Rome was not remastered in a day. All Romes lead to remasters. Romegalul: Remastered. So many possibilities.. Do you have experience with remasters of your favourite games? Leave a comment describing how it went for you, and if you think remasters are good or bad. I'm curious. Also here's my initial statement on this Remaster, I recommend reading that before watching the video: www.reddit.com/r/Volound/comments/mdmuvz/my_position_on_this_rome_total_war_remaster/ And here's the prize pool for the upcoming tourney I shouted out at the end: gofund.me/2a707235 And here's where I'll hopefully be uploading highlights of the best matches, including the finals: kzread.info

@edwardbayfield1401

3 жыл бұрын

Is there another game in the franchise that you would like to see remastered?

@notgoddhoward5972

3 жыл бұрын

ROMEGALUL Also should have given the remaster out for free to everyone who owns Rome 1. It's not a remake so not a new game. Limited time 50% off for owners of the original my arse.

@thattotalwarguy7911

3 жыл бұрын

@@notgoddhoward5972 what a great way to get literally nothing for the work they put in

@Razzlion

3 жыл бұрын

@@thattotalwarguy7911 The question is, WHAT work did they put in? They nabbet the merchants from medieval 2, threw on new textures and randomised models, used the HQ soundtrack they made for the mobile rome version etc. Did they do enough work to warrant a 30 dollar price tag?

@thattotalwarguy7911

3 жыл бұрын

@@Razzlion the new textures, new ui, historical ethnic variance in units, rebalancing the units, diplomacy rework, difficulty rework, etc. all say yes

I like this thing because it's as moddable as the original. FINALLY a Total War game that can be fully modded again.

@wanderingronin6462

3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the mods too! Better graphics + user interface is gonna mean A* mods again! Probably going to be the best part about it.

@dmitrikulkevicius9161

3 жыл бұрын

And it's Steam mod support.

@Krayt002

3 жыл бұрын

Its even more, devs have said they are trying to get rid of faction limiters and closely work with modders to ensure they get what they need to mod.

@killinspecialist1965

3 жыл бұрын

@@Krayt002 ye theyre making it more mod friendly its gonna be great

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

3 жыл бұрын

Is it Waracape?

Yeah, I want coop campaigns and better optimization on my old rome 1. Would be amazing if they did it like age of empires, which has amazing netcode for an old game.

Not gonna lie, they caught me by complete surprise with my pants down. Never was expecting that lol.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

hopefully the slingers are preserved. maybe they could reverse the direction of the wind-up, but thats all ;)

@nicholasthuya7683

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound would you take a shogun 3 over a massive ass shogun 2 update with new factions and troops

@rogueassassin875

3 жыл бұрын

probably bc CA's marketing and pr direction has been heading the exact opposite direction. Removing creators from their partner program that mainly played legacy games like Rome 1 right before releasing a remaster of the game has got to be some of the most braindead moves you could make. It's almost like CA is laughably bad at strategy despite being snake oil salesmen for strategic games lol

@thejackinati2759

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound Oh yeah, I was hoping they would fix those... :P Would be cool if they had differing styles for different slinger types. Behind-back Balearic motion for Balearic slingers, Byzantine or Greek one-motion release for Greek Slingers etcetera. Definetly not gonna happen though.

Gotta checkout Homeworld Remastered now

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

its even better now than when i played it, thanks to the patching - better than the classic version in basically every way. theres no other game like it. might have to go back to it soon, myself.

@dandanovich6729

3 жыл бұрын

Homeworld Remastered is awesome

@GutsLikesItInTheAss

3 жыл бұрын

Homeworld is dead. the community is so small and Deserts of Kharak was a commercial failure, despite being the best RTS game made in the last 10 years. Homeworld 3 trailer had only about a million views. It seems classic RTS is well and truly dead with no hope of revival

@mootedtols4865

3 жыл бұрын

@@GutsLikesItInTheAss don't say that/ I'm waiting for homeworld 3 :-(

@Seraphiel123

3 жыл бұрын

All the Homeworld games are fantastic even the criminally underrated Deserts of Kharak (which controversially is my favourite out of the entire series).

When a remastered game gets more hype than any new modern total war title.

