As has been suggested in other posts, the TW series seems to be continually going back in time from shougun to MI to MTW to Vikings to Rome..... The question (and I know RTW is still a long way off so this is a tad far sighted) is where to next???

Some have suggested they would love to see MTW features in a new Shogun game. I couldn't agree more, but would it sell? What would it be called, shogun: Total war II ??

There have been suggestions such as Napeoleonic or WWI, WWII Total war games, but I think this touches on a slightly broader issue.....


What IS Total War Gaming??

I've heard it be referred to as RTS, but to me Total War games seem very unique from RTS games. Please point me in the right direction if I'm wrong, but there just seems to be no other games out there that are similiar. Not in the way say a Warcraft II fan could play Command and COnquer and experience a different take on the RTS genre. To me Total war is it's own genre.

There's a lot of talk on these forums about parts of the game that aren't quite right, and I agree with a lot of these problems. Dumb AI, broken GA's, bizarre rebellions etc etc etc however I think most of us really appreciate what CA have given to the gaming community.

SO what is the point of my rambling. If there is one, I think it is this. We need to come up with a (non-copyright) name to describe this unique genre of game and try and hype it a bit so that other developers may start making similar games. Developing this genre to the point that all the topics in forums would be "I was playing faction X in Y mode and the year Z such and such happened, and I thought 'Hey cool that's so appropriate/fun/challenging/funny' " rather than continual (legitamate) gripes about weird stuff that happened, (gasp) is a huge job, and I feel if CA are the only group making these types of games, then I fear they will eventually peter out and be crushed and the games community will lose one of the few "gameplay over graphics" developers that still manage to scratch a living in the Eye Candy supermarket of modern gaming.

So if anyone knows of other similiar games and I'm just talking crap then plaese let me know, but otherwise I think we need to find a Cool Genre name and Hype the hell out of it so that everyones wishes for a Shogun/Rome/Ancients/WWI/WWII/Civil War etc etc Total war game may be satified much quicker and the (as yet uname) genre grows rich and diverse (and hopefully lucraive for CA and any other genuine Gameplay developers).

Well that was a long post. I hope to either be proved wrong or stimulate some consructive discussion.