>>1993016
>nothing after rivals it even with its flaws
Relentlessly stupid post. Empire, Rome 2, Warhammer 2, and Napoleon all rival or surpass it in many regards, and yes, I'm talking about the finished, patched versions of all of those games, compared with the "patched" version of Medieval 2.

There are seriously game-breaking bugs for Medieval 2 that were for some reason never ironed out, things like the AI still not knowing how to siege, abandoning all of their equipment to try and force themselves up your walls with a single ladder, buying nothing but catapults and trebuchets midgame, and the worst aspect of the entire game, unit cohesion being just as bad, if not worse, than the unit cohesion of Rome 2 on launch, making your strategy veritably worthless as every unit just moshes together in a big clusterfuck.

Medieval 2 is a fun game for what it is, but boomers mythologized it to a ridiculous point because it was the first to introduce kill animations, it is the only game where all units have visible armor upgrades with your tech level, and it allows for very easy and cheap meta-gaming if you know what you're doing to instantly give you a huge advantage over the strategic AI in ways that allows them to dwarf your opponent.

Shogun 2 is very similar in being ridiculously easy, straight forward, and simple, and having similar levels of broken bugs, yet the community fawns over the game as if it's the pinnacle when it doesn't even approach Rome 1's level of greatness.

In terms of being the most polished, stable, modern, and fun Total War game, I have no argument against choosing Warhammer 2. And I say this as an Empire/Rome 2-fag. Those two are my personal favorites, but Warhammer 2 is unequivocally the best entry in the entire franchise, full-stop. Warhammer 3 shits the bed completely with it.

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