Might and Magic® 8: Day of the Destroyer™

So, after reading a few reviews, people are raging about the escaton Palace. To complete the game, you have to turn the sound settings off. Else, you'll hear a pop or something as you enter the palace to either complete the last quest, or grab the quest, I can't truly remember. However, before entering the throne room, turn all game sounds off, and you'll progress just fine. It's unfortunate, but there is a work around. Per the rest of the game, it was nearly as fun as MM7. There are things like, the gear doesn't look as epic, the players look kind of M'eh, but the storyline and questing was still fun. There are still the puzzle aspects, and number of choices you have to make that give you ownership of the end results. Seriously, for <$5.00, it's still worth the purchase.

Just disable the game sound and it won't crash there.

I've always loved this game, and downloaded it off gog.com because my disk drive wouldn't read my MM8 disks. I got nearly to the end, where I had to enter Escaton's Palace, and as soon as I enter, It crashes. Every. Single. Time. I troubleshooted the hell out of it and still nothing. It's a great game....when you actually get to finish playing it. >.>

There's a simple solution for the Escaton Palace crash bug. Go into Controls and turn music volume all the way down before entering. Afterward, you can turn it back up. I just finished this one and I really enjoyed it. I think it's better than MM7 on a number of levels. One major difference is that in this one, you only create one character at the beginning, and the rest you hire along the way, with many different hirelings to choose from. Another major difference is the character classes. 5 of the 8 classes are really "races": Minotaur, Dark Elf, Vampire, Dragon, and Troll. Then there's Necromancer (who is essentially a sorcerer and alchemist), Cleric and Knight. I liked the story a lot more than the MM7 story/plot. There's a lot of gameplay time here, too. I found it super addictive and played multiple hours a day, but it still took a couple weeks to finish. The end of the game went pretty fast, but basically felt like a reward for the attention I had put into advancing my characters and finding/choosing the right powerful items for them. By the way, I recommend getting the Town Portal and Fly spells asap. Having to hoof it everywhere is boring!

One of my all time favorites, yet after 2 downloads, both games crash at the same place: entering the castle for the final battle! Do not buy until GOG fixes!