Replayability

[Rorarii]

This will probably be the crunch question, Rome might be a great era but this novelty might fade quickly if game play doesn't have addictive depth.

What's your thoughts ..

R

[DarthRuanek]

This will probably be the crunch question, Rome might be a great era but this novelty might fade quickly if game play doesn't have addictive depth.

What's your thoughts ..

R

Every game in the TW series has great replayability. With Rome it's even better, because each faction plays so differently from the other factions (excluding factions in the same culture group). Even Shogun 2 has good replayability, and the factions there are far more similar to each other.

Therefore, I really don't see this being an issue.

[Muizer]

Every game in the TW series has great replayability. With Rome it's even better, because each faction plays so differently from the other factions

That's not really replayability though. That's having various scenarios to choose from. If you first play as the Romans and then as the Carthaginians, you're not replaying anything. Replayability means you can start the same faction in the same scenario multiple times without the experience becoming repetitive and predictable.

[DarthRuanek]

That's not really replayability though. That's having various scenarios to choose from. If you first play as the Romans and then as the Carthaginians, you're not replaying anything. Replayability means you can start the same faction in the same scenario multiple times without the experience becoming repetitive and predictable.

Well, if you define replayability that way, every TW game has had that, too. Beyond the first few turns anything can happen. Different nations become regional powerhouses, different nations go to war, diverting attention to different places, etc. That's never been something TW games lack.

[AngryTitusPullo]

I'm only going to play SPQR 10 times.

[Rasic]

The game will obviously have a large amount of replayability, but if we don't have modding support I don't see it lasting past the first few campaigns once you've done the 3-5 factions you were interested in playing.

If modding is still work arounds and user-made tools where it takes people years to make decent mods I hope we at least get some meaty DLC this time around. If they had DLC that added India or Arabian factions to the game with extended map that would up the replay value tremendously for me. Also later campaigns (not mini campaigns) like barbarian invasion.

Right now I'm expecting no modding tools and the same lame old DLC policy. The only hope for long term replayability is if they do some nice expansions which they usually do good at.

[TheRomanRuler]

I'm only going to play SPQR 10 times.

Not longer?

[Shocked]

Without a doubt the most useless thread i've seen so far, we barely know anything about this game and you've made a poll on how re playable it is?

[Rorarii]

Without a doubt the most useless thread i've seen so far, we barely know anything about this game and you've made a poll on how re playable it is?

How naive, If SEGA decide to sacrific replayability, we won't hear about it. The decision on this will be made early in development. We've been told we're getting "Saving Private Ryan" Spielberg levels of drama. Is this to attract the kiddies - short term players, and will long term wargamers be sacrificied ?

Question must be asked.

R

[AgentGB]

How naive, If SEGA decide to sacrific replayability, we won't hear about it. The decision on this will be made early in development. We've been told we're getting "Saving Private Ryan" Spielberg levels of drama. Is this to attract the kiddies - short term players, and will long term wargamers be sacrificied ?

Question must be asked.

R

I would consider myself a long term war gamer, and i definitely want to see spielberg level of drama and bloodshed, the full 9 yards, in fact, because spielberg is a reowned director, and the title is being compared to him and one of his greatest films, that the game is setting itself a benchmark that i just hope it can reach.

Has for replayability, trying to make the game mod friendly will help hugely in the long run. But since ive been waiting for Rome 2 a while, i expect ill be playing the crap out of it, and if its being spielberged up, it will only do more to keep my attention span. But would still like to see other areas of the game still getting there attention, such has the ai, diplomacy system, combat animation, supply system, manpower system, etc, which will all hopefully adds to this experience, while keeping a depth in those mechanics for the player.

[DarthRuanek]

How naive, If SEGA decide to sacrific replayability, we won't hear about it. The decision on this will be made early in development. We've been told we're getting "Saving Private Ryan" Spielberg levels of drama. Is this to attract the kiddies - short term players, and will long term wargamers be sacrificied ?

Question must be asked.

R

Why do you expect replayability to be different from previous TW games?

And the poll is a bit odd. It implies we actually know what the game will be like.

[Antissa]

It's far too early to be discussing the game's replayability.

[Maizel]

Replayability is one of the few things I have no worries about whatsoever.

[Yomamashouse]

Chances are I will be replaying it many times; however that will not be the case if the factions have the same tendency towards over-proliferation that they did in previous games. Small tech-trees in combination with excessive AI monetary boosts makes a bad experience for me. I don't enjoy smashing endless waves of poorly-constructed fullstacks.

[sinpkr]

it will be replayable as long as it has mod tools. honestly out of every total war game i have played it was from rome 2 and m2tw that i got the most playtime out of just cause of the sheer amount of mods. A recent example of mods givin replayability is arma 2 with Day Z it added a whole new game to the existing game and got lots of my friends 2 buy arma.

[Shea O'Gorath]

This is foolish. It will have the same if not more reputability that Shogun 2

[SturmChurro]

This will probably be the crunch question, Rome might be a great era but this novelty might fade quickly if game play doesn't have addictive depth.

What's your thoughts ..

R

What is this poll? Is this poll from the future?

We don't know how the campaign will be like and to honestly answer this poll you can't. But, from past total war experiences I chose the first choice. Totally addictive. I love Total War and I do not expect to be let down with another installment, especially not Rome II!

[ComnenusTheOne]

What is this poll? Is this poll from the future?

We don't know how the campaign will be like and to honestly answer this poll you can't. But, from past total war experiences I chose the first choice. Totally addictive. I love Total War and I do not expect to be let down with another installment, especially not Rome II!

No, but we can speculate. After ETW the replayability of CA's games hit rock bottom. S2TW and NTW were as replayable as Will Smith's last CD. Of course thats the point. Nobody wants you to buy a game and play it for 5 years, they want you to get bored of it in 3 months so that you have to buy a new one.

[Lord Baal]

I expect it to be addictive.

[cevap]

Rome 2 could be better I guess, though after 2 months of playing it Im not yet bored I do feel the first one was more replayable. I still have the Egypt and German campaigns to finish right after I complete Gaul so we will see then. I play on normal btw everything else seems like a chore, did anyone complete the game on Legendery yet?