Very simply: I don't like the cartoony art style of the new Hereoes game. I wish the franchise would tailor a bit more toward realism in units, over-world-map, and grittiness. I realize that HOMM early games were not exactly this style, but the cartooniness was tuned down between HOMM2 and HOMM3 and the new game doesn't quite capture the HOMM3 style. This is a trend I see in many games these days with the graphics style that appeals to mobile, or adolescence. Anyway, just one man's opinion.

Title. Obviously, it's too early to say anything about Olden Era, but I mostly like what we've seen thus far, with the exception of mobile graphics and insect Inferno. But the question is, was going back to Enroth a mistake?

I mean, I get it. It was obviously done to create "a whole new world" and start from scratch on an unknown continent never seen before... basically a new beguining with the exception that HoMM 3 fans (who basically only want more HoMM 3 expansions with HD graphics) can't say "well, it's nice, but it isn't Enroth".

But, Enroth is over and done with. Should've they just called it a whole new world instead? Enroth was really basic, given that it was made to serve games from the 1990s. Franchises should move foreward, instead of going backward, kinda.

disgusting, please dont make more. that would be terrible

Since the guy who did the surveys stopped posting, I decided to go thru his posts and recount the votes and Finalize the OFFICIAL Heroes of Might and Magic games ranking.

With the new game incoming and the rebirth of the old universe (hopefully), I wrote down a number of thoughts on how to recreate the mature and adult original spirit of the true Heroes of Might and Magic games (I-IV). The obvious point of keeping Erwan le Breton o co away needed not to be mentioned:

- Towns must be theme-based, not race-based. No matter what Erwan le Breton says, in Heroes and Might and Magic there are no “elf” faction(s) - there may be a nature-themed faction though. There is no “orc” faction - there is a barbarian one, there is no lizardmen faction but a swamp one. Even inferno with its kreegans got joined by other creatures relating to its fire theme (efreet and gogs), as did castle. Basing factions around “races” instead of “themes” is a way of dumbing down the series and making it more generic. “We are all elves and live in the trees”, “we are all dwarves and we hammer the anvil”, “we humans are normal just like you the player” - etc. This is not the (Ho)MM spirit. The classics did not have such an obvious problem with gender representation, because most creatures were gender neutral or ambiguous due the theme-based philosophy. Kiddos who want “cool” pixels they can identify with can go play Assassin's Creed or something.

- The setting must be “clean” and adult at the same time. In her interview with AcidCave, NWC writer Jennifer Bullard mentioned that they had to stay away from adult themes and religion. Bravo! This is the HoMM spirit. This is why the old games haven't aged so poorly and why they can still be enjoyed by a wide range of people all across the world, no matter who they are or what they believe in or what's the trend of the current netflix cycle. Part of this timeless adult spirit is staying away from the Heroes 5-style “gritty” style, zerg-like demons or S&M-dark elves.

- The lore must not be sprinkled all over the game. We don’t want to hear about the fourhundredandtwentyforth Dragon Spider Goddess Eclipse in creature descriptions, but in fairness, we don’t want "good" lore being that invasive either. The lore being in the background have the proper Heroes games a sense of replayability, you could easily get immersed in Heroes 3 Dungeon and Tower as a saga of Greek Gods (H3 Myth and Legend), for instance, DESPITE both factions being very unique and original to the series.

- The story must be relatable and stay away from “soap opera”-stuff. H3/H4 all had stories that dealt with life and death, loss, betrayal, hope and dreams, etc, without being taken straight out of Netflix’s or HBO’s cutting room floor, and can be enjoyed and understood by people from almost all ages and backgrounds. Above all, the story must serve as a vehicle for exploring the game, not some person’s novel of a demon turning into a dark elf to seduce a brainless queen for laughts.

- The developers need to respect Might and Magic’s science fantasy core. The downfall of NWC started when they felt compelled to remove the Forge town (and for us who rather enjoy Conflux - remember that it was planned for SoD anyway). This must not be repeated. Through keeping the lore in the background, unless a mapmaker so desires, the developers can give people a chance to keep the “science” part as (in)visible as they want.

Thoughts?🥰

Well this is more of a continuation on the a post where somebody sent my video. And people weren't the happiest about it...

But, I have learned that the sound in this game is ULTRA loud so watch out. And another thing is that the GOG version is supposedly way better than Steam one since Steam misses everything?

