How good is the NEW Master of Magic? 

Back in 1999, our art team at Microprose in Alameda CA (in which I was a part of), started concept work on Master of Magic 2; I worked on concept drawings for the Beastmen race and Wandering Monsters. Sadly, Microprose studios closed the following year and the game never saw fruition. It's great to see a type of sequel under development now. Cheers!

Actually a 1994 game. It just wasn't really playable until 1995. This was the first game I actually downloaded a patch for from the internet. I had to zip the patch onto floppy desks at the computer lab and take them back to my apartment in order to play. It soon became one of my favorite games of all time.

Remebering taking turns playing MoM for entire weekends back in the 90's. Can not wait!!!

18:10 You're thinking of Guardian Spirit, which was Life Magic spell that summoned a superior version of the basic Magic Spirit. Not just stronger in combat, but also harder to evict when they took over a Mana Node. 23:00 The original was actually worse in this regard: you could only ever see things that you could build. Which got especially confusing when you conquered cities of other races and they didn't have certain buildings and units. And all you could do is break out the manual to try and figure it out.

It's going to have to be a damn good for me to move from playing the original, which I still play to this day, and is an absolute classic!

Great to see you chose a different wizard for yours! Great stuff, Das!

Fired up for this. The first one was so amazing for its time.

MOM is the one that started it all, right? I never got into it, but as an AOW fan, this is pretty exciting.

I really hope they don't mess too much with the game. To this day, I don't think any game has really managed to capture the essence of MOM. The closest thing to a sequel is Caster Of Magic. The fan made remake. If you have not tried it do yourself a favor a try it out. Make sure you use the custom launcher for it. And not just mom with fan patch. It adds immense worlds, rebalances spells, and the AI gets a MASSIVE buff to how it performs. Not just in buffs to its stats. But the way it handles itself both on the world map and in tactic battles. If there is a possibility for the AI to cheese you in a hit and run tactic. It will do it. It will always find a spell relevant to the battle to cast with its caster and any caster unit. Seriously blew my mind. If this game fails and you have not experience Caster Of Magic. You still have something fun to discover. :)

Would be nice if the "immersive" town screen was shown by default. It looks nicer and there are no workers to move on map tiles like in Civ so not much purpose to the current city view.

Whats going on 10 minutes in and your on your on the map! I demand at least two episodes! This cant be the real DasTactic:D

Age of wonders are my favorites. I'm dying to play the new MoM.

Ah, Master of Magic. I wished you could customize the tool tip so it's little transparent so you can see what's behind the tooltip, or you just HOLD ALT button to see the tool tip.

Played this addictively on my Packard Bell!

i still play this game almost every week. (the original version)

how did they not recreate the iconic music? what a shame.

The graphics of the original is better than the new one. The artwork, feel and quality of the old one is way more immersive, gloomy, mysterious, detailed and filled with ambience. The artwork and feel of the new one makes me feel like I am sitting in MS Word... ?

Honestly think they should get rid of the magic spirit period. I always felt this was a "must cast" first spell just so you could explore and get resources. No matter what faction, no matter what strategy, you had to cast magic spirit first for optimal gameplay. It made the games "samey" on the first turn. Use your army to explore and summon critters to supplement the exploration. That's the way it should be.

As I remember the halflings matured the quickest with the slingers being the max army evolution

A big part of the thrill I recall back in its day was to see what kind of special effect my Hero would get from the various weapons I created for them. I Particularly enjoyed Mystic X and Warrax.I tried to play the old game again but could not read the woods terrain worth a damn and getting the terrain right was a big deal.Should I get this or just look at Might and Magic 3 again,I will enjoy watching your play through to find out.

played it in the 90s and havent stopped lovin it. now i have something to look forward to at xmas

One of my ALL TIME FAVORITE games of all time! Can't wait to see what this is.

Halflings were included just for you Das 🤣

Warlock 2 with Renaissance Mod remains my favorite fantasy 4X. But this could give it a run for its money. Can't wait until December when it releases!

You've got Merlin and the Halflings because they can't use Gandalf and the Hobbits. :) Or they probably _could,_ but it would be too expensive. (And yes, I know that Merlin and the Halflings were in the original game.)

