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Title: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: StarSlayer on June 02, 2010, 08:18:26 pm
(http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/109/1093664/shogun-2-total-war-first-look-20100528013721769.jpg)

Shogun II Total War (http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/76283/shogun-ii-total-war/videos/shogun2_trl_announcementtrailer_60110.html?show=hi)

Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Scourge of Ages on June 02, 2010, 09:54:11 pm
Awwwwwww, yeaaaaaahhhh.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Solatar on June 02, 2010, 11:19:44 pm
I was kind of hoping for World War I (wasn't expecting it), but this looks pretty good.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: mxlm on June 03, 2010, 01:17:24 am
Oh, please (http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/109/1093664p1.html)

Hey, CA? If you want to make fantasy: total war? There's nothing stopping you.

And on that note, I'm going to fire up King Arthur and see how it is.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Demitri on June 03, 2010, 04:18:32 am
Nice! Gotta admit tho i was hoping for a Rome 2: Total War. Maybe next time
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Hero_Swe on June 03, 2010, 06:19:20 am
Pah, gonna be simplified (read:crappified) by the devs, not at all as the previous shogun or the games before Empire Total Crapwar
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Flipside on June 03, 2010, 10:23:01 am
I'm playing King Arthur the RPG at the moment, which is quite similar cosmetically to TW, though, I don't think it's quite as strategy-dependent (and archers are like guys with lilttle exocet launchers, though, in fairness, they can be weakened a bit with a tick-box), I quite like it because it's the first step towards the sort of TW game I'd love to play, which involves vast armies, mythical monsters and magic ;) Think 'Total War Meets Dawn of War' ;)

Edit: Oh, and it's also cheap on Steam at the moment, and comes with a rather interesting Crusades-based strategy game that I still haven't looked at...
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Mongoose on June 03, 2010, 11:28:10 pm
I've never played any of the Total War series, but I've watched my brother play Medieval (and Medieval II, after he found out that the original flat-out can't run on his laptop's video card) at length.  It's fascinating how readily a storyline arises out of the gameplay itself.  For instance, the Pope was being a royal excommunicating ***** during one of his campaigns, so he managed to sneak in an assassin and take him out by some stroke of luck. :D
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: StarSlayer on September 06, 2010, 07:07:18 pm
Ooooooo  Ahhhhhhh (http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/76283/shogun-ii-total-war/videos/shogun2_trl_battlereport_90210.html?show=hi)
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Turambar on September 06, 2010, 07:26:43 pm
Quote from: mxlm on June 03, 2010, 01:17:24 am
Oh, please (http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/109/1093664p1.html)

Hey, CA? If you want to make fantasy: total war? There's nothing stopping you.

And on that note, I'm going to fire up King Arthur and see how it is.

I sure hope they get out some mod tools for this one.  There's a reason Medieval 2 was the best, and it has nothing to do with the actual game.

Guys in here should go check out Third Age: Total War.  It's pretty cool stuff.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Pred the Penguin on March 02, 2011, 04:35:04 am
:bump:
The demo is out if anyone hasn't heard yet.
Not available in my region, but my computer probably wouldn't be able to run it well anyway.
Anyone tried it?

Yeah... I'm excited. :nervous:
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Grizzly on March 02, 2011, 05:36:11 am
Quote from: Hero_Swe on June 03, 2010, 06:19:20 am
Pah, gonna be simplified (read:crappified) by the devs, not at all as the previous shogun or the games before Empire Total Crapwar

Empire was simplified? SIMPLIFIED? What the hell? The whole problem with Empire was that they tried to do too much all at once. The previous Shogun was awesome because it was simple, just like the Kingdoms expansions.

And why do those ... flameboys... think that just because Empire TW was bad, the series is now ruined forever? There is no such thing as continiously releasing awesome games. Sometimes, you get games that are ambitious, but rubbish. That does not mean that you end up in an endless cycle of continiously repeating the mistakes you made in *insert substandard game here*.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Pred the Penguin on March 02, 2011, 08:21:36 am
Unless the devs are bad, but CA has done good work before, so I'd give them the benefit of doubt.

Oh, and btw, you replied to an almost 1 year old post. :nervous:
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 02, 2011, 02:49:30 pm
Quote from: -Joshua- on March 02, 2011, 05:36:11 am
Empire was simplified? SIMPLIFIED? What the hell? The whole problem with Empire was that they tried to do too much all at once. The previous Shogun was awesome because it was simple, just like the Kingdoms expansions.

I actually think Empire was simpler than Medieval 2, not in the least because large portions of the gameplay are simply walled off by the mechanics. Spying/sabotage/assassination in M2 were inhibited by the inherent failure of your agents, but you could fix that by practicing on similarly fail rebel armies. No practice targets in Empire, no means of improving your agents' skills, and the traditional TW "percentage chance of an agent action actually succeeding is game's listed percentage chance minus 20%" means that bit of stuff is walled off from you.

On the other hand, Empire is ****awesome because of the naval combat.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Rampage on March 03, 2011, 01:08:28 am
Japan is too overrated.  They should make a Three Kingdoms: Total War based on the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.  I'd totally play that.

