When the options are over...for CA

[Galapagos]

Well i am wondering what CA will do when they will make all possible games.Will they remake other titles or will they do fantasy games.I don't see such a bright future for Total War series.I don't want to sound too offensive but in the future CA's ideas will be over and i don't wanna see any Rome2:TW or things like that.

[King Bob VI]

Umm...

Empire?

[Galapagos]

I am not saying now but after they make E:TW and other games.They will have no subject for the game.

[joe4iz]

I think they will probably make a China TW for starters. Which I'd love to see. Probably very colorful to say the least. I never played Shogun so it could be updated also.

Fantasy would be ok, but I am interested in seeing more information (as it becomes available) for Empire.

They could also do one about the rise of Napoleon (as an add-on).

The American Civil War would be popular in the US.

There are other conflicts such as Boer War that come to mind off the top of my head. I'd love to take a crack at playing the Zulu nation.

They could crank it back further into ancient history to take on the rise of all of the nation states that came out of the Middle East, such as the Assyrians, Babolynians, and Phoniecians.

[alpaca]

As for now there's still plenty of options to choose from, they barely scratched the surface really.
They could go into the classic Greek period and let you play one of the Greek city states, they could make a game about Persia, the Hittites, Egypt, Nubia, China, the Mongols, Japan in another period, India, Africa, south-east Asia (Khmer anyone), Meso- and south America or they could even make a modern TW set in the 19th or 20th century complete with airborne warfare and the Manhattan Project.

[Captain Pugwash]

Why not expand the 1500 1700 period and stretch the map from the americas across europe and into asia and ending up in the far east. I would love to have a European army taking on something from Shogun' china/japan or maybe from India.

[Per Ole]

would be like "Earth Total War"

[Gaius Terentius Varro]

well there was the movie 300 that deserves a trip to for one thing: pre roman good vs evil persians. Admit it you want the spartans.
Thishhhh ishhh Shhhpaartaahh!!!

[Zenicetus]

Well, we're talking about post-Empire and any expansions, right? I'd guess a dedicated Napoleonic war expansion pack would follow, and/or maybe the U.S. Civil War.

After that, I think a China: Three Kingdoms game would be great, since I'm much more a fan of melee and primitive missile combat than gunpowder. But the problem is they now have a new 3D naval combat engine, which would be of very limited use there.

To use that naval engine, maybe a pre-RTW, classical Greek period game? There were some epic naval battles during that time, and a mix of sail-based and oar-driven tactics would be interesting. Then they could follow it by re-visiting Rome, where naval combat was also important at times. I'd much prefer that, or ancient China, than more gunpowder combat. I really DO NOT want to see them pushing into WWI or WWII with this engine. Even a fantasy series would be better than that.

[Rhyfelwyr]

There's the time period between M2TW and ETW, the age of pike and musket. Focus on the rise of protestanism, Thirty Years War etc.

[Guru]

Vietman: Total War?
Cavemen: Total War?
Space: Total War?
or
Teletubbies: Total War?
I'm looking forward to see these TW games.

- Guru

[ezekiel6]

lol "Cavemen: Total War.. I though of that one too. Seriously though, I'd like them to remake Shogun or do a different Japanese period. I much prefer swords and axes to muskets

[joe4iz]

lol "Cavemen: Total War.. I though of that one too. Seriously though, I'd like them to remake Shogun or do a different Japanese period. I much prefer swords and axes to muskets

As did the Samuri

[Riadach]

Ireland total war. Admit it, it just has to be made. Hero units, vikings, normans, missile, short swords, chariots, head counting, paganism, christianity, tribal warfare vs dynastic warfare, painted warriors, naked warriors, fian díbeargaigh, cavalry, ritual warfare versus total warfare, units and individuals, fighting monks, fighting women (till the seventh century), there is no avoiding it.

Failing that, what about a cúchulainn total warrior?

[antisocialmunky]

They'd make Total War: Total War where all the previous total wars fight each other to the death.

[Forward Observer]

If I've said it once I said it a dozen times::

Smurf Totalwar!

Then

Smurf Totalwar 2

Then

Abbott and Costello meet Smurf Totalwar.

and finallly

Godzilla versus Smurf Totalwar

They are all sure fire sellers

Cheers

[ReiseReise]

LOL FO.

in the future CA's ideas will be over and i don't wanna see any Rome2:TW

I'll take it that means you are against remakes in general, but
Um... we're already playing medieval 2.

My totally meaningless opinion is that Empires and any expansions will be the final installment on the TW series, and then CA will move on to something else which will be different but just as good. I don't think China is an option simply because it wouldn't sell to the masses. Everyone knows (sort of) about samurai and stuff so shogun sold, next they went for the mass market, medieval europe, well their entire customer base is european culture so no-brainer. Rome - same thing, entire customer base culture heavily influenced by Rome. Next? Oh crap running out of ideas, back to medieval europe. Next? Oh no we are REALLY out of ideas, we already did a remake so lets do a chronological sequel to Medieval. So the last 4 out of 5 games are based around europe and suddenly they are going to go to china and try to sell it to europeans and americans? I don't think so.

