Lords of Magic Original

[axethrower12]

Hi

I had the original game but lost it a long time ago. So last week I found a site that had a new factory sealed version and was selling for only 10 dollars.

I ended up ordering it but it was definitely showing age, the box had dirt in it and was a bit faded. When I opened the box the manual and everything else were also beginning to show age and look like old paper.
The jewel case looked dusty but fortunately the cd was fine.
I loaded it up to xp and installed it with the patches fine.

I thought I would do something similiar like load it up to a site like media fire or even bit torrent but I can't run bit torrent and work or play on my computer at the same time.

I wondered if anyone was interested in the original and see what is different from lomse, there are some parts of the old one that I like better like the dungeon setups, the death dungeons actually had death faith units in them not hordes of skeletons and zombies and a bat

Seeing as this game is fading literally by what I received, I thought that loading an iso image for people, that others could play the original. I was wondering if the password idea is really necessary, this game is 1 or 2 years older than lomse of all things. Plus most sites see the game have the lomse and not the original game.

The patches fix most of the bugs that lomse does, but doesn't add the new stuff. Plus there are still many things that they did not fix in lomse that existed in the original, like some of the sprite images.

anyone interested? I remember the lom demo that came with civil war generals and it was hard seeing how you could only go about 17 or 18 turns before the chaos lord attacked you and the game ended. Anyone else experience this.
Is the password more for ethical reasons, seeing how serria, impressions, vendivu are no longer. I doubt anyone will come knocking other than the lords of magic 2 headless zombie trapped in some abandoned warehouse with the arc of the covenant. I might not include a password as I may not get to answering emails as quick as people may want to try the game.

[euorazn]

I have the original game myself (Still have that beatiful CD).

And after playing the new one, I don't know if out of nostalgia or what, I have to say I like the original best.

[Boaster]

Between the two, I like SE better.

[axethrower12]

I was obsessed with the lords of magic demo when it came out and played it a large number of times. I was too young to buy the games myself. But by the time I could go buy it, it was gone and lomse had already replaced it. I liked the demo because maraudering parties were faith based units. I liked fighting the death faith and earth faith as life. I like the original better because I like the units better, I am not too fond of the new dungeon setups like the centaurs and sprites, orcs and the over used orc champions. I also like it because of the axe throwers, they had a really cool unit picture, definitely much better than the lomse one.
Boaster do you have any tips, as to how I can edit some of files, I want to change some of the visuals to the way they are supposed to be. And edit the default random dungeon settings like adding more dungeons through the script than the map editor, I made a post in the mod section. I didn't expect that the text and code in the files to be a jumbled up mess, more modern games have the text spread out and divided into sections when editing them. I also plan to look for mpq modding guides as diablo 2 and warcraft use this format and there may be some guides, do you know of any?

[Boaster]

Well, there's more dungeon diversity with my mod. Then again, many things are different.

[axethrower12]

Can you give a brief description of what each file extension is, I found a variety of definitions and several file varieties that have llwizt0a, I am looking for what part controls the visual zoom distance part. Not asking for you to do the work, but to help me find the files that I need to edit and any help with the right program to read them, I have downloaded notepad++ which is somewhat better than there regular notepad when editing other games like stalker. I doubt any of the visuals will open in paint.net or photoshop considering their age.

I want to do this for personal modding, not really trying to create it for others. Maybe if I learn how I will create a custom mod for the original lords of magic to share if I start sharing it via download. The bugs always irritated me, so others might like it if I make a few changes.

[swiftfoxmark2]

Overall, I like SE much better because of all the additional content and features it added into the game. However, there are few things I'd like to see in SE that were in the original:

-When creating a map, you could place multiple start points for a lord. This allowed for random places to start out from.

-This one I've complained about before. The ships in SE use Death Galley sounds as a default. In the original, there were some original sounds, but when there wasn't any for a ship, there was no sound at all. I plan on adding in these lost sounds into the sndfx.mpq for the GS5R2 mod in the future, but I'm in the process of moving to a new location right now. If I can keep working on it afterwords consistently, I should have something this late Fall.

[axethrower12]

swiftfoxmark2,

I also I want to add some minor changes to the games myself, mainly to try to fix the sprites and a few gameplay changes like dungeons, do you have any advice for editing the files, or know of any guides that can help with editing. I created a thread in the modding section,

Thanks

[tyr]

I actually like the original LOM better. I had two cd's of it but both got too scratched at some point (old 20x+ cd-roms).

Don't get me wrong, I think LOMSE is great. I agree that LOMSE has better gameplay, that the added content is good and I think it's appropriate that it's the version that people are playing now... but it was LOM which was my old fantasy dream game come true (some 10+ years ago, heh).

[overcast]

Oct 26, 2009 0:50:51 GMT -6 tyr said:

I actually like the original LOM better. I had two cd's of it but both got too scratched at some point (old 20x+ cd-roms).

Don't get me wrong, I think LOMSE is great. I agree that LOMSE has better gameplay, that the added content is good and I think it's appropriate that it's the version that people are playing now... but it was LOM which was my old fantasy dream game come true (some 10+ years ago, heh).

Been so long since I played either... but I ran across this forum just on a bored google search, hehe.

Long time ago, I downloaded the LOM soundtrack - from somewhere, managed to keep the files for it - still play it a lot on games I play now. I'm into a MMO called Vanguard currently. I was waiting on someone in Vanguard and one of the LOM MP3's came up on Winamp and I thought, 'hmm, wonder what's out there on that old game'.

I was amazed to see a forum with more people who liked this game. I recall some things I liked about the original, but I got SE because of the load times on the dungeons. My PC then took forever to load - but SE fixed that, so I never went back. Always really did like LOM - got my brother-in-law into it too - it was one of the few I knew he could run easily being somewhat new to computing, so I let him borrow my copy - think it was less than a week before he went out and got his own copy, hehe.

I'm 90% sure I still have both of the CD's too, I'll dig them out and give this mod a try

Thanks a ton for putting out a mod, there were a few things about LOM I didn't like - one being how easy it was after a short while to beat the game.

The game, is still installed I do believe, i just need to dig out that peksy CD and make an image of it, I prefer Alcohol 120 to Daemon tools, but it's all good - both do the job well.

[destructorr]

I think that one of the most frustrating things for me between SE and original is how you can't access a building with no units in it in the original. Also, how the scroll is pretty much useless in the original. The SE is also much more replayable. Just wish they had better AI...

[veroslow]

I prefer SE. The original have too many bugs, less doungeons and a ridicolus/useless map editor.

[BouncyTEM]

Not to mention SE has Legends of Urak.

Sure, you play them once and you know what they have to offer, but it's still a nice change of pace from the normal way of play every once and a while.