Graphics are fine

[Death's Deputy]

Seriously folks, maybe I'm just old school (although at 22 I'm not that old), but to me what really matters is gameplay, and from all the evidence I've seen so far Shogun has awesome gameplay.

Too many games (and gamers) are just total graphic junkies these days! The result is too many graphic-heavy, gameplay-light games.

Why is Final Fantasy 7 regularly voted as one of the greatest games of all time? Well its certainly not because of its graphics (although they were good for the time), but instead because its gameplay and storyline are awesome and it has massive replayability.

I for one am glad they left all the more advanced graphics stuff out the first shipping and made it optional for later releases - I doubt my computer would be able to handle Shogun if all that stuff was compulsary!

Shogun looks beautiful, even on only medium settings which is what I'm playing on. I've not had much chance to play it yet, only a quick land battle in the wee hours (at like 7am when I woke up to find it had finally downloaded and decrypted ) and a sea battle on my lunch break (I'm working at home so can take a long lunch break if I want ) Both were v normal level AI so I can't comment on that but both looked and felt extremely satisfying; I haven't been so satisfied with my first experience of a new TW game since my first go on Rome.

I was especially happy with the naval battle - I split my smaller and lighter navy (but more technologically advanced) into 2 wings, and with some pretty sweet manouvering around some rocks and islands I managed to rout a larger and heavier fleet with only minimal losses (2 ships to their entire fleet). I'll get a proper go at the game tonight

Rant over.

[samuraiwarior]

i also dont care much about graphics.

[papercut]

Gameplay 4ever!!

[M2TWRocks]

I can understand where you're coming from if your computer isn't high end. If you can only play on medium settings, it's most likely you could not use AA anyway. But for the other folks who have a high end system, I can understand why it's a big deal.

[Stealthorgasm]

Seriously. Chill the out. The game just came out, it will be fixed, obviously. Yes, they had a lot of time to create the game and theoretically it should come out perfectly, but we are all humans, and that is impossible. You're all fairly young and you will have years to play this game. I'm sure within a month or two, this game will be fixed with patches.

[Creaky]

Agreed, Shogun 2 as it stands now, on release day, is one of the nicest looking games available right now. To top it off, in my opinion, the gameplay has recovered fromt eh stumbles of the past, and the series is in possibly better form with this as it's flagship than it has been in years. The future only holds good things, so folks need to chill and enjoy themselves. Things are great right now.

[Death's Deputy]

I can understand where you're coming from if your computer isn't high end. If you can only play on medium settings, it's most likely you could not use AA anyway. But for the other folks who have a high end system, I can understand why it's a big deal.

Aye I suppose if you'd spent lots of money on a new system then maybe you'd be a bit upset but from where I'm sitting it all looks frankly quite pathetic that people are getting so angry about it

[M2TWRocks]

Agreed, Shogun 2 as it stands now, on release day, is one of the nicest looking games available right now. To top it off, in my opinion, the gameplay has recovered fromt eh stumbles of the past, and the series is in possibly better form with this as it's flagship than it has been in years. The future only holds good things, so folks need to chill and enjoy themselves. Things are great right now.

Have you played it?

[Death's Deputy]

Gameplay 4ever!!

Damn right

[Shabby_Ronin]

I'm playing it, it is a jaggedy mess, it also isn't supporting dx10.

It's not an "either or" question, you are presenting a false choice.

[Alexander_Paines]

Theres a difference between having bad graphics (such as League of Legends) and being good to look at, and having bad graphics and being torturous to your eyes (Shogun 2)

[Choki]

I'm playing it, it is a jaggedy mess, it also isn't supporting dx10.

It's not an "either or" question, you are presenting a false choice.

the same. Is worse of Empire

[Shabby_Ronin]

Theres a difference between having bad graphics (such as League of Legends) and being good to look at, and having bad graphics and being torturous to your eyes (Shogun 2)

It's not tortuous, but it is quite a mess.

[Death's Deputy]

Seriously. Chill the out. The game just came out, it will be fixed, obviously. Yes, they had a lot of time to create the game and theoretically it should come out perfectly, but we are all humans, and that is impossible. You're all fairly young and you will have years to play this game. I'm sure within a month or two, this game will be fixed with patches.

I'm totally chilled about the game, in fact so far I'm loving it

What is annoying me is that instead of this forum being full of threads discussing our early experiences of the game its full of threads by dweebs moaning about this!

[Stealthorgasm]

I'm totally chilled about the game, in fact so far I'm loving it

What is annoying me is that instead of this forum being full of threads discussing our early experiences of the game its full of threads by dweebs moaning about this!

That was more towards the people complaining about problems with the game, not to you haha. You are indeed chilled out.

[Shabby_Ronin]

I'm totally chilled about the game, in fact so far I'm loving it

What is annoying me is that instead of this forum being full of threads discussing our early experiences of the game its full of threads by dweebs moaning about this!

Dweebs? Who are you, AC Slater?

[Death's Deputy]

Dweebs? Who are you, AC Slater?

I'm just very aware I swear quite a lot sometimes, which is fine on football forums (my normal territory) but more frowned upon in a forum like this. But yeah dweebs is a rubbish insult, point taken

[Shabby_Ronin]

Hey Lusted, where's the DX10?

[1in1class]

I'm playing it, it is a jaggedy mess, it also isn't supporting dx10.

It's not an "either or" question, you are presenting a false choice.

True words.

[Spaxspore]

Hey Lusted, where's the DX10?

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