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Romanos_the_Blind LinkI've been playing the same thing that's been monopolizing much of my gaming time for over a year now. Total War Warhammer 3. The game has an incredible amount of content in a massive map and...I've been playing the same thing that's been monopolizing much of my gaming time for over a year now. Total War Warhammer 3.
The game has an incredible amount of content in a massive map and almost 100 different playable factions spread across 24 different races, each with unique gameplay mechanics on the battlefield and on the campaign map and with large, diverse unit rosters. It's the culmination of three different strategy games and boatloads of DLC which all combine in the final game to make a crazy ambitious strategy title.
That being said, the sheer amount of content and technical debt of essentially combining three different games released over the course of seven years means the game is still quite buggy and every major patch and content update takes a while and often even simple bug fixes introduce new ones. Community bug fixes go a long way towards fixing the most egregious bugs, though it's frustrating that such a profitable game for the largest game dev in the UK can't quite make it all work a little better together.
Still, the bugs have rarely been hugely impactful to my play experience and if you're a strategy game fan and like fantasy settings, I have to recommend folks give it a try. Despite the issues, it's honestly a once in a generation kind of game and the game is looking to be supported with yet more content for quite some time to come.
I chose my username for a couple reasons.
1: I studied Byzantine history for my master's degree because it was a fascinating subject to me. One of the first Byzantine history texts I read put one particular emperor into a positive, if tragic, light that really stuck with me. His name was Romanos Diogenes.
This guy was fascinating because he kinda represented a turning point in history. He went into battle against the sultan Alp Arslan and had he won (which he might have, had there not been backroom politicking that saw a large contingent of his army betray him) the whole history of the Eastern Mediterranean might have been radically different and there might still be a Roman empire in the world. Afterwards he ended up being blinded by the reigning dynasty and died shortly thereafter from an infection and the way it was described in the history was very gruesome, so another reason why he stuck with me (and also the genesis of the blind bit).
Online discourse is fraught and tense enough without automatically assuming the worst of people so I think having a username that pushes me to keep my own limits in perspective is good.