Might and Magic Might & Magic X Pre-Release Thread

[Dorateen]

But, Gozma, at the same time towns in those early games were populated and felt alive, once you walked into a room, whether it be shop or tavern or throne room. I know it's just me, but I have fond memories of the kindly wizard Nordon and his sister as early NPc questgivers. I can picture the animation of the blacksmith as he hammered away at his work, and how grateful to see his adventuring supplies. The Lords of Cron had their own personalities, and who could forget Foof, Lord Slayer's jester!

 

[Gozma]

I agree with that kind of stuff; I am not saying M&M should be played on a blank with primary colored spheres standing in for enemies or something. But it's an essentially separate appeal from verisimilitude and the sense of it being another coherent world, which has taken over a lot of "genre" fiction.

 

[Varnaan]

NWC tried to make the universe coherent while keeping the goofiness, there is a narrative going through the M&M and HoMM games or at least until the later games in both series; Ubisoft is doing the same thing except the narrative is (will be) much more linear, streamlined, obvious and "gritty" as seen in Might and Magic Heroes 6.

 

[DalekFlay]

I agree with that kind of stuff; I am not saying M&M should be played on a blank with primary colored spheres standing in for enemies or something. But it's an essentially separate appeal from verisimilitude and the sense of it being another coherent world, which has taken over a lot of "genre" fiction.

It's what a lot of people play this genre for, even the classics.

 

[Haba]

Previous Might & Magic games may have included sci-fi elements as a by-product of what was popular at the time. There were a lot of sci-fi literature, movies & television shows in the 90s. Not as many sci-fi material currently today.

Suuure.

You don't think so?

Even X-Com had that little thing X-Files (amongst others) running then.

What would you homage today? Battlestar Galactica? Prometheus?

Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

The inadequacy/stupidity of the statement isn't about what deserves homage (X files sure doesn't btw) it's about the quantity of SF in the entertainement industry (books, films, tv shows). I've lived in both eras, always craving SF (since 1977, my first SF book) and I'm positive there's way more SF now than then. Now the quality...

 

[DalekFlay]

There's a shit-ton of sci-fi on today. Waaaaaay more than when I was a kid. Quality is indeed the question.

I like modern Doctor Who, though.

 

[Gozma]

I agree with that kind of stuff; I am not saying M&M should be played on a blank with primary colored spheres standing in for enemies or something. But it's an essentially separate appeal from verisimilitude and the sense of it being another coherent world, which has taken over a lot of "genre" fiction.

It's what a lot of people play this genre for, even the classics.

I'm not denying that it's one method of appeal but I'm denying that M&M is for that, or that therefore M&M was a bad attempt at the one true goal of RPGs or something.

 

[Zeriel]

A lot of sci-fi kind of became it's own, entrenched jungle of tropes rather than the speculative, out-there role it filled in its early days, though. Sci-fi used to be synonymous with exploring what science might one day turn the real world into. Now its synonymous with space marines and gritty horror and fantasy-with-high-tech-window-dressing.

 

[Infinitron]

Meet the team: https://mightandmagicx-legacy.ubi.com/opendev/blog/post/view/51c07032888ef6495d000000

 

[groke]

someone should tell Anna that her M&M product collection sucks balls.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

So there are more community reps than designers. That's cool.

That's cool.

 

[Infinitron]

So there are more community reps than designers. That's cool.

That's cool.

(As you might imagine, not the whole dev team that works on MMX is shown in the above movie, but we tried to show you at least one person on Ubisoft’s and one on Limbic Entertainment’s side, who is responsible for a certain aspect of the production. We'll still reveal the hidden faces of all dev team members working on MMX, stay tuned! )

 

[narupley]

Deluxe Edition awww yeahhhhh

 

[FeelTheRads]

Some M&M collection that chick had. DVD cases bought from ebay especially for that video.

 

[Infinitron]

NEW STUFF

Bonus Vote #1: https://mightandmagicx-legacy.ubi.com/opendev/blog/post/view/51c2bf22888ef6fe2a000000
WHICH ARTISTIC DIRECTION DO YOU PREFER FOR THE MMX COVER?

Vote #2: https://mightandmagicx-legacy.ubi.com/opendev/blog/post/view/51c3173fe754b6f13500000e
Pick your favourite dungeon tileset

A bit about the game's creative director, Julien Pirou: https://mightandmagicx-legacy.ubi.com/opendev/blog/post/view/51c2d550e754b6ec3500000d

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

The variety ! My choice is sooo relevant, I feel like an important customer already.

Vote #2 is a bit better. But still, I hope for their sake that I'm not representative of their target audience because so far, all their cheap PR stunts make me want to slap them. Hard.

 

[Infinitron]

the unfilled Xs are more subtle and

 

[Alchemist]

the unfilled Xs are more subtle and

Agreed - I voted for B.

I wish they would commission cover art from Larry Elmore (M&M VI's cover artist), instead of having the faux old book look though. I could settle for Boris if Larry is not available.

 

[IDtenT]

Vote B.

 

[IDtenT]

Every vote, B. Next week. B. Every time B.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Best mantis since Posteer stopped posting.

 

[Stabwound]

What happened to the cheesy MM-style boxart?

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

What happened to the cheesy MM-style boxart?

Old hook, new looks.

 

[catfood]

What happened to the cheesy MM-style boxart?

Meh, I'm just glad it doesn't resemble something like this: