Warhammer: Total War

Ri_Nollaig · 17-05-2016 11:19pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I'm looking forward to reading some reviews this week hopefully and I would nothing more than them to be positive .

Sephiroth_dude · 18-05-2016 1:32am

Theres always a chance :pac:

pablomakaveli · 18-05-2016 6:41pm

They seem to be making an effort this time not to repeat past mistakes. They've released copies for early reviews, delayed the game for a month for polishing and just seem to be a lot more open with the development this time around.

Of course I could just be kidding myself here.

Falthyron · 19-05-2016 2:22pm

Review embargo appears to have ended at 2pm.

GameSpot: 9/10 - 'It's a triumph of real-time strategy design, and the best the Total War series has ever been.'
IGN: 86/100
PCGamer: 86/100
Destructoid: 80/100

According to GameSpot: 'Massive AI improvements'

Dair76 · 19-05-2016 2:45pm

Yeah, some of the TW YouTube community are giving their opinions now. Positive for the most part it seems.

degrassinoel · 19-05-2016 2:50pm

hmm, IGN scored it lower than they initially scored Rome II

the eurogamer review is pretty good

Oh, and it's unlocking on steam at 8am on tuesday

Sephiroth_dude · 19-05-2016 4:11pm

Think I'll get this now

Any idea where the cheapest place would be?

The_Valeyard · 19-05-2016 4:44pm

Must
Resist
Pre-Order.

degrassinoel · 19-05-2016 5:27pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Think I'll get this now Any idea where the cheapest place would be?

seen it on G2play earlier for 40quid, but ye dont get the key til it's released, so.. let the buyer beware. But their generally good with stuff like that

Dair76 · 19-05-2016 8:18pm

The RPS review is interesting. They reckon that the campaign side is shallower, more limited, and that the battles are much better. That's maybe to fit in with the Warhammer lore, but not sure I like the sound of it personally. I'll wait for you guys to give feedback.

Spear · 19-05-2016 9:48pm

Steam preload is up. 20 gigs, seems a bit small.

Dair76 · 19-05-2016 9:54pm

That's before DLC. :pac:

Dohnjoe · 19-05-2016 11:03pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Think I'll get this now Any idea where the cheapest place would be?

€36.59 on cdkeys (plus a possible 5% more off for first time buyers with a facebook like)

Facebook thing here, enter any email address apparently

Comes with Chaos warriors DLC

Disclaimer: this is a key reseller, "grey market" and all that jazz

SeantheMan · 20-05-2016 8:24am

degrassinoel wrote: »

hmm, IGN scored it lower than they initially scored Rome II

the eurogamer review is pretty good

Oh, and it's unlocking on steam at 8am on tuesday

Does anyone trust IGN or any of their reviews ? Completely hate and distrust that lot.
I don't trust review scores, from anywhere anymore.

I'm interested in the game, so I'll probably end up watching a Totalbiscuit WTF is, or watching an hour or two of some people playing on Twitch, then deciding if it's something I'd be interested in buying at full price.

Ri_Nollaig · 20-05-2016 8:29am

Dohnjoe wrote: »

€36.59 on cdkeys (plus a possible 5% more off for first time buyers with a facebook like)

Facebook thing here, enter any email address apparently

Comes with Chaos warriors DLC

Disclaimer: this is a key reseller, "grey market" and all that jazz

Its still €47 on greenmangaming as well, obviously dearer but thats probably the cheapest 'legit' reseller

Ive admitted defeat and gone for it anyway, yeah I know, I'm weak.
Swore I'd never preorder again after Rome II yet here we are

degrassinoel · 20-05-2016 9:05am

Sephiroth_dude · 20-05-2016 9:57am

SeantheMan wrote: »

Does anyone trust IGN or any of their reviews ? Completely hate and distrust that lot.
I don't trust review scores, from anywhere anymore.

I'm interested in the game, so I'll probably end up watching a Totalbiscuit WTF is, or watching an hour or two of some people playing on Twitch, then deciding if it's something I'd be interested in buying at full price.

TB wont be covering it I'd say, he has some boycott against them.

