GitarooMan
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This is so right on. World of Xeen is definitely in my Top 10 PC games of all time, so so awesome. I wonder if this game captures any of that greatness.
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Might & Magic X Legacy |OT| From Corak and Sheltem to Enroth and Erathia
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Well I just blew my own mind in regards to M&M. I've been on a grand multi year old school CRPG playthrough (basically replaying every awesome CRPG from my life) and in terms of Might & Magic I'm on 7. So I just went to load it up and for some reason noticed that there is just a regular MM7.exe which is what I always use, and then a MM7-rel.exe. Out of curiousity I just ran the -rel one and for the first time the game had freaking music. Years I've played these and had no idea MM7 (and presumably 6 and 8) had a bloody soundtrack.
Not only that, but it's really damn good.
EDIT: Apparently this is caused by using the community patch and can be fixed. Durr.
SatelliteOfLove
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Oh, I know, they're a rarity compared to the past; most others have given up that fight in the interrrum.
But will they make M&MVI available on Steam after, or only for people who buy the early access version?
Cause I have high hopes for X, but not passing up my chance at the best Might & Magic.
Rayman 2 was only available as an Origins pre-purchase incentive so there's a distinct possibility of history repeating itself with M&MVI, which is one of the two reasons I bought M&MX so early, with the other being that I wanted to support Ubisoft's to decision greenlight a new game in the series that wasn't an awkward attempt to turn it into a "AAA" franchise (I do intend to play it one day, but who knows when, haha).
I played MM3 and MM4+5 (WoX) only last year and they hold up incredibly well, definitely among my favourite RPGs. I'm hoping it gets the spirit of those games right, I guess light-hearted adventuring and dungeon crawling. Main concern I have is the length.
Heh ya, Ive seen some people play MM6 and not have music.
I need to play 7 one of these days. I got like 10 hours in world of xeen, and enjoyed what I played. Maybe I'll go back to it.
Ready for some X.
M&M 6, 7 and 8 were released on a cd, and the game's music was also on the same cd as audio tracks - presumably because they had so much free space since the game didn't take a lot out of the 660MB.
This had the annoying side-effect of hearing the cd drive to spin up whenever you entered a new region. Though it's kind of nostalgic now, I assume most people just played it without music since it was so annoying
StoppedInTracks
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Just got the email from Ubisoft system: shipped, yes!
You can't have an old-school dungeon crawler without grid-system.
Hopefully it sells oodles and someone from Sega notices and makes Atlus port Etrian Odyssey games as well.
What? Have You missed Might and Magic series?
I've never played any of these games but this sounds awesome, really cool idea.
Yeah mines been shipped too. Tracking isn't working yet though.
UnrealEck
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The old ones were not grid based if I remember right.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Check your UPlay email. Ubi is sending the game now (I'm in Europe).
Oh, I loved Might and Magic (World of Xeen FTW). Which was grid based.
Might and Magic 6-9 didn't exist, M&M X is a spin-off, like the Mega Man X series
The old old ones were, and they were fantastic.
StoppedInTracks
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I've finished all M&M games and M&M6 is the best one. Do not diss M&M6.
World of Xeen is 2nd place, tho
I've finished all M&M games and M&M6 is the best one. Do not diss M&M6.
World of Xeen is 2nd place, tho
M&M 6 could be played as a grid game, right? Or did it just have pause/real time battles?
StoppedInTracks
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No grid, full 360 degrees movement.
Pause/ Real-Time battles.
Best dungeons in the whole series.
Tomb of Varn:
Castle Darkmoor:
Hall of the Fire Lord:
Bought this off Steam last night. Kind of bullshit we US'ians don't get the opportunity to buy a box.
Anyway, love it. The graphics and frame rate are, um, rough, but so far it is achieving exactly what I had hoped. I assume a lot of the engine issues will be cleared up with the full release.
Would be great if this sold enough to get more of these types of games. Considering both this and Grimrock 2 are this year and I'm thinking of it as an "embarrassment of riches", we need more of these games!
Anyway, love it. The graphics and frame rate are, um, rough, but so far it is achieving exactly what I had hoped. I assume a lot of the engine issues will be cleared up with the full release.