Looks nice. Reminds me of Thea: the awakening, Age of wonder and civilization. Will keep an eye on this one to see how well it does in the end. Hovering Tooltips should be mandatory nowadays. "Old world" did it the best IMHO, their tooltips were just perfect, giving you all the info at a glance and linking to the pedia whenever more was wished.

Devs: lets stay true to the original with the surveyor mode! Devs: lets change all map icons / tile graphics to something unrecognizeable so it looks cooler then the original! ._.

12:03 cloth map (only symbols for greater picture) on max level of zoom is great idea. To be honest all yours ideas are great, hope we will see that improvements in game.

there are KLACKONS in the game, 11/10.

Maybe it's the hexes, but I get a Warlock vibe from this.

The return of the king

the feels of my childhood active upon hearing old MoM music

I remember playing this as a 17 year old and having a massive crush on Freya.. who I made into my all powerful sorceress overload dictator.. whome everyone feared for her unparalleled sorceries powers… but who would also choose a different male subject every month as her .. ahem.. ‘companion’! Vivid imagination!!

Thanks so much for posting this video. I've been looking forward to the release since it was first announced. Now, I somehow have to wait for the release date of December 13th...but, I want to play it now!!! 😃

this is one of those games i will buy just to support whether i play it that much or not, the original was one of my top 10 or so ever pc games in the 90's

Steep price for a remake. Really reluctant here. But Thea 2 was such a unique and rewarding fantasy world and I can't ignore MuHa's releases easily.

I like the grapics of the original more.

Oo... this will be interesting!

My favorite game of all time

Looks like it would be excellent in multiplayer

I got the original MoM 94' CD on my wall and manual in my keep sakes, first game I bought "with my own money" from a summer job. Got MoM and MOO! I managed on the alpha team for the MoM Windows 10 version, it's pretty sweet, it's just the ORIGINAL game, a few tweaks, some new spells and units, but otherwise, it's identical to the original with more QOL, and no need of a DOSBOX, only like $3-$6. THEN, they are making the proper remake, shown above, which I'm excited for. I hope they stick as much as possible to the original as the problem with the 100+ (seriously, that many) successors to MoM, they change too much and it doesn't work. Probably the "best" we had was Age of Wonder, but it never had the CHARM.

Seriously dude? Complaining about absolutely inconsequential things? And here I thought I was the biggest complainer in the entire history of internet. Seems I finally met my match.

20 years of waiting comes inyo fruition

I would much prefer that "starting with a settler" was an option at game setup. That changes the opening game decisions too much for my taste. Deciding when it is safe to expand is a huge choice in "Impossible" games in the original. Everything else so far looks good.

After seeing this...I think I actually prefer the original

I never play this but the old version reminds me a lot of sid meier's colonization

This remake seems a lot right for me. Really looking forward to it!

I just want to cast the tsunami (?) spell and see how the water suffocates the plane 😈😈😈

This looks interesting but the tooltip is a huge QoL issue for me and surprising given how common it is for games like this to have basic terrain and unit information displayed in a corner textbox as the cursor hovers over them. This strikes me as an issue of UI programmers deciding they can "do it better" rather than relying on proven designs and consistency. It certainly shouldn't be a technical issue. Hopefully they hash this out before release. Is there a tooltip in the combat screen? I can't imagine playing the game for the first time and having no idea what I'm fighting and what the impact of the defensive terrain will be.

MOM original fan here. Kinda looking forward to the new one. Of course concerned it be worthy of the old one. But it's looking good so far.

I think a lot will depend on the pricing at release - if Slitherine do their normal thing and try to sell this at the price of a AAA title, it will fail miserably. They need to come in at a reasonable price for a "remaster" to make it an appealing purchase.

Yay! This is my most anticipated 4x game which I hope releases this year. Also I love playing as the halflings so you better watch it Das :)

Looks really good, but why did they change the sound effects and music? Hopefully, it will grow on me.🧐

My main concern was that it would be a reboot like its space bound sibling Mater of Orion about 6 years ago. That was very disappointing.