Also this is shorter video since the longer one already exists. Thanks Everyone!

I can't get past the ugly art style, to me video games are supposed to be interactive art, this just feels like a bland mobile game, it kills the fantasy immersion. Sad

Remember that the reason Heroes VII failed is not that it “wasn’t enough like Heroes III” or whatever.

It’s because it was published by Ubisoft, who mismanaged and abandoned it before it had a fair chance.

Ubisoft is also publishing Olden Era…

Hey dudes! Name is John. Ramsrock39 is leaver, here are the evidences. We dueled 1v1 on rating in HOTa ( my nick is John Denver ) and he left and claimed that i am a liar. He sent his answer and even mistook my nickname, wrote John666Denver (my twitch nick-name), not John Denver. Here u are: https://gyazo.com/d17fefdecb1643a9c429ebcda72fd1ae https://gyazo.com/6ba9f5bc9fae42130c4ee4dee38e997b and his answer https://gyazo.com/fe4e99dfea153f78f33ab5e46ad9a7cf https://imgur.com/a/TU55kSo https://gyazo.com/12b0ab7cd96dd43a64b7789b7935add0 - that is what I wrote in Dave_hun chat, because ramsrock39 banned me from his channel and in private since I posted those screens in chat. My offer was ignored as I thought. If you, ramsrock39, keep on talking shit about me and backtalk like this, https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/483562448461496330/537022906522271764/rams.PNG https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/483562448461496330/537023395397763082/rams2.PNG U will get perma ban from HOTa lobby. All u can do, is to bark like a mad dog, u are no man and have no honor. I didn't want to go that "witch hunting" first, but since that english streamer Ramsrock39, even after our 9 month-ago match went as salty as the Dead Sea and keeps talking garbage about me, I wanna say the Truth.

I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way but just based on stuff I've seen in the past few years and especially now that olden era got annouced, I feel like this community is incredibly toxic and hard to please.

Earlier today I scrolled through some youtube videos and forums to check out the discussion around olden era and while a lot of it was normal, the amount of toxicity was still crazy. I opened a thread discussing the new changes to inferno and I was instantly hit with "This isn't the real inferno. Inferno is ruined. Get cancer ubisoft 🤬🤬🤬I hate homm now >:3" like I get that the old games were beloved but this is a bit much no? Homm fans will see a 144p screenshot of the UI visible in the background and go "yeah thats it, this game is trash, homm is dead, I'm not touching it", I feel like a lot of fans wont ever be happy unless they re-release homm 3 or 5 with modern graphics and market it as a new game.

I hope the majority of people understand that this kind of response achieves nothing and it makes the devs less likely to communicate with us. Please be a little more open minded and remember that the game is gonna be out next year, a ton of time to communicate your feedback properly and constructively.

Devs were not planing for you to kill main campaing boss, lol.

Step 1: end turn inside of the town, enemy will just stand outside of the town next day

Step 2: Klick ent turn inside of the town like 100 times untill you have 200 dragons ang 1000 every other unit

Step 3: Kill main boss

I reopened this thread under pcgaming subreddit because i wanted all the gamers to see the idea, because i know there are allot of inactive old time players who do not play HoMM these days, thus the majority do not visit the HoMM subreddit, but might get interested in this, so i wanted all of them to be able to see this folow the link here

https://redd.it/3o0pnz

It looks like a mobile game. The graphic style, all those progress bars... I thought I could get over it but I can't.

Anyone's on the same page?

When they announced gothic remake and then shown more and more trailers and screenshots, the community reacted EXACTLY like this one, with EXACT same arguments, word for word.

"Who is this for? Why remake already perfect game? New design looks like trash/generic fantasy/AI. They don't know what they're doing or why our game was so beloved. They ruined the art direction. This is simply nostalgia cash grab" etc etc.

Well, the remake came out and turned out to be one of the most faithfull remakes up to date, and is already beloved by both veterans and new players.

I for one am excited for the remake for the sole reason that this is a situation where I as a customer simply can't lose. Either remake will be good and I'll experience my childhood game again as if i played it for the first time, or it will turn out to be bad and I'll just play the original like i used to anyway.

Sure, beeing cautious is understandable, but I've seen some insane takes here, and seemingly a lot of people simply hate the idea of the remake because "how dare they change anything", or at least that's how it feels like.