King's Bounty - Retrospective
 

PC Gamer looked back at the classic King's Bounty: The Legend.

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My not humble opinion:
First two games - musthaves.
The third one - still fun, but musthave it is not.
The fourth (last) one - avoidware.

Well I think dark side is rather good but the third one - warriors of the north i strongly disliked. Also I'm not sure why this is a retrospective as these games are relative new (2008+); wouldn't the original one be the retro :)

I like and enjoy them all, yeah the Dark one could have been better but it did do some interesting things. Maybe some point in the future the format for this will be changed and we'll see a brand new version of a very interesting world.

I liked them all, but I feel the last two were one island too long.

great and addictive game !!
man i DO looking forward to a new edition

One of the greatest TB games out there

I loved the original King's Bounty on the Amiga and I was thrilled with the remake (King's Bounty: The Legend), but after the second iteration of what was basically the same game I became increasingly bored with it.

I played and enjoyed all of them, but I'd say AP:CW is the best one and WotN the worst (extremely grindy).

Ten years is retro by gaming standards nowadays.:cool: Anyway I agree about the later expansions not being retro, but they use the same engine from the first game.

Same here. I had the Sega Genesis version of the original game when I was a kid and played the hell out of it. I enjoyed The Legend and Armored Princess, but I was burned-out by the time they rolled out Warriors of the North.

Played KB:TL non stop for about a year, culminating in my impossible, zero creature loss triumph. Still got the screenshot of my 209 round battle against Master Dizi. Still using the same PC too. :biggrin:

Would love a NEW version.

I have finished all four. Enjoyed AP the most but Dark side wasn't that bad. The first couple of hours where you are in first 4 "intro" zones are bad but then it actually gets pretty good once you arrive at the first real main island.

Warriors of the North did bring a few things to the table and all these games are pretty heavy on the grind.

Still, the first one is something special.

Personally I never cared much for Armoured Princess.

Impressive. I've done no loss with crossroad/ap many times but found kb:tl too annoying (for no loss). You have several big fights I would find no loss very painful (the last one with dragons; the one to obtain queen soul; …) btw who was 'master dizi'.

Colorful, uplifting, adventurous, superb King's Bounty series is way better than any western sequels of this genre. Disciples 1 had world-class art, HOMM 1-3 were amazing, but their later sequels - concurrent with the Kings Bounty line were ridiculously badly botched heaps of stinking pile of bore.

I hated HOMM4 but 5, 6 and even 7 were enjoyable.

That is a major accomplishment, playing the Legend version completely and not losing a single creature. I call that impressive!

@Ryder Damn. That is dedication.
OT. Have KB and AP. Never finished one. Ah, well.. modern life.

True. Have waited so, so long for true Disciples sequel/update but alas…, guess its true about lightning and bottles..

Agreed!!! The Bounty games have stayed consistently good and worth playing, the Heroes games have totally sucked since the third one.

Well considering that all four games are nearly identical besides a few new units and minor gameplay tweaks, many people are going to say they're consistent. :)

Personally, I'm ready for a new King's Bounty that's not just another clone using the same engine.

I actually really enjoyed Homm4, probably more so than 1 or 2. Haven't even tried 7 since 6 felt soulless to me.

One of the heroes in the mines. Well, that's where I fought him.

I guess your count skips KB: Legions. (It's online. and horrible.)

And yeah, KB: Dark Side was a mess, especially the level design. The only reason to play it was for love of the earlier games.

I didn't find it that bad at all, and I played it just a couple of months ago. The only thing I didn't like were all the fetch quests, but the humour more than made up for it.

I never did try the online King's Bounty game, but then I tend to avoid practically any game that has online elements, save for an mmo or two. Sounds like I really didn't miss much!

I've played KB online (Legions) on Kongregate a few years back. After a few hours it gets boring as it tells you it's pay2win or go away. Not only that it has integrated some social garbage as if it was facebook game.
Unless they dropped the pay2win model since then, can't recommend it.

Humble Bundle store is having an 1C Publisher Sale, just in case someone wanna check and buy discounted King's Bounty games.

I grabbed the Dark Side premium edition for $5

It's the only KB game I hadn't played yet. I've only gone through the first few battles as the Vampire, and it seems "ok" so far. I'm disappointed that you can't choose your character and class though. I guess I should have expected that since that's how the other games are, but with the characters being completely different races this time, I thought maybe they'd let us pick the archetype as well.

I stalled part way into Warriors of the North, but have always intended to go back. I absolutely loved the preceding two, but I think I just needed a break.
Some nice person on this site gave me a key to Dark Side. One day… :)