War games are best when ecstatic highs of crushing victory are balanced against the lows war's tragedy. Shogun 2 was the last Total War game with any emotion. The series has a long tradition of underlying sorrow in its music, particularly the credits:>"Forever" credits music in RTWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UApsdueSYQ0>"We are all one" in MTW2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKHfoLIg2uM>"Bird of Time" credits music in Shogun 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjIz0HX9i4QTotal war games are now devoid of emotional impact, perhaps particularly because of the comedically-inclined Warhammer content. Now it's all mechanics, features, and content expansions. The balance has been lost, will it ever be recovered?
Alright well fuck total war
I feel you are noticing a symptom of modern total war sucking, and mistaking it for the cause of the suck
>>2469431True, and also I hate it when strategy games are too easy and you can just win with a nice meta. Winning a hard victory feels more satisfying. When playing games like MOWAS2 I'd purposefully throw waves of infantry so it'd feel more like Operation Barbarossa or Vistula-oder than say a simple skirmish battle where you win easily with just a few casualties.Props to immersion when everything in sight can be destroyed, buildings, towers, homes, the terrain etc. WiC did it very nicely imho also with its sound design (WW3 would be the loudest human armed conflict of all time).It's awesome to see all the destruction after the battle. Such would be the horror of a true World War III.
>>2469431You clearly have not played three kingdoms or Pharoah:Dynastyshttps://youtu.be/6yBQLUn5W0Y?si=Vv4xDognRevU9vWkhttps://youtu.be/HGw728MjKm0?si=aDx_5gCPKSO6Di42
Shogun 2> Atilla > rome 2> medieval 2 > warhammer 3 > Napoleon> Pharoah Dynasties > Three Kingdoms >warhammer 2 > Empire >Thrones of brittania> warhammer 1 >Shogun 1> medieval 1> Pharoah> Troy
Have you tried simulators? Theres alot of interesting modern equivalents to total war, stuff like Graviteam tactics, Regiments, or WARNO
Rome 3 when?
>>2469431Idk OP Pharoah dynasties was reall REALLY good, atleast the Historical gamemode was.
>>2469431Didn't med 3 litterally just get announced? What are you boomer luddites crying about this time?
>>2471649OP is talking about emotional impact, and you suggest the most autistic, clinical, and soulless strategy games ever made. Nice reading comprehension, retard.>>2469431Play World in Conflict, the campaign will really pull the strings in your heart.
>>2471679>Pharoah dynasties was reall REALLY goodDoubt
>>2471731It was miles better than Pharoah was
>>2471632>You clearly have not played three kingdoms or Pharoah:DynastysI'm convinced none of the complainers did. They are just watching videos of a fag going no reeeeeload animashuns over clips of warhammer and getting mad at it while insisting their opinion of which is the last game you are allowed to like is correct.3K is a good game (albeit with a bungled DLC policy), fags will refuse to play it because>names too hard to rememberas if nobody ever played dynasty warriors or something.Pharaoh is okay but it is a bit outdated. It's pretty questionable to sell it as a "mainline" game when it's troy which was wh2 and doesn't have the improved diplomacy for example that 3k had making it a step back in some ways. I do like some of the things they tried to do with that game though.
>>2471777pharaoh was shit, dynasty only polished it
>>2471645I don't really care about feudal japan, so I don't care about Shogun 2 at all.
>>2471632The setting of 3chinkdom is simply too uninteresting to me to ever play it, no matter how good it is or how hard you chinks try to shill them. But I might play Pharaoh.
>>2469431War games are best when you are playing MP with someone slightly better than you - so you know why they are beating you and what you can improve.Everything else is larping
>>2473006It's all larping you motherfucker it's a VIDEOGAME
>>2472396Play dynasys if i do, its more historical and the map is twice as big and twice as many factions
