You are one of the rare channel whose clickbait truly annoys me. I know systematically that i'm never gonna get what i'm promised in the title and mignature. But you're content is good and i just beleive you would benefit from a tamer marketing.
Hi, mate, thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoy the content! I personally do not at all see this as being clickbait - instead, I call it truthbait. I make my titles and thumbnail as exciting as possible while still not lying about what's there. Clickbait is being promised something that's just NOT there, like a cure for hairloss or inflated manhood. I can't help anyone with that stuff, but I CAN offer you some awesome footage, interesting topics and a positive attitude, and in this case, some possible shocking opinions on which Total War games look best despite their age :) And I hope that's enough sometimes! Cheers!
I agree, and being a regular viewer nothing here really surprised me, and maybe thats what annoying, its marketed towards new viewers, which makes a lot of sense But As a regular viewer i really enjoy the content so i just hate the game, not the player :p
@@AndysTake You should really just name videos like this "My take on total war graphics" with no caps. It's not like tour viewers are bunch of children who need BOLD capital letters and red arrows to be interested.
@@AndysTake my recommendation would be to put the game covered in the title after the hook title. Kind of like “Best Campaign Change Ever | Attila Mod”. I personally like more clarity in titles, but I also understand the need to draw people and being somewhat vague helps draw clicks/views.
Attila was the first time I really struggled to distiguish between units and environment. Both kind of the same color... brownish - greenish, on the map as well as during battle. That never really went away and, although I like the newer titles, I wish they went back to the more "clear cut" graphics.
I couldn't agree more and I was beginning to think I was the only one who felt this way. I really want to play Atilla, mainly because of the mods for it, but it's all just a dark muddled mess for me.
Same Especially of you started playing on the older titles, like rome 1 or medieval 2 Your notion of standard total war is bright colorful,and quite frankly, beautiful
I agree, I've put quite a bit of time on Attila back when it was just released and I couldn't distract myself from noticing how yellow the whole game is
I totally agree with you and this is why I still play and stream only Medieval 2 on my channel. It feels like a more realistic battle and environment. Attila feels to me "cartoonish" and I can't stand that. It has nice gameplay mechanisms some small innovations that I love but the graphics is a no deal for me
too f-dark mate, for real. i mean its the aesthetic but damn the game too fckin dark for me. edit: and if your turn up the brightness. too f-bright, its horrendous. however, the gameplay... i definitely enjoyed it. playing it is so much fun. still the graphics, its downright bad.
i think shogun 2 wins all. it looks by far the best among the historical titles and the resources it requires today are considered peanuts. Unsurpassed.
I was really blown away by Troy's campaign map, definitely one of the prettiest campaign maps in the entire series. Aesthetically though theres something about Napoleon that makes it feel so nostalgic and welcoming.
@@nihilsinedeonihilsinedeo3137 I think its the immersion that gets me. I love the quick turns and battles. But i also love that there are what feel like little mini games in between the normal total war mechanics. Definately not for everyone but that is more then ok.
I think it's a mistake to dismiss the first two games. The hand-drawn map style is both clean and aesthetically pleasing and while the battles are fought with 2D sprites, they were extremely easy to read. I still think the terrain in Shogun 1 looks great for a game that came out over 20 years ago.
Ti would be nice if CA creates a new historical total war with a decent and really simple graphic, maybe a mix of napoleon and Rome 1 graphics, that would enable much more units in the battle. Image a total war with battle with 100.000 soldiers in the battlefield, it would be amazing for 18-19th century total
We need Empire 2. Basically the whole world with regions, 100K people armies, massive naval battles, more regions by countries, new USA Campaign. How I want that.
You really hit the nail on the head here. It's all about the clarity / contrast for me. When I first saw Rome 2 (I think it was), I couldn't understand the battle because it looked so cluttered and there were annoying banners everywhere. I immediately thought to myself "how can they not see this is unappealing". I pray for Medieval 3
Fun fact: Troy is the only Total War game that offer interactive grass and very high grass render distance. It shows how ahead is in tech compared to other Total War games.
My favourite is easily the Empire/Napoleon period of TW games. I think it's getting harder and harder to push graphics technically, and so more focus will need to be put on aesthetic direction over pure technology.
Usually agree with your videos but I really disagree with this one. Shogun II to Thrones of Britannia look more gritty, grounded and real. I think its more of a stylistic taste tbh.
