I must confess, this message both took me by surprise and was super funny at the same time. Some thoughts where spend on if i would purchase the damn game but, since i made a vow only to complete the warhammer trilogy and let that be the last money i spend on CA ( unless they decide to enter the realm of fleet combat and planetary assaults ) i now say no!

Still, its one of the titles that received a lot of praise by the people who are looking for a deep 4x in a well thought out world and received for this fact a small but dedicated fanbase up to this day.

I do wonder if others who are familiar with the first release will go and take a look what the remaster will hold in stall. Next to upgraded graphics improvements to a.i. and gamemechanics are promised too so maybe this will be one of the first games that could be considered a true remaster ?

The following is based on me trying out the demo of the first Total War game (PC Gamer UK cover disk). I've also read the review and reviews of the following Total War games.
While I like (some) RTS games; this series was just way too much micromanagement for me. I can imagine that higher resolution textures and more polygons are relevant aspects to an RTS like this, where you zoom in a lot.

Improved "game mechanics" on the other hand... Isn't that like "improving" the puzzles or the dialogues in a classic P&C adventure? I can't imagine that everybody will like every change and consider them all improvements... And who wants the game they like to get worse (even if they like other changes)?

Anyway, I'm sure that most remasters don't have 'existing players' in mind. The publisher/developer mainly does it to attract new players/customers.

Pretty much.

Nothing makes you feel old like still having a game in your backlog when it gets a remaster.

Sheesh.

Well, no not really, there is a whole host of extra functions to be found in the grand strategy games of these times that really add to immersing yourself into a game. Of course nothing beats a solid formula but adaptive real time tactics for example played out by an ai and seemingly cohersive responses to your actions on a world map as a player really do add. This has certainly improved over the years though i belief the whole idea still stands in children shoes +1

They will change the tutorial campaign from scratch, a new one.
The UI is completely revised/redone.
The upgrade in graphics is more than some models and textures. They probably are changing the renderer and more. The only requirement available is a 64 bit OS. That means something.

Aside of the typical widescreen and HD resolutions etc... All of this is much more than any mod compilation is able to do.

Frack! they got me ...

just watched the trailer available on steam

" Welcome back ... son of Rome "

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, i'm so weak

Atm there is a 50% discount ongoing for all those who own the original Rome on their steam account totalling at 15 euro's which seems to be a bargain



* up

I'd buy it if I really LOVED the series, but anything with DRM isn't worth more than 5 euro (to me).

Actually, my DRM-free backlog is so big, that I'll never buy a drm'ed game again (last time was... 8 years ago?).

This piqued my interest when I saw it on Steam since I've had the original on my backlog for so long and I've heard nothing but good things about it. But even for $15 dollars idk if I can justify repurchasing considering how many games I could get for the same price during the current sale here (and how immense my backlog already is).

I'll probably just end up playing the original.

I agree that a competent team can make a very good remaster of an older game, if all the pieces fit neatly together. The art of the game is how everything works together and if they manage to upgrade an already good core, which is harder than is seems, then I'll be sold twice over. But I definitely won't go blindly in like I did with Rome 2, which was a technical and in my opinion artistic blunder.

Honesly when I was able to play it I preferred Rome 2 compared to Rome, It had a lot of modernised features that did the micromanagement much better. All felt bigger in scale. etc...

What I ignore is what are going to do with that micromanagement in the Remaster/Remake/Whatever. It was a critical evolutionay point that made a lot of peope not to go back to the venerable Rome. The reinforcements, for example, or the taxes etc... Probably not much. It would be a "too much" change in the core game/spirit.

Ain't that the fucking truth!

it took some time but, eventually Rome 2 became a pretty nice game, i actually favored some of the game settings lost over time, such as the rampaging barbarian lords, the ones that gathered one huge army and just went on a killing spree until death