FALL OF THE SAMURAI: The Modern Total War That BLEW ME AWAY

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

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[@Uncle228]

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[@Smenkhaare]

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[@hanswurst-gp7pi]

Our men are running from the battlefield! Shamefur dispray! 🙃

[@raptorbrotherhood766]

“Your men are runnin from the battlefield sir!” 🇺🇸

[@Uncle228]

"I fear your general is in mortal peril sir"

[@raptorbrotherhood766]

@@Uncle228 “allow me to point out that one of your ships has exploded”

[@bluepigeon3242]

i heard this comment

[@KC_312]

I'd love to see Empire remade with the Shogun 2 engine and AI. I love the Warhammer games, but to me they feel more like arcade campaigns, and I do think that CA could implement some features from past games in future releases. They're supposed to build on previous knowledge, goddamint!

[@ashamahee]

I am not a fantasy fan but they could have made those games truly epic if they didnt water down so many mechanics, that lore/ip is so full of diverse units and races that it is mindblowing and they kind of managed the magic aspect far better then I had expected, however look at the empires gunpowder units as an example, they use crossbow mechanics and it just ruins so much of the immersion of them as they can shoot in arcs and even through their own men etc. keeping mechanics and improving them would actually make me a historical TW fan really like the fantasy ones as well.

[@basileusp5494]

What are the "other ideas" that you mentioned that you have for a new Medieval game?

[@Rogue_Tiger]

I think it's the smaller scale and all factions feeling similar is why it's not as big

[@vukasinvlajic152]

Imagine Fall of the Samurai with added Okinawa, Taiwan and associated islands, South and North Korea and parts of eastern China, Immortal Empires style.

[@lzl3lol]

There are mods to add china and Korea into the map I believe. I have some downloaded but haven't tested them out yet.

[@Patriotofminecraft]

Shogun 2 needs a Meiji Restoration mod going up untill the early stages of WW1. IMAGINE the 1st Sino-Japanese war, Satsuma Rebellion, and ofc the Russo-Japanese War. All the Western and East Asian Factions would be awesome to see

[@AlejandroNievas1]

this was the peak of Total War , fro t here was downhill without brakes

[@tomniemann6823]

Rome 2 and Atilla are also very good

[@lzl3lol]

​@tomniemann6823 Rome 2 is average. Shogun 2 stands way above Rome 2. Attila I agree isn't bad, but I mostly only play with mods now, it stands as my #2 behind Shogun 2.

[@aramokurdo]

​@@tomniemann6823 They're not close to good maybe you have not much age..

[@IslamistSocialist371]

​@@aramokurdoEh but they have some feature old total war don't like. Limiting army unit 😅

[@HejLala]

Making this a saga title and slapping a 40$ price tag on it was an S tier dick move

[@безназвания-у7п1п]

wow that much, rlly? I remember buying it at aproxemately 4-5$ (in Russia if not mistaken games were and still are a little cheaper comperd to some other regions) when they announced FOTS to be a saga, and also it included all the DLC packs (tears dropping calling it DLCs)

[@HejLala]

@user-xb1bi8zm8p last I checked it was 40$, used to be 8$

[@GusingtonOne]

Great video...Fall of the Samurai is my favorite TW game, and one of my favorite all time games. I really wish they would do a similar 19th century follow-up. Even 13 years later it still looks great too. And the tech tree. And the moddability. As you mentioned!

[@antonioortizmartinez6387]

If I had to use a mod that best overhauls FOTS which one would you recomend??

[@HappyGuardsman]

I would wish for a game in Europa in that time period.

[@antonfargasbido]

Carlist wars mod!

[@HappyGuardsman]

​@@antonfargasbido Well that isn't really playable atm...

[@tibododo]

There's a dude that made a Europe to India map for Shogun 2 that is playable with Japanese clans. Hopefully other people will take it as a basis for a modernised Empire Total War experience

[@bf2042.codmw2]

Thank you for the wonderful video, and if you like, I would like you to introduce me to the new mod of NTW, the Bismarck mod

[@BrettDavis-i7x]

A mix of Empire and Shogun would be the best

[@raptorbrotherhood766]

Currently replaying the game, spamming Armstrong guns never gets old and watching them blow apart enemies as your infantry mows down anything left with kneel fire

[@Smenkhaare]

I'm loving it and do the same.... along with Gatling guns that Terminator uses. Couple that with naval bombardment and you have a chef's kiss.

[@zachthompson9976]

😂 And all these years I been thinking I'm the only one who plays FOTS with at least 50% of each army being cannons!😅 Revolver cav are also stupidly fun!! Coming up from the rear and instantly obliterating a unit will never get old 😎 love this game!

