King Bounty Online

[pavned]

Wow, I've been a regular on this forum and don't seem to recall ever saw this one pop up!

Heard rumour about it tough...

But here it is:
http://kranx.com/

I'm kinda of sad tough, hate MMO games. Well looks like CW will be the lat KB experience for me!

[DGDobrev]

Hmm... I went through the press-release, and I wonder what will this project look like. I sure applaud their idea. In theory, successful game series should go online sooner or later, but I hope they did their fair bit of marketing before launching this project. They need to compete with some truly awesome MMORPGs and they must really put their heads into it, create good graphics, make it easily accessible for people with moderately good computers, create tons of content, create tons of monsters, a great big world in which the players could thrive in, and of course, a good story-line based on good NPC characters.

I never played WoW online, but it is a good example. Everyone would want to meet Arthas, Thrall, Jaina Proudmoore, Kel'Thuzad and the multitude of unique characters that popped up in the Warcraft series. I'm sad to say that King's Bounty doesn't have as much chars that capture the attention - the few most notable are Amelie, King Mark, Bill Gilbert, and my personal favorite, Lew Klisan.

I'm also way past my MMORPG time. I had enough of Lineage 2 as an MMORPG game - and once you played one, the rest are pretty much the same.

[Renevent]

Wow! Interesting direction to take the series to say the least. I just hope they don't turn KB into somekind of online casual facebook game

[Dwagginz]

Rough translation:

Company KranX Productions, founded by the famous Russian game-inventory Andrew "KranK" Kuzmin, and Nival Network, one of the leading Russian companies in the field of online games, led by Sergei Orlov, announce a joint MMO-project King's Bounty Online.

Nival are... Oh, HoMM V, right? Or is that a different developer?

[axelle]

any real fan of the series won't even bother to touch the online-version.

when you go online, you go straight to video.

[BB Shockwave]

If the designers and programmers of the original game will be doing it... I'm all for it.

It can only be better then the horrible Heroes of MIght and Magic Online game. (There are no enemy heroes or castles or mines on the adventure maps, and you actually have to lose battles and get your units killed by the thousand to upgrade them! Pity, because I liked the graphics).

[Zechnophobe]

Well, I don't really know what to think. If it is just a multiplayer version with glorified matchmaking that makes it 'massive multiplayer' then I'm okay with it. But I'm not really sure what I would expect from a game like this. I just hope it remains strategic and fun, and not some wierd over the shoulder RPG thing more like Kingdom Hearts.

Keyblade = I will NOT buy it.

[Metathron]

I am not pleased at the sound of it, unless this is some kind of side project and Katauri will be called back to work on a full blown sequel.

I haven't been a part of any Heroes of Might and Magic (my favourite series) MMORPG, and I'll be damned if I start with some dumbed down KB.