King's Booty - Bountylicious
 

I saw this the other day in passing and wondered WHY it isn't ON HERE D:<

Demo (~700MB)

For folks who do not know, Heroes of Might & Magic is a close foil to this. Why is it so? Because HoM&M BASED ITSELF off of this game's first release in 1990. Genesis users will probably remember a King's Bounty game if they reach back far enough, and it is still fun to this day :-D ANYhow. This was released in Russia some time ago, I believe (months? Weeks?) and it is about to hit US shores. I went on to torrent sites hoping to download it ahead of time, but this is under most peoples' radars.

It is quite deep; the Russians creators made an incredible game called Space Rangers which basically had EVERYTHING you could imagine, all done on a budget amounting to almost nill. Thankfully, these guys pulled out some cash and created this beautiful game.

Something funny I learned from reading the SA thread -- you can actually marry and produce babies. Babies = stat buffs. "Sup, son. I only had you because you gave +2 to ranged combat on my archers. Sorry."

Likewise, you can buff gear by fighting "gremlins" or something of the sort that live inside of them.

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Note: Battle Lord was the title of this project originally. A Russian developer wanted to make a spiritual sequel, but the creators just went "hay, wanna do an official sequel??? ;0"

Once again, Sept 23rd. You fags better buy it, you hear me? :mad:

Wait, same people that did Space Rangers 2? Shit son, sign me up.

PC Game of the fucking YEAR. Why aren't you faggots playing this?! :mad: Download from Atari's main site or from Gamersgate if you wanna have it directly in your hands. $40 very, very well spent.

I'll have to try out the demo later. I loved Heroes III, but that won't work on my newer computer for some reason and I didn't care for some elements they put into V. Considering this looks practically identical to it, it's worth a look.

I've been playing this non-stop for the past couple of days.

It's absolutely made for those fans of the old HoMM games. Great game.

I've been playing the demo as a mage, and I have to say, my army feels like a way to just waste time while I cast spells to take out the enemy army.

Later on, units get fucking massive. Still, I'd say hands-down that the magic tree is the best one to venture in to. The warrior tree has a couple perks, and the intermediate one has a couple (turning priests in to inquisitors is kickass for wasting undead, trust me).

Most of the game is a hard grind, though. You'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel at times. Still, as you progress, your castles that you work for will get more men or they will be listed as an unlimited amount ("horde").

I just played the demo last night and I don't even know why I DLed it as I usually don't like the genre (tactical RPGs) but damn, this game is really good. It's so good that I'm sorely tempted to purchase this over Castlevania.

I tried out all three classes and I think I like Warrior the best, followed by Paladin and Mage. Steem is realllly awesome with his poison clouds and that fish attack. Both are incredibly potent. My demo army consists of wolves, priests, archmages, peasants and swordsmen.

Anyone know the price in Canada by any chance?

You can download it online for $40.

Also blol <3 Who changed the title ='D Props for it. That or I named it that and entirely forgot.

That's a good idea, except I can't download it >_> The website is coming up blank. Sucks to be me I guess. Apparently you can also DL it at Atari's website. Are they good and reliable?

P.S. By the time I figured out what the eggs did, I had already killed everything on the map! I soo wanted to try out my new Gryphons...

Checked out the demo. Sweet. Was a fan of Heroes Might and Magic games. This feels like the direction the sequels should have gone. I showed it to my family so two copies ordered and on the way. :) My only complaint is lack of multiplayer, but not a big one.

OKay I got the game through direct2drive since gamersgate is still showing a blank page. 10% done out of the 2GB DL :D Can't wait to play it.

A battle multiplayer function would be great. Maybe something in a future expansion?

Update: Wooo, the full game is a lot harder than the demo. I played literally all day yesterday. I'm a level 8 Baron now. Stupid me didn't realize you could click on the Spirits' portrait to gain access to the Rage skills until I was pretty far into the game >_> I thought you had to do another quest to gain access to them. My army consists of peasants (although I'm gonna ditch them), inquisitors, archmages, bears/wolves and horsemen although I'm running low on horsemen. I got a wife with three kids and one of them gives +10 defense :D