Creative Assembly and Total War are in REAL Danger
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- What will happen to CA? Will they survive and thrive once more, or are we seeing the sunset of a company we'd never thought would go under? Given the news of the latest downsizing at CA, which follows the firings from late last year, it's fair to say that it has not been a good 6 months for the company. Despite this latest news however, SEGA assures us that Creative Assembly are still working on Total War projects and unannounced titles, meaning the company seems to be safe for now. Regardless, this type of news is never fun, and despite the Total War games being what might be the closest thing to our minds, we must not forget about how difficult this is for the devs at CA who have or currently experience difficult and uncertain times.
I'd love nothing more than for Total War and Creative Assembly to bounce back better than ever, but it will definitely require quite a lot, again, especially after the horrible showcase that was CA's 2023. But what do you think? Does this spell the long-term doom for CA, or will everything be fine? Let me know in the comments, and make sure to leave a like and subscribe to the channel :)
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Surprisingly, it turns out that neglecting your flagship, well-selling series while dumping $100 million dollars into a fire (Hyenas) has negative repercussions.
Who'd a thunk
Shocking indeed
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They should've atleast released hyenas to make SOME money, honestly I have no idea why they would just waste the 100 million dollars like that
it is how free radical die, no more time splitter
I'm personally happy that CA's leash is getting shorter. They've been EXTREMELY tone deaf over the past few years greenlighting and developing trash like Hyenas and Sagas titles like Pharaoh (who even asked for this?). I think Sega breathing down their necks could have a positive effect on them. Put some fear of God into them, since they blatantly don't listen to their clientele anymore. They have a few golden eggs they're sitting on like Medieval series, Rome series, Shogun series, the new Three Kingdoms, Game Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy & (very VERY hopefully) Warhammer 40K, but they just refuse to use these golden eggs. They occupy a very pecular niche in the gaming industry that is between 4x strategy games and RTS tactical battlers. Their arrogance has led them down the wrong path and its high time someone reminded them of their position in the grand scheme of things. Maybe they could score some projects with other big IPs like Tolkien's Middle-Earth or WarCraft? Hell, even if the hyped died down, G.R.R. Martin's Westeros?
Focus on what you're good at. That's it.
Warhammer 40k in the style of T.W Empire would be absolutely sick. Instead of frigates, you'd have Battleships and grand cruisers. Bouta bust
@@DunceCapSyndrome
As an Empire Total war fan I absolutely hate that You're suggesting 40K is at all comparable.
Modern total war sucks specifically BECAUSE Warhammer fans ruined it.
can agree....they just need to make Medieval 3 or even Empires 2.
but this seems to be too far for CA to reach as their Marketing team which dictates the games is so tone deaf, that a deaf man could hear it. abandoning 3 kingdoms I will never forgive...never purchased another one of their titles after that...that...was a complete shameful display on CA's end.
@@spiffygonzales5160 "I want to gatekeep and complain about a hypothetical"
Modern T.W. sucks because of dev incompetency & their failure to listen to the community. Those losers literally dumped 100 million dollars into Hyenas just to cancel it and you're blaming Warhammer fans for CA & SEGA's incompetency? I'm a historical fan first. (my PFP is literally the Rome 2 Aurelian DLC) As such, I say stop crying and get over yourself.
@@DunceCapSyndrome
Rome 2 is not the same as the old school total wars. And it's not a hypothetical. Old total wars (Shogun 1 -Shogun 2) are far more strategic then the arcade strategy of modern tw
At this point i wouldn't even trust them to do Medival 3. If they die so be it, perfect example of what happens when you outright ignore your core player base.
It's even worse that they are blaming the engine, everybody knew it was cooked around 3k/WH2, why didn't they start on a knew engine then rather than leaving it. Absolutely ridiculous.
this guy talked about almost 10 minutes without saying anything
That’s Andy for you😅
Welcome to youtube
Lots of RUclipsrs exist under CAs payroll who essentially act as hype generators as well as mitigating any negativity the company gets
@@spiffygonzales5160 are you saying Andy is one of them?
