{"id":3679,"date":"2011-03-14T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2011-03-14T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:38:23","slug":"some-people-in-shogun-2-need-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/03\/14\/some-people-in-shogun-2-need-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people in Shogun 2 need killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3679\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shogun_2_motivational\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the little motivational speeches your commander gives you in Shogun 2.  He sits there on his horse, yelling context-specific inspirational pre-battle things before his assembled troops.  It&#8217;s a great touch that, I believe, Creative Assembly introduced in Rome: Total War.  If you want to just get to the battle, you can skip it with a quick tap of the escape key, but then you&#8217;ll miss adorable tidbits like the following:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3679\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational_zoom1.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shogun_2_motivational_zoom\" width=\"419\" height=\"163\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational_zoom1.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_2_motivational_zoom1-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it sounds less, uh, rednecky in the original Japanese.  Also, here&#8217;s an unfortunately relevant bit from the advisor.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3679\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_and_Japan.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_and_Japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shogun_and_Japan\" width=\"459\" height=\"142\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_and_Japan.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Shogun_and_Japan-300x92.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, quaintly naive advisor chick, you have no idea. :(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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