King's Bounty - New Strategic RPG by Atari

[OmegaX]

I'm not sure if any of you have played this newly released game or not, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. The game has a gorgeous environment and a lot of variety. The combat is turned based and uses a block moving system. You can buy troops and built up your army for the battles. It also uses a tree style (WoW) talent system. I've only played a few hours so far, but I've read that it is about 40+ hours in length. If you're looking for a different type of RPG I definitely recommend it.

Here's the Gamespy review. About the only place I found that reviewed it. Which is a shame more people don't know about it.

 

[Ennui]

Is this a remake of the OOOLD pre-Heroes of Might and Magic game King's Bounty? It looks sort of similar but that game is at least 15 years old now.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

The art is absolutely gorgeous.

 

[Ravioli]

looks just like HOMM5, hopefully its better.

 

[OmegaX]

Is this a remake of the OOOLD pre-Heroes of Might and Magic game King's Bounty? It looks sort of similar but that game is at least 15 years old now.

Yeah it's a remake of some classic game. So I'm guessing it is the one you mentioned.

 

[Raziaar]

The art is absolutely gorgeous.

Yeah, don't you just love his flowing golden hair?

 

[staticprimer]

Oh wow, this looks really cool. I just wish I had money for games right now.

 

[TwwIX]

Atari. The very poor man's EA.

 

[Raziaar]

Oh and another thing. I want to know why that knight guy is riding a friggin pony.

 

[Ennui]

Yeah it's a remake of some classic game. So I'm guessing it is the one you mentioned.

Well that game was awesome so I might get this.

The old version is 18 years old now and was basically the spiritual predecessor to the entire HOMM series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_bounty

 

[MRG]

Atari. The very poor man's EA.

A bad day at Atari beats a great day at EA.

-MRG

 

[<RJMC>]

warcraft:the turn based rpg?

 

[Ennui]

warcraft:the turn based rpg?

except that it's a remake of a game that predates Blizzard's existence

 

[Bad^Hat]

Looks pretty cool, might be a strategy RPG I can actually get behind. The HOMM series was great, but there were always a few things that bugged me about it, usually in regards to the combat. I've always wanted something similar, but a bit more tight and streamlined (without culling too much depth) and with more emphasis on the RPG elements. This looks like it might be the ticket.

 

[lame-o]

Why wasn't the general population informed of the existence of this game before it came out?

 

[Eejit]

Aw cool. I'm enjoying HoMM 5 at the moment, so I might check this out too.
I loved King's Bounty... though it was damn hard. Every time I get a nice big army built up I ran into some ****ing devils.

 

[CR0M]

Oh come on...
My little pony? Pretty men? References to the king's bounty bar? this is clearly a gaym.

 

[JFry]

I absolutely loved king's bounty back in the day on the sega genesis. This looks to be a pretty faithful recreation.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

It's going to be shit if Atari's track record as of recently is to go by.

 

[OmegaX]

It's going to be shit if Atari's track record as of recently is to go by.

Well I've already played a bit of it and I can tell you it's not shit. It's a different type of RPG that I've never experienced. It's good if you're looking for something new.

There's a Demo if anyone is interested. Here

 

[MRG]

I gave Kings Bounty & good solid 3 hours test & I just could not seem to get into it. The graphics are very nice & the audio is decent, but I am more interested in a game where I directly control the hero & so right off the bat, the game failed for me. Still I gave it a try, to see if I could get over that fundamental preferance, but I simply couldn't.

I never have been able to get all that excited about games that followed that grid-turn-based combat style. Perhaps if I liked to play Chess, I might enjoy games of this type a little more.

-MRG

 

[staticprimer]

Anyone know what to make of this?

 

[MRG]

Anyone know what to make of this?

LMFAO!!

Looks like you only have a *few* days left to play the game.

Never saw that error message.

-MRG

 

[Eejit]

Well I've already played a bit of it and I can tell you it's not shit. It's a different type of RPG that I've never experienced. It's good if you're looking for something new.

There's a Demo if anyone is interested. Here

I doubt it is much of something new if you've played the original and HoMM 1 through 5.

 

[Uriel]

I'm getting the urge to play warlords for some reason.

Problem is, I can't remember which one i used to play.