MM4... Just too easy to beat (spoilers)
MICHAEL ANTHONY STRAUSS
pet and it died. Then when I saw Xeen, all I had to do is teleport up to his
face and hit him twice and he died. The damn Dragon King was 100 times harder
to kill. I had to use three divine Interventions to kill him. With Xeen's
pet, he hit me once with some green shit that hardly harmed my party before I
imploded him. The King knocked the living shit out of us before we got to
him. ANd Xeen, oh boy big deal. He Eradicated one of my members that I just
brought back to life later. It only took two hits... Diamond Golems were
harder and you didn't even have to mess with them. Throw this away and just
shit on it.
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FLAME ON break out your asbestos underwear
Not since Eye of the Beholder's infamous ending have I seen such an anti-
climax. MM3 took me over 100hrs to complete, MM4's Xeen was history after
~25 (count them all, there aren't many) hrs!! The guy above was lucky, at
least he got to see the dragon king and a diamond golem, I "finished" the
game with only a third of the map explored. Implosion? I didn't have that
spell when I "finished" the game, Incinerate was virtually the only magic I
needed to do Xeen's castle in its entirety!!! I couldn't believe it when I
freed Crodo and he told me to go upstairs and kill xeen, I'd only completed
a handful of the dungeons on the map! I was sick to my stomach when a
bodiless voice (or was it an electric jester) told me I needed an 'xeen
cupie doll' to enter his lair. What a joke!
FLAME OFF
I have two opinions as to why MM4 was turned into such a farce:
1. The most likely explanation is that New World needed a game out fast &
MM4 drew the short straw.
2. It is just possible that there is a MAJOR bug in the system by which you
rebuild newcastle. If it cost more megacredits i.e. 5,10,15... the game
would have lasted a lot longer. As it is all the credits needed to complete
the game are located in 2 dungeons.
To quote a wise philosopher:
>Throw this away and just shit on it.
Dale Ogilvie
Christopher M Toth
I must agree with these people entirely. MM4 was the first MM game I
played since MMI and I was quite impressed with the graphics and sound.
However, in retrospect, the game was INCREDIABLY easy to finish! When I think
about it, I whizzed through that game in a little under a week, where as other
games, like Ultima, Wizardy, took much much longer. In MM4 I was surprised with
how fast the characters advanced. 500,000 XP here, 1,000,000 XP there. I was
having trouble keeping up with all the levels. And gold? I had so much gold
I could have bought every weapon,armour and magic item in every town and still
have some left over to live happily. As far as MegaCredits? I could have
bought NewCastle 10 times over if possible. I was impressed with the sounds
, graphics, and plot, but the game itself was just too damn easy!!!
-chris
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The Ohio State University We are sheltered under the gun
Columbus State In the glory game on the power train
CIS/History Major Thy's kingdom's will be done."-Rush
Daniel Leon Berke
gems and needed 300 to get the key to the Tower of High Magic. I went into
the golem keep, found the chest of 3000 gems by teleporting around with
teleport(0 gems to cast!) and time distortion when I was confronted by a
diamond golem, became a golem master or whatever that was, and left. I
(in the course of that night playing) went through the volcano dungeon, the tower of
high magic, Darzog's tower, and killed Xeen. I never did anything in much of
the lava area, the Desert, or the winter area.
I liked the game, but it was too short. I would hope that the game, when com-
bined with Darkside, will seem more complete.
Dan
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