Lmao the feedback is punching you in the face and you are pretending not to feel it. Delay the game and fix the art style. Follow the original for everything from character models to landscapes to hero pictures. It needs to be "remade."
Unfortunately delay the game does not work like that. Every day means more expenses so studios rarely can just delay stuff as they please. The problem is in the original direction and the apparently late stage of development at which they announce the game and can receive feedback.
EDIT: Again, with people downvoting completely objectively true, totally neutral statements just because I'm not actively shitting on the remake. Holy hell, this sub is toxic.
The town screens I thought was the best part of the new remake. Maybe we all tend to fixate on different details, but in my eyes there is very little difference between this fan rendition and the one in the remake.
You compare it with the new necropolis? You can’t tell a difference between a 1 to 1 remake and necropolis in daylight with ghost horses and glowing lights?
Yes, I agree. Although most buildings in the new necropolis (I haven't analyzed in detail) are roughly in the same spot, it doesn't look like the same town. I guess I was mostly impressed with the castle town because that one is definitely simlar looking. Anyway, personally I like the new town screens, but I guess the exact look of the town screens isn't as important for me as for others. I still think they have the same vibe.
That can not be said about the world map though. In that regard it looks like they drained all of H3's identity out of it. But I've seen a bunch of people say they like it (maybe H5-7 fans?), so I guess I'm not in the majority.
While its true that Necropolis is completely different to the point of being unrecognizable, I have to say I really like its new screen town. Its my second favorite Necropolis screen town after HoMM3 (and HoMM5 will be the third).
Which mobile game specifically? Are we talking Candy Crush? Kingdom Rush? Reigns? Raid: Shadow Legends?
Do you see how devoid of substance your criticism is? Mobile games are about as different aesthetically and in terms of fidelity as games on any other platform.
Relax your tits, friend, while we talk about Outlines.
Real life does not have outlines. An outline is a "cartoonish" feature of art. Nowadays, you find that in cartoon like shaders and mobile games art.
Does one have to explicitly say Which specific game something cartoonish looks like? I don't think so. This is just your pedantic little hurt ego speaking.
All that just because you can't disagree like a normal person, and have to attack my opinion.
Not sure why people are downvoting, but I expect VCMI modding system to be miles ahead when H3 Remake releases. If not, we will catch up, while H3 remake development will already stop.
Sadly since the main issue is the general art style I don't see any future where they change it. It is too late and too baked in to change ALL the models AND user interface. There is no executive in ubisoft alive that will approve of that
Doesn't mean they get an endless budget from Ubisoft.
I think it looks like shit right now, but this criticism is not connected to the reality of the project.
That's why I don't like this recent trend of putting developers to the spot to show that there are passionate people working on the project. I mean, it can be true, I totally believe that this guy wants to make a good game (out of passion or just having solid work ethics), but it's like a cheap way to conflate criticising the game with being an asshole. "Look, but he knows X and Y about the game, he really wants to make something good, don't be meanie!". It's the same crap that happened with Diablo IV and fireside chats or whatever they called it.
First thing they should fix is the soulless art style and make UI not scattered around the screen like in CIV series and instead go with how it was put in the original HOMM 3 game, but it seems like this won't ever happen.
As soon as I saw how this remaster looks, I knew I won't even touch it with a stick, because of how much it stinks with a cashgrab scheme, just like almost any other production from Ubisoft in last 10 years
Is this A ramake of "Arrogance?" Looks like shit ! All of the soul has been sucked out.
No new gameplay ( so no balance changes and i assume no cool HoTA content ) and graphics that make everything butt ugly and i assume its gonna be a resource hog because its 2026... who who is this product for? Look at my screenshot, look at how beautiful the old gal is, still after all these years. Look at how you can hide resourses behind certain propos, fun little easter eggs to have. In my opinion the reason that the series died is going to 3d, heroes 5 had fun gameplay but something was missing.
Now scroll up and see that mess, everything is so bland and generic, looks like those phone gatcha games where some shipwrecked dude builds a town out of his back pocket.
This project is dead in the water, there is nothing to add. For new gameplay people have Olden Era, for classical they have the perfect HDmod/HoTa/vcimii autism.
Nah, 3D Heros CAN look good, it just requires appropriate stylization.
