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Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>The one game I just /couldn't/ play was Might & Magic 1. I tried to
>play it, I really did, but its speaker effects made my ears bleed and
>its CGA graphics made my eyes tear. It was quickly uninstalled (well,
>DELTREE'd). 

Mike S.  <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>Might & Magic 1 supports 16 color EGA. This game is better then
>Wizardry or Bard's Tale to me. Huge game world. Actual quests to do.
>And a combat system that is superior to other similar games of the
>time in that your characters attack immediately rather then queuing up
>attacks. This made a big difference to me.

Yah, Might & Magic I & II up the content and graphics (which, as you say,
are EGA quality) over Bard's Tale I, II & III.  Though Dragon Wars does
a fairly good job with story.  The combat differences didn't matter to
me though, I'm fine with it either way.

One thing I liked about the Might & Magic series is that sequels didn't
have the power scaling issues that Bard's Tale series did.  In the Bard's
Tale sequels you could import your characters from the previous game, with
all their levels and abilities intact.  This meant that the games were
meant to be played from the beginning by high level characters and there
wasn't much sense progression as you leveled even higher.  Instead having
your spell casters of working their way up lists of spells, and using a
variety of them through out the game, you were mostly only using a few of
the most powerful spells.  Since playing BT2 & BT3 I've felt importing
characters from previous games without nerfing them (like in MM2 & MM3
or Wizardry 7 & 8) is a big mistake.  Or alternatively without keeping
the levels from getting too high like in the Gold Box games.

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