I never played the Heroes of Might and Magic games growing up and feels bad man.
What are the games in the series I should pickup and the ones I should avoid? appreciate any help.
>>337110648
1, 2, and especially 3 are good
4 is okay, did more wrong than right
5 onwards never happened
>>337110648
Modded Heroes 3 is generally the best one, they're all extremely long games if you're thinking about playing the campaigns so if you have limited time and don't want to be overwhelmed you can start with H3, otherwise give them all a chance.
Heroes 1 is the objectively worst one since it's the simplest and that's where the franchise started, but the campaign is relatively short (relatively being the keyword) and would let you see how the franchise started.
Heroes 2 is an improvement in every single way, a very good game, one of the best.
Heroes 3 changed art style from drawn fantasy to pre-rendered 3D (for units and towns) but gameplaywise it's the peak of the series provided you mod it. You will want the Complete version from GOG (avoid the "HD" version from Steam, that's base game without expansions ported from tablets), patch the Complete version with the "Heroes 3 HD Mod", google it and after you're done playing the game and the 2 expansions you will want to look into the Horn of the Abyss which is a recent unofficial (but feels like a fully official product) expansion to the game that improves upon it even further.
Then you've got the polarizing Heroes 4 which drastically altered gameplay in some aspects and thus it's a love it or hate it afair in the fanbase, you will need to try it yourself and don't listen to faggots telling you to avoid it. Just make up your fucking own mind.
Then you've got Heroes 5 which returns to the more cartoony fantasy art style, but in 3D. Gameplay has been changed from combat being hex-based to grid-based, but it also added some much needed improvements to the series, modded with H5.5 mod it's arguably best in the franchise contending with H3.
Will continue in next post.
>Never played homm3
I honestly feel bad for you OP.
>>337111165
Then you've got Heroes 6 which launched in a terrible state (bugs) and has some questionable design choices (casualization/simplification mostly) steeming from Ubisoft wanting to introduce new audience to the series. The campaigns are some of the best in the series though with decent enough story. The expansion and patches fixed most if not all of it's bug related issues it had on launch. It along with H1 are basically the most casual introductions to the series.
And then you've got the most recent Heroes 7 which also launched in a terrible buggy state, again thanks to Ubisoft being jews and pushing the developers to release the game ahead of schedule. It's obviously low budget (a lot of visual assets are flat out recycled from Heroes 6) but it's an objective improvement over H6 in every way other than campaigns. It has been mostly patched and there's an expansion coming out next month or so, however bear in mind it still has some AI issues and leftover bugs so if I were you I'd avoid it until they are done with expansions/patches. It has potential to be a very solid game however, definitely better than 1/2/4/6 provivided all bugs get squished and some remaining AI: problems get fixed as well.
>>337111165
So 3 is the best one, and 4 is worth playing at least.
1-2 worth it or nah?
I found 3 and 4 complete torrents, and googled the HD mod and the Horn of the Abyss mod (found the forum post)
>>337111382
Thanks a lot for the help/info man.
>>337111485
3 and 5 are the best
1 and 6 are in same category in that they're definitely the worst and simplest but most accessible to newfags
2 is simply 3 but worse, it's a stepping stone between 1 and 3 and it does everything better than 1 but 3 does almost everything better than 2
It's worth playing it for the campaign story if you care about those things since H2 and H3 are directly linked in that regard.
4 and 7 fall into the "polarizing" category but I'd say they're both worth checking out, just don't pay for 7 because
>Jewbisoft
>Jewplay
And preferably wait till they're done working on it because it literally launched in a fucking alpha state.
>>337111278
I played 1 and 2 at a friends house. I never really owned a computer myself until around 2007ish and windows 7 and just never gave it a look.
I played Diablo 1 alot but never played 2. Feel more shitty about that.
I basically would play computers at school or at my friends, and I had consoles at home. I couldn't afford internet at the time let alone a computer.