@@1992zorro
Normally I don't like to start stuff... but yes... absolutely. 1000% percent.
Him and especially lore master of sotek are some of the worst ones CA has. Sure, they aren't directly under their payroll, but they receive benefits for darn sure. You definitely don't see CA treating Andy's take like they treat Volound. This dude seldom ever says that anything about total war is bad, and the few times he does it's very obviously just damage control.
In the current state that CA is, they should not rush to make a Medieval 3 or any new Total War game, because it would be a total fail. Also, whatever they do, they need a brand new engine.
Can someone explain something to me, if this engine sucks at melee, and it was made for empire and napoleon, make a gunpowder game, not empire 2- we're trying to be cheap her. But some gunpowder game with a small focus while CA makes a new engine. Game could be anything from pike and shot to victorian age.
I think they are just too incompetent and too thin skinned to make a interesting historical title. And most of all, too greedy, as shown with Pharaoh.
@@MarktheRude The squalor bug and pike bug from Rome 1 and medieval II are a testament that CA does not care to fix stuff unless they suffer backlash.
In shogun 2 engine give best melee combat in serie and after it they broke all what achieved in new version for Rome 2.
Made for gunpowder? Then why are those games melee fests? Empire 2 needs a brand new engine, period!
Go back to the system used in MED2, that one worked fine for melee combat and was one of the best.
Losing money is a priveledge not a right
Sensational
man, Medieval 3 seems further and further
If RUclips rumours can be believed, the next Total War is supposed to be a modern era. Which I think means Medieval 3 is off the table, possibly forever.
Bro even if they did a medieval 3 it wouldnt be medieval 3 thats how far off this company is
Medieval 3 will never happen, it will be Rome 2 medieval reskin. You think of a good engine that simulates war in every way which is something current CA's employees can't even understand.
As long as CA learn there lesson and start making good games again, even Medieval 3 isn’t going to save the franchise.
And it is good.
Better unborn
Maybe, just maybe, CA should consider making the games the community asks for. I know it's absurd and a strange idea, but listening to what your fans want could be a solution.
If they haven't done it by now it's not because they don't want to but because they know it will be a disappointment. The bar is too high for Medieval 2 and, judging by their latest releases, they can't make a good enough game.
Total war 40k? Got it.
Dont be ridiculous
Medieval 3 will be Warhammer reskinned historical 😂
Return of the captain opition instead of forcing General interaction, split armies and complex empire management. All I want
Well I guess for CA you need to explain step by step how to add the code and the visual models and sound effects and stuff because they won't do it probably 😭
Even game is dead and broken there can be mods that do something good and make game worth returning.
They need to get rid of single entity heroes/generals and all their buffs/gear they get to boost the armies they command. Not just is watching a single entity mob up a 160 soldiers but it also ruins the immersion. And the buff stacking is just broken beyond repair.
The system in rome 2 worked for me, individual general that also are potentially active in politics.
I can kinda see it being a thing for fantasy stuff like warhammer, with demons and what not. But in a game that is supposed to catch the historical timeline single entity heroes are just bad and seeing them "duel" while a war is going on around them is just cringe.
Sure props to CA to make it optional in troy, 3k etc... BUT than the generals bodyguards end up worse than units he commands... which makes no sense either.
It's honestly impressive how they managed to destroy one of their most profitable cash cows over the last few years.
Not hard when done on purpose, destroying has always been easier than creating/building.
99 cent store
CA management have let their capitalist psychopathy show too much for over a decade. I hope they go under and a new developer makes games on the same concept of tactical real time battles with turn based strategic map. We're long past the point of reform. Revolution is needed.
I personally hope that most resources go to Feral Interactive for a Medieval 2 and Empire remastered.
If that happens, I couldn't care less about Creative Assembly.
Same for Shogun 1 and Medieval 1 remasters. We also need those, and it seems they got a contract with Feral on remastering these games
There is already a contract? Cool!
Where can I read some info about that?
