I like Let’s Plays. I count myself as a fan of Retsupurae, Chocolate Hammer, and Spoiler Warning. Recently, I started reading “Josh Plays Shogun 2”, hosted by shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale. (Good gravy, I’m only two sentences into this, and look at all that advertising. Gimme some money!) After reading up to the most recent post of this Let’s Play, I did three things:
1) I sat there, completely stunned that these games had gone completely under my radar (granted, I don’t get out much)
2) Put Shogun 2 on my Christmas List and
3) Decided I would check out the other games in the Total War series.
As luck would have it, on a recent trip to Wal-Mart (more advertising!) I found a copy of Shogun 2, as well as a Rome/Medieval 2 combo pack. As Shogun 2 takes a whopping 20GB of hard drive space and I barely have 20 gigs between my partitions as it is, I opted for the less heavy Rome/Medieval 2 package (Don’t worry, I plan on getting a larger hard drive for Christmas as well).
For a while, I was on the fence about which game I wanted to install. TV Tropes (money now, please) sealed the deal for me. On a recent Wiki Walk, I found that there was a mod for Medieval 2 called “Hyrule: Total War.” Between reading the entry and multiple nerdgasms, I said to myself, “Very well. Medieval 2 it is.” Besides, playing as Italy is kinda like playing as Rome, right?
You might be asking me, “Karl, why aren’t you doing a Let’s Play of Hyrule: Total War, then?” Or you may be asking yourself why you’re still reading this. Well, to answer your questions:
1) I’m completely new to the whole Total War experience, and I want to start with the Vanilla version before I start modding the hell out of it (as I did with Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion).
2) It gets better. I hope.
I suppose that I should also mention that I haven’t loaded the Kingdoms Expansion that came with the game. When I say I’m playing Vanilla, I mean it!
So, without further ado, Heaven or Hell! Let’s Rock!
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