I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 that supports the resolution of 1024x600. Does anyone know/has anyone tried running Fallen Enchantress at this resolution? I have been playing the gog.com version of Master of Magic on this computer and it's working wonderfully. What a great game! I would like to try FE on this computer but even if it doesn't work at least I have MoM. Thanks, Gary
I haven't encountered either of these problems in FE but definitely have in the original game before. #2 should absolutely be fixed and #1 should always be reasonable based balanced game play. I definitely don't want my enemies to have a huge advantage. Offer me challenge but don't immediately crush me please!
I am personally happy with simple. I don't want or need a game that is punishing.
I like the poster's suggestions for making champion stacks less of a necessity. I think at the minimum that first militia unit you build in a city should be cheap, and I agree that champions should serve more as generals that are important to team with armies rather then just stack together into super armies. As far as the late game grind goes, I'm less convinced. The AI should develop cities that already have most of the improvements you would want, using local resources, etc
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8029521/debug.err http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8029521/FallenEnchantress0_76-2012-01-28T17-40-11-815.zip I was playing a game of FE when it crashed. Spiders had just destroyed my output.
Your complaints certainly sound reasonable, and I agree with your points about what's good about FE. The best thing you can say about a game is you want to play it and I can honestly say I am interested in this game. The same could not be said about the original, no matter how hard I tried to like it.
I'm not a big fan of King's Bounty. I absolutely loved the Bioware Infinity Engine games like BG, IWD, Planescape. Great games. It's too bad that Bioware has gone down the tubes (for the most part). But on the RPG front I'm good. Between Skyrim, the forthcoming Kingdoms of Amular, and plenty of other great games, I'm set.
I would personally prefer keeping game play simpler. I though the "idea" of dynasties was cool, but to be honest, I think they can bog things down quite a bit. I am also the kind of person who finds diplomacy completely stupid in these kinds of games. It always disappoints. And if diplomacy isn't any good, why add something that will probably frustrate?
[quote who="Renevent" reply="14" id="3063034"]Quoting sweatyboatman, reply 12 ... I have no less than 30 games on my computer, this (and the original) are by far the worst offenders. I have a quad core processor with 4GB ram and a 570GTX with 1.25gb video memory...there is no reason why this game should run poorly other than bugs/optimizations needed/ect. ...[/quote] FE runs great on my comparitively low-end computer, so I think your concerns
After the disappointing Elemental: WOM and Firaxis' misstep with Civilization V, I'm glad to see someone do a good job on a modern strategy game. I really like FE. Keep up the great work!
My frame of reference for strategy games is usually Civilization since I've spent the most time with it over the last twenty or so years. I was also a huge fan of Master of Magic and Master of Orion, but to be honest, nowadays I mostly focus on RPGs on the Xbox 360 and strategy games on my iPod touch. A year and a half ago I bought War of Magic based on the hype that it was the spiritual successor to MOM. I played the Betas, commented on these forums that there was no way it was g
I haven't spent an enormous amount of time with Fallen Enchantress, but I've spent enough time with it to tell you it's actually a real game this time around. War of Magic had some interesting ideas but for me was never fun. It wasn't even a game I really could get a handle on. But with Fallen Enchantress Stardock appears to have a solid, beautiful, highly customizable, and fun game on their hands. It took a year and a half AFTER I paid for it, but it's looking goo
Outstanding points. Compare MoM and Civ to Elemental and there's a night and day difference in how approachable and playable the games are.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="2860020"]At the end of the day, my job is to make sure we produce incredibly good games. We don't make decisions based on Internet politics. Good games sell. Jon is a key ingredient in our ongoing strategy. Without Jon, there's no realistic way we can take our game engine and make it extensible via Python and such. I would challenge any Internet person to name someone more qualified to make a game extensible than Jon Shafer. Any
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="2860015"] Quoting Cruxador, reply 15 Quoting Frogboy, reply 14Well if you've been a customer a long time then consider this: If you listen to the Internet buzz, I'm a moron who couldn't design a game to save his life. Elemental being crummy at launch was due to my incompotetence. I ruined it. That's the Internet buzz. Do believe that?I seem to remember you yourself saying something of that nature after the game launched, although
All I know is the two games that most disappointed me in 2010 are Elemental and Civ V, although I have to admit that Civ V is the better of the two. But Shafer is the face of Civ V; even if his name isn't on the box and regardless of how must input he had in the process of creating it. He is the man associated with the game and so when I as a gamer think about how bad a game it is, I don't think, "Man, Sid really messed that one up!" -- I know Sid didn't make Civ V. Jon Shafer did. An
If you enjoy boring games that have little in the way of personality or charm, yes. Otherwise, no. Do not buy Elemental.
On the more recent PC Gamer podcast I think Troy Goodfellow said it best: Elemental is boring. And although Version 1.2 or some other version might be worthwhile, right now the game isn't fun for me to play. But more importantly, Stardock has lost my faith. I'm a new Stardock customer, someone who heard about their PC software for years but never tried any of it. And in the last six months I've spent at least a couple of hundred dollars on games and other software and I'm disappointed
I too will stay away from Starock, although from the time I spent with Gal Civ II it seems like a great game. I also bought Fences Pro, a utility with some great concepts but with a somewhat unfriendly user interface and it appears to tax my computer a bit too much. And Object Dock is similarly odd and also causes my PC to take longer to boot and just isn't what I hoped it would be. And then there's Elemental, a game that is so far from being fun and interesting that I can't imag
I have to agree with your assessment, although I can't say I've spent as much time thinking about it as much as many of the people who post on these forums. I will say that in terms of being a real, actually fun, enjoyable strategy game, Elemental 1.1 isn't a whole lot different than the very first official release Stardock gave us several months ago. I just tried a game in 1.1 a few minutes ago and the experience, while more refined with a better user interface than that initial rele
It's the same maddening game. Well, there may be lots of balancing and AI changes but as far as fit and finish, and basic stuff like "click here and move there", Elemental 1.09q is still awful! I started a new game, navigated my sovereign and janusk, with a companion in tow, and was frustrated at how hard it is to actually move characters. I would right-click and right-click and right-click and nothing would happen. Then I'd happen to right-click on the magical spot where they were al
Add my vote.
I realize the crashes are because these are untested releases, and I'm glad you finally fixed the problem where zooming to the cloth map, hitting Escape, and then resuming caused the terrain to draw incorrectly, but I sure wish some basics would eventually get resolved. Some of these I have mentioned multiple times but I guess either no one else encounters them or Stardock just doesn't read all of the posts (I'm not trying to be critical but it's amazing how many times I have done this):
1.09N is unfortunately not very stable; I was just playing and it locked up and crashed on me. Maybe the next build will be a bit more worthwhile.
Every time I go to the build menu I have to then click to show what is currently built in my city so I can decide if any of the available choices are what I want. It's very annoying. I would like to see the build menu just be a part of the settlement's screen. Also, I have to say I absolutely HATE the idle prompt. If you wouldn't stack them (you dismiss one and another comes up immediately, right over the build menu in many cases) that would be fine, but right now they are just manage