Maguined · 20-05-2016 10:03am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

TB wont be covering it I'd say, he has some boycott against them.

TB loves his Games Workshop though so I reckon he will be tempted to do it.

Sephiroth_dude · 20-05-2016 10:05am

Maguined wrote: »

TB loves his Games Workshop though so I reckon he will be tempted to do it.

I 'd say he could alright

, its actually sega he has the problem i think not the devs.

degrassinoel · 20-05-2016 10:33am

seems like he's shooting himself in the foot with that, sega have some of the greatest strategy games under their belt in the last few years

Sephiroth_dude · 20-05-2016 10:50am

degrassinoel wrote: »

seems like he's shooting himself in the foot with that, sega have some of the greatest strategy games under their belt in the last few years

Its because they gave him a copyright strike on shining force video and they wont apologise for it or something to that effect.

Shiminay · 20-05-2016 11:01am

It's Sega - they contentID'd and all sorts of stuff against his channel for stuff that was taken from publicly accessible and/or press specific promotional fluff and they refused to help or apologise like common sense would dictate.

degrassinoel · 20-05-2016 11:11am

all that over a megadrive title..

Varik · 20-05-2016 1:04pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Its because they gave him a copyright strike on shining force video and they wont apologise for it or something to that effect.

Doubt it's much of a concern anymore for him, say he'll do a video on it.

Patser · 20-05-2016 1:10pm

1st Total War game in yonks I've resisted getting on day 1.

I've broken their spell!!!!! I'm free!! Free of looking for potential, free of saying 'when that's patched it'll be cool', free I tells you....

When's GOTY edition out?

Dave_The_Sheep · 20-05-2016 1:22pm

More importantly, when's the GOTY out half price?

degrassinoel · 20-05-2016 4:49pm

https://www.twitch.tv/totalwarofficial

chaos campaign live ^^

Zillah · 20-05-2016 4:55pm

One thing I really want to see is more battles in the field and a lot less city combat. All told, that was my biggest problem - amongst many - with Rome 2. It just seemed that I could play all night and not get a single field battle. AI refused to engage unless they were pinned down completely.

degrassinoel · 21-05-2016 11:32am

from what i've seen them streaming over the last few weeks, there are loads more field encounters than sieges. The sieges are odd compared to all other TW games too, the towers shoot immediately at your army, their range is so vast that you are instantly being bombarded with whatever they're firing. They also do a tremendous amount of damage to siege equipment and close formations. Somewhat accurate as opposed to the prior games.

The non-siege maps seem to be quite small, which is imo a dumbing down but it also seems to be better in that you dont have to march around or send out scouts for 10 minutes to find a hidden army. High ground is more lethal than ever.

Black Orcs are almost unstoppable!
Grimgore Ironhide IS unstoppable!
There's a video on the twitch link above from the dwarven campaign where the guy playing the dwarves literally had to send his entire army to try take down Grimgore, they managed to make him retreat back, but... it took and entire army!

Plus the soundtrack is great.

blackwave · 21-05-2016 2:16pm

I had promised myself, that I wasn't going to buy this but after reading a few reviews and watching the let's plays I crumbled and I am currently preloading the game.

Sephiroth_dude · 21-05-2016 2:21pm

blackwave wrote: »

I had promised myself, that I wasn't going to buy this but after reading a few reviews and watching the let's plays I crumbled and I am currently preloading the game.

Where did you buy it from ?

blackwave · 21-05-2016 6:27pm

Off Cd Keys, entered the key in and then went to the game page and had the option to preload. This is meant to include the chaos dlc as well and €38 or so.

degrassinoel · 21-05-2016 6:32pm

chaos is a preorder bonus which has been extended to all purchases within one week of launch, so it wont actually matter if ye get it after the launch so long as it's within the first week ye get that content anyway

TheDoc · 22-05-2016 12:23pm

ugh getting temptation for this.

