I see Wizardry, I see Elder Scrolls, I see oodles of various JRPGs, but naught a single Might and Magic thread...outside of Heroes III, what's ye lot's take on the series as a whole?(Pic is from one of the spin-off games, the puzzle battler one)
For me, it’s Dark Messiah
All base M&M games (except mm9) are excellent. Even the first one. They were doing proper game design shit that no one else would figure out for years. Like in MM1, you can use the keyboard to easily tab navigate through your characters. Good luck finding that anywhere else in the 1980s
MM1 also had open world and side quests ten years before anyone else did. The whole game is so well balanced and fun, I could go on forever about it
I think what sets the series apart is, they understand that a game should be fun and intentionally design for that. Combat sfx in MM1, archery in MM3, flying around like a god dropping meteors in MM6. You don’t get stuff like this in games like Bards Tale, it’s all just purely mathematical PvE. Which isn’t bad but something is missing.
