there was a show from the UK called Time Commanders, using the Rome Total War engine. They even had battles from the Medieval period, they created new units just just for the show.
rome and medieval total war 2 were masterpieces when they were in 2006. I still think the medieval total war 2 is still very playable and enjoyable even now
Just like what other ppl said. It is time for medieval total war 3 !!!! Sometime I think they are trying to make the total war more complicated. But i think it is too much haha. Btw, Warhammer 2 is also very high quality.
True, I just finished my English campaign. I just wanted to check out if it runs at Windows 10, but got hooked again after a couple of turns. Perfect example of gameplay is more important than grphics.
@@Dark-pr3jj Other reasons as well, built this is one of them. For someone getting into the Total War series, Rome 1 is the best one to start with. Even today, years later, it still is a very fresh game. It was a masterpiece which aged perfectly.
For shogun 2, they focus a lot more on Battle details, which makes it the Best in term of battle in all total war games. The combat animation, the charging unit, the sound effect, the arrow and gun effect and effectiveness, the artillery effect and effectiveness, the fire effect, the cavalry, almost everything in battle of Shogun 2 is perfect. Maybe because players did not appreciated these, results in CA removing its focus on battle since Total War Rome 2
Try playing with mods or try what I always do. I double the unit size of all the factions except the one I'm playing. But in my opinion if we're just talking about the vanilla campaign, Attila have the hardest campaign so far..
@@mercadonor Since Rome 2 the AI tries to flank and focuses your units much better, and also tries to use max range and not just go into short range to fire. Obviously, players have much better tactical minds, but if you watch, f.e, TWH2 legendary streamers, most use cheesing tactics cause a direct 1 vs 1 isn't as easy as before. It can be improved, specially in sieges, but for me the biggest problem is how your own units work sometimes, were they forget orders, do stupid things, go into wonky movements, etc.
Not true at all.. I cant stand inept people spouting such lies with no substance.. Such a general statement based on nothing.. The AI is very complicated to program and with every installment they improved it. These are the facts. It's not perfect but quite good in my opinion, lost a few battles as the AI used intricate tactics. However after playing for a while we humans start to notice certain trends and weaknesses of the AI and exploit it, then people like Strawberryseed come along with such a weak blatant lying statement.
@@canaan_banana I remember my then pastor showing me and my dad Shogun 1. It was awesome. He then claimed that he stopped playing it because it didn´t glorify God. Needless to say, we kept playing.
Imagine someone making a cross-over between CA and Paradox - strategic map modes and decisions from EU4 and CK3 while being able to fight out each battle TW style. Yes, I'm a masochist who wishes to spend all of his time on a single game.
@@ThomasShelby6213 yeah its kinda annoying. I know that CA wants a Warhammer trilogy that works together as one game but a warhammer game every year is annoying. Tbh im enjoying TW Attila Medieval 1212 Mod. Its great
@@ThomasShelby6213 Do you have any idea on how dates work? Total War Warhammer 1 was released in 2016, 2 in 2017 and 3 will be relased in 2021. Where TF do you see Total War Warhammer games in 2018, 2019, 2020?
Medieval 1 was fuckin amazing! The jump made the campaign map annoying in rome and med 2 which i couldnt get into its overbearing i remember going into a game shop and the owner had just got the new rome game and was sitting there moving his stack forward and back for like 10minutes he couldnt get the hang of it
It was never the same after that, each time i play a total war game two days after i install medieval total war 1 and play for 2 to 3 weeks xD. The 3d map is so not my cup of tea.
Another empire total war would be insane, I don’t know how many hours I’ve sunk into that game, and how many times I’ve conquered the whole world. Multiplayer was fun too.
I remember when the first medieval game came out I was living around the corner from where I worked at the time and used to go home in my lunch break to play it. One day when I’d first got the game I was so drawn into it that I lost all track of time and accidentally took a 2 hour break. Was totally worth it though.
Also a huge fan of the 3 land regions, the 3 regions allows for wars across different theatres or allows you to expand your empire without disrupting a certain region too much, like pushing through the Americas allows you to expand while only pissing of 2-3 (Britain, France and Spain) European powers where as expanding in Europe pisses everybody off. For the same number of regions.
Still think Total War: Arena was a massive missed opportunity. It was great fun in it's early days but when Wargaming took over it became too numbers based. There was a lot less focus on tactical input and co-ordination with your team mates. My low tier cavalry could still be really useful when used correctly with flanking hammer and anvil tactics until Wargaming took over and it was like "Your charge value is less than their morale value. Say goodbye to half your men." Would be cool to see it attached to a future TW title as a multiplayer option. Was really good fun playing with 3-4 friends and actually feeling like officers that were part of a larger army.
I just got a sick pc, and I decided to play medieval 2 for the first time since I had a crappy computer back in 2008. It looks like ass from what I rememeber but man it’s fun playing an RTS again! Played nothing else since I returned to it 3 weeks ago. I am considering playing Empire Total War now (as I’m sure I played that back in the day too) but I was wondering, is napoleon worth playing as well? Based on the two comparisons here they both look like the same game
Just recently bought empire a week ago. I like the campaign because you can have the entire world. However, the battles can really be buggy and Napoleon is 100% better in terms of battle. If you really want empire, you can install darthmod, it significantly improves the game
but this time i hope it cover the whole world and not just Europe india and parts of the americas. and also not make France into a single province nation.
@@FroschImp thanks man, I’ll try empire first. Just playing the third age for medieval 2 first though. Getting a pc was possibly the worst thing I did. I now have more great games to choose from than ever before, but also too many to play
@@queenoffortune5052 Ca would have to put in a lot of work to equal Divide and Conquer at this point. Don't really see it happening. But DaC on a fresh engine would be awesome.
@@BattlegroundsFTW napoleon had smaller global map than empire, though napoleon has other better features like; troops deserting, camera shakes on explosions, etc. eitherway, both games are obsolete in terms of most recent features. So yeah, both need a new sequels.
