Might and Magic Might & Magic X Pre-Release Thread

[Crispy]

Better?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Sun is not smiling? Fuck off with your popamole newfag unnecessarily grimdark bullshit.

 

[Hobz]

The sun is too floaty

 

[Shadenuat]

Is the UI ergonomic, fast and responsive?
Can every command be set on a key?
Is the menu layout self-explanatory and intuitive?

And can we write macroses for our razor mouses?

It's not a MMO, huge part of old RPG's charm comes from their organic looking UI's. Fallout, BG, Lands of Lore, M&M/HoMM with their little cute jewels and pixels, that what people remember, not how responsive it is.

 

[HiddenX]

Really good old charming crpgs had no mouse interface and every command was on a key - I like it still that way, young boy.

 

[J_C]

Really good old charming crpgs had no mouse interface and every command was on a key

And controlling them was shit compared to the mouse+kb controlled UIs.

 

[Alex]

Sun is not smiling? Fuck off with your popamole newfag unnecessarily grimdark bullshit.

That is a great idea!

Really good old charming crpgs had no mouse interface and every command was on a key

And controlling them was shit compared to the mouse+kb controlled UIs.

Eh, it just takes a little getting used.

 

[HiddenX]

The early Wizardy and Apshai games are good to control with keyboard only.

I still like the key-only control of Gothic 1.

 

[mondblut]

Fallout, BG, Lands of Lore, M&M/HoMM with their little cute jewels and pixels, that what people remember, not how responsive it is.

Shit inventory, that's what people remember about Fallout gui.

 

[Shadenuat]

I still like the key-only control of Gothic 1.

The one with mouse-look?

 

[Stabwound]

Yeah, who in the world played Gothic with just the keyboard? I think you're remembering incorrectly.

 

[HiddenX]

Gothic: mouse just for looking - everything else with WSADQE+SPACE+TAB+SHIFT

 

[J_C]

Gothic: mouse just for looking - everything else with WSADQE+SPACE+TAB+SHIFT

Why do you make the game harder to control for yourself HiddenX? Are you a masochist?

 

[DoddTheSlayer]

Lol. Everyone keeps talking about Ubisofts credentials for making an RPG when it's not even them making it but Limbic.

So.....does anyone have anything to say about the credentials of those that are actually making the game.

 

[Darth Roxor]

So.....does anyone have anything to say about the credentials of those that are actually making the game.

they have neckbeards

 

[Shadenuat]

Sorting through blueberries and cakes with arrows keys was ergonomic and responsive? Damn make up your mind man, first you say it's important, then that you'd prefer WASD controls, and I did't even care for that to begin with, I just want a UI which looks like a part of world I'm in playing with a lot of items draggin/examining/combining
Cause that was fun, and 40x40 WoW icons are not fun, and not creative a bit

 

[Crispy]

40x40 WoW icons are not fun, and not creative a bit

That's the only thing about the new UI for this game that I don't particularly care for. I don't want a six-foot-long sword sharing the same icon space as a potion of light healing. But I could live with it I guess.

 

[HiddenX]

Gothic: mouse just for looking - everything else with WSADQE+SPACE+TAB+SHIFT

Why do you make the game harder to control for yourself HiddenX? Are you a masochist?

Sorting through blueberries and cakes with arrows keys was ergonomic and responsive? Damn make up your mind man, first you say it's important, then that you'd prefer WASD controls, and I did't even care for that to begin with, I just want a UI which looks like a part of world I'm in playing with a lot of items draggin/examining/combining
Cause that was fun, and 40x40 WoW icons are not fun, and not creative a bit

Piranha Bites developed Gothic 1 without mouse control in mind - it is the way Gothic is meant to be played -> just for info.
You need a bit intelligence for learning the control scheme, but then it is much better than the mouse controls.

 

[Alchemist]

Generally the UI looks decent but I'm another who wishes they'd bring back the paper-doll + variable grid + large items approach of M&M VI. The ongoing trend of representing inventory items as a bunch of tiny square icons has never jived for me - I always saw it as a step backwards. This is especially important in a blobber game where you don't normally get to see the PCs and their equipped items during gameplay.

 

[Luzur]

Generally the UI looks decent but I'm another who wishes they'd bring back the paper-doll + variable grid + large items approach of M&M VI. The ongoing trend of representing inventory items as a bunch of tiny square icons has never jived for me - I always saw it as a step backwards. This is especially important in a blobber game where you don't normally get to see the PCs and their equipped items during gameplay.

well, i guess they went for the old MM3-5 style of inventory.

 

[mondblut]

To hell with tetris inventory. Standart slots all the way.

Piranha Bites developed Gothic 1 with gamepad control in mind

Fixed for truth Gothic, a game which managed to be a console port without ever being released on a console.

 

[Shadenuat]

old MM3-5 style of inventory

That would be just a list of items without icons I think, not what we've got here, although I only remember Xeen

 

[Alchemist]

well, i guess they went for the old MM3-5 style of inventory.

MM3-5 showed items as a list though right? I'd actually prefer that rather than the square icon approach. At least then I can see what's what at a quick glance.

 

[Storyfag]

huge part of old RPG's charm comes from their organic looking UI's. Fallout, BG, Lands of Lore, M&M/HoMM with their little cute jewels and pixels, that what people remember, not how responsive it is.

This is a fair point (and one of the huge letdowns of The Witcher 2 when compared to The Witcher, to name just one example). But, as has been pointed out, the Fallout UI is shit. I'll grant you the rest though.

 

[SuicideBunny]

UI design questions that really matter:

Is the UI ergonomic, fast and responsive?
Can every command be set on a key?
Is the menu layout self-explanatory and intuitive?

ui aesthetics are important, especially in a series that used animated pixelart that served as indicators as part of its ui. one of the reasons why mm6 is shit to anyone who started with the first 5 games.