[StarSlayer]

Sharpen your pillums!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

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[Scotty]

The plural of 'pilum' is 'pila'.

[Oddgrim]

I'm exited. I don't care much for shogun era nor the empire but I can't wait to steamroll my legions all over Europe again!

[Demitri]

*Demitri does happy dance*
I cannot wait! Rome: Total War is one of my all time favourite games. Was fervently hoping they would announce Rome 2.
Now just need to wait until Dec 2013 for release. Oh screw it...
*Demitri does happy dance again*

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Somehow it feels like all my dreams have come true.

[Pred the Penguin]

OMG... It is finally coming...

[JCDNWarrior]

Awesome! I've always looked forward to a new version of Rome Total War, here's hoping the game will at the least maintain the depth of the original (preferably lots more details in the world map, more cities, more tactics, got a little spoiled due to the Europa Barbarorum mod).

[AugustusVarius]

I know a lot of people are excited for this, but my reaction is more meh.  I'd really like to see the other half of the Old World for once - Shogun is too small scale for me, but something involving the feuds and empires of China, Korea, et al would be refreshing.  I'd also like to see them tackle something truly global, not the semi-global of Empire.

Aside from that, my biggest hope for Rome II would be a greater emphasis on historical accuracy with regards to factions and campaign map level stuff.

[NGTM-1R]

Maybe because it's just because I got in at Medieval 2, but I have no fond memories of this game at all and when I bought it I was severely underwhelmed. Plus I can't really picture unabstracted naval combat adding much to this game, like it ultimately did for Shogun II and Fall of the Samurai, or how it was one of the main attractions of Empire/Napoleon.

[crizza]

Won't touch this.
Made the mistake with Shogun 2 and after writing uncount emails to steam, the developers etc, the game still crashes...

[StarSlayer]

People called Romanes, they go, the house?

[Scourge of Ages]

[Spoon]

If I learned anything from buying one total war game, its that its going to be bug ridden and filled with crashes for a long long time. Call me again when they released the game and patched it properly.

[crizza]

If I learned anything from buying one total war game, its that its going to be bug ridden and filled with crashes for a long long time. Call me again when they released the game and patched it properly.

Seconded.

[Solatar]

I always liked Rome TW.  Pretty bad-ass, and they did a good job of being pretty historical about it (as much as you realistically can in a game).  Call me when they release the Late Antiquity expansion, because I always liked Barbarian Invasion.  Maybe it was just that I like the period in history, but I always liked taking my Goths, capturing Constantinople, and starting my great Germanic empire in the Levant. 

Unfortunately, as much as I'm looking forward to this, Spoon's right about the buggy launches.

[Pred the Penguin]

Medieval 2 was actually my favorite, but I could totally get into another Rome. Now the hope is that I'll have a good enough computer by that time...

I can see the point, however, that a change in era and location would be more refreshing. Warring States or another period of large scale conflict in ancient China could be very interesting. Hell, even a game set in Qing Dynasty when China was getting torn up by foreign empires might be fun.

[Lorric]

If I learned anything from buying one total war game, its that its going to be bug ridden and filled with crashes for a long long time. Call me again when they released the game and patched it properly.

I was going to basically post this. Happens every time.

Beware, people. Let others buy it and pick over the game and make sure it works properly. Pro reviewers will have orgasms over it, as they do all the Total War games, but the real gamers will eventually find out if everything is working properly underneath all the flash and make it known.

[Mongoose]

I don't know about launches, but my brother loved the hell out of Medieval, and then Medieval 2 when the former wasn't supported by his laptop.  Hell, I wound up picking up the original Rome and Medieval 2 myself during a crazy Steam sale, though they're not really my speed game-wise.

[StarSlayer]

Funny until I download Fall of the Samurai I never actually had any bug issues with Total War titles.

[Lorric]

I don't know about launches, but my brother loved the hell out of Medieval, and then Medieval 2 when the former wasn't supported by his laptop.  Hell, I wound up picking up the original Rome and Medieval 2 myself during a crazy Steam sale, though they're not really my speed game-wise.

Rome had a show stopper bug that made the AI stop sieging every time a game was reloaded. With the length of turns and the length of seiges it crippled the AI, that wasn't fixed I think for years.

Medieval 2 has the Shield Bug, which if memory serves had shields strip the protection assigned from them from a unit, rather than add it. So a unit with +4 shield defence and +6 defence total would have -2 defence actually. Which I don't know if they fixed it or not, as I lost patience with that game and deleted it's 15GB of crap off my computer. I would also have liked to have got it's expansion, but was warded off by horror stories of an aggressive anti-piracy program they'd put on the expansion. Oh, two handed units were also terribly bugged, don't know if they fixed that either. And the monguls and Timurids didn't incur expeses, so when they arrived, they were pretty much unstoppable. I thought units had some real pathfinding issues as well. I never bothered with a Total War game after or before that. But the original Rome works like a dream now.

EDIT: Oh and they didn't know how to launch an assault over the sea either, and the AI in battle was terrible, Medieval II was just a mess.