IGN: Elemental: War Of Magic - Preview - Page 15

Baalz · #1 November 22nd, 2009, 01:39 PM

Heh, I found this quote interesting:

As Stardock CEO Brad Wardell mentions in another post about Elemental on the Impulse web site. " . . . beta 1 will NOT be fun in any way. We are not kidding about this. Our objective with this first build is to get the parameters on which the game runs, how well it runs."

Centuryslayer · #2 November 22nd, 2009, 05:48 PM

^that is usually the case with early beta versions ~~

I remember M&B being quite barren when it began.

Folket · #3 November 24th, 2009, 09:14 AM

Will this game have hotseat multiplayer?

Foodstamp · #4 November 24th, 2009, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Centuryslayer

^that is usually the case with early beta versions ~~

I remember M&B being quite barren when it began.

M&B beta compared to now; WOW completely different game!

Balakirev · #5 November 28th, 2009, 08:04 PM

The more it's like MoM, the better--except for the much improved AI, of course.

chrispedersen · #6 November 28th, 2009, 10:27 PM

Actually, I thought MoM's AI was pretty damn good.
Sure beatable. But varied, effective, and never a pushover.

That said, I wouldn't care one iota if the game shipped without an AI, and was just mp.

I know I'm in the minority on that one.

Foodstamp · #7 November 29th, 2009, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Actually, I thought MoM's AI was pretty damn good.
Sure beatable. But varied, effective, and never a pushover.

That said, I wouldn't care one iota if the game shipped without an AI, and was just mp.

I know I'm in the minority on that one.

Actually the AI in MOM was never varied, never effective and always a pushover. Changing the difficulty settings only allowed the AI to cheat on unit production and spell research, power etc. AI is ridiculously hard to make challenging though so I don't fault MOM, Dominions or any other game in that corner. The interesting thing about Elemental is that AI is Brad Wardell's specialty. So the AI should be noticeably better than MoM or Dominions.

MOM for me nowadays is just an RPG where I loot all the magic sites on the maps, no matter the difficulty level. Dominions I can still make challenging via modding and custom maps, so even with the terrible AIs, I still get a challenge and lots of fun out of both games.