Game News Hell is freezing over: Ubisoft's Might & Magic X is actually a blobber

[Crooked Bee]

Is that the M&M X overworld I see on the leftmost screen? Here's hoping it's gonna be open-world enough.

Also, it seems to have a combat log, which is good. (In b4 that turns out to be an online chat thingy. )

 

[Charles-cgr]

Is that the M&M X overworld I see on the leftmost screen? Here's hoping it's gonna be open-world enough.

Also, it seems to have a combat log, which is good. (In b4 that turns out to be an online chat thingy. )

Looks to me like the leftmost screen is the HOMM VI expansion.

 

[Xavier0889]

Is that the M&M X overworld I see on the leftmost screen? Here's hoping it's gonna be open-world enough.

Also, it seems to have a combat log, which is good. (In b4 that turns out to be an online chat thingy. )

Those 3 screens have a little black box on a corner. May be an expo-only thingy?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Looks to me like the leftmost screen is the HOMM VI expansion.

Does it also have a row of character portraits with additional empty slots for hirelings at the bottom? Because that's what I'm seeing on that screen.

 

[Stabwound]

Now that you mention it, that IS MMX on the leftmost screen. You can see the movement UI on the left. Good eye. It's pretty sad that the only thing we have to go by is a few trailer shots and a blurry camera phone pic.

 

[MetalCraze]

You have choices, too.


You can take the blue pill, or the red pill.
You can go work for the machine, work mandatory eighty hour weeks in a massive sweatshop publisher-owned studio with hundreds of other drones, laboring to build the new, compelling photorealistic driving game-- with the same basic gameplay as Pole Position.

Or you can defy the machine.

Holy shit

From the creators of legendary cult classics Equilino: My Little Horse and Pferd & Pony, made in a studio of a drone-owning publisher comes the resurrection of Might and Magic

"Every time I press an (A)ttack button - something awesome happens"
10/10 RPG Codex Magazine

 

[Mortmal]

Yes but thats from the creators of chaos chronicles, the(yet to be proven) ressurection of TOE :

 

[Stabwound]

Another very detailed shot!

The devs are doing a special talk about the game for VIP members today, so maybe someone will actually do their job and report on it.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Looks to me like the leftmost screen is the HOMM VI expansion.

Does it also have a row of character portraits with additional empty slots for hirelings at the bottom? Because that's what I'm seeing on that screen.

Busted. I didn't even try to make out what was on the screens. One can't even rely on proper merchandising schemes anymore

 

[Gozma]

Where in the hell is ANY info on this game UBISoft? Seriously. Get a new marketing department or something.

It's a low budget game. They don't care.

It's more like that this is what it's like when people that like old school TB/grid-step blobbers are the actual target audience you are budgeting for, instead of the usual where a Codexer is an ancillary target at best. I didn't want AAA production values aimed at me during the RPG dark ages, I wanted early-mid '90s budgets and 10-20 man teams.

 

[Excidium]

Yes but thats from the creators of chaos chronicles, the(yet to be proven) ressurection of TOE :

bunch of shovelware

Are you people really this fucking retarded to judge a developer by the shit they make to get paid at the end of the month? Also, You forgot to mention they developed JA BiA.

 

[Falkner]

Yes but thats from the creators of chaos chronicles, the(yet to be proven) ressurection of TOE :

bunch of shovelware

Are you people really this fucking retarded to judge a developer by the shit they make to get paid at the end of the month? Also, You forgot to mention they developed JA BiA.

I think that is exactly what he wanted to point out to Skyway.

 

[LundB]

Yes but thats from the creators of chaos chronicles, the(yet to be proven) ressurection of TOE :

bunch of shovelware

Are you people really this fucking retarded to judge a developer by the shit they make to get paid at the end of the month? Also, You forgot to mention they developed JA BiA.

It's certainly less retarded to judge a dev based on things they've actually made (regardless of any assumptions about motivation) than to judge them based on nothing but pretty words. I prefer to see someone create at least one quality product before I'm ready to slobber all over their cock. Call me when they've released even one good game.

Also JA BiA was a flaming sack of shit and strengthens the argument against them even better than the shovelware. Because yea, of course shovelware is gonna be shit no matter how hard you work on it, but a Jagged Alliance game? Nope.

 

[Falkner]

Also, can someone please point out to me where the people in this thread were slobbering all over anyone's cock? Because I'm getting the feeling that you're really just seeing what you want to see in order to bitch about the codex and feel superior.

 

[A user named cat]

"Every time I press an (A)ttack button - something awesome happens"
10/10 RPG Codex Magazine

 

[HobGoblin42]

Yes but thats from the creators of chaos chronicles, the(yet to be proven) ressurection of TOE :

Yeah, and you 'accidentally' forgot to list the only game (beside Chaos Chronicles) that we've developed out of passion and not because we had to make a living.

http://www.ign.com/games/ion-assault/xbox-360-19337

 

[Infinitron]

Hey, HobGoblin42, did you personally work on JA:BiA? (just curious)

 

[HobGoblin42]

Hey, HobGoblin42, did you personally work on JA:BiA? (just curious)

Sure, I did. And I also worked on "The Settlers 2", "Knights and Merchants", "Spellforce 2" and many other games. Some people should realize that developing games is a job like many others - you can't pick only the cherries by developing great masterpieces. Even god himself had to work on 'Alpha Protocol' in some dark hour. At the end the people with the money decide how good a game can get.

 

[Infinitron]

Hey, HobGoblin42, did you personally work on JA:BiA? (just curious)

Sure, I did. And I also worked on "The Settlers 2", "Knights and Merchants", "Spellforce 2" and many other games.

No shit, the original Settlers 2? What was your role there?

 

[Darth Roxor]

I also worked on "Knights and Merchants"

 

[HobGoblin42]

No shit, the original Settlers 2? What was your role there?

Logic gameplay programming and other things - we've been only two coders on that project

 

[Johannes]

Until our next meeting, mortals

 

[Roguey]

Even god himself had to work on 'Alpha Protocol' in some dark hour.

Alpha Protocol is better than anything you've ever worked on. Damning with faint praise.

(It was also something Obsidian pitched to Sega and not something they were "forced" to do)

 

[HobGoblin42]

Alpha Protocol is better than anything you've ever worked on. Damning with faint praise.

Then you've never played "The Settlers 2", "Spellforce 2" or "Knights and Merchants"

(I know you prefer to ignore the reality, so just for you: metacritics are 72 for 'Alpha Protocol' and 80 for 'Spellforce 2')

 

[Roguey]

Alpha Protocol is better than anything you've ever worked on. Damning with faint praise.

Then you never played "The Settlers 2", "Spellforce 2" or "Knights and Merchants"

I don't like RTSes so I'd still prefer AP more.