When did you lose your Total War virginity?
- Jul 21, 2012 10:15 am GMTFirst Shogun game.
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- Jul 23, 2012 7:00 am GMT
My first Total War was the original Shogun for me. I was about 14 and it was the first game i got for my first gaming pc, at the time it blew me away and i knew that i was a fan for life. Since then i played Medieval>Rome>Medieval 2>Empire>Shogun 2.
Rome was my favorite followed closely by shogun 2. Rome 2's announcement was the stuff dreams are made of, sad i know
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My first Total War was the original Shogun for me. I was about 14 and it was the first game i got for my first gaming pc, at the time it blew me away and i knew that i was a fan for life. Since then i played Medieval>Rome>Medieval 2>Empire>Shogun 2.
Rome was my favorite followed closely by shogun 2. Rome 2's announcement was the stuff dreams are made of, sad i know :(
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- Jul 23, 2012 7:28 am GMTBlackDevil99 wrote:
Rome was my first and favroutie, short of Westeros: Total War or Middle-Earth: Total War, this is the best I could've hoped for. Can't wait
Have you ever tried a Mod for Medievel 2 Total War called Third Age Total War? It is by far the best mod i have ever played on any game it is so goos i conider it a total war in it's own right. you can be like 9 diffrent factions for example high elvs, silvian elves, dawarfs, orcs of the misty moutains, isinguard, mordor, rohan, gondor, dale, harand and others. the game boasts an amazing amount of different unit types such as the harand can field giant mymakil (those 50ft elephants from the return of the king), orecs of the misty mountains can have armoured trolls, spider cavalry, orcs of gunabad can have worg cavalry (giants wolf dogs from fellowship), also nasgul, balrog, orcihai, sauron and so so much more. I completed a very hard (both campaign and battle) run through with high elves and gondor and plan to have another go soon as maybe an evil race.
the 3.0 version of the mod has a full replica of the middle-earth map with each capital has its own unique settlement that looks like i does from the films for example minas tirith looks exactly like it does from the film return of the king. It also has events in the campaign such as if you find the ring it can grant you cetain traits that can help you in the long run and mordor can call an invasion like in meivel 2 on a faction when it wants. Another example is when i attacked the mines of moria i unleashed a balrog that was of the field in the seige battle and was fighting on behalf of the orcs i lost half my army just trying to take the balrog down.
Also i here the same Mod community is working on a westeros total war version and if it is half as good as third age is I will be all over it. I consider third age my third favorite total war game right behing shogun 2 and rome. If anything i have said has intereste4d you go on youtube and look at some of the gamplay of third age.
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Rome was my first and favroutie, short of Westeros: Total War or Middle-Earth: Total War, this is the best I could've hoped for. Can't wait :)
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Have you ever tried a Mod for Medievel 2 Total War called Third Age Total War? It is by far the best mod i have ever played on any game it is so goos i conider it a total war in it's own right. you can be like 9 diffrent factions for example high elvs, silvian elves, dawarfs, orcs of the misty moutains, isinguard, mordor, rohan, gondor, dale, harand and others. the game boasts an amazing amount of different unit types such as the harand can field giant mymakil (those 50ft elephants from the return of the king), orecs of the misty mountains can have armoured trolls, spider cavalry, orcs of gunabad can have worg cavalry (giants wolf dogs from fellowship), also nasgul, balrog, orcihai, sauron and so so much more. I completed a very hard (both campaign and battle) run through with high elves and gondor and plan to have another go soon as maybe an evil race.
the 3.0 version of the mod has a full replica of the middle-earth map with each capital has its own unique settlement that looks like i does from the films for example minas tirith looks exactly like it does from the film return of the king. It also has events in the campaign such as if you find the ring it can grant you cetain traits that can help you in the long run and mordor can call an invasion like in meivel 2 on a faction when it wants. Another example is when i attacked the mines of moria i unleashed a balrog that was of the field in the seige battle and was fighting on behalf of the orcs i lost half my army just trying to take the balrog down.
Also i here the same Mod community is working on a westeros total war version and if it is half as good as third age is I will be all over it. I consider third age my third favorite total war game right behing shogun 2 and rome. If anything i have said has intereste4d you go on youtube and look at some of the gamplay of third age.
