Editorial RPG Codex Report: The Vision Behind Might & Magic X Legacy

[Darth Roxor]

Alright I was convinced to buy it.

Great! This will make for a great distraction from temptation!

But what about all the sultry female character models?

 

[aris]

Bought and downloading the early access now! Man I can't wait

 

[godsend1989]

Diablo 2 inventory system is the best, a belt does not occupy the same space as a full plate armor and also people used to admire items in inventory until they made all of them so small... fucking idiots.

 

[Jack Dandy]

Great article. Thanks Grunk. I tried the the version they gave on Steam, the actual game systems seem really cool. If they can build a whole game on that, I think it'll end up great.

Personally, i worry more that all the people buying the early access means they won't try out the real game, and people who didn't buy the early access don't really realize the game isn't out yet and thus won't look at it when it does come out.

This. I don't have that much faith in the whole Early Access things.
Early Impressions make all the difference, and most people won't even realize this is a pre-release version.

 

[Excidium]

Fuck grid inventories. Nothing is better for the purposes of listing things than the things' actual names

 

[Sceptic]

What if Pirou is actually Sceptic

Hey now you know why I've been posting less frequently, too busy getting the game done

Nah just joking.

Thanks for a great report Grunker and Jarl. I'm becoming more and more confident that this will be good. Even the difficulty seems to now be close to 3-5, where you could cruise without dying for a while then get killed by an enemy's special attack that you did not expect. Visual style is not my thing but everything about the UI looks so functional and straightforward - another big thing with 3-5 UIs was that they were so easy to decipher even without looking at the manual. I don't know why you guys don't like the minimap - it doesn't look that different from the one in WOX, functionally.

I'm really looking forward to this.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

Ok, so i was interested when i thought it was streamlined rpg to waste time on. But now i am actually a bit hyped. I always really appreciate to see developers creativity and soul in the game. And that seems to be the case here.

 

[Sacred82]

Pirou is a red-haired, red-bearded, geek-with-glasses kind of guy. A man of average height, he has a round face and a tendency to look at the floor during conversation.

WTF is this? Teen Vogue?

 

[Infinitron]

Pirou is a red-haired, red-bearded, geek-with-glasses kind of guy. A man of average height, he has a round face and a tendency to look at the floor during conversation.

WTF is this? Teen Vogue?

 

[Absinthe]

Good to know the MMX devs actually care about the MMX series, for real for once, but are we going to get any concrete details about MMX out of this trip?

 

[Infinitron]

Good to know the MMX devs actually care about the MMX series, for real for once, but are we going to get any concrete details about MMX out of this trip?

Concrete details about a game you can buy and play right now?

 

[Metro]

Remind me not to get into a 'plane tickets' confrontation with Grunker the Giant Slayer.

 

[Grunker]

Good to know the MMX devs actually care about the MMX series, for real for once, but are we going to get any concrete details about MMX out of this trip?

The Codex already has a preview of the game, and you can buy early access. We didn't learn anything not in those, except for the itemization part which was released on the dev blog following.

Now, if we had gotten a sit-down interview with these people, then maybe we could have gone deeper on a technical gameplay sort of scale, but Gamescom sucks for this reason and more when it comes to writing. That's the theme of the last article coming up.

 

[Absinthe]

Concrete details about a game you can buy and play right now?

*whistles* Well, I admit I haven't paid any attention to MMX ('cause of the name Ubisoft). Anyone LPing it?

 

[flabbyjack]

From left to right: Arnaud Fremont (a girl?) - JarlFrank with a black eye from hitting on the girl to his right - Grunker with bags under his eyes from the constant whoring - Julien Pirou aka 'Neckbeard'​

Fixed

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

Grunker's looks really disturbing on that picture. Are those bags/rings under your eyes or you were cosplaying an undead?

 

[Excidium]

Maybe he cried he didn't get the MMX swag JarlFrank got

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

 

[Grunker]

Grunker's looks really disturbing on that picture. Are those bags/rings under your eyes or you were cosplaying an undead?

Got up at 4:30, probably I was tired as fuck.

 

[Trojan_generic]

Grunker's looks really disturbing on that picture. Are those bags/rings under your eyes or you were cosplaying an undead?

Got up at 4:30, probably I was tired as fuck.

So THAT is really The Vision Behind Might & Magic X Legacy

 

[Luzur]

Other than our own Luzur and Sceptic, it is probably safe to say that I have never met anyone who knows so much about these games.

What if Pirou is actually Sceptic [/quote]

...now that would open up a whole new interesting scenario.

 

[Hormalakh]

I know this was supposed to be a uplifting article and I hate to play the debbie downer, but I also remember another creative designer at another company that really loved a game franchise from the past and tried to recreate it. That game was XCOM and the guy who made that game was a fanatic. Different people probably have differing opinions on the newer version of that game, but enough fans weren't happy with it to tell me that someone with their heart in the right place isn't sufficient to make a game worth talking about.

 

[Infinitron]

Fuck grid inventories. Nothing is better for the purposes of listing things than the things' actual names

Inventories aren't just lists of what you have. They're also management interfaces. You need to organize your items, move them around, decide what to keep and what to drop, transfer them to containers or to other characters, etc. All of this is more intuitive with a multi-dimensional array of items.

I know this was supposed to be a uplifting article and I hate to play the debbie downer, but I also remember another creative designer at another company that really loved a game franchise from the past and tried to recreate it. That game was XCOM and the guy who made that game was a fanatic. Different people probably have differing opinions on the newer version of that game, but enough fans weren't happy with it to tell me that someone with their heart in the right place isn't sufficient to make a game worth talking about.

Good thing you can play the game or read a preview and find out for yourself, then

 

[Hormalakh]

pay $30-$50 to find out whether a game is shitty or not? I'll wait until it hits the discount bin. Just like I will with M&MX.

 

[Infinitron]

pay $30-$50 to find out whether a game is shitty or not? I'll wait until it hits the discount bin. Just like I will with M&MX.

You missed the second part of my sentence

I must say I'm pretty impressed by you, you've out-stubborned even Humanity Has Risen as far as this game goes