How come nostalgiafags still playing just Heroes of Might and Magic 3 have never realized this exists?

How come nostalgiafags still playing just Heroes of Might and Magic 3 have never realized this exists?

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III=V
Here, I said it
My only problem with HoMMV is that the maps feel very small

Played it a bit when it first came out. Haven't touched it since. I still play HoMM3 now and then though. Not sure why 5 never clicked, it just seemed 'ok'.

I think it's the game flow of 3, at least I love it along with general art style and UI. 3D in TBS games does not age graciously.
As for gameplay, V is fine. But just fine instead of stellar, it didn't quite male the same impact as 2 and 3 back in the day.

It doesn't have any meaningful innovations over 3 while being far slower and clunkier to play.

Is Heroes 5.5 mod any good? People speak good things of it but I must ask here since Yea Forums is always right.

From start to finish, visuals were meant to alure fans of other series like WH and WarCraft, and as such they completely dissconnected from the combination of fantasy and classic fairy tale style used previously
When it came to how it was handled, the artstyle is incoherent and oscillates all over the place in quality of design. Inferno is fucking amazing, Dungeon is glaring purple pile of feces. Other towns are either hit or miss, aquired taste or just mediocre at best
Tactical map is small compared to III., though pretty much comparable in size to that of II., also hexes are superior to squares
Maps are abysmal, though arguably random map generator works even better than that of III.
Balance overall is actually pretty well managed, especially with the expansion packs
Skills in skillwheel are harmonized decently, though could be handled better in some instances like Dungeon or Academy

Oh, and of course, they cut the base number of towns from 8 to 6, compared to III., though same as IV.

>Tactical map is small compared to III
It's even smaller when you consider that non-humanoid units in h5 take up a whopping four squares. On top of that, they removed spells that increase/reduce movement. There is also no terrain penalty for fighting on non-native terrain. So movement is less tactical overall than it is in the previous games.

because it's nowhere near as good as 3

We don't like Warcraft 3 artsyle.

>great balance
>all skills are useful, half of the skills in homm3 were useless
>all cities have their own theme of skills, making them all unique to play
>great campaign
>expansions added even more options, alternative upgrades and great towns
>fixes all issues of homm 3

homm 5 is easily the best entry in series, its just nostalgia fags that glorify homm 3

>homm2
a relic of a simple time visually. the cartoon graphics scream fun yet encourage the player to be serious at the same time
>homm3
beautiful hand drawn portraits combined with excellent realistic sprite work with some minor winks and the series previous fun visual style
>homm 5
HEY WARCRAFT FAGS THIS IS JUST LIKE THE GAME YOU LIKE PLEASE BUY THANK YOU

4 is really it's own thing and should be compared.

I know that might not be popular but it's very obvious it was developed to be it's own game and then was suddenly switched to be homm4 when the company hit dire straights

yo Yea Forums doing a flashback stream today. (it was supposed to be tuesday but I forgot) I'm hammered af but when I get up what old game should I play on stream?

Music was good.
Everything else wasn't enough to move on from 3. My personal turn off was Ai tracking to long to take turn. I'm to used to nanoseconds in 3rd.

>inferior visual design
>inferior map design
>N*val
Nah.

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I like the designs of Angels in 5

>dad is looking for a new game to play when I was a kid
>sees heroes 5 on the shelf
>buys it
>plays it when we get home
>later that night I see him playing heroes 3 instead
rip dad you were based and heroes 3 pilled

It's actually baffling that they abandoned all of these movement mechanics, if you consider how they split the speed and initiative attribute in both IV. and V. to remedy the Haste and Slow spells in III.
They really should have added separate spells for increasing movement points, instead of just increasing initiative
Aye, I ain't comparing it directly. It's just solely for reference sake

I like Heroes 4. Here, I said that.

fuck off, haste and slow are the most op spells in h3

I really liked having alternate unit upgrades.

That's what I meant
Remedy how fucking overpowered they were

Based dad
He's with Sandro now, raising thousands upon thousands of skellies

No fortress.
But seriously V was great, anyhitn gafter that was garbage. Ledroit was probably the best artist Might and Magic ever had, the newest one has deviant art tier garbage.
Still i dont like that the Expansion towns were Dwarves and orcs.
Missed potential, the vanilla Factions were great and quite diverse.

who here /magechad/?
>youtube.com/watch?v=tx6R3YgmK0s

holy fucking based father

Who here /havenchads/?
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NEW BAD!

OLD GOOD!

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well homm 5 is old as fuck at this point so explain.

I just think 2 and 3 are better for me

I liked V a lot but I only ever played it hotseat with a handful of friends. I tended to role undead and the skeleton archers seemed really OP since I'd get a ton after every battle and they stacked in huge amonts. How do other players feel about this? Was I shit, were my friends shit, is there a solid counter once someone has hundreds of skelly archers and keeps earning more after battles?

>homm 5 is old as fuck
It was made in 2006.

>is there a solid counter
better archers
spells
fast creatures

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>over a decade old
>not old as fuck for a medium with a living memory of maybe 2 years
a decade is old as fuck for a movie.

