The next game in the total war series?

[Olaf The Great]

A fantasy based Total War? I think this is the only TW game that CA can do without DERPing history. /smug.

But really, a China:Total War or India and especially Mongolia would be amazing

[Alrik]

A fantasy based Total War? I think this is the only TW game that CA can do without DERPing history. /smug.

Yeah I've thought about that as well, but all fantasy stories that'd draw a big enough crowd are too benign. They are written for imbecills, usually good verses bad, anything more than that is apparently beyond either the writer's capability, or the readers. I'm guessing both in equal doses as the good written stuff with lots of factions, intrigue and action never ses the limelight. I mean seriously the thing that's spamming the TV channels now is the damn Legend of the Seeker, anyone but retarded children gets naseous by all the holes in the plot. The action being based on the character's sheer stupidity to get them into trouble and pure luck to get them out of it. and two sides, as usual, good versus bad, how original.

Personally I hope that CA does something boring, like another gunpowdergame that I won't be the least interested in buying, so that they can further improve the engine before they tackle Rome 2, but like many have said, the pressure for Rome 2, is pretty big, so it's likely to be the next.

[Cute Wolf]

well, at least Shogun2 is pretty decent game, but still not as good as Napoleon

[Olaf The Great]

Napoleon is basically an expansion pack that you have to pay a lot more for that doesn't use the same file directory from what I've heard.

[Vulg]

Scifi:Total War.

Basically it enables you to play any modern day human nation sounds dull at this point but the AI or another player could play as:

Aliens
Zombies
Mutant virus
Plants

Maybe a game where you can make your own bad nation so to say as an exampel of the above 4.

Something a little fun, customisable and far fetched, thinking a Sand box game with some starting scenarios/ideas.

[moonburn]

well i´m still hoping for a greek golden age total war with corinthos athens sparta thebes myletos the ionians kretins (5 regions in kreete) magna grecia and perhaps even emporion arse and carthage where you go to war in the eat or west conquer a city and you add like 1.000 mnai to your main city every year as payment/trade with your colony to suport the raging war in greece and then after you finally destroyed or made your rivals your vassals an emerging faction like the persians and you could have your own personal marathon

pehaps with like 50 missions to get argos to allie with you free x city from the "spartans" to get an allie

the important subject and the twist in this game would be that you could only control 1 city the others you could control it´s taxs and maybe even upgrade the walls but nothing else and only while you keep the people happy or a large garrison there

and then again they could inovate in city administration sistem where the auxiliars would all be sent into a separate box and be considered part of a "council" like what happened in places like salamis where they had the council of 30

whenevr you wanted to send an army out you picked 1 member of the council and added it to a military unit (or more) to avoid the stupid fm´s units

it would make for an amazing game where you had to balance out the economy politics (you could only control 1 city at any given time and conquering another city and putting a more "friendly" goverment there would cost you alot in upkeep for the garrisons) demographis (raising an army and strong numerous garrisons would cost your city and surrounding areas people and creating colonies altough the best way to ensure strong economical revenues in the long run, aslong as they where not ravished by poeni or persians )

for the creation of colonies you would have to pick wisely joining many colonies together they could protect each other but it would be like putting all the eggs into 1 basket and you never knew when the schytians persians poeni umbri iberians or someone else would attack that region wich would demand you to send off "suport" making you weaker for a shorter time or not sending support and loose those tax payers every few turns

ok i will shut up now :\

[fomalhaut]

Those are solid ideas, but i don't think most TW players want to be so limited in their control. And the Greek Golden Age isn't that different to most consumers from the post-classical age of RTW, so it just wouldn't be viable.