@AksamRafiz

3 жыл бұрын

You mean modern non-fantasy.

@RoKBottomStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@AksamRafiz I know what I said.

@AksamRafiz

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoKBottomStudios the you are wrong , warhammer 3 hype is beyond the hype that exists for rome remastered.

@vindiesel682

3 жыл бұрын

👁👄👁 🍿

@petrorlov2599

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoKBottomStudios yeah, WH Total war is made for a totally different crowd but is still great

I honestly believe it’s a great thing that the remaster is going to be done by a 3rd party dev. I feel like CA has developed a formula for these games after making them for so long and has thus far refused to innovate...a fresh group of devs with a fresh take will be just the right thing to reinvigorate the franchise, as long as they show appropriate respect for what made it great in the first place

@red_isopat

3 жыл бұрын

not just refused to innovate, they got lazy and sloppy too

@RobBCactive

3 жыл бұрын

It's not innovation that was required for RTW, it was NOT breaking things but freshening up the media and UI. Also porting to modern gfx, so it runs well again. Unfortunately ever since Rome 2 their innovation has been dumbing things down. They didn't listen to experienced players, who were asking for improved AI and there were mods to help the AI expand, across narrow straits.

imagine sabotaging Rome 1 with a shitty patch to entice people to play Rome 2, only to go back to Rome 1 anyway. Really goes to show what a fucking godawful abomination Rome 2 really is.

@Qladstone

3 жыл бұрын

@@qounqer You mean 1/4 of the world's population?

@Qladstone

3 жыл бұрын

1.51 patch is dubious yeah.

@akiramasashi9317

3 жыл бұрын

@@qounqer Your point being?

@caligula2167

3 жыл бұрын

Did you actually play Rome 2 in the past few years or are you hating on it because it's "cool"?

@akiramasashi9317

3 жыл бұрын

@@caligula2167 I played a campaign some 6 months ago, but was bored to tears. Even after I installed a number of mods to make it more exciting I just couldn't enjoy myself.

Here follows a list of features i have gathered so far. Edit: the AI did get updated. It is now able to attack better across seas, and more likely to pull of a concentrated attack compared to the smaller stack spamm one could see earlier. Edit: Faction limmit increase and the ability to mod in new settlements did just get confirmed to be possible by Melkor Pathfinding is more or less the same. The Diplomacy did get adressed. Graphics got upgraded. Some unit rebalancing got done. UI got completely changed with some options to change it regardimg size and the way unit UI is presented. Soundtrack... is the original but ported from a CD. The setting toggles between original and remastered are really nice, and it is said people can add custom settings by mods. Talking about mods... full steam workshop support which is amazing. I literally broke 2 coppies of Rome disks back in the day because i suck at handling mods. But apparently map modding is harder than in the original which really sucks considering overhaul and total conversion mods were the best in Rome and Med2. It is however confirmed that the devs are in contact with at least some makers of the old major mods.

@vicar4236

3 жыл бұрын

The diplomacy has been updated and they made it so the AI doesn't offer dumb deal, like the "Don't attack us:Accept or we attack" deal that the Rome AI would do.

@eddiex009

3 жыл бұрын

From the Discord Feral Interactive Q&A this morning: "On release or shortly after tools will be released to support for editing 3D models" The map is editable. The Adopted General and Man of the Hour mechanics are the same as before . There was some concern about this from some of the KZread videos. Arrows can be toggled back to the old style. So no white streaks unless you want them. Enslavement has a new default (equal spread) but you can choose the old way. Audio has been improved and some old, unused commands have been uncovered and added for more variety. Multithreading has been added where possible. "Yes, we’re lifting the limits from the original game to allow for more factions and settlements to be added to maps " This will make modders very happy. Campaign map AI and battle AI have been improved (and are toggleable). This could make the game more challenging (good). The game will be supported post release. Great!!! There is an all-answers post on Discord. I

@keizervanenerc5180

3 жыл бұрын

@@eddiex009 thank you very much for the aditions and corrections!

