enigma691

Got mine yesterday took about 12 days so it should be arriving soon don't worry, keep the faith.

[quote quoting="post"]Hi As the AI is so easy to beat, even on the hardest possible setting, both world and factions, I was getting quite bored with the game in its present state. Then 20 min ago I was hit by the idea of creating the worst kind of faction led by the worst kind of sovereign. Enter the Slackers into the world of Elemental. The rejects of all the other Factions. Criminals, wastrels and other riff-raff. True cannonfodder. Strengths:<br /

[quote who="niteshade6" reply="49" id="2756144"] Quoting enigma691, reply 47 If you don't think those kind of things happen in corporate, industry, then my friend I have some ocean front property in Arizonia for sale. And for the reviews and avg. being the same can't say I have seen that in fact it seems from Gamespot where they gave it a 4.0 user reviews had it around 6.7 hardly the same avg. but hate it if ya want it's your party and ya can do what ya

[quote who="niteshade6" reply="45" id="2755153"] Quoting enigma691, reply 42 I guarantee that a few of the bigger gaming companies have influenced the exaggerated negative hype especially with reviews. So you seriously think is all part of some shadowy conspiracy against Stardock? How do you explain the fact that the average user review is just as low as the average critic review, or the fact that stardock itself has apologized for rele

I guarantee that a few of the bigger gaming companies have influenced the exaggerated negative hype especially with reviews. Basically if Stardock wasn't known for producing top-quality games and was more like most other gaming companies that regularly put out inferior products then the review wouldn't be so negative? The game is no worse than most other games upon release. And unlike other games and companies we have had nothing but a earnest attempts(6patches in two weeks)by Stardock t

[quote who="redskull2" reply="196" id="2754872"]so the criticism falls into 2 catagories: 1. the game is broken and not finished: this is a simple one. The game has horrible game stopping bugs, performance issues and is a bear to play. Or at least was, I haven't played 1.07 yet to see how they have improved the performance. I personally am sitting on the fence whether I want to try out the most recent patch. It might be an improvement but it do I care? the reason I probably don't i

Some people are never happy. Just play the game or not it is your choice. I choose to play it and like it even though it's not perfect. Been playing computer games even before the commodore 64 when computer games were played using a cassette tape mostly Avalon Hill games and I have yet to play the perfect game nevertheless a perfect game upon release.

Just want to take the time to thank Stardock and all their people for giving me imho a great game. Did it have a few hiccups upon release sure it did, but name me any game(never mind one has complex and has ambitious has this one) today that isn't? The game is everything I could want in a PC game, fantasy theme, city&civilization building, Roleplaying, unit customization, etc, etc, etc, just refreshing in this day and age of Shoot'em up shooter's and console degredation. Stardock may

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="16" id="2732249"] Hmm that is interesting maybe the map and environment is keyed to what you the player is doing mostly. I've watched the strongest AI in one game march circles around monster packs that could have flattened my army and their's. I don't know if monsters fight the other players. I don't know who they're fighting, for that matter, to lose any of that HP. But at Level 3 Adventuring, the Kraxis player had probably 6 units out with a

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="11" id="2732185"]So far this is why I research adventure slowly, when I'm ready. It's the only counter, and you'll still get hit with a lot of monsters, but they'll be low level, and you can fortify some guys if they're near your borders and the monsters will just throw themselves at them. I really LIKE the mechanic they've set up, it just needs some tweaking and some more variables added into it. Like, it needs to consider population density vs. space. O

[quote quoting="post"]So the guys at the Gamestop by me said that they don't have Elemental in stock at all, nor do they expect to be getting any. Even worse, they offered me the Sims 3 as a replacement. I sarcastically said "Oh yeah, that'll do" before laughing all the way to the exit. Kinda sucks that they aren't carrying it, but then again, their PC section was essentially StarCraft 2, WoW, the Sims and about four other games, so... yeah. They

[quote who="Sammual" reply="4" id="2732110"] Quoting enigma691, reply 3 Must have had a Viagra Meteor Shower in that part of the map! LOL Karma for you, everyone in the office had to know why I burst out laughing. Sammual [/quote] Happy to oblige, thanks for the karma!

[quote who="Yalbik" reply="205" id="2732039"] Quoting enigma691, reply 196 Another game with a inflated review, just starcraft with a facelift, not such a bad thing but did they really need 12years to do it? To be fair, I seem to recall Blizzard releasing a couple of other games between Starcraft 1 and 2. I think one was some sort of monthly pay multiplayer fantasy thing. It's a little like asking...did Star

Must have had a Viagra Meteor Shower in that part of the map! Darn I'm in turn 300 and surrounded on all sides by unfriendly factions can't even explore because I'll end up tresspassing. Glad not all games play the same, so far so good.

[quote who="jochance" reply="199" id="2731965"] Quoting surlybob, reply 189 It also burned out graphics cards because of a bug where frames weren't limited on the menus. Sigh... I agree with the essence of your post that gaming reviews are a total farce, but I really wish people would stop spewing this particular line of ignorance. Failing to frame limit is not the most optimal thing to do... You certainly don't "need" that umph for

[quote who="surlybob" reply="189" id="2731887"] Quoting greywar, reply 177 Quoting surlybob, reply 176This is total bull. Elemental is more bug-free and playable than most major house releases on day-0. Another crappy commercial gaming rag slamming the games that aren't made by major advertisers. Behold the power of lowered expectations. Behold the power of unreasonable expectations. <

[quote who="Buio1" reply="180" id="2731830"] Quoting enigma691, reply 156 Empire Total War was imho way buggier on release and still managed to get high scores from nearly all the major reviewers. I thought it was the worst by far of all the total war games released. Yet somehow this game is worse for having all the bugs that Total war had? Yeah I would say this reviewer has some sort of axe to grind with either stardock or the CEO. This game has a few glitches but

Empire Total War was imho way buggier on release and still managed to get high scores from nearly all the major reviewers. I thought it was the worst by far of all the total war games released. Yet somehow this game is worse for having all the bugs that Total war had? Yeah I would say this reviewer has some sort of axe to grind with either stardock or the CEO. This game has a few glitches but it is still playable whereas Total War was not at release.