The Ultimate Mod

**AJStoner** · July 20, 2011, 08:47 AM

Coming soon to a Nightmare near you!

**Drustan** · July 20, 2011, 09:12 AM

Expected release date?

**Vanderdecken** · July 20, 2011, 09:16 AM

Yes. Sounds better than Shogun II.

**venraw** · July 22, 2011, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by Vanderdecken

Yes. Sounds better than Shogun II.

That game has been out for a bit and is still bug-ridden. CA has disappointed me ;/.

**AJStoner** · July 22, 2011, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by venraw

That game has been out for a bit and is still bug-ridden. CA has disappointed me ;/.

Is it? I was most agrivated by Empire. It was a great period for a game, had some cool idea, but is full of problems and the gameplay mechanics were obviously not tested as they are highly impractical. For example I loved the new tech tree but you never get to make the best units because even if you persue the technology fervently the game is over before you can get them on the field.

I looked at the lead designer's webpage and he joked about how he wouldn't even give his free copies away to his friends the game sucked so bad. "Great," I thought. "Thanks for taking my $60 ####ing dollors though..."

**Vanderdecken** · July 23, 2011, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by AJStoner

Is it? I was most agrivated by Empire. It was a great period for a game, had some cool idea, but is full of problems and the gameplay mechanics were obviously not tested as they are highly impractical. For example I loved the new tech tree but you never get to make the best units because even if you persue the technology fervently the game is over before you can get them on the field.

I looked at the lead designer's webpage and he joked about how he wouldn't even give his free copies away to his friends the game sucked so bad. "Great," I thought. "Thanks for taking my $60 ####ing dollors though..."

And here I thought I was the only person who thought Empire Total War was a massive failure. I was seriously hoping that getting back to swords and melee would make the game playable again. I was wrong!

If only, if only they tried to make their games masterpeices. Masterpeices like Medieval II.

**Zigama** · July 23, 2011, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by AJStoner

I looked at the lead designer's webpage and he joked about how he wouldn't even give his free copies away to his friends the game sucked so bad. "Great," I thought. "Thanks for taking my $60 ####ing dollors though..."

I remember hearing about that and getting pissed of too. Why release it if you're that ashamed of it?

**ChivalrousKiller** · July 20, 2011, 10:04 AM

The awesomeness of this thread cannot be described

**Haldred** · July 21, 2011, 09:01 AM

You should get the top modders to collaborate with you. I would buy this.

**AJStoner** · July 23, 2011, 07:21 PM

The problem here is the same problem with movies, music, etc. The industry gets started by people who love doing it and work there asses of to do as good a job as can be done--then it becomes a massive business and a bunch of soulless, stuffed-suit, subhuman, vermin accountants come along--take it over and utterly ruin it to squeeze a few more pennies out of it.

Not wanting to preach, but capitalism ruins everything in the end. When's the last time you looked out your window and saw three-square inches of space without an ad plastered over it. Neil Degrass Tyson, curator of the Hayden planetarium and my favorite science writer, mentions in his book, "Death by Black Hole," how an ad executive once called him to ask if there was a way to project his company's logo on the ####ing moon...

**Zigama** · July 23, 2011, 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by AJStoner

Neil Degrass Tyson, curator of the Hayden planetarium and my favorite science writer, mentions in his book, "Death by Black Hole," how an ad executive once called him to ask if there was a way to project his company's logo on the ####ing moon...

*Looks up at the moon*

Sees "Drink Pepsi-Cola!" spelled out in craters