Would you buy NTW

**Claudio** · 08-23-2009, 19:00

I'd buy it only if CA patch this game up to what we were promised, which is a magnificent AI that will blow us all away. If they don't, i won't buy it, nor will i buy any other TW games in the future.

**edyzmedieval** · 08-23-2009, 21:20

Noup. Not the period for me and plus ETW was the one of the biggest game dissapointments I had since I started gaming (in 1997).

I'm sorry CA, I guess Medieval 2 Total War was the last TW game I'll ever purchase.

**Beskar** · 08-24-2009, 03:24

You mean... Shogun?!?

**loony** · 08-24-2009, 13:05

To everyone else in the angry mob: I'M BRINGIN THE GASOLINE!!!

**edyzmedieval** · 08-24-2009, 20:56

Originally Posted by Beskar

You mean... Shogun?!?

I actually started off with Need for Speed 1.
I only found out about Shogun: Total War on Christmas 2000.

**vicsrealms** · 08-25-2009, 08:31

They can't even get Empire Total War working correctly. It went from a bug filled game at start up to an even buggier game now. Unless NTW somehow changes ETW so that its actually an enjoyable game, then I might think about it. Right now, I just don't have the stomach to drop $50 dollars on a game that I can't enjoy. Especially with a lot of other games coming out in the next few months that actually are worth buying.

**caravel** · 08-25-2009, 09:38

Originally Posted by vicsrealms

They can't even get Empire Total War working correctly. It went from a bug filled game at start up to an even buggier game now. Unless NTW somehow changes ETW so that its actually an enjoyable game, then I might think about it. Right now, I just don't have the stomach to drop $50 dollars on a game that I can't enjoy. Especially with a lot of other games coming out in the next few months that actually are worth buying.

NTW is being released as a stand alone title. This is an unusual departure from the usual add on expansions of past releases and could point to the plug being pulled on ETW updates sooner than has been the norm with other TW games.

Usually an expansion is released and the orginal game benefits from the patching, for example M2TW was updated to function correctly with Kingdoms. As NTW is to be a standalone game, then this could mean that ETW updates will be frozen once NTW is released. This is going by past trends where the previous title was never patched once a new release was out.

Some clarification from the CA on this one would be good? i.e. is NTW going to be a stand alone expansion, that is to say a derivative of ETW rather than whole new game in it's own right, and will ETW continue to be patched once NTW is released?

**Fisherking** · 08-25-2009, 09:39

I don't know yet. Is it going to be just a fouled up as ETW?

Not only that, but it is very much a new game. I find it hard to get all excited for it while I still struggle with ETW.

From what is released about it so far, it doesn't sound like it has a great deal of depth. I doubt there will be very many playable factions to oppose Bonaparte anyway.

**econ21** · 08-26-2009, 00:05

Originally Posted by Fisherking

From what is released about it so far, it doesn't sound like it has a great deal of depth. I doubt there will be very many playable factions to oppose Bonaparte anyway.

Lusted has said there is going to be a grand campaign mode, so that implies a decent number of playable factions. At a minimum, I would expect England, Austria, Prussia and Russia to be playable to oppose France. To be honest, any more than that seems a little ahistorical - they were the major players at the time. (Spain was something of a sick man of Europe.)