@@toha1729 yeah those two eras were different. Empire’s was the era of colonial expansion and Napoleon is, well, about the war and it was localized on the continent. Though, I really wish they expended on the theme of the era of Empire with erecting more provinces on America and broken up regions in Europe such as Paris into smaller sections. Can imagine all that could be done with new technical breakthroughs we now have.
I have played a lot of total war games. For me, the best ever is Shogun 2. It is just so complete. Amazing soundtracks, fine classical japanese painting/arts, dozens of different but with unique abilities, brutalities with blood pack and severed limbs and most importantly REAL MENACING PHYSIQUE OF ARROWS FLYING up and down.
I remember Medieval 2 Americas campaign was so much fun, playing as the Mayans and seeing their amazing cities. Now we have them in even greater detail, populated by dinosaur people!
I want another Napoleon/Empire era game with smarter AI and really responsive units. I feel like the more recent games, it's harder to move and get ahold of your units, especially once their in combat.
Disagree, you just have to be smarter about unit placement and movement. Warhammer 2 taught me the value of really studying how units perform and what doing things like moving ranged back ahead of time is invaluable. Yes there is clunkiness due to all the shit going on in the battles. But it's not hard to maneuver
@@clownphd1684 It is 100% harder to move units once they are in combat than previous games. You are just saying the most effective way to play in the new games. The only reason you have to play that way is that they are less responsive once they enter combat. Play Rome 1 and you will see what I am talking about.
@@clownphd1684 Whatever, most people are casuals, and just want to play the campaign every once in a while. Not have to engineer tactics to get my units to obey. It's kinda weird to aspire to be good at a total war game.
@@j.d.6086 I don't really know what you would expect out of a game as complex as Total War. Not only do the units have their animations and stats, they interact with the environment around them causing clunkiness to be inevitable. The amount of times I issue an attack but get a movement command instead is annoying. But it's never enough for me to be like "Wow golly jee it's so hard to use units"
Man, how lucky the Warhammer segment has been, 3 games in less than 5 years, while an Empire 2 or a Medieval 3 already seems to be something that we will never see as such.
I love to see Medieval 3 or Shogun 3 too, but they planned Warhammer as a trilogy from the start, so I think we must wait. At least the last game will be released soon.
My absolute favorite is shogun 2. I think in the future (though keep in mind I haven't played any new total war games) is be able to make customizable army uniforms and stats, like make an independent nonhistorical or canon army.
I think the people who think TWW and TWW2 are boring must be on some kind of crack. How can you think fighting Orcs, Elves, Vampires, Lizardmen, and Daemons is BORING?
Watching the original Shogun sure brought back memories. I thought I was too old for video games then, but that was the hook for sure. Been playing Total War ever since......... & in an odd way..... I miss the original Shogun & Medieval.
You say that, but RTW was the first total war game I played and that was only about a year and a half ago. There's something endearing about the low graphics, and they didn't inhibit what to me was the point of the game - to fight battles strategically without zooming in to see the individual men
Yeah, the remaster lost all the charm original had. Map design had so much "antique" feeling, and now it is cartoony and simplified. Also color palette is acidic
brilliant how they peaked with medieval 2, then downgraded for two games, then peaked again with shogun 2, and have since been on a bizarre upwards downwards cycle for years
Damn... I still remember the days when I would watch my older brother play Medieval 2 for hours. It's thanks to him that I got into these games in the first place.
One really good thing, that i liked about Rome 2, is that they managed to make the battles much more historicaly accurate, since the enemy lines didn't get mixed with your lines and they were stabbing at eachother and actually using their shields
@@urbanwarrior3470 Well yeah, the game is kinda bullshit sometimes to be fair, but this was one feature i really enjoyed and made the game cool to look at.
@@urbanwarrior3470 Did you check the unit's morale? The game gives you a clear breakdown of a unit's morale and how it's feeling or if it's close to routing.
Dang, have some of you played Warhammer 1 and 2? Been playing since Medieval II, and hated on Warhammer because of its fantasy setting.. But it's easily the best of the series as far as tactics, gameplay (minus siege battles), graphics/animations, unit variety, campaign effects, unique buildings, etc. Shogun II Fall of the Samurai is my favorite non fantasy TW, and I would love a Medieval III, but Warhammer II is awesome in its own right.
I've played Total War games since Rome 1. This year I just got to start playing Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord. I am having a hard time going back to Total War games now... Every single unit being independent feels too awesome to me, it makes me feel like being in the battlefield, it's too damn good. Only downside is not being able to play battles with more than 1000 units, that's the only advantage on TW games atm for me.
I'd also like to give Mount and Blade a try. Which version would you recommend for someone playing it for the first time, coming from Total War? I've played RTW 1, MTW 2 and NTW.
@@GonzoTehGreat I've only played M&B Bannerlord, so that's the only one I can recommend. Even though it is currently in early access, I can tell it's totally worth it in it's current state (my opinion at least).
@@GonzoTehGreat if youve never played mount and blade go for bannerlord and if you find the campaign mechanics to be a bit shallow go for warband and try some of the mods
Original Rome will always hold a special place in my heart. Lost days to that game trying to conquer Europe, eventually spreading to far and my cities began to betray me... just like the real Rome LOL
We Need an empire 2 or medieval 3. That said, I'd be stoked for a modern WWII or something (I know it's overdone in shooter genre, but a massive gunfire total war would be cool. Been a while since one)
I kind of agree but I really think a Civil War era has a lot of potential, if it could include the entire North American Theater with the Caribbean and mesoamerica much like Empire but all the way to America's West Coast and even perhaps Alaska before the Russians sold it so I can be a corner faction with my Streltzy again, then go Stick it to both the North and the South for sucking 😄 I think there could be a lot of potential for that open American West, still lots of tribes who are free, Mexico still being a big player, and even the Mormon's Nauvoo Legion was big enough to Skirmish with the United States Army at one point before they decided to chill and become the Utah National Guard. There is some potential for a campaign there, and the Blackhawk Wars as well as rough as they were, but honestly if War Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce didn't get some kind of campaign I'd throw something.