@winniepooh4630

3 жыл бұрын

@@eddiex009 adoption is automatic now. Nobody got the opportunity to reject people that could be adopted

@eddiex009

3 жыл бұрын

@@winniepooh4630 someone post this in a rome 1 forums, so i just shared the info

The Command and Conquer remaster is pretty amazing. Press a button and you can instantly switch to old graphics.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

polish. also the jukebox is pretty cool, i heard.

@mememachine6022

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound jukebox is great the first five hours i played where just all hell march versions on a loop :)

Rome Remastered leaves me conflicted. On one side I'm really happy that they're remastering the game that absorbed something like 1000 hours of my life. On the other, I'm a bit sad that the only "great" thing that might come out from the Total War franchise (besides Shogun 2) is the remaster of a game from 2004.

7:19 - the goosebumps are real

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

the finest gourmet gaming. it better never get corrupted. homeworld is the only sacred game left for me.

The best thing about the Rome 2 launch is that one of the developers later went on ArsTechnica's War Stories show on YT and pretended like everything went fine. LOL.

I think the real comparison needed when this launches will be RTW: Remastered vs the Med2 EBII mod... can’t wait to find out.

Slightly OT, but CA have posted an online presentation by their senior VFX programmer, and we finally have an explanation why every Total War now has those ugly AF missile trails: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p3qTkrKEhbSudto.html A technical limitation means they can't be made any sharper and less intrusive, due to the way the VFX system handles transparency and alpha. No explanation is given for why they didn't just go back to the system Shogun 2 uses, where trails are only used on gunpowder missiles and almost never on arrows, yet we can still clearly see them.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

make a post about this on my subreddit if youve got an account. would be interesting and worth its own discussion that can be referenced in future.

@RobBCactive

3 жыл бұрын

RTWR allows you to turn the bloody things off! But they also fixed some RTW classic problems so I find myself testing & comparing the games. Actually play time has been taken by a Stellaris binge

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobBCactive turn it off and look at it and come back and tell us about it.

@RobBCactive

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound OK WFM as expected in RTWR .. just try actually looking at the in game options and toggle projectile tails or effects. You should check things for yourself before being a smart alec, you just wasted my time.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobBCactive im the guy that uploaded the video, not the person you responded to. sperg.

To be fair, if Rome Remaster can introduce a bunch of newer TW players into why TW was so good back then back when, I do not mind. I can see how getting into older TW games can be jarring for newer players. Especially with controls and camera. I prefer modern TW camera by far. As long as they don't fuck anything up (and they will, that's CA, they always do), allow us to revert all the changes if we want to and don't try to make unrevertable changes? I see no harm in it. For us. Maybe we will get some fresh blood!

I never played Homeworld, but I'm super interested now. I just heard a tiny sliver of the music in the background and recognized it instantly and had to look it up to be sure. It was a Homeworld rendition of Adagio for Strings. A piece I originally heard in the movie Platoon, and to this day still stirs my emotions. Such a beautiful piece. Very awesome.

The only thing that didn’t make Homeworld Remastered perfect was that it didn’t include Homeworld Cataclysm due to missing the original source code and ownership rights :(

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

heard great things about it. yet to play.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound The adaptive difficulty scaling can fuck you in the behind very badly if you go with the classic cleptomaniac playstyle for hw1. There are mods that let you adjust it, and you should use them if you are planning on using salvage corvettes.

Have to say the message i get from this remaster is that CA isn't near planning on changing their current game design. Whilst subtle the remaster feature a few changes from the original that you wouldn't expect there to be. Apart from the obvious UI changes one thing that stands out is the addition of firing arcs for ranged units. This feature is highly connected to the dumbing down of ranged units in total war (limiting them to a restricted firing area meaning the entire unit would have to move if an enemy was out of their side to side range or behind them as opposed to each entity just turning their body slightly). Now ofc this isn't a huge change from the original game but it seems to be the biggest that CA was willing to do. However whats important about all this is the message this sends: that CA seems to be showing that it prefers the look and gameplay features of its newer titles to the point at which it would go out of its way to add more to a remaster. This is vital as it hints that there is no desire in CA to change its current gamemodel or to take much if any from its better older titles.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

ive seen some things that make me think the ranged combat in the remaster may be completely flaccidified. ill have to wait and see. its one of the things i skipped over in this video for my checklist (alongside MP co-op), but ill definitely be assessing this. and yeah, if there is indeed massive flaccidification, then that confirms what you say as well as anything could.

