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Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026

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Been playing Total War: Shogun 2: Complete Edition with my bro. I wasn't exactly looking forward to the Complete Edition. In fact, its release happened upon me pretty much at unawares, and even then I didn't see the point, Shogun 2 seemed eminently playable to me as it was. But my brother took an interest and suggested a co-op campaign, and I wasn't about to let slip the opportunity for some sibling time.

So, the Complete Edition, for anyone else who might have an interest: It's a presumably vibe-coded trash fire of instability, buggy UX and suicidal AI. In fact, the AI is often so bad that in the rare instances in which it acts competently, it takes us by surprise. And then the game crashes. My brother swears that the game looks better than the old version, but I can't tell the difference. In fact, I generally couldn't say that it improved upon the original in any way.

The complete edition was pulled from the shelves less than two days after release.

Shogun 2 is my most played game on Steam (I still fire it up regularly). Before Steam, I've got the cds for Shogun i picked up decades ago.

I have very little faith in Medieval 3 (or whatever they end up calling it) being worthy as a successor to M2.

Edit: Oh btw, someone re-comped the Medieval 2 .exe (and Rome TW .exe) and gave it a bunch of new graphics features and other stuff recently:

https://github.com/Pannoniae/rex/releases

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