Elemental all-purpose thread

kerzain · 2010-09-02T00:44:51.000Z

I’m hoping this thread doesn’t die, because it’s a good to keep non-game related Elemental talk isolated here, but I like dinosaurs too.

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Octonoo · 2010-09-02T01:33:27.000Z

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Dan_Lawrence · 2010-09-02T01:37:48.000Z

Strato · 2010-09-02T01:43:37.000Z

Dan Lawrence:

Damn, you beat me to it.

rezaf · 2010-09-02T01:50:49.000Z

Not ready for release!

rezaf

Teiman · 2010-09-02T02:08:53.000Z

I will not post a dinosaur, but I will post some words.

The dinosaurs:

I was also a Dinosaur: about fifty million years, I’d say, and I don’t regret it; if you were a Dinosaur in
those days, you were sure you were in the right, and you made everyone look up to you.
Then the situation changed – I don’t have to tell you all the details – and all sorts
of trouble began, defeats, errors, doubts, treachery, pestilences. A new population was
growing up on the Earth, hostile to us. They attacked us on all sides; there was no dealing
with them. Now there are those who say the pleasure of decadence, the desire to be
destroyed were part of the spirit of us Dinosaurs even before then. I don’t know: I never
felt like that; if some of the others did, it was because they sensed they were already
finished.
I prefer not to think back to the period of the great death. I never believed I’d
escape it. The long migration that saved me led me through a cemetery of fleshless
carcases, where only a crest or a horn or a scale of armor or a fragment of horny skin
recalled the ancient splendor of the living creature. And over those remains worked the
beaks, the bills, the talons, the suckers of the new masters of the planet. When at last I
found no further traces, of the living or of the dead, then I stopped.
I spent many, many years on those deserted plateaus. I had survived ambushes,
epidemics, starvation, frost: but I was alone. To go on staying up there forever was
impossible for me. I started the journey down.

zx81-Amd64 · 2010-09-02T03:54:43.000Z

Now while you might assume the big dino is something else, to me it’s just a big dino.

On the record i’m mostly pretty disappointed with all Digital Download services so far. I’m an ‘off-line’ single player PC gamer(who sometimes does Hot Seat) and will remain so, it’s not as if games made today are better than those made yesterday, or ever likely to be so(on current form 80% of the time); so i will remain an off-line PC gamer.

I most likely will pick up Elemental, but not for another 6 months or so depending on what state it is in then.

Overall i personally feel the Steams/Stardocks of this world need to do a whole lot more and go a whole lot further towards some of the things mentioned in Brads(ill-fated?) ‘Bill of gamers rights’ or we might all as well give over PC gaming to Facebook games or become console gamers and just resign ourselves to simple quick hit adrenaline ‘games as movies’.

Tony_M · 2010-09-02T04:06:37.000Z

Cory:

Troy’s Elemental review:

http://www.gameshark.com/reviews/3607/p_0/Elemental-War-of-Magic-Review.htm

I have to say, not one of Troys better articles. I’ve got no problems with his opinion of the game, but the grammar and overall flow of the piece is weak. I’ve read many of his Flash of Steel articles so I know hes capable of better.

Glad to hear some posters speaking in favour of the art direction of the game. I like it too.

Tony

Dan_Lawrence · 2010-09-02T04:09:28.000Z

John_E_Motion · 2010-09-02T05:22:25.000Z

Cubit · 2010-09-02T06:49:02.000Z

Multiplayer delayed:

Stardock is delaying Elemental: War of Magic’s multiplayer capabilities as the developer continues working out issues from the PC 4X strategy game’s rough launch. A company spokesperson noted on the game’s forums that the “[multiplayer] enabling patch has been put back to next week as the priority was to first resolve” performance issues which could impact single player and multiplayer.

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RickH · 2010-09-02T06:56:20.000Z

Surly Bob:

Hey, Rune_74! I know you are reading this. When are you going to post on the SD forum your proof that I’m in on the anti-Stardock conspiracy? I’m sure your little mouse friend is eager for the backup, since I’ve been giving him such a brutal intellectual beatdown.

This forum is clearly in decline.

Dan_Lawrence · 2010-09-02T06:59:12.000Z

Telefrog · 2010-09-02T07:00:39.000Z

Cory:

Multiplayer delayed:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/01/elemental-multiplayer-delayed-another-week/

And with that, I’m putting Elemental on the backlog pile. Maybe I’ll take a look at it next year.

hong · 2010-09-02T07:01:55.000Z

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Staff_Sergeant · 2010-09-02T07:09:05.000Z

Flying lightsaber potatos?

ScottyA · 2010-09-02T07:16:22.000Z

Those are obviously kidneys.

MrCoffee · 2010-09-02T07:17:23.000Z

The hat is a nice touch.

Phydeaux · 2010-09-02T07:18:26.000Z

John_E_Motion · 2010-09-02T07:21:20.000Z

Staff Sergeant:

Flying lightsaber potatos?

They’re the reason why Pythagoras didn’t eat beans.