I've been going through older titles mainly RPGs and trying them out. I'm also looking at Baldurs Gate and other stuff.
3
>>337110648
Just play 2 for its more cutesy and comic style art direction and 3 for pure fucking orgasm.
>>337111687
You've got a hella backlog to play.
Heroes games are incredibly time consuming if you wanna play the campaigns so if you lack the time just stick to 3 I think. If you've got time, play all of them starting with 1 or 6. Simple as that really.
>>337111884
I'm a NEET I have time
Don't worry op, heroes games are incredibly easy to get into. You can still have tons of fun with homm2 and its got some great music, I suggest starting with that, although homm3 is easily the most popular one in the series and the only one a lot of people played, and many who have played the other ones will still tell you homm3 is the best.
>>337111685
>The 5 is best meme
Kill yourself. 5 is souless and streamlined as fuck.
>>337112602
5 has literally more features than 3 you vapid fuck
Are there any other games like homm? I can recommend final fantasy tactics and advance wars but they're pretty different gameplay wise
>>337112767
King's Bounty which is the first game the Heroes devs made, but you don't control specific town in those games. You play an overworld "hero" character and just go around the map recruiting shit for story reasons. Expeditions Conquistador also has hex-based Heroes-like combat but plays vastly differently outside of combat.
Age of Wonders 3 is another similar title to Heroes, turn based overworld with hex-based combat.
>>337112687
5 is shit. 5 is where everyone lost hope that homm would ever be good again
>>337112926
Stop shitposting and lying in the thread you underage cunt. You clearly never played the game, especially after TotE
>>337112926
>i never played it but ill lie and shitpost about it anwyay cuz its vee xDDDD: the post
>>337112926
Because jewsoft bought the franchise bastardasing it. With the universe reset the game lost his years long developed spirit and charm. Now the only people that were originally working on might and magic and still are is Paul Anthony Romero who did music for all the series.
>>337113105
You're forgetting Rob King, faggot.
>>337110648
Can't go wrong with 3 or 5with expansions.
Especially 3.
>>337113146
Paul is my alltime favourite. I love barbarian theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAfIpAzaPE
>>337113480
That fucking grass theme. Why did 2 have such a fucking wonderful soundtrack. I almost tear up of joy here.
>>337113601
It sounds magnificent on guitar too. I learned to play it myself like this guy for the moments of heaviest nostalgia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41ertr_i3M
>>337113480
Let's get this out of the way.
HoMM 1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwYS1k2A3k7Kx2MNt9O3ky7lKuSIvayUH
HoMM 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcprUCjwDc
HoMM 2 PoL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98EP4vEltw
MM 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=celP7sgGvjI
HoMM 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q43G9FTaomg
MM 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7QRJoWoWt4
MM 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn5_d3PHaD0
HoMM 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7A5MbGy4M
MM 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbQv8JjWJ_w
HoMM 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcjywV9echw
HoMM 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBtOTApjRI
MM 10 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu6_FOgZp3ej04aLzJ_Pk-vwFAxEg27Et
HoMM 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DF8z3O4W_c
>>337113793
HoMM II in opera version is the best soundtrack i ever heard in my life.
>>337111785
>>pure orgasm
lol no.
3 has nice world art i will admit, but their battle art doesn't compliment it at all and looks like complete ass.
they jumped on the late 90s bandwagon of using shitty 3D renders for sprites, in an attempt to pull in audiences with realism (everyone saw diablo and wanted a piece of the pie, also last resort due to bankrupt company)
2 is at least consistent in its art style, and in many ways far more "bad-ass" than "cutesy".
>>337113897
Non-opera version is identical, just lacks the singing and it was only included as option for fags with shittier audio cards, same with midi option. Note how later games don't let you pick midi or non-opera variants because integrated/stock audio cards got better.
>>337113950
Ah, sorry. Didn't mean the art direction in 3 but rather the gameplay.
>>337113950
H4 was a last resort, not H3. H4 was so unfinished they had to drop two campaigns entirely, but they recently got officially finished for H7 as official total conversions that bring H4-style mixed towns etc.
