Medieval III: Total War Announced!

**Vuk** · 02-19-2008, 20:48

Made you look!!

Am I the only one who's day would be made if this were true?
M2 was supposed to be not a graphically improved revisit of the Medieval period, but rather a reworking of the game set in the same period.
While the graphics surpassed my picky wants, the game itsself had very few inovations. The recruiting system was greatly improved, but other than that...nothing.
Don't get me wrong, I like the game, it just seems like such wasted potential since they will certainly never come out with MIII: TW, despite my greatest wishes.
I made SOO many easy to implement suggestions that would have COSMICALLY improved the game, and yet, they STILL made a RTW clone!

EDIT: I mean suggestions like being able to go through the expensive process of retraining your troops to improve their battlefield endurance, attack, reload time, accuracy, etc. None of those simple variables showed up. Stuff like that would have REALLY made the game, and that all my other suggestions were ignored.

**Mailman653** · 02-20-2008, 01:16

We are getting Empire:TW instead, after that probablly an expansion, and after that a break period and after that rumors of a new TW game, at least that's how it's been after Shogun.

**Vuk** · 02-20-2008, 19:27

Yeah, but my hopes aren't exceptionally high for Empire. :P I'm sure they will put a great game together, but it will never be as good as they had the chance to make M2: TW, cause it is not in the medieval setting. :P
lol

They had such as opportunitty...and they threw it to the wind...

I will go bitch elsewhere. :P

**The Wandering Scholar** · 02-20-2008, 21:09

Hell no ive just purchaded Med2 with kingdoms. Med2 was supposed to be around £15 I think which is what I wanted but I got kningdoms expansion aswell for only £20. Can't beat ASDA best supermarket.

**8Koala** · 02-24-2008, 00:58

it just seems like such wasted potential since they will certainly never come out with MIII: TW, despite my greatest wishes.

How do you know? Are you psychic?

It seems like anything is possible, I mean they already revisited Medieval, so why not again in the future? I mean there are plenty of time periods to explore that they have not tried yet, but Empires will satisfy me all the same. Gunpowder becomes dominant in warfare during this time period, which means there will be skirmishing again, something which drastically lacks in the cavalry rush-fest that is medieval 2 total war.

I made SOO many easy to implement suggestions that would have COSMICALLY improved the game, and yet, they STILL made a RTW clone!

Oh didn't we all? Hehe.

**Spartan198** · 02-25-2008, 13:35

Oh,Vuk,now that's just wrong! You got me pumped for MIII,all for naught.

**Puzz3D** · 02-25-2008, 17:28

Originally Posted by Vuk

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Don't get me wrong, I like the game, it just seems like such wasted potential since they will certainly never come out with MIII: TW, despite my greatest wishes.

Creative Assembly has never refined any of the TW releases to their full potiential. STW was the closest they got to maximizing potential, but even that fell short. They cut and run to make the next TW game in order to maximum monetary profit. This ensures that none of the releases ever get the refinement they need to realize their potential. As the game system have become more complicated, the gap between realized potential and full potential has widened.

Forgettng about potential, I just wish Creative Assembly would make all the features that they put in their games work properly, and also give the players access to all the parameters necessary to balance the game at both the strategic and tactical levels.