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What makes this the best Heroes of Might and Magic game ever made?
>>419919OST and hot seat
>>419924https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoNSShASGiY
>>419919Music, art, style, sovlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7_J138M6ac
>>419932soul overload
>>419919it has that sort of naive look that fantasy used to have before the genre became truly popular and it became edgy for the sake of profit. think of He-Man or early 90s Warhammer
cozy menu
>>419944I want to go back, bros
>>419939fheroes 2 worth it yet?
>>419919I love this game anon, the sound the mines make when you're close brings me so much peace.
>>419990You might want to wait a little bit more. The 1.0 release is expected by the end of the year.
>>420013TWO MORE WEEKS
>>419919It's not, it just has cool art and music.
The operatic score, obviouslyFURCHTEST DU NICHT
>>419919It was a well-executed beta for III:
>>419919Oops, sorry, wrong pic
>>419919How much of a contrarian hipster do you have to be to go "3 is too new for me, so let's pretend 2 was better so I can act less mainstream"?
>>420075>What makes this the best Heroes of Might and Magic game ever made *for people without severe autism*?Fixed it for you, brother
>>420013i've been waiting for this for over two years now, I think, since I knew it was happening. honestly so much SOUL paired with a moderately balanced, not-necessarily-cheesy gameplay is the kind of medicine i need to take my mind off corona-chanpic unrelated. i just like it
>>420075This but when people pretend 3 is better than 5
>>419919All my childhood memories of playing it hotseat with friends after school as a 7-8 year old.
>>420107/thread
>>419919For me it's its presentation. I like it most out of all the HoMM games.
>>419919i have fond memories of homm2 but fuck me, i had completely forgotten how absolutely KINO the main menu screen was
>>419919Nothing, really.
>>419919A timeline where HoMM3 was never made.
>>420094>playing NWC games in 2021 without being a sperg
>>419990>fheroes 2what the hell is that?
Broken Alliance is still the best map ever madeHoMM3 maps have too much boring symmetrical layouts
>>420075Imagine being a zoomer trying to pretend to look cool mimicking liking things that were made before you were even planned to be conceived over other things that were made before you were even planned to be conceived.Shut your fucking whore mouth and sit the fuck down, kid, no one cares what you got to say.
>>421001>How do you even DARE to play good games, in 2021?! This is problematic, you are supposed to CONSOOM the next Ass Creed!Fuck off, shithead.
>>421036Pirates! is good tho.
>>421022An open-source reimplementation of HoMM2.
>>421157I'm using that opengl wrapper with the Windows version currently. Pretty fucking good. Runs great and let's you use the CD music.
>>421179Soon, in a year or two, fheroes2 will be the best way to play HoMM2.
>>421001ok, Flash. now go ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM
>>420072>no hexagonal tiles
>>421001NWC heroes games are like the least autistic strategy games ever made you stupid faggot. Just because Russians have analyzed the shit out of the 3 doesn't mean you have to play any of the mods or use weird PvP strategies. Which youtuber made a video about this? I swear every couple of months a bunch of zoomers come out of the woodwork with shit opinions on some random game.
>>421270How is the performance on Windows? Linux seems to have some bugs and problems, like fullscreen not working and the mouse being a laggy piece of shit that doesn't stop at the edges when running in windowed mode.
>>423166It plays butter smooth on my toaster.
>>423175Good to hear, time to run it in an VM then I guess.
>>421667>Which youtuber made a video about this?ssethhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD75wi4_6Owhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8v5__Ytf4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Dz8mKgeOshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-c51iIIk2M
>>421352>Giving a fuck about the fucking tilesYou might have autism.
>>423166>Linux seems to have some bugs and problemsReport them. Developer is very active fixing bugs and adding new features.
>>423177google the openGL wrapper for the windows version if you have any problems
>>421157I still have my HoMM2 CD though
i love this vibrantly colourful 2d artstyle so muchwhy does it always prove impossible for new games to replicate? i swear almost everything that comes out with a 'retro' artstyle looks shit but nothing else is nearly as comfyand the game is older than me so it isnt just nostalgia
>>424220That's good because you need it to run fheroes2.
