Lets vote: Might and Magic X vs. Pillars of Eternity?

[MythTrip]

MMX is true classic RPG. Pillars definitely has sexier graphics and atmosphere, but MMX is the better game. Much better sense of progression. You are in control of combat, your decisions matter. Classic leveling up, Pillars tries to reinvent the leveling up wheel. Thankfully items are kept to a minimum, so each one is valuable...each one counts. In Pillars there is so much junk, feels like cleaning the attic,

[creocoder]

Pillars ofcourse. UbiSoft is most horrible company nowadays. MMX not supported by developers. One patch and they do not care more...

[Fendelphi]

I think you are doing a bit of "oranges and apples" here.

1 is a first person classic RPG, the other is a Infinity engine styled RPG.

That is like comparing Might and Magic VII with Baldur's Gate II.

So I will say it comes down to what type of "ye ol' style" RPG you prefer.

[Doc Clarke]

MMX is so dry for me. Like a souless vacuum of repetitive actions where I care not one jot about any of my characters, my enemies or the NPC's.
Where combat is so formulaic that after the first 5 hours there is nothing there left to discover. No nuances to find.
Just spam your standard rotation with 90% of the hostile mobs you find.
Repeat until game over.
Then wonder why you ever bothered.

[Hellbishop]

Originally posted by creocoder:

Pillars ofcourse. UbiSoft is most horrible company nowadays. MMX not supported by developers. One patch and they do not care more...

I totally agree. Comparing a finished crafted with love and passion masterpiece like PILLARS OF ETERNITY with the unfinished poorly designed game that is MMX is a joke. How i miss the days of MM 5 to 8. Still i prefer the first person view and combat of MMX. The combat system in PILLARS OF ETERNITY is a bit too odd and seems to make fights longer then they should be with the insane endurance regeneration. I come in expecting to take down a foe with a certain amount of hit points and all of a sudden their endurance makes it feel like am fighting Wolverine with regenerating health.

[brassi77]

MMX, no contest

[Hellbishop]

Originally posted by brassi77:

MMX, no contest

I like MMX. It has its charm but still compared to the previous versions by New World Computing it just does not compare and feels unfinished with people standing in town 24 hours doing absolutely nothing even though they look like they are selling items. Its as if they ran out of time or couldnt figure out a programming issue that came up when it came to those particular vendors.

[MangoMan]

both are good in their own way, but I ended up enjoying MMX a lot more. even if pillars has better systems, MMX is just funner

[Rifleman71 -V-]

Like them both.

[anramses]

Massive bump due to a replay. MMX destroys pillars, especially after Obsidian balanced the fun out of the combat.

[Losse]

The bugs at launch killed this game for me, never went back even though I probably would have enjoyed it without bugs.

The characters in mmx are worn out from the turn based game, im pretty sick of seeing the same stuff accross the games.

Pillars had its bugs but NOTHING like mmx.

I vote poe.

I'd love to see a good quality game in the mmx genre though, not many out there.

[Crazed Possum]

Originally posted by Losse:

The bugs at launch killed this game for me, never went back even though I probably would have enjoyed it without bugs.

The characters in mmx are worn out from the turn based game, im pretty sick of seeing the same stuff accross the games.

Pillars had its bugs but NOTHING like mmx.

I vote poe.

I'd love to see a good quality game in the mmx genre though, not many out there.

This is one of the games on my wishlist just because i have played the MM franchise:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/428880

[tommim]

I like the concept of MMX, but it was so obvious that Ubisoft tried to make it fail, only to have an excuse to drop the franchise. They even told the developer, who (perhaps in a moment of frustration) leaked it to the players.

First they picked a company that was so obviously not up to the task (too small and having done little more than some Facebook games before that) and handed them a budget that was so ridiculously small that it's a wonder they delivered anything at all. Probably because they had some MM enthusiasts on board who really tried to make it work anyways.

Then Ubisoft insisted on the release date despite obvious bugs and stopped paying the developers shortly after release, even though the studio was ready to support the game further if only they had been allowed to do so.

So apparently Ubisoft got delivered exactly the failure that they ordered. Congratulations suckers, mission accomplished!

I most certainly won't by anything that has the name "Ubisoft" on it ever again.

[trojanwarlord]

A little late reading this thread, but I wanted to post that I was thoroughly disappointed with 'The Quest". I also bought it thinking it was like M&M series, but it was a huge let down. If anything, it inspired me to play M&MX... which in turn is inspiring me to play the older ones.

[Crazed Possum]

Originally posted by trojanwarlord:

A little late reading this thread, but I wanted to post that I was thoroughly disappointed with 'The Quest". I also bought it thinking it was like M&M series, but it was a huge let down. If anything, it inspired me to play M&MX... which in turn is inspiring me to play the older ones.

Darn,,,,, I just bought it when it went on sale. Hope I enjoy it when i get around to it.

Here's another game i recently purchased but haven't got around to yet:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/486720/

[Tuco]

Everything about M&MX's presentation should suggest it's the "lesser" game out of the two, but the truth for me is that I enjoyed it far more than Pillars of Eternity.
To the point that I never cared to finish the latter, while I replayed the former from start to finish about four times at this point.

In fact, the news that Legacy's sales were disappointing for Ubisoft and there won't be a sequel was one of the saddest in gaming in recent time as far as I'm concerned.

To think that I hoped (dreamed?) to hear a success story, with a following sequel bigger and more polished.