@@sonofthebearking3335 Civil war would be cool too - really anything with line battles across history could be cool and not really require much effort on them as it wouldn't be "too new". They've remade Rome a few times and done 3 warhammers. If they aren't going to make a LotR brand I at least want a new empire, Napoleonic war, or something in the medieval/dark ages based in Europe.
something just made Shogun 2 really good - i cant work it out...... Its like for some reason the devs who made shogun 2 left CA and it went downhill from then
I think its the units, right now units feel like blobs of cats running after catnip, something about shogun made the units feel not only more alive but the combat actually looked legit.
Tbh, Shogun 2 was super monotonous, every faction felt the same (even if it's a game based on Japan, they could have made different units for each faction, even if the difference isn't too big, it would have added flavour), battles were a rugby melee mess, AI was horrible in battle, agents were the most superpowered beings ever in any TW game, every unit fight was a 1 vs 1 soldier fight due to animations and the end game mechanic was awfuly thought. It had good things, and I enjoyed it, but it's far from being the best TW game in my opinion.
medieval total war 1 is in my opinion the best one. I spent soooooo many hours playing it and at 1 point i had almost conquered the entire map and i deeply regret not going back to finish it.
I think even though it’s not as important as a lot of other wars, they should add a mongol invasion dlc to shogun 2. I just think it would make an amazing game
There are some good mods for Medieval 2 that let you play during the Oblivion Crisis or when Skyrim is set (including as the Stormcloak Rebellion or as the rest of Skyrim). They're actually really fun and pretty well-made!
Rome Total War, Medieval 2 Total War and Empire Total War were the greatest of the franchise. Would love to see an Empire 2 Total war including S. America, S. Africa, Australia, China and Antarctica with research capabilities by sending ships on research missions.
I want an empire where they focus more on economy and proper mapping and AI strategy. It made no sense they Included Albany but didn't include New York. Also entire France was represented by only the city Paris. And Spain contained only the city Madrid. Who made that stupid idea? I think they should optimize the game by focusing on size of ongoing map. I feel like one of the largest problem in the game is how they don't allow you to have that feeling of controlling large areas of land or amassing large armies unless you control all of Europe. They should make construction more expensive and upkeep cost very low while keeping recruitment moderate.
I'd say after looking at this, I've enjoyed the Warhammer and medieval series the most, hope in the future we could get a real third age total war, modders have done amazing to bring us what they have with divide and conquer but it's just not the same. Would also look forward to a medieval 3 with all the updated mechanics and the graphics they've implemented over the years if that's in any way possible
ламповая игра в свое время тоже много времени провел там, но сейчас уже неиграбельно, и ремастер тоже несмотря на классную музыку , увы уже игра устарела. Даже Ром 2 где тоже много играл, тоже уже чувствуется устаревшая
An evolution from an interesting strategy game, to a great strategy game, to peak balance and gameplay and graphics, then because of a shift in ownership, into a mess of cinematic graphics that are not good for gamplay, and an increase in bugs, to over monetisation, to becoming a hero arena battle game with no strategy left. Truly a human arch from naive early game, to trendy teen, into its prime, beginning to panic in its 30s, midlife crisis, and then losing its mind from having to survive and give up what made it unique to the capitalist machine it lived under.
After all the diversity and content in the Warhammer series, I’m going to find it difficult going back to historical Total War. I completely forgot Troy even existed, that game looked like such a snore fest that I immediately forgot about it when the Sisters of Twilight dlc came out.
@@JamestheKilljoy it's a weak point because...? You have to explain why, the handgunners arc their shots like they are firing crossbows for God's sake. Come on now, it's not a weak point because you don't care. It's a lack of diversity that the Warhammer games have. It's just spearman and swordsmen with slightly different numbers that serve the same fucking purpose
@@seven-sevensevens877 how is that any different than any of the other games that do the same thing? Literally every single one of them will copy paste stats and animations to different units. It’s a weak point. Move on
@@JamestheKilljoy that's just not true at all. In Shogun 2, the guns don't arc their shots like Crossbows because some lazy developer cut corners. It was made with care...
SHogun 2 and 3 Kingdoms stand out for me. As a history buff it served to scratch my itch, and teach me more about those wars in the past. Currently with TW Warhammer i dont get that, but the battles are still fun, though somewhat diminished.
To everyone who wants Empire II and Medieval III like me. You must understand how much effort it needs to get the Historical facts, cultures, families, units right. Everything must be unique for all Countries and historically correct to avoid the "historic proffesors" on the internet and if they get it right they will be bombarded with "Where Black people?" and anything like that whats now in this fkin world
I never played a lot of the old or in general much of Total War. Only Total War: Warhammer 1 and 2 (Looking forward to 3) and seeing Empire and Napoleon Naval Battle is freaking amazing looking. I'm pretty bummed out they never included that in the Warhammer Series with Naval Battles, they could've really been creative with it sense I always kind of found it dumb fighting with other ships in the ocean and to end up fighting in land.
My mom gave me a disc binder with various computer games in it, it had one of the install discs for Medieval Total war, and one for rise of nations. I couldn't play either, but I knew they existed. BUT I did get Civ 2 gold edition from my mother's friend.
@@yanivgalmor1747 the visuals, animations, and overall style of the games have been objectively improving. But when it comes to battle mechanics, complexity, and balance the games have just been getting worse and worse.
I remember when the History Channel used to make documentaries using Rome Total War to give a glimpse of battles.
A french documentary use Napolon total war for well showcase Napoleonic battles
It was Called Decisive Battles
@@eddy_malouempereur_du_cong6536 a link would be appreciated would love to see how they use it lol
there was a show from the UK called Time Commanders, using the Rome Total War engine. They even had battles from the Medieval period, they created new units just just for the show.
I remember when history channel was about history and total war was about quality games without DLC's.
rome and medieval total war 2 were masterpieces when they were in 2006. I still think the medieval total war 2 is still very playable and enjoyable even now
I think it’s great I just wish the factions were more fleshed out
You now do have the 1st Rome Total war Remastered.
