Rome 2 : Total War

Darujhistan said:
It's pretty clear what has happened, tbh all they cared about was getting pre-orders in, they knew they'd be releasing a unfinished game and they knew reviews would be bad and they knew the community would go ape****.

These are professional people, they knew they had a turkey, and they knew other people would fix it over time.

SEGA doesn't give a ****, they'll have made a fortune on pre-orders, what happens sales-wise after that is just gravy to them. After all, who is picking up the pieces? - CREATIVE ARTS.

This was a masterful example of a PR at it's best (worst) they hyped the game, they pumped out vid after vid that bears no relationship to the game they released.

It's a bit like Apple, they have got a captive audience, people have fallen in love with their pretty products and will pay a premium for their phones, tablets, and their awful Mac's - it doesn't matter that other products are cheaper/ better or have more features.

People are addicted to I-W*nk.

On a much smaller scale that's what happened here.
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On the plus side, i have now learnt never to pre-order a game ever again :). I very rarely did anyway but i made an exception for Rome 2 as i absolutely LOVE Total War games. Shogun 2 was really excellent.

Now this has let me down i will only ever buy a game when it has been out for some time , it is in the bargain bins for 5-10 pounds, and everything has been fixed by patches

Pretty good really as it should save me a bit of money :)

This and Hitman Absolution are the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Fed up of greedy publishers and stupid developers that somehow take a great winning formula and **** all over it with terrible new and rushed ideas.

With regards to Rome 2 , why didnt they build on the graphics engine of Shogun 2? It had great sli scaling, it had many AA options, it had tesselation and HDR and performed pretty well even with large battles. It also looked beautiful. Instead, we get Rome 2 that has NONE of those things. They have taken away features, somehow ruined the performance and made it look worse.
 
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Patch 1.5 Contains one fix:
- Should improve Campaign Map frame rate in the majority of cases for those people with high-end graphics cards combined with mid-range CPUs. Those people who have noted high frame rates in battle but single-figure frame rates during Campaign Map play should see a notable increase in performance.
 
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Patch 1.5 Contains one fix:
- Should improve Campaign Map frame rate in the majority of cases for those people with high-end graphics cards combined with mid-range CPUs. Those people who have noted high frame rates in battle but single-figure frame rates during Campaign Map play should see a notable increase in performance.
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Thanks. I was too lazy to dig that out as I was posting from my phone. ;)
 
Diplexbullet19 said:
keep getting trade offers but countries keep asking for all my money which would be 30k at the moment.
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Why do countries have to ask for money for a trade agreement anyway? The first country I asked was free but everyone after that is asking for money, normally 10% of my money. End up trying to negotiate but not being to manually input your own values is silly for a PC exclusive now, at least it could be more flexible because at this rate I'm turning them all down.
 
 
Colours look so rich, probably because there was no god damn ugly colour filter. The developers should totally remove the colour filters, what good is creating good textures when the filter's washed them out.
 
I don't understand why they would cull it back? surely if they can make it look that good, but it's resource heavy possibly... stick that as the Extreme or Ultra settings??
 
I just watched the angry joe video...40 minutes long but some very funny moments and a pretty accurate and damning take on the the ****heap that is Rome 2 in it's current state.

Also, re the above, mine looks and runs nothing like that promotional video either on max settings. Mine looks like a horrid aliased washed out mess.
 
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