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Heroes Community > Library of Enlightenment > Thread: Heroes III RoE HD announcement
Thread: Heroes III RoE HD announcement This thread is 32 pages long: 1 ... 4 5 6 7 8 ... 10 20 30 32 · «PREV / NEXT»
Galaad
Galaad

Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
posted December 10, 2014 04:24 PM
Edited by Galaad at 16:27, 10 Dec 2014.

dark-whisperer said:
Hehehehe. I LOVE this!
Fans make petitions for UBI to remake Heroes III just with HD textures with complete redraw, bugfixes etc.
Fans get Heroes III remake with HD textures lifted graphics.
Fans are not happy fooled.

FTFY

That being said, I'm still happy something is happening.
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Orzie
Orzie


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posted December 10, 2014 04:45 PM
Edited by Orzie at 16:48, 10 Dec 2014.

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And this also begs another question: did Ubisoft even contact Buka for the source codes of the missing components of NWC's inventory?

Dude, I didn't ask Ubisoft about that. Perhaps you can do it.

I said what I know. Buka definitely has the source codes for Heroes 1-2-3-4, and probably Chronicles too. I have a Russian official localisation disk of Heroes 3 SoD with the Ubisoft logo on it. I can take a photo of it. But yes, we have Heroes series localized in Russia since the NWC's times. Nival, a company which created Heroes 5, is a Russian company too. Buka, on the other hand, is just a game publisher.

I don't doubt in Buka having source codes, because their localisations are made in another way than we modders translate the games/mods. Heroes 1-2, for example, contain all their text in the exe file, and a tiny mistake can ruin many game aspects (like we have several pirate localisations of HoMM2 which have fatal bugs)

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Makes me wonder, though, if the Russian site got this image, why isn't it shown on the Ubi site itself?

It's a seemingly effective practice to send various screens to various sources, to make people visit many at once. Riotpixels.ru is a very large gaming info resource. I don't doubt it's official collaboration.

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It's like different artists worked on them, without coordinating effects that are present in just about every graphic.

Not exactly, it's just artists who were working in a big hurry and who didn't have strict rules for what they do (as we may notice, the main graphic style fits best for mobile devices).

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adriancat
adriancat


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posted December 10, 2014 08:43 PM

Why the thread name is "Heroes IIII..." and not "Heroes III..." ?

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Dies_Irae
Dies_Irae


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posted December 10, 2014 09:37 PM

I can imagine there are people who would enjoy an updated version of HoMM 3, but for me personally it has no value. What makes the current HoMM 3 still attractive, still worth playing, is the fact that it ís old and that it looks old. Its graphics are dated, it looks a bit clumsy compared to the recent installments, but that's all part of a certain nostalgy. Patching it up like this kind of takes that away for me.

Respect its age and corresponding looks, why change it?
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Storm-Giant
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posted December 10, 2014 10:05 PM

adriancat said:
Why the thread name is "Heroes IIII..." and not "Heroes III..." ?

Because of a miskey, obviously
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frostymuaddib
frostymuaddib


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育碧是白痴
posted December 10, 2014 10:16 PM

I always thought this kind of remake would be pointless, and I didn't change my opinion. First, I will not give any mony for this, because I already own HoMM3 Complete. Also there is HD mod (yeah, it doesn't change the graphics, but I already like them) and there are three gems: VCMI, ERA and HotA.
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verriker
verriker


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We don't need another 'eroes
posted December 10, 2014 10:16 PM

aw dude wtf is this?



is that supposed to be an honest comparison image?
why did they use the adventure map sprites for the original and battle sprites for HD? that's totally misrepresenting the original

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Orzie
Orzie


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posted December 10, 2014 10:25 PM
Edited by Orzie at 22:27, 10 Dec 2014.

That's what I tried to say in my first post in this thread.

Yes, they put smaller versions of adventure map creatures and compared (sic) them with the actual creatures in battle to provide a better contrast. As you can see, the angles are different.

It's still a surprise for me why Ubisoft doesn't have all 3D Max scenes for creatures. With them an HD remake would make much more sense.

Fixing the Archangel wings growing from his butt? No, we save the classics!

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hippox89
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posted December 10, 2014 10:41 PM
Edited by hippox89 at 22:45, 10 Dec 2014.

The original spites are actually censored thus the pixelation, Verriker. The raw, pure retro graphics would simply be too much for the newer generation to handle, not enough strong colours and effects. But seriously, these artists cannot have much respect for the original aesthetics when they make such obvious changes as you can see by looking at the Titan's gladius in that particular picture. Tablet market for sure. I think that's the most common fault of all of these so called 'HD' versions nowadays. Too much is simply either lost or changed without being faithful in the transition, and so they might not be worth to play over the originals.

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Fauch
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posted December 10, 2014 10:41 PM

lol, that pic makes it looks like homm3 was a game from the early 90's

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Salamandre
Salamandre


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posted December 10, 2014 10:44 PM

They probably hired artu for making these comparisons.

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artu
artu


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Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
posted December 10, 2014 10:48 PM

Can you check my question in the music thread instead of making silly jokes here, I'm thinking about blackmailing Hans Zimmer with a law suit and getting rich, we can split the money in half.

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Galaad
Galaad

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Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
posted December 10, 2014 10:50 PM



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Orzie
Orzie


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posted December 10, 2014 10:59 PM

Meanwhile in Russia


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frostymuaddib
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Supreme Hero
育碧是白痴
posted December 10, 2014 11:03 PM

Galaad you deserve QP for that post
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verriker
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We don't need another 'eroes
posted December 10, 2014 11:05 PM

frostymuaddib said:
Galaad you deserve QP for that post


+1

haven't laughed so hard in a while

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Salamandre
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posted December 10, 2014 11:06 PM

Orzie said:
Meanwhile in Russia



ubisoft plot is finally uncovered.

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Storm-Giant
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posted December 10, 2014 11:17 PM

verriker said:
aw dude wtf is this?

The f*ck?
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Galaad
Galaad

Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
posted December 10, 2014 11:19 PM
Edited by Galaad at 23:21, 10 Dec 2014.

verriker said:
+1

haven't laughed so hard in a while

Verriker, you made my day more than once at HC
You are never discouraged of making posts where the truth matches the cynicism, and I find it to be of great quality
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Storm-Giant
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posted December 10, 2014 11:28 PM
Edited by Storm-Giant at 23:28, 10 Dec 2014.

TotalBiscuit said:
Apparently the image originated on Ubisofts Polish Facebook page, so it looks like a regional error.

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