>>2122177
>M1's AI isn't that good, not even compared to recent games. And I already told you in another thread that battle AI is not the end-all, be-all of a Total War game and that there are tons of other factors and elements in regards to their quality.
>I admire your passion, but holy shit are you blinded by it. Try to look at Medieval 1 with a bit more objectivity, and stop ultrafocusing on one, single element which, to CA's credit, not everyone cares about, at least not as much as you do.
The Total War series has been in decline, as we are both in agreement, ever since the second fucking title. Every single game they make is quantifiably worse than the last in objective ways that can be documented and measured. It's just easiest to point out the flaws of the battles and the AI because they are the most core part of these games (shogun 1 was rts first, campaign second, from the mouths of the devs) and because they are also the part they have most obviously and brutally butchered and murdered, and is also by far the least subjective and least defensible. It's just obvious that they haven't known what they're fucking doing for like 20 years and the fact that their company is so shit and has probably had their entire development team turn over at least 10 times doesn't help anything.
They have also known for 20 years what their problems are and why their games are shit and they know what fans of the series actually want and no problems have ever been fixed, no fans have ever been listened to. They refuse to even go back to their older titles to push bug fixes, engine updates, or to fix glaringly obvious issues that were left unfinished at the time of release. For fucks sake, the only way you can have proper, working guns and pike units for medieval 2 is if you buy the fucking phone port. This company deserves zero sympathy and ruthless criticism.
Don't even get me started on warhammer.
