Comments on: Slow Learners: Disciples III

By: zomg

zomg — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:33:44 +0000

ogre battle rip-offs ftw fucktards

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:08:04 +0000

Another way the disciples 2 system was broken: it was optimal to drag every battle out to 20 rounds to fully heal when playing the human side. More KB obsession please.

By: Skurmedel

Skurmedel — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:34:11 +0000

Where’s the petition? This looks way to colourful compared to the old Disciples!

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:05:04 +0000

Disciples II was really nifty (especially the transformation/upgrade mechanic, as others have noted), but Rhygadon’s complaints are pretty much spot on. Had no idea the devs were still around. Will have to keep an eye on Disciples III. (It was fun! It was deeply flawed, but fun.)

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:21:33 +0000

My favourite bit was where no-one could stand still, swaying back and forth instead.

By: Severian

Severian — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:34:46 +0000

P.S. the brilliance of King’s Bounty is that it’s not a wargame at all, but a series of increasingly difficult tactical battles. AI behavior is relatively simple and easy to code.

By: Severian

Severian — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:32:44 +0000

as always with TBS, the issue is AI. if only developers would put as much time and energy into writing complex AI as they do for drawing “kool” demons. Disciples II was a fun game but ultimately fell apart because the computer was incapable of actually waging war. Unfortunately, the same critique was true of Age of Wonders, Warlords, etc. Damn, even Vic Davis’ excellent Armageddon Empires was dumb as a rock sometimes. Only Civ and GalCiv have done a decent job at turn-based AI and until that problem is fixed, fantasy wargames will always make me feel like a grognard in a babypool.

By: an ape

an ape — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:25:19 +0000

To be fair, everyone in Disciples looks positively evil.

Looking forward to this, there are some simple but really tight mechanisms in this game, lots of fun.

By: monkeymonster

monkeymonster — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:33:28 +0000

A final fantasy clone? Wrapped up in different paper with a dark bow dripping in black evil goo… Was never a player of such games but dead useful as co-pilot.

By: mist

mist — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:46:07 +0000

I enjoyed Disciples 2. =)

As others said: it’s more a of a dark and gritty game, with demons and undead as playable factions, and the land changing to whichever side owns it: if you’re playing demons/undead, you’re basically looking at a hellscape/horror-movie-graveyard the entire game, with just hints of dwarven snow-landscapes and human non-cheery forests (that you then proceed to conquer and change to your favorite hell/graveyard =)).

So, a big difference with King’s Bounty, which is pretty lighthearted (at least untill the Elven continentent.. didn’t get any farther because of L4D -_-)

And judging from this trailier, Disciples 3 will continue with the evil/dark look.

By: alco75

alco75 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:45:37 +0000

The art direction in D1&2 was great, but the gameplay was awful, especially having since played KB.

By: Jubaal

Jubaal — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:30:53 +0000

It looks pretty beautiful graphically, but why would you ruin that with those big ugly blocky health bars. Surely they could have thought of a smarter more aesthetic way of doing it!