The Future for Total War

**theDaedricPrince** · May 03, 2013, 08:54 PM

Take a second to close your eyes and imagine the Total War genre in about 10 or 20 years. When high-tech computers are built for anything. Where thousands and thousands of soldiers are fighting each other in one battle, with hundreds and hundreds of animations and yells. Smoke, fire, cries, etc.

How do you imagine the future of Total War?

**Colonel Dax** · May 03, 2013, 09:15 PM

In two decades? Non-existent.

**Huberto** · May 03, 2013, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Colonel Dax

In two decades? Non-existent.

This.

Impossible to know where we'll be with the technology of games at that point but it's fun to imagine some sort of genuine virtual reality.

**~~oOIYvYIOo~~** · May 04, 2013, 04:09 AM

Originally Posted by Colonel Dax

In two decades? Non-existent.

If they continue mooving into a more fantasy game there wont be no TW in few years .

**TheSwordofRome** · May 03, 2013, 09:29 PM

I think that with virtual reality we would be able to BE one of the soldiers, or maybe the general. We would have thousands of men fighting realitstically on a battle-field, and no lag.

**LordInvictus** · May 03, 2013, 09:55 PM

A campaign map of the entire world spanning the Roman era to the 1800s with a near human AI and realistic animations and unit sizes.

**Kilgore Trout** · May 03, 2013, 10:09 PM

Nose hair visible in graphics and differing by individual. More flaming pigs, wardogs and hordes of animal skinned berserkers. Same old suicidal AI generals.

**bibi g** · May 03, 2013, 10:22 PM

Probably with Google Goggle or other types of HUD (Head up display) with super high resolution of DOF (Degree of Freedom) compass.

The view probably can be first person view, and out of body as well.

**Caesar15** · May 04, 2013, 12:44 AM

If it does adapt to virtual reality and such...truly awesome, just imagine games like mount and blade warband, but you being one of those soldiers.

**RoyalNobody** · May 04, 2013, 03:58 AM

Two decades?

We should be close doing away with the blob unit formations at that point.

**Chris Death** · May 04, 2013, 04:02 AM

I'm looking forward to the holodeck

~S~ CD

**a tw player** · May 04, 2013, 04:12 AM

Pathfinding might finally be adequate in siege battles

**The Dutch Devil** · May 04, 2013, 04:21 AM

Thread moved from Rome II to General Total War discussion.

**Yerevan** · May 05, 2013, 01:35 PM

You can have a taste of what it can be by reading Dan Simmons's Hyperion. A soldier is learning how to fight by participating in an historic battle in the body of an anonymous fighter through some irtual reality huge UI. It's an awesome description.