Disciples 3 blows King's Bounty 1 & 2 out of the water!

[Mivo]

Originally Posted by Smash

Homm5 , Majesty 2, Disciples 3... ech Russians are really good in destroying sequels of my favorites games. <cry>

Without them picking up the series, I'm pretty sure that we'd never have seen Majesty 2 or Disciples 3. I don't really think the problem is with the studios being located in Russia (lots of creative potential and technical knowledge there, with much lower wages), but with the market changing. Or rather, with what (western) publishers want. I think 1CP and their studios show that some of the best PC strategy games these days are indeed coming from Russia.

I thought Majesty 2 was a decent game. I got repetitive somewhere in the middle, but I thought it was well done and I had fun with it.

[JQueue]

I loved AOW and AOW2, I didn't care really care for Overlord though... i found that taking the click out of point and click combat really made the gameplay a bit shallow. (Triumph Studios).

Disicipes 2 was a great game, though I tired of it after several campaigns and didn't play all the expansions.

As for the Russian Strategy Developers.

Katauri: Smashing brilliant success. If their next title was "Poo in a Box", I bet that poo would be well developed and well worth the money.

Nival: Developed Silent Storm, a couple games I didn't play, and then HOMM5. I enjoyed Silent Storm a lot and felt it featured a great turn based strategy engine. In terms of gameplay and features, it had a LOT. I can see why people wouldn't like the wonky story though. HOMM5 was alright.

Akella: Made Disciples III. Haven't played it but heard some bad things about it. They WERE working on Jagged Alliance 3 prior to Disciples... Perhaps its a good thing they stopped?

Czech Developer Altar: Made a bunch of those newer gen UFO games. I appreciate their efforts in trying to modernize an old franchise and hammer out its flaws... but they've lost a lot of the appeal of the original product.

I for one am glad the Russians are working on turn based strategies.

[Sandsai]

Well, at least some of you guys could play D3. I am in America so my box version came with the put the original disk bug even though I had the original disk. To get the patch for this wonderful DRM you need to email the folks at kalypso. Some of my friends couldn't even get that thing to install. The patch also took quite a bit of time to develop, considering that legit players couldn't even get the game to start. The only way around the problem for quite sometime was to download a no CD crack.

No thank you, for my money I would like a game that I can actually play without having to email the developer and hope that I get a response back allowing me to play when I have already paid. The game has some potential but the NA release was butchered to say the least. Heck, gamestop even let me get a full refund because every single copy that they had was unplayable in one way or the other.

Disciples 2 was a great title and it is very disappointing to see a sequel butchered, particularly one that was a long time coming and greatly anticipated.