Might and Magic: World of Xeen Official Trailer (1994, New World Computing)

[Kaihuna]

In regards to the floppies, I only had the Darkside of Xeen, never had the clouds, and yes some of you are correct: I remember about 6 or 7 floppies just for the Darkside.

[Kaihuna]

I just installed this on my Macbook Pro with the Boxer virtual DosBox. I bought the Millenium edition and it's simple drag and drop. The only thing I wanted was the World of Xeen. I used to play this when I was a kid on my mom's Mac quadra 610 partitioned machine! I'm just thinking back to 20 years ago. Man technology has come a long way. But this game still retains it's glory. ALL of it.

[BipolarStoner420]

loved this game, still have the 2 disks from when it was new

[0NoName9]

"As such, much to some people's assumptions, the Might and Magic series is not abandonware."

Courtesy of Ubisoft having bought the rights to Might & Magic and having raped the franchise in the ass. Fuck Heroes V, fuck Dark Messiah, this series and the real Heroes series is where it's at.

[legolegs87]

"hundreds of hours of entertainment"! Hey, EA, Bioware, Valve and other factories of casual shit, do you hear it? Hundreds! Fucking hundreds hours of gameplay! Where are my hundreds of hours now? Why modern single player games costs more dollars than they have hours of gameplay?

[lostn65]

They ruined the ending of Darkside in this trailer...

[m14g]

Zelda the witch ROFL

[oskulock]

Well this is an ROLE-PLAYING GAME! :D

[GreatEmerald1]

I wonder if all of the speech was really synthesized as it is shown here, or was it edited for demo purposes only...

[Shyranis]

I dunno... but I just got the World of Xeen in Might and Magic Millenium edition I picked up from Value Village for 2.99$. ^_^

I intend to find out eventually.

[IAmTheFuture]

@Shyranis did the millenium edition work on newer operating systems? I plan on buying it myself but I'm not sure if it will work on windows 7. I heard there's a backwards compatibility-type setting you can change to make older programs work, but I just want to make sure before I spend the cash

[xeenslayer]

@GreatEmerald1 Hmm the last time I heard the game properly playing the speech was >10 years ago in the original DOS version! Versions released later on Windows can't play the speech at all. However, I do believe that those shown here are the original ones! I wonder if this CD version plays fine on Windows?...

[GreatEmerald1]

@xeenslayer Yes, speech works just fine through DOSBox as long as you select SoundBlaster or Roland Canvas.

[Arkhandroid]

There is digitized speech in this game. Tons of it.

[GreatEmerald1]

@Arkhandroid Only in the CD version, not the floppy version.

[Arkhandroid]

@GreatEmerald1 wasnt World only released as a CD game?

Then if you had the Clouds/Darkside games separately, they were combined into a World install?

[GreatEmerald1]

@Arkhandroid Nope. There is a WoX floppy release as well. In the title screen you see no CD, like you can see in my Might and Magic V Menu music video.

[Arkhandroid]

@GreatEmerald1 that must be a shit load of floppies!

I have the CD release. I wish PC games still came with all the maps and booklets like that game or Ultima.

[GreatEmerald1]

@Arkhandroid No, I think that's either a single floppy or two of them. The CD release is 2 CDs just because there is speech recorded in them, and CDA audio takes loads and loads of space. In reality, the game itself is really small. Then again, I have the Milennium Edition as well, so it comes with already "extracted floppies" so there is no real way to tell the size of the original.

[Arkhandroid]

@GreatEmerald1 I seem to remember Clouds/Darkside both having multiple floppies, so I don't see how World would have just 1 or 2 floppies.

either way, best M&M ever

[lostn65]

@Arkhandroid It was like a whopping 28-32 HD (high density) 1.44MB floppy disks. I'd never seen a floppy game that big before. Game was worth every byte.

[Arkhandroid]

@lostn65 thats frigging intense.

I cant even imagine how big / heavy the box was if it had that many floppies in it.

holy shit.

[housethegrate]

@GreatEmerald1 The only thing overdubbed for the purpose of this promo video is the introductory voice that tells about the game. All the character voices are actual sound clips from the game, though they were only available if playing with the CD-ROM. You can put the CDs into a stereo and it will play a single track of just the voice clips back to back.

[GreatEmerald1]

@housethegrate Yea, I kinda figured that out 2 months ago.