Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
See I think CA can have it's cake and eat it too, check out my two huge posts in the "MP losing appeal" thread for my reasoning. In short I firmly believe that CA can keep expanding their customer base AND make cranky old farts like us happy... it's just going to take some real work and some good decisions on CA's part. I'm not optimistic but I am ever hopeful.
M2TW has supposedly already achieved this union. Nobody in the original MP community posted that they wanted a more "arcade" game. The original battle engine was a unique and elegant creation. There is solid math and physics behind that engine. The good gameplay wasn't an accident. If they adapt a standard battle engine to Total War, that will make the gameplay like other games. However, if they are going to go further down the arcade path, they might as well move to one of those existing standards.