And if they tried to explain it away, like they were all killed and are now extinct, I could live with that. Remember, the tutorial level from the first game? If you think that's not unfaithful to the series, then you are showing the devs pity. I mean the game had no Halflings when it came out. They forwent the sprite system in favor of the 3D system, which is just the way it goes right? Modern games are all 3D RIGHT? Except as a result, combined with their new ideas such as classes, it has severed the game into unknown amounts of pay-to-download content fed to the fans on a very, very slow drip. Civ:BE has a similar problem.Īlright, so it is my opinion that they messed up. I end up playing it zoomed out into the parchment map all the time. Way too much stuff everywhere, hard to tell what is what. but perhaps too pretty it's actually confusing. People keep talking about how the Endless Legend map is pretty - yeah, it's pretty. It may sound silly, but loading screens are often a excitement-killer for me I can't count how many times I Alt+F4'd a Total War game because I didn't felt like going through a loading screen right now, or how many times I actually wanted to play a bit of Europa Universalis but didn't because I knew the game takes forever to load the first time.Īnother thing that I think is superior in AoW compared to EL is the map design.

Now, for one technical thing that I loved about AoW3: the lack of a lengthy loading screen between strategical map and tactical battles.

That's something completely new in a 4X game for me, and it made me want to play EL at least once with each faction, just to see all faction quests. Those are quests that are actually interesting! They have actually well-written text, with plots that make you want to keep pursuing the quest just to see what happens next. Quite a few other 4X games tried including quests both before and after EL, but none did it right like it did. The leaders have zero personalty by design, so it loses heavily on flavor the victory conditions are rather dull, and everything is way too much focused on the single goal of warfare and nothing else.īut above all else, the one thing that Endless Legend brings to the table, for me, is the excellent Faction Quests. My issue with AoW is a lack of 'motivation'. As someone that prefers Endless Legend over Age of Wonders III:

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