Anyone think a game is better?

Posted by Magog
Creative, yes....

Quoted from HoMM forum:

If I remember it well, the biclop was a cyclop with... two eyes! The biclop would have been much more powerful than the cylcop, because he had no problem with depth perception lol


Love to see great minds at work.

Anyone think a game is better?

Any other RPG...

Ditto.

Especially if you are referring to that poor excuse of a game called M&M 9

StarTopia
Dungeon Keeper 2

Especially if you are referring to that poor excuse of a game called M&M 9

oh yeah <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> those are well good games (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)

Don't mention
I lost my respect for the M&M series when I saw the 9th... Not that I had much .
Well, 6th was pretty good. Not good, but good enough. I remember it as my first rpg so it does bring back good memories, but M&M is nothing compared to Ultima or Wizardry.


Dungeon Keeper 2 is my personal all-time favorite game in all categories. It has it's flaws, I know, but I got it 5 years ago and I still occasionally reinstall it and enjoy as much as the first time I got it.

I like build-'em-ups.

i never said that was the actual best game ever, just mine. and you may like ultima 7 or whatever, and someone else might like divinity the most and that would be there favourite game. also you said something about there being no need for a best game to be discovered which is a good point but there is also a need for a personal best game on opinion as this allows disscussions between fans of different games and this is a far more interesting way of seeing gaming. having favourites and opinions is a necessity or otherwise there nothing to talk about because everyone would see all games as equal.

Thor:
also you said something about there being no need for a best game to be discovered which is a good point but there is also a need for a personal best game on opinion as this allows disscussions between fans of different games and this is a far more interesting way of seeing gaming.

Thor's thread header:
So Might and Magic is the official best game ever. Anyone think a game is better? No didnt think so.

Thor:
...having favourites and opinions is a necessity or otherwise there nothing to talk about because everyone would see all games as equal

i never said that was the actual best game ever, just mine.

I liked MM6 quite a bit, except the end,... one spends 90% of the game building characters based on sword and sorcery (might and magic if you prefer) then in the last 10% of the game all that goes down the drain in favour of damned blasters. Worse, pause and tactics go down the drain too, as it becomes a real-time FPS.

That was the only annoying thing I found in MM6, but they repeated the same formula again in MM7 and again again in MM8 I really started hating the series before even playing (or rather trying to play) MM9.

So IMO, MM6 was a good game but the series as a whole was below par.

talk is cheap! get to the point....

Hammer Mjöllnir is considered as sexual symbol... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

Wasn't Thor the stupidest god in the norse mythology?

So Kiya, what about Odin's large spear (Gungnir) and Tyr's ever-swinging Sword (Tyrfing) ?

On a side note Thor is mainly the god of thunder/weather/agriculture, the one-handed Tyr is the 'real' god of war in the norse mythology.

Do you know any legends about Odin and his spear?
Thor belongs to the people, in a sense. He is their strength, their support and their protector. Unless I've interpereted it incorrectly?

Adaption goes the other way round, too => clues point out the fact that Ragnarök (end of the world in a grand long... bloody fight) visions were developed during the Viking (800-1100 a.c.) era, presumably under Christian influence of the Apocalypse - interesting, hm?

Longtime before the Apocalypse and Ragnarok, in Egyptian mythology, the End of The World was thought to happen when the big snake ate Re (the sun). It just struck me that Ragnarok too involves a big snake (eating its own tail).

The wyrm, Jormundgand, would stop eating his own tail and come to the surface to do battle. Interesting thing is that Ragnarok also involved the wolf Fenris (alt. spelling 'Fenrir) swallowing the sun.

From: AlrikFassbauer

Hello.

Well, I'll try to translate and explain.

Plese note that it is extremely difficult for me to do both into English - I don't have much experience with English archaeological terms.
Also, having the book before me and writing at the same time creates some kind of difficulty with the hands - I definitively need more of them for such tasks !


As a sidenote, the Maya saw a rabbit in the moon (I've heard the chinese do, too), and not a face like other cultures (here in Germany, for example )

- The maya used a number system based on 20, unlike or 10-based system.

- They used actually two calendars : one for normal life, and one for aspects of religion.