Would be great if this sold enough to get more of these types of games. Considering both this and Grimrock 2 are this year and I'm thinking of it as an "embarrassment of riches", we need more of these games!
The real question is - does it have a crossword dungeon? If not, sorry, World of Xeen is better.
The real question is - does it have a crossword dungeon? If not, sorry, World of Xeen is better.
Yea they need maps that spell out solutions to puzzles to be a proper grid based M&M game.
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StoppedInTracks
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The real question is - does it have a crossword dungeon? If not, sorry, World of Xeen is better.
I think they will, no? The legacy of M&M requires it.
FlyingSaucer
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If even the codex is positive, if must be a fine good CRPG. I'm hyped way beyond what I could imagine possible for a 'modern' M&M.
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The Dwarf behind the mercenaries in Sorpigal.
Yay, just got my shipping confirmation. It even was in correct German, which is a rarity
Nope, he's Heavy Armor trainer :<
I found an unboxing video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnzLmAweZY
Seems really nice, especially considering the price. On a kickstarter project you'd be expected to pledge 100 USD for that physical content
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnzLmAweZY
Seems really nice, especially considering the price. On a kickstarter project you'd be expected to pledge 100 USD for that physical content
More when you include shipping to Europe. xDI found an unboxing video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnzLmAweZY
Seems really nice, especially considering the price. On a kickstarter project you'd be expected to pledge 100 USD for that physical content
But yeah, just finished watching that video and it does look really nice. Can't wait for my copy to arrive. Hopefully it shouldn't get damaged either considering it's being shipped by UPS.
It's really worth playing if you're a modern rpg fan and you ever had any fun with something like Etrian Odyssey or Grimrock.
http://www.gog.com/game/might_and_magic_6_limited_edition
I found an unboxing video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnzLmAweZY
Seems really nice, especially considering the price. On a kickstarter project you'd be expected to pledge 100 USD for that physical content
How does one acquire that sexy beast?
Nope
The shield expert trainer is actually in Seahaven.Anyway, I finished Act II and basically hit the wall. Most fights are reaaaaaally hard, my mage and druid are often one-shotted, my warrior and crusader do medicore damage. I think that the game has some balancing issues or it's just weird mechanics kicking my butt (like useless Evade stat). Strongly thinking about restarting with a new party.
They only put out one other patch after the first one and it didn't do much for performance (for me at least). Hopefully the release version has resolved the performance issues.
Basically everyone on Ubisoft's forum spent the last few months going "MAKE IT HARDER". Maybe they listened.
I bought it directly from Ubisoft, but IIRC it's only available in Europe for some reason.
I got a feeling they did it in a similar way to what Blizz did with Inferno in D3 - they opened the spreadsheet and doubled everything not givinig a fuck to test in a grand scheme of things like party stats/spells/items
Curses!
Nikodemos
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Hopefully not to the same result as Microprose during TFTD's development. That was truly ridiculous.
Should probably put that sort of effort into a hardcore mode, not unless by default it really was crazy easy anyway. Some of us my want to work up, or want a challenge but not a very high one.
I don't really get that if they were only going to ship it from their store anyway. Maybe there was other stuff they'd want done in the US, though it kind of seems to me like some bizarre mangling of the fact physical retail does better in Europe, even though part of this is that retailers had been snubbing PC games for awhile here and most of the time it really isn't worth it UNLESS there's a nice package, like with the Witcher games!
Well that was due to a bug in UFO defense where the difficulty defaulted to beginner every time you loaded your save. So folks were beating the game on what they thought was the hardest difficulty and it was a cakewalk. Nobody knew about the bug at the time so they went nuts on TFTD's difficulty.
This sounds more like they are just staying true to the series. The M&M games have always been challenging.
That's a pretty mild quote for the Codex standard
(and Codex love Obsidian, they just don't know how to express it).
Well, their store is run by Digital Rivers EU branch, they must just only ship to Europe. Why they didn't get copys made for the US store(Which is most likely run by DR's US branch) I have no idea though. Sucks though, as it seems like you're missing out on quite a nice CE.
Nikodemos
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Well, 6-9 were (7 is memorable for putting your puny n00bs face to face with a red dragon on the first quest territory). I remember Xeen having a rather gradual difficulty curve, with no sudden spikes.