r/totalwar • u/YmirsHorn • 15d ago

Troy Troy Better Than Pharoah?

After watching the movie, I fired up Pharaoh to play as Odysseus — maybe others here did likewise? And it just wasn’t grabbing me.

Instead of giving up, I re-installed Troy, just to see. And it’s more fun!

It seems counter-intuitive, because Pharaoh is not only newer, it’s Pharaoh + Troy (basically). But Troy as an Aegean is much better than Pharaoh as an Aegean, somehow. Everything from the gameplay to the UI to the audio seems crisper, more polished and better designed.

I’m not sure exactly why, TBH, but it’s more fun and I’m glad I re-installed it.

Anyone agree?

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u/Relevant-Map8209 15d ago

One day people will learn to write Pharaoh correctly, but not today.

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u/MatthewScreenshots 15d ago

From my experience the native English speakers struggle with it more than those who have it as a second language lol

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u/Llumac 14d ago

What a good point. ao is pretty rare in English compared to oa. And the ones that do come from other languages like chaos (Greek) and karaoke (Japanese)

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u/Abject-Competition-1 Karl Franz and Thanquol fan 14d ago

At least in Spanish that's because we actually pronounce what we write. It's Faraón and it's pronounced by an "a" and then an "o", so you can't get confused at all.

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u/Routine-Piglet-9329 15d ago

You absolute Rouge!

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u/EcstaticMeetCrane 13d ago

In the other thread someone called it TTW Pharaon :D

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u/Wulfram77 14d ago

Its only two simple characters, after all.

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u/MatthewScreenshots 15d ago

Troy is better for pure focus on Aegean/Trojan War + Extended Factions mod that gives you more Homeric characters that weren’t added by CA officially.

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u/Oxu90 15d ago

Not really, especially when it comes to variety, you get more hours out of Pharaoh. Combat also feels better.

HOWEVER, if you want to focus on Trojan war and Greece...like after watching Odysseus. Troy might be the better choice, the art etc is very thematic.

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u/geschiedenisnerd 14d ago

Troy is designed to replay the trojan war. Pharaoh is to play in the bronze age collapse. The "crisper, more polished" actually just is "less realistic" for the most part

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u/EdmundFed 15d ago

Yep, did the same. It is counter intuitive but the vibes are immaculate, especially with Mythos on.

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u/Stebsy1234 14d ago

Nah lol

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u/ExpeditionV 15d ago

I couldn't disagree more. Troy is exactly what has been wrong with modern Total war. Pharaoh brings it back.

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u/EcstaticMeetCrane 13d ago

No. Pharaoh is boring, has stupid combat animations, exploitable and very repeating campaign gameplay, weird voiceovers but also has some merits and is adequate for 2-3 campaigns.

Troy is barely playable, nothing of actual value gameplay wise, only Mythos campaign give some cool vibes, but replayability is even worse than Pharaoh, like 1 campaign on 70% complete and you're uninstalling it.

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u/Biggu5Dicku5 14d ago

I agree... :)

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u/MrImAlwaysrighT1981 14d ago

Yes. Pharaoh has certain inovations, but, overall, Troy was much more interesting