- This "Ritual Calendar" (translated from German) consists of "a combination of 20 day names with the numbers 1-13".

- This calendar ended after 260 days = 20 x 13 days.

- The solar year is - according to the Maya - 365.2420 days long.

- As a sidenote, the very few Codices Science has inherited from the past contains almost only computations, mostly about dates (within one of the two calendars). That led to the opinion the Maya were a friendly folks of astronoms. Untrue, as archaeologists have proved. But these ciomputations actually showed that the Maya were almost unique in Mathematics - since the letters for numbers were the far earliest which had been decoded by scientists, we know much more about their mathematics than about anything else. That's in principle how the view of the Mayas as excellent astronoms and Mathematics arose.

- the normal calendar consisted of 360 days and consisted of 18 "periods" of 20 days , what we would call months in our system.

- the end of this year of 360 days had an appendage of a "month" called Uayeb , which was said to be cursed or at least to be a month of bad luck. It was only 5 days long.

- correlating both calendars, every date in a text or list was identified by a "name" consisting of the day of the one calendar and the month of the other one (at least that's how I understood it). As example there is printed " 1 Imix (day) - 5 Pop (month).

- the book also says that since one calendar was so much shorter than the other one, they both needed 18.980 days to meet again at the same day. THat was 52 solar years.

- Every time after those 52 years, the priests said that if the gods failed to start a new zyklus, the world would be doomed. Thus they killed people , cutting their hearts from them, as some kind of "offer" to the Gods - food, energy, I don't know how to call it. The Maya thought they just needed it for not to fail.

- the Toltecs, after conquering the Maya civilization were seemingly almost obsessed by that, creating the so-called "Flower Wars" which had no purpose except catching people for such rituals. Very bloody indeed.

- the Maya had a "year zero", which was used as a fixed point to start their calendar. Christian calendars use the estimated Birrth of Jesius, other calendars have other such "fixpoints".

- the "fixpoint" of the Maya calendar was at "13.0.0.0.0.a Ahau, 8 Cumkú" is - the book says - the 2. of August in the year 3114 v. Chr. (christian calendar). Scientists don't know what this date means or could mean.

- This date comes from the "long counting " or "Initialseries" (terms from the book), which consisted of 5 periods : Baktun, Katun, Tun, Uinal, Kin. A Kin in this system is a day.

- this sytem exists parellel to the calendars ( at least that's how I've understood it).

- there is another system, the "Short Counting" , as well.

- now comes the interesting part . I'll quote the book :

"After the same computation, the era created at that point [ the date I've quoted above) would end at the 24. December 2012."

- a Kin is the same as a day in the "Initialseries".

- an Uinal is a "month" consisting of 20 days

- a Tun is a collection of 360 days -> a year of the "normal calendar".

- a Katun is 20 years.

- a Baktun consists of 20 x 20 years ( 20 Katun = 400 Tun = 144.000 Kin).

- 20 Baktun = 1 Pictun

- the solar calendar consisted of the following months :

- Pop, Ztotz, Tzec, Muan, Pax, Uo, Zip, Zac, Ceh, Xul, Yaxkin, Mol, Chen, Yax, Mac, Kankin, Kayab, Cumkú (look at the date above) , Uayeb (the bad-luck-month consisting of 5 days).

- the days names were :

Imix, Ik, Akbal, Kan, Chicchan, Cimí, Manik, Lamat, Muluc, Oc, Chuen, Eb, Ben, Ix, Men, Cib, Caban, Etz-nab, Cauac, Ahau.

Please keep in mind that these are names probably translated into German . I know from some Egyptian names, for example, that they are a bit differently written in English literature.

- Very important ! : These names could also mean actual things of normal life, too, like Dog, or Water, or other things. Everything could be interpreted in many way. That's what the decoding of the Hieroglyphs / Letters of the Maya made so difficult.

- The Maya had a symbol for the Number 0 (zero) . It looked usually like a shell.

- If you have any questions, then ask me. But I don't know whether I can anwer *all* of your questins and with nearly unlimited grade of detail.

- Last note : If you can get this book, I'd recommend to buy it, because it's very interesting and very detailed, concerning the letters and their meaning(s).

That's All (Genesis).

Alrik.