Might and Magic® 6-pack Limited Edition

I've tried first five installments, but I'm affraid those have only historic value now... feel free to disagree with me, but I hope you'll agree with me that the Mandate of heaven ties with the seventh game as the best in series. Apart from being the second RPG I ever played (first was BG, hard to beat start of RPG experience, those two, right?), this game is good in so many ways... I love the soundtrack and the immersive gameplay. In this game marries complexity of the old games with visual qualities of the newer ones. No other sequel brought so diffilcult and vast dungeons. Sadly, the story itself isn't that great, but when it comes to the look, personaly I think it looks the best from the whole series. In conclusion, if you want to taste the times where dungeons were dungeons and not just kindergarten, feel free to explore continent of Enroth.

I have not seen great games often anymore. The days when games had crappy graphics also seemed to be all about concepts that you don't see often in AAA titles. Ironically, while triple-A is a money concept indie gamers are producing some of the best stuff we have not seen since the days of R6 or Ghost Recon, RTS games like what CaveDog used to make and RPGs that were more about new ways of advancing the genre than graphics. But progress made is not always progress. At least not from triple-A guys. On the other hand, we still do some pretty amazing first time concepts now and then before the publisher horks it up. Some examples: The Witcher Series, Dragon Age (First one please), System Shock 2, Bio-Shock (the first), Mass Effect (the one and only), KOTOR (or is it kotex), Dishonored, Portal Series, Half-Life, and a plug for the very original Thief. Yeah. Some of these are older and some are newer but let's face it. These kind are not coming out often and it is for that reason many of us, who still like gaming as games and not a lifestyle, career, whatever still ove the old games. These games, while shitty on graphics, at least remain something that is still fun.

Thanks for bringin MM6 here! You guys rock!

If you play any of these games, the next series is very similar, there is very small amount of new things. So like if you start with VI, the VII is practically same boring experience.

I've played most of the way through Might and Magic 6. While the world exploration and building up your characters is fun the story is pretty mundane and drip fed to you through hours and hours of fetch quests which all inevitably involve clearing out a dungeon. It gets a little tedious. For a a better open world party based RPG from the same era I recommend Betrayal at Krondor. Significantly better story and depth of play. I also put in about 15-20 hours of Might and Magic 1 and hand drew many maps. I can only recommend that title for real masochists.