King's Bounty II

[markec]

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

It's actually over 3 times less than that new mobile "disciples" game. Amazing.

 

[IDtenT]

Disgusting.

They're going to drop this after the first content patch, if it makes it that far.

 

[Cyberarmy]

It's actually over 3 times less than that new mobile "disciples" game. Amazing.

Please give me a bigger

 

[fantadomat]

They will most likely release it on gog too after that glorious gamer magnit,denuvo,is removed.

 

[Sunri]

This is just sad.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

The saddest part is people in charge of multimillion businesses that should deliver us entertainment making the same idiotic mistakes time and time again despite giant "HINDSIGHT, MOTHERFUCKER!" neon signs burning their eyes out while cpt. Obvious is bumming them up the ass. Just how incompetent can you be.

 

[Ontopoly]

Consoles are the future, guys. All their players are just on console. They were smart going for console gamers considering no one on steam is even playing their game.

 

[Raghar]

That's amazing performance. Luckily, I don't measure quality games by money earned, but by actual art and game quality.

This game got 0 because of Denuvo.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

You're so full of hot takes, champ.

 

[.Pixote.]

They got what they deserved, they fucked with a successful model, though I will admit it had its problems but the fundamentals were enjoyable, and replaced it with a mediocre turd. They could have updated the graphics, gone for a more realistic approach, tinkered with certain elements, but no these geniuses had to rebuild the game in its entirety and in the process kill the series. Im reluctant to even pirate this garbage...

 

[tindrli]

King's Bounty II

this one is even better

 

[markec]

 

[Thac0]

Bit of a shame really. They had talent, and I thought the early King's Bounty games being a bit shitty was always more due to not having much money to work with.
Now they make one game that had a budget and it is a studio killing flop. I guess restriction breeds creativity stays true after all.

 

[Peachcurl]

start at the beginning

 

[cvv]

In the beginning Jon van Caneghem made the actual early King's Bounty games. Those weren't shitty, but in fact genre-defying masterpieces.

Yes, so was Civilization 1 for 4X games.

Still, if asked to recommend a good 4X games today I definitely wouldn't recommend Civilization 1.

As KB games go, the originals are Civ1. The Katauri sequels are by far the best of the IP. In fact they're some of the best RPGs ever made.

 

[Thac0]

start at the beginning

In the beginning Jon van Caneghem made the actual early King's Bounty games. Those weren't shitty, but in fact genre-defying masterpieces.

Then, the early modern King's Bounty games were made by the Space Rangers guys. Those weren't shitty either and were pretty great.

Then, the Space Rangers guys disbanded and the later modern KB games were made by no name modders with no connection to the series. Those games were shitty but it had nothing to do with the budget. See - no name modders.

And now, King's Bounty 2 is a project directly produced by the publisher's hatchetmen according to the buzzword-driven specifications from above. It's impossible to tell if they had any talent or not because they never made a King's Bounty game before. And it being a flop is completely irrelevant, seeing how the publisher can take a loss without even noticing it, and none of the people who made a good KB game have worked on the series in at least a decade.

Seeing King's Bounty 2 being a flop and going - what a shame, those guys lost their touch, is a take worthy of Dean Takahashi.

Ah I was under the impression that KB 2 was made by the Space Rangers guys aswell. Pre Space Rangers Kings Bounty I knew about, obviously I didn't meant to talk about that. I dismissed you for a retard because I thought you were talking about that, good that you clarified, my bad I didn't know KB2 is by a different team. That team is out of work now tho.

 

[IDtenT]

Yeah my guess is, we're not going to see any promised patches / content beyond what's already been delivered.

 

[Aarwolf]

I'm glad I didn't spend a penny on this piece of shit.

 

[Reinhardt]

Yeah my guess is, we're not going to see any promised patches / content beyond what's already been delivered.

and nothing of value is lost

 

[JarlFrank]

Recently started replaying The Legend and Armored Princess, and having fun. So I decided to check out this thread.

King's Bounty "2" turned out to be shit then, huh?

 

[Reinhardt]

They removed denuvo. No one cares.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Managed to incline to 230 concurrent players. Maybe if they re-add it and remove again they can beat the circa-300 of new disciples.

 

[fantadomat]

So it got denuvo kicked out and i ended up having free time,so i decided to check it out. And must admit,the combat is pretty good. One of the better tactical tb games i have played. I am kind off impressed by it lol. Far better than most generic tb garbage we getting the last few years. The battles are done in the actual map,so if you explore and up at a bridge or a ford or what eva and there is enemy there,you end up fighting it on the said bridge.

Tho must admit that the game have its problems,but it is worth checking out for people that are in to tb combat.

 

[fantadomat]

I also must add that the levelling is pretty nicely done. You have four categories with five tears for skills. So you must need x amount of points in the category to get access to the next tier,you get more points by your actions during the quests. So if you choose to help criminals,you get anarchy points,if you act honourably,you get order points,if you use magic you get magic,if you brute force yourself trough troubles you get force.