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Originally Posted by hunvagy

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And yes, they are difficult in the beginning, because low level heroes are wimps A good party and decent stats can help. And as a little tidbit, if you are not happy with the generated stats, you can modifiy the characters before starting out and max all stats, if it helps (and yes, it will).
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if your party hits level 2-3, it'll be a lot easier.

And as on the matter of Xeen being better then CoK, I'd strongly disagree. They are very different games from my perspective, the Gold Box games have more involving quests and a better written story, while Xeen is mostly a go and massacre everything the comes in your path game. Which has been carried along in all M&M titles. Plus as mentioned before, the combat in CoK is more strategic, you have to move your characters around and watch out for them to be successful.

Right. I have all of the Golden Box games and plan on completeing them all sooner or later. That may be difficult though as I usually play for no more than 1 to 3 hours a day and have to divide that time between multiple games - I belive that I mentioned liking variety - currently CoK, UFO Enemy Unknown and very soon WoX & also one of the Civilizations.

As for GB games difficulty I've based that opinion on my former try of a playthrough of PoR, but I belive now after spending some time on CoK that my approach to the game itself may have been wrong. My characters are at levels ranging from 1 to 4 & I managed to learn a lot about which usefullness of certain classes by now. It's a bit easier now also but some battles are more epic too. What I love about battle system in GB games is it's tactical & unit based. Reminds me of UFO, Sabre Team, Jagged Alliance & so forth and gives a better degree of control over my team. Also it's a nice touch that you can import your characters from earlier to latter games upon their completion.

All in all I'm happy with my current CoK game apart from a little drawback of built in maps being crap but I suppose I could always draw my own.