How did we get into this anyway?

[Somebody Else]

Question I'm asking is what got you into the total war series in the first place?

Personally I got a demo cd for shogun with another game, ignored it for a while, then got bored one day and installed the demo. I soon bought Shogun itself... and so began my descent...

[Ja'chyra]

Plyed AoE and Cossacks, noticed MTW was coming out, bought it on the release day and never played the other ones again.

Let's face it, once you've played this you can never go back http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[Game Over!!!]

I started out with Shogun eons ago. When I wandered into a Game Stop over the summer I saw MTW and bought it right away. I think MTW is the best RTS out there hands down. It'
s complex enough to keep things interesting but not to complicated to make it tedious. Just waitin for XMAS to get here so I can get VI.

[Doug-Thompson]

Read the advance articles about MTW on various websites, then the rave reviews. Haven't ever tried any of the Shoguns/

[dwarven_eagle]

Playe AOE a lot back in the day, the I started to play AoM. When I got my new computer I had lost my cd key for AoM and I was going to but another copy, but while brozing the store I saw that the cover on MTW looked interesting so I picked it up and looked at it. Hopefully I'll get VI w/x-mas money http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Jacque Schtrapp]

Bored at work, clicked a favorites link on Amazon.com and read the review for STW. Searched CompUSA for about twenty minutes before finding Shogun hidden behind several other games. Been littering the field with corpses ever since. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Kekvit Irae]

Picked up Shogun long ago because I thought it was the same game as the Shogun (now known as Samurai Swords) board game. It wasnt. I deleted it off my hard drive, never to reinstall it again.
I picked up Medieval only because I was bored and needed a fix until the next best thing came out. Now I view it with disdain. If I had never become a modder, I might still enjoy the game again :/

[Ludens]

I'd played the demo, but I didn't buy it because back then my computer wasn't exactly... up to the job (rather: down on the frame rate). Some time after I bought a new one, I installed an old demo of MTW, out of boredom.
I was hooked. But, since I was suffering of an overdosis of knights at the time (Warcraft 3, Rise of Nations, and a traumatic experience with Stronghold), I thought: let's try that Shogun-game.
I haven't really got enough time to play it, but hell... I like it

[Pitt_Slayer]

i seen STW on some game's TV program, it looked brillant, as i'd been getting bored playing my OLD lord of the realms II game http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif
i just had to get MTW when it was releised http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

ps anyone heard anymore about Lord of the realms III????

[FoundationII]

I watched time commanders for a few weeks when I tought I should look it up on the internet, it brought me to www.totalwar.com then I began to search about the game a bit, and I bought it.

[Jacque Schtrapp]

Quote[/b] (Pitt_Slayer @ Dec. 03 2003,12:42)]ps anyone heard anymore about Lord of the realms III????
Scheduled for release 2/14/04. Happy Valentines Day for me. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[lancer63]

Read on a cossacks forum about shogun and its new version medieval. Asked a couple of friends and they said 'download the demo and see for yourself' I did that and the first sight of knights on their horses did the trick. Had to upgrade my machine to receive the full game and have played religiosly since october 2002. Never got to play Shogun btw.

[HawaiianHobbit]

I saw MTW at Wal-mart and thought it looked good so I read some reviews and they were good so I bought it. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[Gregoshi]

I read a preview of STW in a gaming magazine about 5-6 months before it came out. Read what it was about and saw the screen shots and became interested. Then I got my hands on the demo and I took the bait, hook, line and sinker. From then on I counted the days until release.

[discovery1]

My brother bought MTW for himself, but he never actually played it. I, however, soon found my self hooked.

[shand994]

Read a thread years ago on a game forum about some new game about Shoguns and huge armies, checked out the forum for the game and waited patiently for about a year for the game to come out, played the demo so many times i think i broke it http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/shock.gif then when the game finally came out, I was hooked and havent looked back since

[desdichado]

Was a demo on a PC mag I bought on a whim - that whim has cost me hundreds of lost hours in game time - but I'm not complaining. Just picked up Shogun for twenty bucks (aussie) so will be wasting more time.

[[DnC]]

Once a got a cd (mostlikely with a game I bought) with a short movie of Shogun: Total War on it. At first I thought I was able to play a demo, but soon discovered that it was only a movie. BUT seeing it made me drool I had never seen such a game and just had to have it

[Magraev]

Read the review and bought shogun when it came out. The without comparison most beloved occupant of my harddrive today is MTW. Thinking of reinstalling STW:mongol invasion atm.

