You know how the Romans saw Attila as pure evil, the Scourge of God, etc? Well I am just now realizing that the Total War: Attila trailers, (the White Horse, Red Horse, Black Horse, and Ashen Horse) each represent one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (Conquest, War, Famine, Death). Whoever came up with these trailers is smarter than we give them credit for.
+steven kane It is also using some biblical scholar's interpretation of the book of revelations, that it does not foretell the end of the world, but is a historical recount of the fall of Rome, which was the end of the world at the time.
No it was definitely Attila who was named that. The term originated from a story about how Attila once approached the gates of Trier (I believe), a city he passed during his invasion of Gaul but did not attack, and had an exchange with the bishop of the city, who asked him who he was. In response, he answered that he was 'the Scourge of God'. The term was applied to many people though. Genghis Khan was also known as the Scourge of God, so it is probable that Geiserich was also called that.
Was that Alaric speaking? I thought the VA did a good job. I like how this Total War is shaping to be a bit more "human". You see the effect wars have on your empire's people and it becomes less of a matter of 1s and 0s.
Sorry for the 'slightly' late response. I don't believe it's Alaric. He wasn't the one to lead the Goths from the former roman province of Dacia into Roman lands, I think it's the Visigothic faction leader from the prologue you can play in-game we're looking at. I might be wrong about Alaric, but I am very sure that the person in the trailer is indeed that Gothic chieftain .
SlyBiffrons I believe it was Fritigern. The Visigoths began to migrate during his reign. He might have been the starting faction leader for the Visigoths in-game as well.
+BlackOrcShagrat No, Alaric starts as the Visigothic Faction Leader in Attila, at least in the base campaign. But by then, the Visigoths(As well as other tribes like the Suebi and Alans) are already migrating, and he start somewhere in Thessalonica, stuck between it and Constantinople, I believe.
"When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, 'Come and see.' And I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, 'A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.'" -Revelation 6:5-6
A denarius was a day's wages back then so the message was that you'd only be able to afford a tiny amount of grain or a slightly larger amount of animal food with it, and you can outright forget about being able to afford nice things to eat.
"Oops we made the graphics terrible" no, they wont improve because that's not how the industry works. Likely event is these are close to final build, as the usual MO is to have significantly improved graphics in early showcases compared to consumer release. They tweak performance, hard-locking features out that are more intensive and lowering internal resolution, see: Dark Souls 2, or any Elder Scrolls game post-Morrowind for drastic examples. Build hype, hope they won't care about the downgrade enough to not buy the game. Marketing.
Are you kidding? What kind of graphical fidelity are you expecting from a massive RTS game that has real-time 3D battles with thousands of soldiers rendered on a field at once. It's marvelous that the game even looks this good.
The soldiers are translated to 2dimensional sprites at a certain range and have been since Rome. Considering the flat geography and relatively low amounts of detail in the environments shown, and taking perhaps 300 active 3D models in full LOD a bit less than Shadow of Mordor would be expected for a 2015 PC-only release on a AAA budget.
Connor Macinnes If you crank the graphics up to extreme on Rome 2, especially with a few mods, it look amazing! There are no 2d soldiers. I was surprised by how great it looked!
Personally, I'm really excited for this game. I mean, if it turns out to be like Rome 2 at launch, I'll be the first one you can say "told you so" to. But I'm excited for the time period, and I honestly think this is the closest we'll get to Medieval 3 for awhile. I think it'll be a great game.
fuck that bullshit. NO, total war is about going into the body of an ancient leader, and commanding your empire. Not some fairy tail, ridiculously over the top, fantasy world. You want that so badly? Make a bloody mod. I don't want CA spending money on crap like that.
Well you can get inside ancient leaders all you want. Me and the rest are going to enjoy a game with new mechanics, gameplay and story that come from fantasy. But I'm sure you're right because adding "fantasy" to anything automatically makes to suck.....
