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[quote who="Demiansky" reply="1" id="2528737"]Apples and oranges my friend. Apples and oranges.[/quote] You don't make any sense with that comment, did you just need to vent out a platitude? Because isn't it obvious that the things I am referring to are the things that manifest only when you are already engrossed in the gameplay and can't be detected before and that specifically have a tendency to appear in these kind of games?

You know how the complete randomness of unit damage in combat part of Civilization 4 completely destroyed the entire game so that I lost all desire to play it any further because I got tired of reloading? And how combat perfectly works in King's Bounty: The Legend/AP? I also remember how randomness in skill selection upon leveling in HOMM5 destroyed the game enough to stop playing it...I still can't get over that. Well, let's hope that there won't be "li

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-divinity-2-ego-draconis/17-1861/ Notice what they are talking about all the time, if animation is not right it ruins everything.

I'll be back in May to review...

Just pointing out the borderline functional illiteracy of a developer which prevented him to understand anything.

BoogieBac- "This is the first time I've ever done this, but this constant (and unfaltering) argument of the importance of graphics over gameplay just raises my blood pressure too much, so I'm going to just lock this thread." I don't understand how can you as a developer make such a huge

Hm, I would have never even tried to play King's Bounty: The Legend if animations of units and spells weren't as good as they are. I'm positive that's the case with most people. You really don't know what you are talking about.

Of course, accumulative effect goes without saying, it's just that in many cases animation is key to gameplay enjoyment or gameplay annoyment.

Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 will cause a mass upgrade shift as number 1 most anticipated PC exclusives, so the number of people you are adapting the game for is really going to be irrelevantly marginal.

I'm not worried about graphics card, nor should you. I now have RADEON HD5770,GDDR5 1GB, I think most people will have far above min.sys.req. by the time the game will be ready for release, so you should spend less time making it available for a very marginal percentage of the market, and focus more on various visual effects and animations in the combat portion of the game so it would be more appealing for a larger percentage of the market. P.S. By the m

[quote who="Charvel1" reply="24" id="2504014"]that GAMEPLAY is the most important part of a game. [/quote] Well, that's just a false dichotomy , animations enrich every aspect of every game, remember Resident Evil 4,5, Mass Effect, Plants vs Zombies, Gyromancer.... Every game that failed had some fundamental flaws in the quality of animation.

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="19" id="2503789"]Marketing has requested Battle videos in May, so I wouldn't expect anything before then [/quote] Could you at least tell us the scope of the animations in combat, to what extent will they be symbolic and to what extent will various actions be animated? Will people enjoy seeing combat action as much as they do in King's Bounty? This is the most important part of the game, after all....

BTW, where can one find the combat gameplay video? I said I would be back after a couple of months to see if there is any new development in releasing such videos...

[quote who="SavageBananaMan34" reply="3" id="2503442"]There's no way that Elemental will have the technical graphical prowess of King's Bounty.[/quote] I'm sensing preemptiveness here. Are you consciously tring to lower your standards to be able to enjoy the game?

[quote who="astrath" reply="14" id="2503721"]Didn't take long did it?[/quote] Yep, I don't know why people do it, just because you are on the internet doesn't mean you have to throw your reason and decorum out the window.

I reported your posts for troll-trolling , I hope we can have non-infantile discussion here without the superfluous mindless troll labeling and I urge moderators to promptly delete such posts including my own which are a response to such posts, like this one..

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="9" id="2503671"]Yup. Same old trolling twit.[/quote] Can moderators please delete posts from troll-trolls (people whose only contrubution to the topic is saying that the person in question is a troll)?

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="2" id="2503390"]but you could only have a dozen or so unit animations on the screen at once, hence they could be quite detailed. [/quote] The quality of animation always breaks or makes the game, this is true for any genre, whether it is weapon animations in FPS or in Plants vs Zombies. Animations(from lat.animare=give life) are pivotal to gameplay enjoyment. I really don't like your irrationality void of any arguments and substance

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="1" id="2503202"]Could you possibly be a bit more specific, especially for those of us who never played the game you mentioned and don't want to do more than see if Wikipedia has a decent description, which it doesn't at the moment? [/quote] Can't help you there as it is the best turn-based fantasy RPG ever made, and is very famous and popular, so your marginal situation is of no concern to anyone. Also it is an expansion for equally su

Will Elemental have at least the same depth of tactics, spells, combat, units, exploration and character development as it is in King's Bounty: Armored Princess , and will the unit animation and detail be of the same quality in combat portion of the game as it is in that game?

Where can I find a gameplay video of combat?

1.Civilization 4 2.King's Bounty: The Legend 3.Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery

[quote who="Ashbery76" reply="20" id="2362003"]The game engine looks nice but after playing the CIV4 fantasy mod I wonder if the gameplay is a bit lightweight from what I have seen.[/quote] That's why mind-blowing combat animations and spell effects will be crucial as well as the RPG feel of advancing your character and your units. Even in Civ4 units gained experience and abilities but it was very rudimental and linear.

Eh, I'm done with the topic, you can talk about Disciples 3 here or something. I'll be probably back in 4 months or so to check on progress...

Of course, like in King's Bounty: The Legend where a number represents how many units are in a tile...