Devastated, only to assert itself but: Total subjective impressions of fanboys, or

Devastated, only to assert itself but: Total subjective impressions of fanboys, or

Total War: Shogun 2 - Limited Edition (computer game)

Customer Review

I play the series since the first hour, but have never written a review it, because I felt especially in the last part, there is anyway only two camps: Fanboys and Steam haters

A Fanboy I've always been, but since "Half Life 2" and Steam haters. However, probably due to where it almost daily real bargains are now by the increasingly emerging downloadable games sites, and by the more and more on Steam "based" games I was slow to Steam Akzeptierer converted. And today I can say that I would have missed without jewel Steam also one or the other (Independent) (such as the witty "Death Spank"). Of course, everyone has to decide for himself whether he in the one or other game waived, but that time has also taught me to let go simply times ... ;-)

Brings us to the topic ...

First blow below the belt for me was when I realized my graphics settings scale down, so that the camera will continue to remain liquid when entangle the platoons each other. My system (Intel 980X, 24GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 470, Win7 Ultimate) I actually designed for video editing, as it was supposed to bring a game to run properly ...

But oh well, since times Empire strikes you as Nvidia owners with problems in the Total War series around and I can not understand why nothing will change. I really have to almost ask, how much money flows from Ati to sabotage us Nvidia users. :-) There are of me a star deduction, because that suggests almost in the Steam division: take it or leave!

Okay, as a fanboy I eat naturally and fix down the details, because I want to play already ... somehow (embarrassed glance to the floor).

What I had to get used again as the first were the confusing platoons that form in the melee. Keep all units in Empire and Napoleon mostly nice distance from each other, it is then verwuschtelt something at Shogun.
Unfortunately, the banner caused me almost the opposite and confused me more than they helped me. I have first the Hattori clan played who owns a red emblem on a black background. But there are still a number of other clans that also look like this. Then instead of red it like a pink, or be dark pink flavored pale purple, but when it rains, at night or in fog you would have to zoom back a bit to separate his henchmen from the other. To help me, I had to work with the pause button for the first time in a Total War game. Huh? Can this be?

I think so, because, as said here many times before, the AI ​​does not sleep this time. And you zoom close to the action approach, to admire the beautiful combat animations, the warning pile, because the enemy cavalry has spent itself neatly to their own archers or even the General, without that you have not notice anything.

The old tactics to pick a small mountain when setting up the troops and the rows to make simple staggered rigid, no longer works as often as before, as the AI ​​just came running up front flat. Even if you had set up his entire army at an angle of 90 degrees to the opponent, he swung to attack head-on. In Shogun 2 the AI ​​passes then ever on the flank and one is even forced his army to swing ... and so abandon the saving hill in the back.

What I really like is that the fatigue but apparently again will be more significant. In the demo I did not feel. Charges opponent a hill and the player sends his men down into the valley, breaking the morale the attacker so fast that one with a peasant army has a chance against Samurai. Toll.

I also feel that the special abilities of the general have much more importance than in the previous games. Sprayed his own troops anabolic steroids in the form of "troops collect" or "hold position", they break not as quickly as before. I have had but kept situations while defending a fortress where my heavily battered troops were wiped out except for 2 man the position. (You then get from me 1.5 days furlough, so I am.)
The AI ​​uses those skills on the battlefield, and once more so care must be taken, perhaps just for players like me who have long been playing the series and is set to total passivity have.

Twice I had however to fight with the AI ​​bug that enemy troops were simply standing in their place. That was uncomfortable just at a fortress defense, when I had to compete against two complete armies. Actually, I was not able to attack. And then you have to trick something and lure the enemy. Once your units back within range of the AI, which somehow enabled again and the struggle continues. Otherwise you have to activate the battle time limit, then you can do without such stunts. But I've always off.
But as I said, it happened to me throughout the campaign only two or three times.