-R
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Rodo on March 03, 2011, 07:07:42 am
Oh man, all those vids.

It's growing in me, I might go ahead and try to get the demo to see what's all this fuzz about.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Pred the Penguin on March 03, 2011, 07:41:11 am
Quote from: Rampage on March 03, 2011, 01:08:28 am
Japan is too overrated.  They should make a Three Kingdoms: Total War based on the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.  I'd totally play that.

-R
There's a mod for Med2 that's set during the Song Dynasty, but a Three Kingdoms Total War would truly be another beast. All games about Three Kingdoms made by Chinese usually suck. :blah:
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: ShadowGorrath on March 03, 2011, 08:26:44 am
Quote from: Pred the Penguin on March 03, 2011, 07:41:11 am
Quote from: Rampage on March 03, 2011, 01:08:28 am
Japan is too overrated.  They should make a Three Kingdoms: Total War based on the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.  I'd totally play that.

-R
There's a mod for Med2 that's set during the Song Dynasty, but a Three Kingdoms Total War would truly be another beast. All games about Three Kingdoms made by Chinese usually suck. :blah:

There's a mod for RTW of that. Or at least of the same name.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Turambar on March 03, 2011, 08:37:50 am
I bet you could mod Medieval 2 into Three Kingdoms if you really tried.  Unfortunately you won't be able to mod Shogun 2 because there's NO MOD TOOLS
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Pred the Penguin on March 04, 2011, 06:51:42 am
They dropped mod support after Empire I think. Code base issues was it? Mod community for Med2 and RTW are still very much alive thankfully.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 04, 2011, 02:54:05 pm
Napoleon was mod-able, just barely. They dropped the console commands after M2, though, which made modding Empire much more difficult.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: PsychoLandlord on March 15, 2011, 08:47:20 pm
So, anyone playing it? I dicked around with some of the Historical battles, and I have yet to hit an bugs of note, or Crashes, so good on CA for that.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Scourge of Ages on March 15, 2011, 09:17:46 pm
Just the demo so far. It's a little different than I'm used to in a TW game, I had trouble with making custom groups of troops. I'll buy it if I can get a good deal in... however long it takes.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: PsychoLandlord on March 15, 2011, 09:33:48 pm
All the Unit grouping has been relegated to the G key, near as I can tell, and once you create a group you have to have them adopt formation before they become any kind of useful. Formation tab pops up on the right side of the screen once a group is selected. I actually kinda like this system, truth be told.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: crizza on January 01, 2012, 09:44:16 pm
Time to stirr up the fallen :P

Has anyone the same problem like me?
The game crashes after hardly about 15 minutes and I have no clue why -.-
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Scourge of Ages on January 04, 2012, 12:22:14 am
I still haven't actually gotten around to installing this, been doing Empire when I can. If I had to guess though, I'd say that something's overheating; take a look at your video card ventilation.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: crizza on January 04, 2012, 10:50:46 am
Hm, the GPU Diode (MemIO)   was at 90°C...Think I'll clean the PC a little bit...
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 05, 2012, 01:38:50 am
The expansion standalone they're talking about, during the Meiji Restoration? Sounds good.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: yuezhi on January 05, 2012, 01:50:00 am
I've gotten the chance to play the beta.

WARNING
Spoiler:
There's no Tom Cruise, just a clone army of americans and euros...YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH
sry i'll stay away from caffeine for a while.

AFAIK modders don't like modding ETW and beyond because the world map is impossible to change.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Pred the Penguin on May 14, 2013, 12:11:53 pm
:bump:
I have two giftable coupons for 75% off for Shogun 2 on Steam. They're not applicable to RotS, FotS, or any DLC and I already have Shogun 2. Anyone want them?
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Scourge of Ages on May 14, 2013, 11:48:54 pm
Quote from: Pred the Penguin on May 14, 2013, 12:11:53 pm
I have two giftable coupons for 75% off for Shogun 2 on Steam. They're not applicable to RotS, FotS, or any DLC and I already have Shogun 2. Anyone want them?

Same here. If anybody is even slightly interested but doesn't have it yet, this is a great opportunity!
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Suongadon on May 14, 2013, 11:57:21 pm
Do either of you know when the coupon expires? All it shows for mine is a random-ass 10 digit code.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Scourge of Ages on May 15, 2013, 12:14:45 am
Quote from: Suongadon on May 14, 2013, 11:57:21 pm
Do either of you know when the coupon expires? All it shows for mine is a random-ass 10 digit code.

May 23rd
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: BloodEagle on May 15, 2013, 01:26:30 am
Quote from: Suongadon on May 14, 2013, 11:57:21 pm
Do either of you know when the coupon expires? All it shows for mine is a random-ass 10 digit code.

It's the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch. Someone screwed up, thinking  actually converted it.
Title: Re: Total War: Hajime!
Post by: Mongoose on May 15, 2013, 02:33:08 am
That's actually pretty hilarious. :lol:

I'd totally take one to pass onto my brother, since he played and enjoyed both Medievals, but he's only been on Steam once in the past year, and he has half the series sitting around unplayed, so forget that.