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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medieval 1 is my favorite since it was my first one
the game was pretty darn revolutionary for the time
"whoa i can play a strategy game and control
THOUSANDS of units in a single battlefield??? 
" that was mindblowing coming from games like age of empires 2 where the max you had was 200
the series went to shit after empire
empire was a mess but they were at least trying out new things, the whole revolution system and whatnot
they scaled it back with napoleon to just europe and that was the first warning sign
never liked shogun 2 and subsequent games they all felt too arcadey
i stopped buying total war after rome 2, besides warhammer ones because i kept getting scammed by friends who kept convincing me no dude its a great game and i fell for it and stopped playing 15 hours in THREE TIMES
i just hate the direction the took modern total war games
i hate starting with a single province
i hate the abstraction in resources, compare something like rome 1 - you build farms for income and population, you built roads for better movement and trade, you build markets and docks for trading with others, your population grew and you were able to upgrade the town to a city etc. it all felt logical and immersive, compared to modern total war where buildings and resources are too abstracted and just feel like soulless tech trees
somewhere down the line the games stopped feeling like youre playing an advanced version of age of empires and started feeling like youre playing fantasy/medieval version of starcraft 2 if that makes sense, vibes wise
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. May God have mercy on your soul.
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