Not 100% sure, but if I understood the situation correctly, SEGA wants CA to focus almost entirely on Total War going forward, as thats where CA actually makes money. Again. not sure if its correct, but at least from what I've heard and understood, it was mostly the "console team" (what I heard them be called - the team working on titles other than Total War), and not the Total War team that was affected by the layoffs, so it's basicly just Total War Assembly at this point.
Also dont know if CA Sofia was affected by this. From what I've heard they weren't, but I don't know for sure, so I would like to see your sources for that, as I can't find any.
Not looking too bright for CA and Total War at the moment, I'll admit, but I think many people covering this (at least from a Total War perspective) make it look worse than it actually is. But as stated, layoffs are never a good thing, so we'll have to wait and see, I guess.
Worse than it really is! Are you joking? Or were you 10 at rome 2 launch?
@@heathclark318 What does that even mean? Yes, I remember the Rome 2 launch, but I don't know what that has to do with the current situation.
As stated, I don't know what your statement "Worse than it really is!" is suppossed to mean here. I get that that it's a response to what I wrote, but still don't see what you're aiming at.
What I mean by that statement is that many people covering the story about the CA layoffs makes it look like it's the end of CA and Total War. In my opinion it isnt, so in my opinion, many people covering this situation makes it seem worse than it really is.
If you believe this is the end of CA and Total War and that this is the worst case scenario and all hope is lost, by all means, but personally I don't think so. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
You look like someone who know journalists and RUclipsrs these day...
Using joy, hope, despair, hate of people/communities to create fake or/and exaggerated news to create more conflicts/audience/money for themselves no matter what will happen to their victi... followers 😀
Let's see, worsen the quality of the titles released and put a shitty DRM (Denuvo), who knows what could go wrong?
CA savior is hiring mod creators, like those creator of medieval 1212ad or Divide impera. And the most important is removing woke encroachment inside the company.
If they pack it in there are companies out there that could tap into this huge market.
I still have hope that CA can turn things around. They did add new additions to the recent WH 3 dlc and stated that they will make sure that dlc are up to standards. I am curious about the future of historical TW. I want to see Medieval 3 or empire 2.
I mean that's good and all..... But I would rather have the game be up to standard than the DLC.
I mean do you remember the quality of Shogun 2? That game had DLC and nobody said anything bad about it because It was a fundamentally excellent game.
Warhammer 3 on the other hand only survived because of its (In my opinion abusively extensive) DLC and because of the explosion in popularity for Warhammer, not because of the quality of the core game.
@@anarchyandempires5452 where do you think the explosion of popularity for Warhammer came from? Not from GW, they killed Warhammer and replaced it with Age of Sigmar (...until recently; happily Warhammer is now back). Warhammer Total War survived and thrived primarily because it was good. The IP helped, sure, but Warhammer only increased in popularity because of Total War, and it wouldn't have done that if it wasn't fundamentally a good game.
@@anarchyandempires5452 As far as I remember there was very few complaints about Warhammer 1, apart from pre-order/day 1 dlc and the people who didn't like the setting, and the same with TWW2.
The majority of complaints have come after the release of TWW3, so safe to say something is probably wrong in the higher up and leader positions if 2 of the games was at least ok, with relatively few complaints, and the the 3rd game launches in a broken state and everyones complaining even now.
Maybe I'm wrong, but something definatley changed between TWW2 and TWW3.
Sure, the game definately got a boost due to the populaitiy and "brand" of Warhammer, but the current popularity of Warhammer (fantasy) is in large parts due to Total War Warhammer. GW scrapped Warhammer Fantasy with the end times and introduces Age of Sigmar in it's place. They're now releasing Warhammer The Old World because of the current popularity of the setting.
Instead of wasting money on Hyenas CA should have been working on a new badly needed TW engine
I really hope it's not the end. Either way I'm grateful for the experiences and the fun I've had. Total War games made me want to learn more about history and made me want to learn everything about cultures outside of just their tactics and military.
