Medieval 2 Total War: The ultimate technical achievement:

Seriously, how many threads can one make about the same dang game. We get it that you like the Total War series. It's not, as you like to think, the ultimate technical achievement.

So weak sauce!musicalmac

 But it is the ultimate technical acheivement actually. If you played it (properly) you'd know how unbelievable it is. Name a game which is technically as amazing as this. Please.

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]Seriously, how many threads can one make about the same dang game. We get it that you like the Total War series. It's not, as you like to think, the ultimate technical achievement.

So weak sauce!teh_ownerer

But it is the ultimate technical acheivement actually. If you played it (properly) you'd know how unbelievable it is. Name a game which is technically as amazing as this. Please.

I can name several games that I think are more fun. Guess which aspect of a game I care about more? 

[QUOTE="True_Gamer_"]

As for the numbers:

STABW0UND

OH NOEZ! ATTACK OF TEH RECYCLED CHARACTER MODELZ!

Yhea, I'm not seeing the '' random generated characters ''.  

[QUOTE="STABW0UND"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"]

As for the numbers:

Doomlike_Mitc

OH NOEZ! ATTACK OF TEH RECYCLED CHARACTER MODELZ!

Yhea, I'm not seeing the '' random generated characters ''.

 so these are clones? :lol:

Now I must be honest, I really don't have a beast of a gaming PC, but I tought the game wasnt that special looking from the Demo, it wasn't bad, but its not Godlike. Anyway, yay for it having a greath technicall achievement, but I still think Supreme Commander is more of a technicall achievement, it's massive. Doomlike_Mitc

I like Supreme Commander too, but when you get alot of characters on screen, it chugs way too much.  

[QUOTE="Doomlike_Mitc"]Now I must be honest, I really don't have a beast of a gaming PC, but I tought the game wasnt that special looking from the Demo, it wasn't bad, but its not Godlike. Anyway, yay for it having a greath technicall achievement, but I still think Supreme Commander is more of a technicall achievement, it's massive. teh_ownerer

I like Supreme Commander too, but when you get alot of characters on screen, it chugs way too much.

Thats another part of the technical masterpiece of Creative Assembly... 

24,000 characters x 2,000 polygons per character = 48,000,000 polygons...

Add to that the huge cities/castles, siege engines, detailed enviroment...

There is NO game or platform that can even touch the sheep raw brutality of the TW engine...

True_Gamer_

We get it! You like Medieval 2! Move on and talk about something different for once! JEEZE! Anything at all. The weather, the tensions in North Korea, your socks! It doesn't have to b eon topic at all. As long as it isn't Medieval 2, it's acceptable.Private_Vegas

The only reason I mention this game is as an answer to all these lemmings that spewt GeoW as a technical achievement which its not...

I enjoy PES6, GTR2, HoMM5, WoW, DoW, HoI...Ive made alot of topics on general gaming:

http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25610498

Yea but the game isnt really "FUn"

nor do the graphics wow me

R-Dot-Yung

With that many pollys on screen, kind of hard to make it graphicly mind blowing :roll: 

[QUOTE="STABW0UND"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"]

As for the numbers:

Doomlike_Mitc

OH NOEZ! ATTACK OF TEH RECYCLED CHARACTER MODELZ!

Yhea, I'm not seeing the '' random generated characters ''.

I think its just random colours.

Still for an engine to hold all that pollys at once is awesome ;)

Gears Bad guys are 5k pollys each. 

[QUOTE="Doomlike_Mitc"][QUOTE="STABW0UND"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"]

As for the numbers:

toxicmog

OH NOEZ! ATTACK OF TEH RECYCLED CHARACTER MODELZ!

Yhea, I'm not seeing the '' random generated characters ''.

I think its just random colours.

Still for an engine to hold all that pollys at once is awesome ;)

Gears Bad guys are 5k pollys each.

For me it looks ok. Although it's the same guy all over again with different colours and hair color . Environments look decent also . But overall it doesn't impress .

[QUOTE="toxicmog"][QUOTE="Doomlike_Mitc"][QUOTE="STABW0UND"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"]

As for the numbers:

turgore

OH NOEZ! ATTACK OF TEH RECYCLED CHARACTER MODELZ!

Yhea, I'm not seeing the '' random generated characters ''.

I think its just random colours.

Still for an engine to hold all that pollys at once is awesome ;)

Gears Bad guys are 5k pollys each.

For me it looks ok. Although it's the same guy all over again with different colours and hair color . Environments look decent also . But overall it doesn't impress .

Hmm 4-5k troops on just that screen doesnt impress? Show me a console game that can have 24k troops?

OT is quite sad.

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho. 

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

Vfanek

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k... 

[QUOTE="Vfanek"]

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

True_Gamer_

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k...

[QUOTE="TrueReligion_"]

Wow. :|

Chaos_Daro

I'm sorry True_Gamer_ but that's pretty sad :(

You need to play games other than M2TW.

well your going to need a mega powerful pc to make the most out of that game 4 cores at 2.6ghz 4gbs ram and 2 8800s should do to max that game out . in size of battles and system settings without lag .deadmeat59

[QUOTE="True_Gamer_"][QUOTE="Vfanek"]

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

smokeydabear076

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k...

[QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"][QUOTE="Vfanek"]

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

haols

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k...

[QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"][QUOTE="Vfanek"]

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

haols

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k...

What he said. It's also possible to tweak the .ini file, and you can get a ****load of units on screen. I didn't experience any major slowdowns.

[QUOTE="haols"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"][QUOTE="Vfanek"]

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

smokeydabear076

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k...

Why do you need a link? Download the demo, edit it and there you go. See for yourself. 

[QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="haols"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"][QUOTE="Vfanek"]

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

Vfanek

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k...

Why do you need a link? Download the demo, edit it and there you go. See for yourself.

[QUOTE="Vfanek"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="haols"][QUOTE="smokeydabear076"][QUOTE="True_Gamer_"][QUOTE="Vfanek"]

OT is quite sad.

 

As for the "doesn't impress me, recycled character, phail" posts... you suck. You might not love this game. But oyu can't, CAN'T deny that it is a technical achievment. Not to mention that it runs very well on mid and low range comps (I have quite a crappy comp, 512mb of RAM; ATI Radeon x600) and it runs smoothly on medium settings. I've tried it on a high end comp, and goddamn is this eye candy?

I won't comment about gameplay as this thread is about technical achievments and graphics... Bur hrhrhr, it's a great game. I moved to other games tho.

smokeydabear076

Lets not forget that the expansion will allow 6 armies to be controlled by the smae player raising the unit count to 144k...

Why do you need a link? Download the demo, edit it and there you go. See for yourself.

On Ultra high settings the engine uses 2000 polygons per model...

On Medium it scales back to 500-600 polygons...

This way on medium a singe 8800GTX on a C2D6420 runs 24k troops runs at 40-45fps...

Now add the 10 months of optimisation for the expansion and on low settings the engine uses simple sprites it will go as far as 144000 models.... 

Seen this **** a thousand times before...