[joe4iz]

LOL FO.



I'll take it that means you are against remakes in general, but
Um... we're already playing medieval 2.

My totally meaningless opinion is that Empires and any expansions will be the final installment on the TW series, and then CA will move on to something else which will be different but just as good. I don't think China is an option simply because it wouldn't sell to the masses. Everyone knows (sort of) about samurai and stuff so shogun sold, next they went for the mass market, medieval europe, well their entire customer base is european culture so no-brainer. Rome - same thing, entire customer base culture heavily influenced by Rome. Next? Oh crap running out of ideas, back to medieval europe. Next? Oh no we are REALLY out of ideas, we already did a remake so lets do a chronological sequel to Medieval. So the last 4 out of 5 games are based around europe and suddenly they are going to go to china and try to sell it to europeans and americans? I don't think so.

Maybe they will include "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" moves in a China campaign. That way when you play multiplayer, you really CAN say "your kungfu no good."

[antisocialmunky]

AoE 3 has an Asia expansion out. Their explorers are replaced by monks that stun guardian animals and then procede to tear out their gall bladders to sell on the black for extra pop cap and gold.

[TheImp]

Toons Total War?

[Nikos_Rouvelas]

I know! Internetforum:Total war! Battle it out and prove YOU and only YOU know the right answer! I can see the tagline "anyother game is for n00bs" LOL. Seriousely though I could see a Classical Greek:Total war. Could Call it "Hellas:Total War" and have a Persian Invasion Expansion pack.

[Xehh II]

Greek City States!

[edyzmedieval]

Godfather: Total War
GTA: Total War
Mafia: Total War
Pillow Fight: Total War
Simpsons: Total War
Halloween: Total War
Mobile Phone Throwing: Total War

[icek]

they will go after ww1 after empire

[The Outsider]

Yup! WW1 is an interesting option but if as Reise said they can not find any new ideas they might move to a new area. We will see that but meanwhile i would have liked seeing dark age total war. It was nice to cut the throats of the monks in VI.

[Dead Guy]

While WW1 and 2 are interesting concepts for wargaming, the total war engine is really not suited to recreate that kind of combat at all! The series Close Combat is a great game in that respect though that infantry is not blocks of soldiers standing in line to die, but can take cover and hide in buildings, hedges, trenches etc. If they could implement the total war style camera control so you got a better sense of the height of things it would be even better. I guess there's nothing stopping CA from doing that but it wouldn't really be total war to me anymore...

I'd much rather see a game set before rome, or a game in the medieval time period with no continent restrictions. Why shouldn't we be able to do like the Mongols and invade another continent? Too historically incorrect? Is it any more historically correct when Scotland or Denmark conquers all of europe?

Cheers

[antisocialmunky]

Well, WWI was pretty much giant bricks of people until around the Somme and late war.

[King Bob VI]

WWI would not work at all in the Total War style. It was completely different from even the Civil and Napoleonic wars less than a century before it. Instead of big armies lining up on the field of battle and duking it out of the course of 1 or 2 days as in every war that came before it, WWI was fought in the trenches, with stalemates lasting months on end as the two sides sat accross from each other daring one another to make a foolish attempt at attacking accross no mans land.

[Benandorf]

CA won't run out of ideas. They could do earlier classical era easily (Persia: Total War, anyone?), they could do ancient egypt, they could make something in the time between BI and MTW, and many more. That's before even considering the east, which could have many games. Or making games that take place on a smaller scale (not less territories, just a smaller map). I'd love to see Greece: Total War.

There's so much time during which infantry and archers were the mainstay of forces, there will never be a time where CA could run out of ideas.

[Cheetah]

I don't think China is an option simply because it wouldn't sell to the masses. Everyone knows (sort of) about samurai and stuff so shogun sold, next they went for the mass market, medieval europe, well their entire customer base is european culture so no-brainer. Rome - same thing, entire customer base culture heavily influenced by Rome. Next? Oh crap running out of ideas, back to medieval europe. Next? Oh no we are REALLY out of ideas, we already did a remake so lets do a chronological sequel to Medieval. So the last 4 out of 5 games are based around europe and suddenly they are going to go to china and try to sell it to europeans and americans? I don't think so.

China is a huge market (there are many chinese clans in MP) and it will be even bigger in few years time. Since CA was never the enemy of profit I am sure sooner or later they will do a chinese TW.
Also they can always remake Shogun. ~:D Actually it would be sin not to remake it with the 3D campaign map and with all the new features they have. ... Perhaps adding Korea to the map. And if there is Korea there is China