Great video! I'm happy to see that I'm not alone feeling that Medieval 2 truly has something special graphic wise, the overall color scheme and atmosphere is by far my favourite of them all.
People say it's clickbait, but your take on Shogun 2 SHOCKED ME! :D I think it looks amazing. And it even looks better at 4K. It's such a shame I just can't enjoy it in 4K because there is no way to scale interface, which really hurts my enjoyment of the game.
It makes happy to see my Gunpowder mod for WH3, I just miss a mention that it's not vanilla, some people might be confused if they expect those effects. :P
Napoleon looks the best by far imo. Also I need to mention how well Medieval 2 aged because it honestly looks better than a lot of newer total war games.
Hello Andy ! Really love your videos man keep it up ! I would really love to see a optimization guide for total war attila since from your videos the game runs really smooth
Its funny because I agree with most of what you said, but for me, TWTK feels like it is one of the worst in terms of visuals. It feels dark and blurry(?) Im not sure. It might also have alot to do with the lack of realistic matched combat since it looks more like WH- i.e. kind of cartoonish and for me, that really kills any "real" looking graphics. The second thing I have a different opinion on is S2. I personally never had any lighting issues that I can remember. The colors, were very vivid and bright, but mixed with detailed textures, the ambiance of cherry blossom leaves floating through the air it was a cohesive scene. Also, the matched combat in the game was really, really awesome. The charges felt real and smooth as they crashed into each other. Even with the absurd blood effects, and the horos on the generals, everything else felt very satisfying to play. Nice video thought. I think more like this, comparing different design concepts throughout the series is interesting.
I dont know. I like the grafics of Attila way more than of Rome or medieval tw and never got impacted by these optimization issues. And Shogun TW 2 looks and plays way better than Napoleon or Empire TW. I thought that gunpowder was really good implemented in Shogun and the fact that nearby fleets play a role in land battles was astounishing and looked also very good.
In my opinion Rome 2 now is very optimized and I think is the best Total War ever made followed by Attila. Attila was left behind with optimization. It has many wonderful uncompleted features that Rome 2 doesn’t, has more depth in details, politics and the AI is a lot better but in battlefield is full of bugs and lacks a lot of basic functions. Example, cavalry charges are unstoppable against every damn unit, they destroy everything in their way also the most elite spearmen. Even the very light cavalry charge is deadly. One front charge can destroy 80% of an entire elite unit and many times very heavy cavalry is faster then very light cavalry. Infantry is useless, no shield wall nothing. This is ridiculous ! If Attila had more attention like Rome 2 it would be the best Total War ever made. If we talk about all Warhammers are just trash, when lizards, frogs, worms, rats and hornets fighting each other.
Honestly I hope MTW2 gets the remastered treatment. Rome remastered is a true joy to play. It's everything I wished it would have been back in 2004 when it barely chugged along on my laptop at college. And MTW2 is just too old for me to enjoy anymore, a remaster is just what it needs since the game is still awesome!
I definitely agree, Troy is a masterpiece of visual design, everything is as charming as it was for rome2, but with all the best enhancements of today's technology! Nevermind the unit designs that one may not like. WH3 don't manage the same clarity somehow.
I agree with all your points except saying that Shogun 2 - WH2 are the ugliest in the series. Rome 2, Attila, Napoleon, and Troy look the best, visually, and make a four-way tie for the best looking games in the series.
I agree with your thoughts on this. Although I would say the only thing about shogun 2 fall of the samurai is the battles are a bit better than Napoleon. Moving the artillery and firing as well the mechanics of firing guns just seems much better. Like yourself I do wish they would have continued with the empire series. Such a good foundation it’s a shame they seem to have abandoned it.
I like three kingdoms but it has its issues. I personally cannot stand how armies are setup. Multiple generals in a single army and you can only recruit certain unit for each general. I want them to go back to Shogun 2's way of doing it.
I've always liked the old campaign map of medieval 1 and Shogan 1. Dont get me wrong, the current style is better, but, I did also like the chess style and wish they could be remastered.
I am a veteran Rome 2 player, it is by far the title I have played the most and I love it despite its issues. For me, it seemed like a game with good graphics, especially because I had been playing old games because I didn´t have a good PC for years. A few months ago I purchased Shogun II and, omg, that game is so much better in terms of graphics even though it´s older. Rome 2 looks cartoonish in comparison. I have watched many videos about Napoleon and that game looks gorgeous indeed. If only Empire could be implemented into Napoleon campaign map...