I love 3K. One of the best total war games ever. 3K could never be "historical" in any sense. However, I knew what to expect since I am very familiar with three kingdoms. What I didn't expect was for CA to abandon it before we even got to the "three kingdoms" part of the three kingdoms...Troy is fiction. Plan and simple. While nobody asked for it, we got Troy. Pharaoh, on the other hand, was a stab in the back by CA. CA needs new owners. Trust is gone.
RIP Total War - you never matured and your greedy parents never gived you love or good toys and furstratingly all potential was wasted.
Shamefull display!
Maybe its time for them to truly become a small family company XD
At this point I am hoping for a decent competitor to appear to light a fire under their backsides. While I would love for a Medieval 3 or Empire 2, I don't have any faith in CA, to make something that will measure up to the games that came before them, let alone surpass them.
The best move to me that they could make in the short time would be a remaster of Medieval 2/Empire/Napoleon like they did with Rome 1, if they add steam workshop support to those 3 they can use them to print some money, then commit to working on one well polished game for a few years, win back fans with a quality product that is fun on release not a further X number of years down the track after release.
this is the results of the bad management of resources, bad CEO's , bad visions and 0 listen to community! I will not move a dime if they will disappear from the market. All their last 5 years they destroyed the market of historical titles with bad titles. Someone else needs to take their place who can actually make good historical games!
I'm completely fine with playing the old games until i die. Cleary CA isnt going to get their shit together anytime soon
This is a huge bummer, but I guess it's not surprising since it's happening across the industry. I've always been scared of strategy games but wanted to finally jump into the Total War series, so this is the last thing I wanted to hear
Make medieval 3, empire 2, rome 3 and you're going to be making everyone happy, and yourself rich
I'm genuinely curious about the development of Pharaoh. Nobody wanted that game, as seen with the massive community backlash and the fact that a dead game (3K) and a decade old game (Rome II) have higher players counts.
Nobody said "ay give me that Troy Total war. Or how about Pharaoh just a few years later?" Like it's clear the management do not care about the fans
this yes, I have no idea how Pharaoh happened
CA does not necessarily need a new engine.
Hideo Kojima and his team made Death Stranding with an engine from 2013.
The question is what is going on with CA, the management and devs?
I believe that it is corporate effort that directly influenced the combination of all the good things past games did into one "perfect" game in order to justify the sale of older titles.
Regarding your talk about the developers, this even worst than you think. The people that developed warhammer 2 and its dlcs aren’t working at CA anymore. The modern team isn’t even the one that develop the games.
When Warhammer 3 came out CA forgot to make army recruit rosters. The whole system was there but only one or two templates were added for each faction. Remember those mono stacks? Took me about 2 hours to make in support for SFO, took ca about a year to implement. I mentioned it many times.
I bet if they made a WW1 Total War and yeah, I know the engine would possibly have to be overhauled, and made it really good, they would make money, possibly more money than ever before.
It's so simple that people want a big strategy game, mainly focused on an empire/kingdom, they manage a city and an army, have big battles, and little focus on characters... BUT CA "knows" better what people want - they make a small game, focusing mainly on characters with a 3-5 minute mini battle and a really small town to run (3-5 buildings max). Cut off a huge amount of content just to sell it as overpriced DLC... and now be surprised at the people who abandoned this game and started looking for something else. This is the price for an arrogant, ignorant and useless management team and ignoring fans. . .
Hell no! Have a character focus! Even Rome and Medieval had one! I don't want nameless leaders! Even Empires bland system was better than not having anything at all. Sure, the dueling system should go, but if you want anything pre-Empire than a family tree is integral as is the personal gravitas of each character.
@@ladyfyreblood6550 I'm not saying I want nameless leaders - the special traits and abilities of leaders, generals, etc. are really good. The family tree is one of the most important to me. I'm missing a great nickname for my generals or family from Rome I or Medieval II. But I think it should be something additional, and not the main goal like CA do in Pharaon.- if You know what im mean.
Hi
please what's the submod that make the arrows looks like that in Medieval kingdoms 1212 ?