I play the original way too much. My favorite start is with Dwarves, (custom wizard) with 2 life books (for healing), 1 nature book, and 2 sorcery books (for floating island); also start with mastery of alchemy (to convert power to gold every turn), myrran (to start as dwarf in the underworld), and warlord (to get a bonus to attack) . Once you can build hammerheads, you can't really lose (on impossible mode, 4 opponent's, large map). another tip- at the start, set spell research to 0 and spell skill to 2, as there are really only a couple of really useful spells you need to learn to help win - web, and prayer (high prayer is even better), but you can literally win the game without casting a single spell (this can be a fun challenge, and also things like never build a city).

I thought Warlock: Masters of the Arcane was the remake, since it included some of the original characters.

They could have made a sequel in the style of MoO2 and the improvement of mechanics of MoM.

Looks promising. Hope the developers watch this!

My main worry so far is the scale of the battles. It seems like you can only have 1 party of 6 units engaged in battle on one side, and the same for the other. This is rather deflating, and I do not understand why Muha does not allow multi-stack battles the way you can in the Age of Wonders series.

Man, I love the original MoM--just watching you play makes me want to replay it. I learned it well enough that I can't imagine reaching for the manual for anything, because I probably already have it all memorized. Anyway, I'm likely alone in this, but one of the things I loved about the original is how gleefully unbalanced it was. Each side had a way to win...possibly...maybe...but some sides were definitely stronger than others. This was my big grump against the MoO remake that came out, on the point: each side played the same! There could be minor variations here and there, but generally speaking, you'd try to do the same thing with each side. I hope this keeps the sides as wildly different as they ended up being in the original... ...Which I am definitely going to go play again, having watched this.

Looked at the Original Master of Magic and Master of Magic Caster of Magic. Was used to 12 points being available in Caster of Magic, the new version adheres to the original in having 11 points available. I rather prefer the Caster of Magic options, and I would hope this would be an option since Slitherine was the publisher of the Master of Magic collection including the Community Patch and Caster of Magic.

Well, the athmosphere of the original is completely ruined of course. The map looks so awfully generic hexfield 4x game without any character at all. Looks like a civ 5 mod. It was to be expected though. Also the portraits of the mages are unnecessarily over-designed from the simple and beautifil style of the original.

He hypes this game so much, and the last five months showed it’s a huge failure. It didn’t sell half as much as they hoped. I have about 50 strategy game fans I talk to and on friends list in steam. Only 2 have this game, and 40+ have the first MoM ( that was put on steam a few years ago).

Glad you ran both version of the game, to compare. I LOVE the original starting tune, hope it is ported over ?

One can see how the UI have developed a lot. Part of it is simply that with greater fidelity, you are allowed to do more. Some of it is a smarter way to do things. And some of it is simply that we do not expect anyone to read the manual. If there even is one these days. Things like building order were always on a sheet or in the manual or somewhere else outside the game in the past. (And part of this was technical limitations at the time. Though the original Master of Magic is at that stage, there those technical limitations were not so great that you had to have stuff in the manual.) It is quite interesting to see people play a lot of these older games confused and asking "Who am I expected to know that?" And most of the time it is in the manual. Also, why if someone sells you an old game, make sure to get documentation. Even feelies may be important. Also, a lot of RPGs from the time expect you to take notes and draw maps in the real world. Yeah, I know! Crazy! I do agree with you Das that they maybe should have pushed some of those elements a bit further. I do think the surveyor maybe should be kept in, but more as a guide. But I really do think that having an overlay button that present you with information like what sort of resource is in a square to should be there. Due to the higher fidelity, the readability of the terrain suffers a bit, too. Now, I think that could be compensated by going a bit more extreme with the aesthetics. Not in a cartoony direction. But exaggerate mounts a bit more and such. It is a fantasy game, after all, so it would not look too out of place. And I think other developers have done this better. This is OK. Just could be done a bit better on that front. On a personal note, I would like to see more games keep to a more old school colour pallet, too. Just a lot you could capture with the getting the old school feel by keeping the same sort of pallet. But I do think they did OK on that front, even if it not exactly as I had wanted it myself.

The Original has a much better atmosphere.

