Talk:Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World
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[edit] Copyright
A large section of material sourced from the game's accompanying literature has been put here: I suspect this may be in breach of copyright. See also: Fair Use. BreathingMeat 18:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- Not only that, it hugely stunts the flow of the article. I have reviewed this article several times and I haven't even taken the effort to read the part through the first few lines. I'd say... remove? -- Bakabaka 14:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
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- I removed the story section as it was obviously lifted straight from the manual. I suspect the character classes section is also from the manual but I'm not 100% sure. --Mika1h 16:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- I have compared the old Character Class section with the manual. Parts of it are copied verbatim, others are slightly reworded, and others are new. Honestly I never liked that section, copyright issues aside, because I thought it went into far too much detail and made for very boring reading. Therefore, I have replaced the section with something much shorter.BreathingMeat 04:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Changes by 66.83.20.147 and neutrality tag
I removed the following part from the article: (removed by BreathingMeat 04:25, 18 November 2006 (UTC))
Since 66.83.20.147's earlier edit to this article was deemed rather unreliable, I am confident that this addition is less-than-desired as well. Discussion welcome.
Almost the same goes for the 'Controversy' section added by the same user: I think it highly POV. Personally, I rather enjoyed playing MM2. 66.83.20.147, please discuss! -- Bakabaka 22:45, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Reviews from 1988 and 1989 that I remember were positive, one deeming it an "excellent RPG". I have removed the offending text. BreathingMeat 02:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] MM2 SNES Port
I'm pretty sure MM2 was released for the SNES in Europe(and Japan if I'm not mistaken) as "Might and Magic," and I've never come across a version of MM1 for SNES, as is indicated on the MM1 page.
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Cron.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Too much un-encyclopedic content
Almost every paragraph in the gameplay section has wording you wouldn't consider encyclopedic.
- (the lack of this in the original could be rather frustrating).-- even if it's true, way too POV
- (out of, say, twenty possibilities)-- "out of, say" is way too informal
- quite impressive for the time-- "quite impressive" implies POV (what's impressive to you might not be impressive to the next guy) and can be worded better.
- which at some times was no big thing-- "no big thing" (!?)
Also, all of my characters have 99xxx hit points. If I train futher, my hit points start over from roughly what they were at level 1. I don't remember if the original (dual 5 1/4 inch floppy) version limited it. I still can't even hit the Mega Dragon though (the main reason why I saved and saved to get so many hit points). And he kills my whole party in a few rounds...
Later in the game it became necessary to have items such as the Flaming Sword +57 or the Gold Plate Armor +63. This isn't necessarily true. They're nice to have, but you don't NEED any + items at all (some creatures along the way can only be hit by + items, sure). Certainly not of the + factor as high as 57 or 63.
There's other stuff here and there I'd tweak too. I guess I'm in no hurry to tackle an article devoted to a 20 year old game. I do consider it one of my favorite games of all time and still play it often though. Zerotta (talk) 15:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
