![]() "Yes? But I thought I was upgrading my be." "Are you sure you want to fight the keepers?", it asked. I expected the game to tell me I was lacking Rare Crystal X or something, but I was surprised. Better yet, the belt, apparently, could be upgraded. I found a belt! This was excellent news, as armour for my main character is rare and expensive. It's exactly what I wanted to play right now, and I'm quietly confident it's going to be one of the games I most enjoy this year.įirst, the belt story. It's also gloriously ridiculous and constantly inventive. It's mad and weird and unfair and the Russian-English translation is a disaster. Instead, I'm going to tell two stories that aptly demonstrate the insanity-ingenuity of the thing.īriefly though, it's basically Heroes of Might & Magic (the original King's Bounty having been the source of those games), but, well, better: faster and sillier and bigger. I'm not going to review it or even describe it here. Turns out it was King's Bounty: The Legend, the RPG-strategy remake/sequel from some of the good (mad) folks behind Space Rangers 2. I wanted something a little different, something I could sink into on more than a purely visceral level, but I didn't know what. I made it about 15 minutes into Crysis Warhead before the oh-this-again tedium hit, and I blame myself more than I do the game for that. Did I burn myself out on all those FPSes last year? Are, heaven forfend, my baser instincts now somehow in check? I will play Far Cry 2 and Dead Space and Fallout 3, but right now they're not what appeal. There are eight episodes, but the release order (and the ordering GOG uses) doesn't correspond to their internal timeline.So I gazed up at the mountain of games about guns due this Autumn, and I sighed a little. They're an episodic spinoff of HOMM 3, using the same engine and mechanics etc, but with a much heavier focus on the story and characters, with smaller, better-designed maps and more scripted events than HOMM 3 has. These games have a very steep skill curve though, and it takes a while for them to really open up.Īlso: the frequently and unjustly overlooked Heroes Chronicles games (they're on GOG). They're kinda 4X-y games which have turn-based hex-based combat, and you explore the world with heroes leading armies of recruited troops of generic types (just one troop to a slot here, though, instead of stacks). The Eador games: Eador Genesis (the pixel art original), Eador: Masters of the Broken World (a remake of Genesis with 3d graphics), and Eador: Imperium (a followup game). they're hex based or they include a troop mechanic, or both.įeel free to comment some other games below and I'll add them if they fit at least one of the criteria.Ĭhiming in to toss a few more games on the pile: While there are many 4X, SRPG, or TBS-type games out there, I mainly wanted to limit this to games which are sufficiently similar to KB i.e. Eador: Genesis and Eador: Masters of The Broken World.HeroScape, the hex-based board game (has a subreddit at r/HeroScape).Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North.King's Bounty: Armored Princess and its expansion, Crossworlds.King's Bounty: The Conqueror's Quest (DOS, Genesis, etc.).They're all games which are objectively better-designed than KB2. Yeah, it's pretty obvious that they can't handle criticism and aren't going to ever fix their dumpster fire of a game.īut in the spirit of spreading good cheer, here are some alternatives that you could play instead, which might scratch the King's Bounty itch. ![]() How mature, professional, and thick-skinned of them!. Apparently, the KB2 devs deleted a thread I made on the Steam forums the thread in question pointed out the many fundamental problems with the game, what would need to be fixed, and asked if there was any news on when the patch is coming to consoles. Call me a cynic, but I doubt that even the upcoming patch will make it into a remotely good game after all, 1C is merely adding in features which should've already been in the damn game at release. I won't enumerate the many reasons why King's Bounty 2 is a complete disaster, since I already did that in my article for my SRPG website and in my video review, but good lord, King's Bounty 2 is an absolute disappointment.
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