Paradox takes a throw at the MoM/FFH2/Elemental thing

[Stormwaltz]

Warlock: Master of the Arcane is a new turned-based strategy game set in the fantastical world of Ardania, popularized in Majesty franchise.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/warlock-master-of-the-arcane

[Nebu]

Check out the intro video.  It may be the worst Sean Connery impersonation I've ever heard.

[Vaiti]

Can't stop laughing at it now.

[Merusk]

Why won't they stop fucking the corpse of my beloved MoM.   Why.  

So many attempts.  So many failures. /sigh

"Dozens of spells"  "Three Races!"

Fuck you, Paradox.  Fuck you.

[Lantyssa]

I'd be perfectly fine with someone taking MoM and doing nothing more than updating the graphics.

I wonder if Civ V is flexible enough to reproduce the game.  *ponder*

[Merusk]

Had I the coding ability or the cash to fund it I'd have done exactly that long ago.  I still play it via DOSBox but it's getting really hard on the eyes with the larger monitors these days.

[Ingmar]

Re: the narrator, that's just the narrator from Majesty 2 I'm pretty sure. (Majesty! A new building has been completed!)

If nothing else it is going to *look* a whole lot better than Elemental.

[K9]

TB has a decently long look at this.

It looks half-decent to be honest, I'd be tempted to give this one a try.

[Sky]

So difficult to sit through TB's rambling.

[tazelbain]

Hasn't MoM fandom suffered enough?

[Sky]

Still suffering through because it looks pretty awesome.

[Ghambit]

I've been in the beta for this (so has schild evidently) but since there's no tut. I havent really had the time to sit and experiment with it.  But, as you can see from the vid. it's pretty plain-jane.  No MP at release for a turn-based fantasy wargame is also a bit  though.  That simple fact will prevent me from buying it.

[Khaldun]

FFH2 not only sated my MoM desires, in some ways I like it better than MoM.

[Sky]

No MP at release for a turn-based fantasy wargame is also a bit  though.  That simple fact will prevent me from buying it.

I've never played a turn-based strategy game in multiplayer. Goes completely against the way I play, a nice relaxing slow paced evening. I also hate waiting.

[Merusk]

FFH2 not only sated my MoM desires, in some ways I like it better than MoM.

Because it's a TBS 3 gens removed from MOM.  It's got a lot of nice features and evolution that a modern MOM would need.   I still jones for Champion building, enchants, turn-based-combat and spell research when I play it, though.

[Threash]

No MP at release for a turn-based fantasy wargame is also a bit  though.  That simple fact will prevent me from buying it.

I've never played a turn-based strategy game in multiplayer. Goes completely against the way I play, a nice relaxing slow paced evening. I also hate waiting.

Ditto.  Too much pressure not to randomly afk and take twenty minute turns in a several hour long game commitment? no thank you.

[Lantyssa]

Does FFH2 have Warrax?  No?  It's not good enough.

[Sky]

Does FFH2 have Warrax?  No?  It's not good enough.

http://fallfromheaven.wikia.com/wiki/Hyborem_(Unit) Close enough in my book. Obviously it's not MoM2, but so far everyone falls short of that nostalgia (and of course, FFH2 gets a bit of a pass having been a mod imo). Aside from the Age of Wonders stuff, there hasn't been very much in terms of good fantasy TBS in the Civ vein. IMO, FFH2 is as good as its been since MoM, and that's a looong time.

Dammit, Lant, I wasn't going to fanboi FFH2 in this thread.

[Mrbloodworth]

Hay look. Civ V.

[Ingmar]

Multiplayer is so not a priority for me either.

[Merusk]

Does FFH2 have Warrax?  No?  It's not good enough.

Warrax and Mystic X were always my must-haves, followed closely by Fang.  Sure, Fang was only a Hero, not a Champion, but damnit Flight + Might + Firebreath meant that fucker took-down things he had no business to.

Funny that the "High Level" Champions over at this page were the ones I wasn't impressed with.
http://masterofmagic.org/Document/hero0030.php

[Lantyssa]

Loved Shuri, Fang, and Elorra, too.  I'd resummon heroes until I had them.

Aerie could be insane if she got mystic might.

[Merusk]

Yeah that illusion perk was just ridiculous.  But you had to babysit her forever until she was kitted-out & leveled-up because she was so squishy.

[calapine]

Why won't they stop fucking the corpse of my beloved MoM.   Why.

So true. So true.

All I wished for would a MoM Highres patch.... (one can dream?)

[Typhon]

Loved Shuri, Fang, and Elorra, too.  I'd resummon heroes until I had them.

Aerie could be insane if she got mystic might.

BAH! MALLEUS 4EVAH!

[Falconeer]

I've never played a turn-based strategy game in multiplayer.

Blood Bowl!

[Lantyssa]

Malleus was certainly a powerful hero, but all the others brought something else to the table.  Pathfinding, flight, defense, etc.  Malleus just cast fireballs.  I could make any of the ranged heroes do what he did.

[Sky]

I've never played a turn-based strategy game in multiplayer with friends and not ringers.

Blood Bowl!

[Tebonas]

Not that any of that mattered in MoM. I will forever love that game, but you could be overpowered in so many different ways you had to challenge yourself by arbitrary rules. If I'm not mistaken Missile attacks were so powerful a full squad of halfling slingers wiped out every opposition without the need of magic of heroes.

[Lantyssa]

Lizardman Javalineers built next to adamantite.

[K9]

I never played MoM, but I think this game looks pretty fun to be honest.

[ffc]

Demo is on Steam.  The playable area is limited by time and what look like impassable walls which the enemy can cross.  I played for about 90 minutes when the timer finished, time flew by.  I bonded with my archers because of how they would shout "MER-RY MEN!" when selected, so they were the first troops I sent through an unknown portal in order to give them all the glory.  They didn't make it back.

[Pezzle]

I never played MoM, but I think this game looks pretty fun to be honest.

You can get MoM for $6 bucks on GoG!  Pricier for an old game but worth every penny!  The sheer diversity!  (And Zaldron, Warrax and Mystic X)

[Threash]

Not that any of that mattered in MoM. I will forever love that game, but you could be overpowered in so many different ways you had to challenge yourself by arbitrary rules. If I'm not mistaken Missile attacks were so powerful a full squad of halfling slingers wiped out every opposition without the need of magic of heroes.

Guardian wind only cost 1 mana to mantain (i think) and made those slingers useless.  What was extremely op was super elite regenerating undead war trolls at 1 mana upkeep.

[K9]

I never played MoM, but I think this game looks pretty fun to be honest.

You can get MoM for $6 bucks on GoG!  Pricier for an old game but worth every penny!  The sheer diversity!  (And Zaldron, Warrax and Mystic X)

I'm wary, since sometimes without that sense of nostalgia I find it very difficult to get past how ugly old games were.