The Heroes Round Table

Angelspit wrote:They should drop the numbers if they work on a new Might and Magic game, and use subtitles instead. Not a lot of people will want to play the tenth game of a series unless they know what happened before.

And people might think Might & Magic X was a sword-and-sorcery porno?

Well, the PC Gamer 2/06 article said that M&M 10 would be one of the planned future titles.

The "bible" was created for all genres, but the genre that most needs background and a "bible" is an RPG.

DaemianLucifer wrote:Well tradition is whats milking money from old fans,so I think that ubi does care about it,even if not directly.

Except they're rebuilding the history from the ground up. Erathia, etc, will not be involved -- and if it is, it'll be "another universe long ago" sort of thing.

It's encouraging that it seems combat in Dark Messiah will be very open-ended. Magic, ranged, melee, stealth? Up to you.

Why? Akimbo weaponry has been in FPS's for the past 2 years. And if a sword isn't available...

The point is that Dark Messiah takes place after the Heroes V campaign (and there's reference to the Dark Messiah in Heroes V, too.)

From the Jan 2006 issue of CGM: "The lone exception [to the similarity between Heroes V and previous incarnations] is the Dynamic Battle System (DBS), a new way to play that takes this turn-based series as close as it has ever come to a real-time mode. But this new feature won't turn games into...

I can't wait for Starcraft: Ghost.

There will be plenty of melee combat to be had in Dark Messiah, but check out one screenshot in the Jan 2006 issue of CGM.



Dual daggers?

Computer Games Magazine cover, 1/06.



Also on cover of PC Gamers, 2/06.

Both issues discuss Dark Messiah at some length.

Angelspit wrote:Using goofy Halloween costumes to scare away the evil orcs?

But then where's the Treatery?

I'll mod, Angelspit.

ThunderTitan wrote:Weird that they're not like in HoMM5. Wonder what Trickery will do?

Pickpocket?
Gambling?

According to the Jan 2006 issue of Computer Games Magazine, Dark Messiah takes place just after the events of Heroes V. You play Sareth, a young apprentice sent on a quest to recover a magical artifact that means the difference between a happy world filled with elves and pixies and an evil one cramm...

In the Feb 2006 issue of PC Gamer, they mention some of the Skills and Spell Spheres that the hero you control gains through experience: Skills: Melee Trickery Stealth Backstabbing Distant fighting Spells The Spell spheres will be: Fire Air Water Earth Some examples of spells: Flame Arrow Fireball T...

Continuity wrote:I suspected it was an error, but I was still hoping a bit. Oh well.

It's not an error. My order remains at $19.99. It was a limited time offer.

I promise, once again, I will make Growing Nations for HOMMV if not on the first day, at the latest the third day. I always do it with minor playtesting for speed so that people have at least one XL map with 2v2v2 (or 2v2v2v2 depending on the HOMM) in the first week or two.

Crusard wrote:It almost has better graphics than real life, it's going to need a pretty big computer to run this monster.

Spend $399 for a 360

Some of us are old enough to remember that Medusa in the Clash of the Titans was "cutting edge" special effects. I saw that movie on Encore a few months back and realized just how far we've come... I was more impressed with Caliban (or scared) when I saw Clash in the theater when I was 10...