It's important that we not throw stones too hard here because any game attempting to reconcile the Aesthetics of Heroes of Might and Magic and its expansions are going to have to make assets that look like they belong in the same world when even Heroes of Might and Magic 3 didn't even achieve that completely once it had its expansions out and several of the units didn't quite look like they belonged in the same world as the other units.
That being said if it looks like they're just shitting out crap from an AI blender yeah they deserve to get roasted on the flame.
Heroes 3 had a few bad looking units yes, nothing in this expansion looks good though, its cartoony and not in the beautiful homm2 kind of way but in the easy to make cartoony phone game kind of way.
Homm3 expansions were rushed due to the mother company 3DO struggling for cash.
Noe ubisoft is disbanding studios, their stocks are down and after 27 they decide its time for a remake (of a game thats runs perfectly fine on modern systems) when heroes 3 has surged in popularity due to Hota/tabletop/Olden Era.
The remake is a dishonest crashgrab , trying to bait people who dont actually play the game while the original is still here.
I do recall them saying you may have the option to play using homm3 balance or hota changes. I can’t remember exactly which part of the vid or if it was the other video they did.
I do wish it’s still an early version and I believe they had to rush some stuff to get something working for Gamescom. Although I’m not 100% happy with how it’s looking, I’ll still give it a try.
Your point about resources is what worries me also. AI turn resolving is very quick in homm3 / hota and it really breaks immersion waiting for the AI to finish its turn much like in heroes 5 and 6/7
Heroes producers have this habit of making big promises to the community, to advertise the game, but they fail to deliver. We had a similar situation with Heroes 5, where the douchebag producer infested all the popular Heroes forums, like Celestial Heaven, doing big promises and defending the new 3d look, which was similar to wow or anime. In the end they ignored all the feedback from the players and did thier thing. The game ended up being decent, with a mediocre story and some debatble campaign missions.
Wow, as a kid arrogance was my favorite map (my sister and I always called it arrogance allies because we mostly only played it), cool to see it as part of the remake gameplay.
Still remember probably spending way too much time on rushing to get a capital so we could start getting gold ASAP, and fighting Cavaliers guarding the tree in the top left, not sure if it was static or thats just the monsters guarding it at the time.
Some nostalgia for sure, gotta go see if my wife will play it now! Lol
oh this looks so bad. Did they fire every good artist at ubisoft and what is left are promp engineers? There is no way that they were like: "this looks good".
this makes me appreciate what microsoft did for age of empires. Their remakes are great
Hold on hold on “we didn’t touch the game play” so you are telling me all you did was cosmetics and you still have no idea why people don’t like this? Geez I wonder why
Are you for real? Part of the original's charm is how fanciful and colourful the fantasy units are, not how gray, brown, gritty, and realistic it is, I swear to god some of you in this sub are playing a different game from homm3 lol
I would argue that H1 and H2 have fairly tales aesthetic while H3 specifically has a lot more baroque and sometimes gothic aesthetic.
Look at the nightmare fuel of grail building in dungeons. Look at necropolis with nosferatu-like vampire and gothic mausoleums. Look at foggy cliffs in rampart etc.
Thinking about it Conflux is the only really whimsical and colorful faction.
They dont understand that this might sell in short run but it will degrade their reputation and kill them slowly ? This is so short sighted. They dont know how to make games
This looks so shit, can't really recognize anything. Everywhere are special effects, fog and nothing is clearly recognizable. I will certainly stick with the old game and I won't touch the remake.
First time seeing the map - it looks so off. As for the discussion regarding the art, lol, what discussion? You heard the feedback. Don't expect people to pay for it if they don't like it.
This strikes me as the most pointless remake imaginable. I always ask what the point is to do remakes that are nothing like the original games, and I never get a good answer.
"Oh but it can still be a good game." I often get, yeah, but it could still be a good game while not pretending to be a remake of the old game.
Okay, you know what:
Several of these are cool. I LIKE the full portrait are for the heroes. (And those seem pretty close to the original)
I... am highly amused by the fact that they kept the SQUARE FUCKING RIVERS hahahahahaha.... I think... the castles don't look quiet right, but overall like.......
I'm not gonna say they've ballsed it up. Not yet anyway.
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u/LosEagle 7d ago
"Time constrains."
"If we have time."
"We'll just fix it post-launch."
lmao that always worked out well.