MTW site in Activision comes alive :)

[oZoNeLaYeR]

http://www.activision.com/games/medieval_totalwar/

no link available yet in the site but.. it looks pretty cool.

[theforce]

Looks amazing. Hope links are up very soon http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[oZoNeLaYeR]

and the song is pretty good aswell!!! I WANT THIS GAME!!!!!! gimme gimme gimme!!!



[This message has been edited by oZoNeLaYeR (edited 04-13-2002).]

[ShadesWolf]

Phew and wow

This look great

[Sir Kuma of The Org]

Thanks for the link oZoNeLaYeR

[oZoNeLaYeR]

no worries mate... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Toda Nebuchadnezzar]

Indeed, looks very nice frontpage. Hope the site has a lot of content that we dont know of yet.

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No i'm not the Messiah
Only the true Messiah would deny it.
Alright then I am the Messiah.
HE IS THE MESSIAH HOORAY!!!

[Kraellin]

nice music...had a definite aramaic flavor to it. also liked the panoramic effect of the battlefield and castle.

i'm going to make a small prediction here, based on this and reviews and screenshots and so on that we've seen so far; M:TW is going to put CA on the map. some might say they're already 'on the map' but the shogun series didnt really get that much attention compared to some of the other games and companies that are out there. i dont know what their sales are/were and i know it's still selling copies, but it surely wasnt a giant seller. i dont know that M:TW will be a giant either, but i'm going to predict it will be better than S:TW and its sequels.

when i bought S:TW i had never heard of the game, never seen any advertising for it or reviews or anything else. i remember buying it and it was one of those, 'hmm, dont know squat about this, but the promo on the box looks kind of interesting; maybe i'll give it a shot cause there isnt much else in the store that looks interesting at the moment.' ya know, one of those 'dry' periods when there wasnt a lot of other stuff of much interest at the time, so i bought it out of desparation on a lick and a promise. even after i bought it it sat in the box for a couple months before i installed and ran it.

i dont think that's going to be the case here. the pre-sales promo seems to be better. S:TW has a decent word of mouth sales that is going to help in M:TW and there seems to be more press on this one also, most all of it good. and medieval europe is certainly a rich environment for war gaming. so, M:TW has a lot going for it that its predessors didnt have. i predict a hit and some awards. i also predict that it still wont sell as well as a non-strategy type game, but a hit nonetheless.

CA got its foot in the door with S:TW. M:TW shld show it's not a one-shot wonder.

will it have everything we've asked for? absolutely not. there are still going to be disappointments and beefs and gripes from we 'purists' here in the forums. no question about that one. will it somehow lead to new patch for S:TW and sequels? quite doubtful, but not impossible. perhaps, if the game does really well in sales, we can talk CA into looking at another patch, but i wouldnt count on it. we're going to be screaming at them, like we always do, to patch M:TW, so a patch for S:TW isnt likely to happen.

it's also highly unlikely that we'll all be able to converge within the same online game server with stw/we/mi folks. Activision are EA games are in direct competition with each other. unless Activision or CA or Dreamtime is willing to buy out EA's interest in stw/we/mi, it's not likely to happen. so, expect to play M:TW on its own isolated server. hopefully, there'll be some more options on it, but i've not seen anything about this side of the coming game, so it's all speculation at this point.

that ign preview said something about almost being out of alpha, so perhaps some folks will actually be able to beta test the game. the early impressions from those folks shld be interesting. they will be fans, not reviewers trying to sell a mag or hype a product. we know beta testers sign non-disclosure agreements so dont expect any specifics, but general impressions shld be interesting.

btw, CA, my bribes are already in the mail ;)

K.


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I just hope they use the 1.02 testers...mwuahahaa... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

The frontpage of that site looks great, M:TW will be surely more hyped.
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[This message has been edited by Terazawa Tokugawa (edited 04-13-2002).]

[tootee]

I was contacted by some guy who says he's from CA, and ask me to beta test MTW... I wonder who else is on the team http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/eek.gif, some guy called Keith is heading the team.. hmm.. wonder who is that?

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I heard he likes Maltesers too! http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/eek.gif



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[Hirosito]

how do you get to that frontpage of MTW from the community site? i know it's not important but still. and by the way Kraellin thank you for being positive i absolutely agree with you.

