Three Moves Ahead 526: Total War: Rome Remastered

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Rob, Jon, and Len have taken up their swords and strapped on their sandals to party like it's 2004. What did the original Total War: Rome do right that the series hasn't since? And does it hold up beside its younger, prettier siblings? And why is no one talking about Lone Star? Seriously. It's a great movie.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm here with Rob Zackney.
0:03.8	Today, I'm joined by freelance writer, John Bolding.
0:06.8	Howdy.
0:08.0	And we also welcome freelance writer and through Zed producer, Len Hafer.
0:14.4	Hello.
0:16.3	All right, so today we are returning to Rome. We've been playing Total War, Rome remastered.
0:26.0	They made it brand compliant finally. And so they put the Total War brand up front.
0:33.1	And we've had a couple weeks to play around with it. And before we get into this, I just wanted to go around the room real quick.
0:42.3	The first time around for Rome, where did we all end up with it?
0:46.1	Did y'all have a relationship with it in the original games, like own release window?
0:51.3	Or did you come to a total war later?
0:53.1	Like, what's our background with this particular game?
0:56.7	I loved it.
0:58.3	It was my main game for a while there.
1:02.5	You know, I was a Total War fan from the original Shogun in Rome.
1:07.0	I just remember being super, super hype moment. You know, it was going to be full 3D. It was
1:13.9	like unbelievable and it, you know, it would, it melted everybody's computers. And, yeah,
1:21.4	I just had a lot of fun with it. It was definitely my, my jam in its day.
1:27.8	Yeah, I was pretty deeply attached.
1:30.5	This was my first total war game at the time.
1:36.7	And it was also, it has the unique distinction of being the first game for which I built a computer.
1:45.0	Like I needed a new computer to be able to play this game and I decided like fundamentally
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