skunkpuppy

Hello, I bought EWOM way back when it first came out on Impulse. Question: how do I go about getting my free copy of FE and get into the LH beta?

I say, make a new IP. The fantasy genre that FE is competing in is a bit saturated. Not enough Sci-Fi "conquer a new planet" strategy games out there. Alpha Centauri was great, but now we can do so much more. Rebuild society after an alien invasion, anyone?

The concept of having the game start off in a "post-apocalyptic" setting might have sounded good on paper, but Brad's somewhat un-inspired interpretation of that concept resulted in a uniformly brown, featureless wasteland. Looks good in a 1st person RPG like Fallout, but sucks in a 4X strategy game. Almost by definition the game is going to be ugly and uninteresting at the start, which surely is a bad design decision. You shouldn't make players have to endure

it would be great if the rest of the game could use this much more attractive art style! I'm repeating this like a broken record: the colours of the overland screen are dull and lifeless as mudwater. Also, as your makeover illustrates, the original characters look glassy eyed and devoid of emotion. I guess the only problem is whether it is technically feasible to implement these chagnes realtime in game!

What's with these people who become such ardent supporters of companies which produce inferior goods? It's a company who took your hard earned money ! If MacDonalds' burgers started poisoning people you'd rightly expect outrage and not sympathy for poor ol' Macdonald who was just trying to make us happy by making his ol' burgers. This is gross sentimentalism at work. It's one thing to genuinely like Elemental-- I don't doubt that there are many people who are having lots of fu

I paid for a good, fun game which I would look forward to playing. I got a confused mess of nonsense. I don't care whether Stardock had a great track record or that it supports the community or whatever. Right now, the game sucks and I'm angry!

I voted "I don't like it". Even though, since I spent good money on it, I really, really want to. I come back to the game once every day, but sadly, after the first ten turns, the UI and the general ugliness of the game get to me. Someone needs to explain to me why some of the buttons are just so TINY. One of the main issues with Stardock games-- GalCiv and Elemental-- is that their backstories just aren't very good. Forget about the ridiculous names. Take a quick comparison b

I'm not complaining that the game is too complex or strategically deep.Like i said, i haven't played enough to have an opinion on the game mechanics. I *am* complaining that the presentation is tacky and poorly conceived though. I'm sure that there are many experienced players weaned on even more brutally user unfriendly hardcore strategy games than I am who would find playing Elemental a piece of cake, but I'm finding it hard to enjoy being confounded at every turn. As for th

I really liked all of the previous Stardock games, and I really want to like Elemental too. I'm not a really hardcore strategy gamer. I play lots of simply games like Civilization but not more complicated ones. But I'm finding it really hard to play this game, mainly because I don't understand what's going on. I wish there was a more comprehensive tutorial since this is a rather complex game. I tried playing the campaign with the updated v1.05, but especially in tactical battles I sti