I disagree somewhat about Rome 2, I think it's a bit unfair to put it in the same boat as Attila. It's a beautiful game, and while there a few graphical glitches, it clearly surpasses the others of said "era" visually
For me... warhammer 1-3 still look uglier than Shogun 2 and Rome 2. And when new Total War Games look better and more modern its not by much... for me its kinda stuck and didnt improve much since 2011. Especialy someone who loves Gunpoweder stuff and for me it was the peak in Fall of the Samurai, the smoke effects in the warhammer games are just a pure joke.
I don't even know what to say, very detailed opinion. I tend to agree with your take on this one. Interesting choice of BG music, really gives that epic time spanning feel hahaha Thanks Andy ❤
I played Rome 1 and Medival 2 and it was easy to read on battlefield, units from different factions was different with whole different colors (first of all units in Rome 1). Plus battles was pure pleasure. Then I skipped other games until Rome 2, and it was grand dissapointment, battles became dull. Some banner factions was so indentical, readiblity was low as hell and still. Same to TW Warhammer. All enjoyment just fly away.
Good graphics, but gameplay is getting fucking worst. Every calvary charge will like wet hotdog, since medieval 2, the archer arrow look like a tooth pick flyer, since med 2.
you talk a lot about the graphics, but in my opinion, what the series has lost the most is the feeling of real human masses: - units have lost their physical mass, all collisions are now super unrealistic - movements of units have become super synchronous, not realistic and feel very artificial - disgusting and unrealistic perfectly formations of units, with perfectly correct rows and columns all of these things were "presented" in 2008 with the first alphas of the Empire and have not been fixed until now
In terms of pure visuals, I think Troy wastes all of its potential when it comes to animations, I never zoom in on battles because they look like badly directed movies
Definitly ever since empire total war I noticed that 3d models became less detailed than before... Rome 1 and Medieval 2 were truly well designed games in terms of the art style. Especially Medieval 2 which I consider as the peak of total war design. (The detailed settlements, the deferentiated units even armor upgrades) wow medieval 2 was a work of art when it was released. the only thing that stands against it is that its dated. Empire was ambitious but lacked the texture details we see in medieval 2 ... Shogun 2 art style was great also but the battlemaps were very bland and lacked details. Rome 2 (for me) is the worst looking graphics in the post shogun 2 era. I think they could have done much better than that. Still its among my most played tw titles ever. Attila was more atmospheric so its colors kinda fleshed out the deficiencies in the art style. Although ToB was just a reworked attilla it improved over its predecessor. 3k art style is great also troy which bodes well for the future of the series.
I only played the original RTW and MTW2 the other day, it's not the graphics that put me off, but the dated controls and ease of life stuff, like holding space to see where you've sent units. Graphics for me, up to a point, only make the rigs we have to have more expensive, so I've never really been a max graphics for every game kinda person
Fantastic video and I completely agree with almost all of your takes here. It's so nice to see another color enjoyer. The era of ugly desaturated browns everywhere is over!
I think that three kingdoms isn't really optimised compared to napoleon and shogun 2, my game lags on the campaign and on the battlefield with only 2 k troops at low settings...
I only play and stream Medieval 2 total war, it just feels like a real movie... very realistic. I can play up to Rome 2, any newer title is just arcade and cartoonish. I can't even stand the campaign map of Attila, is just hurts my eyes
Hi Andy, yea you're totally crazy ... Ok just kidding! lol I feel you got it right with the top 3. I'm a huge Napoleon fan, so glad it made it into the no. 2 slot :)
Andy - Please stop with the stupid titles. Your content is great, but the ridiculous titles are really just giving a sense of let down when you watch them.
For me its pretty easy, old titles like Rome or Medieval 2 are plain ugly, new ones like Warhammer 3 or Troy are way too cartoonish or arcady... for me the golden age and sweet spot and best of best are 3 titles: Napoleon arguable the best Attila and Rome following, just being very pleasing, especially with the mods of Attila , Classical Empires, Dawnless Days, Medieval 1212, it feels like 4 game in one, and slightly unique feel to it, I just hands down love it.
Love your videos man. Nice and calm and a pleasant voice to listen to.
You dont need clickbait titles.