>>421036i only play random generated maps on III>>424887idk bro its like a memo was sent out mid 2000s no more aesthetic games
>>419924ah hot seat. back when video games could be social.
>>424887>why does it always prove impossible for new games to replicate?Because they try to pixelate modern high resolution art or the image of it that they have in their heads instead of creating pixelated art or its image in their minds from scratch. It's kinda the same with old fantasy illustrations. Take LotR, for instance. All new art is either influenced by the movies or is just straight modern and streamlined. You don't have gems like pic anymore because the perception of every step of creation has been influenced by a variety of factors from modern media to the modern tools of creation.
>>419919Where's the homm general? It used to be in /vr/ and I thought it migrated here?Anyway, I'm at the next to last mission in wizard isles bonus campaign, is it a bad idea to skip right to the final mission or you really need that artifact in the other mission before it?
>>428771A lot of people still don't know /vst/ existsOr a load of HotA shitposting was actually Picolan samefagging
>>419919I think I prefer it slightly over homm3, but I don't play much mp.If I were to get heavily into 1v1 mp or even ffa mp for the next year, and I had to pick a homm I'd definitely pick homm3 over homm2.I don't think homm2 competitive mp is really playable in a fun way without heavy handed houserules due to rehiring of heroes that just dump spells on an enemy army.It's nice and fast though, you struggle for gold so your army becomes a bit scuffed since you can basically never buy everything, even if you're so lucky to get the golden goose, you'll run out of money.The factions are great, though I'm not sure that's really anything it has over homm3, I think those factions are great too, maybe conflux is a bit dry.The map editor is sadly a bitch to work with because you have to place objects from north to south, you have to place them in order if you're placing objects close, you can't put them "behind" other objects.
>>428771generals are lame anyway
>>421036I think Warrior Knight is my favourite, but I like playing Knights which is the only option on that map.
>try fheroes2>issue with the music restarting from the beginning whenever you select a hero in a different zone is still presentThis is useless then, I might as well just keep using the original .exe
>>419944this. you captured it in so few words too.
>>419930good music enough to make you forget the shitty world we live in today.... even for just a few minutes.
>>42103611 year old me was lost in that fantasy world of a map for countless hours.... even if I had to keep replaying it because being gangbanged on three sides by those damned a.i.
Played some last night after mostly not touching it since I was a kid in kindergarten, turns out it's actually pretty difficult, I lost on Hard twice, what's the general advice? Rush magic and maybe I shouldn't fight much early?
>>431019Avoid casualties but attack mines/good artifacts guards asap.
>>431019i go for early army and scramble for watermills, leprechauns' toadstools for extra gold. also, Knight's castle is pretty good on early game (less so late game because Paladins <<<< every other top tier creature), and I always play Knight so there's that.
>>419944Heroes II's style isn't like He-man, Warhammer Fantasy is more of a yes and a no, due to how Warhammer used artists with differing artstyles(and reused old art in newer editions), and the art being far more "violent" and in some cases a 12-14 year old's idea of "mature" sans sex, but the models and painting style at the time themselves were fairly close.H2 is more fantasy with a fairytale storybook look, while He-man's design focus is a more sanitized and toy-friendley heavy metal.
How many of you "remember" being good at the game as a kid, but mostly played with 32167.This game and AOE1 is that to me.
>>431105I'm fairly certain I never actually used a cheatcode, I'd play homm2 after kindergarten (without speaking English at that age) and the only time I remember doing well it turns out I was playing a level of Broken Alliance except it had been edited and saved by my sister, adding some extremely powerful AI with multiple stacks of genies that I eventually met and was then destroyed by.
>>428832both very close. i think homm3 wins almost everywhere since it has HD and HotA after you're completely done with everything else. homm2 has more soul obviously which is big for which one you actually launch.
