Completed Let's play Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor

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Sorry to hear that; my condolences. Stay strong and take care

Please accept my condolences. I hope you and your family will soon recover from your loss.

You and your family have my sympathies, too. Take care.

My condolences

Alright, I've started playing the game again, so an update might not be too far off. My father's still dead, and I partly blame myself (could I have done something else, something more?*), but life goes on and so will this LP!

As to when the actual update appears, I have only vague notions. Probably some time next week.


*) I'm a doctor, I make housevisits, and on the day my father fell ill, my mother contacted me as he didn't want another doctor in the house. Though everyone else involved has assured me that I did everything I should and with due haste, I still harbour a nagging doubt. Could I have called the ambulance sooner, told them to drive with the sirens on? Directed them to another hospital with the appropriate specialities? It's all for naught though, it won't bring him back. But they're doubts that I will carry with me to my grave I suspect.

Alright, I've played enough with the darksiders now, that I could prepare an update. It's rather image-heavy, but then again, it represents the third from last update to this LP, so we're nearing the end. After this one, I'll bring the lightsiders up to the same point, and from then on, only the endgame awaits (basically just 2 more dungeons and then the ending cinematic).
I'm not promising an update today, as I'm home sick with the cold. This has let me play the game, but I'm feeling somewhat incoherent as I type this, so any update will take time to prepare.

In the coming update though, the darksiders break the game, more or less.

With excessive use of Sharpmetal at close quarters?

That spell helps, but the real gamebreaker is Protection from Magic.. M:

I'm trying to write an update, I really am.. But Imgur has decided it will only let me upload one picture at a time, then I have to log out and log in again before it will upload the next picture. Seeing as I have 154 more images to upload just for this update, I'm getting to be rather annoyed. I hope this is something temporary that will be fixed shortly, or the next update will be delayed for a while.

I have considered that. I currently have about 2.75GB free on my dropbox account, so maybe that's what I'm going to do. Can't do much today though, the whole day's been scheduled for work, movies and football. Maybe tomorrow? In the meantime I've filed a bugreport at the imgur support forum. Maybe I'll get some feedback there.

As promised, this LP would not die a silent death, no matter the unfortunate circumstances that put it on hiatus.
Back when I did suspend the LP, I had already played a bit further than the last update, but not much. Most of this update was played in the last few days, but some of it is more than a month old. I hope this isn't too apparent when I am finished.
Anyway.

The next darksider update will feature the conclusion of the game. So just one more lightsider update, then I'll do a combined light and dark ending update.
I hope it was worth the wait. We'll soon be done.

An update at last!! Well done, sir.

I really appreciate the crown, makes me a proper d0rf lord Also, the hammer. Looks much, much better than the later pic with the blaster pistol, but oh well.

Will you be playing MMVIII after this?

Nice job !

It's definitely possible to steal the Cube of Power (it's what I did each time I played the game). It may take quite a few tries, though.

I've always found it a bit frustrating that you can't choose whether you'd like to support Archibald rather than his "advisors". Of course, it's likely that Archibald wouldn't offer us anywhere as good a deal, but not being given a choice doesn't feel logical. Lightsiders don't have the same problem, since their allies aren't stabbing each others in the back.

While I have bought the game recently on gog.com, I doubt I will be starting an LP of it anytime soon. For one thing, DaveO has already done a really good LP of it here, though it's a video LP. But another thing is that I'm slightly burnt out LP-wise and have a lot of games sitting on my harddrive, just waiting to be played.
I've also considered picking up where Bee left off her space-adventure LP, as I'd like to see where our professor ends up. But whether that actually becomes reality, I don't know yet. I do know that I initially planned to LP 6,7,8 and 9 of the MM series, and I might eventually complete this goal. But not likely right now.
Things might change however. I also claimed I wouldn't LP UFO Extraterrestrials, and see where that got me.

Thank you.

I did only try to steal it about 4 or 5 times before I decided to simply kill him instead. Felt that was less hassle. On the other hand, I've never really bothered to build up the steal skill, so I can't tell how effecient it is. I rather felt the skillpoints were better spent on weapon/spell skills.

And yes, the choices and consequences aren't legion in this game. There's the Mr Malwick proposal in the start, then you choose between light and dark, but that's pretty much it. There's a bit of backstabbing available just before making the light/dark choice, but most of that is of no consequence later. The only choice that bears any significance is who you turn over the Gryphonheart Trumpet to.
That does not mean the game's not enjoyable. Just don't expect many meaningful and world-changing choices. M:

Thanks so much for mentioning my LP of MM8, as well as continuing your LP after your recent loss. I've been out of LP mode for quite some time, and I'm not sure when I'd return. I definitely want to finish the games that are not complete on my channel(especially Eternal Dagger), but I've been rarely active to try to keep myself off employer radar from Google searches.

When I actually do another M&M LP, it will probably be Swords of Xeen since there is no Codex LP. I could try MM9, but I'm not sure what enthusiasm people would have for it.

I know. I'm a bad person. I'd like to say that I've been busy, and while this is true, I've also been a lazy bugger who should have updated this LP instead of playing Warlock.
I promise, I will get around to it. I have all the screenshots ready, just need to upload them and write the commentary, which shouldn't be too much work, seeing as the light-sider update bears many similarities with the dark-sider one just up above.

Once that update is done, I think there will be just a single update left before the LP is concluded, as we're very close to finishing up. So the final update will feature light- and darksiders in a happy confusion, not unlike the first update in this LP. Whether I actually finish the LP before I bugger off for a short vacation come this weekend, I do not know.

I hope to have the next update up before thursday.

Probably a good idea; that's the Codex holy day.

Alright then, let's get this show moving. I've been postponing this for far too long with no proper excuses.
This is the second-to-last update in the LP, and the one following this one should see the game to its conclusion, for both lightsiders and darksiders. But first, we need to get the lightsiders to the same point the darksiders stopped in the last update.

I hope the next update will be up sooner than this one. On the plus side, I start my vacation on friday, on the negative side, the first 5 days I will be out of the house, meaning the computer that I have the game installed on will not be available, and I'm currently feeling far too lazy to install it on my laptop.
There still should only be the one update left, and I don't foresee the need to play much to get it done. So hopefully it will be up next week.

I imagine you're a horrible LARPer

I imagine you're right.

I was one sexy d0rf in that game. You should've seen my golden-shoe dance...

Then Pathfinder is the answer for all of your troubles. Here Paladins "only" have to follow a Code of Honor (no lying, no cheating, etc.), but exterminating a whole race of evil-doers is OK for them (unless one of them tries to surrender, but that's another problem)