What the fuck is this doing in my fantasy RPG?
>>729348781Read nigga
>>729348781I can hear the music in my head
>>729348781>fantasy RPG>BLAM ITS ACTUALLY POST-APOC SCIFI WITH CRAZY TECHNOLOGY ACTING AS MAGICLove this shit
>>729348781>fantasyHahaha, who is gonna tell him the series has always been scifi. From the very first game.
>>729348781It was actually a sci fi game all along pretending to be fantasy
>>729348948Yeah it's kino and surprisingly hasn't been done as much as some people suggest. I love RPGs that combine two different settings together so you go from swinging a sword then blasting fuckers with a gunPic related VTM redemption kind of does this with a huge time skip from the middle ages to modern times
>>729349240It was all the rage in early western RPG series but fell off as time went on. Wizardry, ultima, MM, etc. I'd say it was because that generation of nerds really liked both fantasy and scifi and many early games were just them throwing shit they liked together.
Why the fuck is MM7 so fucking short. Those dungeons are like 5 rooms. Barrow Downs in the only big good dungeon in the game and that for some reason is sectioned off into many little dungeons. Like did the publisher tell them to make the dungeons small after people bitched about Darkmoor and Varn in the original
>>729349332I meant MM6 not the original MM
>>729348781>0 gold>3000 food units
Wait until you play Ultima 1
Does anything compare to flying in this game while the soundtrack plays in the background while fire bombing random enemy hordes
>>729349240>hasn't been done as much as some people suggest>Final Fantasy>Phantasy Star>Ys>Tales of>Star Ocean>Trails in the Sky>Chrono Trigger>Nier>Xenoblade 1 and 2>Fire Emblem 3H
>>729349332They were simply rushed after MM VI. Might and Magic VIII is even more sloppy.
>>729348781Doing what's always been done in your fantasy RPGs, my dear tourist.
>>729349995Holy kino
>>729350057>all JRPG slopI'm talking about real actual RPGs
>>729350168They honestly should have merged the development of 7 and 8 together so we can get one really good big game but of course 3DO has to be shitters by forcing them to release a MM every year
>>729348948I don't. Its nerd gluttony, often contrived and implies the fantasy setting they've created isn't strong enough to stand on its own.
>>729350308you can do that yourself now with the merge mod at least
>>729350308I still think VII is better than VI. VI has bloat but a lot of the world is empty. VIII was shit though, and IX was borderline unplayable.
We will never get a series like Might and Magic again
>>729349904Wizardry too
>>72934878180s and 90s boomies had a thing for anachronistic fantasy blends for some reason, where they attach Sci-Fi elements into a game, the history of the world having an ancient advanced alien civilization, or there is a secret alien entity in the background that people don't know about that is pulling the strings.Ultima had that, Wizardry had that, and D&D had that.
>>729350435funny how the current take on that is isekai, ie fantasy with anachronistic elements of the presentthough i haven't seen much of it in games
>>729350435Summoner 2 had the best application of this IMO, all the high tech magic shit in that was Lovecraftian and esoteric.
>>729350310They hated him because he spoke the truth.
>>729350435The turning point was HOMM3. It attracted normies like bees to honey who understood nothing of the mainlines games and their setting. When they tried to release the infamous Forge faction in armageddon's blade the franchise tourists lost their shit and it had to be scrapped.
>>729350310If it's done well I don't mind but it's not even a surprising twist anymore.
>>729350672>SummonerI have the first game is it worth playing? Had no idea there was a 2nd game.
>>729350810Well that's fucking depressing. I suppose I'm okay with the sci fi elements not being in the HOMM games but Forge looked like a cool faction to fight in The main Might and Magic games
>>729350435>for some reasonIt's really simple, most games were a bunch of turbo nerds getting together and making shit. And 80s/90s turbo nerds liked 2 things near universally, star wars and DnD.
>>729350435I'm not super familiar with DnD but I had no idea it had Sci Fi elements?
>>729350912it's console only but it's really good i think. i still have yet to play the first one. the protag from 1 actually appears, as well as Yago. the magic and stuff is the most interesting stuff i think, it's like Dune high sci-fi in how expressive it is, it's not typical at all.
>>729348948I know, it's grate.
It's a twist.
>>729351456Are MM345 worth playing if I enjoyed MM678. I know they're different and not the same but I'm still curious
>>729348781Never you mind as you will NEVER ENTER THE ORACLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz5p1LDeST4
>>729349995>REMEMBER ME, MAGES?
D&D did it first
>>729350810Wait til they find out the fiery devils with their brimstone town are space aliens
>>729350810>The turning point was HOMM3. It attracted normies like bees to honey who understood nothing of the mainlines games and their setting.Where was any of the sci fi stuff in HoMM 1 and 2?
>>729351541So what did everyone imagine what the oracle looked like before you actually got to see them?
>>729348781>doesn't know that history repeats, that there was advanced technology in the ancient distant past, lost to great cataclysmic events, and that we will eventually lose our technology again, repeating the cycle
>>729348781>d5I hate your game if it does this. Use proper isometric solids or fuck off. D2s are the only acceptable one since that's a coin flip.
>>729348781Filling a classic trope.
>>729349904Developed by the son of an actual astronaut.
>>729350435>80s and 90s boomieswhat a fucking retard
>>729351940GONORTH
>>729352000Great fucking game
>>729350310>this fucking sucks actually
>>729348781It wasn't uncommon for fantasy to be mixed with some sci-fi stuff in the 80s to 90s..Ultima comes to mind, and I think the Xanth books have a little too.
>>729348948My absolute favorite genre
>>729351539yesBrilliant games, all of them.
>>729350787This doesn't work when you were the first reply, shithead
>>729349995peak
>>729352137>>729352000This actually any good? I might have to check it out
>>729352597its alright
>>729351604The soundtrack in this is the best of the whole series
>>729352597Not played it in a long time but I loved it growing up
>>729351259Well D&D is just the rules and game you can make your own campaigns for in whatever made up world or setting you want, but over the years they’ve published settings and campaigns they’ve created themselves, the most popular one being Forgotten Realms, which is where Baldur’s Gate etc is setI’m no expert so I’m not sure if there’s sci fi stuff in Forgotten Realms but there’s been other official settings like Spelljammer that had sci fi elements.I know in Baldur’s Gate 2 you ran into a spelljammer pilot at one point, and in the travelling mage sphere you run into characters from another D&D setting who talk about being picked up on a different planet, but I’m not sure if these are just easter eggs or if they attempted to combine all the settings into one, and if it was the latter I’m not sure if they’re still doing it in todays age or if they’ve given up
>>729348781Sci-fi and fantasy used to be intertwined due to Star Wars and other "lived-in" settings. Ultima famously has one of the princesses you must save tell you that she'll only reveal the secret of the time machine if the player is a "Space Ace" meaning they shot down a bunch of enemy spaceships while flying their own space ship.
I like how much of a step back MM7 sci fi reveal is. You just find some dude in his rich apartment shooting at you with a gun.
>>729350310This.
>>729350310wrong
