I've got Complete and Total faith that Shogun 2 is going to kic Serious Ass!!! Should be the best one in the series yet. They boosted the amount of units you control from 20 to 30 for starters and for once the AI will be able to handle putting troops on boats and launching invasions (a common problem that has plagued them with Every game at launch). I also saw some new art work for the game that showed Ninjas, so...Ninjas are IN!!! Can't wait.

Sh!t yeah it was. Honestly it took a lot to think that was all actual in game footage. Granted I've seen them do some impressive things, like the water effects in Empire, but that was almost too good to be true. When the boats were sailing and it first showed them and the waterline, and then when the samurai are sitting under the tree and the cherry blossoms were falling around them, those things were hard to buy as "in game" and not cinematic. If it is though, I'm impressed. I feel sorry for anyone who's going to try to run this on a older system though...lol. With all those effects if the person running it has anything less than a quad core it's gonna be lag city for them.

It still looks amazing though. I would have loved to see Elemental's battles done in that kind of scale.

The distance rendering issues went out with Empire brother, where you been?

Seriously though, they did. Empire with all options cranked to Ultra looks amazing. I always turn off the distance blur effect though simply because I don't like it. I'd rather have the distance objects be clear and sharp even if it is a little unrealistic.

Hopefully the demo for this is better then the demo for Empire: Total War. That one turned me off the game completely.

Really? Have a look at cavalry in the distance in empire, at max settings (on a 285) they look reallah bad.

Oooohh, you're talking about the 3D/2D sprite change that occurs when you scroll back and units are off in the distance. I thought you were talking about buildings or trees or the environment or something. You can disable the 3D/2D change as well but you have to do it in the ".ini" file manually.

As for engine rendering when they make these movies, their engine for making the videos does have one tweak the normal games don't have. They disable the unit caps when making the videos and make them on "Super Computers" that even the most expensive home system can't match. You can see it done in the intro movies for both Rome and Med 2. Those videos are made with in game graphics except that they unlock unit counts. In Rome specifically there's a massive calvary charge that has well over 100 Horses alone not counting the rest of the massive armies in the background. There's no way they could have done that with 20 unit limits in those armies. Graphically though, it's the same engine and same graphics you get during actual game-play, just scaled up for a more epic movie feel.

Did you play Empire, Tas? There are some units that can mount and dismount in the middle of a battle, like Dragoons, so it's highly possible that's in game.

..... Oh.

Im guessing Napoleon is Steam only?

Quote:

Napoleon is to Empire how Warband is to Mount and Blade

Empire and Napolean are total steamworks games, even single player needs steam.

It's about time.

I wonder why they avoided Shogun for so long. Rome gets expansions. Medieval got an Expansion, a sequel, more expansions for the sequel. Two more franchises come out. And NOW they finally get back to Shogun?

I would love it if they just take the original, maybe update the graphics a little, balance the units (like someone said with Geisha) and maybe add a few more added more fiefs (think Nobunaga's Ambition), better AI (always), and BRING BACK THE OLD STYLE MOVEMENT and call that Shogun 2.

I played Shogun and Medieval 1 to death. Heck, I still play Medieval 1. If Shogun 2 when back towards those roots, I'd be happy.

Heck, if it looked like Elemental's cloth map mode (which basically Shogun and Medieval 1 did). That's fine with me.

Lies, all lies!! We all know there's no such thing as a "Good" Civ game

*dodges incoming rocks*

Easy Difficulty Civ is for Megalomaniacs

Hard Difficulty Civ is for Prideful Megalomaniacs

MP Civ is for Competitive Megalomaniacs

Ladder Civ is for Prideful AND Competitive Megalomaniacs

recommended Anime for Megalomaniacs includes ...

Death Note

and

Code Geass (both seasons)

heh ... I once committed spontaneous and immediate Fan Rage over Code Geass IRL (to my present-day best friend too!)

Of course, at the time we WERE semi-violent frenemies so ... it wasn't a huge stretch