R u familiar with many turn-based fantasty games? Did u know about AoW?

And is there any other ones on the horizon besides Disciples III?

Yeah. Hopefully you are right. It just somehow feels like forever since HoMM 5 was released... It also feels like forever since last main Civilization was released =( 

Kunio-Kun (River City Ransom, Crash 'N' the Boys: Street Challenge, Super Dodge Ball, Nintendo World Cup, and many more games that only came out in Japan). My favorite franchise ever. Somebody bought it all and was supposedly working on a Kunio Online game for Windows that would incorporate soccer, dodgeball, fighting, and everything all in one game, but the last I Heard was "it was going to launch in 2006." I think the series is dead, despite 1 remake for GBA and 1 for DS.

And... X-COM. Hasbro bought MicroProse (and the franchise), made the team work on 3 shitty spin-off games at once, and wanted to branch out to FPS games and action figures... and it didn't work out so well, so they fired everybody and kept the intellectual property. We will never see another X-COM again. ::weeps on his keyboard:: (Whoa, just looked it up, and Hasbro sold it to Infogrames/Atari, who sold it to Take-Two, who MIGHT... some day... make a new one. I mean... why'd they buy it? Crazy.)

Silent hill
Fear Effect
Tomb Raider
Jak
Dino Crisis

Unfortunately my favorite series a totally dead:

1 - Streets Of Rage
2 - Final Fight
3 - Rival Turf
4 - Top Gear
5 - Cadilack And Dinossaurus

Million?  They just released a new DS Kunio sports game in Japan!  I bet Aksys picks it up...

Also, GBA got 2 Kunios... the Super Dodgeball remake and the River City Ransom remake.

I heard about AoW but never played it. I played 2 HoMM games in the 90s (either I or II, not sure anymore, and III), the first Disciples and my favourite fantasy TBS game - Simtex' forgotten Master of Magic ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Magic ), but to be honest, when it comes to turn-based strategy on PC I'll always prefer and return to non-fantasy, i.e. Civilization. I heard there's a great Civ IV fantasy mod (Fall from Heaven II ?) which I'll try out one day, when I find the time.

I just read today in the latest issue of my favourite PC games magazine that it seems to be extremely unsure at the moment if Disciples 3 - which is fully developed according to Akella - will ever be released. The game development was so expensive that it seems financially too risky for potential publishers.

::clicks link::

::head explodes::

Master of Magic.. I think I know it from Amiga days but I might be wrong.

Sux if that's true about Disc III!! It doesnt make sense to not release it if it's fully developed already.

Btw I thought Akella only made very cheap games.

Dark Messiah had some bugs before it's patch meaning that it didn't always work right off the bat. I didn't really have a lot of problems but sometimes it would crash upon loading (for some users) and the multiplayer was developed by someone else then the singleplayer and the fact that you didn't keep your levels when you leveled up in multiplayer was a pretty big dislike. (atleast to me and I can imagine it having dragged down the score.)

It is hands down one of the best games in my opinion though. The story is great with lots of stuff. You specialize your class and choose how to go about playing it. There are 3 or 4 different endings depending on your choises throughout the game ..

It has a diabloish (almost) tech system where you can assign points to multiple tech trees as you level up during the course of the game.

For instance. When I play it, I generally choose to be a warrior but with minor magical abilities such as healing. You could also go fully magician, or magician rogue, or just a ranger.. Or an assassin... There are a lot of options. It's a shame that so many people missed out on it. I think I've played through it 6-8 times.. This is despite the fact that I don't often play through a game more than once :p