Just like what other ppl said. It is time for medieval total war 3 !!!! Sometime I think they are trying to make the total war more complicated. But i think it is too much haha. Btw, Warhammer 2 is also very high quality.
True, I just finished my English campaign. I just wanted to check out if it runs at Windows 10, but got hooked again after a couple of turns. Perfect example of gameplay is more important than grphics.
i am still playing medieval 2
I want Total War: Medieval III. ⚔
Who doesn't bro.. 🤙
Yep. This, right fricken now
So do I, but what is that god awful pfp?
сейчас это сложно делать потому что там религиозная война будет крестовые походы и джихады, вряд ли Medieval 3 выйдет вообще
Just play Medieval Kingdoms 1212
The biggest leap was between medieval 1 and rome 1.
@Cheeto Honestly, med2 felt a lot like rome 1 to me from what I remember. Pretty cool playing in the Americas though.
Which is the main reason why Rome 1 is so beloved by fans and considered a classic. That 2D to 3D jump is impossible to miss.
@@Dark-pr3jj Other reasons as well, built this is one of them. For someone getting into the Total War series, Rome 1 is the best one to start with. Even today, years later, it still is a very fresh game. It was a masterpiece which aged perfectly.
@@thenewcaliph766 No
And Empire?
I mean naval warfare and musket line battles?
The fire effects from Shogun 2 are still the most beautiful I've seen in any game.
Lmfao i''ve never put my attention to that.
@@mariatheresavonhabsburg Now you know.
three kingdoms actually has the best fire effects, shogun ii fire is pretty decent for its time tho
Shogun 2 total war is without a doubt the best game in the series. After that, there was only regression.
For shogun 2, they focus a lot more on Battle details, which makes it the Best in term of battle in all total war games.
The combat animation, the charging unit, the sound effect, the arrow and gun effect and effectiveness, the artillery effect and effectiveness, the fire effect, the cavalry, almost everything in battle of Shogun 2 is perfect.
Maybe because players did not appreciated these, results in CA removing its focus on battle since Total War Rome 2
The truly amazing thing is that the AI is as dumb as it ever was.
I played from Shogun 1 to Attila every Game. Than i gave it up. Because of that Reason.
can confirm. Actually playing napoleon and even in extreme mode is like nothing. One word to define the IA: suicidal
Try playing with mods or try what I always do. I double the unit size of all the factions except the one I'm playing. But in my opinion if we're just talking about the vanilla campaign, Attila have the hardest campaign so far..
@@mercadonor Since Rome 2 the AI tries to flank and focuses your units much better, and also tries to use max range and not just go into short range to fire. Obviously, players have much better tactical minds, but if you watch, f.e, TWH2 legendary streamers, most use cheesing tactics cause a direct 1 vs 1 isn't as easy as before. It can be improved, specially in sieges, but for me the biggest problem is how your own units work sometimes, were they forget orders, do stupid things, go into wonky movements, etc.
Not true at all.. I cant stand inept people spouting such lies with no substance.. Such a general statement based on nothing.. The AI is very complicated to program and with every installment they improved it. These are the facts. It's not perfect but quite good in my opinion, lost a few battles as the AI used intricate tactics. However after playing for a while we humans start to notice certain trends and weaknesses of the AI and exploit it, then people like Strawberryseed come along with such a weak blatant lying statement.
*That moment when you realize that you’ve been playing Total War for 20 years.*
Good life.
@@dragooll2023 Indeed!
I remember playing the pre-release demo for Shogun 1..... Gosh I'm old!
@@canaan_banana I remember my then pastor showing me and my dad Shogun 1. It was awesome. He then claimed that he stopped playing it because it didn´t glorify God. Needless to say, we kept playing.
Hammer and anviling for 20 years.
Imagine someone making a cross-over between CA and Paradox - strategic map modes and decisions from EU4 and CK3 while being able to fight out each battle TW style. Yes, I'm a masochist who wishes to spend all of his time on a single game.
I want this too, peak map gaming
Peak of micro-management
There's actually a mod for EU4 that let's you fight battles in TW Medieval 2.
That would be amazing, only thing missing is adding bannerlord and some "build your own castle game" into the mix.
@@greentuga691 bannerlord is literally the in between them except that there's not so much units like tw ofc
simple conclusion: time to Medieval III
And Attila 2!
Empire remastered or 2 ^^ (naval battle with cannon miss me)
@@Terrormundi It is too recent. moreover, technically Attila would already be a sequel to the "Barbarian Invasion" campaign of Rome I
medieval 1 rome 1 medieval 2 empire, empire napoleon came in succession, enough eurotrash please
Shogun 3
- we want medieval 3
- well, since you ask so, here's a warhamer 7
Lmao
@@GumShuro seriously. They've been pumping out warhammer games every year, for christ's sake give us medieval 3 already!
@@ThomasShelby6213 yeah its kinda annoying. I know that CA wants a Warhammer trilogy that works together as one game but a warhammer game every year is annoying.
Tbh im enjoying TW Attila Medieval 1212 Mod. Its great
@@ThomasShelby6213 Do you have any idea on how dates work? Total War Warhammer 1 was released in 2016, 2 in 2017 and 3 will be relased in 2021. Where TF do you see Total War Warhammer games in 2018, 2019, 2020?
@@mihaimatei255 well I guess 2016 and 2017. They had 2 warhammer games in 2 years soooooo
Medieval I -- and Rome I Quality jump was unbelievable
Just about to comment this. And agreed, that’s probably what makes Rome a fairly playable game today (considering when it came out)
I kind of disagree.. While I love Rome 1 and played it tons back in the day, I still think shogun and medieval 1 were amazing.
Medieval 1 was fuckin amazing! The jump made the campaign map annoying in rome and med 2 which i couldnt get into its overbearing i remember going into a game shop and the owner had just got the new rome game and was sitting there moving his stack forward and back for like 10minutes he couldnt get the hang of it
It was never the same after that, each time i play a total war game two days after i install medieval total war 1 and play for 2 to 3 weeks xD. The 3d map is so not my cup of tea.