BTW are we being asked by somebodys marketing-division http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

[Beaufou]

I saw screenshots of Shogun, thought it looked really good.
Forgot about it for a while and then when I got back to it, MTW was out.

I was amazed at the battlefield intricate play, a lil disappointed with the board game unmedieval diplomacy,
but i guess you can't have it all.

[Cheetah]

Quote[/b] (Magraev @ Dec. 04 2003,01:46)]BTW are we being asked by somebodys marketing-division http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

No, I am afraid that it is Somebody Else's marketing division. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/shock.gif

[Brutal DLX]

Quote[/b] (Gregoshi @ Dec. 04 2003,05:33)]I read a preview of STW in a gaming magazine about 5-6 months before it came out. Read what it was about and saw the screen shots and became interested. Then I got my hands on the demo and I took the bait, hook, line and sinker. From then on I counted the days until release.
Just like Gregoshi, only that I didn't have a PC back then. But I said to myself this is why you should buy one. So I always kept Shogun in mind, and a lot later, probably one or even two years, I finally got my PC together and bought the game right away. The bonus was that the warlord edition was available and still cheaper than STW when it came out, so life was good and I never regretted buying it. And MTW was just around the corner too

[Cazbol]

When I got Alpha Centauri in 1999 there was a promotional CD for Shogun in the box. It only contained screenshots but those made my jaw drop to the table. When the game came out I didn't buy it because my old PC couldn't handle it. A friend of mine got it and got badly hooked which confirmed my expectations for the game. When I finally got a new PC in 2002 the first thing I did was to buy Shogun and play it madly. After that nothing could prevent me from buying the add-on and the sequel.

[Magraev]

Quote[/b] (Cheetah @ Dec. 04 2003,02:28)]
Quote[/b] (Magraev @ Dec. 04 2003,01:46)]BTW are we being asked by somebodys marketing-division http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

No, I am afraid that it is Somebody Else's marketing division. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/shock.gif
hehe
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

[Somebody Else]

Is somebody else now making jokes about my name? Will this never cease?

Plus I am not affiliated with any marketing division... you must be thinking about somebody else entirely.

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Beeing a game addict focused on war & racing simulations and ocasional RPG gamer, I had only played for a while games like AoE and Civ, considering them to be too management-like to my taste. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/redface.gif
I 2000 I read astonishingly positive reviews about 2 new type of RTS games that were arriving at the stores. One got bigger credit and my imediate attention: Homeworld. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif
The other one (Shogun) and after reading lots of reviews, I thought it to be a very good game but maybe not what I was looking for at the moment. It sliped into the back of my mind... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif
About a year later, in 2001, I was in a computer store looking for a printer cartridge, when I saw a nice price on the game (about half the inicial cost). I decided it was none too sooner and bought it. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Well, what can I say about the rest of the story? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
I was expecting a very original (for a change of all the others available) and fairly competent game... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif
When I first saw the perfectionism, the historical accuracy and attention to detail I got amazed. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif
When I played my first campaign and my first battle I was hooked, in this series, for life... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
The rest is history... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[Duke Malcolm]

I first played Shogun, and thought it was crap (I don't know how I managed that), but about half a year later, my friend let me play his copy, and it seemed much better. I then saw a preview thing for MTW in a PC magazine, and it had been modded of something, but it looked cool anyway, so I saved up for it for when it came out, and bought it, then VI, then STW+WE for £5.

[Jxrc]

Bought PC Game in August 2002. There was a review by a guy claiming to be the king of Spain that was really hilarious. Bought the game the next day.

[gaelic cowboy]

Purchased pc gamer read review of shogun bought it got hooked bought mongol invasion, then bought medieval and finally obtained viking invasion i am now offically a CA addict. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[Cruelsader]

I have always been a board game and medieval type tabletop wargame addict. MTW combines them into one amazingly good game When I first saw it in the stores I could not sleep peacefully before I held the game in my greedy hands. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif (Unfortunate, though, that providing support for MP campaigns is probably not economically viable and thus will never happen)

[Togakure]

I have loved strategy games since I was a wee lad, beginning with chess at about age 8, and moving into computer games in the early 90s. I had been playing computer-based RPGs and action (1st-person shooter) games for the most part, and then read about a new game that was about to be released called Shogun: Total War. I am half Japanese, and have always taken interest in my Japanese heritage. Hence, the idea of a strategy game based in Japanese history intrigued me very much. I bought the game soon after in was released, and LOVED it. It is my favorite computer game of all time, and probably will remain so for some time to come.

