Game News Polygon reports on Might & Magic X Legacy at PAX East, game to be released in September

[Syl]

you can switch between them on the fly — even within a turn

What does that mean? It sounds like they're trying to describe some kind of phase-based combat system and don't know how?

Exactly my thoughts.

I wonder what they mean by "with each step, something may or may not happen".

Same for this. Seems like a description of turn-based for retards (popamole crowd who only know real-time).

 

[UnknownBro]

Le Breton estimated that Might and Magic X Legacy will take about 25 hours to complete.

 

[Dorateen]

It's a typo from this somewhat questionable journ-o-list. Meant to write 250 hours.

If only...

 

[Luzur]

I wonder what they mean by "with each step, something may or may not happen". Is it a random thing, like a roguelike?

Sounds like MM1 and 2. But I can't imagine them going that far back to the roots.

Poor uninformative article, there zero news info into that , "Might and Magic X Legacy is being developed with an "actively involved" community" id like to know what is that community , as far as i know none asked us our opinions, and theres no info on rpgwatch, nor on any abandonware forums .

Isn't Celestial Heaven the main Might&Magic community? I wonder if that is the "actively involved community"? I'm not a member and I only read it very irregularly, but I know Luzur is a regular there.

well, ive checked around Heroes Round Table forum and i found no posts from any Ubisoft devs, mayhaps they mean their official Ubisoft forums?

i dunno.

 

[Cyberarmy]

It's a typo from this somewhat questionable journ-o-list. Meant to write 250 hours.

If only...

Nope it's 2,5



And 25 is somewhat great, for nowadays gaming standarts for singleplayer.

 

[Luzur]

this makes me kinda sad though:

http://might-and-magic.ubi.com/univ...ails-news.aspx?c=tcm:21-88445&ct=tcm:6-231-32

i remember a time when you had to fight your way down through hordes of Demons and whatnot and take a swig from the fountain deep in the bowels of the Maze From Hell to become one, now all you need is a card from PAX.

 

[DrChopper]

http://www.destructoid.com/pax-might-magic-x-is-retro-in-all-the-right-places-249516.phtml

Interesting. Is he saying that you can move on every direction(like mm6-7-8) but still possible to move north/south/east/west like the first games?

 

[evdk]

this makes me kinda sad though:

http://might-and-magic.ubi.com/univ...ails-news.aspx?c=tcm:21-88445&ct=tcm:6-231-32

i remember a time when you had to fight your way down through hordes of Demons and whatnot and take a swig from the fountain deep in the bowels of the Maze From Hell to become one, now all you need is a card from PAX.

Visit PAX is worse, bro. But worry not, kind Ubisoft will no doubt allow you to brave the horrors of online payment gateways, dispatching foul data entry fields with your father's credit card. Adventure!

 

[jewboy]

It should be interesting to see how they sell step based movement. I would have thought they would try to downplay it like Interplay did with Stonekeep. So far I guess it's something along the lines of "things happen instantly when you move instantly". Well, they're not going to convince any skeptics with that, but presumably they don't care. They are just going for the niche players who prefer MM1-5 to MM6-8. It should be interesting to see if they actually go all the way back and attempt to copy as many aspects of MM1 as they can. The rabbit in the hat here sounds more like mimicry than creativity.

 

[Alex]

In before cool-downs.

Joke's on you, because spells in previous M&Ms had cooldowns. I think it was called recovery rate or something like that.

As far as I remember, only the later M&Ms had this (from M&M6 and on) and even then, it was a recovery time, not a cooldown. The difference is that a cooldown won't allow you to use that specific abiliy, but you are otherwise free to act as you want. A recovery time, means you character can't act for a while, until enough time has elapsed.

 

[flushfire]

I'm genuinely wondering here, what is the point of step movement? Besides being console/tablet-friendly?

 

[deuxhero]

It makes cartography 2000 times easier.

Not that they would ever go THAT "old school".

 

[flushfire]

oh. I thought "with each step, something may or may not happen" meant the game had step movement.

 

[Excidium]

oh. I thought "with each step, something may or may not happen" meant the game had step movement.

It has.

 

[Stabwound]

I'm genuinely wondering here, what is the point of step movement? Besides being console/tablet-friendly?

Much easier to develop a game of this style than free roaming/action, I would guess. Also, it's an homage to the early games of the series (1-5) which were in this style. I don't really see it making its way to tablets, but that would be sad.

 

[commie]

Le Breton estimated that Might and Magic X Legacy will take about 25 hours to complete.

Yay, a TB Crawler for the working family man!!!









Why am I not happy?

I'm genuinely wondering here, what is the point of step movement? Besides being console/tablet-friendly?

It's a typo from this somewhat questionable journ-o-list. Meant to write 250 hours.

If only...

Nope it's 2,5



And 25 is somewhat great, for nowadays gaming standarts for singleplayer.

Maybe if it was a FPS, but even Bethturds and Biowhore efforts are from substantially to several times longer.

 

[Haba]

DA:O: 40 hours (15 hours for just the main quest)
Fallout 3: 30 hours (10 hours for just the main quest)
Mass Effect: 30 hours (more if you are a retard who likes scanning planets)

Now why did we stop handing out dumbfuck tags again?

25 hours of potentially good old skool blobber gameplay v.s. 300+ hours of eating shit in Skyturd. Which is better and why?

 

[Excommunicator]

The only thing I've seen so far that annoys me is the fact that this Polygon report is basically the only bit of reporting anywhere for this game so far and it only has 1 comment

megazver
Grid-based? Really? Yeesh.

Only 1 person commented and they don't seem to even be a fan of these types of games? They must be doing a horrible job of promoting this. Are their expectations that low? Or do they not really care what happens to the game? If this is to be anything more than a highly unlikely one-off well-meaning commercial failure then they're going to need to get much, much more exposure for it

 

[mondblut]

For Might & Magic, 25 hours is an average starting area. Sheesh.

 

[Volourn]

"For Might & Magic, 25 hours is an average starting area. Sheesh."

Only if you are a fukkin' retart. Or your definition of 'average starting area' is over half the fukkin' game. L0LZ

 

[Q]

Found some screen with skills and inventory on the russian site: http://might-and-magic.ru/page-al-v...acy_namechen_na_sentjabr_2013-comments-1.html

 

[Tigg]

Will we be able to levitate in this? No modern cRPGs have this option anymore...

 

[octavius]

Found some screen with skills and inventory on the russian site: http://might-and-magic.ru/page-al-v...acy_namechen_na_sentjabr_2013-comments-1.html

Definitely looks most like MM3-5. Good news for most oldfags, I guess, but personally I prefered 1-2 and 6-7.
Still, it should be an incline compared to most AAA shit released the past 6-7 years.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Found some screen with skills and inventory on the russian site: http://might-and-magic.ru/page-al-v...acy_namechen_na_sentjabr_2013-comments-1.html

They look a bit promising, at least no console shit inventory list also cant see a quest compass.
I wonder if we still need teachers/masters for getting better at skills,
second screenshot has apples in it! I hope our party get mad/dead for waiting on same place for days and portraits showing status effects.

 

[norolim]

Wow. An actual inventory, instead of a drop-down menu. Nice touch Also, combat log confirmed and a quest log insted of quest pointers and golden trails. Looks promising.

I also noticed the little icon/meter in the bottom right corner: day/night cycle??