Bean counters ruin everything

very well presented, thank you

this video is art, just like the game

beautissimo

I just reinstalled it, RTX remaster is currently being made, The game is still very undead.

1:05 anybody know where this RenderWare video is from? And what that video it's showing is? I'm so sure that video it's playing is an advert.

EA destroys everything it touches. Piece of shit company!

And KOF Maximum Impact 1

8:33 The Stranglers reference is god-tier

tale as old as time. Talented people make something, rich people buy it and ruin it

Canon!? woow!

Thank you, much appreciated 😊

Renderware was an API, not an Engine.

Amazing how they probably could have completed the game if they just stuck with the same format/style of 25th Anniv. and Judgement Rites.

Just got m&m 6,7,8 physical repo boxes manual and all. They look brand new

The RenderWare Engine really was a great engine.

Activision is some shit. All an act and no vision.

I've just watched another video about the Alien 3 video game, and turns out the phrase "Game over, man" is reproduced in the Game Over screen. I immediately remembered this video, so I thought it was a fun fact to share. :)

People shit on mm10, but it's a solid game. I hope we get mm11

Miss your videos

i played it at the release, with only the official patch (1.2 i think?) and the console unlocked so that i could "repair" the bugs. i also added a fan-made translation (could not speak english back in the time) which was ready in record time (amazing thinking about it, and for a niche game, sure translation team knew it better!) and that added even more bugs! in that state it became one of my favourite games ever immediately (and still is) and i played it from start to end with all classes (low settings, 800*600, barely 30 fps, so much love!). then in these 20 years, every new computer of mine had it installed at least once. Edit: and it also made me discover fellow compatriots Lacuna Coil that i didn't know even existed, loved their music since then.

And EA once again comes in and ruins everything,fuck them. But you know what's more ironic? that most of the gaming library made in RenderWare remains far superior and still stands the test of time compared to the fancy Unreal Engine stuff,crazy huh?

Its bs man, Activision greedeanes ruined such a great studio, I do love Arcanum and now I've started Vampires with UFP and this is rpg masterpiece, activision ruined even blizzard, bunch of bloodsuckers in real life masquerade. Vampire even if it was released in 2004 is still so juicy, wish Activision would let studio work on patches and more content, but these morons wanted to release game at the same time as half life 2, lime wtf, how limitied would you need to be to that, yet another reason to be disguisted by corporation like Activi$on.

fk Activision. It was and still is a trash company.

Guess I'll have to be the one to reinstall

STEAM??? GOG? What are you wating to finish this game? Another 30 years???

It is infuriating to know that EA was key in the downfall of one of my favorite franchises. I started with HOMM3 when I was maybe 8-9. I got Might and Magic 7 a few years later. Both games were amazing, especially for the time. Corporate greed strikes again! (Even more of a problem these days!). Expecting a team to pump out a Heroes Game AND an open world CRPG each year is insane. "The engine was outdated" Gee I wonder why. I am sure an MMO set in Erathia would have done really well, especially back then. Those games are well known, and well liked by many from that generation(Myself included). Retrospectives like this are a tad infuriating. Just to see what could have been if people had given it the proper room to grow. Now we get to "Enjoy" Ubi-shits versions... yay...

So, EA killed Renderware, Burnout, NFS, and hurted the gaming market forever? In a sigle move? Bravo 👏

If anybody tells me "EA used to be good", i will tell them this.

What about Legends of Might and Magic? Pretty good game.

me wanting to do PS2 graphics: THIS INFORMATION IS GOLD

Always great to learn about stories like these

After year later is this channel over and is it worth subscribing now! 😕

Great video TYTY Might and Magic series is always one of my favorites from way back in 90's. 3 is aways my favorite with 6/7/8 closely behind

FUCK EA

I remember seeing the trailer for this for the first time back then and being super excited. I waited and waited and it just never came out, to this day its still a disappointment. The other 2 games in the series were great!

Are there any ressources to learn renderware, the aesthetic of the ps2 era always fascinated me

Bro igi 1 and 2 which engine please

How is this not a film? Seriously. The potential.

Your bumbling speech about racism was embarrassing for all parties involved.

I was never really impressed with Renderware games from a graphics standpoint. In-house engines from first party studios always looked much better to me.

Interesting and informative video well done, sir. 👍Just a creative comment regarding presentation though; there are too many text walls with the actor's VO. This style repeats itself constantly throughout and can make viewing a little laborious. Sorry but I'm actually a film editor. 😉

I finished my first playthough last week. Fantastic RPG, amazing characters and story, not gonna lie, though I did just turn on god mode for the last 2 hours of the game.

The irony of us hardcore gamers saying that our media is completely different from movies because it allows you to engage directly with the action using your own free will to change the outcome of how things work, but then on the same breath, we also say that violent video games have no effect on us at all whatsoever. Both of these cannot be true. What if my parents never let me play GTA when I was 8 years old and I would binge vice city for 12 hours straight? Maybe I'd be more normal

I remember playing Might and Magic III - Isles of Terra on my old PC when I was in high school and really falling in love with it. We were fortunate enough to be one of the few people with a Roland LAPC-I soundcard, and the soundtrack was just amazing on that compared to the FM synth of your typical Soundblaster card.

its one of my top 10 all time games

Ealry in the video: How did it fall? Me: uhh.. just phased out? 3:48 Well thats the answer boys

I got the milennium editions of HoMM and mm. I already was familiar with the heroes games but i only knew mm via the trailers in homm and was super excited. I loved 6 and played it to death.

fick EA

Thank you for actually covering the REGULAR might and magic series. You dare to speak the words Might and Magic and all people every spout is Heroes, heroes, HEROES of Might and Magic II. I get that it was a good game, but I don't see the same masterpiece in the series others do. Frankly I tried HOMM 1 and couldn't get that into it(yes, I KNOW, HOMM2 was a lot better) but no one ever talks about the DND ripoffs that started it all. I LOVE the regular Might and Magic series and I have spent whole days across many of the titles and while I have never beaten any of the one of them, I have still frequently revisit them and I always have a good time. They have some of the best character creations of any DND-like games I've ever played, I spent a ton of time in 7, less in 6 but I still loved it, and I even love MM 1 with it quite possibly the one I have played the most of. While the combat of 1 and 2 was technically inferior to say Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds with their actual grids, the normal interface was much smoother(for me, at least). I love the standard MM so much and they are such classic games. It's so tragic that such a gigantic franchise was the victim of rushed entries and ultimately fell by the wayside. TBH I feel like a lot of "smaller" franchises rose and fell unfairly during this time, as if someone got a hold of them who wanted them to fail. While it's easy to suggest that agents of the actual DND(for example) had a hand in this, and for all we know it may have considering it showed them up in some regards, this seemed to be the case of a lot of similar franchises of the time, both for DND like games and others. It just seems to me like some powerful force in the media hates actual creativity and blights it at every turn. So whether DND itself played a hand or not it just seems to be a symptom of a larger problem.