Wonder if they plan to add DLC for stuff that was never in the original, like new Races.

When is the expected release date?

How do you think this compares to age of wonders 3?

Viewer engagement +1

Is it possible to expect this game on playstation ?

I hope they kept the wizards animations.

I was a big fan of the old MoM and also of the whole Civ franchise and the like (Colonization etc..), so I was/am looking forward to this remake. But what I've seen so far isn't impressive at all. It is even pretty disappointing. Don't get me wrong: it doesn't seem worse than the original (can't tell yet though) but also not much better neither. The UI/UX of the remake isn't on par with other current games in this genre. It's rather more like 2005-ish. And I'm not even talking about visuals/look, but quality of life things and user guiding. (like the missing tool tips you mentioned, for example). So I hope the devs will put a lot more work into this subject until release, but I highly doubt it, as the release is only 2 months away. Too bad, it had so much potential.

Hello DasTactic. being unfamiliar with the original MoM (I do have a lot of XP with the Age of Wonders games), I'd like a tutorial series on the new game. But perhaps you're already planning this.

My bad... I thought this was the 1985 game. 😕

When is the release date?

15 minutes to make the first move.... 5 full minutes on the title screen....

Is this real life? It's happening!!!

Thanks for letting me know about Caster of Magic. I'd like to check that out. The new MoM I won't be able to do because of the very generic art and looking a lot like Civilization, which is a style that isn't for me to begin with. Still, this is not a knock on your video. It was helpful and again I appreciate learning about Caster of Magic. At least the Select Wizard screen had nice enough art, though.

As long as there's a hotkey for surveyor mode, I'm fine with that. Can you remap hotkeys, or are they fixed?

The graphics seemed a lot more immersive in the original. Hate this cartoonish look.

Dude, no offense, but you spend waaaay to much time showing your character.

I got too used to Caster of Magic mod of Seravy. If new MoM uses same mechanics and balance as original, I will wait then. Original MoM has no interest for me after CoM.

Looks great ❤️🇭🇲✌️

Aow 3 is by far the best in class, but this is interesting

the game has a lot of potential but the quality and the game depth is not good enough its to simple,

MmmmWarlocky... Didn't play the original so that might just be my nearest frame.of reference. To my eyes this landsore like Warlock than AoW

Где ты взял эту игру? Её еще нет в стиме.

Am i going insane? Evryone praising it but all i see is a very badly designed startegy game. The maps are all empty, you can only explore lairs that you will not explore for first 50 turns becuase they are radnomised and can contain armies that will destroy you. Economy is dead, you can afford armies and building almost dont do nothing except giving small % bonus to food or production instead stable +1 pr +2 to food or productions. So you will spend 100 turns building basic barracks and builders hall while you get no gold or food because you cant build any farms on the map to help you nor you can find any free resources on the map. Its a shit game that would be seen as bad in early 2000 not to mention now.

high elves are black eh?

idk how u did it but u did a 35 minute video with no combat really wanted to see that

hot-seat mode is a crucial for this game

Can you only play this on windows 10 ?

The combat though ☹️

The original MoM was creative and fun but absolutely unbalanced and not meant to be taken too seriously. It could use a modern remake.

Hexes aren't more advanced than squares. I don't really care for hex based combat in these kinds of games. I think they are more appropriate in games like Age of Wonders where there is a focus on tactics and small unit combat but when they are large armies facing off on a large battlefield I prefer squares.

Love your channel, but I want you to get with it almost quit it when it was over 6 minutes and had not seen the game. I feel I want on a new game to get into it wish list it if I like what you show and get on with something else. I feel that the more explanation is okay when you doing a series, but to bust out a new showing of new game, it seemed a little long winded.

To be fair, Master of Magic was a very ugly game even when it first released. Looking better than the original Master of Magic is a very low bar to clear. I'm cautiously optimistic about the remake. I'm definitely following it. I'm hoping they haven't balanced everything to the point of being boring. It's a single player game, finding ways to break things wide open is part of the appeal, especially in a game that's supposed to be all about magic with all the potentially world-changing power that implies.

you talk too much

FFS get to it...