[@raptorbrotherhood766]

@@zachthompson9976 the fots equivalent of donderbuss cavalry I love rev cav so much

[@zachthompson9976]

@@raptorbrotherhood766 Your clearly an intelligent individual with impeccable taste

[@raptorbrotherhood766]

@@zachthompson9976 and you clearly understand that one can never have enough artillery

[@erensametkaratas6593]

You're releasing videos after videos these days. I think it's safe to say Termi is back? 👀 (Also, using the TW: Warhammer 1 OST is a great idea. You may not like the game, but that one track in particular is fire!)

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Cheers mate, and yes I am back pretty much 3 videos a week :) I'll be doing livestreams again full time as well

[@erensametkaratas6593]

@@TheTerminatorGaming Good to know! I know it sometimes get frustrating for KZbinrs to keep on what their doing(videos, streams etc) when they think they're NOT getting what they're worth. But I hope you can find the time and motivation to keep going because I still enjoy your videos

[@Maximus1883]

@@TheTerminatorGaming "3 videos a week" lol

[@Uncle228]

I think they should do more gunpowder based total war game because this was the last true gunpowder total war game

[@helena14]

When Victoria Total War comes I want to lead the Zulu to the gates of London.

[@Shadow83.]

ZULUS ATTACK! FIRE AT WILL!

[@Smenkhaare]

Fist Bump: ZULU, ZULU, ZULU.... WHERE IS THE TOWER OF LONDON...ZULU!!!

[@IslamistSocialist371]

i played fall of the samurai for like 300 Hours but still, feels like pacing in Empire total war in Darthmod is much better IMO. FOTS or shogun 2 battle in general just feels too fast.

[@Busson_0]

Who agrees that Shogun 2 is thr best what happened to Total War franchise?

[@luelee6168]

I hated the setting of this game. The traditional armies of the Shogunate forces were as modernized as the Imperial forces. In fact neither the Imperial or Shogunate sides were the first modern armies of Japan. The first modern armies in Japan were actually private armies of two clans; who's names I unfortunately forgot. After these clans were defeated in battle by western forces these clans immediately modernized their armies with western technology and tactics; becoming the first modern Japanese forces in Japan in this era. The traditional factions did not fight adorned in armor, wielding only sword and bows. These were modernized armies of predominantly samurai retainers and peasants armed with western style weapons. The traditions the Shogunate forces wanted to preserve was not technological but social ones.

[@Mike0193Azul]

Would love more historical Total War games with a before and after DLCs in the historical timeline sense. Need a Shogun 3 and new Medieval for sure

[@zachthompson9976]

⬆️THIS!! I've been dying for this since first playing FOTS back in the day. 🤔 I suppose rome 1 kinda did this also with barbarian invasion

[@bombyouup62]

Like i said before Napoleon was the worst of all total war expansions, so that doesn't help comparing.

[@murder13love]

The problem.... im simply uninterested in asia... this set in europe, sign me up! But a wholly asian game map just doesnt interest me at all.

[@murder13love]

I only mean this in the sense that i just hold very little historical interest in china/japan... some love it, i personally find european/eastern european/eurasian history far more interesting. The market in gaming is just so oversaturated with samurai/chinese influences and i have absolutely no interest in it

[@MattsFiefdom]

You're so right my dude. Fall of Samurai has got to be one of my favourite vanilla total war games to date :)

[@lzl3lol]

Shogun 2 is my favourite of all the total war titles. It still stands far above all titled released after it.

[@aramokurdo]

The LAST TRUE TOTAL WAR ..

[@Smaug2b]

Next video: age of justinian new update 😂

[@Minatures]

Probably the best total war I‘ve played

[@happycompy]

Great review my friend. FOTS is so fucking good.

[@Mehmet-yp1kv]

How do I switch to POV with Artilerry (or Gatling like shown in INTRO) Units? TY

[@Smenkhaare]

There is a button to press on your cannons and Gatling Guns that give you point of view. Not in it right now otherwise I would tell you right off. Just experiment it is readily apparent.

[@Mehmet-yp1kv]

@@Smenkhaare TY

[@zachthompson9976]

Damn you terminator!!! I was on a relatively long stretch of having not pined after the beautiful yet heartbreaking dream of a total war that combines the best of empire and FOTS. Leaving us with THE BEST TOTAL WAR EVER But sadly it'll never happen 😔 Not unless the gods of all modding communities, TW modders, somehow figure out a way to do it

[@PseudoGoSu]

Replayed this multiple times after finishing watching "Shogun", are there any mods that improve on Fall Of The Samurai? As Cannons are clearly too op, could smash the AI so easily would like a good mod to balance the game and add even more.

