King's Bounty: The Legend (Now On Steam!)

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Killzone 2 will astonish you with its deferred rendering engine that utilizes multi-sampled anti-aliasing to produce unbelievable graphical fidelity for a home console. Burnout Paradise will have you sweating at a blistering 60 frames-per-second as you soar over skyscrapers crashing through billboards (queue 80s rock DJ!) Madworlds protagonist, Jack, wants to violently seduce you as he chainsaws his way throughout a blood-spattered--Frank Miller enthused--world justly confirming that it really is a mad Madworld. But recently I was plucked out of the hardcore gaming stratosphere to be reminded that gaming isn?t always about boiling your blood with crazy gameplay antics or pumping your adrenaline over its procedural merit.

King?s Bounty: The Legend is here to say it is ok to slip back to a more classic style of gameplay and focus on strategy while having a good time. It's ironic that I initially found King's Bounty: The Legend to be precisely the game I wasn?t looking for. For the last two years I've been feverishly pushing forward at 180 mph playing everything I can get my hands on. To name a few, I've played through to completion F.E.A.R. 2, Mass Effect (five times), Far Cry 2, Fallout 3 (twice), Dead Space, Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand theft Auto 4 (twice), leveled a Priest to 80 in Warcraft obtaining 4/5 of my Tier 7 gear, and really just about everything else imaginable. I consume games and love every minute of it (hence the name of this blog). But after spending some times with the game I realized I almost missed out on something special and now I'm here to inform my fellow gamers they might be too.
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The rest can be found here: http://eat-games.blogspot.com/...ngs-bounty-legend.html

It's a really solid, fun game and havent heard a word about it from anyone!

Also, this seems like a good opportunity to let everyone know I've decided to join the blogosphere and created I Eat Games. We Podcast once every other week at best and I need something more regular that that to get my opinions out there, and officially give impressions of games. I hope to update it often with impressions, rants and general gaming babble.
 
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I enjoyed it for maybe 10 hours, it got pretty repetitive however and I had to go back to refill on troops after almost every battle. It's basically heroes of might and magic without the base building, you get troops by clearing out areas of bad guys and finding new spots to recruit troops. The quests are pretty straight forward, and while it's not a bad game, it isn't a great one either. I played on hard, and people mentioned it was a very difficult game, but I think the difficulty was just about right.
 
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My dad loved it for quite a while, read weeks, two entire play throughs, but is getting bored now. The lack of scenario play is pretty disappointing, but except for that imo the game is very slick..

and yeah warcrow, just didn't want you thinking we'd missed it ;)
 
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Originally posted by: Malladine
My dad loved it for quite a while, read weeks, two entire play throughs, but is getting bored now. The lack of scenario play is pretty disappointing, but except for that imo the game is very slick..

and yeah warcrow, just didn't want you thinking we'd missed it ;)
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There's an expansion coming out soon too.

I was thinking that this game would probably be fantastic on the consoles much like Civ Rev.
 
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Originally posted by: TidusZ
I enjoyed it for maybe 10 hours, it got pretty repetitive however and I had to go back to refill on troops after almost every battle. It's basically heroes of might and magic without the base building, you get troops by clearing out areas of bad guys and finding new spots to recruit troops. The quests are pretty straight forward, and while it's not a bad game, it isn't a great one either. I played on hard, and people mentioned it was a very difficult game, but I think the difficulty was just about right.
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The more accurate statement would be "Heroes of Might and Magic is basically Kings Bounty, but with base building" if you look at the chronology of the games. ;)
 
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i just hope the expansion won't turn out like the original with a half year of waiting for them to translate the game
 
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Originally posted by: nosfe
i just hope the expansion won't turn out like the original with a half year of waiting for them to translate the game
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That would be unfortunate wouldnt it? but I guess it's better than the alternative. My wife is still playing this game and totally digs it. I've had to move away from the game to play some others, but I do plan on returning back to it.