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[MagyarKhans Cham]

tera, u gave the idea that ur a betatester? .O)

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Tera http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[Vanya]

I was asked to lend my infinite wisdom to CA/Activision so that this game will succeed. So... I showed up over there in the old Country... but they went bananas. Apparently, nobody told them I had no head. They absolutely panicked and ran back to their mamas.

Guess I can't give them a piece of my mind after all... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/frown.gif




[This message has been edited by Vanya (edited 04-15-2002).]

[Pachinko]

Man, I love the music for the activision site!! Its kewl! Is the same guy?? I dont remember his name...

[Toda Nebuchadnezzar]

Yeah it is the same guy.


Doesn't he have a band called PlasticWoodenFruit?

Anyway the music so far sounds good...any add-on to the site yet?


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He is the Messiah
No i'm not the Messiah
Only the true Messiah would deny it.
Alright then I am the Messiah.
HE IS THE MESSIAH HOORAY!!!

[oZoNeLaYeR]

Links are available... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif go and check it out. there are some wallpaper too...

[Toda Nebuchadnezzar]

Takes flippin ages for those links to work on my 56k. But still the wallpaper looks good.

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He is the Messiah
No i'm not the Messiah
Only the true Messiah would deny it.
Alright then I am the Messiah.
HE IS THE MESSIAH HOORAY!!!

[Hirosito]

by links do you mean the 4 little pictures at the bottom? because they don't show up on mine

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[Knight of Nee]

Quote Originally posted by Toda Nebuchadnezzar:
Takes flippin ages for those links to work on my 56k. But still the wallpaper looks good.

[/QUOTE]


oh stop complaining......i have a 33.6K modem http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif now that IS slow

[Knight of Nee]

i have to say that the site does look amazing tho...and great music

Quote Originally posted by Knight of Nee:

oh stop complaining......i have a 33.6K modem http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif now that IS slow[/QUOTE]

I agree. I played for a year this game with a 33.6... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif (now 56k). Btw, well done in living in Dubai...great place, my favourite.

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[oZoNeLaYeR]

Nope, The links are on the top... below the MEDIEVAL TOTAL WAR.. u'll see, Home, Feature, Story and Download.

[Hirosito]

cheers i must have been pretty blind not to spot them.

i've asked this before is there a way to get from the totalwar.com site to the new MTW site?

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[oZoNeLaYeR]

nope. but if u got to www.totalwar.org (http://www.totalwar.org) u'll see the link on the news section i believe.. ask Sir Kuma for more info...

Cheers

P.S yeah u should go to optometrist.. check out ur eyes :P

[Sir Kuma of The Org]

Quote Originally posted by Hirosito:
cheers i must have been pretty blind not to spot them.

i've asked this before is there a way to get from the totalwar.com site to the new MTW site?

[/QUOTE]


Look on the orgs main page, on the right side, under Shogun sites, you will see the link, its the third one from the top, you are only 2 clicks away.

OR

You could always add this link to your favorites http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
http://www.totalwar.com/community/medieval/index.htm



[This message has been edited by Sir Kuma of The Org (edited 04-19-2002).]

[Rath]

By jingo i want this game http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Hirosito]

i should probably change my habit of always going straight to the dojo.

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[Kraellin]

rath's actually getting excited? boy, this game ought to sell a million copies then ;)

K.


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[CeltiberoSkullXIII]

i want i want i want the GAAAMMMEEEEEE!!!

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[Dark Phoenix]

K2 it only takes a boofy bloke in a red sash to get him excited. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[JAG]

this is one of the only times i will use caps in a *serious* sentance. . .


I WANT THIS DAM GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ok enough of that http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif . .

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"...but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive,
and the other would accept war rather than let it perish,
and the war came."


Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address
4 March 1865

[Hirosito]

the only time you say something serious in caps and you misspell the swearword, very noble of you http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[JAG]

oi lol http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/tongue.gif

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"...but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive,
and the other would accept war rather than let it perish,
and the war came."


Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address
4 March 1865

[Papewaio]

Quote Originally posted by JAG:

I WANT THIS DAM GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sim Dam 2002 with new disasters such as SPAM, marauding Mongols and Crusaders.

[Hirosito]

well pape when's it coming out then?

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.