Feral Interactive; Creative Assembly
I've likely mentioned it a few times in the past, but if there is one game that has a place in my heart, it's Rome: Total War. Well, Total War: Rome Remastered, as it's now known. Total War is arguably the biggest strategy franchise around, so it makes sense for all the titles to be placed together in the alphabetical drop-down ordering of life. Shogun was popular, as was Medieval. Rome was the game that truly set the series going.
Rome was also the game that converted me to PC gaming. I remember watching Time Commanders when I was younger, and I loved the look of it. I then saw Total War in some form of paper-style binding that was covering video games. I had played games on the PC before that, quite a bit, but I was done. I bought Rome: Total War. I couldn't play it; I was unhappy. I asked my uncle why and he told me that it was because I didn't have a graphics card or not one that could run the game. I got a graphics card, and my conversion to the master race began.