[@antonioortizmartinez6387]

Friends, I love FOTS, but I'm looking for a new experience to overhaul the options that this game already offers. In your opinion, if I have to use a mod focused on FOTS, which one do you recommend the most?

[@zachthompson9976]

🤔I def wouldnt call FOTS underrated. Everyone ive ever heard talk about it has nothing but the highest praise for the game. Many say its one of the beat TW, its certainly in the GOAT conversation at least Anyway, great video!!😊

[@teloriun1974]

At this stage I'd be happy with a mod that turned this in to 'Empire' rather than have CA butcher a new game, charge a small fortune for it then have the cheek to sell DLC for base game content.

[@mikes9017]

Its 250-300 years not 400( whether u take begining or ending of Sengoku jidai). Sekigahara was in 1600 not 1350.

[@syahnazjais3766]

i use the bayonet mod

[@eduardoanzolch6078]

Ha funny that to this day my older brother, did not know that the Roanoke Class Ironclad, was ram ship( if the flees he rams other ships...)

[@marcofantesini5058]

Best gameplay both in battles and campaign only weaknes is the lack of factions variety

[@Chuck12312]

thanks for recommending instant gaming, I didn't know it existed until your recent video or so, despite not every game or dlc is there compared to steam but the discounts are so much better than the steam sales

[@bobbyjones8312]

Lol I was Just beating a Tosa FOTS campaign when your video released

[@frankmg4250]

This is my favorite of all total wars

[@caledoniusmonti5617]

ive been playing fall of the samurai for a while and agree: its so underated

[@looming_]

Probably my fav recent historical title.

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

This game was too ahead of its time

[@Jack-jz4ls]

Victoria Total War please CA

[@albireo8166]

I loved the naval support

[@barrysworld640]

Congrats on yet another great review, sir! Nice to see you going back to review some of the older Total War titles like Shogun 2. Keep meaning to dust this game off and give it some serious playtime as bought years ago and never really played it much. After this review, I probably will! BTW: What mods are you running with this game? I think I have DarthMod installed however not sure if this mod is even good anymore? Which mods would you recommend for this game to be running in 2024 for the best gaming experience? Keep up the great content, sir! :)

[@fearan9406]

The true peak of the series

[@baconwheels1606]

Well said 👏

[@kevinkelly2207]

Can you run a historical campaign series? I really enjoy watching those

[@ll7modell]

This game and rise of the ronin are the perfect combination for this specific era of Japan

[@danshakuimo]

Still waiting for CA to make a game set in the Zemene Mesafint (aka The Age of Princes) in Ethiopia, which is similar to the Sengoku Jidai in Japan with a weak emperor and regional rulers fighting for power. This happened around the same time as the FOTS time period so you have a mix of both traditional and modern units too allowing for that dynamic gameplay. Ethiopia is very ethnically diverse (and larger then maps make it seem), so the rulers from different regions will have access to unique units that represent that region, with the Ras of Shewa obviously having access to the famous Oromo cavalry, who will need to contend with the modernizing Ras of Tigray with his modern arms and artillery, and support of the church. And of course, the historical winner, the bandit emperor Tewodros II, who can have a special ability to add units from defeated armies into his own. Though a lot of the units will be like those used by Zagwe in the AD1212 mod for Attila, but now with skirmisher cav using rifles. Obviously a really niche time in history that is even less known than FOTS's and CA will never make a game about it, but it just seems so cool in my head. Edit: can be in a Victoria era game though

[@Smenkhaare]

Would be a great mod that I would play as well. I love playing Zagwe in the Atilla 1212 AD mod. I dominate all of Africa, Arabia, the Levant and the Byzantine area of Anatolia and Greece.

[@parsman9914]

Great game

[@redjohn2523]

Fall of the samurai is broken. It needs fixing by mods and there are many things even mods can't fix

[@detroitdave9512]

Don't disrespect Napoleon like that. Especially with mods, fots doesn't come close

[@vasiljivkov4879]

Napoleon is good game... If you don't know about Fots whit mods

[@detroitdave9512]

@@vasiljivkov4879 Name it. Nothing can stand to NTW3

[@vasiljivkov4879]

@@detroitdave9512 Too old game !

[@detroitdave9512]

@@vasiljivkov4879 Thought so. Literally were released one after the other. By that metric Medieval II sucks too right?

[@bostongreenz8669]

This video was weak sauce for FOTS I need to see more energy. You mentioned naval warfare but failed to mention the torpedo. What are we doing here besides dragging your words and making quick old videos. Its 2024 and you made of video about FOTS whats really going on mannnee?!?

[@The_Dodge_Meister]

Warhammer music over a total war fall of the samurai is sickening nasty af this guy clearly doesnt care shogun total war has one of the best soundtracks in the game including the fall of the samurai ost