@ms_publisher7143

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound yeah will just have to wait and see but at this point I've already lost faith in CA a long time ago.

@kman8684

3 жыл бұрын

Have you actually played rome 1. If you want to reposition a unit it it blobs up and spreads out even if you wanted to move it to the same position. Archers repositioning is not worse than that

Was waiting to see your take, interesting. Homeworld: Remastered was good but I am still annoyed they removed fuel from fighters/corvettes as a mechanic, as it made fighting the Kadeshi much less dramatic. The whole tension was whether you could destroy their fuel pods that come with their attack waves without suffering heavy casualties, but otherwise it was gorgeous. Oh and HW2: Remastered they fucked the sound lines up so the units say "this is a cakewalk" 100x instead of the previous variety, but that's a patch easy to do.

oh Ive been waiting for this one ive got the popcorn ready

I glad to see that you brought up my question to melkor. It really sucks to not have those anymore.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

collins?

@winniepooh4630

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound I missed typed. I fixed it now.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

@@winniepooh4630 ohh, and yep i remember anticipating those cutscenes when i was younger. their omission is as needless as it is ominous.

I was very much hoping to see this video before the release.

I thought this might be a little nitpicky, but this was very well done. Cheers

Shogun 2 did *have* single unit selection. You could assign units to F1-F4. The feature broke (or maybe removed?) after FotS was released and was subsequently never fixed. Thanks CA. Rome 1 also handled unit mass and collision better than any of it's predessesors. Missiles aren't the only casualty of modern total war. In rome 1 men would push against each other like they were trying to gain ground. The combat animations where rudimentary, but there was a sway to battle. Losing melee units would stretch and buckle as they lost ground. After empire men in melee would just take turns murdering each other on the same line of contact until one or the other gives up completely. Rome 1 had the most authentic unit collision and cohesion which is insane to think about. The controls and camera are bad, but I'm sort of fond of the delay. The old games rewarded being clean and concise over being snappy and reactionary. In new total war your right click drag is your one stop shop, where in rome 1 and even shogun 1, you used the right click + run to move and click+drag when you wanted precise placement. You didn't click+drag every time you wanted to move. That's not to say those timings couldn't use some adjustments though. It should feel smooth and not cumbersome. Shogun 1 has a drag-click delay too, but it's not huge.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

i heard about this F1-F4 thing. thats embarrassing if they broke it. i want it back.

you have sold me on homeworld remastered also looking forward to the treatise

The big problem with home world remastered was their replacement of the physics based accuracy system with the dice rolling One from home world two. Well it looks a lot better in my opinion homeworld was gameplay was ruined in the remake because it was brought over to the homeworld two engine. The stuff that worked in the original strategy wise simply didn’t in the remake. Thankfully they included the original game unmolested.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

this was a problem. yep. this was one of my few issues with the remaster (RNG/ballistics) - and it was a result of an engine upgrade. a consequence of heightened ambition (not laziness). now fixed, and theres even a "player patch" to catch what was missed. so, they patched it. it was a patch that came in 2016, but it came. the situation now is not HW1 being dragged down by HW2, but of the community insisting that both HW1R and HW2R be dragged up together to the standards of the original HW. the remaster saved HW2, after nearly 15y. read the gameplay section: gearboxsoftware.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205281840-Homeworld-Remastered-Collection-Update-Information

Let this man buy the remaster and pick it apart before you buy it. He'll pick up on things you didn't even realise were/weren't there and it's not like you can trust these other youtubers to speak the truth.

@freddyz3359

3 жыл бұрын

@Hello There General Kenobi! At least 2 of us have sense enough to wait.

They've FINALY made ROME 2!

Homeworld...oh Homeworld 2...great games. Homeworld 3........don't fail us...please...

"shut up and take my ____" has always been one of the shittest memes in existance, barely a meme and more like an extension of marketing

@robertasvaicius4437

3 жыл бұрын

Consoomer

@notgoddhoward5972

3 жыл бұрын

It's also pretty ironic that in the original example from Futurama this "Take my money" meme by the character was portraid as stupid and satirical by the authors.

