Next Total War game?

[naut]

[...] but I'm fairly convinced that the next game would be some type of Colonization/Revolution era game [...]

[...] it seems logical that we'd be talking about the Colonization of the Americas (North & South) or the American/French Revolutions [...]

To rain on your parade, I can not think of anything worse. The French Revolution? How about simply Pike and Musket? And the American Revolution, boring, beyond boring, despicable. Two factions Britain and America, I'm sorry but that would be the worst game ever.

[...]That tells me that either we, yet again, rehash a time period already visited[...]

It's possible that they will remake Shogun, and will make a separate Expansion for M2TW.

However, what people forget is that there is much more to the world, its diversity and history, than just the USA and Europe.

[Bijo]

Hrm: creating an empire in western Europe, North Africa, and along the East is getting boring to me. Since I never played Shogun (but I will very soon) I voted Shogun 2, simply because the setting attracts me.

With RTW and Med(2) it's like you fight, manage, and expand in the same areas again, just a different time. I want an Asian-style TW to be the next installment. And I want the general user interface and controls to stay the same as they are now, but I'd sure like them to get a hold again of the magic of the old Shogun (the magic of which I've heard many people speak, and have had a little taste of with the old demo).

I want good gameplay: simplicity, accessibility, effectiveness, superior strategy, superior tactics, good A.I., low system requirements. Further: good superior engine with many options to control, superior presentation (music, settings, atmosphere, sound effects, etc.).\

Wouldn't mind a China-orientated TW game either. Sounds cool to me.

If they move further up into history time line, I'd go for WWI or WWII. Same basic areas again, but everybody is a skirmisher then. Still, they'd have bayonets and stuff.

[Warluster]

If you are wanting a game about the American Colonies and stuff, I am making a mod for M2TW about America from 1550 to 1800, so join up if you want! Just PM me!

[JeffHCross]

And the American Revolution, boring, beyond boring, despicable. Two factions Britain and America, I'm sorry but that would be the worst game ever.

That's why I included the Colonization of the Americas along with it, Rythmic. I agree, the Revolution itself would be incredibly, ridiculously, boring. I was mainly talking time period, not subject matter. Mods focus on specific events, the main game from CA usually doesn't. That's why we wouldn't see a Hundred Years War: Total War, but we might see a mod for it.

I don't know enough about Pike & Musket to say whether or not that's the equivalent to what I was thinking. But either way, it seems to me that the next game is likely to be 18th century or so ... which would give us the Colonization of the Americas and the American/French revolutions (and Napoleon).