I liked Rome best overall of the TW games. Rome with the Mod Roma Surrectum (better graphic, enhanced AI/gameplay features) is a very good game today- decent graphics and an awesome (hard) experience. 

Medieval II is a close second, the mods Stainless Steel (enhanced features) and Third Age Total War (Lotro conversion) mods are both very good. 

You should definately get the collection of TW games, try out the vanilla versions, then go and mod them. TW games are very easy to MOD, most decent mods come with their own installer - so you just have to install the mod, like any other game. 

The best site for Total War mods is imo TWcenter.net.

Happy Gaming ;)

You can pick up butterflies and use them in alchemy - of course it deserve the award

´stop the torture and release the game!

[QUOTE="Walincas"]

Waiting for Rome 2, Grim Dawn II, and COH II :)

R4gn4r0k

Eagerly anticipating those titles as well, though I wanna try out Grim Dawn 1 first :P

Be carefull not to watch too many screenies or trailers from Rome 2, or time will start being a b1tch and giving you a hard time waiting for release!

[QUOTE="Walincas"]

[QUOTE="KalDurenik"]90% of all games? :O KalDurenik

For PC, I honestly think so, only skip the "tetris" games as well as browser games - most games I try out and see if I like during the first 5 min. If it's decent I give it another couple of hours, if it's still good, I continue till it's completed :)

That's why it's weird, there are so few good games for PC imo - few meaning 20'ish or so, during the last few years. 

Im eargerly anticipating the new "wave" of games we will soon be getting from kickstarter though :) 

1) HoN is by FAR the fastest paced of the 4.... its not even close ... I can't grasp how you came to that conclusion.... maybe because LoL's map is smaller you get to people faster or something? thats about as credible as it gets.

2) Player Skill Orientated????? ASHES friggin arrow is much bigger than Miranas as a quick example they are about equal in the department .... infact skill shots can be more devastating on HoN/DoTA again its like if ive entered a vortex where a LoL fan warps the reality around him.

3) Custimization with in-game effect is a BAD thing ..... it disturbs character balance, ultimately its just an excuse to keep you grinding ..... and the trade off is that the ingame earned items as you played are alot less varied and have less effects than the compeitiont.

Things like having friggin blink on every character is just dumb .....

 

honestly .... HoN is by far the fastest paced of this bunch .......

MBirdy88

1) gameplay wise I would say it's about the same, the ranked matches usually starts out with invasion/defending jungles etc. But if you take the waiting time for getting a game going into consideration, lol is the fastest in my experience.

2) The size of Ashe's arrow, was not what I meant with player skill oriented - just the fact, that some skills needs to be aimed by the player, which means, that a good player will hit with a skill shot based skill more often than an unskilled player - not to say there is no skill shots in dota, dota 2 or hon.

3) imo the customization leads to a much wider range of character builds and strategies, which is good in my book. This way - a ranked team can strategize on how to build their team, which adds another layer to the gameplay. It's not disturbing character balance per say, as everyone have/can get access to the customization - the only difference being, how "good" you are at mixing your summoner spells, talent tree and item tree, which means a well prepared team, with a good tactic/strategy, have a bigger chance of winning, than an unprepared team - ofc. if you don't like thinking too much about the game your playing, this could be seen as a con. 

90% of all games? :O KalDurenik

For PC, I honestly think so, only skip the "tetris" games as well as browser games - most games I try out and see if I like during the first 5 min. If it's decent I give it another couple of hours, if it's still good, I continue till it's completed :)

For me, LOL is dota without the waiting and pausing for players to pick up all the time. I normally do 2x more games in LOL, due to not having to wait for players etc. as I do in Dota. 

When you played ranked LOL, you start moving up/down in divisions, and will meet players at your own skill level - so you will get challenged rather quickly. 

In LOL, you also have an "account" that you customize with extra ingame "skills", for instance a "get out of combat" skill or a heal. Besides the extra skills, you also customize a "talent tree" as well as an "item tree" - which you can specialize in different ways, for instance magic damage. 

I played Dota when it was a map in WC3, and played Dota 2 as well as Heroes Of Newerth and I think LOL is the overall best game of the 4. The reason I like LOL the most is because it's:

Faster, more fluid, action oriented, player skill oriented (skill shots from characters change the game), customization with ingame effect, noob friendly characters as well as skill shot based characters.  

Rome Total War, Medieval 2 total war, Dungeon Keeper 2, Red Alert 2, Supreme Commander

I don't really have a backlog, tried around 90% of all games available for PC, but most of them are garbage imo. 

Waiting for Rome 2, Grim Dawn II, and COH II :)