It's seems to be a fairly long game. Is this true?
 
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Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: nosfe
i just hope the expansion won't turn out like the original with a half year of waiting for them to translate the game
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That would be unfortunate wouldnt it? but I guess it's better than the alternative. My wife is still playing this game and totally digs it. I've had to move away from the game to play some others, but I do plan on returning back to it.

It's seems to be a fairly long game. Is this true?
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If you are a hardcore player and skip fights, you can probably beat it in around 20 hours. I am sure others have done it faster. If you play it the way it was meant to be played, at least starting with clearing each continent, it will easy be 60 hours of game play - problably more if you carefully setup your battles and have the animation speed set to normal. I think my main game had 70 hours on it.
 
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I enjoy RPG games (I played the original Baldur's Gate through several times) but I was bored with King's Bounty before I even finished playing the demo. It's an interesting game environment, but the fights are tedious and repetitive and that ruined the game for me.
 
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While it's a good game, I rather play Heroes III or Heroes V* with their respective expansion sets..

*of Might & Magic by the way :p

Oh also, King Bounty (1991) and Heroes of Might & Magic were conceived by the same developer (Jon Caneghem I believe or something along those lines) and HoMM was an evolution of the franchise (or King's Bounty 2 if you prefer) so the outcast here is King's Bounty The Legend if anything.
 
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Originally posted by: nosfe
that's because it's not an RPG, its a TBS, a turn based strategy game
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Fair enough. I enjoy most turn based strategies as well, but King's Bounty still got very boring very quickly.
 
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googlenglish version of an interview from november last year. If i got it right, the game will ship on 23 march, though no news about the english version
 
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Originally posted by: Piuc2020
While it's a good game, I rather play Heroes III or Heroes V* with their respective expansion sets..

*of Might & Magic by the way :p

Oh also, King Bounty (1991) and Heroes of Might & Magic were conceived by the same developer (Jon Caneghem I believe or something along those lines) and HoMM was an evolution of the franchise (or King's Bounty 2 if you prefer) so the outcast here is King's Bounty The Legend if anything.
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I saw HoMM V and its two expansions. How are they (only played a little of V a long time ago) now that everything is out in comparison to KB? I assume there is a lot more content?
 
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well, heroes has multiplayer and tons of custom maps. I don't know how to compare the campaigns to KB though. For me they were a let down because of the story being presented only through cutscenes, i prefer game stories to have text, and lots of it. Not that KB has a very good story as russian games aren't known for good stories but the story from KB felt better/richer than the overly predictable and short story from the heroes5 campaigns(and i made a point never to try to guess the outcome of game stories because i always end up guessing the plot twists and then it's not that fun anymore)
 
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Originally posted by: nosfe
well, heroes has multiplayer and tons of custom maps. I don't know how to compare the campaigns to KB though. For me they were a let down because of the story being presented only through cutscenes, i prefer game stories to have text, and lots of it. Not that KB has a very good story as russian games aren't known for good stories but the story from KB felt better/richer than the overly predictable and short story from the heroes5 campaigns(and i made a point never to try to guess the outcome of game stories because i always end up guessing the plot twists and then it's not that fun anymore)
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Oh MP? really? That's interesting. Is it basically two people roaming a map?
 
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yep, two or more people with 0 or more computer opponents :p I remember that i used to play hot seat with a couple of guys while learning for exams, we were playing 4 from one computer and the turns took so much time(we played very slowly, fighting every battle and so on) that we could actually learn for the exams while waiting for our turn to come. If you're interested in Heores5 i'd say look for the second expansion, Tribes of the East as it's a standalone expansion with all the contents for multiplayer from the rest of the heroes5 games(including the dwarfs from the first expansion) and it also has no copy protection whatsoever, in case you care about such things
 
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Wait--Tribes of the East is all the games wrapped up in one or just the MP? I might be interested in picking up the game some time.
 
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