>>337114000
I only own a GOG version now that runs through dosbox. I remember it running much smoother on my old pc with win98.
>>337113724
Oh shit, I think I just creamed my pants.
>>337113950
cherrypicking
h3 art > h2 cartoons
>>337114141
GOG offers Win version of H2 as well anon, it's superior in every way too since it runs much smoother. There's even an addon to restore the vanilla H2 opera town music for it instead of using the PoL themes.
I can also give you a torrent for the Win version of H1 (working on Win7 64bit too) which also runs much better than GOG's shitty DOSBox version.
>>337110924
Don't listen to this faggot.
1 is not good anymore.
5 is great. With expansions it's the best behind 3.
>>337111687
Holy shit, what wouldn't I give to get back to 2002 and be 7th grade me, yet to try Diablo 2 for the very first time...
I probably have 7000-8000 hours in that game and I don't regret ONE SECOND OF IT.
If you're able to get over the dated graphics, you can try out just everything of that list:
Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
HOMM3
Quake 2
Quake 3 Arena - still very much alive online (Quake live)
Blade of darkness
Blood 2: The Chosen
SiN
Baldurs Gate
Neverwinter nights
Arcanum of Steamworks and Magic Obscura
Starcraft: Brood War
Unreal Tournament
>>337114000
>>same with midi option
Actually MIDI was provided because some people still didn't have CD drives back then, which is where the non-MIDI soundtrack was played from.
>>337112767
Eador?
>>337114552
You needed good enough card for CD audio playback regardless anon.
>>337114362
Yes please anon. My original box version no longer work on my newest pc and discs are really over used.
>Wondering why
>>337114502
I didn't ask for these feels
>>337114571
Eador is fucking terrible.
>LITERALLY ONLY 1 TOWN/FACTION
T R A S H
>>337114362
>I can also give you a torrent for the Win version of H1 (working on Win7 64bit too) which also runs much better than GOG's shitty DOSBox version.
Not the guy, but please. I'll suck your dick.
>337114179
You don't even deserve proper (you) for this shit.
Also look at him. He never played HOMM 3 with his friends on hot seat mode.
>>337114571
That's pretty. Is it worth playing?
>>337114625
You want only H1 since you own H2 on GOG, correct?
>>337114753I own pirated gog h1, would never buy the same game twice
>>337114819
What does that have to do with H2 anon? I'm asking because I don't know if you want the GOG Win version of H2 as well or not since I don't think there's a torrent for that version available anywhere.
>>337114502
>I'm 19 years old (today, birthday) and i never played Diablo 2 other then on someone else PC.
>Will start for first time today.
Feels great, man.
>>337114665
Yeah I can't give you torrent since it's on Blackcats, but I'm gonna upload it to MEGA.
>>337114350
Read the rest of the post, not cherry-picking
>>337114094
I understand, the gameplay in h3 does still make it a really enjoyable game
>>337114104
The 3D renders in H3 were a last resort for the art.
H4 was a last resort on far larger proportions, in every sense really (art, programming, story writing, etc). It really shouldn't have existed.
I can't even touch the new stuff, Ubisoft is raping that IP terribly and it's painful to watch.
Paul Romero still makes amazing music though, so there's that.
>>337114656
Struck you right in the childhood, huh?
Same feels here, damnit.
>>337114904
Both versions. Accidentally typed 1 instead of 2.
>>337115000
>I can't even touch the new stuff, Ubisoft is raping that IP terribly and it's painful to watch.
Just fucking kill yourself you literal hipster trash since you're stuck up so far up your own arse it hurts.
>>337114948
Happy birthday, anon.
Have fun with one of the greatest games ever and find yourself a gamebuddy if possible. Nothing beats D2 lan.
>>337114587
No you didn't. Source: CD music worked in DOS for a very long time before games even started using it, on even the shittiest of sound-cards.