@@matttondr9282 As weird at it sounds I think that Shogun 1 have one of the best AIs of the series.
Loved Attila. The challenge of saving Rome from annihilation, and the Biblical overtones of the whole game just made for such an engaging experience.
Another empire total war would be insane, I don’t know how many hours I’ve sunk into that game, and how many times I’ve conquered the whole world. Multiplayer was fun too.
I still play Empire.
@@borsayayin1043 yeah me too man, love it - one of my all time favourite games
Empire 2 with new engine and with working AI.
@@terrum-c7s so it seems brotha, so it seems
@@borsayayin1043 I never realized that you could coup your country
I remember when the first medieval game came out I was living around the corner from where I worked at the time and used to go home in my lunch break to play it. One day when I’d first got the game I was so drawn into it that I lost all track of time and accidentally took a 2 hour break. Was totally worth it though.
LOL 🤣
Rome Remastered was an unexpected gift. I really felt like a child again on release day and have been playing it ever since. That sweet nostalgia..
Empire Total War 2, ETW 1 is the only game in the series that I can't get enough of playing. simply because the era it's in is wonderful.
the feeling of seeing troops doing volley fire. mesmerizing.
@@gilbye.a.koloay10 and canister shot mowing down a bayonet charge
Also a huge fan of the 3 land regions, the 3 regions allows for wars across different theatres or allows you to expand your empire without disrupting a certain region too much, like pushing through the Americas allows you to expand while only pissing of 2-3 (Britain, France and Spain) European powers where as expanding in Europe pisses everybody off. For the same number of regions.
Still think Total War: Arena was a massive missed opportunity. It was great fun in it's early days but when Wargaming took over it became too numbers based. There was a lot less focus on tactical input and co-ordination with your team mates. My low tier cavalry could still be really useful when used correctly with flanking hammer and anvil tactics until Wargaming took over and it was like "Your charge value is less than their morale value. Say goodbye to half your men." Would be cool to see it attached to a future TW title as a multiplayer option. Was really good fun playing with 3-4 friends and actually feeling like officers that were part of a larger army.
I want Empire 2 Total War
I just got a sick pc, and I decided to play medieval 2 for the first time since I had a crappy computer back in 2008. It looks like ass from what I rememeber but man it’s fun playing an RTS again! Played nothing else since I returned to it 3 weeks ago.
I am considering playing Empire Total War now (as I’m sure I played that back in the day too) but I was wondering, is napoleon worth playing as well? Based on the two comparisons here they both look like the same game
@@TheArsenalgunner28 I like the campain more in empire. Biger World and morr nation to play as. But I realy like the battles of Napoleon.
Just recently bought empire a week ago. I like the campaign because you can have the entire world. However, the battles can really be buggy and Napoleon is 100% better in terms of battle. If you really want empire, you can install darthmod, it significantly improves the game
but this time i hope it cover the whole world and not just Europe india and parts of the americas. and also not make France into a single province nation.
@@FroschImp thanks man, I’ll try empire first. Just playing the third age for medieval 2 first though.
Getting a pc was possibly the worst thing I did. I now have more great games to choose from than ever before, but also too many to play
Warhammer always makes me think about how incredible a Middle Earth TW would be
Literally. Like the middle Earth mods are amazing but an actual game would be ten times better
@@queenoffortune5052 EA and WB own the rights to LOTR when it comes to games.
I second to that
@@queenoffortune5052 Ca would have to put in a lot of work to equal Divide and Conquer at this point. Don't really see it happening. But DaC on a fresh engine would be awesome.
I'm pretty sure Atilla has a full LOTR mod that's still being updated to this day
We need a medieval 3 and a lord of the rings total war
agreed, but in the meanwhile you can try Third Age Total War, its a huge conversion of medieval 2 into LOTR world it feels just like a new game
@@alessandromascia414 or Rise of Mordor for Attila, but it is incomplete at the Moment
I wish someone mad a total conversion mod for TW: Warhammer 2 or 3. Because it looks like the perfect game to be converted into Middle Earth.
Total warhammer is basically like lotr but better.
Try Warhammer TW - it's good game for those who love fkng fantasy bllsht.
TOTAL WAR: EMIRE NEW PLEASEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was Total War: Napoleon
@@BattlegroundsFTW napoleon had smaller global map than empire, though napoleon has other better features like; troops deserting, camera shakes on explosions, etc.
eitherway, both games are obsolete in terms of most recent features. So yeah, both need a new sequels.
@@BattlegroundsFTW Empire was about world conquering , but Napoleon about Europe war
@@toha1729 yeah those two eras were different. Empire’s was the era of colonial expansion and Napoleon is, well, about the war and it was localized on the continent.
Though, I really wish they expended on the theme of the era of Empire with erecting more provinces on America and broken up regions in Europe such as Paris into smaller sections. Can imagine all that could be done with new technical breakthroughs we now have.
Yeah, Empire is due for a face-lift
Rome 1 : Best campaign gameplay
Rome 2: Best multiplayer
Empire/Napoleon : Best ship combat
agree with you, but all tw games have a sucker IA
Shogun 2: best battles
Attila: Best survival game.
idk why there is so much hate for Total War: Warhammer.. it literally saved a franchise and made the most money out of all IP's by far
How did it save a franchise lol.
@@Diamond-fr1ue I am talking about the warhammer fantasy franchise
@@SamMoonRyong ah
@@SamMoonRyong Literally brought it back from the grave so hard they are making a new tabletop. Fucking power right there
How non-sentient do you have to be to base your opinion on the opinion of the masses ?
I have played a lot of total war games. For me, the best ever is Shogun 2. It is just so complete. Amazing soundtracks, fine classical japanese painting/arts, dozens of different but with unique abilities, brutalities with blood pack and severed limbs and most importantly REAL MENACING PHYSIQUE OF ARROWS FLYING up and down.
Still remember the goosebumps Rome gave me back in 2004 when I first saw it
I remember Medieval 2 Americas campaign was so much fun, playing as the Mayans and seeing their amazing cities. Now we have them in even greater detail, populated by dinosaur people!