Ed Knight Nope... Shitty fantasy makes it suck... I love fantasy. I'm practically a Game of thrones zealot, LOTR/Hobbit is perhaps my favorite series of all time, etc... I love fantasy, just War Hammer is silly, and over-the top fantasy. In the same bracket as WOW. It would be a terrible idea for CA to make that game. Only a relatively small number of total war fans actually enjoy and would buy a war hammer total war. Would be bad for their reputation, and sales.
And when you get the game the peasents when zoomed in => will not not have sound when striking the earth with the shovel => will not have the groan sound of the peasent working the land => will not have migration "civilian" troops rolling in lines when an migration "army" is encountered in combat. AND thats just couple of examples, the whole trailer is 99% hype and 1% actual ingame engine. is it Rome 2 all over again ???
+Kev Urbie Germanic Paganism, so yes, probably. Though they might have called him Wodan or something like that. Just your average lightning-god. Most of these pantheons were similar enough that you could group them together. Like the Greek and the Roman pantheons.
I love the Total War franchise, i have been playing it since Medieval total war. (missed shogun and Medieval 2 was IMO the best of them) but Rome 2 was a disaster, heck, i still "try" to play the game; walled city sieges are laggy as fuck. (O no! we cannot think of a path! we shall lag your performance) how come this stupid issue still not be addressed? and the cities? Yeah rome could only handle 5 buildings, totally real.
Nacho Baldini Well, I don't know what to say then, because all of those problems have been fixed. Also, the full size "rome" in rome2, is enormous compared to the full size "rome" in vanilla rome. Also, the glitches with walled cities are prevalent in every total war. Especially medieval 2 I might add.
Agreed, issues where there (specially if you changed the unit size, but it would not affect the game as a whole, just one unit would be affected by it. Moreover an immersion killer, for me, is the lack of expansion in cities, i just hate this system I know it was on shogun 2 (never tried napoleon or empire total war, not my thing) but it is not coherent. Beyond those complains I have i welcome your discussion Aaron Landau I will redownload my Rome to see if i can fix the issue.
Nacho Baldini I'm curious as to what you mean by lack of expansion in cities. In rome 2 cities get larger and more complex with advancements. What frustrated me about shogun 2 and empire total war was the virtual non-existent cities. IN empire there were small towns, that looked incomplete and sparse. But I really enjoyed the walled cities and fortresses of Medieval 2. I think rome 2 does a pretty good job at this, but at times there are parts of cities which are inaccessible that I wish you could explore (large temples, walled areas,etc...).
This trailer made me realize that Attila was the main cause for the germanic tribes conversion to catholicism. After all must be hard to live in a land where the gods don't protect them, and then move to a land where they can thrive.
You know how the Romans saw Attila as pure evil, the Scourge of God, etc? Well I am just now realizing that the Total War: Attila trailers, (the White Horse, Red Horse, Black Horse, and Ashen Horse) each represent one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (Conquest, War, Famine, Death). Whoever came up with these trailers is smarter than we give them credit for.
+steven kane It is also using some biblical scholar's interpretation of the book of revelations, that it does not foretell the end of the world, but is a historical recount of the fall of Rome, which was the end of the world at the time.
+A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall It is a somewhat known interpretation of that verse.
It was Geiserich, the king of the Vendals, was named "Scourge of God", not Attila
No it was definitely Attila who was named that. The term originated from a story about how Attila once approached the gates of Trier (I believe), a city he passed during his invasion of Gaul but did not attack, and had an exchange with the bishop of the city, who asked him who he was. In response, he answered that he was 'the Scourge of God'.
The term was applied to many people though. Genghis Khan was also known as the Scourge of God, so it is probable that Geiserich was also called that.
The city was Troyes, by the way, and the Bishop a man named Lupus.
This shoud have been intro for great migrators factions instead they give them same barbarian intro for all barbarian factions
+Elias Göransson None. All migrations factions have same with barbarian factions, its kinda lazy
I love the four horsemen theme
What happened to the Apocalypse seals system? Was it never implanted?
I like that civilians are on the maps again and react to you attacking their settlements.
0:56... Talos, is that you brah?
No it’s Odin or Woden
The Black Horse rider looks exactly like Michael Townley, looks like he's a real Roman captain
The guy in the thumbnail looks a little like Michael from GTA 5.
True .
Was that Alaric speaking? I thought the VA did a good job.
I like how this Total War is shaping to be a bit more "human". You see the effect wars have on your empire's people and it becomes less of a matter of 1s and 0s.
Sorry for the 'slightly' late response. I don't believe it's Alaric. He wasn't the one to lead the Goths from the former roman province of Dacia into Roman lands, I think it's the Visigothic faction leader from the prologue you can play in-game we're looking at. I might be wrong about Alaric, but I am very sure that the person in the trailer is indeed that Gothic chieftain .
SlyBiffrons I believe it was Fritigern. The Visigoths began to migrate during his reign. He might have been the starting faction leader for the Visigoths in-game as well.
+BlackOrcShagrat
No, Alaric starts as the Visigothic Faction Leader in Attila, at least in the base campaign.
But by then, the Visigoths(As well as other tribes like the Suebi and Alans) are already migrating, and he start somewhere in Thessalonica, stuck between it and Constantinople, I believe.
"When He opened the third seal,
I heard the third living creature say,
'Come and see.'
And I looked, and behold,
a black horse, and he who sat on it
had a pair of scales in his hand.
And I heard a voice
in the midst of the four living creatures saying,
'A quart of wheat for a denarius,
and three quarts of barley for a denarius;
and do not harm the oil and the wine.'"
-Revelation 6:5-6
Famine and inflation, for anyone who doesn't understand the meaning.
A denarius was a day's wages back then so the message was that you'd only be able to afford a tiny amount of grain or a slightly larger amount of animal food with it, and you can outright forget about being able to afford nice things to eat.
TALOS? IS THAT YOU?
No, they're Visigoths, I think, and the people coming from the city at the end were Romans.
loooool
TeamTurnover He is referencing the god Talos from Elder Scrolls :)
HAIL ALMIGHTY TALOS!!
MrRavenXavier Actually though, that's Odin. Notice the two Ravens and the Spear? Odin wielded a spear and had two pet ravens.
You know what , I used to think I'm Attila from the trailers , but the older I grow I realize I'm the man who rides the Black Horse .
This faction make me wanna play as them becouse they need help and the leader talks as a true leader
If only the Germanic Tribes intro had parts of this trailer
dude totally joined the Romans
What continues to baffle me to this day is how no one in the game except Attila has eyebrows...
Well that's how you know he's the badguy, lol
To play as the only power strong enough to challenge the barbaric might of Rome? Hell yeah :D
0:49 the stabbings dude sword disappears. Thank god the bugs are shown in the trailer this time.
Pay attention
It doesn't you just see it from different persective
Best attila's trailer with difference in my opinion
Black horse, White horse, Ashen horse, Red horse
The video is really smooth even at 30 FPS.
"Oops we made the graphics terrible"
no, they wont improve because that's not how the industry works. Likely event is these are close to final build, as the usual MO is to have significantly improved graphics in early showcases compared to consumer release. They tweak performance, hard-locking features out that are more intensive and lowering internal resolution,
see: Dark Souls 2, or any Elder Scrolls game post-Morrowind for drastic examples. Build hype, hope they won't care about the downgrade enough to not buy the game. Marketing.
Are you kidding? What kind of graphical fidelity are you expecting from a massive RTS game that has real-time 3D battles with thousands of soldiers rendered on a field at once. It's marvelous that the game even looks this good.
Potaters12
I am expecting the graphics they showed me in the E3 video of Rome 2 total war
The soldiers are translated to 2dimensional sprites at a certain range and have been since Rome. Considering the flat geography and relatively low amounts of detail in the environments shown, and taking perhaps 300 active 3D models in full LOD a bit less than Shadow of Mordor would be expected for a 2015 PC-only release on a AAA budget.
