Might and Magic The Might and Magic Discussion Thread

[Eisen]

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Difference being ?

Look at the cleric
EDIT: The skin

 

[Butter]

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Difference being ?

Look at the guy's skin tone.

 

[Mauman]

Ah yes, I remember being very confused by all of the purple people when playing MM2 as a wee lad.

 

[wishbonetail]

SNES version almost looks like a remake. Too bad it's incredibly laggy due to a SNES' anemic CPU.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Hmmm... snes gfx, upgraded sound, on the PC. Where da mod?

Just avoid the genesis version; it sounds like the plague. Here! Hava a taste again:


If you can get past that, I applaud you.

 

[0sacred]

I've heard worse.

Also the lazy(?) guys who did the SNES port made every new character start with 200 gold, i.e. infinite gold (Wizards&Warriors did this too but prices in that game meant this was only mildly useful). In the Genesis version, only one (premade) character carries 200 gold.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Comparing gfx again... Amiga wins I guess.

Mobygames
Hardcore Gaming 101
C64 Sets
I'll have to scour for more c64 gfx. Site it lacking

Mobygames got a new look. Meh. GameFAQ looks a little different. Fandom is moving. Honestly, I rarely see a gaming shrine that is as complete as I would like. There an ultima one that is pretty good.

 

[Mauman]

I've heard worse.

Also the lazy(?) guys who did the SNES port made every new character start with 200 gold, i.e. infinite gold (Wizards&Warriors did this too but prices in that game meant this was only mildly useful). In the Genesis version, only one (premade) character carries 200 gold.

The SNES port had issues beyond that. One of the biggest problems is that you're unable to level up hirelings.

Hmmm... snes gfx, upgraded sound, on the PC. Where da mod?

Just avoid genesis soubd like the plague. Here! Hava a taste again:


If you can get past that, I applaud you.

Spoiler

At least the Genesis version was playable without any serious issues, unlike the SNES version.

But how do you make the music from the Genesis sound board sound WORSE than the plonks from my old EGA computer? Just HOW?!

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

There are a lot of genesis worse music vids that try to explain it.

 

[Mauman]

Ya know, I was replaying the Bard's Trilogy remaster and I started thinking to myself that it'd be great if someone did a graphical/UI remaster of MM 1 and 2.

Of course, I imagine my wish would be monkey pawed and turned into a god awful mess....but it'd be nice if it happened and if whoever did it did a good job.

 

[Luzur]

Ya know, I was replaying the Bard's Trilogy remaster and I started thinking to myself that it'd be great if someone did a graphical/UI remaster of MM 1 and 2.

Of course, I imagine my wish would be monkey pawed and turned into a god awful mess....but it'd be nice if it happened and if whoever did it did a good job.

I worked on a MM1 remake (i scouted and traced textures) along with a guy named Wyzardry some....15/20+ years ago, but it fizzled out after he just vanished one winter.

 

[Broseph]

I admit that I do put on rose-colored glasses when it comes to the classics, and I do and have give(n) M&M X its due praise, but no one is going to come here to this particular website and denigrate the Might & Magic series on a whole and not have me throw my cane and dentures at them in protest.

Might & Magic is a classic series for sure, but let’s not forget that World of Xeen is literally popamole.

 

[octavius]

It's funny that the most "accessible" of all the classic turn based CRPGs is the one that has mole popping.

 

[Ryan muller]

playing world of xeen right now, not feeling it as it is for now, it feels quite dull in some areas (food system, extremely fast leveling, broken economy, no punishment for resting), atleast dungeons are somewhat decent and i like the artstyle a lot

 

[Barbalos]

I found the balancing just like an afterthought in World of Xeen, since you can get a ton of early experience by doing early parts of Darkside that can trivialize the game. I also really missed the Corak's notes flavour lore from MM III: Isles of Terra, which Xeen completely lacks. The quest log is pretty cool in Xeen though. Beyond that, the sometimes great, and oftentimes really bad monster graphics in Xeen made me like it less than MM III where everything was consistently solid. To be fair though, MM III was the first dungeon crawler with an overworld and towns I played (something I really like in Dungeon Crawlers, to the point I don't play Dungeon Crawlers unless they have an overworld with towns and castles and such). Xeen is good, the quests are cool and the quest dialogue is pretty great too. But I like MM III more. Another benefit for MM III is that the sound is a LOT easier to set up than Xeen, especially on modern machines where you might use emulators like MUNT to get MT-32 sounds, and avoiding arrow sounds all the time, and the weird door opening sounds is just such a pain to get working correctly in Xeen. And I don't find the spoken dialogue adds very much to Xeen either, it gets repetitive and it's really nothing special imo. So overall I prefer MM III quite a lot more.

 

[Butter]

Isles of Terra also had RPCs, something they cut in Xeen (I suspect purely for UI design reasons).

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I can't recall if different platforms playing Xeen are much different. A slight more challenge is Swords of Xeen.

 

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Might and Magic 1 with Xeen User Interface - March 2023

A progress update of my current work implementing a Xeen look and feel for the Might and Magic Book One game. With this update you can see some of the new title screen and party selection, along with the in-game view and several common locations like training and the taverns using the Xeen equivalents.

 

[Luzur]

Might and Magic 1 with Xeen User Interface - March 2023

A progress update of my current work implementing a Xeen look and feel for the Might and Magic Book One game. With this update you can see some of the new title screen and party selection, along with the in-game view and several common locations like training and the taverns using the Xeen equivalents.

looks cool, now add in the Xeen or MM3 textures to the main game aswell

 

[Ysaye]

Might and Magic 1 with Xeen User Interface - March 2023

A progress update of my current work implementing a Xeen look and feel for the Might and Magic Book One game. With this update you can see some of the new title screen and party selection, along with the in-game view and several common locations like training and the taverns using the Xeen equivalents.

looks cool, now add in the Xeen or MM3 textures to the main game aswell

I don't know, I am more nostalgic for that MacIntosh look (windowed with mouse buttons) implementing the Apple 2 textures, maybe recreated in Windows or for full prestige in Linux Unbuntu. Of course arguably a version for Apple Mac might also make historical sense.....

 

[TheDeveloperDude]

I am playing Might and Magic VI: Mandate of Heaven with a solo knight. Do you know how difficult that is? Dragging three corpses behind me?

 

[lukaszek]

I am playing Might and Magic VI: Mandate of Heaven with a solo knight. Do you know how difficult that is? Dragging three corpses behind me?

easier than solo mm8 - your dead corpses can carry things, like big coffin taking half of your inv space

 

[Ryan muller]

finished world of xeen, yeah, quite disappointing

Ive heard 6 is quite similar in gameplay so i should pass it by now and sometime i will probably delve into 1 and 2 instead

 

[Broseph]

finished world of xeen, yeah, quite disappointing

Ive heard 6 is quite similar in gameplay so i should pass it by now and sometime i will probably delve into 1 and 2 instead

6 is not really all that similar to Xeen in gameplay. Yes it’s still a dungeon crawling blobber but the environments are in 3D allowing for some of the best and most memorable dungeons in the series, it has free roaming movement instead of grid-based and you can switch between real time and turn-based combat on the fly. It’s the pinnacle of M&M gameplay IMO.

 

[octavius]

1, 2 and 6 are all very good and have superior gameplay to the Xeen games. Play them all.