Hot take: i don't care about many f these layoff.
there have been to many hires last years with subpar devs and some even being more activists then coders.
sometimes it is beter to cut the weed and keep the actual usefull and productive people.
don't forget the CA after layoffs is still way bigger then it was in the glorydays of CA
Arch always has the final laugh
Total War ended in 2015 with the release of Attila. I have not bought a Total War game since. The community is just playing the old games, from Rome 1 to Attila (2004 - 2015). The thing is, Medieval 2 is nearly 20 years old by now (released 2006). It's getting ridiculous. CA should have already released Remastered versions of Medieval 2 and Empire over the past 10 years. They should also have already delivered Medieval 3 and Empire 2. Honestly, I no longer care what they do nor what they release. I think it might be best if CA does close down. That would open up an opportunity for some new company to come along and release truly revolutionary games, like the early Total War games were when they first came out back in the year 2000.
It is a good thing . Alot of times the fired devs go work for other companies that listen to them and give them creative freedom . Like ultimate general or ultimate tactician
Can't wait for Manor Lord combat and battles to put a major company back in it's place by a singular developer.
We must conquer the holy lands in 4k, deus vult.
His will be done.
I kind of lost interest in Total War when they axed Total War: Arena. I know it's not for everyone and it didn't make them enough money but man I loved that game. It was such a more casual, fun strategy experience that was low pressure/stress while still letting you be a part of a huge battle and it was actually fun to grind the game.
I love some of the older Total Wars like Medieval 2 and Rome 2 but I mainly just play single battles as a one of and then don't play again for a while. Arena was a game I actually wanted to play each day and put time into and they killed it. I'm aware you can get yourself onto the Chinese servers for the game but that's not what it should be.
The main games they've been releasing seem underwhelming too. They don't seem as gritty or as real feeling, so from my perspective, they killed the most fun game they had under the Total War name and replaced it with subpar ones instead.
Its because they adapted the Warhammer mechanics animation thats what they get they deserved it though those lay-off is just sad but i dont know CA is hugging and kissing fantasy total war type games so much
Maybe it time for a new “CA” to emerge… ?? Take the cinematic battle and campaign map strategy niche, and make it their own? A fresh take on it all.
Total war needs to be made a streamline RTS game or else it will die
I've been patently waiting for a proper Empire sequel for 15 years. Every year my teenage self would patently wait for the devs to release something that would scratch that particular itch, and every year my dreams have been crushed. I have not given up hope, but I have stopped waiting. I will not purchase another game from the series until it's what the community deserves...the Original community at that.
I think it's clear the deeper city and population mechanics could work but they've made the decision to exclude them. Total War is one of, if not the most, popular strategy game series of all time. They're just prioritizing the ease of gameplay and streamlining the campaign map aspects to get players to their battles faster. The battles is the real popular seller that make the series sell to as many people as possible. They're cinematic and hype inducing and the animation work is incredible honestly which makes the big trailers for warhammer awesome for marketing reasons. I don't think city and population mechanics would entice new people into the series but old veterans of the series like us are smaller in number than most people who buy the games now.
@Andy's Take what mods are you using to make medieval 2 to look so good?
that’s a mod for total war atilla
The future of Total War is in indie devs under a different IP.
The only fear i have is that if CA die, no one would make "total war like" games and let the potential market die with it.
BUT i think it is realistic to think that CA will be bought by another company if Sega sell them, so i have hope
Wow, look at that, the capitalist socio-economic system and its laws apply even for videogame companies. Oh my god, who would have guessed!!!
Exactly. A lot of this mess wouldn't be happening if the companies were democratically owned by the people who actually did the work, instead of foreign capitalists.
Personally, I think the bronze age was a brilliant move but it needed fullsome games as opposed to standalone iterations with limited scope (think earlier TW versions. Perhaps it is due to limitations of the old engine but nevertheless, I am seeing some brilliance in these works and do anticipate future work, though I will always refer to TW as a Creative Assembly beast.