Connor Macinnes If you crank the graphics up to extreme on Rome 2, especially with a few mods, it look amazing! There are no 2d soldiers. I was surprised by how great it looked!
and it gets worse with pre-order cause the developers gets money from before they even release it
In the thumbnail, he looks like Michael De Santa in GTA V
I think that the narrator must be the Vistgothic King Aleric.
Barbares n sassanid, here the Roman horses coming ! Prepare to be annihilated from my map
haha actually beat them many times already in my friend's PC
Nobody Nowhere eastern roman empire's horses are the best, tagmata cavalry
chikifco haha for me its kataprakhtoi for ERE n tagmata for WRE. But i used mainly infantry to win the battle
Aotearoa Seniores i say because tagmata can destroy elephants
chikifco yea a bit unrealistic though but still
Is that Michael from GTA 5?
LET SHOW THE HUN WHAT WE GOT. ATTACK!!!!!
what are the playable teams here? (race?) and what period? is rome playable?
yeah i forgot about the fraction term
The Western and Roman Empires, the Sassanid Persians, the Huns and the Germanic tribes (Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Lombards, etc.).
Personally, I'm really excited for this game. I mean, if it turns out to be like Rome 2 at launch, I'll be the first one you can say "told you so" to. But I'm excited for the time period, and I honestly think this is the closest we'll get to Medieval 3 for awhile. I think it'll be a great game.
Me too,i cant wait for this game to release
@@svetigejming2535 the game released years ago you can play it now
@@legiohysterius4624 I'm really hyped for when this game releases
Attila > Rome 2. Just wish modders would release the Ancient Empires conversion mod for Attila, so I can have a real Rome 2 to play.
2:23 You forget a M things every day, you make sure this is Ⅰ of them
Can't wait 'till the pale horse trailer.
Ashen Horse.
There is going to be 1000 DLCs I guarantee you.
U were wrong
well is that Michael from gta5? the one on black horse?
Indeed .
So the last trailer will be the pale horse?
Ashen Horse
GIVE ME TOTAL WAR: WAR HAMMER NOW!!!!
fuck that bullshit. NO, total war is about going into the body of an ancient leader, and commanding your empire. Not some fairy tail, ridiculously over the top, fantasy world. You want that so badly? Make a bloody mod. I don't want CA spending money on crap like that.
Well you can get inside ancient leaders all you want. Me and the rest are going to enjoy a game with new mechanics, gameplay and story that come from fantasy. But I'm sure you're right because adding "fantasy" to anything automatically makes to suck.....
Ed Knight
Nope... Shitty fantasy makes it suck... I love fantasy. I'm practically a Game of thrones zealot, LOTR/Hobbit is perhaps my favorite series of all time, etc... I love fantasy, just War Hammer is silly, and over-the top fantasy. In the same bracket as WOW. It would be a terrible idea for CA to make that game. Only a relatively small number of total war fans actually enjoy and would buy a war hammer total war. Would be bad for their reputation, and sales.
Aaron Landau Butthurt history purist troll alert
*****
butthurt? ANYONE who uses that term is lesser.
I assume the guy on the black horse is suppose to be Flavius Aetius The last of the Romans and the one who defeated Attila the Hun
why did they remove the most beautiful part of sleeved mail in the patch, Romans now look like medieval
That's because it's the beginning of the Middle Age... xD
Павло Штельмах, Which?
Павло Штельмах, Which patch?
Sergei Peptoddov наплечники
Павло Штельмах, I'm sorry what? I may have a Slavic name but I can't read Cyrillic.
Mini Awesome.
