I am hyped after one article.The cities are actually looking more like cities with every new CA game.Might be an upgrade PC time next year.

Originally Posted By Silent Disapproval Robot (27 JUN 2012 7:21pm)

Wonder if the idiots from CA will ever get around to fixing Shogun 2 so that owners of AMD 7800 and 7900 series cards can actually play the game?  You know, the flagship cards of the corporation whose splashscreen flashes up when you start Shogun 2?  The ones that the game is supposed to be optimized for?

 

 

As it turns out I am one of the unlucky customers with an AMD Card you just mentioned :-(

Me too.  Sucks...

Its release date looks like Christmas 2013!!!! I wish they had not announced it now!

Originally Posted By destraex (4 JUL 2012 3:45am)

Its release date looks like Christmas 2013!!!! I wish they had not announced it now!

Crumbs thats a long wait

Originally Posted By destraex (4 JUL 2012 3:45am)

Its release date looks like Christmas 2013!!!! I wish they had not announced it now!

Ouch, really?  Must mean much more dlc for shogun between now and then

Well I am hoping now for victoria total war in the mean time

Some new shots and a video released... well a video interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVqb4eUBsgw&feature=player_embedded

Nice screens.

Looks like they've gone even more berserk on the lighting since Shogun 2.

Wonder how much it'll screw up because of it this time?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/214950/?snr=1_7_suggest__13

lol already!

Some new artwork.. if not screenshots. Sorry about the formatting.

Personally I prefer this kind of animation cinematic instead of the live action sequences.

The roman army displayed in the video is all but a republican legion

Its just an example of the kind of animation I would prefer over the live action trailer they put out.

Apart from that the live action makes the game much more adult.

The art is excellent. Dirty and gritty.

The only thing that worries me is they only end up with a decent game when the focus is narrowed. Nepolean, Shogun--smaller focus on one landmass. Get to "Grand" as in Empire, Rome or Medevil and the A.I. takes a dump.

Originally Posted By ghostryder (29 JUL 2012 7:20am)

The art is excellent. Dirty and gritty.

 

The only thing that worries me is they only end up with a decent game when the focus is narrowed. Nepolean, Shogun--smaller focus on one landmass. Get to "Grand" as in Empire, Rome or Medevil and the A.I. takes a dump.

You just had to say that didn't you? You just had to go and ruin the expectation that RTW2 would be as great as SG2TW and NapoleonTW? You just HAD to do it didn't you? lol

If they implement the AI joins forces against the human player like SG2TW did, it won't be so bad. It mustn't follow history too closely is the main point. One thing Slitherine did with Spartan was to attack the human player with at least four factions at a time and this worked well with the difficulty settings of the game and Impossible was exactly that and very enjoyable to play. Unit types and general makeup of the armies is fine historically but if it follows the historical alliances and such then yes the AI will be pitiful and easily overrun like RTW1. Difficulty levels must be bolstered up this time around also where vh/vh is exactly that and the ai gets bonuses of troups and resources at those levels that far surpass the human player. So far except for SG2TW these difficulty levels have never been very difficult.

EDIT: Also who's the wise guy who's made the thread screen stretch accross from here to Africa? It's double the width it normally is and I have to use the slider scroll bar now to read posts here????

I believe that is the way the pictures I posted are formatted sorry.

If I can find a way to shrink them. Or I could just remove the larger ones.

So why don't they make a Total War Fantasy? I was just over in the TWC and no one is even bringing it up.

Originally Posted By Kid (31 JUL 2012 6:06am)

So why don't they make a Total War Fantasy? I was just over in the TWC and no one is even bringing it up.

i'd like that too, perhaps like David gemmels books  Lion of Macedon and Dark Prince books settings

I still want Rome 2 though.

I think CA have said that they will never do a TW fantasy game. But it was a few years ago i read that so i may remember wrong.

Not to mention the fact that their games already are fantasy games...

Originally Posted By Philippe (31 JUL 2012 11:43am)

Not to mention the fact that their games already are fantasy games...

ouch

Anyone miss these critters?

Those critters will make an appearance again it seems. They have said they are historical whether people like it or not.