History YMMV / RomeTotalWar

* OnceOriginalNowCommon: ''Rome'' was a critical and financial hit when it was released, and really set in motion many of the best aspects of the series that were built upon by the games that followed. However, the [[GangUpOnTheHuman still-primitive]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder diplomatic system]], [[SuicidalOverconfidence Suicidally Overconfident]] campaign AI (even on higher difficulty settings), and the [[AIBreaker easily exploited]] [[ArtificialStupidity battle AI]] tend to turn a good number of players off who are used to the sophistication of later games in the series. The Remastered Edition [[AuthorsSavingThrow addresses all of these complaints and then some]], bringing the game up to modern standards.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Tends to get this reaction from players who were introduced to [[VideoGame/TotalWar the series]] by one of the later games. ''Rome'' was a critical and financial hit when it was released, and really set in motion many of the best aspects of the series that were built upon by the games that followed. However, the [[GangUpOnTheHuman still-primitive]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder diplomatic system]], [[SuicidalOverconfidence Suicidally Overconfident]] campaign AI (even on higher difficulty settings), and the [[AIBreaker easily exploited]] [[ArtificialStupidity battle AI]] tend to turn a good number of players off who are used to the sophistication of later games in the series. The Remastered Edition [[AuthorsSavingThrow addresses all of these complaints and then some]], bringing the game up to modern standards.

* {{Padding}}: The game is quite slow moving. Most of your turns will be spent constructing buildings, recruiting and waypointing troops, and scanning your territory for rebels and possible invaders. Big epic battles, despite being a selling point for the game, do not tend to occur all that frequently.

** Rebel armies. They can pop up anywhere, ambush you, block the paths of your armies and agents, and cause devastation in the province they're in. Since they can pop up anywhere, even in the heart of your empire where its possible that there has been nothing but peace and prosperity for decades, you're forced to maintain garrisons of troops capable of chasing them off at all times. They're generally not very threatening, but if they happen to ambush a lone General traveling between cities or a single unit of soldiers on their way to a waypoint, they can become dangerous.

* GoddamnBats:

* GodDamnBats:

** The [[https://rtw.heavengames.com/albums/July2012/HM_Pic1_EI.jpg Eastern Infantry unit]] rapidly attained (and still keep) the nickname of "Pajama Warriors," due to their incredibly garish color scheme. They are also loved ironically for easily being the single worst unit in the game, sometimes losing to PEASANTS.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The remastered version does ''so much'' to bring the game up to modern standards. Sometimes, even changes within the remaster itself were fixed within moments too. On top of this, if the player truly wants the original experience without the changes, they can turn all of these off.
** Native widescreen support and room for growth will allow the game to continue to stay up to modern scratch, as opposed to the original which aged poorly over time.
** The AI diplomacy has been overhauled, and the AI, in general, is a lot smarter than it used to be, especially at higher difficulties.
** Several broken factions from the original have been properly fixed and implemented to allow for play.
** Several units' armor has been redesigned to be more realistic, meaning no more "Pajama Warriors" or Bronze Age Egyptians, although options exist to restore them to their original designs.
** Within the remaster itself:
*** An early point of criticism among streamers pre-release is that even at the highest unit scale, the increased unit size would only subtract the smallest-scale unit size's worth of population from cities (e.g. a 300-unit regiment only taking 60 people out of population). An option to activate or deactivate 1:1 population subtraction was added within days.
*** A number of early reactions didn't particularly enjoy how vibrant and saturated the campaign map was, and many wished for options to fade the colors to make it easier on the eyes. Also within days, an option to desaturate the campaign map was added to graphical settings.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Tends to get this reaction from players who were introduced to [[VideoGame/TotalWar the series]] by one of the later games. ''Rome'' was a critical and financial hit when it was released, and really set in motion many of the best aspects of the series that were built upon by the games that followed. However, the [[GangUpOnTheHuman still-primitive]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder diplomatic system]], [[SuicidalOverconfidence Suicidally Overconfident]] campaign AI (even on higher difficulty settings), and the [[AIBreaker easily exploited]] [[ArtificialStupidity battle AI]] tend to turn a good number of players off who are used to the sophistication of later games in the series.