And that brings me to the campaign already history:
Wow! Very exciting. That was the short version ... :-)

As Hattori Clan you start about the middle of the map, is ringed by enemies and also has the Shogun near, with many homes are allied at the beginning. So one has to choose his targets very well. Add to this that clans are allied apparently no longer (as before) by accident or random abandon their alliance. In my case, Takeda and Uesugi were ally from the very beginning and have the northern part of Japan picked up and divided, but suddenly they were gegnerlos and declared war on me. The southern countries have left me alone, so I could concentrate on the two.

However, at a city they are repeatedly shattered downright and after a while they offered me a peace treaty, I also accepted. The course did not change their situation, they were still allies, but could not expand. After several rounds, they tried it so with me. I had expected and upgraded it. Again she rebounded, again a short peace treaty ... just to attack me again. After the debacle of the third peace treaty stopped suddenly with two longer. And after a while Uesugi has the Takeda clan declares war and both have taken through the wringer.

Great, so a comprehensible dynamic I have not found in its predecessors.

But, as it had come naturally, at some point, the southern countries had fallen on my and surprised me with much better-equipped armies. Ooops. The Intermezzo with Takeda and Uesugi has only caused me to increase my army number, I probably put too little money into buildings that improve the units themselves ... (gulp)

I'll beat the crap out after all the tricks and losing provinces faster than 1940. Well, now I'm offended. What to do? Game-reboot? Load a very old memory status? ... Or just go ahead? Aargh.

I opted for carrying on and how long gone guaranteed me play ball. Retreat, dogged defense at focal points, pinprick attacks in small provinces to only get money ... just to survive ...

And suddenly the enemy power leveled somewhat, there is again room to breathe and slowly you start again with a counter-attack. The counterattacks remain constant and then you will be Shogun ... and then all clans plunge the player with whom one is not allied. But hey, I was still not ready! My defense is not yet ?!

And again mends to the Frontline and trying to survive ... And again, although one could almost cry, because you really wanted to lose a single fight, one has had long-lasting gameplay and wonder where the time went.

A very important point that makes me only the experience described above possible, the design of the campaign map. By mountain ranges or impassable forests, the card is almost predominantly of hoses. This creates the feeling of a frontline, what I have (except Part 1) really missed all get the predecessor. When z. B. Napoleon, the player can simply leave all unimportant cities are left and advance directly to the capital and to take them. Of course, this period was decisive for such Auseinandersetzungungen, in which armies have simply taken somewhere and there have decided the future of nations, but as a player I like a lot better feel to cause as little defense.

And if I am defending a pass that leads through a mountain range, or city in the style of "300" with a couple of "auxiliary forces" against a well-equipped army, I have a pretty big grin on his lips.

As described here on many occasions do the AI ​​to avoid such bottlenecks as well, but they just also attacks if she feels superior.

And, although a strong defense can make a lot at Shogun 2, everything feels much more dynamic. I find playing on the campaign map itself feels a bit like chess. And in order to stay with the Hattori clan in my example: I had two armies grappled with Uesugi and Takeda in the north and only one that had to cram the subsequent holes to the south. Because you really have to consider what the next step would probably be the best as a player. I had this feeling at all with the predecessors. I think there just enough to advance curricular moderately over the map.

But that is now changing with Shogun 2 ...

And if I necessarily the province of South Shinano need to get to the precious stone resources that allow me to build larger fortresses, and I take this castle with 80% losses in the further course against powerful counter-attacks with farmers hold just because the General in the center of the troops is in a square and thus the subjects cheering for dogged defense, then I have to think not only of Helm's Deep, but also feel a morbid satisfaction, at least supplanted my bad conscience, why I now again hours this a game have played.

But the Doofe it's that it was not the last time due to such impressions. (Ahem, sweetheart, I'll then multiply by the tax return - You said the day before yesterday and not made yesterday ?!)

Oh, and did I mention the new hardest difficulty? One may not even caching. Maybe I've been though too soft and weepy ...

Super goods 13 Rank: 5/5
April 16
Excellent value 133 Rank: 4/5
January 21
makes his job 14 Rank: 5/5
June 15

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