Getting Steamy: Rome 2 coming to SteamOS/Linux "Early Next year"
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At Creative Assembly we want our customers to be able to play on as many platforms and in as many locations as possible, so today we are announcing future support for both SteamOS and the Steam Controller.
We’ve always wanted the Total War franchise to be enjoyed by living room gamers, but the limitations of traditional hardware made our style of game play impossible. Last month, when Valve invited us to test out the new Steam Controller and unveiled their plans for SteamOS - we were impressed. We believe it will provide us with the control fidelity and platform we need to make a living room experience for ROME II that could be a more compelling experience than playing with keyboard and mouse.
ROME II will be launching on Linux early next year, with full Steam Controller and Big Picture support to be added as soon as Valve gets us a controller dev kit. Pick up a copy of the game this weekend while it’s 25% off and you’ll be able to play the Linux version as soon as it launches!
Sauce
It joins Project Cars in such an announcement, and will join the likes of Metro:LL, Crusader Kings 2, Super Meat boy, Valve games, and a slew of kickstarters in doing so(when they get released)(M#9, Eternity, Wasteland 2, Torment, Planetary Anihilation Satellite reign).
I'm decently happy.
On the other hand though....
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We’ve always wanted the Total War franchise to be enjoyed by living room gamers, but the limitations of traditional hardware made our style of game play impossible. Last month, when Valve invited us to test out the new Steam Controller and unveiled their plans for SteamOS - we were impressed. We believe it will provide us with the control fidelity and platform we need to make a living room experience for ROME II that could be a more compelling experience than playing with keyboard and mouse.
The above seems to add fuel to the pre-E3 fire in which the simplification of the Total war Series over the past few games following Empire was due to an interest in expanding the franchise to "Wider Audiences". Do I mind by itself? Not really. At the cost of mechanics and what not? I do have a bit of a problem.
