This or Rome 2

[WOKEGOD]

I'm thinking of buying one of them. Which one do y'all think is better game?

[Khagan]

Well, in this forum you'll get mostly votes for Remastered. In the Rome II forum you'd probably get more votes for that. Oddly enough, this question has been asked before:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/885970/discussions/0/3283699172771362948/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/885970/discussions/0/3811782223872294429/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/885970/discussions/0/3815166629932521614/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/885970/discussions/0/3878221099912005407/

[Cheshire]

Rome 2. Egyptians aren't from the bronze age

[Iceni Total War]

RR for the mods. Rome 2 has a lot of good mods but the modding capability is so much smaller. RR mod scene keeps getting bigger and better.
Put both on your Steam wish list for notification of sales and hopefully you can get both.

[[*UNITY*]_ james]

Hard to say, each one has their own strengths and weaknesses.

Rome 2 certainly feels and looks nicer to play. Even with the HD texture pack for RR, you still feel like you are playing an old game. Perhaps thats obvious anyways, but things like janky soldier animations (there was no body mocap like in later TWs) and lack of naval battles from the original Rome 1 are still present in the remaster and IMO are really hard to ignore. The datedness definitely lowers my enjoyment of RR a bit.

Overlooking the more dated stuff of RR, it really is a toss-up. I personally prefer Rome 2 for the reasons above as well as all the things it has that RR does not have: actual politics mechanics, naval assaults on ports, skill trees for generals, etc. Rome 2 also has a bigger (almost 2x) campaign map, way more playable factions (with unit rosters generally being bigger than their RR counterparts), and more campaign scenarios (6 not including Prologue, versus RR's 3).

But I can see why people prefer RR over Rome 2. RR allows you to field as many armies as you want without needing a general's bodyguard unit and more freedom in developing your settlements (i.e. can build as many buildings as you want, while in Rome 2 you are restricted to a few building slots and certain settlements can never have walls). Some would say that RR's battles are better because the unit collision in RR is better than that of Rome 2 (although personally I can't stand how easily units break and mass rout in RR).

If you are a modding buff, it is also a toss-up. RR has Imperium Surrectum, which offers the largest campaign map of any TW mod (something like 1200+ settlements), but Rome 2's DEI has some neat mechanics like supply lines and population classes.

Really, it is almost apple and oranges here. Each game complements each other and fills in for each other's gaps. If you had to pick just one, I would lean towards Rome 2, but you might want to pick up both on a sale and which one aligns more with your personal preferences.

[[*UNITY*]_ james]

Oh, and as for AI, it is pretty bad in both games, but AI is especially bad in RR. From my experience, both the campaign and battle AI in RR tend to be more aggressive than that of Rome 2, but it has a tendency to charge at your units piecemeal instead of attacking with the entire line (still happens in Rome 2, but not as much as in RR). Campaign AI in RR is also notoriously unreliable and backstabby compared to Rome 2, even for factions that are your "allies" (be wary especially of factions that border you: it is not really a question of if they will declare war on you, but when).

Even if you are going to go with Rome 2, I strongly recommend installing a mod or few that improves campaign and battle AI, even if you are not a big modding guy.

[WOKEGOD]

Originally posted by *UNITY*_ james:

Oh, and as for AI, it is pretty bad in both games, but AI is especially bad in RR. From my experience, both the campaign and battle AI in RR tend to be more aggressive than that of Rome 2, but it has a tendency to charge at your units piecemeal instead of attacking with the entire line (still happens in Rome 2, but not as much as in RR). Campaign AI in RR is also notoriously unreliable and backstabby compared to Rome 2, even for factions that are your "allies" (be wary especially of factions that border you: it is not really a question of if they will declare war on you, but when).

Even if you are going to go with Rome 2, I strongly recommend installing a mod or few that improves campaign and battle AI, even if you are not a big modding guy.

Sound like I’ll pick rome 2 since I already have the OG rome. Since the remastered turn out to be nothing special. Thanks.

[Lukecis]

Rome 1 with mods is far superior to 2 in every way imo

Roma Surrecta 2/3 is unironically the best RTS I've ever played.

[Spud]

Rome Remastered with mods, and it's not even close.

The marginally prettier graphics of Rome 2 are rendered meaningless by the lack of depth and crappy fake Whorescape battles.

Rome 2 is a screenshot wonderland for window licking halfwits, whereas this is a strategy classic with convincing tactical elements.

[coffeemm8]

Rome 2 lacks character compared to Rome 1. I can’t put my finger on it but Rome 2 just feels so bland

It’s also not a nostalgia thing for me since I’m new to both of them

[SuperSonicStudent]

Originally posted by WOKEGOD:

I'm thinking of buying one of them. Which one do y'all think is better game?

none. original rome 1, rome 2 and attilla have atrocious messed up UI, rome 1 had the cleanest most simple and approchable ui in the entire series

[coffeemm8]

Originally posted by SuperSonicStudent:

Originally posted by WOKEGOD:

I'm thinking of buying one of them. Which one do y'all think is better game?

none. original rome 1, rome 2 and attilla have atrocious messed up UI, rome 1 had the cleanest most simple and approchable ui in the entire series

This IS Rome 1. And the UI honestly isn’t a big deal

[SuperSonicStudent]

Originally posted by coffeemm8:

Originally posted by SuperSonicStudent:

none. original rome 1, rome 2 and attilla have atrocious messed up UI, rome 1 had the cleanest most simple and approchable ui in the entire series

This IS Rome 1. And the UI honestly isn’t a big deal

RR have complicated the UI too much, its still cleaner then the atrocious rome 2 one but its nowhere as clean and simple as original rome 1.

[wombat93]

Hilariously, Rome 2 is where Creative Assembly has started to go downhill as Total War developers.

When the excellent Shogun 2 and its Fall of the Samurai expansions were released, I never would have thought that in less than a handful of years later Creative Assembly would irrevocably turn awful. Rome 2 is where it really went bad.

[SuperSonicStudent]

Originally posted by wombat93:

Hilariously, Rome 2 is where Creative Assembly has started to go downhill as Total War developers.

When the excellent Shogun 2 and its Fall of the Samurai expansions were released, I never would have thought that in less than a handful of years later Creative Assembly would irrevocably turn awful. Rome 2 is where it really went bad.

shogun 2 is better then rome 2 and attilla but i dont know if you ever played three kingdoms but that game is UNDERATTED AS F*, litterly three kingdoms have such stylized and cool and clean UI and the battles are fast paced and fun to play, and alot of those improvements returned in pharoh and dynasties. at first i was skeptical about phaorha because i dident liked the idea of eygpt only total war but then in dynasties they expended the map and its the dream bronze age total war that everyone wanted for so long. and the UI in pharoah is also very clean and simple.

as for shogun 2, i like the game, clean ui, little bit small but very nice, great battle animations but siege battles in shugon 2 are atrocious in my opinion.

[LEGION22]

Rome 2 is utter garbage. RR is a better game, but the optimisation is shocking. Rome Total War remains the superior product to either.