Shadowcat on 9/10/2005 at 23:43
Hi CyberBlutch. Summer where? Could you maybe just give a Q1/2/3/4 estimation instead?
twisty on 9/10/2005 at 23:51
Or better yet, a source for the claim.
piln on 31/10/2005 at 15:48
IGN, Gamespy have it listed as "Summer 2006" release in the US. Gamespot says "Q3 2006."
Auriel on 31/10/2005 at 20:02
Quote Posted by piln
IGN, Gamespy have it listed as "Summer 2006" release in the US. Gamespot says "Q3 2006."
Same thing, as far as i know the first quarter is the last quarter of the previous year. ermm
Shadowcat on 1/11/2005 at 01:06
Go with the Q3 version. "Q3" means the same thing no matter where you are, and "summer" doesn't, ergo companies announcing release dates in a particular season are stupid and so more likely to be wrong.
CyberBlutch on 1/11/2005 at 12:15
The current statment is that the game will be finished for May 2006... After that, all will depend of the strategie of the editor. They are currently aiming for a July release, but once again, this could be changed depending of the marketing project...
piln on 2/11/2005 at 14:58
Only negative thing I have to say at this stage is that I wish I hadn't found out about the game until later. Got to bloody wait now... :rolleyes:
The_Caped_Eluder on 2/11/2005 at 17:03
Right, well this looks sort of what I would have expected Arx2 to look like...
But I have never played a "Heroes of Might and Magic" Game, so I don't really know what to expect... The closest thing would be "Might and Magic (some number here)", which I imagine is connected to the aforementioned franchise in some way...
Oh well, I guess It's just a matter of waiting to see what they've done :0
TF on 2/11/2005 at 17:29
I thought it only had a connection to those first person perspective RPGs Might&Magic, and not Heroes of Might&Magic?
If so, then I'm more erect for this game than previously thought.
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Ubisoft played a more over-arching role: Erwan Le Breton and Richard Dansky worked a lot on the Might and Magic universe and background that we share with Heroes of Might and Magic franchise
Oh right, it isn't more related to HMM than M&M was. Still hot. HUNNNNG FROST FISTS
piln on 3/11/2005 at 00:05
Quote Posted by The_Caped_Eluder
But I have never played a "Heroes of Might and Magic" Game, so I don't really know what to expect...
This looks & reads to be Arx 2 without the name and, I guess, without the rune-drawing. Gameplay-wise, comparing DM to M&M is like comparing an acid flashback to my granny... they ain't much alike. A fact that the M&M hardcore are getting all menstrual about over on the official Ubisoft boards. I recommend an occasional visit over there with message of hope and good cheer, because their negativity is doing my head right in... and if the dev's frequent those boards, it can't be very encouraging (having said that, I imagine the Fench forum will be their first port of call, and I have no idea what the score is there).
Might & magic was an unusual RPG series where you'd control a whole party of up to 8 (I think) from a single first-person viewpoint, and you could switch the action between realtime and turn-based. Nothing exceptional beyond that, IMO. Huge overland areas, bloated Tolkeinesque stories, heavy on the paperwork like most "traditional" RPGs. The fans want M&M 10 and Dark Messiah quite plainly isn't it, so sulking is well-and-truly underway.
Heroes of Might and Magic are strategy spin-offs, and that's about all I know. I remember the third of these getting pretty good reviews; Ubisoft now have Heroes 5 in the works to come out before Dark Messiah (don't know who the developer is). In the past, there have been a couple of action spin-offs to the M&M series, "Crusaders of" and "Legends of," both of which were pretty dire by all accounts. Given that many of the M&M crowd are unfamiliar with Arx or Arkane, I suppose this makes it understandable that they are worried about Dark Messiah... but I still wish they'd quit their bloody moaning ;)