@notgoddhoward5972

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertasvaicius4437 -Sniff... Is that a consumer product?.. *Ooohhh I'm consooooooming aaargh*

@robertasvaicius4437

3 жыл бұрын

@@notgoddhoward5972Just consume and get excited for the next product.

@carltonbauheimer

3 жыл бұрын

Shut up and take my upvote!

I liked how the first comment on the Steam news page was "So you admit you can't make historical games anymore." Which, frankly, any "remake" or "remaster" implies. The gaming industry has reached the same lows as Hollywood, complete inability to create and implement new ideas so instead old stuff that was proven to work gets remade. Often BADLY. I dont trust this remaster one bit until I see the quality for myself. e: "AI" and "Pathfinding" - No, there is no indication that they fixed either with the Remaster. Apparently the new even bigger unit size option makes the AI even worse. All signs point towards a half-baked mess of a game.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

youll love this: www.reddit.com/r/Volound/comments/mdmuvz/my_position_on_this_rome_total_war_remaster/gsg1vc9/?context=3 and yep, i see no evidence of AI or pathfinding being addressed at all in any way. pretty damning.

The way you talked about Homeworld (one of my favorite games of all time) ... I just want to hug you, mate ...

I'll be paying close attention to the first impressions on classic total war channels like this one, and making my decision on whether to get hype on day two.

I never knew you could revert the pre 2015 rtw patch to 1.5. i also thought that patch was introduced to break rtw and pave the way for rome 2...

I play my games on Linux, even though I havent played it in a while , but i remember that the only time i crashed was when trying to open up multiplayer. I own the Original Rome so I got the 50% thing and bough it and im wondering since we can configure our own campaigns to choose which remastered aspects to have or not to have, do you think that thr Remaster will allow the old graphics to remain while having remastered aspects. I quite like the old unit graphics the way they are but would not mind the changes to other graphics

I was blessed to have homeworld be one of the first video games I played

Just got here to get a full idea and view of the subject. Let's hope for the best.

I think rome 2 was the most I've ever been disappointed in a game in my life when it came out.

I somehow found a mod that allows you to keep your mouse on the screen in the original RTW. I completely forgot what it's called, but there was something I downloaded that kept my mouse in the window while I was in the game. However, it doesn't do it perfectly. It essentially bumps your mouse along the side of the screen and you can still misclick outside of the game and have it crash. But the mod helped a lot with the issue. Hope this helps if you want to try to find it yourself before the remaster comes out.

Add this features and its a perfect game: -an online campaign (maybe even with 3 or 4 Player Support) -dillemmas [events with choices] from modern total war games (would give mods more possibilitys for roleplaying etc) -unit replenishment from modern total war games (with possibility to choose between this and the original system) -an Indicator which tells you where you can Set up an ambush -adding killcounts to the unit stats scroll that shows up on the side (as in newer total war games) But mostly the online campaign!!

In Rome 1 I have an annoying major issue that if I was any better would cramp my ability to play my best. Literally have to wiggle my cursor to thinnest unit size then back to show the yellow/magenta arrows so I know what the unit size will be.

Looking forward to the treaties on Rome: Reeeemasterd. Hoping it's good!

YEEEESSSSSS! I CAN'T FRIGGIN WAIT!

I can't wait to see you tear the remaster apart

I hope the Remaster makes the og even better and you make some more cool vids covering it

With no multiplayer campaign, despite how good this genuinely looks, it just isn’t worth me spending the money to redo what I did 15 years ago. If I had my friend along with the ride however, then another thousand hours could have been sunk

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

yep, basic feature. i might have accidentally ommitted it from this video, but its on my list. empire was doing it in 2009.

@HannibalsHorse

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound yeah, empire if I remember rightly promised to come with MC but didn’t, I managed to get the beta but no one else I know does so I can’t MC on it. There’s not really any excuse this far in to not include it, especially on a game like this! Great videos, been watching them all. Speaks to me and my friend about exactly how we feel about TW! Keep up the good work

07:13 What i love and not just like is the music in games. The music of certain games always stays amazing. Even if i dont play the game anymore, maybe the gameplay and interfaces are just too clunky and fiddly or the graphic just too bad, the music stays always good. Like in Skyrim, its a decent game. I dont have motivation to play it, but i wont ever forget the music. Do you have similar games that you dont play but love the music of them?

