Anyone else a fan of Dark Messiah Might and Magic?

[Baralak]

I recently started a new game of it and forgot how fun it is to fight, to climb and jump from chains, and find secrets, and of course, kick guards into spiked walls. Anyone else like this? I get the feeling it's really underrated, and I wish more games would be like this. I wish Oblivion played like this, honestly.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I saw a video of someone playing it and the combat looks awesome. I agree, Oblivion would be so much better if it played like that game.

I'd get it, but I really can't buy any game right now, no matter how cheap it is. Saving for a new computer.

 

[Baralak]

Ahh. That's a shame, it's really cool. I lucked out and got my copy for like, $3 at a pawn shop. One of the few PC games I know of that doesn't require a CD key. Even registered the game with Steam.

It got ported to the 360, but I don't know how it plays.

 

[GarryIsTheHero]

It plays like shit on a 360!I have never played the PC version but the 360 version is crap!

 

[Aegis A'Sha'Se]

It was an awesome game.

I loved stabbing the crap out of goblins with knives, and kicking everything ever off cliffs and into large amounts of spikes.

 

[Baralak]

It plays like shit on a 360!I have never played the PC version but the 360 version is crap!

Really? That sucks. I'm actually playing it as I type this. The PC version, I mean.

 

[Ben Hussong]

I actually really enjoyed bot versions. The 360 version is a lot more linear, you choose a class and automatically are locked into that class can only use it's weps. But on the PC you can use any weapon type, and it's more like a traditional rpg, in that you choose you skills as you level. Also several levels are diff. I liked the controls on the 360 better, they were easier and more intuitive.

 

[The Madman]

I genuinely really like that game, just played through it a few days ago in fact. Gotta say the gameplay is extremely tight and the combat is a lot of fun, plus playing on hard is genuinely freaking hard. I mean seriously, I went with a more stealthy character since I'm always a sucker for those sorts and one of the mid-game bosses was one shotting me with unblockable attacks. Plus if you try using magic or any sort of potion beyond healing he calls in four cronies to help him out as well, making the fight all but impossible for a stealthy sort like I was playing.

So I just had to keep fighting and re-fighting that battle till finally I'd figured out every one of his tells to stay alive long enough to get a combo kill on him. Cutting off that bastards head was so damned satisfying you have no idea. And here's the kicker, that was only on Hard, there's ANOTHER higher difficulty. Good god, you'd have to me magical to beat that!

For some reason this is the only game I've ever played where I genuinely don't want to be good. Screw being good, I don't want to purge my evil sidekick, to hell with that! She's awesome, she makes all the snarky cynical comments I'd have been making. Plus being evil is awesome, I get to stab the 'good girl' counterpart to my evil sidekick and get an awesome epilogue where I become the next great evil. Hell yeah!

 

[LordRoyal]

I didnt like Dark Messiah simply because it was barely an RPG

It was linear as all living hell, it had a horrible storyline and a terrible campaign altogether, there were no shops or sidequests either.

The only real good thing about the game was it's combat, but besides that Arx Fatalis did it's gameplay much better

 

[Petefriday]

I thought it was pretty damm Awesome, I loved Kicking Orc into conveniently placed spikes!

 

[IactoSophos]

I really enjoyed DMMM (wow that's a stupid acronym), actually one of my first posts here was a positive review of said game. Definitely has the best combat that I've seen in an RPG (well, apart from Deus Ex, but that doesn't count)

 

[gostlyfantom]

I loved playing as a half-demon prince of evil. kicking goblins into spikes was fun to.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Best first-person brawler ever, imo. First played it on 360, though.

Shame my widdle non-gaming laptop has random bouts of slowdown. And I mean random. It runs great for 15 minutes, even in combat. Then just slows down to a crawl.

 

[dancinginfernal]

That game was so good, and so bad at the same time. I played it with my buddy watching, and we constantly made jokes about Master Fenris/Phenrig/whatever the fuck being a pedophile that lives in Sareth's head.

Fond memories. Gameplay was a blast as well. FOOT!

 

[Robert Ewing]

I freaking loved that game. But nobody gave it a chance on release because it was so, so buggy. It only really got playable about 6 months after the release, but by then. All attention to it had died down.

But a very, very fun game in my opinion. I regret not playing it more.

 

[weker]

It plays like shit on a 360!I have never played the PC version but the 360 version is crap!

The PC versions is substantially different from what I recall especially the multiplayer which had much better moment and flow in the controls.
Its a shocking port but strangely is a shocking port to xbox for once XD

 

[josemlopes]

Its a really good fun game because of the combat, I would love if it had some kind of skirmish mode where I could simply fight againts hordes of enemies, or 1 on 1 combats, that kind of stuff. Its sad that the single player is kind of meh so I usually have a save of a big combat and just load it, beat the crap out of the enemies and load it again.

 

[Mauso88]

I always enjoyed playing DMMM, especially the physics based traps. Falling pillars/walls, swinging logs, kicking enemies into pits/fire etc. I however played the 360 version and I guess I didn't have the full experience, still lots of fun though.

 

[Imre Csete]

Yeah, one of my favourite games.

It has a really good pacing from start to finish (has a little weak spot around the zombie filled crypt at the middle though) and it's immersive as hell. It's linear, yeah, but they really nailed the first person narrative, this game really draws me in.

The multiplayer concept is really great (the classes differ from the single campaign, so they are fun), but it lacks the number of players to work. Last time I played, only 6-8 people were around, a capped (15v15 I think?) Crusade match would rock.