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I got this today! I pre-ordered it months ago as a surprise for myself, and I had COMPLETELY forgotten.
It looks awesome. Trouble is, I so don't have the time to play it, since I'm still engrossed in NWN2. So here's a thread for you guys to tell me how great/awful it is, to tide me over til I actually have the time to get involved. I may have a quick peek when I get home this afternoon, but I really don't want to get distracted from NWN.
I'm actually also really bummed that this arrived today, in a weird way; I'm halfway through a game of Rome:TW at the moment, but now I know that there's no way I'm going to finish it.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. Think my flatmate pre-ordered this too. Hopefully he will have it today to, and I'll get a report of how good it is. Always wanted to try the Total War games, but I'm kinda lazy, and never got round to it.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

These games are overwhelming. I'm not good at real strategy (as opposed to the MOO/Civ kind).

― adam (adam), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't find any of them overwhelming as such, it's just surprising the amount of time you need to dedicate to the game.

I always thought (with the exception of tech-trees) that Rome played quite a lot like Civ.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Question for the Computer Illiterate:

the requirements for this game are:

celeron 1.8GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent AMD® processor.
512MB RAM.

I have:

1.6GHz Intel core duo
1GB RAM

Can i still run this game?

concerned in Cleveland

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say so, yeah, since Celerons are a pile of shit w/fuck all cache.

Video card?

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Video Chipset: Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950

???

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Never heard of that - is that onboard? Laptop? A very quick look at the wiki for that chipset says it's Pixel Shader 3.0 compatible, which is a good sign. I ahve to go home now, so I can't investigate further at the moment. I'll try to confirm for you later/tomorrow.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, came with my laptop I just bought. Rome TW runs fine, no problems.

thanks dude

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry dude, I did some googling, but I can't come up with an answer. All I can suggest is that you DL the demo and give it a try.

As I said upthread, the GMA950 does support PS3.0, so chances are it'll run the game, but I really have no idea what kind of performance you can expect. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://transcripts.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/17/lieberman.speech/thumbs.up.lieberman.jpg

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Did anybody end up playing this?

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 23:34 (seventeen years ago)

After years of wanting to get this, I got an intel-based iMac, loaded Windows Vista on it, and bought this game. I've played it exactly twice. I usually start it and think "ooh man, i'm gonna have to devote some REAL TIME to this thing...best not get caught up in it right now."

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

Played it plenty. It's as much fun as Rome etc, but still a time sink. Unfortunately, installing the expansion broke my install and it crashes every time i have a siege battle. Un/Reinstalling didn't fix.
Would probably still be playing it if this hadn't happened. Big battles on "Huge" mode are WIN.

Now I miss this game.

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 April 2008 09:51 (seventeen years ago)

plenty of bugs :(

― DG, Thursday, 10 April 2008 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

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