Talk:Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
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Great effort, but rather questionable objectivity, parts of it sound more like an advertisement than providing real information. Could the author please review?
- I'm not the author, but considering that most of the information about the game was gathered from publisher announcements and game previews, it's hard to write something that would be 100% objective. Angelspit 12:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
- A more objective wording would help though: "The publisher claims...", "according to the developer...". At the moment this article sounds too much like an advertising flier. Beef
- This is a wiki: there is no "the author". If you think that the text is too advert-like, go ahead and change it. BreathingMeat 01:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Release Year
Someone got the release year wrong. It came out 2006 not 2005
[edit] Game release date
I see that October 2006 is listed as a release date. If I'm correct that is the Steam release date but Ubisoft's website lists the release date as 12/10/2006. Is this valid data or not? Vgamer101 05:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
The game just launched yesterday, October 25, 2006 (in North America). I think it's to be released worldwide tomorrow, October 27.
[edit] Continuity
Does anyone have any information yet on plot continuity between DMoM&M and the original M&M series? BreathingMeat 01:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
There is no plot continuity at all. Ubisoft has transferred MM (includes HOMM) into another world, Ashan. The storyline of MMIX and DMoMM don't match, and neither does the gameplay. DMoMM only allows control of 1 character, while the previous MM games allow control of a whole party. Hobowu 10:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stop crying. Get over it.
The "Release Problems" and "Critical Reaction" sections were a farce until I added some NPOV sense into them. And they were written by someone with an obvious agenda. The following text was posted to User talk:141.154.246.40 who seemed to enjoy skewing the article to suit his views:
"Do your research", what kind of cheek is that when you insert absolutely unsourced weasel words such as "most people..." into the article. You ignore the fact that the majority of publications have given DM a positive review, choosing instead to lead with the Gamespot review. The score, 6.7 is actually classed as fair, but following your absolutely biased quotes, it absolutely distorts the nature of the review. Maybe if you weren't so blatantly trying to rail against Dark Messiah, I'd refrain from things like calling you an ignorant cretin, but you even replaced the 2 IGN scores with the only one you liked. And then instead of quoting the PCZ and PCG scores directly, you just dismissed anything over 80% as rubbish. If you were actually familiar with PCZone, then you'd know that they don't just ignore bugs, they do not bow to the dictations of publishers, it's not like the Official Nintendo or Official Xbox magazine, they have no party line to toe. - Hahnchen 03:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC) |
The post concerns the following diffs [1] [2] - Hahnchen 03:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
--- Those are valid complaints. Even Ubisoft have acknowledged all those problems in their forum (which are full of complaints both tech and gameplay wise by their customers). The problem is that overzealous fans like you are skewing the overall quality of this broken product in a positive light in order to justify your year-long deluded hype. Guess what? This type of action by fans happen to every game that failed to live up to their hype (brute force, killzone, etc), but eventually their poor quality are accepted when the pre-release fans die down. It is pathetic that you had to resort to the 4 or 5 questionable foreign sources (including PCZone UK, which you happen to swipped with PCGamer UK) for the positive reviews, all of which oddly did not mention the technical problems at all. Early print review standards perhaps? And to think these 4-5 sources are what you consider the majority of reviews. Gamespot said they tested the games on many of their machines, all displaying the major technical problems. Also, the 7/10 score from IGN is the official score from them, so don't try to treat the other foreign one as an equal counter-part. Gamespy also gave this game a poor review as well. You overzealous pre-release fans need to get over it and accept that this game just isn't as good as you all hoped it would be.
- If by "overzealous pre-release fans", you mean someone who hasn't even bought the game, and has neither participated in the multiplayer beta or demo, then yes that'd be right. What I'm not a fan of, is your inherently biased bullshit, maybe had you represented Gamespot's review fairly instead of claiming it smashed the game into pieces. Your "4 or 5 questionable foreign sources" is smack out of order, I did not include the PC Zone of PC Gamer references to begin with, they are not "questionable", they are fully reliable sources. If you look at WP:CVG/M, you'll see that we archive print magazines because of this. You fall flat, by treating the jokeshop half-assed gamespy review seriously, that's just an IGN b-review. No one actually follows the gamespy site for anything, it's used purely to host fan sites such as the 3d action network. You're like one of the jokers that values what playlouder has to say over the NME (because being foreign and in print, it's obviously questionable). For example, Edge have not reviewed the game yet to my knowledge, I would happily include a reference to an Edge review even if it stated that the game was a bag of shit and awarded it 3/10. - Hahnchen 14:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Thanks for supporting my argument by admitting to be an overzelous pre-release fan who didn't even try the game at all. I have no agenda other than to warn the potential buyers about the product's major problems. Your agenda, on the other hand, is quite obvious. You are just as despicable as those pre-release killzone fans that were flooding the wiki site with BS info on how amazing and flawless that broken game was, and how it was the consensus that it completely destroyed Halo. No matter how much you try to spin the reviews to make Dark Messiah much better than it actually is, the facts remains that the game is broken especially with its numerous technical issues. I ask any potential buyers to check out the official Dark Messiah forum to see how angry its customers are over this unfinished, bug-ridden game.
- "Thanks for supporting my argument by admitting to be an overzelous pre-release fan who didn't even try the game at all" - I think that argument pretty much sums up how much of an idiot you are. And for those uninvolved, that's a lot of idiot. Why wouldn't a pre-release fan, who is already a Steam user not buy the game? Maybe these forum posts where I've stated I don't want the game are just the delusional ramblings of a crazed fan-boy. [3][4] I've absolutely shot down your arguments in the my previous post, especially regarding what amounts to a reliable source or not. I don't need to "spin" reviews to suit my view, heck I've linked to Metacritic, you can link to Gamerankings too if you want. My "agenda" here, as you can clearly see from my thousands of edits is to write an encyclopedia, yours is to cry wolf. Get yourself a blog. You pretty much lost me when you thought it suitable to include a disclaimer against the reviews that you didn't like. - Hahnchen 23:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for supporting my argument by admitting to be an overzelous pre-release fan who didn't even try the game at all. I have no agenda other than to warn the potential buyers about the product's major problems. Your agenda, on the other hand, is quite obvious. You are just as despicable as those pre-release killzone fans that were flooding the wiki site with BS info on how amazing and flawless that broken game was, and how it was the consensus that it completely destroyed Halo. No matter how much you try to spin the reviews to make Dark Messiah much better than it actually is, the facts remains that the game is broken especially with its numerous technical issues. I ask any potential buyers to check out the official Dark Messiah forum to see how angry its customers are over this unfinished, bug-ridden game.
[edit] The name - drop the "of"
On the box and in all the official sources, the title is "Dark Messiah Might & Magic", without an "of". 84.10.103.180 16:37, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- The press releases still refer to Dark Messiah OF Might and Magic, so my guess is that the box name change is a purely cosmetic thing. Angelspit 21:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)