Shogun Total War coming to Steam!

**Xantan** · 02-02-2019, 03:44

Let's not forget STW is turning 20 years old next year...

**Goalum** · 02-02-2019, 20:50

Originally Posted by Xantan

Let's not forget STW is turning 20 years old next year...

Yeap.. here's a celebration thread we had 9 years prior for the 10 years of STW - it has some interesting links to the CV of the programmer of the original TW engine.. and links to STW cinematics/trailer..

**Xantan** · 02-14-2019, 18:19

Quite interesting to look over the guy's CV - he worked on MTW as well!

**Goalum** · 02-20-2019, 21:52

Originally Posted by Xantan

Quite interesting to look over the guy's CV - he worked on MTW as well!

Yes, as well as in RTW to begin with, but they "canned" him [basically they made the game so commercial that he lost interest and left, it appeared] before its completion..

He was around here too back in the day, his nickname at the org was longjohn

**Xantan** · 02-22-2019, 16:15

It did create a massive boost for the TW platform though by going so commercial.

**Goalum** · 02-23-2019, 22:11

Originally Posted by Xantan

It did create a massive boost for the TW platform though by going so commercial.

Yes, it did.. however the "old crowd" didn't like that very much.. the first two games aren't exactly mainstream products, and so they didn't attract exactly a mainstream audience..

There was a massive shift in community demographics and a lot of bitteness between the old and new guards of fans at the time.. you can see that in plenty old threads of that era..

**edyzmedieval** · 02-24-2019, 00:31

I was around during that era to be honest - since I joined in 2005, RTW was in full swing / love and there was quite a marked difference between old schoolers and new schoolers. Things quieted down significantly with M2TW but the schism as you mentioned it was there.

That being said - MTW is my favourite game of all time.