Next Total War game to be revealed at E3, will NOT focus on gunpowder era(s)

[Martok]

Hmm. The evidence for Shogun 2 seems to be mounting....


Go to IGN PC Games and check out the "mystery trailer": Watch what image appears when you place your cursor over it. Then listen to the music as the trailer plays; some of us will find it very familiar indeed!

Finally, CA has posted this haiku (which is originally a form of Japanese poetry) on their Twitter account: "In Spring it roams not. / Maybe eastern sun rises / Nor will it show guns".


I have to say, this certainly does seem to be pointing towards a sequel to STW. If it's not, then it's a superb piece of misdirection on CA's part.

The press release is clearly a fake; it promises AI. [/cynicism]

CR

Heh. Wish I wasn't so inclined to agree with you....

[pevergreen]

Go to IGN PC Games and check out the "mystery trailer": Watch what image appears when you place your cursor over it. Then listen to the music as the trailer plays; some of us will find it very familiar indeed!

I just lost respect for IGN.

It is impossible for me to view that page. I cannot get to any non AU part of ign. I click on its international links: United States, and it redirects me to... au.ign.com

Its not featured on the main page here.

I'd say its all but confirmed.

mystery-game-teaser-trailer/videos/shogun_trl_shodo_52710.html

I'm going to ask Beefy to see if he can read what some of the pages say.

[Gregoshi]

I'm hoping for STW2. Vuk, before STW, Japanese culture and history were at or near the bottom of my "things that interest me" list. STW changed all that.

[A Nerd]

before STW, Japanese culture and history were at or near the bottom of my "things that interest me" list. STW changed all that.

I agree. Before STW the only thing samurai related I knew or enjoyed were in a Kurisawa film. Once I bought and played this game, I felt like I was a samurai. Here's to rekindlilng that memory in my imagination! Let's hope the game lives up to expectations!

[a completely inoffensive name]

I hope you all know that if it is Shogun 2 and they manage to kill it as they did with Empire, this franchise and our forum might as well be dead.

[Veho Nex]

I hope you all know that if it is Shogun 2 and they manage to kill it as they did with Empire, this franchise and our forum might as well be dead.

Now why would you have to go and have those negative thoughts man.... Think positive thoughts and karma will carry us through in the end.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Now why would you have to go and have those negative thoughts man.... Think positive thoughts and karma will carry us through in the end.

I'm sorry, E:TW turned me into a pessimist.

[Martok]

before STW, Japanese culture and history were at or near the bottom of my "things that interest me" list. STW changed all that.

Same here. For a long time, I'd had absolutely no interest in Japanese or Eastern culture. That changed with the release of Shogun; suddenly I found I couldn't get enough of it!

[Vuk]

I'm hoping for STW2. Vuk, before STW, Japanese culture and history were at or near the bottom of my "things that interest me" list. STW changed all that.

Well, assuming that the game is moddable, I will give it the chance to change my mind.
(I still wish it was Korea: Total War though )

[DisruptorX]

Well then, if this is the case, fingers crossed that Ming China's in it and you can stomp on Japan.

[Beefy187]

I just lost respect for IGN.

It is impossible for me to view that page. I cannot get to any non AU part of ign. I click on its international links: United States, and it redirects me to... au.ign.com

Its not featured on the main page here.

I'd say its all but confirmed.

mystery-game-teaser-trailer/videos/shogun_trl_shodo_52710.html

I'm going to ask Beefy to see if he can read what some of the pages say.

His talking about quality to be a good Shogun. And he wrote shogun on those papers.

[Reenk Roink]

I'm willing to go and buy S2:TW regardless of the quality of the recent releases just because of the setting. And hopefully the game after this one will be Rome 2.

[pevergreen]

I'm willing to go and buy S2:TW regardless of the quality of the recent releases just because of the setting. And hopefully the game after this one will be Rome 2.

[Vuk]

Yeah, I was really hoping for a Rome 2 as well. :P

[Kagemusha]

Interesting..