Rome 2 : Total War

I'd like to see something like Total Warhammer, or A Song of Ice and Fire, or LOTR.

The best era's have already been done twice, Rome and Medieval.

PS Has anyone played a LOTR modded Total War? If so what was the best one, IIRC there's at least two, one utilizing Medieval 2.
 
Currently on offer at GMG for £26.99 for the PC DVD. Although I fail to understand why this is cheaper than the download offer which (even after using their discount code) is more than £30...
 
Tiny Clanger said:
Currently on offer at GMG for £26.99 for the PC DVD. Although I fail to understand why this is cheaper than the download offer which (even after using their discount code) is more than £30...
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Don't know how accurate this is, but I was told that digital retailers are required to sell digital downloads at higher prices than physical copies because bricks and mortar retailers (be they on the high street or online) would go out of business with such high overheads compared to digital distributors (especially those who are just selling keys).
 
LurkingWeasel said:
Don't know how accurate this is, but I was told that digital retailers are required to sell digital downloads at higher prices than physical copies because bricks and mortar retailers (be they on the high street or online) would go out of business with such high overheads compared to digital distributors (especially those who are just selling keys).
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Required? They should be able to sell them at what they want, retail is a dead sector and it's stupid that everybody else is being required to do things differently because of it.
 
In a nutshell, it goes like this:

Publisher: Will you stock our new game?

Retailer: Only if it's at least the same price via Digital Download services. Otherwise, no.

Publisher: I'm not sure that's what we want. Digital Editions cost us less, and we'd sell more at a lower price point.

Retailer: We'll put it another way. If it is cheaper on Steam, we'll remove your games from our shelves. All of them. Across all platforms.

Publisher: Now that you put it that way, I guess an RRP of £39.99 for the digital edition is reasonable.

Retailer: Good. I'm glad we came to an understanding.

I'm not sure this scenario carries over to big companies like Sega. The story comes from some smaller developers who ran in to the situation a few years ago. They now release solely on Steam, GMG etc., but they are PC only anyway.
 
jakspyder said:
The medieval 2 mod (Third age total war) i think its called is phenomenal. Like... amazeballs.
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You think?

I totally, totally love the idea.... and the huge amount of work that's gone into the mod is phenomenal.

But, I really just couldn't get into it. I remember playing as Mordor, sorting out my cities, making economic advances and then going out for a bit of a fight with some early troops. (Perhaps 5 units) The battle seemed to take forever, over an hour at least for a pitched battle in a field, my archers seemed to be completely ineffective, and the combat was ... boring, and it seemed very unclear as to who was winning, or what strategy might have worked.

Anyone played it and can give me a few pointers? If all the battles take that long then it just wouldn't be feasible for me to spend that long doing 1 campaign, I don't have the time sadly.

(Sorry for the slight off-topic, i'm thoroughly drooling over RTW2 tho)
 
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