What is this game? A miserable pile of secrets.

seems like there is a general feeling that Elemental might have lifted off the beta runway too soon and attempted to fly without gaining enough airspeed first? Would that be a reasonable analogy?

If you include a 20 story building at the end of the runway and large theatre type grand stands on each side, one filled with people saying "what crash" and the other comparing it with the Hindenburg to anyone who will listen...

oh this absolutely hits the nail on its head. but you forgot to add the part where the forum mods nuke and lock feedback threads in a matter of seconds. censorship is fun.

Oh it has that same crash problem after 100 turns or so carried thru from all the galciv games? Remarkable!! But at least in Galciv you can spot the signs it is nearing a crash, save and restart the game - can you do the same in Elemental?

Fightingweasles - yea, you could go that way with the analogy.

Tridus - No co-operative multiplayer? Yea, um i saw in another thread, you got that with one of the Beta releases then it was withdrawn but is due in another patch, can anyone confirm?

Delmoroth - Your post seems like a reasonable take on things. Also i would definitely believe the game forces you to be too aggressive.... same problem for sure in Galciv, i either dominate, get bored and quit or flounder hopelessly, get bored and quit, those are your options in galciv. That is why i am so pleased to recently manage to get a fairly well balanced game of galciv as mentioned earlier - it is almost impossible to acheve!

Werewinlefr quote "There was a poll recently, which showed that half the buyers were disappointed by Elemental; and that poll was answered to by people who cared enough about the game to come to the forums"

That gives me a better idea of the support for the game - So half the buyers were not disappointed, which is encouraging. People on other big gaming forums/reviews, eeaaarrr, i don't trust the general opinions there at all, 'mainstream' in the past have often disliked games that i loved, they don't seem to follow reasonable logic as far as i can tell? Oh and i don't think there will be any threat from civ5 for a while if it is going to be imprisoned on Steam!!!

No because where game companies have ultimate control over their software is called a 'console' and Steam exclusive is leading down the path of eventually turning all our pc's into consoles!! We should not encourage this.

Took me a moment to figure out what you talking about.... but yea, i get your point now! ..... in that case i 'hope' the fact that civ5 is imprisoned on steam will impede its sales because of blah blah (what i said before).

Thanks for the warning.... but with my personality i think i can probably find this game entertaining.

It saddens me to say this, but this game makes me think of Spore. Not in similarity of design, but of something that tries to be a lot of things at the same time, but ends up being shallow in most places... Part civilization, Part X-com, Part Heroes of might and magic.... yea

If SD comes through and adds meat on the bones, the game could rock big time. But as it is, i played it for a couple of days, then havent played it since then

Last night i purchased Elemental!

Never got to play it tho because my computer began restarting itself half way thru the download (first i had to update Impulse because i haven't used that for a long while - i think my computer did not like that happening). I was scared for a moment, because my computer was restarting instantly upon windows Vista 64 bit home premium opening - even in safe mode! lucky for me windows decided to stay open long enough for me to log in a disk check - did that and it opened stable and i found that i had to update my windows Vista, (i always switch automatic updates off) once i did that, everything was fine and i completed the download but by then it was time for bed so i didn't get to play!