>>>>>>>about to finish a broken alliance campaign>>>>>>>"wtf purple is still alive?">>>>>>>start moving my 6 or so heroes towards the one corner of the map i havent searched, the bottom right>>>>>>>arrive on the island>>>>>>>50+ titans and 100+ archmages doomstack AI heroes have been stuck on the island for almost the entire game>>>>>>>I found the ship they must've used to conquer the castle down there, except it had been steered onto another island and then the army that used it died.>>>>>>>mfw (my face when)
The sorceress theme and phoneixes
>>421270THE WIZARDS HAVE A POWERFUL CITY TO THE SOUTHEAST
>>433260DIE TOREN SEHEN IN IHREM HERZEN
>>432755emergent af
>Only left against green and yellow on Rebellion>Attacking green's last castle with my main army>Not looking good for him>Starts nuking the shit out of himself with Armageddon>Fucks up my army bigly and kills himselfRIP based kamikaze AI
>>419932I really like the grass theme but my favorite is from Heroes 4, even if i did not play it as much as the second or the thirdhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDXNSWJLuo
>>433548I never got into HoMM4, I didn't realize how sick the soundtrack was until I figured out all the songs I liked from Fall from Heaven were remixes or ripped from it. That sea theme is one of my favorites, along with thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX96pCm3Rnc
>>433548Yeah the ocean theme is amazing, I use it as the town theme for Cove in HotA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPLxbB9lzTo>home
>>421270Beltway.Holy shit still remember that map.Are they balancing this rerelease at all?
>>4199193 is best
>>419919people only like this because of the pixel art. 3 is a straight up upgrade and impovement from 2.
>>433957I would say the soundtrack on 2 is better (though that’s more like a 9.5 vs a 10), as well as the campaign being more engaging than RoE.Homm3 is clearly a better overall game though imo.
Fuck bros, it really is the best of the series. I had never even heard of the game until a couple years ago. I picked up the collection on gog and instantly loved 2 the most. There's just something about the art and music
Losing the opera in 3 was a downgrade and leaves you with mostly underwhelming town themes. Combat music is good but not as strong as 2.plus I'm strange enough that I think one of the turn waiting tracks is the best music the game has: https://youtu.be/xwTVUrQZ3Dk
>>433966agreed, the soundtrack is awesome. i enjoy 3's but it's just not god tier like 2's
Knight>Castle 3Sorceress>RampartWarlock>DungeonNecro 2>Necro 3Barbarian 2=Stronghold (this means Stronghold was good)Wizard>TowerLeaving Fortress and Conflux, where Fortress has good music and Conflux is OH SHIT I GUESS WE'RE NOT DOING FORGE AND 3D0 IS OUT OF MONEY>bonus:grass theme>>>>>grass theme 3
>>433519They can be a real sore loser at times
>>434020Based AI
>>420075I always hated Homm3.
>>420107but it was vastly superior to five
>>433957>3 is a straight down gradefixed
This thread made me reinstall it.
>>434080yellow checkmark = you thinkt they're kinda ok?
>>4199193 is better, but the art in 2 was comfy as hell.
I'd like to have the gameplay of HoMM3 with the looks of 2.
>>434563There is actually a mod for https://www.moddb.com/mods/h3sw
>>434670SUCC WHEN?
>>421150>>421297>>421667On the contrary I played HoMM3 on release, you dumb fucking tards. If you think retro strategy communities aren't 98% people high up on the spectrum, then you need to go see a professional and maybe find out a little something about yourselves.
>>434697>t. chimps out in every HOMM thread like he has Aspergers
>>434741Enough about your weird delusional fantasies, muppet.
>>434805Totally aspergers
>>434697I don't give a shit about some "communities".
>>434697HoMM is different though, the majority of the 2021 playerbase aren't typical retro autists they're backwoods slavs who still play games from 2000 on their yellow cigarette stained Windows XP towers
>>434697>communitiesi don't care about what some faggot says on Reddit or in a Russian modder forum, dipshit. a good game is a good game, now or 20 years ago>On the contrary I played HoMM3 on releaseand your uncle works at Nintendo
>>419939Every walking unit has the exact same body type.
>>436150UNACCEPTABLE IN MY 1996 GAME REEEEEEEE