You are one of the rare channel whose clickbait truly annoys me. I know systematically that i'm never gonna get what i'm promised in the title and mignature. But you're content is good and i just beleive you would benefit from a tamer marketing.
How was it clickbait?
Hi, mate, thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoy the content! I personally do not at all see this as being clickbait - instead, I call it truthbait. I make my titles and thumbnail as exciting as possible while still not lying about what's there. Clickbait is being promised something that's just NOT there, like a cure for hairloss or inflated manhood. I can't help anyone with that stuff, but I CAN offer you some awesome footage, interesting topics and a positive attitude, and in this case, some possible shocking opinions on which Total War games look best despite their age :) And I hope that's enough sometimes! Cheers!
I agree, and being a regular viewer nothing here really surprised me, and maybe thats what annoying, its marketed towards new viewers, which makes a lot of sense
But As a regular viewer i really enjoy the content so i just hate the game, not the player :p
@@AndysTake You should really just name videos like this "My take on total war graphics" with no caps. It's not like tour viewers are bunch of children who need BOLD capital letters and red arrows to be interested.
@@AndysTake my recommendation would be to put the game covered in the title after the hook title. Kind of like “Best Campaign Change Ever | Attila Mod”. I personally like more clarity in titles, but I also understand the need to draw people and being somewhat vague helps draw clicks/views.
Attila was the first time I really struggled to distiguish between units and environment. Both kind of the same color... brownish - greenish, on the map as well as during battle. That never really went away and, although I like the newer titles, I wish they went back to the more "clear cut" graphics.
I couldn't agree more and I was beginning to think I was the only one who felt this way. I really want to play Atilla, mainly because of the mods for it, but it's all just a dark muddled mess for me.
Same
Especially of you started playing on the older titles, like rome 1 or medieval 2
Your notion of standard total war is bright colorful,and quite frankly, beautiful
I agree, I've put quite a bit of time on Attila back when it was just released and I couldn't distract myself from noticing how yellow the whole game is
I totally agree with you and this is why I still play and stream only Medieval 2 on my channel. It feels like a more realistic battle and environment. Attila feels to me "cartoonish" and I can't stand that. It has nice gameplay mechanisms some small innovations that I love but the graphics is a no deal for me
too f-dark mate, for real. i mean its the aesthetic but damn the game too fckin dark for me.
edit: and if your turn up the brightness. too f-bright, its horrendous.
however, the gameplay... i definitely enjoyed it. playing it is so much fun.
still the graphics, its downright bad.
i think shogun 2 wins all. it looks by far the best among the historical titles and the resources it requires today are considered peanuts. Unsurpassed.
A very polished game, art design is awesome too
I need to try beat the napoleon game. Shogun 2 and Napoleon I think were the nicest games to look at.
I was really blown away by Troy's campaign map, definitely one of the prettiest campaign maps in the entire series. Aesthetically though theres something about Napoleon that makes it feel so nostalgic and welcoming.
That whole game is a hidden gem imo.
@@Jbird1988 I love it since I know the history behind it, but i see why others would dislike it.
@@nihilsinedeonihilsinedeo3137 I think its the immersion that gets me. I love the quick turns and battles. But i also love that there are what feel like little mini games in between the normal total war mechanics. Definately not for everyone but that is more then ok.
@@Jbird1988 exactly , immersion makes everything. Characters , soundtrack and especially dialogue, masterfully crafted.
Napoleon has this somber vibe that just hits different. The blue hues to everything with that hazy fog underpinned by that FIRE 🔥 soundtrack...
I think it's a mistake to dismiss the first two games. The hand-drawn map style is both clean and aesthetically pleasing and while the battles are fought with 2D sprites, they were extremely easy to read. I still think the terrain in Shogun 1 looks great for a game that came out over 20 years ago.
Hopefully 2030 isn’t when we get the next historical game.
Amen brother!🙏
Судя по всему, она вообще не выйдет
The “do you think I have a point” combined with the phalanx moving into screen was too perfect. 😂👌
Ti would be nice if CA creates a new historical total war with a decent and really simple graphic, maybe a mix of napoleon and Rome 1 graphics, that would enable much more units in the battle. Image a total war with battle with 100.000 soldiers in the battlefield, it would be amazing for 18-19th century total
Slowly making progress now it's 9% subscribed
We need Empire 2. Basically the whole world with regions, 100K people armies, massive naval battles, more regions by countries, new USA Campaign. How I want that.
