Panned Games that you loved?

[Bofferbrauer2]

Elemental: War of Magic

This predecessor of Fallen Enchantress was so broken and unbalanced and badly received that Stardock tried everything lately to purge it from the collective consciousness (it's not available on Steam or GOG, or pretty much anywhere on the net for instance). Even the head developer agreed to the bad reviews and took the responsibility upon himself for most of it's faults, like being very unfocused and it's disastrous handling of memory (it's fragmenting the memory to hell and back, meaning you need a lot of fast memory to make it run and load fast.

Despite all it's faults, I actually prefer it over it's much better received successor, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress. Too bad my old PC with the game broke, so I can't find and play it anymore...

Oh, and some little secret for this game series:

Spoiler!

The World of Elemental is actually the Homeworld of the Altarians from the Galactic Civilizations series, meaning that canonically the Kingdom Factions will win out in the end

Also, Tokio Mirage Sessions #FE. Loved the game really very much on the Wii U, is on my wishlist for the Switch.

Forgot to mention Supreme Ruler 2020 (and to a lesser degree Ultimate). Pretty clunky and overwhelming, but has true greatness under the hood.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 01 July 2020