I hope this game is a joke

[Joannés]

Even from the gameplay trailer it looks like these generic pseudo-fantasy mobile games you see all the time in advertisements.

I was honestly very surprised when I saw that there is a new Disciples game being made. I had thought there wouldnt be any after the fiasco with Renaissance or Resurrection. It should have stayed that way. The Liberation looks horrible, and it is an insult to the franchise.
Devs, you must be joking.

[Rendaus]

Honestly it does looks generic as hell. Can't wait to read about its inevitable flop, the sad thing is it will also desecrate the already ♥♥♥♥♥♥ corpse of a series I truly love.

[sam_502]

No its clear that frima was tasked to make a disciples game and they just played the last game and thats why we got this. They didnt know people waited for a similar game to 2

[Futurista]

Not so sure about the direction of this game, they should of took hint of d3 turn out from the jump to 3d combat and grid. IMHO they shouldn't of bothered, and were monitarly better off porting a revamped version of d2 to moble, pc, console as a 10$ game. Time will tell how this turns out.

[Elveone]

Originally posted by Futurista:

Not so sure about the direction of this game, they should of took hint of d3 turn out from the jump to 3d combat and grid. IMHO they shouldn't of bothered, and were monitarly better off porting a revamped version of d2 to moble, pc, console as a 10$ game. Time will tell how this turns out.

Another steam member(I think it was nTu4Ka) mentioned somewhere that the source code of Disciples 2 was lost hence why there aren't any remasters or ports to other platforms.

[LotusBlade]

Well it does looks suspicious. Disciples 3 attempted to copy Heroes of Might and Magic and failed both as Heroes and as Disciples. Game was playable, but boring, dragged and simply not interesting in any aspect nor unique.

Now in that trailer what i see is Disciples trying to copy King's Bounty... WHY? Do you even understand King's Bounty 2 is going to release at same time? What do you expect? Moreover, game horribly stutters/lags even in trailer, i am 100% sure my PC is worse than that shown in a trailer. So how you expect us to play unoptimised game?

Creatures, skill animation, grapchics and even MUSIC in trailer 2 absolutly copies King's Bounty style.

Stop and play Disciples Liberation trailer 2 at 1:17,
now compare to this KB video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzoHyX8EPAw
at 21:38

I don't get it, what are you thinking, devs?

[Elveone]

The days of Disciples have come to an end? Are you living in 2004? Disciples has been dead for quite a while.

[Elveone]

Which is why you see 60 people on Steam playing it... I get you are really invested into it but the game is dead.

[Elveone]

Yeah, there are 1400 people playing Heroes 3 on steam right now so I don't think your argument holds any water.

[Elveone]

Originally posted by nTu4Ka:

Yeah, there are 1400 people playing Heroes 3 on steam right now so I don't think your argument holds any water.

Everything is relative.

Torchlight III has 360 players. Which makes it a dead game as I understand.

It is a dead game. A game that I somewhat like but dead non-the-less. Not to bore you with too much detail but they listened too much to fan feedback and after 3 botched launches(early access, official, gamepass) the studio got bought by Zynga and abandoned further development.

[Elveone]

And they are. No matter how much I love the series those games are dead as well. It is not that you cannot have fun with a dead game but you cannot really expect massive interest for one or any profit based on it. Sure, TL2 got revitalized a little bit with the announcement and release of its console version and 3 but soon enough it will be forgotten completely as well with the exception of a few faithful fans.

Look, just because I am willing to give Liberation a fair shake doesn't mean I don't like Disciples 2. Hell, I kind of like 3 as well, although it is kind of a trashfire :D I started the Disciples series with a demo of Disciples 1 off a magazine disk in 1999 and I've spend years playing 2 but honestly I was kind of shocked when they announced another game in the series. I hope that Liberation does well enough so they can bring a true TBS sequel to the series as fans want one.

At the same time I also like the kind of game that Liberation tries to be so I am not really upset with the direction they decided to take even if it is not faithful to what the series used to be. In any case we kind of have to acknowledge that it is a small publisher that has commissioned this game and that they are following trends that are popular at the moment and that because they are kind of small and hence small-budget there will be a lot of cut corners with the game. If the series gets popular again I would expect resurgence of at least some of the features that made it popular in the first place as well.

[Cortes]

Wait, what? HoMM could have been a RTS?

I like HoMM and I started with 5 but I must admit turning HoMM into an RTS sounds interesting.
Could have been a RTS with more then just 3 factions, which seems to happen a lot, unfortunately.

[Elveone]

Originally posted by nTu4Ka:

We were just discussing HoMM V story in Russian thread.
At that time Ubisoft wanted to make an RTS. Because TBS weren't selling well back then (and nothing changed honestly) and RTS were pretty popular. That period Warcraft III was ruling the scene.
Nival (developer) refused and insisted to make TBS.
In retrospective it was a strong and correct decision. HoMM V is one of the best games in series. It's a great successor of HoMM III.

Now we have Liberation story...

Can you provide a source for that? Cause it honestly seems made-up.

[Elveone]

Because asking where you heard something that sounds made up is extremely unreasonable...

[Elveone]

I am a fan of Heroes, I followed the public side of development of Heroes 5 and the rumor mill around it and I've never heard of this before. Then I googled quite extensively for the exact rumor but found absolutely nothing. So yeah, if it has not been mentioned before it does sound made up but it might not be which is why I asked you for the source of that information. Did Mishulin or someone else on the team share it in a later interview or a Q&A that is only available in Russian or did you hear it from another user? Believe it or not trying to establish the authenticity of a rumor is not unreasonable. Acting like I personally insulted you when doing so kind of is though.

[Dracolich]

Thanks to the new owner of Dsciples ， now I know it is truly DEAD.