Ain’t no way bro said Shogun 2’s graphics are worst than Empire and Napoleon
You really hit the nail on the head here. It's all about the clarity / contrast for me. When I first saw Rome 2 (I think it was), I couldn't understand the battle because it looked so cluttered and there were annoying banners everywhere. I immediately thought to myself "how can they not see this is unappealing". I pray for Medieval 3
Napoleon Total War's battles looked like moving paintings of that same period, maybe that's why I love it so much.
Fun fact: Troy is the only Total War game that offer interactive grass and very high grass render distance. It shows how ahead is in tech compared to other Total War games.
Exactly! Troy is so much in advance any other TW needs to catch up yet x) And I hope they do in the next historical title!
My favourite is easily the Empire/Napoleon period of TW games. I think it's getting harder and harder to push graphics technically, and so more focus will need to be put on aesthetic direction over pure technology.
Usually agree with your videos but I really disagree with this one. Shogun II to Thrones of Britannia look more gritty, grounded and real. I think its more of a stylistic taste tbh.
Great video!
I'm happy to see that I'm not alone feeling that Medieval 2 truly has something special graphic wise, the overall color scheme and atmosphere is by far my favourite of them all.
The downgrade in combat mechanics is unquestionable
As always an annoyingly good video
Haha thank you so much, Resonant! Glad to hear from you, wish you all the best!
@@AndysTake ahah, you are one of those channels that make videos I wish I had thought of
@@ResonantRTS High praise indeed, thank you so much! Cheers mate!
People say it's clickbait, but your take on Shogun 2 SHOCKED ME! :D I think it looks amazing. And it even looks better at 4K. It's such a shame I just can't enjoy it in 4K because there is no way to scale interface, which really hurts my enjoyment of the game.
It makes happy to see my Gunpowder mod for WH3, I just miss a mention that it's not vanilla, some people might be confused if they expect those effects. :P
Yoo, that's a FANTASTIC mod! Sorry I didn't mention it here, I DID mention it in the actual Warhammer series review I made though :)
@@AndysTake Well now I had to watch it, thanks for kind words! One day I get to finishing the mod, I promise. :)
@@Brutik5 what else can you do that hasn’t already been done? It looks fantastic already! :D
Napoleon looks the best by far imo. Also I need to mention how well Medieval 2 aged because it honestly looks better than a lot of newer total war games.
Troy, RTW:R and Napoleon for me, though M2TW and particularly TWR2 have some hidden artistic beauty in them.
Hello Andy ! Really love your videos man keep it up ! I would really love to see a optimization guide for total war attila since from your videos the game runs really smooth
Its funny because I agree with most of what you said, but for me, TWTK feels like it is one of the worst in terms of visuals. It feels dark and blurry(?) Im not sure. It might also have alot to do with the lack of realistic matched combat since it looks more like WH- i.e. kind of cartoonish and for me, that really kills any "real" looking graphics.
The second thing I have a different opinion on is S2. I personally never had any lighting issues that I can remember. The colors, were very vivid and bright, but mixed with detailed textures, the ambiance of cherry blossom leaves floating through the air it was a cohesive scene. Also, the matched combat in the game was really, really awesome. The charges felt real and smooth as they crashed into each other. Even with the absurd blood effects, and the horos on the generals, everything else felt very satisfying to play.
Nice video thought. I think more like this, comparing different design concepts throughout the series is interesting.
Napoleon is the best looking Total War and one of the most beautifull in the series along with Attila.
I dont know. I like the grafics of Attila way more than of Rome or medieval tw and never got impacted by these optimization issues.
And Shogun TW 2 looks and plays way better than Napoleon or Empire TW. I thought that gunpowder was really good implemented in Shogun and the fact that nearby fleets play a role in land battles was astounishing and looked also very good.
Another great video Andy!
Can't wait for empire 2
In my opinion Rome 2 now is very optimized and I think is the best Total War ever made followed by Attila. Attila was left behind with optimization. It has many wonderful uncompleted features that Rome 2 doesn’t, has more depth in details, politics and the AI is a lot better but in battlefield is full of bugs and lacks a lot of basic functions. Example, cavalry charges are unstoppable against every damn unit, they destroy everything in their way also the most elite spearmen. Even the very light cavalry charge is deadly. One front charge can destroy 80% of an entire elite unit and many times very heavy cavalry is faster then very light cavalry. Infantry is useless, no shield wall nothing. This is ridiculous ! If Attila had more attention like Rome 2 it would be the best Total War ever made. If we talk about all Warhammers are just trash, when lizards, frogs, worms, rats and hornets fighting each other.