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- Jul 28, 2012 5:56 pm GMT
My roomate owned the first Rome=TW back in 2006 (give or take) and I saw him playing and thought it was awesome. Soon enough I started playing as well. First, a short campaign with the Julii on normal dif. After that I started a long campaign with Carthage on hard. The battles were brutal, and at times I thought I was done, but slowly I gained ground and conquered Rome and those 50+ provinces you needed to win the long campaign.
This was the game that brought me to PC gaming, a year or 2 after I moved out I built myself a gaming PC just to be able to play this game.
The mods were also AWESOME!!!
Darn, just thinking about it makes me want to install the game and play it again, but NO, NO... first gotta exhaust Shogun 2, and then wait for Rome II...
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- Jul 28, 2012 6:09 pm GMT
Know what you mean, that Sexy, gorgeous red head. I to will spend hours and hours playing with her at night, until I'm all tired and can't click on her no more!
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- Aug 2, 2012 2:25 pm GMT
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So finally, after 8 years of scratching a living in flea infested villages, we are finally going back to where we belong, Rome! /endripoffgladiatorquote
For me, Rome: Total War was the first in the series that I had ever played, and it was actually the game that brought me to start visiting GameSpot in the first place. In fact, it was actually the first game that I had really ever enthusiastically anticipated before its release. The game really captured my imagination like nothing else, and most of my first 1000 posts were on its discussion board.
When did you start playing? Do we have any fans from the first Shogun here? I was a little young when the first one came out and was barely a gamer at the time.
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I started at the beginning with Shogun. The funny thing is that game has never really been bested. The main reason and my pet hate are the maps. In Shogun you never knew where the enemy were. You entered as an attacker right at the back and had to find the enemy. This gave the defenders a chance to ambush an advancing army and turn the tables.
Now later they did away with this in favour of a 11 aside kick off at 20 paces, removing tactics and strategy. BRING IT BACK!!!!
Rant over, Rome was a masterpiece. I played it to death. My only slight gripe was that the barbarians were too weak and could never match the might of the legions even on the hardest setting.
As a dedicated PC gamer, this series makes our platform special. I play it a gtx 680 (age has some advantages) with everything maxed on DX11. When my armies clash in Shogun (darth mod), the screen display is like a movie. Fantastic.
I have high hopes for Rome 2. CA are a class outfit and they will smash it. My only slight reservation in this new DLC trend. I want to see lots of factions with unique units available from the get go, and not as chargeable content.
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- Nov 18, 2012 10:42 am GMT
My very first total war game was shogun total war. I remember the day I went to my local mall to buy it ( I was 14-15) I remember my very first strategy game if you could call it that was north vs south on nintendo haha but what really got me into shogun was sid meier's gettysburg. i played that for 2 years or so and moved onto shogun when i saw it in the mall once day. the first shogun was definitley the best experience for me and then rome when it came out 5 some years later. I only hope Rome II will bring back some familiar things seen in the first. I agree less DLC's and more stuff from the get-go and Barbarian tribes to the north should not be pushover's. CA has the chance to dethrone the first shogun as best game in my collection so hopefully they dont disappoint
My very first total war game was shogun total war. I remember the day I went to my local mall to buy it ( I was 14-15) I remember my very first strategy game if you could call it that was north vs south on nintendo haha but what really got me into shogun was sid meier's gettysburg. i played that for 2 years or so and moved onto shogun when i saw it in the mall once day. the first shogun was definitley the best experience for me and then rome when it came out 5 some years later. I only hope Rome II will bring back some familiar things seen in the first. I agree less DLC's and more stuff from the get-go and Barbarian tribes to the north should not be pushover's. CA has the chance to dethrone the first shogun as best game in my collection so hopefully they dont disappoint :)
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- Nov 22, 2012 9:49 am GMT
The first game I plaed in the seies was Medieval 1. Controlling the seas was key. station ships in each sea province in a chain and you could just bounce massive armies from Scandinavia to Egypt in the blink of an eye. I went back and played Shogun 1 as well. My favorate so far has to be Shogun 2, although I enjoy the gameplay mechanics from earlier games as well. It shouldn't take decades traveling from one end of the map in a ship to the next.
