Planet Bob - Playing Might & Magic (DOS)

RSS Bot · July 17, 2009

Hi there!

It's really about time that I finally start playing one of the longest running RPG series:

Starting into this adventure required quite some preparation. Unlike Wasteland didn't the game just run on my PC, so I had to figure out how to run DOSBox once again.

(If you're wanting to play it along with me, try running it on 100 clicks, that's where it feels natural.)

Starting Might & Magic for the first time ends quite in a shock. Here we are in 1988, already almost a year after Dungeon Master came out, and New World Computing somehow managed to release a game that looks far worse than The Bard's Tale from 1985. Imagine that, the whole combat system is plain text only! :-o

And it's hard as hell. Even after reading the complete manual and having a printout of the official clue book ready right beside my keyboard, my whole party got wiped out approx. 50 times tonight. I didn't even manage to level up my crew once :ponder: