Chibiabos

8.25 (presuming that's out of 10) is a very respectable score. It actually seems a bit high given the excerpt you quoted. Checking versus other games ... I am surprised Warlock: Master of the Arcane scored an abysmal 6.75. I've never played it myself, but every review I've seen has rated it quite high; that's one and a half whole points below FE's score. Civilization V: Gods & Kings scored 8.5, a mere 1/4 point more than FE ... tho

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="9" id="3259659"] That said, 10/10 for a game that has major diplomatic AI issues (leaving all other matters aside) seems over the top to me. The writer may not care about the fact that one player can attack you, and then all others will usually jump in, but that's the kind of thing people would find significant, worth noting, and lowering one's rating for. I suspect this was someone who played briefly, was thrilled, wrote, and moved onto

[quote who="Beakie" reply="5" id="3259726"] I agree elevation and Line of Sight in tactical combat would make this game perfect.... Of course, if done right but i'm sure Stardock could make it happen... Beakie[/quote] I wouldn't say 'perfect.' Better still would be using hexagonal tiles, at least in tactical combat ... one diagonal tile move = one vertical/horizontal tile move violates Pythagoras. The sum of the squares of the

Introduction Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is, broadly, what I call an "open world game." There are many styles of play and, as yet, it is not possible to determine which style is superior to all others -- besides which, there are many interpretations as to what constitutes a superior style of play. For a variety of reasons both strateg

Not sure if its been mentioned or not, but since you are trying to fix the spellcast animations re-playing upon shrink or grow, I did not see the case mentioned above, but I have also seen the last-action-animation replay on a group of units (where 2 or more individuals are grouped together as one unit [sidenote -- the # of units counted is glitchingly inconsistent per my thread at https://forums.elementalgame.com/434762 ]) which has t

Magic > Charms > Sorcery > Spellbooks

Huh ... the only dragon recruitment I've found I can build is very high in the tech tree (Dance with Dragons), costs a buttload of Gildar and a bit of mana IIRC, and only recruits a single dragon (not that I need more than one ... hubba bubba, glad to have even one on my side! XD)

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="21" id="3259531"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 19 less-than-gleaming civility. The Internet? Civilized? [/quote] Yes, I know, shocking! [e digicons]*_*[/e]

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="19" id="3259514"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 17 so much as mention a game if you wanted to discuss, say, forum profiles? I must have missed something. Where in the OP did you state it was pertaining to a particular game or gaming forum?[/quote] I didn't, but now folk are becoming hostile because I posed something that is relevant to Stardock's games. This was meant to be a fun suggestion, but several are responding with less-t

[quote who="LazyWacKo" reply="3" id="3259481"] dismissing a whole review just because of one word is a little too much, but we all have our point of views. I don't dismiss the review but take little merit in it because of the perfect score 10/10. No game ever deserves a perfect score. I would say 8/10 personally thus far.[/quote] I would agree as well. I'm not a school spirit cheerleader ... I like Fallen Enchantress, but as yet, I think 8/10

Home > Life, the Universe and Everything is a forum listed in the elemental game forums. My post was suggesting something ab

I am a grammar Nazi as well ... sadly, I have seen big-name newspapers replete with grammar malfunctions; I can hardly dismiss an online game reviewer for that unless I am prepared to dismiss every newspaper or periodical with the same lapses in grammar.

The problem is the strategic elements such as building and researching ... in the real world, wonders like the Great Pyramid of Giza took 20 years to build. At 1 day = 1 turn, 365 x 20 = 7300 turns to complete one ancient-era wonder. That's a lot of clicking "End Turn." When you have to build, research and move, building and researching will take unplayably long if you try to put the realism on the movement side of things.

Overall, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress brings out the best of both worlds and coalesces them into one amazingly customizable and epic experience. An amazing game that not only improves upon it’s predecessor War of Magic, but it obliterates it in terms of quality and polish. Quite possibly one of the best strategy games I’ve played this year, and a great job done by the folks at Stardock. I give Elemental: Fallen

You will not be able to build Pioneers at any point in the campaign, so you will not be able to build a second city. Your resources -- your gildar, research, etc. -- do carry over from map to map in the campaign. And, yeah, always update to Conclaves, and don't bother building troops ... when you've built all the buildings, let yourself get the idle city research bonus.

Yes, I noticed that and suggested the same thing on the chat as I encountered this. The text sets the scene for the battle, but appears after the battle and immediately before the Journey Ends epilogue.

No, unfortunately, frogboy did with gamingogre. I'm determined to not let him win the find-the-reviews game, though! :P

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is the stand alone expansion to 2010’s worst game of the year, Elemental: War on Magic. The biggest flaw WoM had was that it took the ball from Master of Magic and other incredible, turn based strategy empire games like it and fumbled. Hard. Boring, bland spells and armies, complex and unrewarding economies, deeply flawed gameplay mechanics and game rules. The list goes on. It was my most antici

I kinda like it, hints of GC2 music in spots. :P

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="1" id="3258741"]Not yet. As I understand, SD is looking at it for an upcoming patch/expansion.[/quote] I hadn't heard that, but that would be awesome. Would be good if archers could get some sort of bonus from firing from elevation.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="16" id="3258700"] GalCiv: Space ships FE: Wizards![/quote] Insert appropriately inappropriate WarCraft:StarCraft analogy. :P

I'm holding off on offering a user review, myself. I know, user shmoozer, too many are very binary 10/10 if they like it or 1/10 if they don't. Me, I do take my time, but I know it'll get lost. Right now I'm trying to hunt bugs. I know there was an effort to make 1.0 the big unveil of the campaign, and I anticipated that without the eyes and ears and bug reports of your Beta testers, it would be bound to have bugs missed by your QA team however dedicate

[quote who="Jafo" reply="13" id="3258673"]Best 'bug' I ever found in a game was in a third party addon track for GTR .... I fell through a 'hole' in the scenery and ended up on the datum level nothingness UNDERNEATH the '3D world'....looking up at the underside of the other cars....[/quote] I've had that happen in a few games. Skyrim, most recently.

[quote who="Wizaerd" reply="2" id="3258704"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 1 Notice that the first thing he mentions is not enough warning when a city is idle. And I scoffed and laughed. How could you possibly miss the blinking and fairly large ZZz on the screen? I'd much rather have the ZZz on the left side than some obnoxious pop up that would continuously pop up for however long it may be idle.[/quote] I guess you&#3

I did not get a Windows 7 security dialog box. I was doing a lot of things, but the last thing I did that noticeably caused system instability was trying to load a Youtube video ... actually the ad before the video I was trying to play.