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I've sunk a ton of time into the Total War franchise but they're never as good as I want them to be. It's hard to pick a favorite because every game has caveats and major downgrades from its predecessor. The battles have strongly trended towards a simplified arcade style and the campaign map is a grab-bag of random features they'll never use again (Troy's resource system is great).
What's your favorite Total War?
Pic is mine, my fifth rate got a broadside into the stern of a pirate galleon. I ended up winning that battle and capturing every ship less the one that exploded.
Did you play naval battles?
What changes would you like to see? What are your ideas for new games in the series?
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Medieval 1 is really good if you can get over how old it is.
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It's so fricked that strategy game AI hasn't really improved in the past 20 years.
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Or the strategy game market as a whole.
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it's really been going sideways at best
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the AI sucks because the design is bad. the campaign maps need to be smaller or node based like medieval 1 or paradox games so AI isn't sending stacks out to walk in circles in the desert. Battles need to be slower and take longer to resolve.
its turn based, but field of glory series is basically a much better version of total war battles
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Which of these tasks is more difficult?
1. Making a game with lots of "content"
2. Designing fun gameplay
AI depends on the second and can become worse with the first one.
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game ai is more challenging that just building ai, as you need multiple levels for a variety of players.
but also it needs to run on consumer hardware, u can't just throw several racks at the problem like with modern neural nets.
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