Frankly. They’re gonna be fine, they’ll make 40K Total War. They’ll make millions again, and keep shitting out DLC for it, and suddenly be in Sega’s good graces again.
I hate it. A lot. It will either be derpy or radically change TW’s identity and gameplay it doesn’t resemble total war anymore, but it’s the most logical step in terms of wanting to make money.
With all these devs getting laid off, hopefully they go off to start their own studios, or passion projects of actually good quality like manor lords. With the ample amount of exposure RUclips and social media gives nowadays they stand a fighting chance. These companies greed is only going to give us the next generation of Bethesda, Bliizzard and Valve, and they won't come burdened down by all the corporate baggage.
Videos like this just make me want to go back and play medieval 2 again
I gave up already a couple of years ago. We'll have to be contempt with mods, and the the only positive is that this is good for mods, I still remember when Rome II came out, and EBII was under production. I was so disheartened cause I knew I wouldn't come back to the old engine after we had something like DEI. I gave DEI all attention, later 1212, etc, and never went back to EBII, Stainless Steel or Broken Crescent.
Now we can develop a mod and know that people's attention will remain on it lol.
Some years ago i would be really upset with news about CA failing, yet now with all the bad games i dont really care anymore.
If they cant release games that are fun or deep, where they strip features and dumb them down then im fine with them failing.
They arent making games for me anymore anyways
It sucks but I genuinely believe the best thing to happen for this genre is for CA to end as this will allow other companies to rise and take their spot and hopefully more than 1 so there is competition which there just currently are not.
Please bigger and better game company, plz buy them and give the fans exactly what they want. If not then it will die because others are already slowly creating this type of genre.
Clean house, rehire the original team with AI tools
All they got to do is release medieval 3 😭
All they need to do is make either Empire total war 2 or medieval 3 and I’d be happy
They need a remake medieval and stop adding new mechanics to the game and allow us to enjoy the city building aspects not just constant conflict
They could simply reskin:
Shogun
Medieval
Napoleonic war
And make a lot of money
I still mad about the load times with mods in total war warhammer 3 (have ssd) every since they combined map. Someone like me who plays games 24/7 and has a.d.d it is torture. There is no way i am not playing without mods.
They should make a Shogun 3 now its about time. Still playing Shogun 2 its been decades :D
Also Troy and Pharaoh though smaller in scope are each excellent games. A lot of people were inflamed by the price. Give me a break when console games cost 70 bucks regularly.
Honestly I think good for the people that got rid of the chains of corporate greed, I do hope that new studios come out of all these layoffs that produce some high quality games in the end.
For the corpos chaisng the profit, I laugh in their face, chasing short term profit but loosing the talent that helped them get there, in the end the people they lay off will probably put the final nail in the coffin
What's the music at 2:35?
Maybe it’s time for them to stop. Let’s give another studio a chance
The ones that wrote that engine most likely left CA a long time ago. It's the same situation that Bethesda is in with the Craetion engine. So many legacy codes that no one know how they work 100%
Med 2 Remastered with uncapped resources like Rome Remastered is all I want at this point...
Honestly I love the bronze age setting but they've dumbed the total war feel down so much with troy and pharaoh it feels more like warhammer. I also don't like that there's no full mediterranean map
Total War's downfall began when SEGA acquired the studio. Shame to those corporate overlords who doesn't even give a sht about the game, only for profit.
I want rome 3 with dei modders working on the realism and Units!
It’s not hard, listen to your fan base. If they are making any historical title that is not medieval 3 or empire 2, they are flat out stupid. When they do make those titles, if ever, it better be in a new engine that is fresh and buildable and capable of much more to come. Those two things, a fan fav sequel on a new engine, could easily save this company in no time. Add in the depth we have been demanding for decades and we will gladly keep playing these games and buying new creative DLC.
As long as I can keep playing M2TW and S2TW, then I don't care.
If we would continue having total wars like the most recent, I would not be sad if. Yesterday I was playing shogun 2 and thought that I would like a Shogun 3, but a right after thinking this I remembered how bad the series was and now I don't want a shogun 3 and not even a medieval 3.
