it's fine but let's stop it here ok?
besides, backing to the topic.. today I was watching some videos on youtube about graphics of TK.. in all due honesty I never paid very much attention to graphics (sure I like eye candies every once in a while, but still...), but I'd rather focus more on game mechanics, which is were I think the series lacked more in general; vanilla Rome or Med 2 were not so better than vanilla Rome 2 IMO, there are some limits that are there since ages (such as limited number of warriors on the screen) .. it is pretty much obvious that as Rome and Med 2 are much more moddable, many of these limits have been amended by modders, so I really don't want to start a rant over this again, I think that less or more everybody agrees on this.. but well, if I were CA I would have worked more on mechanics and reality rather than graphics; this is clearly a marketing choice (with the fancy and shining WH series on the top of this logic) and it's a consequence of the period we are living ... if you look at all the most recent titles, basically none is moddable as it was in the past (either we don't have tools, or there are more hardcoded things, etc) and the whole process started years ago (tangent example, I was a modder of NWN1 at the time, when I was running with a friend a small online shard.. modding was intuitive and fast, very flexible; when NWN2 came out we were all excited, and we got terribly deluded .. pretty much the same that happened with Rome 2 I guess).
However, in all due honesty I'm happy that we still have Rome and Med 2 with so many great mods and I don't think I'll ever adapt myself to the new titles.. sure I enjoyed both Empire and Shogun, because the setting was different from the old titles, but everything that "copies" the old Rome and Med 2 is simply not interesting to me