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OminoSpatolino
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posted January 04, 2010 12:52 AM |
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What makes you say that?
The motivation for.....
Heroes II is the great game of the series!!!
1: immediate and simple game to understand
2: a good, funny cartoon design
3: the presence of a perfect and high-longevity map: Broken Alliance ( i love it! )
4: the presence of lot of ridicolous and funny sounds ( example: vampire attack, halfing's death ecc....)
5: a wonderful soundtrack ( the best is the music of warlock castle )
6: simple and effective spells
7: the perfect coupling between monster and heroes.
8: the particular atmosphere
last personal motivation : the power of the sentimental value.
( I have a feeling with this great game )
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Heroes of Might and Magic II is the right way!
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koelle
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 04, 2010 01:00 PM |
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iŽd go for HOMM III, even more since there is WOG
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koelle
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Fofa
Famous Hero
Famous? Me?!
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posted January 08, 2010 07:45 AM |
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I honestly like Heroes 4, but it's hands down the worst of the best. I hated putting all of my hard work into a hero only to have them killed by Black Dragons before they even got a chance to do anything, making their bonus stats and spellcasting comepletely useless and pointless to level. I barely touch 4 to be honest... it's a good game but it sent me running back to 2 and 3.
That's how I also see Heroes IV. Trying to do new things with an established franchise is a bumby road. IV had potential, but the financial situation of 3D0's incoming bankruptcy squandered it. I also found the fusion of the Inferno and Necromancer to be a tad odd. (Personally, I though the Inferno and Dungeon fusing together would've been cooler. Just think: choosing Black Dragons or Devils?) Many complemented the graphics, but for me, they were a turnoff. Since it's a sequel of III, you'd think the creatures would look more like those in III. When did the devils get tridents to replace one of their hands?
As for my personal favourite game, I'm with Heroes III: the graphics looked good and realistic, losing the cartoonish look of the previous two (which is also quite good, mind you), the music was fantastic, battle strategies had expanded, and the towns were varied and unique.
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svenlylethor
Tavern Dweller
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posted February 02, 2010 06:40 PM |
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HOMM 3 is my favorite. I like HOMM2 a lot too but I felt whoever was the warlock had a huge advantage compared to other herotypes. I feel like HOMM3 had a lot more equality between herotypes and I liked the way artifacts worked more... Plus the overground/underground makes the areas more fun. I also liked the way cities were built more.
That's just my two cents though.
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Haregar
Famous Hero
of destruction
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posted February 03, 2010 09:39 PM |
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I would choose Heroes 3 at the first place and Heroes 2 at second. Very very good games, but you know - third HoMM is better... 
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 03, 2010 09:44 PM |
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Seeing how much agitation and animation is around HoMM 5 modding forums I guess it is a damnt good game. Too bad that those games are so complex that one can't try them all and get all the tricks in one life.
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted February 04, 2010 07:22 AM |
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Keep in mind that modding H5 is much easier than before. Many files are kept in separate directory and their parameters can be edited easily. Editor itself allows you to modify game content. Game supports mods just by drag & drop, even I created a number of them.
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The future of Heroes 3 is here!
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 04, 2010 08:55 AM |
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Maybe, but it really does not matter to me. I have a strange feeling of waste when opening that game and I can't go past it. It is not for me. Not to mention that after reading map comments, it seems the game has a big flaw, huge maps can't be played. Without huge maps, no huge pleasure. Bigger is always better because you can diversify more actions and alternate.
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fizzwidget
Tavern Dweller
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posted February 04, 2010 03:41 PM |
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For me Heroes 3 is the best game. The timeless graphics, 2d map, simple at a glance, but has depth as well. Tried Heroes 5, but the towns felt out of place and having a square battlefield instead of a hexagonal did it for me.
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Haregar
Famous Hero
of destruction
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posted February 06, 2010 12:52 PM |
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Keep in mind that modding H5 is much easier than before. Many files are kept in separate directory and their parameters can be edited easily. Editor itself allows you to modify game content. Game supports mods just by drag & drop, even I created a number of them.
Mhm, I must try to mod HoMM5. 
If I hadn't got sentiment to previous HoMM games I would have chosen for sure HoMM5 for second place. No dubt this is still one of the best strategy games. Original, fine looking and good for modding. It's all I must say, good work Ubisoft! :]
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darkcamander55
Tavern Dweller
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posted February 06, 2010 09:27 PM |
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heroes 3 is the best and to tell you the truth i still think its my 2nd favorite game of all tim
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Bombur
Known Hero
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posted February 09, 2010 08:54 PM |
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Heroes 3 has no equal to day,after its heroes 5
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted February 09, 2010 09:02 PM |
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Not to mention that after reading map comments, it seems the game has a big flaw, huge maps can't be played. Without huge maps, no huge pleasure. Bigger is always better because you can diversify more actions and alternate.
There are more flaws that make it hard to design resonable maps. No border gates. No quest guards. No free Town Portal, nerfed Dimension Doors, no Fly or Water Walk - all make maps feel too big to travel and too open to control.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 10, 2010 04:24 AM |
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Yes, but all this can be scripted, right? A blue object could be scripted to not let pass until you visited a blue tent, town portal can be scripted to reach selected town from list, water walk too (teleport), fly(remove objects passability when spell is cast). I saw it use LUA, so it should work, right?
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted February 10, 2010 07:56 AM |
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Unfortunatelly not. There's a fixed set of functions (an undescribed set of properties) thah can be used, but unlike ERM, thet don't cover anything I would like to do. They were basically used in campaigns and thus don't allow changing mechanics their authors didn't want to change.
It may be possible to track game varaibles and accessible functions like Slava did in WoG to create new possibilities, but so far no one dared to do that.
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The future of Heroes 3 is here!
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 10, 2010 08:03 AM |
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You can't block the path with a custom object and remove if conditions are fulfilled? You can't teleport an Hero from x to y? Those are basic things...
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted February 10, 2010 08:32 AM |
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Yes you can, but for some reason mapmakers avoid scripts and instead load in tons of eyecandies. In general I find mapbase for H5 inferior to H3, apart from ToH maps and a few good signleplayer scenarios there's not much to play.
Actually I've been working on heavily-scripted NCF map before starting studies, but abandoned almost finished project :/
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The future of Heroes 3 is here!
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 10, 2010 08:44 AM |
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When you are near the end the internal engine tends to broke and suddenly there is no energy left for compiling all the things in one. Very hard to pass the 90%-95% cap. I know it too well.
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Donald
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posted February 10, 2010 09:21 AM |
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for me it is homm3 because I have not played others. but wog looks like nice maybe I will try it later
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AndreasPan
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posted February 10, 2010 09:26 PM |
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homm3 is a really epic game
homm2 follows
homm4 is a very interesting game with different tactics and srategy
than the other homm games
homm5 is very good with nice graphics(problems excist though)
But i think homm3 complete ad WOG are the best of the best
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