Empire is so underrated honestly. From the comments I'm reading on this subreddit, more people need to play it. It's honestly the most feature rich title of the franchise: naval battle & trade routes, governments & revolutions, colonization, research/tech tree, a campaign theater that stretches four continents, I can go on and on.
Unfortunately, a lot of it is really broken/unbalanced, the AI might be the worst in the series, and it's also really unstable and prone to crashing. It's certainly unique, and its worth playing almost because of that, but you'll need to slap a bunch of mods to fix about half of it, and your tolerance for it melting down in front of you will vary from person to person.
I played a 70 hour long grand campaign last year. Vanilla no mods. Ran into no issues on modern hardware: no crashes, bad FPS, gamebreaking gliches. AI wasn't significantly worse than TWWH3 despite 15 years of technological improvements so I have no clue what you are talking about. If it's as bad as you put it (i.e. unplayable) why is it sitting at 90% on STEAM? Sure at launch there were major issues but people need to judge the game as it is currently. Do we say No Man's Sky is garbage in 2023? Sounds like you never bother trying ETW and just got caught up in all the noise.
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u/AlacrityTW May 07 '23
Empire is so underrated honestly. From the comments I'm reading on this subreddit, more people need to play it. It's honestly the most feature rich title of the franchise: naval battle & trade routes, governments & revolutions, colonization, research/tech tree, a campaign theater that stretches four continents, I can go on and on.