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Total War: Pharaoh - Official Announce Trailer
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Sybrix
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Total War: PHARAOH | Total War: Warhammer
Reading the details it sounds historic.
I really dont want anymore bullshit Warhammer or Mythical Troy type games, please bring back historical TW games!!!!
In the game desc i didnt read any wizards or magic or spells or mystic power bullshit.......this is looking promising.
Jinzo Prime
Member
Weird trailer. 2023 getting more stacked with games.
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HawarMiran
Banned
I can't stand CGI trailers.... Nice to look at, but I just want to see gamplay
diffusionx
Gold Member
HawarMiran
Banned
If they don't iterate, i am not interested at all. The franchise has to move with the times. Better graphics, better AI etc. Or I can just stick to older TW games
I'm ready
you know what you're getting with these games at this point
Yeah, the core gameplay is pretty fix at this point.
supernova8
Banned
True.. but at the same time Creative Assembly has always delivered strong visuals with their Total War titles, so I'm not worried about it.
(Also I'm surprised they haven't done a Warhammer 40K game now with the conquest mode spanning multiple planets, especially since Dawn of War is nowhere to be seen)
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Sybrix
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geary
Member
TW40K will be next, I can bet that....They explore the idea with Chaos Dwarfs which have the feel of a 40K unit.
Those pre-order icons could just be a red herring, but this LOOKS like it has the feel of THREE KINGDOMS and I loved that one for one reason and one reason only: the focus on other ways of dominating the game beyond being a badass military commander. The wars in TK were honestly great, but the level of attention to the diplomacy system (that made the diplomacy in WH look like a joke of an afterthought) made the non-war moments actually interesting to play.
. . .especially with how they tried to bring in different play styles for all the Leaders, which is something I am hoping is in this (though knowing nothing about this era in history I have no idea if there are enough "popular" historical pharaoh's to make this work).
. . .especially with how they tried to bring in different play styles for all the Leaders, which is something I am hoping is in this (though knowing nothing about this era in history I have no idea if there are enough "popular" historical pharaoh's to make this work).
AlteredForms
Banned
Creative Assembly have taken over the strategy genre as far as I'm concerned. Which other studio has churned out historical hits like they have? Relic Entertainment (which is also owned by Sega ironically) are their main competition. Ensemble Studios who created Age of Empires has faded into the ether and Westwood Studios was suffocated with a pillow by EA. Who else is there out there with the pedigree than these guys have?
PlayofSparta
Member
Dope, love the period. Wanna see how the Sea People gonna play out on this.
NecrosaroIII
Ask me about my terrible takes on Star Trek characters
Yes. Yesssss.
I'm not too familiar with this eta of history. What should we expect?
I'm not too familiar with this eta of history. What should we expect?
PlayofSparta
Member
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
They better have hippos.
NecrosaroIII
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Just finished. Great video. Thanks! Sounds like to get the full picture, they need to really up environment factors for campaign mode.
SirKicksalot
Member
Made by CA Sophia, whose previous game was the excellent Troy. I'm so happy we're getting a Bronze Age Collapse game!
GnomeChimpsky
Member
This could be fun I guess but wth is it gonna take for them to make Medieval 3? 
geary
Member
There's also Paradox and Firaxis, but they are on other strategy genre.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
This could be fun I guess but wth is it gonna take for them to make Medieval 3?
We're never getting Med 3.
We know a sequel to 3K is in development, so that'll be up after this one.
Best we can hope for is that Feral Interactive are given the chance to remaster Med 2 like they did with the original Rome.
AlteredForms
Banned
Seems as though Firaxis haven't made one of their conventional Civilization games in years. Paradox is an obvious choice as they've released several games in the strategy genre, though the difference lies in real-time and turn-based.
SirKicksalot
Member
This could be fun I guess but wth is it gonna take for them to make Medieval 3?
Attila is getting a big 1212 mod and there's been a recent breakthrough that allows campaign map modding.
There's also a new mod that lets you play Crusader Kings 3 battles in Attila
supernova8
Banned
Is this a visual upgrade from Total Warhammer 3? I checked out some videos of TW3 and I can't see any obvious improvements.I was hoping they build a new engine after TWW3 because I can't stand that old, unoptimized one they have right now.
Battles should be more organic and not dependent on these pre-rendered animations. Wait and see.
Steam has more info and screens too:
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
It may have some new features (like the fire which seems part of the gameplay) but I'm not expecting much.
What I would like to see is a total overall of the battle system and the gestion of soldiers on the battlefield because too many things are tied to pre-rendered animations. They need to build something like Euphoria on a new engine, it's time.
supernova8
Banned
Given how it's the main genre where you'd play both super zoomed out and super zoomed in, seems like the perfect application for that Unreal 5 nanite technology. Imagine having amazing model and texture quality with no obvious LOD pop in as you zoom closer.
You guys have to understand, whatever CA shows is is probably the most good looking pictures or scenes they will show to present to the market. The developer has been riddled in the past with optimization issues, bugs at launch, which took time (year or years) for the games to be good. One could also argue that the current releases have been quite solid (warhammer 3, troy, even 3 kingdoms), but with decent launches comes content to the game that has been pulled and then opted as DLC (mechanics, units, campaigns).
Optimistic, but it will not be a day 1 purchase for me. probably at the first sale (10 or even 20 percent off).
Optimistic, but it will not be a day 1 purchase for me. probably at the first sale (10 or even 20 percent off).
DeltaPolarBear
Member
Don't foget, there are times when entire games get abandoned because they don't see the point of fixing it anymore. Like with the Napoleon game. I personally bought Rome2 at launch and realized it is an unfinished mess. I don't know if they eventially fixed it or not but I am never buying TW game at launch any more.
Lukaku's First Touch
Member
I've said this many times. This series needs a mode where you can take over any of the soldiers on the battlefield in FPS/TPS style and fight in the huge battle yourself.
Love me some Total War... but not sure they have gotten much better since original Rome/Medieval. Battle AI has always sucked and the region management got more convoluted. Graphics got better but not compared to the PC its running on. Last one I bought was Warhammer 2, didn't get round to playing it much though - Is Troy good? I enjoyed playing the first Viking one on a tighter small map, I think bigger maps become a slog.
Woopah
Member
I went back to Rome 2 after a few years and they made it much much better, especially the politics side.
This was sort of the idea behind Spartan Total Warrior. Its a really fun game!
keraj37
Member
You don't want hippos, they fart with the mouth. True fact.They better have hippos.
Woopah
Member
They are reaaaaaallllly leaning into the "collapse" factor. Should make it very different to the other games.
TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
Honestly doesn't look super interesting.
Historical ones just aren't that exciting to play, or rather get old very quickly.
All units basically look the same, there are no abilities, no spells, no flyers, no monsters, nothing...
Factions will all be pretty much identical (if 3K is anything to go by).
It's just really, really basic stuff.
I don't see any more longevity in this than in 3K or something like Troy.
That asking price is raising a bunch of eyebrows, too.
Historical ones just aren't that exciting to play, or rather get old very quickly.
All units basically look the same, there are no abilities, no spells, no flyers, no monsters, nothing...
Factions will all be pretty much identical (if 3K is anything to go by).
It's just really, really basic stuff.
I don't see any more longevity in this than in 3K or something like Troy.
That asking price is raising a bunch of eyebrows, too.
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