JamesMoriarty123

Basically, the game ain't great as it is. It's fun enough, but some of the mechanics are so laughably poor it's hard to remain positive in the face of such a epic fail on the part of Stardock. This fail has been admitted by Brad and the reviews and sales (not to mention the layoffs on the back of that) speak for themselves. The good news? Stardock bought themselves a SHITLOAD of goodwill with Gal Civ and Sins, and also a hell of a lot of fan loyalty. This loyalt

Yes, Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic is just about the best interpretation of 4X fantasy around. And the Magic system is just fantastic, especially the mechanic of being able to cast spells in your domain with your "Sovereign" once you have them in a city with a Wizard Tower, totally makes tactical battles more fun. I have faith that Elemental will grow to become a game we all love but only if Brad get's his head out of his ass and just acknowledges that Elemental is basi

For a game about magic, the whole magic system is pretty redundant if you ask me. There are no fortifications when siegeing a City (as in Age of Wonders) so no need for tactical terrain altering spells (such as Break Wall, etc). There are next to no TACTICAL, in combat buffs such as heal/+str/+dex/etc and all the damage spells are basically the same just with different animations, and the animations are pretty terrible. There are no "Overland" spells tha

Well, I'm really enjoying playing Elemental so far, its pretty freakin' awesome. Takes me back to the old days of HOMM and LOM and Age of Wonders. Anyway, my only main gripes so far are 2 things, firstly is that after a couple hours it seems the Audio just freaks out and stops, or goes to static. Game restart fixes it, just wondering why the hell it does it? Second, once the game gets into the 300+ turn phase, and there's lots going on, the lag is

It's funny because I've played for hours on end and have yet to experience one crash or even one major bug. Nothing described in the PCGamer article has occured for me. The only bug I can think of that HAS occured is a loss of sound/music after about 3 hours play, restart the game and you're good to go, only a minor bump in an otherwise awesome game.