November | 2018

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

2018/11/08 in gaming, screenshots

This game is one of a kind. Kinda. Always wanted a sequel, but I guess, like most great games, it didn’t sell well enough to warrant one. It’s like a curse. At least Arkane itself is still kicking. And all their games are (still) pretty good. Arx Fatalis is their only game I never played. Maybe I should get it… There’s also this Arx Libertatis mod (?) I’ve been hearing about… Anyway.
After all these years I wanted to play it again, so I started in March (I think) and, as it so often goes, I stopped for several months. When I tried to resume it, the game no longer worked. Luckily I kept trying and thus found out it was the AMD drivers again, although this time no media outlet reported on it. Kinda worrying to consider how many older games might be broken at any time. It was really confusing to have a game work one day and be incompatible the next one. But what matters is that I finished it despite such interruptions. Although I played Thief when it came out, I don’t think I really got the significance of the Garrett reference the first time I played Dark Messiah.
Glad I’m not the only one remembering it fondly.
Wanted to add this months ago, glad I’ve put this behind me. :P

PS: The only other screenshot I have floating around, is a random one of Leanna. Maybe I should have done one of Xana instead. :D YES I KNOW THE NAMES.