The original Black and White is a masterpiece..
Black and White 2 was fun, however lacked some things for me.
First, games are not ALL about graphics. Sure, graphics are pretty too look at and appealing, but there is more much content in the original black and white..
First thing: Creature Mind.
Training you creature in Black and White 1, was like raising a child. Teaching it miracles, pooping on trees, teaching it tons of miracles.. It was a blast having creatures that you personally trained for hours on end.
Second: Miracles.. 🤔
How do you go from more than 15 or 20 miracles to 8 (if you have the expansion for Black and White 2.) The miracles in Black and White were awesome and you could teach them all to your creature! Even the extreme miracles..
Third: Multiplayer
What happened? To me it feels like they went a step backwards in BnW2. Less miracles, no multiplayer, less intensive creature training.. If people still play Black and White 1, they would know that there are still people who play it online over Hamachi or other virtual networks. It makes it nearly 10x more fun playing with actual people online..
Fourth: Creatures
Come on.. Again, they chose to decrease the amount of choices. In BnW1, there were many different creatures to choose from all with different stats.
Fifth: Temples
The temples in BnW1 were much cooler.. Depending on your influence in a realm the bigger your temples tower was. Depending on whether you are good or evil, it changed. (Yes, I know it changes in BnW2 as well, the city changes too which is cool.)
Sixth: Towns
The villages are terribad in BnW2. In BnW1, capturing a village was a strategy to get influence closer to your enemy or to get awesome miracles. You could continue constructing that village and make them huge like your starting village. In BnW2, the villagers just come to your town leaving a ghost village on the realm..
Don't get me wrong, Black and White 2 is insanely fun and has a good amount of perks that BnW1 doesn't, but it's not the game it could have and should have been.
If they do make a BnW3, I hope they bring a lot of BnW1 features back including the ones stated above and slap on some pretty graphics to sweeten the deal. However, Peter M is an idiot and prefers the Fable series for now, even though each one is the same game with slighty altered graphics, characters and towns..and some weapons..
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Founded the term "Noob-Zookers" Directed towards BFBC2 Players who use Bazookas way too much. Similar to those who use Noob-Tubes on Modern Warfare.
March 24th, 2010
3:21:17PM