Master of Magic

[Deyja]

Who have ever played MASTER OF MAGIC from the good old days ?

Too bad it never had a sequel.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPnUd2kB ... re=related

[Angelspit]

Elemental: War of Magic from Stardock appears to be the sequel we've been dreaming about.

[Deyja]

Elemental: War of Magic from Stardock appears to be the sequel we've been dreaming about.

I have seen & heard about it.
Looks fun when it comes out ^^

[Asheera]

Never played Master of Magic but I heard it was excellent and I will try out this Elemental: War of Magic

[Metathron]

What she said.

[AngelEyes]

MoM was a terrific game and definitely deserves a worthy sequel!

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

I would be nice to have a MOM sequel.

If you haven't played Age of Wonders 2:Shadow Magic I recommend you try it. I've always considered it to be the successor to MOM. Shadow Magic is a stand alone expansion of AOW2. Aditionally, there is a fan made patch (unoficial version 1.4) that I recommend.

http://aow2.heavengames.com/

I'm sure Stardock will do a great job in their version of MOM.

[Deyja]

I would be nice to have a MOM sequel.

If you haven't played Age of Wonders 2:Shadow Magic I recommend you try it. I've always considered it to be the successor to MOM. Shadow Magic is a stand alone expansion of AOW2. Aditionally, there is a fan made patch (unoficial version 1.4) that I recommend.

http://aow2.heavengames.com/

I'm sure Stardock will do a great job in their version of MOM.

yes i have played it, also thanks for the tip

[ThunderTitan]

I'm sure Stardock will do a great job in their version of MOM.

Way to jinx it man: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65443

Man, that is so sad...

[klaymen]

Man, that is so sad...

Do you know what is more sad? That Stardock's Gamer's bill of rights, which Brad "whiny brat" Wardell (Stardock CEO) so boasted about.

“2. Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.” - ORLY?

In other words:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08 ... of-rights/

It seems that Demigod launch failure was not enough for them to learn, but w/e.

[ThunderTitan]

If you bothered to check out the links in the article i linked to you'd see that once head got cooler they did apologise and admitted they made a huge mistake... so at least there's that.

And the bill of rights thing is still on their website.


I think this is a great example of why at least the final beta stage should include the full game (of course with no SP missions, maps or models etc.) so you can see if the game is indeed ready for release on the multitude of PC configs out there and other stuff.


and wasn't Demigod a GPG release?! (plus, the problem there was that they stupidly made the game connect to their servers on it's own, pirated or not).

[ThunderTitan]

Hey klay, i think youo're gonna like this:

This kills the PC gaming. Bad console ports, bad numberless sequels of shit from big producers like EA & Actiblizzion, delayed until forever and cancellation of seemingly good games from giants like Valve and Id, bad copy-cat adibas panashiba games from eastern (russian, chinese, koreean etc) companies and, finally, poorly designed, untested, disastrous games from small companies who show a little potential.
Not piracy! Those of the above.

[Kristo]

Ironically, the death of the PC gaming mass market might be the best thing that ever happened to it. You're always complaining about how games are made for the masses to buy rather than to actually be good. If the masses aren't buying games anymore, then the only hope anyone has is for games to actually be good. If your game sucks in such a world, you'd actually make no money.

[ThunderTitan]

Problem is that they are buying games... console games... that then get ported to the PC... or both versions are made at the same time, but the emphasis is on making it "work" on the console, and we get mediocre titles because of it, especially for genres that don't sell all that well on consoles anyway. Genocide is still the only way to make sure I say...

EDIT: Plus, Pc gaming isn't dying, people just have stupid sales expectations because how much some console games sell... i'm willing to bet that sales for Pc games have been stable, if not rising over the last decade, just not as much as console game sales.

[klaymen]

If you bothered to check out the links in the article i linked to you'd see that once head got cooler they did apologise and admitted they made a huge mistake... so at least there's that.

If that bill of rights was not just a PR BS and he would uphold it, he would not have to apologize for anything.

and wasn't Demigod a GPG release?!

Yes, it was a GPG release, however Brad The Self-Righteous was just spewing all over at anyone who dared to point out the flaws.

If your game sucks in such a world, you'd actually make no money.

Though if your game sucks and you don't have balls to admit it, you can still blame pirates.

[ThunderTitan]

If that bill of rights was not just a PR BS and he would uphold it, he would not have to apologize for anything.

C'mon, no one can actually be perfect all the time...

[klaymen]

Actually, from someone always being on the high ground, someone claiming that his DD service is the second largest worldwide after Steam (which is a flat out lie, since many games on Impulse are regionally more restricted than Soviet gulag) I expect nothing less, but the perfection all the time.
Or stopping with the empty boasts, though that is unlikely.

[ThunderTitan]

Wait what other services like Steam and Impulse are there?!

[Kristo]

Wow, klaymen, still bringing the hate? This story is two weeks old. That's an eternity in Internet time.