Eldritch
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Wyrmlord said:
Actually this whole "confusion" became the precise reason of their downfall, coupled with unbelievable levels of managerial stupidity as usual.
Mullich also talks about his time working on VtM:Bloodlines too, not just M&M;
David Mullich said:
As for my 5¢ on Wyrmlord's question, it was mostly the success of King's Bounty that later evolved into the Heroes of M&M series the reason for the whole confusion. King's Bounty being JVC's genius game project at the time had no relation to the M&M universe and when they incorporated the core of the games design and atmosphere to the HoMM games, they kept it a fairytale fantasyland just like KB was. It kinda fit better with the strategy game I guess with the more distinct and easier to understand elements along with the mythological "Heroes" concept with the mighty barbarians / cunning sorceresses and all that jazz...
Starting from VI they included the same fantasy creatures that were units in the heroes games along with the heroes themselves in the storyline. (Lord Kilburn, Corlagon etc.) Most probably to make the both successful game series with different genres to pimp each other. What really sucked was that this strategy eventually backfired because of the essential incompatibility of the concepts applied in two different games. The "Forgetown" disaster was the death knell of 3DO, the event that started it all.
When batshit nerds actually start sending death threats to your designers, you must have done something wrong at one point.
xBastardization is ALWAYS wrong, they should have kept em' seperate. Lack of fidelity and inconsistency is almost always the sign of
As for my favorite, I can't think of one definitive "best M&M ever". I voted VI for purely sentimental reasons. Of course I love the World of Xeen and still have my WoX CD, but I also love VI and VII. I have a soft spot for VI though due to its sheer scope and the strangely alluring atmosphere. VIII was like a tiny retarded theme park with dragons and all I remember about IX was laughing my ass off at the cheap new guys 3DO hired after failing to pay the original team, with the fat fucks putting their goddamn group photographs in the credits smiling at the camera with their obese faces as if they've just dumped a motherfucking pile of masterpiece. The reason I laughed wasn't all about nerdrage though, the team posing for the credits was almost entirely composed of really fat people, so the whole developer fatmosphere along with the overall crappiness of the game really got to me.
P.S.
Arcomage fucking rules, it's the best mini-game evar.
