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Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« on: October 04, 2014, 10:32:02 am »
This is an asymmetrical 4X, where you play against the AI. It offers this feature of a "doomsday counter," which is when the game ends.


Because I'm not sold on the difference between this and Fallen enchantress besides the overlord, I'm not entirely sure that I'm interested yet. The combat looks very repetitive and not very interesting; even the demo of the game they were auto-resolving the combat, which is often a bad sign.


Anyone have any personal experience with the title? Stardock is releasing Galactic civilizations 3 as another 4x, so that genre is certainly popular over there.
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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2014, 10:47:23 am »
It has the same combat as their previous attempt at 4x fantasy.. and that had horrible combat ;) So my hype level is zero ;/

Gal Civ 3 as well, remains to be seen whether they learned anything in all this time, or whether it has the same problems as nearly all other 4x.
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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2014, 02:43:28 pm »
What about Endless Legend (I think that's the name). Different devs I know. But it seems interesting, anybody given it a try?

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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2014, 03:39:28 pm »
What about Endless Legend (I think that's the name). Different devs I know. But it seems interesting, anybody given it a try?

I like Endless Legend quite a bit, but at the moment the AI is pretty terrible about defending its cities. Other than that it's quite solid. I like how every faction has their own quest line.

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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2014, 07:26:40 pm »
What about Endless Legend (I think that's the name). Different devs I know. But it seems interesting, anybody given it a try?
From what I've heard on Bay12 forums, its worth a try if you like unique factions. But because it has unique factions, things are unbalanced in MP.

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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2014, 09:28:26 pm »
I can't imagine playing a 4X game multiplayer.  I'm not a big multiplayer player in general (especially competitively), but doing a 4X MP seems almost unthinkable. So unbalanced MP is fine so long as the AI is decent and the game is fun.

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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2014, 12:41:49 pm »
http://content.screencast.com/users/draginol/folders/Jing/media/9bed517b-93ee-484c-ba2a-b940bf555993/2014-10-04_1356.png


Keith and Chris, Huge!! compliment to you guys, look at this picture! I thought this game looked similar to yours, and they just posted this chart giving credit to your game.  :o :D



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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2014, 03:12:52 pm »
Awesome, thanks for linking that :)
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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2014, 03:49:38 pm »
Whoah!  That feels awesome!
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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2014, 04:56:36 pm »
I also thought of AI War when I read about this game.  I wishlisted it, and I'll wait to see what the final product looked like.

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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2014, 08:48:25 am »
Hmm, this one looks interesting.  I quite liked Fallen Enchantress (with it's expansion, specifically).   The combat in it actually seemed fine to me.... IF the enemy was actually strong enough to be a real threat.  If that was not the case, it got a bit dull.  With a non symmetrical design to the game as a whole, tougher fights theoretically could come much more often than they did in that game.

So, hm, I might pick this up myself for the heck of it, not sure.


As for the AI War thing, if you look at the Steam forums, one of the first things you see is a topic asking if it's similar to AI War, heh.   I think you guys definitely had quite the influence here overall, congrats on that.

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« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2014, 08:51:31 am »
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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2014, 08:43:23 am »
Has anyone tried this yet?

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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2014, 03:54:10 pm »
Just spotted the game today, so rushed to the forums to tell eveyone  about a fantasy AI WAR :) But everyone already took notice  :)

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Re: Sorcerer King - Reminds me of aiwar fantasy 4X
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2014, 01:15:38 pm »
Just spotted the game today, so rushed to the forums to tell eveyone  about a fantasy AI WAR :) But everyone already took notice  :)

Did you play it? Still hoping someone else will take the plunge so I don't have to.  :D