Comments on: Creative Assembly in “Fixing their game” shocker.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:00:24 +0000

Civ V has a similar problem. Announcement bubbles seem to be in vogue right now but I’m not sure that they’re that good as an information conveyance system.`

By: hentzau

hentzau — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:26:33 +0000

Oh. The Fujiwara are the reason I gave up because their starting position is absolutely terrible — isolated, geographically constrained and too big to move an army across. The Minamoto looked far more interesting.

But you should definitely give the original campaign another shot! Converting to Christianity is almost like playing a completely different game — you get the best ships, you get cheap guns (which are amazing in castle defences) and the research bonuses from churches are insane. The tradeoff is that everyone hates your guts, so you have to send in missionaries to “re-educate” them.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:30:53 +0000

I… can’t remember. I think I picked one of the Minamoto clans.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:22:02 +0000

Did you pick the Fujiwara?

By: innokenti

innokenti — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:23:57 +0000

I tried the Rise of the Samurai campaign and found that my first 30 turns were incredibly dull. And I stopped there.

Maybe I should pop back to the main campaign then?

By: hentzau

hentzau — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:37:24 +0000

It has some acute UI problems but I honestly don’t know what the solution to those are, so I’m reluctant to throw stones. The one thing it could do with is announcment triage; I want to have summaries of what’s been built and where at the start of every turn, but I don’t want that summary to then vanish under an enormous pile of INCITEMENT FAILED messages.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:25:02 +0000

I keep meaning to go back to Shogun 2. My problem with it was somewhat weak: Ifind it too visually busy, and struggle to pick out the information that is actually useful to me.