I also have STW/MI, MTW, and MTW/VI. I enjoy them all. Of course, I will acquire RTW when it is available, but whether I get it right when it's released depends on whether my aging computer can handle it. Perhaps by then I will have a new computer. Only time will tell. (*crosses fingers*)

[Divine Wind]

I played AoE and Civ for a while, until i came across the shogun demo in one of my friends pc mags. After giving it a try i was totally absorbed and didnt put it down until M:TW came out. Now im just waiting patiently for Rome. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Quote[/b] ]Bought PC Game in August 2002. There was a review by a guy claiming to be the king of Spain that was really hilarious. Bought the game the next day.
I also read that review
It was REALLY hilarious
The guy kept mistaking his real life with the life of his king... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

[Voigtkampf]

Saw few preview pics of S:TW in a PC magazine, got hooked - ever since, TW is my choice of drugs for this life http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[HopAlongBunny]

Like many others, I dabbled in history, played board games and minuatures and goofed around with computer games.

I never thought this period would ever be the focus of a good simulation. Too obscure. STW was tempting but I never got around to it...besides I was tired of many games being a good deal less than they seemed.

A friend told me about this. He had read the reviews and said it might just be what I was looking for. When it was released I held my nose, shut my eyes and plunked down my cash for another stinker http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

Glad I did http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[MadMad]

Onegashimas....

Was very much into the Japanese culture and its history.
Which naturally 'helped' me to purchase the game rather on impulse. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Also, it was one of the few games I was able to play on my laptop at the time. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/dizzy.gif

[Gregoshi]

Hello MadMad and welcome.

I was the opposite - I was not into the Japanese culture at all when I bought STW. Of course, the game changed all that. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[The_Emperor]

Well I just saw a review for STW on some TV show (Channel 5 I think).

Anyway I thought it looked like a good game and I bought it, and I was hooked ever since.

MTW I didn't hear about and I just saw it in the shop... I just had to buy it right there and then.

I joined the Org earlier this year, and I'm still hooked on MTW http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[ToranagaSama]

Quote[/b] (Game Over @ Dec. 03 2003,09:55)]I started out with Shogun eons ago. When I wandered into a Game Stop over the summer I saw MTW and bought it right away. I think MTW is the best RTS out there hands down. It'
s complex enough to keep things interesting but not to complicated to make it tedious. Just waitin for XMAS to get here so I can get VI.
Just for accuracy's sake, the Total War series of games are not RTS games, such as AOE, Cossacks, etc.. They are TBS (Turned Based Strategy) games akin to the Civilization series, etc. Shogun: Total War is significant in that it was the first (and best) to implement real-time battles into the TBS genre.

I do not recall how I first came to Shogun, but it was shortly after I discovered CivII. CivII was my first TBS game, and it had been out for close to 2 years before I discovered it. I was always a bit frustrated that the battles were abstract.

Shortly after playing CivII to death, I somehow came upon either the site for the Org or the ORIGINAL .com site. This was back when the Internet was still fairly a new phenomenom and people Surfed the net looking for interesting sites. Not sure which came first, but I do know that after viewing that original .com site, I was absolutely HOOKED It was an amazing site.

That original site simply was the best site to promote a game that has EVER been made, to date.

What I'd like to know is how did Tosa come to know of Shogun and create the Org. Don't believe I've heard that story. I lurked the Org for what must have been a year, until the release of Shogun, whereupon I, believe, I made my first post. I've been hooked on Total War and the Org ever since, each is the best of its kind.

[Paxx]

By acident a demo of shogun TW came into my hands. After I played a short battle, the next day I bought the game. Ever since then an installation of TW series never misses from my pc http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Snowhobbit]

I played Shogun with one of my friends, dont know how he got into it though, and later saw on IGN.com that a new game from the same series were coming up and that, on top of it was being released at my birthday, and I got the game as a present and now im playing it quite alot...

[PseRamesses]

Played AoE, Civ III, Pharaoh at that time and got news of this fortcoming battle game, looked at it, bought it and got stuck http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif