Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era - Ubisoft returns to Enroth - coming to Early Access in Q2 2025

[Zboj Lamignat]

I'm trying to feel something, but it ain't working :deadinside:

I'd overall rate what I'm seeing as "makes a bit more sense than the Homm3 HD they did, but not much".

Still didn't even play Homm7 lol.

 

[whydoibother]

Map looks good, units look eeeh, cities look eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh. But honestly, a decent 6/10 game is sufficient for this desperation genre.
I also like that they are going for alien insect demons instead of the traditional western Inferno demons.
Cautiously optimistic.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Am I the only one who thinks it looks EXACTLY like Songs of Conquest? When the supposed original starts ripping of the visual style of a ripoff (not that SoQ doesn't have its merits) that's when you know it's all ogre.

The annoying part is I'll probably still give it a shot. Man's not a learning animal.

Exactly? Nah, SoC is pixelart. Maybe the color palette is similar in a couple of the screenshots but it doesn't look like the game at all otherwise.

 

[whydoibother]

Does Song of Conquest look like this?

 

[Storyfag]

Still didn't even play Homm7 lol.

No such thing as HoMM7, thankfuly. MM:H6 and MM:H7 do not even continue the naming convention, and that is good.

And I didn't even touch 6.

 

[luj1]

I don't understand why it's so difficult to make a visually pleasing game in the year 2024.

3d modelling is way harder than painting a gorgeous 2d city.

and produces a visually inferior result....

 

[Hobo Elf]

This gonna have barbarians and heroes who actually fight or what?

"Choose from six unique factions, each with distinct gameplay and abilities: Temple, Necropolis, Sylvan, Dungeon, Hive, and a mysterious sixth faction yet to be revealed."
It doesn't sound like Barbarians will be in. They could be the sixth faction so we'll see, but I'm guessing they'll make a new unique one. No Fortress/Lizardmen either.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

This gonna have barbarians and heroes who actually fight or what?

"Choose from six unique factions, each with distinct gameplay and abilities: Temple, Necropolis, Sylvan, Dungeon, Hive, and a mysterious sixth faction yet to be revealed."
It doesn't sound like Barbarians will be in. They could be the sixth faction so we'll see, but I'm guessing they'll make a new unique one. No Fortress/Lizardmen either.

if the game does well, they will probably goes for expansion. HoMM5 got 3 after all. Even 6 got 2

 

[Storyfag]

This gonna have barbarians and heroes who actually fight or what?

"Choose from six unique factions, each with distinct gameplay and abilities: Temple, Necropolis, Sylvan, Dungeon, Hive, and a mysterious sixth faction yet to be revealed."
It doesn't sound like Barbarians will be in. They could be the sixth faction so we'll see, but I'm guessing they'll make a new unique one. No Fortress/Lizardmen either.

Jadame would suit Lizardmen well. Hive is unnecessary, this happening 200 years before the Night of the Shooting Stars. But I guess they'll go with an early Kreegan landing in Jadame. Too bad, as the slot would be best used for a different town. The proper Jadamean mix for 6 cities is Temple, Necropolis, Dungeon (tho the Jadamean Dark Elves are surface dwellers), Fortress, Stronghold and possibly Cove from the nearby Regna Island.

 

[Anomander]

This gonna have barbarians and heroes who actually fight or what?

According to the German - heroes fight the same way as in 5 - you can attack or cast spell.

Looking at that video it looks good. It probably will be OK game.
We don't get almost any HoMM-type game, so even OK games are welcome.

Artifact sets are in.

 

[Storyfag]

Looking at that video it looks good. It probably will be OK game.

I watched only a bit, but it seems heroes do not enter structures. It is a bit meh.

 

[Desman]

Please just be half decent at least

 

[Hoodoo]

Ubisoft?

Just play HoM3 and don't care, ez

 

[Carceri]

Whoa, I can't wait to ignore this.

 

[whydoibother]

Here go the 'dex usuals, vice signaling how much they hate video games and how above it all they are.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Here go the 'dex usuals, vice signaling how much they hate video games and how above it all they are.

zomg bros why would you be so negative toward another game by the company that has completely demolished the series, with every subsequent release being worse than the last???

 

[Grunker]

what we need is someone to make a game with 3's aesthetics and 5's system design and we got ourselves a video game folks

 

[whydoibother]

Here go the 'dex usuals, vice signaling how much they hate video games and how above it all they are.

zomg bros why would you be so negative toward another game by the company that has completely demolished the series, with every subsequent release being worse than the last???

Because this one looks better than the last. And its developed by Nival people, only published by Ubi.

 

[Darth Roxor]

And its developed by Nival people, only published by Ubi.

too bad heroes 5 was also shit, and this iratus of theirs i've never heard a good thing about either


btw all this is exactly the same that people used to say about homm7 before its release

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And its developed by Nival people, only published by Ubi.

too bad heroes 5 was also shit, and this iratus of theirs i've never heard a good thing about either

Wait that can't be right, I don't think iratus was a Nival gig.

 

[Storyfag]

too bad heroes 5 was also shit

no, u

HoMM5 was decent. Even if all the bullshit about Isabel and Agrael and Kha-Beleth was meh, Markal was a great character, chewing scenery left and right. The mechanics were very well done. The city animations were neat (with Inferno taking the cake... I still have a feeling they planned such flythroughs through all the other cities, but ran out of time/budget). The unit artstyle... yeah, WoW-creep mixed with anime. The overland locations are also obviously worse than in HoMM3. Still, not a shit game.

 

[duke nukem]

Does Song of Conquest look like this?

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Those boobs alone makes this worthy successor to the homm 3. I will preorder the early access edition.

 

[Grunker]

And its developed by Nival people, only published by Ubi.

too bad heroes 5 was also shit, and this iratus of theirs i've never heard a good thing about either


btw all this is exactly the same that people used to say about homm7 before its release

homm5 is grate

 

[Jrpgfan]

And its developed by Nival people, only published by Ubi.

too bad heroes 5 was also shit, and this iratus of theirs i've never heard a good thing about either


btw all this is exactly the same that people used to say about homm7 before its release

HoMM 5 is not shit.

What is shit is your taste in videogames. You should probably stop posting about them.

 

[babayaga]

While HoMM5 isn't a bad game on its own, it is definitely decline.
Only some random slavs have managed to somewhat copy the old HoMM3 look with HotA