If you were lucky, some automatically designated the cable running between them and the CD drive to the correct IRQ.
Most people had to configure that shit manually for every game.
Source: My $30 DOS computer and the CD drive that I stole from my neighbor.
>>337115000
heroes2's battleart looks like it was ripped from a kindergarden learning book
>>337115067
Somebody is triggered¡
>>337115015
>>337114656
>Be youngfag like me.
>Discover those amazing old games for first time.
I hail to your times. Thanks for it, old gentleman. Thanks,
>>337115434
Die you fucking subhuman spic.
>>337112870
Age of Wonders 3 is a good recommendation. Similar style, but more advanced combat than all of the HoMM series (they added "flanking" in HoMM 7 because of AoW 3).
If you like smaller, more diverse units that can level up along with your hero, I'd recommend AoW3.
>>337114948
Tfw I'm 19 too but thanks to my awesome uncle i discovered all the classics mentioned as a 12 year old kid. Literally everyone else in family is a computer illiterate to this day.
>>337115508
AoW3 is basically the only thing that comes close really.
>>337115067
It's not even the same people making it anymore you retard.
Ubisoft bought the IP off of New World Computing ages ago. They've already lost half of the source-code for the older games, that's why the rehash was so bad.
Hipster would be if I liked the SAME company only when they made the older games.
I don't give a fuck about Ubisoft at all, period. They're completely incompetent, and you don't need to be a hipster to know that.
>>337115610
You're a hipster for saying H2 is better than H3 you inbred spic cockmongler and also ignoring H5 just because it wasn't made by NWC, please kys already.
>>337111485
You definitely should play 4 with Equilibris mod installed.
Stable version is 3.51 and last version is 3.55, which is not on their website, but hidden somewhere on their forum. It's reuploaded somewhere.
4 has the best campaign.
don't listen to any of the faggots here but me
buy and play only one game because all the other games are 90% of the same shit
choose wisely
>>337115414
and your point is?
>>337115608
Conquest of Elysium 4 is pretty close as well, but you have to deal with far worse graphics, little battlefield control and questionable AI. You're rewarded with INCREDIBLY diverse factions and a relatively quick game-mode along the lines of the Heroes series.
Also, I'd recommend AoW3 with all expansions. They really add allot of content and spice to the game. You can probably pick it up during the next Steam/Humble sale at around $30 in total. I've logged 300+ hours on it and I bought it at full retail, so it was a good deal for me.
>>337115610
Ubisoft didn't even make 5-7, they only published them, way to show what a dumb spic shitstain you are.
H5 was made by Nival which are a great developer.
H6 was made by Blackhole which again were a good studio.
H7 is made by Limbic.
>>337115245
Thanks. I heard that multiplayer is still active and I will try for sure.
I prefer 5 over 3, but I know I'm in minority here.
Also, I play HoMM only multiplayer with friends and strangers alike. If you think you are hot shit in HoMM just because you play well in single player, you'll be in for a world of hurt when you finally decide to try out the multiplayer. So please, no comments about your own skill unless you have tested it in multiplayer, you only make a fool of yourself.
Heros 3 Gold + Mods is my personal best game of all time.
The game is amazing.
Also the Music is great and the best faction is best as it should be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US9Moa3upTY
>>337115785
AoW1 and 2 worth playing for campaigns or nah?
>>337115686
>>for saying H2 is better than H3
That's not how hipster works though.
I still like both games, I just don't give a fuck about Ubisoft regardless of the IP or time period in question.
>>337115827
Single player and multiplayer are so different it's kind of amazing.
The amount of hero management you have to do early is super intense, and you have to become aware of the the actual strength and weakness of the different factions.
Things like rushing specific troops and hero abilities become super important.
>>337115552
Oh, I also played many times with my friends. To this day I must finish Gothic series once a year. I played it a truckload of times with my friends. We were damn addicted to this series.