😂
I want another Napoleon/Empire era game with smarter AI and really responsive units. I feel like the more recent games, it's harder to move and get ahold of your units, especially once their in combat.
Disagree, you just have to be smarter about unit placement and movement. Warhammer 2 taught me the value of really studying how units perform and what doing things like moving ranged back ahead of time is invaluable. Yes there is clunkiness due to all the shit going on in the battles. But it's not hard to maneuver
@@clownphd1684 It is 100% harder to move units once they are in combat than previous games. You are just saying the most effective way to play in the new games. The only reason you have to play that way is that they are less responsive once they enter combat. Play Rome 1 and you will see what I am talking about.
@@j.d.6086 This method works in Shogun 2. I've tested it out myself. I actually have no issues moving and coordinating units. Just get good bro
@@clownphd1684 Whatever, most people are casuals, and just want to play the campaign every once in a while. Not have to engineer tactics to get my units to obey. It's kinda weird to aspire to be good at a total war game.
@@j.d.6086 I don't really know what you would expect out of a game as complex as Total War. Not only do the units have their animations and stats, they interact with the environment around them causing clunkiness to be inevitable. The amount of times I issue an attack but get a movement command instead is annoying. But it's never enough for me to be like "Wow golly jee it's so hard to use units"
I got Rome Total War in 2004, I still play it to this day
Me to .. first time playing it in 2004 when i was 14 y. Now am 31 and i got it in my laptop
I will always love NaNapoleon Total war even if nobody ever mentions the gem that it is
I am waiting for Napoleon 2 Total War or Imperial Glory 2
Very underrated
You know, Napoleon total war is essentially Fallout New Vegas of Total war. And both are from the same year
I always forget, how much of an improvement Total war Rome was from the previous ones.
Man, how lucky the Warhammer segment has been, 3 games in less than 5 years, while an Empire 2 or a Medieval 3 already seems to be something that we will never see as such.
It was the plan the entire time to make a trilogy to pack in the crazy amount of content there is in the warhammer series
I love to see Medieval 3 or Shogun 3 too, but they planned Warhammer as a trilogy from the start, so I think we must wait. At least the last game will be released soon.
I want Total war : The lord of the rings
mods on medival 2
@@___8668 Don't even mention "MOD" on a game which released 15 years ago
The is also Lord of ring mode out on Attila I believed.
@@delkorea7969 I massively disagree the Mods for medieval 2 are fantastic. The Lotr mod actually looks fairly decent for how old it is.
@@cobyg2581 Yes and it is really good looking.
Just the advancement from 2d models in Medieval 1 to 3d in Rome was fantastic
My absolute favorite is shogun 2. I think in the future (though keep in mind I haven't played any new total war games) is be able to make customizable army uniforms and stats, like make an independent nonhistorical or canon army.
Me too shogun
Me toooo 😎🤓🥳🥳🥳🥳
Medieval 2 is still my favorite game by far. It was so crisp, so fun, so well made.
Aside from the AI. Legit some of the dumbest AI in the history of Total war lmao
Rome 2 AI is the dumbest one, they won't hesitate to charge at the terrifying wall of Pike Phalanx
I think the people who think TWW and TWW2 are boring must be on some kind of crack. How can you think fighting Orcs, Elves, Vampires, Lizardmen, and Daemons is BORING?
Demons arent in the game
Watching the original Shogun sure brought back memories. I thought I was too old for video games then, but that was the hook for sure. Been playing Total War ever since......... & in an odd way..... I miss the original Shogun & Medieval.
I'd love to see a Shogun 3 above all else but I'd also would love medieval 3 as well
You mean shogun 2 2?
i think, shogun 3, ntw 2, etw 2, medival 3, those should be the ones coming imo, that'd be great
Why Shogun 3?
Shogun 2 is amazing and the servers are still online.
We dont need that, maybe medieval 3 but Shogun 3?
Really?
@@plsjato maybe a redux?
@@plsjato How about remastered Shogun 2?
As awful as Rome looks now, it was seriously the best thing ever back in the day. And the transition from Rome to Med II literally made my childhood
You say that, but RTW was the first total war game I played and that was only about a year and a half ago. There's something endearing about the low graphics, and they didn't inhibit what to me was the point of the game - to fight battles strategically without zooming in to see the individual men
I feel the same about shogun 1 i played that first and was HOOKED and now it looks terrible
Medieval 1 always sucked though
Rome remastered - it's evolving, just backwards
Yeah, the remaster lost all the charm original had. Map design had so much "antique" feeling, and now it is cartoony and simplified. Also color palette is acidic
Rome Remastered has no reason to exist.
We have Rome 2 and it's better in every aspect
brilliant how they peaked with medieval 2, then downgraded for two games, then peaked again with shogun 2, and have since been on a bizarre upwards downwards cycle for years
Rome Total War has a most epic music ever.
Ikr when I played Rome 2 I installed a music mod with all the Rome 1 music.
Damn... I still remember the days when I would watch my older brother play Medieval 2 for hours. It's thanks to him that I got into these games in the first place.
One really good thing, that i liked about Rome 2, is that they managed to make the battles much more historicaly accurate, since the enemy lines didn't get mixed with your lines and they were stabbing at eachother and actually using their shields
Come off it, i used to have a enemy unit unit surrounded by around 7 or 8 units and that unit just did not rout at all
@@urbanwarrior3470 Well yeah, the game is kinda bullshit sometimes to be fair, but this was one feature i really enjoyed and made the game cool to look at.
@@urbanwarrior3470 How's it going to rout when surrounded by 7 or 8 units? Probably resolved to fight to the last.
@@diddlypoop It wasn't even officially fighting to the death - it was just fighting - even wheni tried to removed some units
@@urbanwarrior3470 Did you check the unit's morale? The game gives you a clear breakdown of a unit's morale and how it's feeling or if it's close to routing.
