Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Q&A

RPGDot: Ok. And as compared to Arx there is an upper world now? Are there real cities you can visit and if so, how many cities? Can you walk into every house then (if you can open the door)? How large is the gaming world? And how many dungeons are there?

Raphael: As you know us from Arx, we craft our games very much. So, we don't base so much the locations in terms of 'how many', but more on 'how detailed' are these environments, and varied. There are a total of 30 maps, Julien, am I right? Could be a little more

Julien: Yes around 30.

RPGDot: Maps means cities/dungeons/buildings?

Raphael: Yes

Julien: Yes the game is mission based.

RPGDot: Oh...so there is no persistent world where you can walk anywhere anytime?

Raphael: No, there isn't. There are places that you come back and revisit in different contexts, but the highlevel experience is tied into a well crafted story, this is why we made the choice of going mission based for the structure (like some other cool games I won't mention Wink

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I don't know, linear action RPG just screams short play length. The one thing I always liked about MM games were the HUGE open ended world where you could go anywhere you wanted and progress at your own pace.

Finding towers where monsters would just kick your ass in 5 seconds was always a lesson learned, and so so satisfying to come back to. I guess that's what I pictured this game to be, Oblivion style with much more of an action focus, not a Might and Magic meets Ninja Gaiden style game.

Oh well, it is what it is I hope it turns out nice.

this coming to 360 or just PC?

Does this game have anything to do with Might and Magic? It sounds like it's just a rpg that uses the Might and Magic name. I'm still looking forward to it though, I really liked Arx Fatalis.

Any chance this will appear on Steam?

Some cool movies as well

http://www.1up.com/do/download?cId=3142946

I like to think this how Blade of Darkness would be if they made a sequel.

This isn't really an RPG, so stop comparing it to Oblivion. It's more like Hexen.

The singleplayer sounds fairly short but the multiplayer should be quite interesting because there really aren't many fantasy shooters around.

Any RPG developer must feel pressured after the Oblivion release. That's a very high standart to live to.

I WANT IT!!!
I hope it stays on schedule. I want to play the shit out of it at QC this year.

While its not the best interview. My hype meter for this game is high. I loved arx so i'm pretty sure i'm going to dig this one. although it will be hard for me not to compare it to oblivion. I willbe buying it regardless of the reviews to be honest. Becausde after oblivion i expect rpg reviews to go down a bit and get alot of, "After oblivion you would think developers would know better..." type comments from reviewers.

If only Ubi didn't infect all its games with StarForce...

(someone had to bring it up >_<)