>>337115782
its bad just like 4's art
5 is all color and glee + we want the WoW croud
havent played the other two games but they look bad too
heroes 3 is mature
>>337116039
And that's why you're ignorant cancer hipster incarnate.
Die.
>>337115923
Yes. The AI is fairly decent for those games, but I find that tier 4 units (the best units of each faction) tend to overwhelm everything moreso than in AoW3.
AoW1 campaign: pretty good and has ~ 6 endings (different final stages and ending epilogues).
AoW2 campaign: fairly good and introduces you to the magic system in a good way.
AoW:SM campaigns become too much of a slog towards the end though. They assume you'll summon gold dragons from the start of each map which isn't fun, IMO.
Just learn to be aggressive and you'll enjoy all of the campaigns.
7 is complete shit. People who say it has a shred of hope to it must be utter fucking casuals. It's scientifically designed to be as shit as possible. Even 6, with all of its misstemps, was more fun to play than 7. I'd tell you how multiplayer balance is if multiplayer fucking worked, but single player is just trash, both in campaigns and in scenarios. There's just not a single goddamn redeeming quality to it. If you want modern Heroes, play ToTE instead or 5.5 fanmod.
To that anon waiting for H2 Win, 73% done uploading.
H1 will come after that.
>>337116104
man that art is pretty dope.
>>337114625
>>337114819
https://mega.nz/#!LYonSBxY!jBw89sETUfueYeMEaCWRu3Pw3NHkZrMyvcz7mp0acf4
Included is replacement .dll to fix music resuming from where it left off when you change screens. As in, like if you go from overworld to town and then go back to overworld the music in the overworld will resume from the point it left. There's 2 versions, one that resumes all music (Heroes 3 and onwards like) and one that resumes it only for overworld, but not town screens (like H2 did originally).
>>337110648
>Bought Heroes of might and magic 6
Gameplay is awesome and challenging indeed,but i had no excessive time,so I dumped it over time great game though
>>337115810
I never said Ubisoft made them though. I only said they own the IP.
If you think publishers don't influence the end result of AAA game titles in modern day, you are a fool.
Just because they're paying another dev to work on it, doesn't mean they have no influence over the end product. Deadlines and shitty budgets are a thing.
>>337116104
>its bad just like 4's art
How. 4 is the same generic 3D render shit as 3, but isometric.
It shares nothing in common with 2's art.
I already know that 4's art is bad, definitely don't have to remind me of that.
>>337115827
I would never play HoMM in multiplayer. I absolutely despise rushing, and know some people can pull off tier 7 units in week 2 and other crap like that.
Most of my single player games last like half a year game time, and I enjoy it like that.
>>337116540
Enjoy it by all means, but don't talk about multiplayer if you haven't even gotten the grasp of it. Faggot.
>>337116540
Just play a 3-4 player XXL Multiplayer game.
That game will take for, fucking ever.
>>337116392
Also never go to the orb things for help,they never help you and you are losing time
>>337116695
Play other games now anon since H6 is one of the weakest in the series.
>>Tfw i am the only person to have successfully cracked the original heroes 2 files, properly, including no-CD for multiplayer, and with MP3 support
Even the Russians failed on this one. They cracked hotseat and singleplayer, but playing over LAN tries to find the CD.
CD check memory address:
4C9A76
What the Russians failed to do was patch all references to 524A80 so that they redirect to ".\" for CD access instead (also works with the MP3 music mod!).
510C88 is a nice spot to add the custom relative path string.
>>337116934
DONT DO THIS PEOPLE
THIS MAKES MUSTARD GAS
>>337116107
You have no grasp of what the word hipster even means. Sorry if I triggered you so hard anon.
>>337117150
Please never stop posting this.
>>337116442
the problem is the style anon
>>337117150
TOO LATE, SUKA BLIAT. FOR MATUSKA RUSSIA!
>>337117314
The style is just pixel art though.
No love for it?
What the fuck is with capatcha's obsession with RVs.
>>337116934
Now do the same for H1 so it won't require CD for music to work.
