Eador Genesis

It's sort of a game that makes you love it at first sight, then you kind of get bored of it in 1-2 weeks because you think you've done everything you could (seen all buildings, all artifacts, all monsters, AI is dull ...).

Then, one day when you're craving a AoW/HoMM dose again, you'll try it again on a higher difficulty - and find out that you haven't even scratched the surface before... To me, it's pretty much the deepest, most challenging game in its genre for PvE.

It made a big splash on the Codex "you must play Eador! etc." and then suddenly this thread died. Hate to be patronizing, but I guess most people here are in transition from 1st to 2nd stage.

 

Yes its awesome but it grows tiring, as it did on em and several posters here. My advice: try not to overdo it, play in limited quantities.

 

It's extremely hard to stop playing it like crazy during "phase 1" But generally, yes, 1-2 parties at a time. Like chess, maybe.

And the campaign is very long and slow for beginners - they'll pass out most probably long before its end. Single map mode is much more intense and has its own flow.

 

i stopped because even on beginner i'm being devastated by the computer. there must be something i do wrong but i can't understand what. it's always stronger and faster than me ._.

 

Play campaign on competent, beginner is too simple, higher difficulties are not that fitting for a campaign.

 

I haven't been posting about it because I'm still too busy playing it.

 

someone needs to translate this: http://www.gog.com/forum/eador_genesis/eador_new_horizons

 

I never played anything under expert and it didnt get boring. the only reason i stopped for now is because the game was designed around the campaign (sadly) making the random custom games kinda stupid. The campaign itself however, is just way to big.

Id play the campaign but knowing that the remake is coming out fairly soon, i just decided to wait for it.

This is still one of the best games ever made imo.

 

So tell me, in custom game you get all the buildings available? Gotta try it. Wonder what lies in tier 3 and 4 that I havent yet reached in the campaign...

 

I'm really enjoying it too, but I wouldn't expect much from the next one other than beautiful graphics.
Instead of one developer now the team is composed of several and if they want to target a bigger audience we can expect some things to be dumbed down.

 

The campaign is being changed

 

The thing that I liked most is how the campaign is set.


I just hope they won't change other key components of the game.

EDIT: forgot a word up there

 

Afaik they arent changing any mechanics. they are just making the campiagn shorter and more concise which i think is a good idea

 

The only good thing about remake unfortunately.

 

Hey, but on this interview (http://www.tacticularcancer.com/content.php?id=3817) he says:

EDIT: This is also interesting: http://snowbirdgames.com/?p=646&lang=en

 

Hmm well im not 100% sure. Maybe they are just balancing things.

I read a while ago its supposed to be literally the same game with a better campaign but who knows, may well be that getting it greenlit on steam has turned them into insufferable corporate cocksuckers

 

Hahah, yep
If it was only the original developer I wouldn't worry but it says the he joined Snowbird as lead game designer and I bet who's paying him must be sticking his finger all over the game.

 

I have faith. There's no need to dumb anything down for it to sell - just keep the lower difficulties gameplay "for everyone" (which will mostly be HoMM/AoW/etc. fans) and higher difficulties gameplay for Eador veterans.

It's a niche genre, it's not like it's competing for Call of Duty 8 (?)'s consumer base.

 

Well, that's true.

 

I needed at least 5 attempts to break position during attack against my shard. It's archer did 2x 14-20 damage, and he had mandrake and iron close, I had close oceans, and vampires.

 

I was closed from all direction by ocean and then an opponent managed to prevent me from expansion, and then beaten up two other opponents. I had a single champion who had decent armor and berserker ax. He beaten up all enemies up to enemy castle, beaten up vampire guard, then 5 armies and during epic fight against 5 executioners and brutal enemy archer, there was a musics from Juuni Koki. After two other fights with his ax broken, but a champion takes two backup weapons right, he beaten up garrison as well.

 

you should have video-recorded it!

 

It is. But the main issue with Genesis is that it gets kinda repetetive after the first few shards, and an occasional special shard with different rules is one of the ways to address this problem.

 

Anyone has any idea why I cannot play this game on a 1024x600 netbook? It says it cannot initialize gfx! Can someone help a bro out there?

 

what kind of video 'card' does it has?