Gah! Surely, this does not bode well for me....

[Martok]

It means you really need to get outside and do something non-TW for a while. Sounds to me like you have the Tetris Effect, whereby you've played for so long that your brain keeps playing even once you stop.

Heh. The Tetris Effect, indeed. I'd say that's a pretty accurate description.

It's just particularly disturbing time around as this usually happens to me with games that I've already played. For my brain to be doing this with a game that's not even out yet, though....again, I'm not sure I want to know what that says about me.

I've managed to get the effect from various games before, usually of the Tetris or Sudoku type (and even found I used to get this when I used to work in a supermarket; my brain would still be mentally stacking shelves when I got home), but I've never managed to get it for TW before.

I've had Total War dreams for years, going all the way back to late 2000 when I first picked up Shogun (and then MTW later on). I've fought so many battles in my unconscious, planned so many campaigns, that it's just absurd!

In fact, I've been sporadically playing a new Shimazu campaign this last week (I reinstalled Shogun a few days after having recently formatted my hard drive), and already I've had a couple dreams where I'm contemplating my next move against Clan Imagawa and/or my eastward drive across Shikoku. It's insane.

On a more serious note, I've never had dreams about games, girls, but not games.

Again, I do it all the time. I've also been playing Birth of the Federation (an old space strategy game set in the Star Trek universe), and have already had several dreams where I'm battling the Dominion and the Romulans for control of two key sectors.



Yes, I probably need help. But why would I *want* any?