rome in front of his warriors. You always demonize your enemy. Rule one of war.

 

[Lu Bu]

After Rome 2 I am a bit skeptical with any more total wars games, and this is after me dumping nearly a thousand hours in Shogun (Which already had it's shares of bugs)

Anything that can make that feeling go away?

 

[Tigranes]

Europa Barbarorum 2, or Paradox games.

 

[Volrath]

After Rome 2 I am a bit skeptical with any more total wars games, and this is after me dumping nearly a thousand hours in Shogun (Which already had it's shares of bugs)

Anything that can make that feeling go away?

A bit he says

 

[IDtenT]

The first Rome was the pinnacle of the series. Nothing to see here.

 

[sser]

Total War is the Madden of strategy games. I expect this to be shit and they'll get away with it, again.

 

[oscar]

Shogun 2 was a very solid title so I still have some faith in CA (though I never tried the much loathed Rome 2).

 

[Delterius]

Is Rome 2 Not Shit™ yet?

Was it even possible?

 

[Irenaeus]

I like princess.

 

[Kattze]

I like princess.

I remember the early unpatched days of vanilla M2TW when Milan will rape anyone everywhere (especially poor France).

 

[Thane Solus]

Shogun 2 compared to Rome 2 its a master piece.

 

[groke]

Wow, I totally remember when I gave a shit about Creative Assembly.

 

[JarlFrank]

I came this close to just saying to hell with it and buying Rome 2 IE on steam, but then I checked the DLC and realized I'd be paying like an extra 80 fucking dollars for some skins and shitty mini-campaigns that modders could shit out in a few weeks in the old days.

Modders still shit them out, CA's "let's make the game less accissible to modders" policy doesn't work at all because the one thing modders are still able to do it... the same kind of stuff CA sells as DLC, unit packs!