Might and Magic The Might and Magic Discussion Thread

[Edmund Spenser]

It's for Mastering. Getting Dark master is easy. Light master is a lot trickier because you can't just nuke the world into acceptance

 

[Lacrymas]

Dungeons really have declined since the olden days, haven't they? The first two dungeons in MM6 are huge and sprawling, crawling with enemies that will win the attrition war if you couldn't rest or go back to town. Both of them devolve into brown corridors/caves in the end, though, but it somehow adds to the atmosphere and I'm not annoyed by it.

 

[Sceptic]

I think it's kinda fun to find the ruins-under-the-temple corridors in these, like you said it adds a lot to the atmosphere. I remember particularly liking it in Abandoned Temple.

Also, if you think these are good, just wait until you get to the Temple of Baa and Tomb of VARN.

And Castle Darkmoor

Glad to see you're enjoying the game. It's big and long, maybe a little too long, and I start feeling a bit of fatigue by the time I get to the end, but it's still one of the best exploration-focused games ever made.

It's for Mastering. Getting Dark master is easy. Light master is a lot trickier because you can't just nuke the world into acceptance

There's one MQ that I think sets your fame to Saintly, not to mention almost all quests raise your fame, so it's not that hard. Also I think you can raise fame by donating to temples. I don't remember ever having a problem mastering both schools.

 

[Edmund Spenser]

There's one MQ that I think sets your fame to Saintly, not to mention almost all quests raise your fame, so it's not that hard. Also I think you can raise fame by donating to temples. I don't remember ever having a problem mastering both schools.

You can donate up to one rank above Neutral I think, and good fame will fade with time so you kinda need to plan ahead a bit, but yeah. I just meant it's harder than literally casting one spell.

 

[Lacrymas]

Yeap, it's a pretty cool game once you are in the mindset to enjoy a blobber in general. I wouldn't have populated the game with so many enemies, it does kinda feel like the RPG version of Serious Sam, but eh, that's a small grievance. I haven't even properly gotten into the meat of things yet but it's still way more compelling than the nu-RPGs. It might be the novelty factor of just now starting to appreciate blobbers, but I think being a good game also plays into it.

 

[MajorMace]

it does kinda feel like the RPG version of Serious Sam

It'll become Serious Sam soon enough, don't you worry...

 

[Curratum]

Ok, you fucknuts, I've just got M&M 8 in the GOG sale, and am going to give it another chance.

Why 8? Because a) it's the only one that has a wide view and the interface is not made by monkeys and b) everyone says it's the shortest and this is a positive in my book, when the long ones take 150 hours.

 

[octavius]

Personally I spent much more time finishing Jagged Alliance 2 that I did with any of the M&M games. Their length are exaggerated IMO, or people spend far too much time grinding and other autistic things that are not needed to win.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Yeap, it's a pretty cool game once you are in the mindset to enjoy a blobber in general. I wouldn't have populated the game with so many enemies, it does kinda feel like the RPG version of Serious Sam, but eh, that's a small grievance. I haven't even properly gotten into the meat of things yet but it's still way more compelling than the nu-RPGs. It might be the novelty factor of just now starting to appreciate blobbers, but I think being a good game also plays into it.

If you think the game has too many enemies and you're in Goblinwatch, I don't think you're going to make it through the whole thing.

And MM6 is one of those games that you like despite the combat. For combat, the earlier MMs (especially 1&2) are without question superior.

You play MM6 for the sheer amount of things to do and the freedom to explore and find weird shit out of the way that developers cared enough to put there. Cool dungeon layouts, too.

 

[Darth Roxor]

You play MM6 for the sheer amount of things to do and the freedom to explore and find weird shit out of the way that developers cared enough to put there. Cool dungeon layouts, too.

speak for yourself

i played it for all the ways it can be broken/exploited

 

[Lacrymas]

If you think the game has too many enemies and you're in Goblinwatch, I don't think you're going to make it through the whole thing.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If it turns out it's too much, I'll just stop.

 

[octavius]

MM6 has the advantage that you can both play it much like a FPS, and use strafuing and backpedaling while shooting arrows.
Or you can play "fair" and play it turn based only.
Or mix the styles any way you want.

 

[Lacrymas]

Turn-based will probably be excruciatingly slow when the real enemies start popping up.

 

[Alkarl]

Turn-based will probably be excruciatingly slow when the real enemies start popping up.

At that point it's mostly about countering resistances though. You'll definitely wanna use TB more often once enemies are able to spam high-level spells at your backside while you're running out of range. Where you're at right now, there isn't a whole lot of that, if any at all, but you're getting close. There are a few enemies in the vicinity of Castle Ironfist (one of the dungeons) that pissed me off so much the first time I came across it, I skipped that area til midgame.

 

[Great Deceiver]

All this talk of MM6 had me thinking of this particular tune:



It's embedded into my brain.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Personally, I'm partial to this tune from MM8. For some reason I remember it the best from the entire series

 

[T. Reich]

Talking about memorable music, here's my favourite from MM7:

 

[Lacrymas]

M&M, both Heroes and the blobbers, have always had great music, even the music that is playing in New Sorpigal catches the ear as something unusually good.

 

[Edmund Spenser]

Just wait till you get to Free Haven!

 

[Ravness]

Currently on sale on GOG, any recommendations? I'm considering either 6 or 7 to grab while I'm currently playing through Heroes of might and magic 3

 

[J_C]

M&M, both Heroes and the blobbers, have always had great music, even the music that is playing in New Sorpigal catches the ear as something unusually good.

I will never forget that tune, it is burnt into my brain. Love it.

 

[madrigal]

Currently on sale on GOG, any recommendations? I'm considering either 6 or 7 to grab while I'm currently playing through Heroes of might and magic 3

Buy 6 pack and then play mm2.

 

[Storyfag]

Personally, I'm partial to this tune from MM8. For some reason I remember it the best from the entire series

This one is the best

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Currently on sale on GOG, any recommendations? I'm considering either 6 or 7 to grab while I'm currently playing through Heroes of might and magic 3

Get em both

 

[Lacrymas]

Yes, get all of them. They are like 5 euro. As far as I know, only 9 is a bit iffy because it's unfinished and extremely rushed. I have no idea if any unofficial patches fix it or not.