I remember the old says of Might and Magic -- Mandate of Heaven. Long, interesting, thousands of quests, hundreds of enemies, massive dungeons, etc. VII and VIII, not quite as epic, but still reasonable value.

Then with IX they decided that everyone wanted a first person shooter. No roleplaying, no turned based combat, no story, etc. Combat goes from an interesting turn-based strategy to how fast you can click on a button or more typically how laggy your computer is. You spend hours trying to get onto a ledge rather than enjoying the game.

I don't know what I was thinking, but I guess I hoped that they returned to their roots as I bought Messiah. Well, surprise... it's another first person shooter. I gave it the standard fifteen minutes just to make sure, but after fighting with controls, trying to jump on ledges, falling off ropes, listening to innane instructions clipping out, and combat which lag time and how fast you can click buttons determines who wins... yep... that's a 2000s first person shooter. Might as well be playing Donkey Kong.

So, after 15 minutes, I'm putting this one back in its case and uninstalling the thing. I'll try playing Mandate again. But I have to ask myself why games makers can't make games as good as one made 10 years ago?

I generally reacted similar when bought game turned out to be a Role Playing Strategy Game... yuck.
So, to each his/her own i guess.

when i bought dark messiah, i was glad that it wasnt another boring TURN based strategy game.
instead it was the best FPS since doom3, and you had swords to cut of heads from orcs and other creatures.

And the thing that the awsome story in DM has nothing to do with might and magic and other, i dont care, if a game is "might and magic" it is Dark Messiah.

I MUST use this greamlin now!