Angry Joe Reviews Total War: Rome 2 (43 minutes)

Yes. Dude knows what he is talking about and actually spends time playing games he is interested in. Sure the humor can be hit or miss.. but that show is so far above and beyond the "angry"-gimmick.. it´s fucking surreal. I wish people would just give things on the internet (or in life?!) a fair chance before shitting all over them. My honest opinion: A lot of games press guys could learn a thing or two from Angry Joe. As weird as that sounds.

I've encountered a single bug in about 40 hours now.

AI and stuff has its issues, yes, but as far as things I noticed as bugs only one. A quit and reload and it was fine.

I've been playing Total War as long as they've been making them, and give them the benefit of the doubt more than most, but Rome 2... it's pretty bad right now.

I can never watch more then like 2 minutes of his reviews. He's so damn annoying.

Cheers for the backhanded passive aggressive little thing you added at the end there.

I acknowledge that every TW game has a buggy release but it's pretty clear, at least in my opinion, that Rome 2 is their worst release to date. Ultimately, the concern I have is in fact that the base game is not that great at all - even discounting all of the bugs and AI quirks. I'm not someone who plays the campaign of TWs exclusively, I also play a ton of multiplayer. Consequently, the primary concern I have with the game is the new way which they calculate armour, armour penetration and health as well as the new distinctions they make between light, medium and heavy infantry - not to mention the lack of a guard mode, which makes an entire class of units (hoplites) completely useless unless they happen to be the heavy inf versions (i.e. royal spartans). Because of the new mechanics, the only units actually worth a damn in multiplayer are elite heavy infantry and heavy pikes and using anything else is just a waste of money. More importantly, none of these units can be balanced out according to CA's conventional balancing strategy (i.e. increasing or decreasing cost) because the armour and armour penetration mechanics quite simply make these units fundamentally broken, regardless of their cost, and fixing them would require a redesign of the core gameplay systems.

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I'm familiar with this guy and I can see how his gimmick is silly (pathetic) and his yelling gets annoying.

However, he dives deep into the mechanics of a game, scrutinizing its problems, and THAT'S what matters. I don't need the pretentious-ass reviewers of big websites who use reviews to exercise their fancy vocabulary and talk about the 'cool stuff,' I can see what's cool about games, I need to know what's wrong with them because games tend to have shit wrong with them.

Really enjoyed this long in-depth review because this guy has his heart in this, he has the passion that I think is essential. Never played a Total War game but he totally made me wanna try one because he makes them sound real interesting.