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Bev
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 Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:42 am Post subject: Shogun 2: Total War Review |
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| Shogun 2: Total War Review by Bev |  | | PC Review: A decade later, and it's still going strong. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Wait, what?
| PALGN wrote: | | We’d understand if this only applied to when you were going into battle, but this would happen during instances like booting up the game or loading a save. |
So you didn't expect loading when you load a game or load a save? :P
| PALGN wrote: | | If there are any problems we had with the game, it’s that we found the individual types of units within the categories to play quite similarly. |
And this... I don't get it. The individual types are upgrades, in most cases, so why would they be different? Archers beat infantry beats spear infantry beats cavalry beats archers.
What were the review machine specs, out of curiosity?
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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You're right, I should have elaborated a bit more - I was operating on very little sleep when I wrote the review 
Re. Loading - what I meant was long loading times. I'm talking like 4-5 minutes.
Re. Individual unit types - I feel as though there was no significant difference in, for example, an upgraded archer compared to my basic archer, without looking too hard at the statistics. I'm not saying I expected substantially upgraded units to totally steamroll my enemies, but I didn't really feel like the game made it worth my while to upgrade units.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Wait, 4-5 min load times?
I'm quite sure that's your system dude. Longest load time for me was like 20-25 seconds max. 
What's your memory, HDD and CPU?
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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4GB RAM, 1TB HDD and i5-2400 3.10GHz CPU.
Doesn't match up with your wizard's computer, Denny 
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, I still don't think that warrants super long load times though, because I'm not loading my game off an SSD or anything. Definitely a bit bizarre.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe Denny's game loads faster because he has 3 screens sharing the load?
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm. I haven't gotten load times of more than a minute or so, either, and I'm playing on an old mac pro haha.
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Clocked my load times at between 20-30 seconds with a pretty decent rig.
4-5 minutes is certainly out of the ordinary.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Very strange indeed, guys... hmm.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:51 am Post subject: |
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it doesn't look like you are the only one bev....
i googled long load times for it and it seems a few people are asking about that
also, dude?
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