The guy on the thumbnail looks like Danny xD
Once again putting all their effort in trailers again but not the game
how the fuck can you possible know that?
look at last time
no their trailers were shit so thats why
You don't know that wait until you've played the game to say that
They need a new engine. Looks ancient compared to Ryse
***** the money limitations, that why there are better graphical cards and stuffs
And when you get the game the peasents when zoomed in => will not not have sound when striking the earth with the shovel => will not have the groan sound of the peasent working the land => will not have migration "civilian" troops rolling in lines when an migration "army" is encountered in combat. AND thats just couple of examples, the whole trailer is 99% hype and 1% actual ingame engine.
is it Rome 2 all over again ???
***** how would you know, if its better... when the game is not even launched yet...
It's called CINEMATIC!
advertised as ingame footage.
***** advertised as ingame footage......
i dont care, its misleading BS like they always do.
The visigoths worshipped odin?
+Kev Urbie Germanic Paganism, so yes, probably. Though they might have called him Wodan or something like that. Just your average lightning-god. Most of these pantheons were similar enough that you could group them together. Like the Greek and the Roman pantheons.
ALEXANDER1318
Makes sense
Burhan the Somali
Same place 'Tyrsday' comes from, i'd imagine.
I love the Total War franchise, i have been playing it since Medieval total war. (missed shogun and Medieval 2 was IMO the best of them) but Rome 2 was a disaster, heck, i still "try" to play the game; walled city sieges are laggy as fuck. (O no! we cannot think of a path! we shall lag your performance) how come this stupid issue still not be addressed?
and the cities? Yeah rome could only handle 5 buildings, totally real.
apparently you haven't played the most up-dated version... All of those problems have been fixed
well my steam is instructed to keep my games up to date.
Nacho Baldini
Well, I don't know what to say then, because all of those problems have been fixed. Also, the full size "rome" in rome2, is enormous compared to the full size "rome" in vanilla rome. Also, the glitches with walled cities are prevalent in every total war. Especially medieval 2 I might add.
Agreed, issues where there (specially if you changed the unit size, but it would not affect the game as a whole, just one unit would be affected by it.
Moreover an immersion killer, for me, is the lack of expansion in cities, i just hate this system I know it was on shogun 2 (never tried napoleon or empire total war, not my thing) but it is not coherent.
Beyond those complains I have i welcome your discussion Aaron Landau I will redownload my Rome to see if i can fix the issue.
Nacho Baldini
I'm curious as to what you mean by lack of expansion in cities. In rome 2 cities get larger and more complex with advancements. What frustrated me about shogun 2 and empire total war was the virtual non-existent cities. IN empire there were small towns, that looked incomplete and sparse. But I really enjoyed the walled cities and fortresses of Medieval 2. I think rome 2 does a pretty good job at this, but at times there are parts of cities which are inaccessible that I wish you could explore (large temples, walled areas,etc...).
This trailer made me realize that Attila was the main cause for the germanic tribes conversion to catholicism. After all must be hard to live in a land where the gods don't protect them, and then move to a land where they can thrive.
And did monotheism help., No .
@@natalkumar6132 it kind of did. they became powerful kingdoms in the post-roman world.
@@natalkumar6132yes, quite a lot actually.
Are these the Goths?
vizigoths
the game will not look like this sorry to burst your bubble its just part of advertising
So who's preordering? XD
white horse, red horse, black horse is this some kind if MLP show ??
The white horse of conquest, red horse of war and the black horse of famine.
iugk Don't forget the pale horse of death.
TheGreatfighting I think Attila will be the Pale Horse rider.
SlyBiffrons
And the Franks as the white horse of conquest? (Someone did a white horse trailer, but I think it's unofficial.)
TheGreatfighting The white horse trailer was the first one released by CA. It was the Eastern Romans.
oh sega
CAN A GUY GET SOME FUCKING VIKINGS AROUND HERE OR WHAT
rome all over again
uii
Turkish atilla turkish fatih sultan mehmet turkish kanuni and mustafa kemal ataturk 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
wat
+SpeartonMan atilla turkish
+Melih Emre Ekici is that an allahu akbar bullshit?
+SpeartonMan I am ateist bro and turk are not arabs
+Melih Emre Ekici but Huns were not turkish nor muslim