If you killed everyone in a village, you couldn't convert it. Pretty counter productive. If you wanted a village without decimating most of it, you'd have to play nice; you'd get your creature to go other there and do nice miracles over and over, or even worse, have to do them yourself (if you're just in reach).
I'm hoping in B&W 2 that you can convert by subjugating a village with an army. I'm also hoping that they make it more enjoyable to play as a good guy; there wasn't much enjoyment to be had from managing the villagers. A bit more depth there would do wonders.
GrendelAll that is fear...Join Date: 2002-07-19Member: 970Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Playtester
Hopefully they'll deal with the game breaking bugs before release this time round. Sadly, I have a suspicion that the AI part of the game (the most engaging and interesting part) will be whittled away and that most of the game will focus on RTS gameplay.
<!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Mar 14 2005, 10:40 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Mar 14 2005, 10:40 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you killed everyone in a village, you couldn't convert it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes you could. Once everyone is dead, put a missionary in there, and do anything. Bam, the village is yours. Of course, you'll have to provide a bunch of breeders to fill the village up, but evil people shouldn't have a problem with that.
And yeah, there's not much for good guys to do. Neutral is the most fun, because you're angelic to your followers and demonspawn to your enemies.
I thought it was cool set trees on fire then stick a boulder in the middle of them. Wait until it gets hot, then hand it to your creature. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> I'm such a bastard.
GrendelAll that is fear...Join Date: 2002-07-19Member: 970Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Playtester
<!--QuoteBegin-Gwahir+Mar 13 2005, 11:45 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Gwahir @ Mar 13 2005, 11:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> wasn't that buggy <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Unless you consider fatal application errors on numerous setups and a roughly 50% chance of the game resetting your creature's AI on level change to be serious bugs.
The patches fixed several issues, but numerous game features that were promised never materialised or were simply broken. Taking a dump on the fields, for example, was meant to improve crop growth. Molyneux admitted in an interview that the feature never actually worked in the final game. Additionally, the creature was prone to dying of thirst whilst next to a large body of water, even when taught how to drink. The list goes on.
Even on systems that didn't crash, numerous aspects of the gameplay were broken. Lovely concept though and for several days I thought I'd fallen in love.
<!--QuoteBegin-Grendel+Mar 14 2005, 07:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Grendel @ Mar 14 2005, 07:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The patches fixed several issues, but numerous game features that were promised never materialised or were simply broken. Taking a dump on the fields, for example, was meant to improve crop growth. Molyneux admitted in an interview that the feature never actually worked in the final game. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh, you've got to be kidding me. I spent so much time teaching my beast to poo in the fields, and it did nothing? Makes me dislike the game even more...
<!--QuoteBegin-MedHead+Mar 14 2005, 09:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Mar 14 2005, 09:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Grendel+Mar 14 2005, 07:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Grendel @ Mar 14 2005, 07:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The patches fixed several issues, but numerous game features that were promised never materialised or were simply broken. Taking a dump on the fields, for example, was meant to improve crop growth. Molyneux admitted in an interview that the feature never actually worked in the final game. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh, you've got to be kidding me. I spent so much time teaching my beast to poo in the fields, and it did nothing? Makes me dislike the game even more...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> What about getting your cow to eat cows.
Please god PLEASE tell me the Mad Cow Disease feature was actually added!
Surely most of those will be useless now? You can do at least 2 things with the same miracle.. crush the fireball into some lava... stuff.
Anyway, I want a reviewer who didn't particularly like the first game to post one of his reviews. That'd give a good estimation on how much complaining there's going to be about this one in comparison to the first.
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I'm hoping in B&W 2 that you can convert by subjugating a village with an army. I'm also hoping that they make it more enjoyable to play as a good guy; there wasn't much enjoyment to be had from managing the villagers. A bit more depth there would do wonders.
Yes you could. Once everyone is dead, put a missionary in there, and do anything. Bam, the village is yours.
Of course, you'll have to provide a bunch of breeders to fill the village up, but evil people shouldn't have a problem with that.
And yeah, there's not much for good guys to do. Neutral is the most fun, because you're angelic to your followers and demonspawn to your enemies.
- Shockwave
It was fun to burninate the people the first few times, but after that, it got stale - at least, for me.
I wonder if the horse will be in? That was one of the only creatures to keep its dignity when it was pure good. (:
haha same here <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Unless you consider fatal application errors on numerous setups and a roughly 50% chance of the game resetting your creature's AI on level change to be serious bugs.
The patches fixed several issues, but numerous game features that were promised never materialised or were simply broken. Taking a dump on the fields, for example, was meant to improve crop growth. Molyneux admitted in an interview that the feature never actually worked in the final game. Additionally, the creature was prone to dying of thirst whilst next to a large body of water, even when taught how to drink. The list goes on.
Even on systems that didn't crash, numerous aspects of the gameplay were broken. Lovely concept though and for several days I thought I'd fallen in love.
Oh, you've got to be kidding me. I spent so much time teaching my beast to poo in the fields, and it did nothing? Makes me dislike the game even more...
Oh, you've got to be kidding me. I spent so much time teaching my beast to poo in the fields, and it did nothing? Makes me dislike the game even more...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What about getting your cow to eat cows.
Please god PLEASE tell me the Mad Cow Disease feature was actually added!
Years... wasted... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
/me has a creature with almost all of the spells learned
Anyway, I want a reviewer who didn't particularly like the first game to post one of his reviews. That'd give a good estimation on how much complaining there's going to be about this one in comparison to the first.
haha same here <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ditto
haha same here <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ditto <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
it arrives either late today or sometime tomorrow.