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Master of Magic

old MOM longtime player, BUT...

I bought the original when it first came out and although I never scored very high on it's rating scale, I came back again and again and had LOTS of fun. The new version did a lot right, but managed to install several fatal flaws and failed to correct problems with the original game that would have made it better. The first two games i played one or two enemy wizards had mana leak, which in the original game was mostly ineffectual. In this one it completely incapacitates your armies. You can't attack or defend. What's the point in that? If I wanted to engage in a hopeless activity, I'd just face reality (lol). Third game I played was going well till I found an enemy hero who was immune to all forms of attack except archery. The default hero is B'Shan, an archer, and I took a female archer, so I took a full complement of archers to fill out my stack of 9. well, the regular archers couldn't hurt him at all, even though he had ZERO defense against it. the female archer did like ONE POINT, and B'shan would do pretty good with his first shot, but the rest all failed to do hardly any damage at all. How am I supposed to defeat an undefeatable opponent? Maddening. they even got rid of what little diplomacy the original game had. It's like one transgression and forget it, war! no truces EVER. Then they made trading spells have a gold value, so instead of getting good spells easily I could NEVER afford any spell I wanted. EVER. By the time I might have 4000 gold to buy a spell (assuming they would even talk to me, which they don't) I wouldn't NEED them at that point.

6 gamers found this review helpful
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

Hated it

Can't outfit all characters at the start or even after playing many hours. prices for anything are OUTRAGEOUS. you get a few hundred gp tops in a dungeon and One character requires a minimum of a thousand to outfit. can't even BUY a magic weapon, or find one, yet you are sent into battle with several mobs that can only be hit with magic. Also, my magic user constantly charges into battle without weapons or robes and no spells. found no way to stop her. One fighter, outfitted to the max as best I could, kept dying easily. Couldn't afford to raise him, so forced to reload. and I didn't even get through the Shadow vale yet. gave up. want refund

Crusaders of Might and Magic

Well, What did I expect?

Bad. Really bad. Hard to control/steer. poor graphic ( of course) and poor execution. Mind you I have played and liked several older games.

2 gamers found this review helpful
D&D Classics

Still Waiting

sigh. I bought the original 9 game collection boxed set ( with about a pound or three of manuals) several decades back. Finally my computer wouldn't load the games, due to upgrades in system , and I finally tossed them. I spent many dozens of hours playing them, and really liked them. NOW, I am looking for these games to be upgraded in graphics and how they work, as I find the originals unplayable. Would pay good money for that. Unfortunately THIS is not THAT. I am CERTAIN tons of people would love a more modern interpretation of these classics, just as I would. I'd even be fine with turn based play and sprite graphics, but much more detailed. Windows game with mouse and keyboard reconfig and better, more sensible gameplay. (I dl'd a cracked Pool of radiance just to test, and I couldn't rest in town without paying a PLATINUM [bad when you don't HAVE a platinum] when it should have cost a few silver. Selling items netted very small rewards, so I couldn't even outfit my chrs even if I COULD have found anything to outfit my magic user with, which I didn't). Then there's the copy protection wheel thingy, which was insanely hard.even back then. Need drm free. lol.So when they get a clue and remake them, I'm all in, but THIS is not worth it to me. I've waited 40 years, looks like I'll die before anyone gets around to remaking these once great games. Nostalgia can only carry you so far.

5 gamers found this review helpful
Stardew Valley

Great game. with caveats

VERY enjoyable game. played for DAYS and days. Make that months. lol would like to see the expansion mod. it needs a lot more exploration that the expansion has. downside:. there is no real economy, nothing to spend money on after a while (but it IS a good long while.). no real need to grow or do anything. mind you, I played the H out of it! but if you like dungeon diving and farming endlessly for no reason. It is great fun for a while, The interaction with the citizens is very fun and rewarding. some people like just grinding to become millionaires and building elaborate farms. me, I just want a decent place and something to do. there are a lot of mods you can use to customize the game endlessly. 01 I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME.

2 gamers found this review helpful
Risen 2: Dark Waters Gold Edition

OOPS!

Well, I have an old pc, but it still fits the minimum requirements, HOWEVER, even though it ran Risen 1 fine and 3 a bit laggy (till at the end I couldn't beat the big golem because of lag and had to stop) I assumed Risen 2 would run fine. NOPE. I can't lower the res enough to get it to run, Oh well.

1 gamers found this review helpful
Risen 3: Titan Lords

messy, but lots to do

Risen 3 bad concept with bad dialogue menus, a way too complicated attributes system a useless crafting system and failure to even tell you what is stuff you can sell and what you need to keep. Crafting is shit. For instance you learn smithing, so you figure you can at least make stuff to sell at a profit. nope. you have to find a recipie. I have played the game over 60 hours and haven't found one yet. you have to hunt for trainers and even when you find a trianer, they may not train you in what you want. ridiculous. You spend a lot of time training as a fighter (swordsman usually) that is way too complicated, but then you are forced to become a mage or a voodoo pirate, whatever THAT is, or join the Inquisition which doesn't seem to have magic, but doesn't have any appeal, either. Some of the quests are fun or interesting, but the log is very vague and of little help on what you need to do to complete the quest most of the time. YOu spend all your time on a small sloop scooting around the islands and only get a decent ship much later in the game. Why? I have no idea. It would have been much better and made more sense if you could have gotten it right up front. then, everybody is a jerk, including your character. why is our hero forced to steal the pants off of everyone to fund his campaign to save the world? The whole thing encourages bad morals all around. disgusting. Oh, then there's those way overkill death scenes that interrupt you in the middle of a battle to do ridiculous overkills on a foe. wish I could disable that shit. so why am I playing it? damned if I know. Somewhere under all the crap is a good game. I even had fun a fair amount of time. I like to explore and was often rewarded for going off to out of the way places with treasure. First one was WAY better. haven't tried 2.

2 gamers found this review helpful
Risen

Great Game. In spite of a few flaws

Risen is great fun. The world is beautiful, (I know you hear that a lot, but this one truly is). game mechanics work very well, (well, mostly). and I enjoyed it thoroughly (and I Am a VERY hard sell). working the game quickly becomes intuitive and is easy. The biggest problem right off and for a LONG time, is that you don't have any armor, so you die a LOT. I died well over 20 times a battle many times, so save a LOT. oddly, for such a detailed and fun great game, quests (which were great when they worked) quests were sometimes (Seemingly often) unfinishable. Some are designed not to be completed once you "start a new chapter" or upon completing certain actions that negated their completion. while sometimes that even made sense, I felt robbed many times. I didn't have a manual or anything, but later looked online for walkthroughs, because many times I was clueless on what to do and it was NOT intuitive or anything you could figure out. Like the time I had to press a button TWICE to open one door, then twice more to open another. who would think to do that? Oh, the combat was a bit hard to get used to, but makes a great compromise between the character's skill learning and experience with your ability to actually DO the combat yourself, not just watch him do it at his skill level. THE thing I liked is that you could use TACTICS. Sure, we get the option to do over when we die, but the fact you can learn and try different options, not just rely on the game to do what it does is great. I bet most would love it. Definitely gonna try Risen 3 (2 looks like it had too much of what I think ruins the game, the giant, all powerful godlike beings in it)

3 gamers found this review helpful
Death to Spies

Death To Spies

has a great tutorial, but the real missions are WAAAY harder. dunno if it is my older cpu but when battle starts I can't control it at all. it slows everything down and the controls get so mushy I Can't even aim. watched a video on youtube before buying and they made it look easy, but it isn't for me. small consolation that it only cost me a dollar. this is after attempting the first scenario 6 times. gave up.

5 gamers found this review helpful