If they do it as a FPS, and say, make it so you can pause and then jump into anyone in your squad, then it might be cool. If they limit it to controlling just one guy in a FPS futuristic world, it's gonna blow. Yet another case of them cashing in on a classic name to make another sh!tty FPS...
Great input into your upcoming plans, chief. I definitely like the idea of the AI using "mini-strategies". Such an example would be to cast a mass freezing spell that turns a group of targets into ice and then shattering them with a earthquake type spell. Little things like that, the AI using spell combos and planing for them and setting them up, would be a great step in the right direction for that I believe. Something I've noticed playing the base version of Elemental is that as
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[quote who="sydneysiders" reply="14" id="2943557"]seems the removal of #10 has mucked up the quoting naming... intriguing.... what on earth could Raven have said about Dr Who to be worth removing.... unless he said.... David Tennant sucked.... that'd do it.... [/quote] No, wasn't that. My post in the thread wasn't even about "Dr. Who" as I first thought it would be about the royal wedding, in which I made a joke and posted a funny p
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Excellent stuff here :). Very good to see weapon specializations. Next, we need a magical item that lets us make our own specialty weapons ;).
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="46" id="2915681"] Are the maps and terrain randomly generated? Yes. Unlike War of Magic, the continents are generated on the fly. [/quote] That is good news indeed :). One of the advantages to making it a different game would probably be quite a few tweaks to the engine that wouldn't be possible/compatible in Elemental, at least that would be one of the logical reasons to the expansion being a separate g
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="5" id="2914362"]He did mention the 300 page Dom3 manual. I remember getting that huge thing and reading it like it was the bible and I was an ex junkie who just found Jesus. The game had a simple demo that let you learn the basic mechanics, and the book had strategies for each nation. Yes, Dom3 three is complex, but it also came with a great guide. [/quote] Not to mention you could have huge armies and all your little stick fig
[quote who="IROKONESS" reply="41" id="2914900"] Quoting Savyg, reply 36 Girls are a distraction from the important things in life. You know, games. I am so not going there.... [/quote] Don't worry darlin, I'll do it...lol. [quote who="Savyg" reply="36" id="2914679"] Girls are a distraction from the important things in life. You know, games. [/quote] LoL true, so true. Spoken like a true
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="53" id="2914641"] The idea was to show Uvah what 8 looked like only. [/quote] True. I'm just saying, anyone who needs a video tut on how to install something that basic doesn't have any business even being on a computer lol.
[quote who="mbaron888" reply="78" id="2914662"] Quoting RavenX, reply 75 Seeing as how you don't like real time games, I heavily suggest trying the Shogun 2 Demo before going out and buying the game. Those of us who are loving Shogun 2 most likely enjoy real time battles just as much as we enjoy turn based empire building. You can always auto resolve but don't cheat yourself. Play the realtime battles and see how detailed they are. [/q
[quote who="Savyg" reply="33" id="2914653"] As a 32 year old virgin I can safely say: Probably not. [/quote] Oh come on now, Savy, you aint foolin no-one with that "virgin" stuff.
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="20" id="2912713"]You need to contact your congressman/senator. You also need to contact a local paper and try to interest them in your story. I hear this all too many times, and I am angered and sickened by it. [/quote] [quote who="StevenAus" reply="21" id="2912732"]I agree with the Doc. Raven, kick up a big stink if you have to. We don't want to lose you! Best regards, Steven. [/quote] [quote who=
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="27" id="2913878"] Here ya go, Uvah: http://windows8center.com/uncategorized/download-windows-8s-aero-lite-theme-for-windows-7/ [/quote] Wow...that page has a "how to install" video tutorial...really?!?! Stupid people must be breeding by the Millions if they need a video tut on how to hit "next"....*facepalm*
[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="73" id="2914518"] Nobunaga's Ambition[/quote] Man, I miss the old school NES version of that game....*sigh* memories.
[quote who="onomastikon" reply="67" id="2914064"]Thank you for this post. May I ask a question? I have never played a TW series game before. I just read the review on GameSpot, it was the first time I have heard about this game, since I do not follow prerelease news about anything much, and have (mistakenly?) believed that the previous TW series were RTSs (which I do not like). Anyhow, when reading the review, I was shocked: the game seemed to be exactly everything I would have ima
[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="7" id="2913861"]When the city level-up dialog pops up, the citys info screen shows up in the UI toward the bottom-left of the screen. This feature is already in the game, folks. [/quote] We're looking to see what bonuses the city already has (if any). I don't think that displays just by clicking on the city with the decision box in the way.
[quote who="Philly0381" reply="21" id="2913854"]RavenX no matter how bad Vista may have been it sold and Microsoft made money. They then made some more money bringing out Window 7. Oh, and Windows 8 is on the way and guess what, they are going to make more money. [/quote] Yeap, they never learn. At best they should release a new OS every 5 to 10 years. Especially when half of the time they're asking whole corporations to upgrade every syst
[quote who="MadDeez" reply="4" id="2913089"]my rig doesn't know how to do facebook or any other social network crap. she's a good girl [/quote] At least that should keep her from catching a few extra STD's..LoL.
They need to learn to make/release OS's slower. For the last few years of the 90's and early into 2000 it seemed like all MS was doing was putting a new number on the box, adding a couple bugs, and re-releasing last year's OS. The jump between XP and Vista was a total sh!t storm and MS knows it. Hell, when I built this system Win 7 wasn't out yet, Vista had been out for a few years ( and was still a P.O.S. ), and XP was getting old. Still, I picked up a fresh boxed copy
[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="2" id="2895990"]Until they fix it you can try naming the cities such as "Capital1", "Food1", "Arcane1", etc. Not very roleplayish but it helps alot when trying to remember what city does what. [/quote] I use a letter and numerical value after the city name, for instance: Ravenloft F1 "Ravenloft" being the cities name, and F1 meaning it has a level 1 food bonus. Preferably though, fixing the issue would be best.
That's a great update chief :). Forgive me if I'm wrong, but, the description above seems to fit in a lot with what was originally planned with Elemental doesn't it? If not what "was planned", then perhaps I should say what "was wanted"? I know we've covered these ideas before, especially city specialization, which I my-self made a post about a long time back. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's in the big Idea's List. :) Yeap, here it is: <span style="f
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Here it is, chief :), knew I saw this somewhere.
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="1" id="2896775"] Please rethink making MP a cut-down version of SP. At the very least, make a co-op mode with all SP functionality, and how about having battles involving more than two sides? What about allies being able to join in battles with their team-mates? It would be fantastic if you could balance well, having 2 players vs 2 players in the one battlefield, for example. And this would fit a lot better with Elemental being
[quote quoting="post"]Please add a hotseat option for multi-player. I love playing elemental, but I am not into online multiplayer. I have always enjoyed sitting in front of one computer with a few friends and playing our turns one at a time, sitting together and chatting as we played. Please bring back hotseat play. If not in this installment then in the next. [/quote] This