Hero's Hour - Heroes of Might and Magic-inspired real-time strategy RPG

[ArchAngel]

I tried this.. it is shit. It has little to do with HOMM, just a much worse version with weaker combat and battles and no story missions.

Oh and it CTD without message after about 30 min of playing when I tried to enter some building with my hero. At that point I just uninstalled it.

 

[Serus]

Why does a modern game that's inspired by HoMM2 feature graphics that are ten times worse than Homm2's graphics were a quarter of a century ago? I don't know, maybe gameplay is stellar, but I don't feel attracted to try this game myself.

Those kind of graphics are less tech dependent and more dependent on:
a) talent
b) manpower
Obviously the HoMM developers had a lot more of the latter. And probably more of the former as well.

 

[deama]

Just played some myself, it's ok.
The negatives I have are mostly on the performance of it, if you want to play on a large map it takes a decent amount of time for all of the factions to take their turn, and during later in the game when you have hundreds of monsters fighting, it can get slowed down to a crawl (like 5fps).
I checked the CPU usage and it isn't that well optimized, looks like most of the load is on 1 core, and GPU is barely touched.

I do also agree, graphics are a bit meh.

 

[Tyranicon]

- bad codex impressions

- 1,000 reviews at 80% positive

- released at same time as elex 2

- all-time peak at half of Elex 2's

- more current players

- two person dev squad (?)

- uses assets packs (nothing wrong with them, I have the same exact assets 'cause they cool)

I'm starting to think I should just do the opposite of whatever codex says and reap that sweet, sweet decline money.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

People would generally be more positive if the game didn't have performance issues.

- uses assets packs (nothing wrong with them, I have the same exact assets 'cause they cool)

Wait, you're telling me the author PAID for those unit graphics? Because damn, that's something any amateur pixel artist could do. I need to get into the asset racket.

 

[Tyranicon]

People would generally be more positive if the game didn't have performance issues.

- uses assets packs (nothing wrong with them, I have the same exact assets 'cause they cool)

Wait, you're telling me the author PAID for those unit graphics? Because damn, that's something any amateur pixel artist could do. I need to get into the asset racket.

You can definitely make good money in the pixel art business if you're talented.

But... these assets are pretty cheap.

Here's a link: https://iknowkingrabbit.itch.io/

 

[thesheeep]

Also played it for a bit, but quickly put it away after a few sessions, because:

Biggest problem: You barely even PLAY the game. You just have those units in your army, which you arrange at the beginning and that's it.
Most of the time, you won't give any commands to your units and the only thing you actually do every now and again is cast a spell - and even that only if your hero is a mage.
Combat is basically an idle game.

There are also issues with the UI. Despite playing for a few hours, I never figured out how to actually get the units onto the battlefield that I wanted there.
The game would always try to "balance" my non-reinforcement army in a way I did not want it to. The different ways of dragging/merging units seems to be HIGHLY erratic.
Eventually I gave up trying to fight the UI and just accepted whatever I was given prior to reinforcements.

No consistent campaign is a deal breaker for me as well.
It's essentially a skirmish-only game. Yeah, no, thanks.

The only thing you really do in this game is the Heroes-like overworld map.
And that plays in pretty much exactly the same way as Heroes does: You have one or two main armies and a bunch of smaller ones ferrying units around.
While you build up your castles in a way that prioritizes income first and then rush for highest-tier units.
It's not bad, but why play it when you can play the real deal instead? Especially with good modern open source implementations?

I did like the looks and atmosphere of it, including music.
And I also like that low tier units are not totally useless, but serve as a somewhat important meat shield for your higher tier ones - this is actually an improvement over the real Heroes games.
But ultimately what's the point in a game that plays itself for the most part?

 

[lukaszek]

But ultimately what's the point in a game that plays itself for the most part?

homm manager

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

 

[pakoito]

I have tried 3 duels on Normal and I've lost miserably. I was much better at HoMM lol

Any tips? My armies get decimated by Tuesday/Wednesday and I spend the rest of the week collecting crap and exploring.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Aren't both Hero's Hour & Loop Hero on gog sale atm? I wonder what the next "Hero" game will be.

 

[lukaszek]

rooster hero

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Yeah... they have that already.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I was thinking of this game, when, a few days after posting in here I saw a different game that made me think of it. Wouldn't find out the actual name of it until later.



They're different styles of games, but that Vampire Survivors one is what this game should've looked like. Just thought it was funny to see these two games so close together.

 

[lukaszek]

gotten some gog discount... anyone actually tried full title?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Full title? Which heroes? I've been pondering this wannabe. Combat might piss me off.

 

[lukaszek]

Full title?

as opposed to demo available a while back. Seem to be fully released

Which heroes?

??

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I'd wait for a discount again.

 

[deama]

I tried this about a month or two back, was alright, a decent spin on heroes games. The big issue I had was at later levels the game performance would start to tank hard, and the fights would get to like 5 fps. Also, the whole reinforcement mechanic I didn't like much, but without it the fights would basically lock up and would be slower than 1fps.

 

[lukaszek]

I tried this about a month or two back, was alright, a decent spin on heroes games. The big issue I had was at later levels the game performance would start to tank hard, and the fights would get to like 5 fps. Also, the whole reinforcement mechanic I didn't like much, but without it the fights would basically lock up and would be slower than 1fps.

looks like dev made some perf improvements 1m ago to address fps.

anyway I bought it. After playing songs of conquest I got spoiled by limited troop size so Im not enjoying clusterfuck that is happening in here.

That being said interactions between fliers/archers/etc seem nice, perhaps ill spend more time learning about them

 

[deama]

I tried this about a month or two back, was alright, a decent spin on heroes games. The big issue I had was at later levels the game performance would start to tank hard, and the fights would get to like 5 fps. Also, the whole reinforcement mechanic I didn't like much, but without it the fights would basically lock up and would be slower than 1fps.

looks like dev made some perf improvements 1m ago to address fps.

anyway I bought it. After playing songs of conquest I got spoiled by limited troop size so Im not enjoying clusterfuck that is happening in here.

That being said interactions between fliers/archers/etc seem nice, perhaps ill spend more time learning about them

At the time I remember checking and I think it was either only using 2 cores, or 4, even though I have 12.
Maybe the improvement boosted the multi-threading?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

If it slows that much down, I don't want to fucking even think about running this game. Is you computer burning up also?

 

[deama]

If it slows that much down, I don't want to fucking even think about running this game. Is you computer burning up also?

No, usage isn't very high at all, game is just badly optimized.

 

[Infinitron]

A demo showcasing the new snow effect, coming to Hero's Hour v2.3

 

[Infinitron]

This demo shows off the various lava terrain particles, as well as a work-in-progress animation for the catapult. All this is coming to Hero's Hour v2.3, a free update coming soon (tm)