Posts from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Demo

What do you think? I just played it (1.5 GB distribution, takes up 2.5 GB installed) and I'm ready to kill everyone who had a hand in this. Only 3 words from the great series remain in the title. The gameplay is something in between CS and Oblivion. Overall, it's terrible, comrades, terrible.

company address? I'll destroy it! Explain the problems with the game, why they exist, and what they are!

The game has many problems:
1) Character #1! (Might and Magic has never been a solo game)

2) The role-playing system is simply terrible – there are about 15 skills, and you can invest skill points, which appear from who knows where, into them. For example:
Skill - melee combat, 3 levels of upgrade:
1 - gives a powerful charging attack.
2 - the ability to defend with a shield
3 - something else, not available in the demo.
And so on.

3) We bash a crowd of monsters with a sword, bow, and magic. The more often we click the mouse and the more accurately we aim with the crosshair (yes, there is one here too. Even prettier than in 9. With a bow, you can even "zoom in." If, of course, you invest a skill point in the "bow" skill), the more often and harder we hit (is this what you call an RPG??)

4) We run, jump, grab onto ropes, climb them, then crawl – all of this to find and kill the next monster.
In the demo, there were 20 minutes of gameplay and 2 "quests" (I didn't take them; a "voice from above" gave them to me) – to reach some artifact and to reach some caves.

That's how it is... In general, this opinion is based on 20 minutes of gameplay, so we can still think about how true it is, but something tells me that with such a foundation, it is impossible to make a game that is even remotely similar to the ninth installment...

(Is this what you call an RPG?!)

They honestly admitted that they are making an action game.

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(Saliens): Will Dark Messiah be similar to Half-Life (where we have to follow the script all the time) or will it be more like Oblivion (where we can go wherever we want and choose quests ourselves)?
Answer: The game will be closer to Half-Life. It will focus on action, and the world will be closed off. We decided this because we made each level very carefully so that you could use the environment.

That’s a shame! Everything was so good; I’m going to go cry now!

Dark Messiah is a continuation not of Might & Magic, but of the game Crusader of Might & Magic, which was a third-person shooter. I understand that people were expecting an RPG, but... that's how Ubisoft decided to do it.

In short, they crushed our hopes.
/me went to cry and play Mandate of Heaven.

I knew from the very beginning that this would be an action game, not an RPG! I think this will only benefit the game. After all, it uses the Half-Life 2 engine, where physics and the rhythm of combat are practically the main features! Imagine such an RPG. Draw your own conclusions, friends, I've already drawn mine – I will definitely buy it, possibly even a licensed copy. Then we can play multiplayer together!

What do you think? I just played it (1.5 GB distribution, takes up 2.5 GB installed) – I'm ready to kill everyone who had a hand in this. Only 3 words from the great series remain in the title. The gameplay is something in between CS and Oblivion. In general, it's terrible, comrades, terrible.

Is it really that bad, or even TERRIBLE?

Absolute! Crash! First, heroes, now Might and Magic.

It was high time for a change! And the well-crafted action system of the Might and Magic series didn't hinder it at all; on the contrary, it made it even better!

Braineater
You clearly aren't a fan of the MM series if you're saying that.

Is it really that bad, or even TERRIBLE?

In my next post, I described my impressions. If that's not terrible to you...

Why the HORROR???? Why the FAILURE???? What made you think the game would be an RPG???? All the announcements mentioned a slash/action/RPG, and within those parameters, the game could turn out to be very good. You simply fixated on what you wanted, and now you're bashing the game based on YOUR expectations.

Alan
That's the HORROR, that's the DISASTER, that we won't see a real continuation of the MM series. Shameless developers are using the name of a great series to push some kind of action game into the world. I won't judge its (in)quality as a representative of its genre, but as a representative of the Might and Magic SERIES, it has ALREADY failed because it is NOT an RPG.

Dark Messiah is a continuation not of Might & Magic, but of the game Crusader of Might & Magic, which was a third-person shooter. I understand that people were expecting an RPG, but... that's how Ubisoft decided to do it.

2 Roleplayer, you know that the Might & Magic series isn't just RPGs.