In all honesty at this point, if a competitor came along and made a game very much like Total War and refocused their efforts in what made the TW franchise so great to begin with, I think the trust in Creative Assembly is broken enough with the past three releases to leave them for good. I am so disappointing in Creative Assembly and now SERIOUSLY question their intentions. Well for us historical lovers, how can we be happy with the disparity between WH releases and the longest stretch between games for us in TW history? How are we even remotely supposed to believe that Warhammer has not slowed down historical titles as others would try to claim it has not? One to work on a WH series and the other to keep doing Histoical based TW games. Sure they may have announced a long time ago (which admitingly I did not notice until being informed yesterday) that they have created two different teams. They do this at a pretty quick rate as you can see below: They would always release the main game and then a a large standalone expansion. But who knows what games are going to be out in the coming years and if one is coming in to grab players from Total War who are now having to wait ages for their next historical release, I think it is safe to say they would go to the studio that promises to never move them to the shelf in order to bring out a game so unlike what they have been used to and have come to trust their direction only to feel betrayed 20 titles later.įor years and years the Total War series always followed one simple flow if you will on how they release the next Total War. The only difference Total War currently has is that they have no competitors for this type of game. Last year we saw how this practice finally backlashed when BF1 decided to tap into that anger while COD continued down it's own self destructive path.

A series that started out great, but changed and catered so much to the newer generation while against the requests of much of the original fan base. One could argue that is just business, but when a long time series begins to drastically change itself and do away with long standing norms and unwritten codes they have followed for years, you are only inviting the inevitible and that is their forgotten fan base will never forget. If any of you are new to the franchise.well, take heed of this warning.Ĭreative Assembly has most certainly shown itself to break from tradition and what made the series great in the first place to go after money. For those who are ecstatic about the announcement of a back to back Warhammer release I am happy for you.

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