This is looking really, really good. I'm glad Stardock didn't give up on the Elemental franchise but instead went with a reboot. It looks like future flame wars will go, "Stardock is a lousy developer! Elemental: War of Magic sucked!" "Who cares? They totally redeemed themselves with Elemental: Fallen Enchantress , one of the best 4X strategy games ever made!"
If they can add a functional multiplayer then I don't see any reason why they shouldn't. I'll never touch it myself, but it'll nice for those who enjoy that sort of thing.
[quote who="larienna" reply="88" id="3006369"]According to the comments, Kings bounty combat were running fast, which somewhat surprises me for a game that seems to focus on tactical battle.[/quote] Battles in King's Bounty happen at a pretty decent pace with only a handful of units per side (if I remember correctly, the player is limited to 5 units plus the ability to cast spells onto the battlefield). While the game does feature tactical battles very prominently, they'
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="63" id="3005873"]I can say, IMO, that I am not keen on tactical battles being the deciding factor in whether someone wins or loses a given game. If a tactical battle with say 8 units takes more than 5 minutes then that's very very bad. [/quote] I assume you're going to retain the auto-resolve feature? If you can get the AI playing a smart tactical battle such that auto-resolve doesn't inevitably screw the player then you'll
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="23" id="3005443"]The objective for Fallen Enchantress's tactical battles is for them to be relatively short but still very intense.[/quote] Sounds like King's Bounty: The Legend, which has quick but really awesome and fun tactical battles. If you guys can deliver something like that then Fallen Enchantress will rock.
[quote quoting="post"]...in fact, we may sunset War of Magic entirely – i.e. no longer sell it new after FE is released...[/quote] Well, that answers some lingering questions I've had about War of Magic's future and its relation to Fallen Enchantress. It seems more and more that WOM was just a "dry run" for the real game.
Because livening up a forum is an excellent reason to rush a game through development.
[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="3" id="2959403"]Since some of us bought PHYSICAL copies shouldn't we get FREE PHYSICAL COPIES of FE?[/quote] I don't see any reason why you should.
Wait for Fallen Enchantress. It will have pretty much everything you're asking for. War of Magic at this point is about as good as it's going to get.
[quote who="unacomn" reply="3" id="2956032"]The ability to upgrade existing units is going to make a world of difference. No more disposable units. But it would also mean than whenever the AI decides to spam a cheap unit(which it actually hasn't since 1.2b) early on, at some point, it'll be able to pump them up to something really dangerous.[/quote] Only if it has the cash to do so. Since there's a "moderate cost" to upgrade, it could actually end up being quite expe
My concern remains that what if Gamestop suddenly changes the DRM policy, or suppose the service tanks under Gamtsopt's oversight, what is Stardock prepared to do for their customers who have bought games through Impulse?
[quote quoting="post"]Q: Does the Gamestop acqusition of Impulse affect the free expansions to the Elemental universe customers of War of Magic were promised? A: Not in the slightest. Stardock Entertainment is a separate business (Stardock Entertainment, Inc.) from Impulse (Impulse, Inc.). [/quote] I understand all of that, but what I want to know is [i]if[/i] there is a problem, what is Stardock prepared to do about it? Do you have an alternate digital delivery syst
It's finished in the sense that it's stable, all of the features work as intended, and you can play a complete game from beginning to end. Whether or not you'll find it an enjoyable experience is subjective.
[quote who="StarReaper" reply="11" id="2899441"]Btw Brad, on the voting thread, its 34 to 27 in favor of having a same as single player multiplayer. Just incase you were curious We understand budgets and all this...[/quote] Online polls are notoriously inaccurate for marketing purposes. All that number means is that the majority of people who stumbled across and bothered to vote in the poll want multiplayer. Also, 61 people is a statistically meaningless sample size.
[quote who="Dsraider" reply="33" id="2905188"]Frogboy has gone on and on about the coll things he plans to add to Elemental:War of Magic....[/quote] I never said WoM actually was an abandoned project, just that it makes sense to consider it one from a player's perspective. Since TBS games take a significant time commitment and since I have limited time to play games, I'm going to play the more mature product which by all accounts is going to be FE. I just don't see how WoM
I think we should just consider War of Magic to be an abandoned project and that Fallen Enchantress is the "real" Elemental strategy game we've been waiting for.
I don't care for multiplayer.
I hate DLC because I have yet to see any DLC release that has as much content and value as a good ol' fashioned expansion pack. What especially grinds my gears is when the DLC is actually included on the disc but locked until you cough up another few bucks. I'm not convinced that the answer is to lower the entry price followed by nickel and diming the customer until they have everything they would have gotten with a regular game release. That makes it too much like the MMO b
[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="75" id="2897865"]No, it has been stated that War of Magic will stay in the same vein it is in now. It will exist for those that for some reason prefer it to Fallen Enchantress.[/quote] In other words, just think of War of Magic as an extended beta for Fallen Enchantress.
[quote who="noobshot" reply="58" id="2897328"] Quoting Mtn_Man, reply 55It sort of bothers me that this is being developed and marketed as a standalone game instead of as a traditional expansion. I would really like to see vanilla War of Magic refined and made into a better game instead of essentially being left behind with all the good ideas being dumped into Fallen Enchantress. Oh well, maybe it's better this way. ---------- it the stardock company r
It sort of bothers me that this is being developed and marketed as a standalone game instead of as a traditional expansion. I would really like to see vanilla War of Magic refined and made into a better game instead of essentially being left behind with all the good ideas being dumped into Fallen Enchantress. Oh well, maybe it's better this way.
[quote]He suggested that tactical combat could go from being so-so to great just by adding more special abilities to combat.[/quote] Look at a game like Final Fantasy Tactics. The combat is interesting with a lot of depth simply because each unit has a number of unique abilities at their disposal.
[quote]I’ve never been interviewed for a real job, I founded Stardock while in college until I could get a real job – which I’ve never gotten yet.[/quote] You're lucky. The interview process really sucks.
[quote who="troglyte" reply="21" id="2888144"]Only MMO games can ensure you paid for a copy.[/quote] Not entirely. There are a lot of private servers out there for people to play on.
[quote who="Sushikawa" reply="12" id="2887924"]If you were to weed out the majority of MomPCs from the steam numbers you could very possibly have a majority in the 64bit category.[/quote] Weed out the majority of the "MomPCs" and you weed out the majority of your potential customers.