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Best Heroes of Might & Magic game
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Zboj Lamignat
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Playing single: 1, 2, 3 and 5 are all definitely worth trying. 1 is pretty much obsolete gameplay-wise, but is still fairly amusing when it comes to the atmosphere and presentation. 4 and 6 are completely skipable, but they aren't the worst games in the world or anything like that. Never played 7 to this day.
Playing multi/hotseat: 3 and 5 are the only viable options. 3 is still pretty much the perfect game to play a hotseat session with beer and snacks, nothing really ever came close to achieving what it did. Fucking decline.
Playing multi/hotseat: 3 and 5 are the only viable options. 3 is still pretty much the perfect game to play a hotseat session with beer and snacks, nothing really ever came close to achieving what it did. Fucking decline.
Lacrymas
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If there is one game in this series which is not skippable, it's 4. On top of it being a unique part in a good way, it's also the best written and the campaigns are all worth playing just because of that. 6 is just very bad and unnecessary when compared to all the others. 7 is the most pointless and meandering of the bunch, I don't know why it exists. As for multiplayer, if you intend to play 4, you need to set some boundaries, like no resurrection potions, but other than that, go for it.
Citizen
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The problem is opposite. It plays good, but looks and works horrible. Music is alrite, but forgettable. The knight town theme was great tho
rusty_shackleford
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Dark Messiah
Yeah. I know. It's still dark Messiah.
Yeah. I know. It's still dark Messiah.
Valky
Arcane
It's not worth dignifying a competition with a response since it's obvious which one is objectively the best and will never be beaten, but it is acceptable for H2 fans to submit their vote as well.
HoMM 3 had better AI.
In the end, after spending so much time playing the games SP, that's the crucial element.
catfood
AGAIN
Age of Wonders
Valky
Arcane
Eador Genesis
catfood
AGAIN
Warlords
Valky
Arcane
You lose half the fun of the genre with auto calculated battles.
There's one thing I like more about the combat AI in HoMM2 though. I'm pretty sure that in combat when it has a choice of targets, the AI in HoMM 2 would always prioritize your archers, then flyers and only then melee walkers.
I don't know how the AI chooses whom to attack in HoMM3 but it frequently attacks tier 1 units, most of whom are melee walkers.
So in combat, the AI in HoMM 2 is predictable but it usually targets units that I care about, whereas I'm not going to care much about the tier 1 creatures the AI frequently ikes to target in HoMM 3 (unless I'm playing Tower, then I weep for my master gremlins).
Valky
Arcane
Homm3 AI seems to be designed to inflict the most losses possible to you. Hence the cowardly and dishonorable tactic of throwing a hero with 1 unit at you and just casting lightning bolt on your shooter stack before retreating.
Sreggin Etah I
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It was worse in HoMM 1 when heroes would often cast Storm, damaging all your stacks.
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What is the explanation for this? Did they both just lease the same song?
Heroes 4 came out 2 weeks after wbc 2, seems kinda crazy they would have plagiarized the song in that time then sent the game off to print.
Deflowerer
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Yeah, they both used the same stock music shit.
That year came out some celtic orchestra collection which everyone used media samples from. Zanzarah also did and so did many others.
The music itself might be 500 yo.
Anomander
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It took me many years to admit, after my initial disappointment with HoMM4, that it was actually the best iteration of games.
The change from upgradable units to exclusive unit choices and the particular way they mashed together units from what was previously separate factions made it very hard to like at the time. But in all other aspects - except art direction - it is actually a better game than anything that came before or after it.
Making the heroes an active part of battles and giving them multiple class progression options is probably the best improvement to the series by any of the games and I remember actually being engaged in the campaign stories of the main game. Not that it isn't still generic silly fantasy but it just tells those generic fantasy stories better than what you usually get.
I really wish there was a greater interest in HoMM4 in the modding community. Would love to play another take on HoMM4 with HoMM2s graphical style and the reintroduction of upgradable units (without losing the choice exclusivity)...
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