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[Might and Magic X] All them M&M feels
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http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=8895
http://www.rpgamer.com/games/mightmagic/mm10/mm10int.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPfG6KOyc-gVideos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWvpD-w0BCY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4IxhUtZlgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_S9J0fYYUX? Aren't there like 6?
That's Heroes of Might and Magic. A spin-off to the original series. The main games started out in 1986 and are a veritable piece of gaming history, defining its specific type of computer role-playing games alongside Wizardry. Yet, the company who originally developed them had to close in 2003 due to the bankruptcy of its then mother company. Making Might and Magic IX the last title in the series. Ubisoft bought the license, but focused on developing the Heroes of Might and Magic Games and the action inspired Dark Messiah. Until today.
Who's developing this?
Limbic Entertainment. Current Developer of Heroes VI DLC.
Why should I be interested in it?
While Limbic's trackrecord is spotty at best, previous to helping out on Hereos VI, there is a lot of obvious passion going into this product as demonstrated by the interviews. So, give it a chance. Aside from that they are really pushing the old-school angle, including turn-based combat and a fully explorable world (after the tutorial area).
Can you give me some more information about the series?
Well, Ubisoft is currently doing a retrospective on their facebook page, so you might want to check that out. GOG has all of them for purchase. My personal recommendation are the World of Xeen games (MMIV and V) and my favourite, Might and Magic VI.
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Bring back my FP, party, turn-based games please.
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I'm not *so sure*. It's certainly possible and Ubisoft was mentioned as a publisher they talked to, but after South Park recently went to Ubisoft, Obsidian made this tweet.
Ofc, this could just mean in regards to SP:TSOT itself.
I don't know if I should be excited or vastly angry and disappointed.
Maybe it is more like the "X" in Mega Man X and it'll be Might & Magic in the future! :rotate:
There's literally zero reasons (so far) to be angry and/or disappointed.
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that there won't be some (fairly small for the audience) outcry when they finally do show it because, you know, it's bringing back an old franchise and when that happens, no matter how good a game is, it isn't good enough for 'fans'. So that will happen anyway. It doesn't mean that it won't be a good game (it doesn't mean that it will be a good game either...)
I'm just saying there's no reason to have any sort of negative reaction to the announcement. It's not like the series stopped on anything resembling a high point.
The X being made up all sorts of icons and portraits from past games though gives me hope.
EDIT: And not really important but it feels weird that VI was someones childhood; that was my first year of college
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Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
I mean I guess as long as it's a fairly rad dungeon crawler with a SUDDENLY: ALIENS!!!! at the end...
You never will please everybody, but its certainly possible to please most if you stay (somewhat) true to the original series. See: King's Bounty and X-Com (After it was released).
For sure.
also the irony of my trepidation is that I'm actually pretty sure the original games had a LOT of problems, addictive and fun as they were :\a
... I hope they bring back the wooden flute thing though.
Yeah I don't want a reinvention of the wheel (though FO3/NV...), as I said in the industry thread; I'd be fine with a 'smaller' more Legend of Grimrock modern/oldschool take on it and keep it simple.
I'm excited to see what they do with it either way. I'm pretty forgiving though, even for games/series that were my childhood, than a lot of folks (even around here) are.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
But seeing this thread stirred old memories of past RPGs. Who owns the Ultima license? I wonder if we'll ever see that series again.
EDIT: oh yeah http://ultimaforever.com/
I never 'got' the Ultima games, oddly, though they probably should have been right up my alley way back when; so I don't know if this 'counts', but yeah.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
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Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
With Shades of Darkness coming out and continuing the story of Raelag in V (I think? That's my understanding, but they could just be completely fucking with the canon at this point because VI happened well before V, but Raelag was in the time of V...) maybe they're closing that whole era, and X could start something new?
Or not.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
I am looking forward to this.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I realize that the games back then might not make a gracefull transition into today, but I sure would like to try out a party based (w)RPG with todays tech/usability.
The closest I think I've come is probably SWtOR.
Hell, if all this game does is resault in bringing back the Y(ell) button, to tell NPC:s to get out of my (door)way, I'll me happy.
But I assume that technology has forever been lost. Otherwise we surely would have seen that in games like Skyrim, right?
Did you try 6? It's the best one. Black Gate fans can suck it.
And if you don't get Ultima, you should still read this and its sequels.
Anyway, I played 4-8 of M&M (6 is also the best here, I think), never got the allegedly horribly buggy 9. Unfortunately I really did not like Heroes 5, so I'm skeptical about Ubisoft. We'll see who develops this.
But Skyrim does have the ability to yell to get NPCs out of your way. It even has ragdoll effects that weren't possible when the command was first invented, meaning that they don't have to reuse the walk animation.
Edit: Hang on, some of you actually like Kite & Magic 6?
(I haven't found it on the x360 yet.)
Either way, too few games use that feature. Or allow me to add notations to the map.
Gawd how I miss that.
Running backwards shooting bows at monsters took up a not-insignificant portion of my playtime in that game.
Still a blast. I don't think I explored everything there was in MM6, even after hundreds of hours. There's all sorts of hidden things.
And the game is hard as nails too.
I am pretty sure I DID explore everything in that game, and it took me like three damn years. My mom had to put a hard limit on how long I was allowed to play per day.
Also, running backwards with bows? Please.
Or the Fireball Bow. There was that too.
FTFY
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Last time I played it I basically ignored bows. Not magic, but bows. Harder! Well, until you get master air/water.
HoMM died to me when they blew up Erathia, and I never bought another HoMM game.
I spammed Fireballs against groups of two or more enemies. The splash damage hurt, but it hurt a hell of a lot less than spending any amount of time in melee combat.
Also, I loved the Arcomage minigame in 7 and 8 I think it was? Fun stuff.
I'll definitely be interested in this announcement, be interesting to see what's revealed.
The Heroes 3 story was complete. If they had stayed on the same world, they would have just moved on to another continent and it would have been a new storyline with a few references to the old story.
Regardless, Heroes 4 definitely had some very well written campaigns, especially the last two, best in the series with complex and fully developed characters.
As for Heroes 4's problems, that was mainly due to 3DO's poor management and bankruptcy.
Yeah along with the visual shift in VI-VIII, it lost a lot of its tongue-in-cheek charm that it had in the previous games, I guess I don't know how else to put it. EDIT: That's not to say I didn't play VI and VII to death.
I mean in Xeen you'd run into dual chaingun wielding mechs
Then in VI-? it went all pretty generic.
So I, too, hope they go back to the atmosphere of 2-5; though I honestly don't expect it. And, I'm sure I'll get it either way, even if it ends up being a turd.
Because I'm part of the problem. :rotate:
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
Speaking of weird older RPGs, the American made Wizardry PC games? Not to be confused with the Japanese made console Wizardry series of course. Wizardry 8 was pretty interesting although god damn battles could take a long time because of the huge numbers of enemies they'd start spawning while trying to travel. I think there was a mod for that or something though.
But even then, it was a lot less stylized and 'wacky' as previous games. Even simple monsters in the Xeen games had over the top animations when they got hit and such; it just felt a lot more fun in its designs.
The setting, in the end, was mostly the same. Kind of a Star-ocean-ish generic fantasy realms with an underbelly of aliens and sci-fi. It just felt like the earlier games got over the top in a good way a lot earlier.
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Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
I would argue that they pioneered the combination of fantasy and faery tales, at least on the PC. I also got the feeling that they tried to pack as much stuff in an as small area as possible to try to create an as "rich" world as possible... sort of like the Chinese way of "more is more", regardless of quality (or afterthought or depth)... but in a charming way.