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War-overlord
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Presidente of Isla del Tropico
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posted September 03, 2010 10:17 AM |
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Poll Question:
Flavor Text: Aye or Nay?
With Heroes of Might and Magic VI on the horizon, I thought we might discuss the inclusion of flavor text.
This is the actual poll.
Now what is flavor text, you may ask. Well, flavor text is text that is added to increase depth. Say for instance the biographies that are included to portray the life of the hero so far. But the Creature bios added in HoMMVI and the pop-up texts you got when you claimed a mine are also flavor text. In HoMMV the creature bios were enlarged and we also got town bios added into the mix. However there are more things that may be considered as flavor text. For instance artifact histories/descriptions, unit responses etc.
So I ask you: Flavor Text, Aye or Nay?
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Nelgirith
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted September 03, 2010 10:20 AM |
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I'd say it depends on whether they want to revive the M&M RPG or not. If they do, then yes, it will add an immersion factor. If they don't, then I honestly don't care about most of the flavor text 
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danijel1990
Adventuring Hero
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posted September 03, 2010 10:21 AM |
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Voted aye, flavor text is very nice, and I always like to read all those little things...
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radar
Responsible
Legendary Hero
Castle/Haven player
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posted September 03, 2010 11:14 AM |
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Deciding not to include such trivia in the game would be a waste.
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Sleeping_Sun
Promising
Famous Hero
Townscreen Architect
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posted September 03, 2010 12:04 PM |
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Voted for more!!! 
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted September 03, 2010 12:44 PM |
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This is not a serious question Texts!
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Aosaw
Promising
Famous Hero
Author of Nonreal Fiction
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posted September 03, 2010 06:25 PM |
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I miss the "event" texts from artifacts. It was always a conscious decision to try and pick up the big Major Artifact in Heroes 3, because you didn't know if you were going to have to shell out twenty gems or fight a pack of rogues in the process. At the same time, there were always short anecdotes for the free artifacts, too. "You help an old man cross a river; in the process, his boots fall in the water. You dive into the river and retrieve the old man's boots, and as a reward, he gives you a strange medallion."
I'd like to see that kind of flavor text return.
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TDL
Honorable
Supreme Hero
The weak suffer. I endure.
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posted September 03, 2010 06:32 PM |
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I agree with Aosaw, but I would honestly like if they added something like it was in H4. I liked the artifact/item description best there, aside from the numerous text blobs that appeared when you stumbled upon the said item (detailed, some based on in-game lore)
The same goes for spells to be honest but that might as well be just time consuming
Voted AYE!
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Cepheus
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Far-flung Keeper
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posted September 03, 2010 06:39 PM |
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Edited by Cepheus at 18:40, 03 Sep 2010.
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It is pretty unanimous among everybody that the lack of flavour texts were counter-productive to H5, and that they must make a return in H6.
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"Those who forget their history are inevitably doomed to repeat it." —Proverb, Might and Magic VIII
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted September 03, 2010 06:49 PM |
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Aosaw
Promising
Famous Hero
Author of Nonreal Fiction
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posted September 03, 2010 07:05 PM |
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Edited by Aosaw at 19:06, 03 Sep 2010.
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In a similar vein, it bothers me that in H5 you can have several four-leaf clovers or Rings of Sar-Issus. Didn't it used to be that the artifacts were all unique? There shouldn't be more than one of a given artifact in any map; that's why it was always so exciting to kill a hero--you got all the artifacts he had collected, and they were always new.
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Cepheus
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Far-flung Keeper
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posted September 03, 2010 07:24 PM |
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No, you can get duplicate artifacts in all five games. They're just much rarer in 1-4 because the variety is far wider.
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"Those who forget their history are inevitably doomed to repeat it." —Proverb, Might and Magic VIII
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gnollking
Supreme Hero
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posted September 03, 2010 07:42 PM |
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Quote:
I miss the "event" texts from artifacts. It was always a conscious decision to try and pick up the big Major Artifact in Heroes 3, because you didn't know if you were going to have to shell out twenty gems or fight a pack of rogues in the process. At the same time, there were always short anecdotes for the free artifacts, too. "You help an old man cross a river; in the process, his boots fall in the water. You dive into the river and retrieve the old man's boots, and as a reward, he gives you a strange medallion."
I'd like to see that kind of flavor text return.
As far as I remember, the quest to get an artifact was in Heroes 2, not 3  .
But anyways, I love reading all the events and infos possible, so
of course I voted aye, we want more!
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DIEGIS
Supreme Hero
power of Zamolxis
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posted September 03, 2010 07:56 PM |
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Not the text itself, but the quality of it! aye aye!
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MattII
Legendary Hero
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posted September 03, 2010 08:06 PM |
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Voted for as much as we had in the past. Honestly, I don't think it would take that much to program, and it does IMO make the game feel a bit more complete.
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War-overlord
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Presidente of Isla del Tropico
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posted September 03, 2010 08:58 PM |
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I am glad you all agree with me that we should have as much or even more flavor text.
However I have to point out that HoMMV added some pieces of flavor text in areas that weren't there before. They have added the history of towns, for instance. They greatly enhanced creature bios and they may have had the most unique hero bios.
But I also agree that the taking away of much of the text-windows was a terrible descision.
I am also glad that nobody, yet, voted for the lessing of text. I overheard a friend the other day, who claimed that text has only one purpose. To distract you from the actual game and play it longer without doing anything.
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blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted September 04, 2010 12:59 AM |
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Bios on things like items don't affect the people that don't care, but positively affect those that do. Hiring a semi-imaginative writer to sit down and type that stuff should be a rather minute cost on the whole.
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Adrius
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Stand and fight!
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posted September 04, 2010 01:01 AM |
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I voted for AYE moar flavour! It's awesome for the immersion imo.
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lucky_dwarf
Promising
Supreme Hero
Visiting
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posted September 04, 2010 01:53 AM |
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Aye, and we also need some of the windows to come back in H6, and have them be triggered, so that I don't have to waste precious movement points to go to a sign and get the story.
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War-overlord
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Presidente of Isla del Tropico
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posted September 06, 2010 09:31 PM |
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It's very good to see unanimous consensus on this subject. Nobody wants to see the flavor text get lessened and the lot of us want more of it.
So Elvin, you may want to make notice of this on the insiders forum. Of course that is if you have not done so already.
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