Total War: Medieval II and shogun 2 best of the best :( more love, more animation , good hud ,best fight feeling
I want empire total war II… just imagine how fucking amazing that would be
Britisch empire vs spanish empire
Rome 1 🥺 what a beautiful game that was. Love Rome 2 as well shame they over complicated massively the campaign. Med 1 & 2 were special as well
Dang, have some of you played Warhammer 1 and 2? Been playing since Medieval II, and hated on Warhammer because of its fantasy setting.. But it's easily the best of the series as far as tactics, gameplay (minus siege battles), graphics/animations, unit variety, campaign effects, unique buildings, etc. Shogun II Fall of the Samurai is my favorite non fantasy TW, and I would love a Medieval III, but Warhammer II is awesome in its own right.
If being very close to a mobile game is your definition of “best game “ then I give up🤷♂️🤷♂️
@@akwakatsaka1826 uhhhh how tf is warhammer 1 and 2 like a mobile game?? Tf kinda mobile games are you playing lol
@@thacheetoguy1843 Yeah I wanna know what mobile games so I can play play shit out of them too lmao
Yeah, would also like to know what space age phone you're working with, future boy!
@@akwakatsaka1826 You are talking about Total War Warhammer Mobile?
Rome Total war 1 can’t be beaten🔥
Mods.
Amen
I love them all, but I go back to Warhammer II time and time again.
Total War Shogun was my favourite. Avatar conquest was just way too good. Sad it wasn’t a thing in the future games.
I can't believe it's been almost 22 years love Total war Best game ever
I've played Total War games since Rome 1. This year I just got to start playing Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord. I am having a hard time going back to Total War games now... Every single unit being independent feels too awesome to me, it makes me feel like being in the battlefield, it's too damn good. Only downside is not being able to play battles with more than 1000 units, that's the only advantage on TW games atm for me.
I'd also like to give Mount and Blade a try.
Which version would you recommend for someone playing it for the first time, coming from Total War?
I've played RTW 1, MTW 2 and NTW.
@@GonzoTehGreat I've only played M&B Bannerlord, so that's the only one I can recommend. Even though it is currently in early access, I can tell it's totally worth it in it's current state (my opinion at least).
@@GonzoTehGreat if youve never played mount and blade go for bannerlord and if you find the campaign mechanics to be a bit shallow go for warband and try some of the mods
@@GonzoTehGreat warband is the best one
Bannerlord is not exactly finished
But warband has decades of content with mods and stuff
Original Rome will always hold a special place in my heart. Lost days to that game trying to conquer Europe, eventually spreading to far and my cities began to betray me... just like the real Rome LOL
We Need an empire 2 or medieval 3.
That said, I'd be stoked for a modern WWII or something (I know it's overdone in shooter genre, but a massive gunfire total war would be cool. Been a while since one)
I kind of agree but I really think a Civil War era has a lot of potential, if it could include the entire North American Theater with the Caribbean and mesoamerica much like Empire but all the way to America's West Coast and even perhaps Alaska before the Russians sold it so I can be a corner faction with my Streltzy again, then go Stick it to both the North and the South for sucking 😄
I think there could be a lot of potential for that open American West, still lots of tribes who are free, Mexico still being a big player, and even the Mormon's Nauvoo Legion was big enough to Skirmish with the United States Army at one point before they decided to chill and become the Utah National Guard.
There is some potential for a campaign there, and the Blackhawk Wars as well as rough as they were, but honestly if War Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce didn't get some kind of campaign I'd throw something.
@@sonofthebearking3335 Civil war would be cool too - really anything with line battles across history could be cool and not really require much effort on them as it wouldn't be "too new". They've remade Rome a few times and done 3 warhammers. If they aren't going to make a LotR brand I at least want a new empire, Napoleonic war, or something in the medieval/dark ages based in Europe.
something just made Shogun 2 really good - i cant work it out...... Its like for some reason the devs who made shogun 2 left CA and it went downhill from then
Agree ,I think it's just simple but very balanced and we'll put together ,,,like a live board game
I disagree, respectfully.
I think its the units, right now units feel like blobs of cats running after catnip, something about shogun made the units feel not only more alive but the combat actually looked legit.
@@diegolavega487 agree especially with the blood add-on,, I hate Attila
Tbh, Shogun 2 was super monotonous, every faction felt the same (even if it's a game based on Japan, they could have made different units for each faction, even if the difference isn't too big, it would have added flavour), battles were a rugby melee mess, AI was horrible in battle, agents were the most superpowered beings ever in any TW game, every unit fight was a 1 vs 1 soldier fight due to animations and the end game mechanic was awfuly thought. It had good things, and I enjoyed it, but it's far from being the best TW game in my opinion.
This series is aging like a fine wine truly masterpiece from beginning to this day.
what? no??
🙄 sure
You mean engine can't keep up?
I disagreed with Arena and Troy
@@Bl4ckheart ???
medieval total war 1 is in my opinion the best one. I spent soooooo many hours playing it and at 1 point i had almost conquered the entire map and i deeply regret not going back to finish it.
Medieval 2 still looks so good
I think even though it’s not as important as a lot of other wars, they should add a mongol invasion dlc to shogun 2. I just think it would make an amazing game
total war arena was earlier than 2018 i palyed early alpha , and i gotta say this one was the best multiplayer game of total war series its so good
Medieval Total War was the first game I played in the series, but the one that hooked me completely was Shogun 2. I still play it.
I would LOVE a Total War Elder Scrolls or Game of Thrones
There are some good mods for Medieval 2 that let you play during the Oblivion Crisis or when Skyrim is set (including as the Stormcloak Rebellion or as the rest of Skyrim). They're actually really fun and pretty well-made!
Total war but it’s the entire world and tech tree from the 1400 to 1800 with hundreds of playable nations and complete top notch textures.
That's cute, heres another Warhammer instead
We all are living in 2021 while this man is in 2022 already
man, first total war game have better sieges than warhammer 2
Rome Total War, Medieval 2 Total War and Empire Total War were the greatest of the franchise. Would love to see an Empire 2 Total war including S. America, S. Africa, Australia, China and Antarctica with research capabilities by sending ships on research missions.