Let us hope that Manor Lords is a good alternative for historical gamers, because I had it with the dump CA is giving us game after game, it gets worse every time.
And anyone claiming that Paraoh or Troy are good games,: no you are just incapable of knowing what is good and what is not. It's like eating McDonald's and claiming that no steak could ever match that sensation.
Remembering how much they f up last year I will never wish Med 3 or Empire 2. Why? Because they will lack ingame features compared to it's predecessors.
And I will never blindly pay a company that do not give good products. Because bad product is a waste of money. If CA screw up today, is because they f everything up last year.
I feel this series is dead and has been for some time, we are all just in denial as we watch it slowly decay
*_Napoleon and Shogun 2 was the last true TOTAL WARS! After them the Franchise embarked on a one-way Journey straight to the Abyss......._*
I think CA will be recovering from this witrh the new main historical title
Pls before CA fold, give us medieval 2 total war remastered. And if CA died, there would be a very tempting and profitable vacuum to fill by say... Paradox Interactive? Yeah grand strategy combined with total war battles? Count me in.
Three kingdoms was a great game - but even here, CA showed that they have no passion for the game - just stocks and money are important.
It was hard seeing the sudden stop of the development and even today, there are some horrible bugs.
5:00 Its CA´s fault. They could have made a new engine when times were not that dark.
I love Total War and I hope it bounces back
but tbh they haven't been innovative with the games for ages
last TW I really enjoyed was Empire (not counting warhammer, cuz that IP was always awesome before and total war)
I would want a Medieval 3, a Pike and Shot total war, or an empire 2 set in the 19th century.
That Dune strategy game is absolutely crushing it rn.
Just make good games 😢
It’s really easy bro, they could either make total war Empire 2 or medieval 3 and boom they’ll be making bank in no time .
So they are trying save a failing company by cutting developers while giving the execs bonuses?
I'd love to play the crusades
Rome 3 + Medieval 3 = Financial Problem Solved
Ca refused to succeed, if they only listened to what the players wanted, 2023 could have been a great year for them
wh3 feels more like a finger up towards the player base than an actual attempt at a decent followup
They themselves are to blame for this! they started making games that players weren't interested in! all the fans asked them to make a new Empire or Medieval, but it was as if they didn’t listen to anyone on purpose! now they have what they have! It's their own fault!
3:40 how many of the people back then are still working now ? the brand its all that is left
they could still save it if they make a game in the old formula!! they are trying to moneygrab with the "saga series" but to no avail if they give people medival 3 for example and make it good!! they still can make it
Imv (given i didn't play Empire, Atilla or Napoleon) the rot set in with Rome 2 and any new historical total war will suffer the same fundamental problems.
CA became filled with people who wanted to make RPGs not total war. The fisher price settlement building choose 4 options and regions dumbed down campaign map experience presaged everything that followed.
While I love the setting of Warhammer the games were just tedious excuses for the AI to smash big armies into yours on the same ten battle maps and could only be played on higher difficulties through cheese. Bring back the campaign map!
I more or less gave up on Total War already. I really enjoyed Rome 2 and dumped 4,000 some hours into it. I don't really like fantasy or dark grungy aesthetics. So Atilla, Warhammer, Britannia, etc. None of that appealed to me. 3K was actually a lot of fun after I adjusted to it and I similarly dumped almost 2,200 hours into that game.
But Troy and Pharaoh I have a combined total of less than 10 hours between them both. It was like they took the Warhammer formula and tried to apply it to historical games. The fact that in 10 years of Total War I've only had 2 games I really thoroughly enjoyed though meant CA just isn't making games for someone like me. Nothing I can do about it, and I'm not going to sit around and pray and plead for a Rome 3 with 3K's diplomacy and cavalry physics.
I'm just glad I got Troy for free, and Pharaoh technically for free after they gave me a full refund but let me keep it. Both games are wastes of spaces on my storage drives.
if they manage to come back, it will be a miracle.
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