Seriously, the original Elemental fiasco is so old that of the target market, 50% will have no idea what Elemental was, 25% will own Legendary Heroes and think it's awesome anyway, and 25% will think "Elemental? Wasn't that a really bad game a few years ago? How on earth did that get a sequel?" Even in the case of the latter, they will probably be intrigued to see how it was turned around. Heck, call it "the Enchantress strikes back" if you like! I personally don't think there is a problem with calling the next iteration Elemental: whatever. So we have this great fantasy game that we have the budget to keep iterating on that is artificially held down because no one really knows what to call it. I’ve seen people on various forums say that LH is probably the best fantasy 4X that is currently available (though Age of Wonders 3 is looking pretty awesome). But the reality is, the single biggest thing holding LH back is the brand confusion. I know some people don’t care about the name. There’s a huge demand for it because the installed base of the game we call Legendary Heroes (but is really Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes) keeps growing. The DLC for Legendary Heroes doesn’t just sell well. the THING that people remember playing, we basically call it Legendary Heroes. It’s barely applied to Fallen Enchantress.įrankly, from a purely a branding perspective – i.e. If the quality and fandom that supports Legendary Heroes could somehow be applied to Elemental that would be great. It’s just called GalCiv.īut Elemental got off to such a rocky start that for good or bad, we don’t really call it Elemental anymore. No one calls GalCiv II “Twilight of the Arnor”. After all, it’s technically Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes. The problem I see with Legendary Heroes is that it’s really hard to do iteration like that. It came from years and years of iteration and frankly, labors of love. That awesomeness didn’t come from the original design. I hadn’t played it in a very long time and was stunned by just how much…awesome it has in it. I was playing Galactic Civilizations II last night.
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