I want an empire where they focus more on economy and proper mapping and AI strategy.
It made no sense they Included Albany but didn't include New York.
Also entire France was represented by only the city Paris. And Spain contained only the city Madrid. Who made that stupid idea?
I think they should optimize the game by focusing on size of ongoing map.
I feel like one of the largest problem in the game is how they don't allow you to have that feeling of controlling large areas of land or amassing large armies unless you control all of Europe.
They should make construction more expensive and upkeep cost very low while keeping recruitment moderate.
Shogun 1 was like on of the best Total Wars i have ever played in my Childhood!
I played rome, empire and rome 2, enjoyed them all. Will continue after i finished my AOE II campaign
Try Shogun 2, it's beautiful
First total war i played was Rome then medieval 2 been in love with the series ever since
I LOVE Shogun I and Medieval I interface and design of ivons etc. Graphics are obviously very dated but feel of these games are pure nostalgic bliss.
The real time battles of Medieval 2 hold up extremely well
I'd say after looking at this, I've enjoyed the Warhammer and medieval series the most, hope in the future we could get a real third age total war, modders have done amazing to bring us what they have with divide and conquer but it's just not the same. Would also look forward to a medieval 3 with all the updated mechanics and the graphics they've implemented over the years if that's in any way possible
I miss those big open battlefields from the old games :(
Medieval 2 actually had good graphics for its scale and time
I kinda wish they would go back to how the game worked in rome, medieval 2, empire, and Napoleon
Первый Рим - это просто шедевр: музыка, сражения. Нет слов, играл годами...
ламповая игра в свое время тоже много времени провел там, но сейчас уже неиграбельно, и ремастер тоже несмотря на классную музыку , увы уже игра устарела. Даже Ром 2 где тоже много играл, тоже уже чувствуется устаревшая
@@erbolatabdulla1548 все нормально с ней, недавно стартанул новую кампанию. Теперь хочу ремастер скачать
Loved these games sense i was a kid, the music was amazing in pretty much all of them
RIP total war arena. What a fucking great game that was
I like total war games for history events, shogun 2, medieval 2 and rome 1 are simply my choices
total war: Shogun III - with all clans + Korea
Dis,i like.
An evolution from an interesting strategy game, to a great strategy game, to peak balance and gameplay and graphics, then because of a shift in ownership, into a mess of cinematic graphics that are not good for gamplay, and an increase in bugs, to over monetisation, to becoming a hero arena battle game with no strategy left. Truly a human arch from naive early game, to trendy teen, into its prime, beginning to panic in its 30s, midlife crisis, and then losing its mind from having to survive and give up what made it unique to the capitalist machine it lived under.
After all the diversity and content in the Warhammer series, I’m going to find it difficult going back to historical Total War. I completely forgot Troy even existed, that game looked like such a snore fest that I immediately forgot about it when the Sisters of Twilight dlc came out.
Diversity and content? Handgunners are just poorly reskinned crossbowmen in Warhammer...
@@seven-sevensevens877 weak point. Try again.
@@JamestheKilljoy it's a weak point because...? You have to explain why, the handgunners arc their shots like they are firing crossbows for God's sake. Come on now, it's not a weak point because you don't care. It's a lack of diversity that the Warhammer games have. It's just spearman and swordsmen with slightly different numbers that serve the same fucking purpose
@@seven-sevensevens877 how is that any different than any of the other games that do the same thing? Literally every single one of them will copy paste stats and animations to different units. It’s a weak point. Move on
@@JamestheKilljoy that's just not true at all. In Shogun 2, the guns don't arc their shots like Crossbows because some lazy developer cut corners. It was made with care...
SHogun 2 and 3 Kingdoms stand out for me. As a history buff it served to scratch my itch, and teach me more about those wars in the past.
Currently with TW Warhammer i dont get that, but the battles are still fun, though somewhat diminished.
To everyone who wants Empire II and Medieval III like me. You must understand how much effort it needs to get the Historical facts, cultures, families, units right. Everything must be unique for all Countries and historically correct to avoid the "historic proffesors" on the internet and if they get it right they will be bombarded with "Where Black people?" and anything like that whats now in this fkin world
LOL so true
TW Shogun's campaign map was awesome, it's crazy how much TW is turning into a MOBA.
Empire 2, with the fluidity in unit movement of Shogun 2. Please CA.. Then I'll feel complete by this series
The "book" that came with Shogun: Total War shaped the way I thought about life as a teen lol. The way of the Samurai and the Art of War!
hello 👋. I only rn discovered this game and I really want to play it so from where should I start can u please kindly help 🙏
We need a new Empire total war
Crazy how Thrones of Britannia would be the last time we would see Naval Battles
Rest in Peace ✊🏽😔
Total War: World Domination, should be the next instalment.
I put so many hours in those first 3 games. Rome is still one of my favorite games of all time.
WE WANT EMPIRE 2 OR NAPOLEON 2 ‼️❣️
ARENA Total War was so massively underrated. So sad.
I never played a lot of the old or in general much of Total War. Only Total War: Warhammer 1 and 2 (Looking forward to 3) and seeing Empire and Napoleon Naval Battle is freaking amazing looking. I'm pretty bummed out they never included that in the Warhammer Series with Naval Battles, they could've really been creative with it sense I always kind of found it dumb fighting with other ships in the ocean and to end up fighting in land.
My mom gave me a disc binder with various computer games in it, it had one of the install discs for Medieval Total war, and one for rise of nations. I couldn't play either, but I knew they existed. BUT I did get Civ 2 gold edition from my mother's friend.
The warhammer series are the best total war games
Hope medieval 3 will be a fresh start, they owe us big time for war hammer hiatus
Shogun was the best..played the shit out of it
Everything since warhammer: "It's evolving, Just backwards"
reality disagrees with you mate
@@yanivgalmor1747 the visuals, animations, and overall style of the games have been objectively improving. But when it comes to battle mechanics, complexity, and balance the games have just been getting worse and worse.