Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

How do we not have a thread on this game, yet?

For the uninitiated, this is basically a hybrid of Oblivion and Deus Ex, with the physics fun of of Half-Life 2. Rather than a completely wide-open sandbox game, it had more limited levels that have a lot of ways they can be tackled (like Deus Ex). The combat is similar to Oblivion in style, but much more flexible. Using the environment and havok physics fun to your advantage is a big part of it, and you actually have some variety of moves.

I'm one of those weirdos that actually likes to stay on track in RPGs rather than roam the countryside, so this should be right up my alley. Anyone else going to be picking this up?

It looks awesome and I will play it eventually but I'm falling behind in PC gaming due to my computer sucking.

i was incredibly interesed, but the levels thing cooled me on it a bit, plus i found the demo underwelming. I really enjoyed the way they used the "kick" to use the environment in the battle, oblivion really should have done that to this degree.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

It looks awesome and I will play it eventually but I'm falling behind in PC gaming due to my computer sucking.

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It's powered by the Source engine, so I don't think it's really going to kill your system if you ran HL2 and Vampire: Bloodlines.

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Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

i was incredibly interesed, but the levels thing cooled me on it a bit, plus i found the demo underwelming.

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I actually like the more linear approach, putting the freedom and flexibility into the action, not the direction. I hate trudging through endless fields in the Elder Scrolls games but I love the dungeon crawling parts in Oblivion and such.

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I really enjoyed the way they used the "kick" to use the environment in the battle, oblivion really should have done that to this degree.

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I liked being able to throw crates and barrels at enemies to knock them off cliffs or into harmful objects, too. Nothing like watching an orc take a barrel to the face and get impailed on a wall of spikes behind him.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

It's powered by the Source engine, so I don't think it's really going to kill your system if you ran HL2 and Vampire: Bloodlines.

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For some reason Source engine games haven't ran well for me lately. HL2 used to be smooth, now it's borderline playable. SiN Episodes was like that too. I don't get it.

Ah, yeah, I remember you talking about that, now. That's really wierd. They got much smoother for me.

I will buy this. I will play this. I will love this. Huge M&M fan (of what little I've played... one day, I'd like to start at the beginning and just go through them all. I have the collection already), and I *will* be a fan of Arx Fatalis whenever I finally get around to it (yes, I have precog abilities sometimes).

So, yeah, I'm way in.

I've played the demo about 15 times, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the combat develops in later levels.

Out today.

I hear the Steam demo runs much better than the downloadable exe demo, but the downloadable one is the only one I could try so far thanks to the campus internet connection. Not very pretty on my machine. If the newer demo runs well, I might have to play this.