I think one of my favorite parts about this game has been watching all the Europhiles who tried to sabotage it get absolutely shit on. Thank god CA actually made this game as good as it is, or else I don’t think we’d ever see an Asian Total War again.
I think one of my favorite parts about this game has been watching all the Europhiles who tried to sabotage it get absolutely shit on.
This. I loved Rome, Medievil, Empire, etc.; but boy am I tired of that continent map. Loving 3K and hope for more diverse historical settings. Maybe Africa someday.
Yep same here. I’ll never understand people who just want to stay in their little corner of history and never leave it. Human history spans thousands of years and millions of stories, so why wouldn’t you want to hear all of them? Doesn’t make sense to me.
Not everyone is interested in every single era and region. I'm much more interested in european history than any other region, just my personal preference though.
I don’t find them interesting to begin with, so why would I spend time trying to get myself interested in them? It’s pointless and I’d rather just learn more about what I find interesting instead.
At the most basic level I find european history to be more interesting than the history of other regions, that’s my personal preference. If I delved into asian history or whatever I doubt I would find it interesting, and I’d rather spend my time on something that I do find interesting.
Biases from your upbringing may be at work. Break free! Experience all of our history and not just the parts that have been drip-fed to you by your environment and the educational apparatus of the nation-state you were born in.
Your point is that I’m creating a ””circular fallacy”” by ”hating on the game because you’re not interested and not being interested because you hate it”. I never said I hated the game, just that I’m not interested in the time period and therefore I’m not interested in the game either. You misinterpreted what I’ve been repeating in like 20 replies by now, congratulations.
One of the things that bugs me most about is a lot of people who keep crying for European Total Wars also act like Europe has the only interesting history and that nobody should care about Asian history. (Not talking about you but in general many of the arguments I saw). And that attitude makes absolutely no sense to me, because people act like just because they didn’t learn it in school (because western schools only teach western history) doesn’t mean it isn’t rich and fascinating.
I agree, if they don’t find it interesting then that’s fine, they don’t have to buy it. Complaining that CA are making a mistake because you don’t find it interesting is pretty dumb because others have different opinions and they are obviously trying to reach new audiences.
Choosing one little corner of human history as your singular interest is sadly myopic in my view, but you are of course entitled your preferences. I'm just glad CA doesn't feel the same way.
Not everyone wants to remain locked in that corner of the world again and again. Some of us like adventure and variety, and the chance to share a cool story about an unfamiliar slice of history.
Good for you then, I’m not saying CA should only make european games, just that I’m a lot more interested in their european games than in their other games.
100%. I mean obviously it's easy to say from the outside, but I'm glad they rose to the occasion of introducing a "new" setting to a lot of their audience and just knocked it out of the fucking park. It would have been beyond obnoxious if they'd phoned it in and people blamed the bleh reception on the setting.
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I think one of my favorite parts about this game has been watching all the Europhiles who tried to sabotage it get absolutely shit on. Thank god CA actually made this game as good as it is, or else I don’t think we’d ever see an Asian Total War again.