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

no such thing as a bad game with an amazing OST, or a good game with a bad OST, in my mind. i covered this lightly at times during my total decline series. i cite mass effect 2 and homeworld and witcher 3 as examples.

I pre-purchased this remaster bc I wanted to play Barbarian Invasion, since it doesn't work on Windows 10. So basically RTW is being held hostage, and we have to pay ransom to get a functional version on Steam. I'm new to the series, so I don't mind paying as much as someone who owned the originals for a long time and never saw these issues fixed, but that's some serious moneygrubbing BS right there.

God damit volound i was actualy getting hyped for once, now im back to being cyinical again :(

Nice

I wish there was a cockpit view in Homeworld Remastered, though 😕 EDIT: I've now made a Reddit post abt. this, and would be willing to try and apply some pressure to Gearbox to get them to add the feature. Here is the Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/homeworld/comments/mhr8aw/cockpit_view_in_hw_remastered/?

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

you mean the pilot view that the original HW had?

@gamingwithslacker

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound thanks for responding. very decent of you. yes, I do mean that. I've actually made a Reddit post about this on the H.W. reddit. Id be willing to try and apply some pressure to get this back. I really liked it, and it seems like such an easy feature to add.

what dark magic have you used to make rome 1 run fine with fire projectiles visible?

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

exactly. fucking exactly. link to the video showing and explaining in the description.

@Mr_D_OG

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound but that is the problem i have the disc version 1.5 amd it run horribly until i found a d3d file that makes teh game run fine in eschange for no fire projectiles

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_D_OG man, you could be screwed. my poll indicates some cannot be helped no matter what they try. did you try the exact fileswap i did for my video, and on a clean install?

@Mr_D_OG

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound well i didnt because i assume that file is the original retail file wich is the one i got,i downloaded it regardless gonna do some tests later,never mind that i found a alternate solution using dxwrapper switching render mod from d3d8 to d3d9 now the game runs fine and with fire arrows and fire stones from onagers

@aranighosh3945

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_D_OG how ? Can you explain it in detail.??

The goat

I suspect that the early access came with a checklist of "things to cover". I watched multiple early access videos of Rome Remastered and all of the them talk about the exact same things. Not a single one talked about the mysterious buttons on the bottom left and bottom right of the battle UI, nor the three buttons that appear when creating a group.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

yep it seems like youre right. really cringey marketing. that completely puts me off. its like coaching witnesses. prepping shills.

Where'd you find that piece of remixed RTW music with vocals at the end of this video?

@baggelis_aikaterinis

3 жыл бұрын

credits

Its so satisfyingly having this channel, before i found it i had nowhere to vent my frustration and disappointment with Total War. Ive played these games since I was 10, 20 years ago. I actually bought Warhammer. Stopped playing after a few hours... Never even bothered buying 3 Kingdoms.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

should check out my subreddit. its practically made for you.

@Scoob505

3 жыл бұрын

@@Volound For sure I will check it out today. I remember typing into google and youtube many times over the years 'What happened to Total War' not fully being able to verbalize what was fundamentally wrong, just hoping that I wasnt the only one with the issue. I feel like theyve completely sold out to the Chinese market. I hope their monopoly on this kind of game recedes soon, itll force them to not be shit. I just want good real time strategy, and convincing historical immersion. Btw Im from Limerick, youre from up North right?

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

@@Scoob505 glasgow born and bred, lad

@theDiReW0lf

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. Never heard of this channel until today and couldn’t stand watching the early access shills pretend this isn’t a massive disappointment.

So i have the steam version, how do i revert to 1.5?

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

check the description

Would love a good remastered Empire. Who knows, if all goes well we could get a Medieval remaster and you might get to finally have a good Scotland game.

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

dunno how you would even "remaster" a game that still needs basic support to bring it to a level of basic functioning.

can you please share me the name of the song used in the last bits of the video ?

