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I played some KB The Legend a while ago and enjoyed it. But couldn't finish it due to getting bored with the repetitiveness of the game...
But vikings...love this theme! Looks really cool too...
Should I complete the first 2 in the series before getting to the new one?
Looks nice enough. It seems they tossed the pet dragon.
What did they replace him with?
Should I complete the first 2 in the series before getting to the new one?
Playing through the Legend now. seems tough and you need to grind up on level with side quests before heading to the next area.
Although the hiring monsters, building up my own town part of the HoMM-series always excited me, the whole turn-based bit wasn't really to my tastes.
King's Bounty strips away the turn-based map stuff, allowing me to get to do what i want to do: get into that battle with my beasties and slaughter them in an efficient and fun way I also like the limited resource aspect and the battles are better in that we can get boss fights and have the Magic Box of Spirits/Dragon/Valkyries to spice things up a little in KB.
Needless to say, already pre-ordered and I have an alarm set for the date/time that it should unlock.
I'm kinda the opposite. Loved the turn-based combat, but couldn't stand having to go back to inns and other places after each battle to replenish my stock of fighters. It was a pain in the rear and felt it could have been handled better.
In KB the enemies are fixed, so if you can't beat them now you can level up a bit and come back to them later.
What about those plants, and I think another insect type enemy, that spawned youngin's. You never knew how many they would spawn. I hated those things.
Your plants can spawn too, the rules are the same for both sides.
That's during a battle though -- if a monster stack has 100 plant-kings (whatever the real name is ) at the beginning of the game, it will still only have 100 plant-kings 50 turns later.
With HoMM, the AI enemies had their castles that kept growing in strength, and they grew faster than you could.
The HOMM fans should also enjoy this game too. The lack of turn base part looks like it would be nice. I may give it a go when it comes out.
Preordered as well - the KB series has been a lot of fun. I'm curious about the freebie game that came with as well.