Your fav TW title

[bigfootedfred]

We all have our own personal fav, our own TW that we found that little bit of magic in.

For me, its MTW, i remeber my first campaign as the Almohads, 18 hours straight

Have never quite found that magic again, but have always enjoyed total war titles.

whats yours

post your experiences and why your chosen TW title is special to you.


EDIT:

this thread is just for the purpose described above, stay nice.

[bigfootedfred]

hmm votes but no posts?

i want experiences people!

( slaps the forum)

[Tim1988]

I'm going to have to go for Rome I think. I too have many fond memories of Medieval 1, but feel that the new campaign map in Rome was such a step forwards. I have definitely spent the most time playing Rome than any of the others. I also am really enjoying Empire, but still feel that when I finally put the CD away, I will have go more replayability out of Rome. M2 was in my opinion the worst of the titles that I have played.

[helmersen]

Must be Rome. Was my first, but MII is a close second

[Tango12345]

ETW-it is my favourite time period. And darthmod made it great fun to play!

[ELITEOFKINGWARMAN8]

MTW. I remember one campgain, I spent about 50-60 hours playing. Not that it was hard but.... so much fun .


Plus VI is where I started TW Mutliplayer at

[Darth_Revan]

ROMA VICTOR!!

[Nizam89]

The first TW game i played was Rome. I can still remember the first battle i fought. It was the Rome TW demo. Me Hannibal against the romans at the battle of trebia.
Oh and i remember the great tune/music during the battle. It was far better then the ETW crap. This is my childhood game.

haha and i always used the same strategy. I hide my carthagian cavalry behind that mountain and later when my archers killed half of their infantry I crushed their skirmishers and the rest of their troops. And of course the elephants went insane XD Damn it CA what happened to youuu?

[ARCHIEIKE]

My first was Rome (first PC as well but thats another story)

Its just when i started playing i got really immersed in the period. And i don't give a about the historical accuracy it just felt...well right.

All the music and sounds really amazing

Oh and when the Romans world randomly yell 'Imperitor'!!

[Lysander13]

RTW no question.

Ahhhhh..what fond memories of the days when TW games at least pretended to be modder friendly.

Remember when I first installed Europa Barbarorum & was completely blown away by the most beautiful modification I had ever seen for any game.

**Sigh** The good'ol days...

[bigfootedfred]

Yeah i often find its the first TW game played that seems to stick with the player as the 'best total war'.

No votes for shogun?

hmm the old gaurd must be absent atm ...

also, im seeing more votes than posts still...remeber experiences people...

RTW no question.

Personally i found rome the most boring, predictable and overall WORST TW game i have ever played...

[Sir Winston Churchill]

Personally i found rome the most boring, predictable and overall WORST TW game i have ever played...

You completely left out the fact he said with mods.

[bigfootedfred]

You completely left out the fact he said with mods.

oh god no!!!!!! i stated my own opinion!

take the bloody giant chip off your shoulder will you, its supposed to be nice thread...jeez

[empr guy]

i played medieval one and it was alot of fun, but when i got rome i thought i had found the best game ever...


i love almost everything about it, the time period, the factions, the roman units (the barbarian units are so unrealistic though lol), the music.

i still play it occasionaly too. MTWII is a second, not sure hwow close but its the only title playable (non modded) AND has intense graphics. i have to say the western clone armies are pretty lame, even if that was realistic.

[gluteus maximus aurelius]

My personal fave is M2TW. I spent a lot of time playing the original MTW (including my biggest every battle, 30000 each, it lasted forever), and then RTW. But M2TW has so much more replayability for me. I recently tried to play RTW again, but found it inferior (though that may be due to my love of Heavy Cavalry charges...). As for ETW, it doesn't hold a candle to RTW or M2TW, and only beats the other two on graphics

[Abspara]

My fav was M2TW. I'm a sucker for anything in that time period.

[daniu]

I voted Shogun.
It's not that I think it was technically the best, but I remember the moment I saw it being played in a preview on television...
I was instantly hooked and deeply loved every single game of the series.
Oh, and I am for Shogun II as the next title.

The "best" game would be a tie between M2TW and ETW;
I can't really compare them though because I think I prefered the GC in M2TW, but started to play MP in ETW which is a completely different experience altogether.

[Sir Winston Churchill]

I've honestly gotten the most gameplay out of Med II. The atmosphere in that game in incredible, the whole era just mesmerizes me. It's gameplay is smooth, looks nice, and is all around fun.

In 2nd place is Rome, which loses points only for the fact the Roman era is not my most favorite and the graphics are wanting compared to Med II (I played Med II first in the whole series, so I'm a bit bias. I'm sure Rome had good graphics for when it was released).

[Sharpy309]

Has to be Empire for me.

[Jack95]

Rome, hands down. Never played the previous ones. Rome lets me conquer the Mediterranean and not feel guilty about it unlike Medieval II. Rome actually did succeed in building their Mediterranean Empire and when I do it in the game I feel like I'm living history. When I conquer Scotland as England, or conquer Germany, France, Italy... I feel guilty and reluctant to do so because they didn't really do that. They were close to doing so in France but then it all blew up. Empire would be a close second but I can't play it because it doesn't work (go figure) so there you have it.