Myth II Carbonized

novocastrian writes "As reported at PlayMyth, Myth II has been Carbonized and will be released to owners of the game on the 15th of March. The work was done entirely by dedicated followers of the game. The disappointing Myth III has also undergone a major overhaul and will be soon be hosted on a popular player-based server." J adds: Myth II will not support hardware rendering in OS X. But as I recall, software rendering gave an almost-playable framerate even on my 604/250, so on modern machines it might not be bad. Myth I and II were great tactical combat games. I'm itching to play Mudpit again!

Comments

Ah, to play old games in a new OS!

[Paladeen]

I'm a conservatice devil and quite frankly the games I like best are the ones I played prodigously from around 13-17 before learned to program. New games don't seem all that great to me. In fact, nostalgia plays a major part in my enjoyment of games.

I therefore think it's terrific that all these old games are being brought to MacOS X, f.e. Quake I and Quake 2 and Starcraft/Brood Wars.

Re:Ah, to play old games in a new OS!

[Alex Thorpe]

Yes, I'm quite happy to see these games updates for OS X, not least of which because I'm dead broke and can't afford new games, or new hardware. I reinstalled Quake 3 on Sunday night, and updated it to 1.32 for OS X last night, and it works perfectly. Surprising, since pretty much all other 3D games make my old iMac freeze. Now if MacPlay would release a Carbon version of Majesty, like they said they would..

Myth II? I guess it has better multiplayer options than Myth I, but I hated the single player missions in Myth II. Too many missions where your goal is to keep some of your troops alive while the Enemy is closing in in nearly all directions. 'Gonan's Bridge' sucks! I've beaten it a couple of times, but that doesn't make latter attempts any easier.

Lazarus builds

[watchful.babbler]

The Myth 3 "Lazarus" (as in "the dead guy'll look a whole lot better once we get these bandages off") project page is here. (They have a Hotline server for build access, a nice, Mac-centric touch.) It seems that former Mumbo Jumbo developers are involved in the project, so hopefully M3 will emerge from the "beta-quality with a golden-master price" limbo it labored in for so long.