Whats so good about Rome 2? I remember disliking it a ton years ago. Haven't played it since.
Honestly I hope MTW2 gets the remastered treatment. Rome remastered is a true joy to play. It's everything I wished it would have been back in 2004 when it barely chugged along on my laptop at college. And MTW2 is just too old for me to enjoy anymore, a remaster is just what it needs since the game is still awesome!
dont care about graphics, i just want the mechanics to be good.
I definitely agree, Troy is a masterpiece of visual design, everything is as charming as it was for rome2, but with all the best enhancements of today's technology!
Nevermind the unit designs that one may not like. WH3 don't manage the same clarity somehow.
I agree with all your points except saying that Shogun 2 - WH2 are the ugliest in the series. Rome 2, Attila, Napoleon, and Troy look the best, visually, and make a four-way tie for the best looking games in the series.
I agree with your thoughts on this. Although I would say the only thing about shogun 2 fall of the samurai is the battles are a bit better than Napoleon. Moving the artillery and firing as well the mechanics of firing guns just seems much better. Like yourself I do wish they would have continued with the empire series. Such a good foundation it’s a shame they seem to have abandoned it.
Dude hates three kingdoms
He's not the only one.
I like three kingdoms but it has its issues. I personally cannot stand how armies are setup. Multiple generals in a single army and you can only recruit certain unit for each general.
I want them to go back to Shogun 2's way of doing it.
To be honest only Rome 1/Rome Remastered doesn't hurt my eyes. Literally every other game does, if only to a small extent.
I'm coming back to comment on this video in 2030 if CA releases Empire or Napoleon 2(or 3) that year 🙃
Dude I totally agree. I had this problem too and that's why I started playing less battles. I just couldn't figure what exactly it is ...
I've always liked the old campaign map of medieval 1 and Shogan 1. Dont get me wrong, the current style is better, but, I did also like the chess style and wish they could be remastered.
I am a veteran Rome 2 player, it is by far the title I have played the most and I love it despite its issues. For me, it seemed like a game with good graphics, especially because I had been playing old games because I didn´t have a good PC for years. A few months ago I purchased Shogun II and, omg, that game is so much better in terms of graphics even though it´s older. Rome 2 looks cartoonish in comparison. I have watched many videos about Napoleon and that game looks gorgeous indeed. If only Empire could be implemented into Napoleon campaign map...
Warhammer graphic wise is great, gameplay wise its barren as fuck.
I disagree somewhat about Rome 2, I think it's a bit unfair to put it in the same boat as Attila. It's a beautiful game, and while there a few graphical glitches, it clearly surpasses the others of said "era" visually
For me... warhammer 1-3 still look uglier than Shogun 2 and Rome 2. And when new Total War Games look better and more modern its not by much... for me its kinda stuck and didnt improve much since 2011. Especialy someone who loves Gunpoweder stuff and for me it was the peak in Fall of the Samurai, the smoke effects in the warhammer games are just a pure joke.
I don't even know what to say, very detailed opinion. I tend to agree with your take on this one. Interesting choice of BG music, really gives that epic time spanning feel hahaha
Thanks Andy ❤
I played Rome 1 and Medival 2 and it was easy to read on battlefield, units from different factions was different with whole different colors (first of all units in Rome 1).
Plus battles was pure pleasure. Then I skipped other games until Rome 2, and it was grand dissapointment, battles became dull. Some banner factions was so indentical, readiblity was low as hell and still. Same to TW Warhammer.
All enjoyment just fly away.
Good graphics, but gameplay is getting fucking worst. Every calvary charge will like wet hotdog, since medieval 2, the archer arrow look like a tooth pick flyer, since med 2.
you talk a lot about the graphics, but in my opinion, what the series has lost the most is the feeling of real human masses:
- units have lost their physical mass, all collisions are now super unrealistic
- movements of units have become super synchronous, not realistic and feel very artificial
- disgusting and unrealistic perfectly formations of units, with perfectly correct rows and columns
all of these things were "presented" in 2008 with the first alphas of the Empire and have not been fixed until now
In terms of pure visuals, I think Troy wastes all of its potential when it comes to animations, I never zoom in on battles because they look like badly directed movies
Definitly ever since empire total war I noticed that 3d models became less detailed than before...
