Has Sega gone Steam exclusive on other PC stuff lately?  2K seems to be doing it with all titles.

That said, Sega's still under boycott until the new Virtua Fighter gets a console release (I'm a huge fan of the series- and not happy with how it's been treated this gen in the US.  Most intelligent fighting game series ever.  BTW, I've heard from some in the gaming industry that it's very likely)

Either way, this is CA's last chance in my eyes, and the only reason they're getting it is the Shogun 2 title.

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.

yep, the movies always have more units

As for the Shogun movie ... the only part they didn't use from in-game (I bet) is where the Samurai actually "mounted!" the horses. Like, they went from dismount, to mount. I doubt that kind of stuff is in-game

Though yea ... if its Steam exclusive I may have to break out the Ninja/Spec-Op gear

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.

Dragoons are like G20 police. With horses.

..... Oh.

Im guessing Napoleon is Steam only?

Quote:

Napoleon is to Empire how Warband is to Mount and Blade

I don't know, for multi-player, yes it's Steam only. I got up off my ass and bought my copy from a actual store though

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

Ah well....I will buy Shogun 2 regardless of this Steam crap, because the game will be awesome.

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.

If Shogun 2 was a slightly updated Shogun 1 using CLOTH MAP!!! Then just mod Shogun 1 for goodness sake

even if Shogun 2 was just a slightly updated Shogun 1 WITH MODERN GRAPHICS!!!, just mod Shogun 1 for goodness sake

I mean, then only people like ME would buy the game due to not having already bought Shogun 1 ... that and people that rely heavily on graphics

This is why games with extra moddability are so awesome because instead of relying on sequels for THE SAME GAME you can actually mod the old one (more easily)

If all games were highly mod-able then sequels would actually have to be GOOD ... and not a clone 

consider Civ III -> Civ IV ... now that was a DAMN GOOD sequel. And that could at least potentially be attributed to the Editor that came with Civ III, where you could design your own units, buildings, maps, etc.

Due to the simplicity of the Civ III editor I was able to make my own little game of Dragons vs Undead

The Undead primarily focused on mass-production of units + buildings that would spawn certain units ... compared to the Dragons that used Super Units + an airforce

I might have eventually given the undead an airforce of Banshees and Wraiths if Civ IV hadn't come out when it did.

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

*dodges incoming rocks*

What about GalCIV?

Checkmate

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

You need to stay in more and get a life of computer games.