Total War Countdown/ UPDATE: Shogun 2 confirmed!

[Yureina]

I'm sure it will be a good game, in any case. I hope so at least.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

personally i'd like a remake of Shogun:Total War... or why not Dynasty Warriors chinese history in a Total War game...

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

If their going backwards to a time before Empire and Nepoleon then I'd be very disapointed. The series is best when it continues forward.

Future: Total War

robots cyborgs and aliens? in a StarWars setting?

 

[GuerrillaClock]

My money's on Vikings, or looking at the sand and how far it has to go, Celts, Jutes, Saxons? I don't know, but something really unorthodox and yet ancient would be cool.

 

[HK_01]

Hope the clock stops before the invention of iron, both bronze and stone could be fun.

actually, I think that would be awesome, though maybe have the hittites show up in the late campaign as a horde with iron weapons(they were the first in asia minor to do it).

edit: and OP, if you have't yet, why not put a link?

I'm pretty sure I have, but here it is again:

http://www.totalwar.com/

It's just the hourglass on the front page.

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/strategie/echtzeit/2315188/total_war_7.html

And here's my source for why it's apparently a countdown for the time the next TW will be set in. It's in German though.

Edit: It's still stuck at 1824?!? WTF?

 

[Plurralbles]

Hope the clock stops before the invention of iron, both bronze and stone could be fun.

actually, I think that would be awesome, though maybe have the hittites show up in the late campaign as a horde with iron weapons(they were the first in asia minor to do it).

edit: and OP, if you have't yet, why not put a link?

I'm pretty sure I have, but here it is again:

http://www.totalwar.com/

It's just the hourglass on the front page.

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/strategie/echtzeit/2315188/total_war_7.html

And here's my source for why it's apparently a countdown for the time the next TW will be set in. It's in German though.

Edit: It's still stuck at 1824?!? WTF?

Thanks, I didn't see it the first time I read it.

I think it's going to go down at specific increments at specific times. They're, I guess, not cool enough to even make a real virtual hourglass.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Ancient Greece: Total War?

T'would be awesome.

 

[Revolutionary]

I'm liking rome as well.

 

[Arawn.Chernobog]

At the time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

Total War: Velociraptor Rampage

*instant buy*

 

[HK_01]

Now it jumped to 1777. Seems like they just update it every day or so and it's not actually an accurate animation.

 

[Jandau]

Alright! 1777 and still more than half the sand is in the hourglass. That means we're going back to the pre-gunpowder era! Thank GOD! The only question is, how far will it go? Personally, I'd go for either Rome 2, or even slightly back in time, to before the rise of Rome. A lot of fun stuff going on then...

 

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[Unknower]

I want it to have ancient China, India or South America. Or all of them.

By the way, I wouldn't mind a Total War game set in a fantasy setting. CA, make notes!

*Snip*

Why expect bullshit and historical inaccuracies? So far, I haven't seen many mistakes in the TWs except for starting positions, and that was for balancing.

I think CA gets less and less accurate the further they go back in time. Screeching women? Wardogs? Warpigs? Gladiator units? Arcani? No. Not good. Unless you can prove that Empire is just as inaccurate in such blatant ways...

Come on, who didn't love masked dual-sword-wielding Roman ninjas?

NINJA POWEEEEEERRRRR!!!

They totally should have had a short ranged shuriken attack too. Like, totally.

 

[HK_01]

These are apparently some of the tools they're creating the sound effects with. Seems like it's definitely not going to be anywhere near the age where gunpowder was near.

Source(in German):
http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/strategie/echtzeit/2315217/total_war_7.html

Since apparently the image doesn't work just click the link and look at it there if you're interested.

 

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[HK_01]

The date isn't going back at a regular pace. And I'm not sure the hourglass graphic is changing at all, in which case the amount of sand left wouldn't be a good indication of how far back it's got to go. Can someone who's watched it longer than me tell me if the sand is actually moving?

Right now it's at 1769, BTW.

Rome 2 seems like the most likely option, but fingers crossed for Three Kingdoms: Total War.

Three Kingdoms? What time period would that be?

Edit: I've been watching it for a while now and I haven't really noticed any movement at all.

 

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[HK_01]

Three Kingdoms? What time period would that be?

Edit: I've been watching it for a while now and I haven't really noticed any movement at all.

The Three Kingdoms period of ancient China [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_kingdoms], 3rd century AD. Lots of competing factions, lots of wars. Seems pretty good for a Total War game. And it's one of the periods of Chinese history best known to westerners. Western history is more popular so it seems unlikely, but on the other hand they did start the franchise with Shogun.

As regards your edit, that would mean we have no idea when the countdown will end.

Ah, thanks. That does sound like a potentially good setting for a TW game.

 

[Jandau]

*snip*

It's Shogun 2! [http://kotaku.com/5549952/total-war-ditches-gunpowder-returns-to-japan]