Think ill hold of for a week or two see what the general feedback is, but always love a good Total War game coming into summer

blackwave · 22-05-2016 4:03pm

degrassinoel wrote: »

chaos is a preorder bonus which has been extended to all purchases within one week of launch, so it wont actually matter if ye get it after the launch so long as it's within the first week ye get that content anyway

Yeah, that's what I thought as well. But when I was looking at a few other key resellers I say a few make no mention of the Chaos DLC so I didnt want to chance it.

degrassinoel · 22-05-2016 4:04pm

should be all the same thing, and shouldn't cost more less with or without it as it's free for all for the first week

The_Valeyard · 22-05-2016 5:06pm

I caved
I bought
I will be on the shower
UNCLEAN UNCLEAN UNCLEAN

SHHHAAAMMMEE

degrassinoel · 22-05-2016 7:14pm

degrassinoel · 23-05-2016 11:43am

So, totalwar are doing a massive stream tonight with a bunch of giveaways from 6pm til midnight - "t-shirts, books, codes and maybe even a High King Edition", might be worth it if you're on the fence

https://www.twitch.tv/totalwarofficial

Maguined · 23-05-2016 11:51am

degrassinoel wrote: »

chaos is a preorder bonus which has been extended to all purchases within one week of launch, so it wont actually matter if ye get it after the launch so long as it's within the first week ye get that content anyway

This is a decent move. I did not want to preorder out of principle and was then put off by the idea of not getting the Chaos Faction as punishment so I was not going to get it at all but this might swing me back depending upon what early reviews from people I trust are like.

Shiminay · 23-05-2016 3:20pm

Saw some streams of it in action over the weekend. It looked like a Total War game I guess, I don't really know an awful lot about them. Still not sure if these games are my kinda thing, but I do enjoy a bitta GW IP if it's delivered well.

Spear · 23-05-2016 3:37pm

Shiminay wrote: »

Saw some streams of it in action over the weekend. It looked like a Total War game I guess, I don't really know an awful lot about them. Still not sure if these games are my kinda thing, but I do enjoy a bitta GW IP if it's delivered well.

Wait, you've never played a Total War game?

Beefy78 · 23-05-2016 3:49pm

I've never played a Total War game either. Used to love Warhammer back in the day though so I'm following this with interest.

Shiminay · 23-05-2016 3:54pm

Nope, never did, all I ever hear about them is that they're always broken and it takes a year for both community mods and official patches to make them playable and tbh, I'm not even slightly arsed indulging in that sort of nonsense.

Spear · 23-05-2016 3:55pm

Beefy78 wrote: »

I've never played a Total War game either. Used to love Warhammer back in the day though so I'm following this with interest.

If anyone has even a passing knowledge or interest in Warhammer, then it'll be a small delight to see it all run in real time then. And if nothing else, controllable goblin doom divers are there.

IvoryTower · 23-05-2016 3:57pm

Beefy78 wrote: »

I've never played a Total War game either. Used to love Warhammer back in the day though so I'm following this with interest.

You're in for a treat so

The_Valeyard · 23-05-2016 3:59pm

Who are you going to play as first?

Going for Orks

"Dem Inquisishun humies can't be trusted any further dan day can be thrown, which in dat one's case might be a bad example."

degrassinoel · 23-05-2016 4:02pm

Shiminay wrote: »

Saw some streams of it in action over the weekend. It looked like a Total War game I guess, I don't really know an awful lot about them. Still not sure if these games are my kinda thing, but I do enjoy a bitta GW IP if it's delivered well.

Grand strategy will not suit everyone, think of it as Civ but much deeper and with enormous realtime battles.
The focus being more on building armies, and cities to fund them while you try to trample the world with jackboots, that's generally how i play, but there are many other facets in TW, diplomacy, bribery, assassination, betrayal, religion and downright murder as well as the epic battles

degrassinoel · 23-05-2016 4:04pm

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Who are you going to play as first?

Going for Orks

"Dem Inquisishun humies can't be trusted any further dan day can be thrown, which in dat one's case might be a bad example."

same here, cant wait to have grimgore smash the crap out of everything

The_Valeyard · 23-05-2016 5:48pm

degrassinoel wrote: »

same here, cant wait to have grimgore smash the crap out of everything

"Orkses is never defeated in battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fighting so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!"

Warhammer: Total War

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