Might and Magic Might & Magic X Pre-Release Thread

[Lonely Vazdru]

so why being upset so much?

Well, anger is what gives a codexer his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.

 

[Haba]

I just don't get the whole obsession with maps.

Old games used to come with those fancy maps, yet I don't think I've ever spent more than two minutes looking at one.

A really awesome manual? I'm in! A cloth map? Who cares?

 

[IDtenT]

A map can be useful. For instance like in Morrowind. But then again, looking at the map is out of character - so...

 

[Visbhume]

A really awesome manual? I'm in! A cloth map? Who cares?

Maps can be beautiful and intriguing in themselves. A couple of links:

http://www.imaginaryatlas.com/
http://www.imaginaryatlas.com/2013/05/16/iconic-town/

http://www.fantasticmaps.com/

When I looked at a game map before starting to play, it wetted my appetite for adventure. "Oh, look at all these cool places! I wonder when I will reach that!"

I still remember my relish at the Might & Magic and Ultima VII maps. I agree cloth maps may be overkill, though.

 

[HobGoblin42]

this...this is...this is beautiful !

 

[LeStryfe79]

That's one of the worst maps I've ever seen. There has to be at least one artist on that team that could do a better job in half a day's work. WTF is going on over there?

 

[HobGoblin42]

This guy creates pretty nice fantasy maps of different styles: http://fantasy-maps.com/

 

[Crooked Bee]

this...this is...this is beautiful !

It actually is. Wizardry FTW

 

[grdja]

vs.

Why?

Well its so completely empty they will have to add stuff to that map. But yes style is terrible and it screams "tablet/Facebook game". As esteemed codexer couple posts below said, because of macfag "artists" pushing their style on everything. Sterility for the win.

 

[HobGoblin42]

It also screams "quick photoshop effects" vs "hand-painted pulp fantasy" (which we all love)

 

[theSavant]

When I looked at a game map before starting to play, it wetted my appetite for adventure. "Oh, look at all these cool places! I wonder when I will reach that!"

I would agree, if it weren't like that:
After drooling over the awesome map for warm-up I enter the game and instantly need to puke. I feel cheated when looking at maps made with extensive love for detail, and then entering the ingame landscape with absolutely no love to detail and abstract ugly geometry. Might & Magic is a perfect example of that.

 

[tindrli]

Ye, even I can use CC3 alright and I can't draw for shit. That said, I don't think the map is that bad, it just looks kind of small.

wait....wait.. dont tell im its a whole map??? i thought that it was a part of the map ( 2 inch) of the whole named SHANTIRI’S RUINS

 

[Visbhume]

I would agree, if it weren't like that:
After drooling over the awesome map for warm-up I enter the game and instantly need to puke. I feel cheated when looking at maps made with extensive love for detail, and then entering the ingame landscape with absolutely no love to detail and abstract ugly geometry.

Oh well, sometimes the anticipation is good enough by itself. A game world will seldom live up to one's imagination.

I like this map of William Hope Hogdson's Night Land:

http://fiction.eserver.org/novels/nightland/map.html

I kind of makes it look like an 8-bit console adventure! I would like to see game maps with similarly mysterious and evocative names.

 

[Zed]

This guy creates pretty nice fantasy maps of different styles: http://fantasy-maps.com/

Very cool. I hope CC has some cool maps

 

[warmonger3]

I remember how I was looking forward to M&M 9, and how enraged I was that they insisted it was a M&M game it was a nightmare though I will admit I liked the dungeon design but that is it.
I have hope X will be more of a M&M game than 9 was but I have a feeling the old style of M&M games like Xeen are better left replayed.
They obviously can't make a better game than Xeen anyway.
If they could revisit that art style Xeen has then they might capture more of an old M&M feel, and for God's sake give us an updated Acromage in the Taverns! But it doesn't seem to be their intention so far....

 

[Luzur]

When I looked at a game map before starting to play, it wetted my appetite for adventure. "Oh, look at all these cool places! I wonder when I will reach that!"

I would agree, if it weren't like that:
After drooling over the awesome map for warm-up I enter the game and instantly need to puke. I feel cheated when looking at maps made with extensive love for detail, and then entering the ingame landscape with absolutely no love to detail and abstract ugly geometry. Might & Magic is a perfect example of that.

well, you know you are welcome to go and play other RPG's, like Dragon Age I-II.

 

[Mortmal]

I just don't get the whole obsession with maps.

Old games used to come with those fancy maps, yet I don't think I've ever spent more than two minutes looking at one.

A really awesome manual? I'm in! A cloth map? Who cares?

A real box , a map , an awesome manual and some moonstone with it, we had all of this. On a few floppies, very polished games with a real care to details, thats something all great rpgs have in common the care to details . I 've yet to see anything hinting at that about MMX , rather that they are putting the minimum effort possible into it.
Its a whole, if it was possible 20 years ago id like to see it happen again. No cloth map is the first(small ) step to the decline .

 

[theSavant]

well, you know you are welcome to go and play other RPG's, like Dragon Age I-II.

Grrr

 

[octavius]

Well its so completely empty they will have to add stuff to that map. But yes style is terrible and it screams "tablet/Facebook game". As esteemed codexer couple posts below said, because of macfag "artists" pushing their style on everything. Sterility for the win.

Heh,"desaturated popamole hipster Facebook game graphics" was the first thing I thought when I saw that map.

 

[mindx2]

That really is a half-hearted attempt at a map. Look at where the river flows into the sea. I mean, really? They don't have anyone who can use CC3?

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

The sea itself does scream in pain.

 

[mindx2]

The sea itself does scream in pain.

 

[FeelTheRads]

I just don't get the whole obsession with maps.

Old games used to come with those fancy maps, yet I don't think I've ever spent more than two minutes looking at one.

A really awesome manual? I'm in! A cloth map? Who cares?

So... you don't get why some people are interested in things you don't care about.

How do you live with these struggles?

 

[theSavant]

ad river issue: I see no problem here. Looks to me like a waterfall. High cliffs separating land from sea.

 

[Luzur]

Well its so completely empty they will have to add stuff to that map. But yes style is terrible and it screams "tablet/Facebook game". As esteemed codexer couple posts below said, because of macfag "artists" pushing their style on everything. Sterility for the win.

Heh,"desaturated popamole hipster Facebook game graphics" was the first thing I thought when I saw that map.

mayhaps its one of those maps you have to fill in as you go, like in TES? but yeah they gotta work abit more on it.