Slavs go back to 2ch RRRRREEEEEE
>>337111165
Based. This man deserves a cookie.
>>337114672
its really fucking tedious, if you want Homm3 but at 10x annoyance factor to everything possible
>>337114179
Yeah, go play HoM&M on a console to prove us wrong.
Wait...
>>337114948
too bad blizz retroactively casualized it
dont respond to the console fag just report him
>>337118174
But their fan-art is just so good!
>>337117796
Shouldn't be too hard, the technique works for pretty much any game that uses CD music:
https://github.com/vnaum/h2cdplay
>>337119391
the pyramid looks really out of place
>>337119532
To be fair, it did in the game too.
>>337119148
>this is coming from someone who is playing a exclusive game literally made in 1980
I R O N Y
At least our good exclusives are from past year or they will be out soon PCuck
>>337119245pls don't, I'm getting this game right now and I'm just jealous that I wasted my money for a bloodbrone machine and uncharted 4 was cuckold the moviethis is the only way that I can make myself feel better about my wasted money
PCuck on damage control
Actually never mind its too late I got the warning
>>337119532
It does in the original game too.
>>337119391
>>337119693
I never played H2, what units come from the pyramid, saloon and asian looking building?
>>337119628
>>337118972
90's, not 80's.
80's was too cool for Heroes.
>>337119781
Pyramid is Mummies, Saloon is a Vampire Mansion, and Asian building if you mean the one on the right is the Mages Guild.
>>337119781
Pyramid is mummies,
'Saloon' building is Vampire mansion
Asian looking building is the Mage Guild, doesn't make units
>>337119781
Pyramid was mummy, asian building is mage guild tower that sells spell books and teaches spell casting, saloon is a spooky house with vampires in it.
Heroes V is my favorite necro experience. It's nice that you can raise any tier of unit, not just skeletons (without having to get that super rare lich artifact in H3).
Also makes maps where you don't control towns a lot more fun, since you can have a massive mixed army out of nothing.
>>337111165
>that's where the franchise started
>not the original king's bounty
What the fuck is wrong with tou?
>>337119924
>>337119982
>>337120110
I wonder why mummies were taken out of the necro faction in 3, they're superior to boring ass zombies in every way.
>>337114469
This guy knows whats up
>>337120460
I would have preferred super strong mummies to the death knights in 3, they were so boring, just horsey skeletons
I bought 5 a while ago, but I was really put off by the confusing and incredibly ugly UI
Was a mod ever put out for that or something?
>>337120586
death knights in the might and magic games were always boring human knights with a chance to roll extra damage, they needed the ability to cast spells or something like actual death knights
>>337113793
> HoMM2 OST
> Can listen to it almost endlessly because of how good it was
> Menu theme
> Grass theme for maximum comfy
> Snow, Ocean and Swamp themes for additional comfort
> The Sorceress theme for maximum opera
11/10 OST
>>337121125
>actual death knights
Yeah, you know, those REAL death knights you see on the streets every day
>tfw wanted to play HoMM4 again with a friend
>It has shit fullscreen resolution options and window mode doesn't work on win7+ without playing like complete shit
>No mod to fix it
I know it's not the best HoMM but it still had some fun stuff to it but it's not even playable on a modern monitor or OS.
>>337121485
>window mode doesn't work on win7+ without playing like complete shit
psst
set your monitor settings to 16-bit High Color
You're welcome
>>337121536
Can't. It was shit in Win7 and doesn't even exist as a setting in Meme10.
>>337113793
You're missing MM5 Intro & Score:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n4U-mZ-uho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZfCjrhAHzI
Possibly one of the best sounding shit on Roland Sound Canvas next to Wing Commander games
>>337121641
You definitely can do it in 7 and if you can't in 10, well RIP, shouldn't have fallen for the meme.
Are those Homm3 mods, I think WoG and HotA they're called, still regularly updated?
>>337122980
WoG is dead but there's successors.
