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I finished Outer Worlds 2. It was... okay. Just like the first game. Aggressively 'okay'. Which in the greater scope of games, is kind of bad. There's so many 'good' to 'great' things someone can play instead. The camp factor was turned up even more and it's just never really funny or clever with what it presents since everyone is such an obvious caricature.
It also lasted about 10 - 15 hours too long. There were a lot of things that could have been cut. There's a whole planet that is just shops and like 3 quests owned by the minor Sub Rosa faction that doesn't expand on them at all or give any interesting lore. There's also interactions you can have with the main antagonist faction, because originally it was planned you could join them like a Caesar's Legion type thing, but they couldn't pull that off. So there's just these little dangling quests that don't really lead to anything. There's a lot of time just spent running around the planets shooting creatures to get to Point B but there's not as much environmental storytelling filling in the gaps like there are in the Fallout games.
It ran well and the shooting felt nice. Some of the companions are cool, like one connected to the Order. At least one is very very undercooked. The Order was the only faction I found interesting. They're also the only objectively good ones in the whole game. Like the game tries to pull a "but they're secretly" evil thing,
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but it's just a few rogue members doing it, not baked into their ideology. Every ending slide I had improved things when it involved the things I did to help the Order.My Three Kingdoms Total War campaign is on hold. I'm on a Legendary Yellow Turban campaign where I own half the map and Cao Cao and his allies own the other. Every turn has like 5 battles in it and it's just me inching and inching forward. Neither of us have the resources to deliver a killing blow yet, so it's kind of a slog.
I went and tried to play Total War Warhammer 3, as I put a ton of hours into 1 and 2, but compared to what I was just facing in 3K, the game is very easy? Surprisingly so. Corruption and other faction effects don't seem to be a threat, battles are relatively easy, I technically won my Cathay campaign in about 40 turns by playing hyper aggressively, which I noted previously was one of my weaknesses. It's annoying that they removed pre-made formations they had in earlier historical games and there's no way to save them. As long as your army doesn't change at all, it'll remember your formation from the start of last battle, but otherwise setting up checkerboards to let guns shoot between your infantry lines and stuff is very tedious. I don't think I like the game, tbh.
So I went back and installed Attilla, did some performance tweaks, and installed the Fall of Eagles mod. I haven't gotten to play it too much yet, but it has War Weariness so you're discouraged from constantly blitzing from city to city. Pace of the campaign and battles is a lot slower and more comfortable to manage. There's more diplomacy and things happening. I think we need to go back.
Im of the opinion that historical Total War peaked with Attila. The only bad thing I can say about that game is that the colors are a bit drab otherwise its a much more interesting and deep game then Rome 2 imho . I just prefer Atilla lot over basically all the older Total War games like Rome 2 and Shogun etc. Oh and Attilas performance sucks if you dont have a great rig (like I do)
On Total Warhammer 3 you should try a more challenging campaign like Kislev with Katarin on legendary for example.
I really should give Pharaoh Dynasties a try
Attila and, in particular, Charlemagne come close after Fall of the Samurai as far as historical games go for me. The management layer in particular is something I love about it (also with how Charlemagne adopted formable nations a la Paradox, something which I wish was in the series earlier). On the downside, I've had late game lag making games feel much less enjoyable but maybe I can try with my new set-up.
I think I understand why people love Shogun. Im just a sucker for the setting of Attila and it feels like a Total War game that REALLY tries with the campaign layer and the depths of its mechanics. Besides the fact that its actually legit challenging (or at least that is how I remembered it)
I think I would agree, though I do like Shogun 2 and Fall of the Samurai, as a typical historical fan. Three Kingdoms is cool too but some stuff sure does annoy me, like spawning stacks of bandits in the corners of the maps to represent the people's outside the boundaries invading inwards. You just have to have a stack permanently parked in the corner to stop them from spawning and that's their only purpose. Alliances also seem to mean nothing in that game on higher difficulties, which is one positive I think I can say for the Warhammer games is that you can actually have long term friendships with other races, as long as they're also Order/Chaos or similar.
My Attila performance seems fine since I upgraded to a 9070 XT recently and did some of the config file tweaks. Fall of the Eagles also fixes a lot of bugs and stuff on its own.
I could try a harder Warhammer campaign for sure. I know Cathay was marked as an easy one, but that campaign I just finished was on Legendary, so I was expecting something more. The Great Bastion does cut off any potential attacks from the north, and allying with your brother cuts off any from the south as long as he doesn't get overwhelmed early by ogres. So that eases things up. I honestly didn't like their roster all that much either, tbh.
I was interested in Pharaoh Dynasties as well. It's one of the ones I haven't played. Along with Shogun 1, Troy, Thrones, Empire, and Napoleon.
PS. I hope Fedora is treating you well.
Thank you for the in-depth comment. I also bought a 9070 XT before prices went up and yeah, that card eats Attila for breakfast. (Im on 1440p but im really happy with my rig)
Of the ones you havent tried, Id recommend Dynasties and either Empire or Napoleon, mainly because theyre so different. That said, Ive heard that Empire or was it Napoleon ? can be a bit buggy. Just hearsay though since I never actually played those games.
Dynasties has the advantage of using a modern engine, so it should run super smoothly and look great while doing so. Ive got to confess I havent really gotten into Dynasties yet because of limited time. Ive mostly heard good things about Pharaoh Dynasties, and after the big update it seems like it has a solid amount of content and options.
Ive played campaigns on Legendary in Total War Warhammer before, but Im not thaaat good at the game overall. I think Im decent at battles, or at least I can sometimes turn losses into victories.
I also ended my dual-boot setup yesterday. Im now completely on Fedora KDE. Hope I can use it for a verrrry long time and who knows maybe I check out other distros one day if I feel like it.
EDIT : Funny you mentioned Outer Worlds 2 I also thought that game was the definition of mediocre ....which as you said is not great considering how many actually good games there are.