Sorry for the double post, but I missed this part! If you think PCE Might & Magic is better than the original PC version, then you are sorely mistaken!
Here, read my review: Might & Magic PCE
It's got some colorful re-drawn artwork, but is much worse than the PC original.
Presentation/quality wise its better. Gameplay wise, its better. It lacks customization, and yeah that definitely does suck.. but makes up for it in every other category, especially the magic portion. The original PC one is a bit rough in that regard. I blame the era and limitations of the release time.
I'm big into the Might and Magic games! I like the PCE CD one alot more than the original DOS one, and I prefer it over the NES one too. Some of it may have to do with the over-Japanification of it and with the fact that I never really used the lightning bow when I played the DOS one...
Isles of Terra ruled on PCE. I wish World of Xeen was brought to PCE CD also. I can only dream of how badass the tunes wouldve been.
This brings up an interesting thought. Order of the Griffon took out character customizing too. All of the other Goldbox games had customizing. I wonder why they tried doing M&M 1, and OotG without it?
They ported them to the hardware.... What they didn't do, was localize them to the US. Having Altered Beast on Turbo would have helped, I think.
same with a few other games we didn't get in the US that we should have.
You're confused. You're probably thinking of Jyuouki and Goruden Akkusu, and they really don't count since they never came to the US.
Altered Beast and Golden Axe were hella better than those two well-documented stinkers.
Nice.
TG16 might have debuted in late '89, but '90 was the real year for it. Master system? I didn't even remember it existed by 1990, let alone by 1989. If I did see games in magazines for it (reviews) like in Gamepro, VG&CE, EGM, I must have subconsciously skipped over them. I knew of one kid at school that had an SMS and we made fun of him for it. One kid in my whole grade (1988 I think, middle school). Or at least, he was the only one that admitted it. Bobby Sweetpea (or however the f*ck you spell his last name).
I got picked on for getting a Dreamcast in 6th grade. I even got punched in the face for it. What is it with owning sega and getting made fun of, lol.
Little off topic:
Funny. In High school, people didn't talk casually about games much (unless you were a vidiot; video gaming idiot and usually a nerd. Generally uncool or a geek). It was considered 'cool' to put away childish things like the NES, act 'older', getting into trouble, and chasing ass. That was 1990 and I was a freshman. Sega didn't get that 'edgy' vibe yet, so video gaming was looked at as either computer gaming (very-very nerdish) or just NES which was seen as childish (the graphics weren't 'realistic' then were 'kiddie'. But that's because they were 8bit. The themes were kiddish. Etc). Not unlike those DnD kids. Arcade games seemed to be immune during that time because there were a little more mature looking and didn't require some strange obsession to play them in all your free time. There was no stigma attached to arcade gaming. Even considered desirable because it was a hang out. Strange how the gaming culture changed so much over just those two years (from 1990 to 1992).
Everyone talked about video games when I was in school, even the jocks. Gaming has evolved enough that almost everyone plays them now. Jocks talked about sports, racing and FPS, all the dorks talked about RPGs, but everyone talked about stuff... and sometimes we could find middle ground and talk about fighting games in the midst of the jocks razzing the dorks/outcasts. Pretty strange when you have an indepth conversation about street fighter with someone who just threw a bottle of gatorade at your head a few days earlier.... only to have him wing a twinkie at you hours after the conversation!
but, then we got picked on for playing D&D and stuff still...