@MythicNova496

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's the song they used for the credits in Rome Total War, "Forever" IIRC

@monishvj5172

3 жыл бұрын

@@MythicNova496 you are correct , thanks for the info ;)

Homeworld is currently on sale haha the youtube gods have blessed me

Honestly from the small amount that we have seen it seem like this uncanny valley where it sounds like Rome total war but has all these dumb things like the new unit icons 🤮 and the fact that they flaccified the missile combat as well adding in those white streaks as well as making missile firing and impacts extremely quite to the point where they might as well be having a snowball fight.

It's what makes 4k blurays worth it when they get the audio correct and go at it with the right attitude. Unfortunately like games there are not many who do that.

I really hope this works out and they do a medieval 2 remaster/medieval 3/empire 2

It seems that pathfinding is still an issue. Maybe i'm paranoid but when watching lionheartx10 it seemed he moved camera quickly away from troops which started having that classic issue, lol

Is Homeworld 2 worth getting now if I’ve never played any HW games?

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

absolutely.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

3 жыл бұрын

Get the remastered. It includes 1 and 2 as well in their original forms. Cataclysm is also availible on GOG under the title emergence, because fuck blizzard.

I'm already happy with what I've seen from the gameplay , the controls seem updated , maybe I'm just scared for them to make changes being it from the the company that decided on the Province System / Imperium System / No armies with Generals etc . 40$ now has the buying power of maybe 5$ of 2004 so pricing arguments are silly

@killinspecialist1965

3 жыл бұрын

Feral is making it not CA and it looks to be very faithful to the original if not more so

@DB-ku7vu

3 жыл бұрын

5 dollars in 2004 would be worth about 7 dollars today, inflation would have to be 13% a year for the last two decades to have depreciated that much.

Lord, I just finished my first playthrough of any total war game and it was the first rome. It took me about 2,5 years, but it was fucking amazing. I couldn't agree more with your points here. I play the standard steam version on my linux pc via proton and I haven't experienced any super major problems in frame rates, but there were definitely bugs.

@dexterdykrataigos6911

3 жыл бұрын

I definitely think the game was tedious and repetitive to an extent, though. You're practically doing the exact same work intensive thing over and over again. The rebellion was also extremely annoying. I had to go out and slaughter entire cities, just because they were far away and the kept rebeling.

@dexterdykrataigos6911

3 жыл бұрын

This is what's keeping me from playing barbarian invasion and from playing as a different faction. The game is amazing in a LOT of ways, but also very tedious and i don't feel like playing again if it's just more of the same

@dexterdykrataigos6911

3 жыл бұрын

I really hope the remaster fixes this

I think the best remasters were for the original Uncharted trilogy. Not only did they update the textures to match the new release's (Uncharted 4), but they also updated the AI and gunplay to make all of the games more dynamic. And the cherry on top of this whole situation was that the remaster trilogy was free with a purchase of Uncharted 4.

I admit I’m very excited for the remaster. The potential for modding seems great. I’ve never had an easy time installing Rome mods. It’s always at best a hassle, at worst a nightmare. Simple Steam workshop integration with click and go modding is a godsend. Also, units recruited in specific areas being their native ethnicity for that area is a great touch. Also, I may be unpopular but I like the firing line. Being able to see what has range and what doesn’t at a glance is nice. However I dislike the missile trails and I absolutely hate the UI, especially building management, but I’m sure mods will come and fix that. I guess I’m cautiously optimistic, but I’m not spending a cent until I see real post release footage

Stellar critiques! I started playing TW with Warhammer 2 and thought it was good. Then I went back to Medieval 2 and realized how many features have been stripped or dumb-downed over the years. I’m eager to get into TW Rome now. My question is, should I buy this remaster or the original TW Rome?

I have always loved rome 2. I did not play it at launch tho so if i did maybe things would be different. Rome remastered looks nice also and looking foward into it :)

Biggest issue is in RTW is path finding in sieges, they should definitely fix that

@theDiReW0lf

3 жыл бұрын

They didn’t lol

This Video is probably the nicest modern total war commentary you ever did.

so what did you think of it?

"For the love of ... Bishamonten!"

This will be the best total war game release since Shogun 2.

There gonna be a comparison evaluation video?!

Yo bro you let me know if the remaster is worthy or not since i dig your opinions about the later total war games. Have a good day Bless.

last song's name?

I would love to see a proper remaster of Rome Total War and Medieval II. Empire that plays like Shogun 2 would be nice too.

I wonder if they'll keep the bronze age egypt faction or change them into something more era appropriate.

It's the greatest news since they discovered sliced pan.

Rome 2 was the first game i pre ordered. Guess if I ever pre ordered anything since. Of course, it takes some other studio that isnt CA to make a decent-looking remaster of the original. So far it looks alright from the previews, but so did the Battle of Carthage all those years ago.

As a warcraft 3 player, i must warn you all, i have a very bad feeling about this.

5:10 the Myth franchise would like to have a word with you.

I am afraid. What I have seen it looks like a mobile game and the unit graphics style has been changed, from the colorful armies to look more like Rome 2 gray and brown.

@mrflibble9783

3 жыл бұрын

The models for the armies have a realism and classic setting. So, you can choose to have colourful troops with the models close to the original game. Or a toned down more realistic character model.

My biggest gripe with this remaster us that it is a reimagining and not a remaster. The removal of Victoria and Marcus as advisors is an absolute travesty and reinforcements delayed as a mechanic that is essentially gutted REALLY ruin it. Oh, and the Scipii intro movie being reworked? Come on.

I'm waiting until late May to decide to buy it. If I buy it, I'll get it right before the $15 promo expires for owners of the original. I don't take it for granted that this remaster will be done well. I'm not hyped, I'm cautious. I'll certainly be waiting for your analysis before I buy. I'm a recent subscriber to your channel and can say you very excellently voice much of what I've felt about the TW series. I haven't played Shogun 2, but almost want to buy it based on your praise. Every TW game I've played since M2TW has left me either bored of it way too quickly or completely disappointed.

I really hope that HW3 is good. Maybe Gearbox will let the developers just do their thing. I don't really have any hope left for the TW series though.

What about a shogun 1 remaster 😳👉👈

@tastycookiechip

3 жыл бұрын

Nah we'd rather medieval 2 remastered

@vindiesel682

3 жыл бұрын

@@tastycookiechip oh hell yeah that’d be even better

@FlawedFabrications

3 жыл бұрын

There's no reason for it. Shogun 2 is superior to Shogun 1 in every single way, and even includes some of the music and stuff from that first game.

I was disappointed to find out they didn't bother adding multiplayer campaigns, that would have been enough to make me want to buy it to play with other people, but I just seen a post from melkor saying the faction cap has been removed so it should be easier for modders to add factions, might just buy it when there's some decent mods out

Have you heard about how they got rid of the original Rome Total War on steam? Will they bring it back after release

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

already addressed in the write-up.

Holy shit only 5k away from 100k

I spend hundreds of hours on RTW. It is my all time favorite pc game. After i read the features of remaster i was somewhat disappointed. Almost all changes were already done by modders. There are serious issues of this game that even modders cant fix, and none of these issues were mentioned. Instead they added 16 "new" factions and useless merchants. It is like placebo effect. You think these changes effect the gameplay and improve it but they will do nothing. I fear this "remaster" will be the just a reskin of old game with the same flaws.

@TheAultimusPrime

3 жыл бұрын

they will be adding steam workshop support so that modders can more effectively address any issues that arise

Funny stuff is that I pirated Rome 2 a week after the release and never had an issue with bugs. Got bored in a couple of weeks and touched only once since after purchasing it.

you praising Mass Effect makes me... cry... of joy. One of my favourite, most immersive experiences of all time. I shudder to think what they're doing with the "legendary" edition. I'll stick to the originals all the way most likely.

would love to see volound revisit rome 2

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

check out my testudo video. job done.

So far im really hoping that i can change the UI back to the original im not a fan kf the new UI

@Volound

3 жыл бұрын

homeworld remastered UI is light years ahead of the original. to see the rome remaster UI be received so poorly so soon, by so many, is really kinda embarrassing.

I’ve seen a lot of people who didn’t like deserts of Karak. Glad that you thought it was decent, that’s a high bar