22 yrs on the outside, 55 yrs up along my spine. I have no idea what GC2 is, I just randomly found FE on the internet and found that it looked extremely interesting (looking for a successor to Age of Wonders/Master of Magic).

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

21, and I also started in Gal Civ 2, went to Sins, and then to WoM.

27, love the civ and homm series. Read alot of reviews before buying e:fa it and i feel i will easily get value for money out of it.

Also hopefully some more talented modders come on board, the more the merrier i say.

34, first stardock game, played AD&D

I'm 24, and I've been a Stardock fan since Galactic Civilizations (has it really been almost a decade? :omg:).  I've never done AD&D.

wow, good to know Im not alone.  31 or 32 I think.

Whats D&D? (kidn)

started really getting into games and numbers after I learned that you shouldn't try and make more room on the hard drive for games by typing in (C:/del win) in the command prompt.

I'm 34. It looks like the 30's faction is the strongest and I think would win if war broke out between us!

I'm a total SD newb, bought FE because I'm a big Fall From Heaven 2 fan.

Never played AD&D. My first TBS was when I rented Civ I for the Super Nintendo when I was probably about 14.

33, (I checked I was scared for a second that I was 34:).  I played AD&D in middle school, but not enough b/c I didn't have many other friends into it.

I found stardock via Sins of a Solar Empire, but I never really played TBS (unless Super Conflict for SNES counts) so I wasn't sure about FE.  I'm more of an RTS gamer at heart.  I just needed a fantasy strategy game after I was done with Battle for Middle Earth 2 and FE was the only new one I could find that interested me.

20 (Am I winning? ;)). Played GC2, Never played PnP AD&D (bit young maybe), but I enjoy the digitized games. Balder's Gate 2 is one of my favorite games of all time (I would have been 8 when it came out). Sort of looking forward to BG: Enhanced too.

40 but I swear I look younger 

19 by the way first post in the FE (just found the game yesterday and oh my god this shows great modability) forum. Mhh I started with Civ IV then played FFH and then some MoM (great submod for FFH)
But I played quite a bit of SupComFA and SoaSE (thou they are RTS Games and not turn based).

25 and GalCiv2 was my first SD game. After playing the demo I was hooked for life. 

I sure hope you didn't post just to spite my youthful numerical data! I feel thirty, so it's unfitting for me to be so young.

SupCom is one of my top games, but Sins I never know whats happening, seems guys are just mindlessly shooting at each other until their HP eventually (and sometimes after a real long time) hits 0 and they explode... Not to mention enormous battles, all I end up doing is over-killing units, wasting damage and  skills. NO idea how to manage combat in that game but it looks cool. Good thing I can make up for it with empire management. (I have no problem with controlling units in Homeworld though. :S)

22.

Started with Galciv 2, then Sins, then Demigod. Then WoM and now FE.

I'm 35.

Started ith Galciv1, then Galciv2, Sins, Demigod, E:WoM and now E:FE

Played AD&D and a lot of other rpg (Das Schwarze Auge, Vampire the masquerade, Cyberpunk, Druids, etc..)

47 currently,

all started with Elite on C64 and have no console .

not new to SD, played E:WOM and GC2.

39 and played a little bit of AD&D during the 80s, and much more DSA (Das Schwazr eAuge = the black Eye = Pen&Paper RPG that was as popular in germany as AD&D was in the USA).

Also played most of the AD&D computer games, beginning with the Pool of Radiance Trilogy from SSI (and also including AD&D Strategy games like Stronghold and, my favorite, Fantasy Empires). 

Also played (among loads of other TBS games, which, of course included all parts of Civilization) the game which probably was the biggest inspiration for Elemental (but also Heoes of Might and Magic), i.e. Master of Magic.

As for Stardock ... GalCiv must have been my first game from them. Played a lots of their games afterwards, including GalCiv 2, SotS and Elemental 1

As for the intelligence of younger players nowadays ...

I think the main problem is, that gaming nowadays is mainstream.

During the 80s only a small percentage of people owned a computer amd/or played games. Many if not most of them were people who would be called geeks or nerds by their classmates and most of them would have an IQ well over the average.

Nowadays almost everyone who can afford it owns an PC and a large percentage of the people play games ... even people who, had they grown up during the 80s, would have called their classmates geeks for owning one

Therefore the average intelligence of gaming consumers nowadays de facto is lower than that of the gaming consumers during the 80s.

Also means that the people in suits of most gaming companies nowadays seem to prefer to play it safe and tell their developers to develop games that even an idiot can play (as, if ha can´t he won´t be motivated to spend money on the game ).

I am 40.

First Stardock game was GalCiv but I didn't really know much about them until Elemental WOM.

Mostly tend to play TBS, RTS and RPG's on the Pc.  Never got into consoles.

I have played most of the editions of (A)DnD and are currently in a weekly 3.5 game.

Nakisisa

32 and  GC2 crossover.  Found WOM one day because I came to the site randomly looking to see if there was any news about GC3.  

36. I started in the c64 era too.

Loved old RPGs untill arrived Diablo and broke the concept of traditional RPG (I played it a lot, but after that, RPG was not the same, and I got tired of it). So I turned to strategy games, turn based or RTS (Age of empires 2 the best for MP, I still believe it). And when I found Master Of Magic, my gamer life has not been the same...

I've played D&D and some others long time ago...

I enjoyed my Playstation, but I do agree most games that come out are garbage (it's all hype, retailers wet dream). I had more fun playing abandon ware than I did a whole years of new releases. Thank god I never got a Playstation 3. "Could have some good games on it" I said as it was being released, but I didn't have the money for it at the time. Good thing I didn't. No hopes, no disappointments.

Re subtitle Elemental: Fallen Enchantress to Elemental: 11/10 GAME OF THE YEAR FPS IGN TOP TEN RPG SIMULATOR 2013 BEST PLATINUM PRESTIGE XIV, INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE DLC. Gotta hit them marketable demographics.

Edit: Anyone play Call to Power 2? I played that so much when I was younger, never been able to play Civilization seriously since. So spoiled by CTP2.

yeah, ctp2 deserved a lot more praise than it got... there's a mod for civ5 that aims to bring back that feel if you're interested

I am 34  and I've been playing strategie games since I've been 12. The first ones I can remember are Supremacy aka Overlord  and Feudal Lords on the Amiga

I have played GC II before I knew about elemental but it never really captured me. The lack of Tactical battles and multiplayer ment it never surpased Master of Orion II for me, which I've played for years agains me brother and friends.

I have played AD&D

29, male. Started with Civ1 in the 90s, first SD game was GC2. Played Fall from Heaven excessively and bought E:WoM because it looked so promising - now enjoying FE a lot!

Nobody writes that they are MALE, which probably almost everybody is, am I right?

@seanw3: Intelligence is not related to age, at least from a scientific POV. That's called wisdom/experience.