New Total War title

[Sean Manning]

Fancy graphics aren't the problem, lazy treatment of history is.
Still having nightmares about Hussite rebels popping up in 11th century Germany, or William's Normans wearing 12th century (-inspired) armor in Medieval Total War II.

The problem is that as far as I can tell they spend all their budget of time, attention, and money on graphics and market research, and hardly any on historical research. Fancy graphics are a problem if to hire two more graphics programmers they don't hire three historians. (Edit: Perhaps a more realistic example: how many meetings do the designers discuss how best to model history, and how many do they discuss the merits of various graphics technologies or whether flaming pigs are cool enough to eat up a unit slot?)