How many campaigns have you finished?

[Chih]

When it was announced that Rome 2 would be 1 turn per year it was explained this decision was based on statistics of people starting and not finishing their campaigns. CA said that by making the campaign 1 turn per year, more people would actually finish the games they start.

I've found this to not be the case at all for me, but the opposite. I haven't finished a single campaign of Rome 2 yet out of ~20 started campaigns. Even the multiplayer campaigns I've started I haven't finished since me and my friends have always both gotten bored. While in previous total wars I would have finished several campaigns by now. Every campaign I start I get bored of by the arcadey unimmersive mechanics which makes the campaign feel like a grind or a bug makes me want to stop playing the campaign (such as lag when ai is burning gates when playing as Carthage or Ai being passive). Mods are still too minor to have a larger effect on the gameplay value of the game for me as well.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone is in a similar predicament that I am

And to those who actually finish their campaigns, from where do you get the energy to do it in Rome 2?

[Captain Arrrgh!]

None. Before I commit to a campaign I want 1) Centurions with proper crista transfersa 2) A blood pack for more epic, emotive battles. 3) The complete dogshite that is patch 5 to be resolved.

[Fallen Phalangite]

This really should be a poll. None for me either. Furtherest I got into a game was 60 turns before I got bored and started over

[Chih]

This really should be a poll.

True, I should have thought about that before. Is it possible to make it into a poll by editing?

[Fallen Phalangite]

Doubt it. Just start a new thread as a poll and ask a mod to shut this one down.

edit: nvm, I stand corrected

[Huberto]

I hope CA's 'metrics' squad noticed that I tried powerful hard to finish just one campaign but after forty hours I just couldn't bear all the pointless clicking and auto-resolving.

[AngryTitusPullo]

None. I'm still about 20 settlements away from finishing my Parthian campaign.

[Inhuman One]

None, the campaign map is just boring, it has been since shogun 2.

Though I must say I never cared at all for finishing campaigns. To me the games arent about that. I couldnt care less about the silly objectives. I'll just make my own objectives.

Might be a better poll to ask about who even cares about the objectives. I'd assume most people don't.

Part of the problem is that the objectives have been downright silly from the very start. Simply surviving seems like enough of an objective to me considering how many nations where lost in time.

[Captain Arrrgh!]

None, the campaign map is just boring, it has been since shogun 2.

Though I must say I never cared at all for finishing campaigns. To me the games arent about that. I couldnt care less about the silly objectives. I'll just make my own objectives.

Might be a better poll to ask about who even cares about the objectives. I'd assume most people don't.

Part of the problem is that the objectives have been downright silly from the very start. Simply surviving seems like enough of an objective to me considering how many nations where lost in time.

Don't agree with any of your post. Why play a TW game then? Why not play streetfighter and unlock the Chun Li costume? You can finish it in an hour.

[Inhuman One]

Don't agree with any of your post. Why play a TW game then? Why not play streetfighter and unlock the Chun Li costume? You can finish it in an hour.

Why rush to the finish? to me its about the experience. When its finished its finished. If you are playing a great game, you don't want it to end.

I just prefer immersion. To really get into a game and not be concerned about objectives that make no sense.
Why conquer province X when it makes more sense to conquer province Y? because an objective tells you to?

Rulers at the time certainly had no such silly objectives. They based their goals on their current situation, diplomatic standing, weakness of other countries, etc.

[Captain Arrrgh!]

Why rush to the finish? to me its about the experience. When its finished its finished. If you are playing a great game, you don't want it to end.

I just prefer immersion. To really get into a game and not be concerned about objectives that make no sense.
Why conquer province X when it makes more sense to conquer province Y? because an objective tells you to?

Rulers at the time certainly had no such silly objectives. They based their goals on their current situation, diplomatic standing, weakness of other countries, etc.

Fair enough.

[Chih]

When it was announced that Rome 2 would be 1 turn per year it was explained this decision was based on statistics of people starting and not finishing their campaigns. CA said that by making the campaign 1 turn per year, more people would actually finish the games they start.

I've found this to not be the case at all for me, but the opposite. I haven't finished a single campaign of Rome 2 yet out of ~20 started campaigns. Even the multiplayer campaigns I've started I haven't finished since me and my friends have always both gotten bored. While in previous total wars I would have finished several campaigns by now. Every campaign I start I get bored of by the arcadey unimmersive mechanics which makes the campaign feel like a grind or a bug makes me want to stop playing the campaign (such as lag when ai is burning gates when playing as Carthage or Ai being passive). Mods are still too minor to have a larger effect on the gameplay value of the game for me as well.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone is in a similar predicament that I am

And to those who actually finish their campaigns, from where do you get the energy to do it in Rome 2?

[Arimahn]

One, as the Iceni. The last ~30 or so turns where I just had to sack and conquer were incredibly tedious. I've come close to finishing other campaigns but just run out of steam before the end.

[SamueleD]

Non, I just get bored too soon, I usually rage quit as soon as I find a starving AI faction.

[DRIFTER anonymous]

just one with parthia got boring at times but was worth finishing.

[Alien Eel]

None, but in previous games, also something like 1 or 2. So I never finish those campaigns. And I don't see a problem here. Why should I?

[AusHaching]

None. There is no late game challenge. Once the civil war is over, all that is left is using your overpowered armies (by this time, you should field 12 armies with all kinds of upgrades and substantial experience, all made up of elite tier units) to crush feeble opponents.

I started declaring war on all factions bordering me simultaneously to get a bit of a challenge in my Suebi campaign with 63 Settlements on very hard. Didn´t really work.

The first 20 or 50 turns, when you still have to juggle income and food, and you can only use basic units, are much more fun.

[Hoplite of Ilis]

By order played: Spartiatai, Ptolemaioi, Makedonai, Seleukidai - now playing Romaioi. Note that I'm using a mod which halves victory conditions prerequisites. However, the first two campaigns were played without that mod, and if it weren't for that, I would have gone no further.

[Vor]

None. 99 hours played at present. I'm not actually sure.. but it's possible I've never actually won a campaign according to the CA victory conditions in any TW game.

[Cruzz]

I finished my one and only campaign in patch4. I probably wouldn't have finished that one either if I didn't get a couple of >8 province enemies to become my client states for the province counter.