Rome 1 and Medieval 2 were truly well designed games in terms of the art style. Especially Medieval 2 which I consider as the peak of total war design. (The detailed settlements, the deferentiated units even armor upgrades) wow medieval 2 was a work of art when it was released. the only thing that stands against it is that its dated.
Empire was ambitious but lacked the texture details we see in medieval 2 ... Shogun 2 art style was great also but the battlemaps were very bland and lacked details.
Rome 2 (for me) is the worst looking graphics in the post shogun 2 era. I think they could have done much better than that. Still its among my most played tw titles ever. Attila was more atmospheric so its colors kinda fleshed out the deficiencies in the art style. Although ToB was just a reworked attilla it improved over its predecessor.
3k art style is great also troy which bodes well for the future of the series.
I only played the original RTW and MTW2 the other day, it's not the graphics that put me off, but the dated controls and ease of life stuff, like holding space to see where you've sent units.
Graphics for me, up to a point, only make the rigs we have to have more expensive, so I've never really been a max graphics for every game kinda person
Attila was the last total war game that impressed me graphically to be honest, it's been stagnant over the last decade
Gotta love Shogun and Midevil 1!
Fantastic video and I completely agree with almost all of your takes here. It's so nice to see another color enjoyer. The era of ugly desaturated browns everywhere is over!
Hell yeah, my friend! The Chad colour and clarity enjoyer lessss goooo
@@AndysTake 😂😂😂😂🤘
empire is where CA abandoned ambition
Kingdoms looks so ass I don't understand how it looks like it does and runs so poorly
Attila has good graphics, yet sadly it takes at least a 1000$ PC to run it competently on high.
Question, where is the background music from?
your 'shocking' take is shockingly annoying as you say you prefer Napoleon to Shogun, as always.. its your opinion
Not gonna lie but Napoleon is better than shogun 2 in many aspects, i dont really understand the hype around shogun 2
I think that three kingdoms isn't really optimised compared to napoleon and shogun 2, my game lags on the campaign and on the battlefield with only 2 k troops at low settings...
a bold, bold, bold claim to say that warhammer 3 runs better than previous titles. That is objectively false.
runs objectively better than WH1 and WH2 for me, so not very bold imo
just the graphics, because the military system is just the same shit over 20 years, allways a max of 20 units per army
I think 3k looks the worst in recent years I hate the way it looks
I only play and stream Medieval 2 total war, it just feels like a real movie... very realistic. I can play up to Rome 2, any newer title is just arcade and cartoonish. I can't even stand the campaign map of Attila, is just hurts my eyes
I also loved Shogun 2 and played that a lot, looked real to me.
One of your best videos Andy! 🎉🎉🎉
I would dig dark and gritty realism graphics. The colorful fortnite just aint it.
Woot we're up to 9%
Yes not really shocking as the headline states. Great content just the same. I am not put of by the caps either.
What is the song in the start?
Hi Andy, yea you're totally crazy ... Ok just kidding! lol I feel you got it right with the top 3. I'm a huge Napoleon fan, so glad it made it into the no. 2 slot :)
Holy shit I've been watching for years and I wasn't subscribed
Sometimes its nice to set aside the try hard and micro and just watch the battles... and enjoy that sweet sweet immersion.
agree
I think Attila looks the best
Please tell me this video was written by an AI
Aight - subbed
Tell your Audio editor to learn the difference between art style and direction of a game and graphical settings lol
Good vid❤
Who cares about graphics when the game sucks
Andy - Please stop with the stupid titles. Your content is great, but the ridiculous titles are really just giving a sense of let down when you watch them.
Get that Troy music out of here Andy!
Graphics are overrated. Stop thinking so much of graphics.
Pin pls🎉😢
No offense, but I think you might have your rose tinted glasses on.
I have many of these games but just not into them
For me its pretty easy, old titles like Rome or Medieval 2 are plain ugly, new ones like Warhammer 3 or Troy are way too cartoonish or arcady... for me the golden age and sweet spot and best of best are 3 titles:
Napoleon arguable the best
Attila and Rome following, just being very pleasing, especially with the mods of Attila , Classical Empires, Dawnless Days, Medieval 1212, it feels like 4 game in one, and slightly unique feel to it, I just hands down love it.