Medieval II: Total War

Crack_Pot · Aug 21, 2007, 02:17 AM

Hi there every one. just asking for your opinions on Medieval II: total war. i think that it's tha god of strategy games, embodying everyting that they should be about. an absolute classic.

BlueMak · Aug 21, 2007, 08:09 AM

It is fun, and beautiful, but the god of strategy games hardly.
Good game though.

mkk · Aug 21, 2007, 10:51 AM

A good game that could have been great were it not for loads of little problems strewn throughout the game. The best thing in the long run is the creativity of the many game modifiers that this series has attracted. Without mods like UltimateAI I would have lost interest much sooner.

Crack_Pot · Aug 24, 2007, 02:00 AM

yeah, there are a few problems with it, the pathfinding for one, but on the whole, i thought that it was the best strategy game that i have ever played

BlueMak · Aug 24, 2007, 03:05 AM

Perhaps you should play more strategy games then :-p

OmegaRED · Aug 24, 2007, 03:42 AM

I'm with Crack Pot, Medieval 2: Total War is the best strategy game on the condition you don't count the previous TW games Medieval, Shogun and Rome. People who played those games are less likely to be impressed by Medieval 2 because they've seen it all before. I've played plenty of RTS games but Medieval 2 was my first in that series.

Yes, Medieval 2 has tons of bugs and many of them are very serious (I hate the passive enemy sieges more than anything else) but there's so many mods and unofficial fixes out there that it's just a matter of time before someone fixes the buggy AI too.

I've played a bunch of mods but eventually just got tired of the serious bugs which affected them all. Darthmod, Litemod, Lands to Conquer and The Long Road are all pretty cool as is Ultimate AI. Anywho, Kingdoms is just days away and it's just what the doctor ordered. I'm not sure if they'll have fixed the AI (not likely) but at least there's all kinds of cool eras to play around with.

Aug 21, 2007, 02:17 AM	#1
Crack_Pot DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Medieval II: Total War Hi there every one. just asking for your opinions on Medieval II: total war. i think that it's tha god of strategy games, embodying everyting that they should be about. an absolute classic. __________________ Victory is Mine!

Aug 21, 2007, 08:09 AM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	It is fun, and beautiful, but the god of strategy games hardly. Good game though. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Aug 24, 2007, 02:00 AM	Thread Starter #4
Crack_Pot DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	yeah, there are a few problems with it, the pathfinding for one, but on the whole, i thought that it was the best strategy game that i have ever played __________________ Victory is Mine!

Aug 24, 2007, 03:05 AM	#5
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Perhaps you should play more strategy games then :-p __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Aug 24, 2007, 03:42 AM	#6
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	I'm with Crack Pot, Medieval 2: Total War is the best strategy game on the condition you don't count the previous TW games Medieval, Shogun and Rome. People who played those games are less likely to be impressed by Medieval 2 because they've seen it all before. I've played plenty of RTS games but Medieval 2 was my first in that series. Yes, Medieval 2 has tons of bugs and many of them are very serious (I hate the passive enemy sieges more than anything else) but there's so many mods and unofficial fixes out there that it's just a matter of time before someone fixes the buggy AI too. I've played a bunch of mods but eventually just got tired of the serious bugs which affected them all. Darthmod, Litemod, Lands to Conquer and The Long Road are all pretty cool as is Ultimate AI. Anywho, Kingdoms is just days away and it's just what the doctor ordered. I'm not sure if they'll have fixed the AI (not likely) but at least there's all kinds of cool eras to play around with. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Aug 21, 2007, 10:51 AM	#3
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,490 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	A good game that could have been great were it not for loads of little problems strewn throughout the game. The best thing in the long run is the creativity of the many game modifiers that this series has attracted. Without mods like UltimateAI I would have lost interest much sooner.