Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2

hirohiigo · Post by **hirohiigo** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:39 pm

My brother was playing this game (which we have both been obsessed with lately), and he pointed this out to me:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/54176 ... BBAD71032/

You can see in the lower left of the daimyo's profile that he has a goban, which gives command attributes to him in battle. Pretty cool of them to include it.

Now I'm on the prowl for shogi references in the game...

Mivo · Post by **Mivo** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:16 am

That's a neat find!

What's the game like? The last two of the series that I had played were Rome and Medieval, and then skipped Empire/Napoleon because of the fairly negative reception it got. Is Shogun an improvement again? How well does the AI cope?

HermanHiddema · Post by **HermanHiddema** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:11 am

hirohiigo wrote:My brother was playing this game (which we have both been obsessed with lately), and he pointed this out to me:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/54176 ... BBAD71032/

You can see in the lower left of the daimyo's profile that he has a goban, which gives command attributes to him in battle. Pretty cool of them to include it.

Now I'm on the prowl for shogi references in the game...

The leftmost slot in the "Retainers" section shows a an image of a shogi piece on a shogi board. If the "go board" info is a popup/tooltip related to that, then the developers have mixed up go and shogi.

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:11 am

hirohiigo wrote:Now I'm on the prowl for shogi references in the game...

The text says "Go Board" but the icon is a Shogi piece (the "銀将") , presumably on a Shogi Board (将棋盤), not a Go Board (Goban, 碁盤):

: shogi.jpg (22.17 KiB) Viewed 6689 times

Did I miss something?

hirohiigo · Post by **hirohiigo** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:40 am

Oh, I had only looked at the picture zoomed out and assumed the picture was a goban and the black was black stones. Good spot. Pretty amusing mistake.

Maybe they use the silver general piece to indicate all games generals can get, to save file space.

jaredbeck · Post by **jaredbeck** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:43 pm

I also noticed this while playing and I made a bug report:

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.p ... post136601

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:58 pm

jaredbeck wrote:I also noticed this while playing and I made a bug report:

Jared, is that your set in the photo?

hirohiigo · Post by **hirohiigo** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:12 am

Shogi also gets a text reference in the game.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59580 ... 828B83091/

It seems the Silver General is the default "gaming" icon in the game, as I had a feeling of.

Life In 19x19

Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2

Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2

Re: Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2

Re: Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2

Re: Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2

Re: Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2

Re: Igo sighting in Total War: Shogun 2