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- Dec 4, 2012 4:23 pm GMT
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I started with Shogun Total war. Skipped to Medieval II after that. Then Medieval II Kingdoms and skipped to Napoleon Total War. My fav so far was Napoleon TW as I am a huge fan of the personna. I'll be sure to check this new ROME II tho, looks very impressive.
Btw did they say anything about the scale of the battles ? I really wish we get real scale battle in this one. Like with 10 000 - 20 000 units in your army (without conting the enemy forces) and a battle that takes hours to win instead of 20 minutes.
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- Dec 4, 2012 6:22 pm GMT
I started with the original Shogun ( and the little stick men) and went through the entire series except for Napoleon. The only one that was a disappointment for me was Empire. I find that each release of the originals -Shogun and Rome just want me to hope the series never ends as the graphics and game play are amazing. I am really sorry to see that Gamespot had this split as it was a very relevant and vibrant site for gamers to discuss their successes and frustrations on a site that offered a lot of personality and color. I can remember when Silent Hunter 4 came out and it's forum went on for over a year with at least 40 regulars getting into some deep discussions.
Sic volvere Parcas " So spin the Fates"
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- Jan 17, 2013 7:20 am GMT
Oh wow lets see the first time I played it was Medieval: Total War Viking Invasion waaaaaay back and been hooked ever since
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Now if your a LOTR fan then Get M2Tw and Kingdoms expantion then go to this websight and they have a mod know as "The Third Age" trust me it's a must have, here is the link : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=654 also this is my profile just leave me a message if you have questions http://www.twcenter.net/forums/member.php?46147-Legolose
Oh wow lets see the first time I played it was Medieval: Total War Viking Invasion waaaaaay back and been hooked ever since ;)
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- Feb 10, 2013 12:34 am GMTI played the demo for the first Shogun and I thought it was so cool but I was in high school and didn't have a dime to my name. I didn't get around to playing a full game until Rome came out. I've played Medieval, Empire, and Shogun 2 since then. Rome and Empire have been my favorite. Looking forward to Rome 2.
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- Mar 1, 2013 10:41 pm GMT
Nine years ago when the Rome: Total War demo came out.
After seeing some of the trailers my fourteen-year-old mind was set; I NEEDED this game. I downloaded the demo and the family PC could barely run it. Though five computer builds ago, I still somehow remember it having a single core Pentium III 700MHz processor and no dedicated graphics card. I was so excited to play RTW I managed to actually convince my father to buy an upgraded system, which we put together, together. He worked days and I of course had school so we toiled in the evenings for two days, and on the second day after finally troubleshooting the last problem (I still remember, we forgot to switch the power supply on. An amateur mistake.) and installing the operating system and essential drivers the very first thing I did was install the Rome: Total War demo. My father went to bed but I stayed up all night playing those (two?) historical battles over and over trying different strategies and difficulties.
That's a very fond memory, and one I did not remember until posed your question. Thanks.
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- Apr 24, 2013 3:59 pm GMTI started off with the first Shogun. I was only about 10 years and I loved playing it. After I got a better computer I started with Rome and then Medieval. Never got Empires or Shogun 2. I still don't have the money to get a computer good enough for those.
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- Apr 25, 2013 5:56 pm GMT
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I first started with Medieval Total War, then went back and played some Shogun Total War.
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- Apr 26, 2013 7:39 am GMT
Shogun total war, bought it in summer 2000 or 2001. Been playing the series ever since.
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- Apr 27, 2013 6:40 am GMT
Back in 2004 when my local game store gave me a free demo disk of Rome Total War. Played it for weeks or months then finally got the full game and played that for 3-4 years until I got Medieval 2. Also got the Barbarian & Alexander expansions. Good times, hard to believe it's been almost a decade... Hope my laptop will be able to run Rome 2 even if on low. I also want to get Shogun 2 some day. The first one was pretty cool but I didn't play it much though.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- May 7, 2013 7:25 pm GMTJunior year of HS, Rome. I had lusted after medieval and shogun but didnt have a machine capable, then the glorious revolution of Rome! Never went back to the oldies but have played hundreds of hours of every one since. Bought several copies of each through the years after unintended permanent loans, scratched discs, and finally a digital copy now! Cant wait for 2, ill be lost for months to it.
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Total War: Rome II
- Publisher(s): Sega
- Developer(s): Creative Assembly
- Genre: Strategy
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