A good game with some huge flaws.

[phoenixreborn]

Heroes 5 had major performance issues for some people. Can you play an impossible size map with no lag in ai turns? And Oblivion sucked.

I also disagree with the idea that the original kb was more open-ended. There was only 1 type of quest, kill the badguy, this kb has real quests with some choices.

I definitely agree that there should be female character choices, and there could be males to marry as well. You know, two guys get together they could adopt a dragon child...it's fantasy.

Some sort of quick combat would be nice, but the fighting is the heart of the game so I would want a clever solution.

[Elizabeta]

Playing Kings Bounty: The Legend feels very good *despite* the issues I have with it... The X-pack will hopefully fix lots of stuff.

[stupidface]

Originally Posted by phoenixreborn

And Oblivion sucked.

I agree! KB:L is not even supposed to be a "real" RPG, and it is still a better RPG than Oblivion.

As for original KB being more or less open-ended, I see your point. I did not mean to say so much that it was "open-ended," so my use of the term "sandbox" was ill conceived. What I meant to say was that due to its almost total focus on recruitment, power-ups and battles, it was easier to start up and play through. Like the difference between Super Mario Brothers 1 and Super Mario RPG. This is not a fault or problem, of course, just a difference. KB:L is ultimately better than KB in every way, so I'm very glad that the development team got a hold of the license. Unfortunately some good old games have had their licenses for sequels go to bad developers lately... First Baldur's Gate Hack and Slash, soon Fallout 3, maybe Planescape MMO next, or maybe even an Arcanum fighting game, who knows.

I have other ideas about improvements for KB:L in its expansion, but I will post these to the appropriate section of the forum instead of bumping this thread (which is kind of a silly thread to begin with.)