HotA is still being worked on.
>>337122980
No idea about WoG but HotA and the HD Mod are.
>>337122064
It's pretty much the only old game I've run into that runs like shit on newer OS. If you could force the fullscreen mode to run in a window it should solve any issues the game has but I haven't found any that actually works for the game and on Win10.
>>337110648
Play 3
Play 1,2 if you suit yourself good at classic old game.
Hope NWC come back and make a good sequal that would be homm4.
:^)
>>337123720
>Hope NWC come back and make a good sequal that would be homm4.
I wonder if the original NWC team even works in the industry anymore. If they do its probably some soul sucking mobile shit.
>>337123720
Have a (You)
>>337113793
might and magic has such nice music
>>337111165
>>337111382
Anon thank you for your god tier spoon feeding, you're based in a form that is beyond this realm
>>337116386
>>337114998
You too anon thank you for the uploadd-d you have HoMM 1 and 2 too? Is it too much to ask for a mega link for them?
If I want to legitimately buy this, I get the original off GOG right? I heard the 'HD' version on steam was shit.
>>337126892
Yup
Also the money you're spending is not going to the developers pocket
>>337127339
obviously, NWC has been dead for over 10 years now
>>337111165
I'd also like to chime in and say that Heroes IV has absolutely fucking amazingly written campaigns, like Half-Dead.
>>337127803
I second this
>>337112767
Disciples 2.
>>337125347
Anon that was HoMM2.
http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=42430
>Most of the problems of development of Heroes 7 rested on indecent low budget and short development time. Fierce savings in all, did not allowed to expand staff, capable of qualitatively improve the game.
>For example, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) takes only one person. This led to the fact that most levels have been built without the opportunity to test the gameplay in "combat" conditions, and the whole gameplay scenarios had been scripted entirely. Designers have received more or less working AI only at the end of the development (the same one single programmer AI still finished his work). Looking back, we can say that attend the creation of sane AI had another prototype stage.
>>337134565
From what I know they fixed AI entirely in recent patch and the upcoming expansion will also come with another patch that further improves it.
But this is /v/erminland so they will shit on a game they never played anyway.
>>337134065
I meant 1 and 3
>>337135315
Nigger, use Kat.cr or Piratebay, GOG versions of games aren't hard to find.
The only reason I uploaded that specific H2 version is because it's rare.
>>337115245
>le i am happy for you meme
Reddit please leave.
>>337115508
Shame they didnt plan the game with intial combat positioning and shame the campaigns blow ass.
There is no point in playing this game.
The single player campiangs are shit cause they story is absolutely uninspired and boring.
Obviously playing this game in multiplayer is a pain in the ass as such games are simply not very suitable for multiplayer.
What is left? Random missions?
>>337135472
t-thank y-you
>>337136017
Don't stutter like some bitchboi anon. That was honest tip, just go to those sites and type Heroes GOG and sort by seeds.
>>337136008
I agree that the story wasn't very good or enlightening. Still, I finished both paths for the original campaign and all three endings for the Eternal Lords expansion.
I find the most enjoyment from the skirmish modes, and I think that the game has the best random map generator now out of any similar game. I've been impressed with some of the tilesets and it's very easy to tweak settings to give yourself random maps with the right amount of "stuff."
Give the random maps a try. It's actually enjoyable.
>>337110648
i wreck u 1v1 hotseat little bitch necro4lyfe
>>337135108
Like he mentioned, the AI of this game was entirely coded by one fanboy intern who never worked on a TBS in his life. It's absolutely terrible and by far the worst in the series. By "fixed AI entirely in recent patch" you apparently mean he finally gave it the ability to wait in combat and avoid friendy firing itself. It would take another six years to reach an acceptable state at this pace.
>>337119693
Jesus is that thing a fucking mess compared to 3. It looks like a fucking theme park rather than a Necromancer's lair.
>>337137000
I bet you faggot don't even know that there isn't even magic in heroes, just extremely developed technology.
