No replay value at all (and other things that annoy me)

[Darkeonz]

Crossworlds had a lot of replay value as pretty much all stores were completely random. Your hero didn't start with a set of armor taking up 4 spots like in warriors of the north. It's almost not worth trying to find another set to put in instead. Your companion's in crossworld also allowed for much greater usage of artifacts than in warriors of the north.

Crossworlds was the one king's bounty that actually was a bit like the original game (which I love and still play now and then).

There's just way too many boring fights and you level up a lot slower. You level up like you did in Legend. Crossworlds had it figured out. Fewer fights, more dynamic. A lot more bosses. Running back and fourth questing is just not a fun thing to do. Or figureing out where to turn in quests. It really became tedious

I was really annoyed with the usage of Legend maps as well. It comes off a bit lazy to me. I would much rather have discovered a great new world.

And what is up with removing the lizard race? So they took that race out and added vikings. I find that sad. More units = more fun. So no reason to remove them, especially since they were actually more interesting than the vikings :-/. In fact I was very disappointed that so few new units were in the game. The ice dragon was a nice touch, but still.... I was hoping to discover a whole lot more.

I really hope they consider starting from scratch for the new Kings Bounty release and then do a King's Bounty 2. I know all units take a lot of balancing and they are all very unique, so I'm sure it's hard to come up with new units/races, but it would be worth it

[Totoro]

I doubt there is going to be another King's Bounty since this game was not very successful.

[rickah88]

Well I guess that means no physical copy that I was holding out for, it seems. Sounds like I wasn't missing much.

[Darkeonz]

Originally Posted by Totoro

I doubt there is going to be another King's Bounty since this game was not very successful.

do you have a source for this? I thought all the KB games were pretty succesful?

[Fatt_Shade]

@Darkeonz Just look at all comments on this forum. Tis is only place i found with large number of KB players, Non-russian. And we aren`t amused by latest release WotN.
I haven`t found any official earning for this game, but i suspect it`s not as successful as previous the Legend or Ap/Cw.
To much bugs, and problems that didnt exist in those games, and just magicaly appeard in this caused many players to be disappointed in this franchise, and hope for better from other game studios like Age of Wonders3, and similar. In any way i had lots of fun with KB tLegend and Ap/Cw but WotN was huge turn down

[Darkeonz]

Originally Posted by Fatt_Shade

@Darkeonz Just look at all comments on this forum. Tis is only place i found with large number of KB players, Non-russian. And we aren`t amused by latest release WotN.
I haven`t found any official earning for this game, but i suspect it`s not as successful as previous the Legend or Ap/Cw.
To much bugs, and problems that didnt exist in those games, and just magicaly appeard in this caused many players to be disappointed in this franchise, and hope for better from other game studios like Age of Wonders3, and similar. In any way i had lots of fun with KB tLegend and Ap/Cw but WotN was huge turn down

Yes I agree. But I would hate to see it be abandoned forever. There's something special about this kind of game. Even though WotN wasn't nearly as good as anyone thought it would be.

They should make the campaigns shorter, have the players level up faster (like in crossworld), put more focus into the "random" aspect of the game. Maybe a random generater with houses, castles and huts so they would be at different locations and have different units and artifacts to buy. I mean it would have to be at specific location, but what is at the location could be random. This is the things that add to replay value and this is a part of why the original KB from 1990

What crossworlds did right was having "Challenges" on the side, like the tower of magic. Things like that make it interesting.

[PennyT18]

I would say that no recent patches probably means they've abandoned this one. I agree with the lack of re-playability as well as being boring for the most part.

This was a great idea but it's like the devs gave up after creating the 4 new areas they did create. It was easier, and faster, to just use what had already been created and tweak it a bit to go with the new storyline - like the re-colored Endoria, which I found a bit annoying, actually. And not being able to access the swamp was very disappointing.

I always wanted to see Crossworlds as actually crossing worlds - in other words, Amelie and Bill go exploring Teana together again and also have access to all of the areas from Legend. That would really be crossing worlds and fit the name of the expanded game perfectly.

I'll continue to play Legend and Crossworlds occasionally but I think WOTN is probably not going to be played nearly as much as the other two.

[Fatt_Shade]

For all those remembering fondly The Legend and Armored princess/Crossworlds i`ll recommend this mod for tL and form there you can find expansion for Ap/Cw in making. I had great fun playing it
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=27802
Enjoy my fellow turn based tactical gamers

[BB Shockwave]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Well I guess that means no physical copy that I was holding out for, it seems. Sounds like I wasn't missing much.

Physical copy has been out for months in Europe... you can easily get it from Ebay or Amazon.

Not that you should, mind you. This game is still far from fully patched... I'm waiting for the last terrible bugs to be fixed. Got tired of fixing them myself (I am here to play, not to work as a beta tester/bugfixer modder) - went back to playing Crossworlds.

[Totoro]

What are the last terrible bugs?