There is Fortress tough.

13 years ago is pretty fucking old for a video game, user.

Add godrays and turn the bit more blueish/azure, rebuild the citadel and walls to be made of gray rock stone like granite and polished marble instead of sandstone and you got one of the best factions and themes in HoMM history

No, it isn't. Shut up.

>heroes 5 was relased 13 years ago

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*Necropolis gameplay intensifies*

user....I don't want to alarm you but just avoid looking at a calendar until you come to terms with the coma you've been in

>he isn't riding Mammoths to war

Fags.

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It's always 2007 on my calendar.

Its ok but it lacks the SOUL of 3. It dosnt even have flavor text and the maps feel small.

>heroes 5 was half my lifetime ago
>only 2 years later I started lurking Yea Forums
h-help....

The presentation of campaigns feels like shit. I think the game itself is much better to actually play, but the presentation is a little janky and that does make a difference. Those cutscenes look like absolute garbage and I would have preferred the pre-rendered crap from H3 or even just straight up static scrolling text or dialogue boxes with static images.
Heroes 5 is just one of MANY victims of late 90's/early 00's polygonal graphics that just didn't age very well at all.

>The presentation of campaigns feels like shit.
Writing is cringe tier shit.

I was in love with them, fuck.

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proooohh

That's a guy.

Are they male or female?

>i hope you aren't gay user

This is deviant-art tier.

`>Writing is cringe tier shit.
It's not just writing. The voice acting is atrocious, and the characters in the campaign don't even have animated mouths, yet the camera still zooms in on their faces during cutscenes. A game from 2006 not having lip movement is absurd.

this is modded

It feels like one of those things that had soul in the concept art, before getting shit job done by graphic engineers.

It's a general downgrade from 3 on the basis of maps being small, objects taking way too much space on them and in general being too scarce

Game just doesn't have same "flow" as 3 due to that

>great balance

Necro is even more overpowered in HoMM 5 than it was in HoMM 3, and Tower still trumps everything else which is not Necro.

Its not cool swamp assholes fortress tho.
Its manlets, in the next game it was orcs, but it never was comfy HoMM 3 assorted weirdos fortress

And it still looks like shit.

Heroes V is genuinely one of the ugliest games ever made.

>faction almost entierly made up of units of one race
HoMM 5 Expansions and later games fundamentally did not understand the spirit of the game.
Each of the cities was an assortment of creatures vagueely themed aorund the enviroment.
The only exception beeing Haven. An "army" is an army of one creature type, not the entire stack of your Hero. Having all the units be of the same races changes the theme of the game into something more like age of wonders.

Its far less comfy and it makes armies of mixed towns, which is inevitably gonna happen as you conquer more sutff, feel realy out of places.
t.Drachenwald poster

actually it want modded
yeah it just looks like shit

>inferno
>demons demons demonic dogs demons demons demonic genies demons

Oh you don't even fucking know how much of that is true in regards of Heroes V

They hired Olivier Ledroit, one of the guys responsible for entire fucking look of Warhammer and completely ignored almost everything he done for them in favor of warcraft graphics. The only small bits of his designs can be seen in cities and character portraits

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as said, vagueley themed around it, the theme of inferno was demons, that of necropolis was undead. but it still also had mummies not just military units of skeletons, its hard to discribe, but the distinction is there.

Just like Inferno didnt have Devil cavalry and devil archers, it had different kinds of demons.

Well, I was in love with Angel's icon art. Can't find it online now. Only Archangels are available.
Come again?

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this pic looks like fucking disciples 2
damn such a good game it is

It's defence based, magic lacking faction named Fortress. It counts in my book.

A lot of it had very disciples feel to it

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Why can't Dungeon look like this? Why it has to be BDSM edgy elves?

I loved the fact that heroes where another unit. I remember spending hours and hours slef-inserting myself, fighting monsters and such in Heroes IV

Fuck, what could have been.

Still, it's depressing that even with all of those things Nival did 1000x better job on a Heroes of Might and Magic game than those retards that did VI and VII did.

>BDSM edgy elves
I wish. There was definitely not enough BDSM.

To catch attention of horny 13 year old for more sales... Duh...

I guess...

Where dose it say it's not a male? You are gay brah, not much more to it.

I was horny 13 years old when HoMM5 came out. Didn't catch my attention, to be honest.

To get attention of WHfags
Dungeon is pretty much "us dark elbs xD"

That would explain trap fetish.

this?

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Ledroit is basically THE BDSM edgy elves/vampires artist tho.

>Heros V of might and magic

This is a respectful businesswoman in HoMMV Dungeon.

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CUTE


btw.

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>heroes VI

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>bring back the classic m&m setting
>shit all over it with those ugly HOMM6 designs
>turn it into a mobile game

w-why did you do this to me, user

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Yes! Thank you very much.

Because coldd blooded waifus>>>>harpies

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>last Jedi good
>empire strikes back bad

Sometimes it's legit true.

Pixel graphics age better. Also, no HOTA for HoMM 5.

6 and 7 are no different than 5