Total War going to console!?!

**crazyviking03** · 08-23-2004, 21:08

Agreed, every fps ever transferred from pc to console was warped into an ugly, scaled down version. Terrible.. Terrible things...

**cegman** · 08-23-2004, 21:18

It could be like DW4 Empires. That game is suppose to be Total War for the console because you play Romance of the 3 Kindoms but when battles start you go and do the battle yourself like in Total war. The difference is that you control one person. I don't konw how planning works I'll have to see to decide how good it is. But if that is done right I have hope that Total War would be cool like that.

**Puzz3D** · 08-23-2004, 21:52

CA will have to trim down the game a lot because right now the system requirements far exceed console specifications. This is a logical move from a business perspective once the brand is established because there is a lot more money to be made in the console games market than in the pc games market, and you don't have all the technical problems that exist in the pc market because the console hardware is the same from unit to unit. Once you understand that CA isn't really interested in modeling history in their games except to the extent that it baits people to buy the product, their decisions make more sense.

**andrewt** · 08-23-2004, 23:05

RPGs are better on the PC than on the consoles. Hopefully, CA will follow Bioware who is still developing PC RPGs even after the success of Star Wars: KOTOR. PC RPGs are just much, much deeper and more strategic than console RPGs. Bioware is making a PC only game in Dragon Age and an Xbox only game in Jade Empire, which is really great.

Consoles are for sports games, fighting games and action games like Ninja Gaiden. Also for hack and slash games like Dynasty Warriors. Blizzard will release a Starcraft game for the consoles which isn't an RTS but an action game. CA should probably do the same thing if they are going consoles.

**AssasinsShadow** · 08-23-2004, 23:33

I think a console game would be very interesting. I'd like to see them pull off a decent strategy game. The only strat. game for console that I know of is goblin commanders, and that is just pathetic. The unit limit is 10...

**DemonArchangel** · 08-24-2004, 00:30

CA makes GREAT strategy games, they're the best strategy gamemakers around, and as such, they shouldn't be that bad at making a console strategy game.