HOMM 3 - History
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Not bad it would have been better to look and discuss the whole franchise instead though, but this is not a full documentary on their main channel as a team.
Anyway it's a shame what has become of the IP under Ubisoft.
Anyway it's a shame what has become of the IP under Ubisoft.
Carnifex
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Thank goodness we can enjoy these classics at least, because the current games are an absolute mess.
HoMM 2 & 3 were easily the best of the series. It's been downhill ever since.
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of strategy games.
of strategy games.
SSIGuy
An Islander Returned
Totally agree, but the bar was so high on those, that imo, even the latter games are still mostly decent, and better than a lot of other fantasy turn-based games.
Carnifex
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Just reading those two games highlighted are making me eager to revisit them both again!
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Pretty fun video. I loved HOMM3. Was probably close to being my first PC game ever. At a time when I didn't have my own PC.
Either HOMM3, Diablo 2, NFS1 or Supaplex, if memory serves.
Either HOMM3, Diablo 2, NFS1 or Supaplex, if memory serves.
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I remember HoMM lV being decent, but I thought V felt generic, and I didn't play it long. I don't think I even tried VI.
Probably not coincidence since IV was the last installment developed by New World Computing.
From memory, HoMM II and III are the two I played the most (sometimes drunk - at gatherings!), but I remember HoMM IV being pretty damn good and I probably didn't play as much of it due to over familiarity.
When it all went 3D animated style I found I couldn't really get into it. Can't remember exactly why, but it must have been something beyond the presentation style. Maybe I should give them another go.
When it all went 3D animated style I found I couldn't really get into it. Can't remember exactly why, but it must have been something beyond the presentation style. Maybe I should give them another go.
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I thought HOMM5 was the only decent one after the 3rd one. Plus it was developed by the same devs (at least in name) that developed Evil Islands (Nival Interactive).
I never did manage to get into the 2 other ones.
I never did manage to get into the 2 other ones.
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NFS1 would of been very dated at that point. It came out 5 years earlier. I think you would be talking about NFS2? NFS2 was memorable because I believe it was bundled with the Voodoo2 (along with one of the Tomb Raider games) and the graphics were very nice at the time (1997). I remember thinking at the time that the graphics were so amazing that graphics surely could not get any better than this! Amazing how things change.
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I'm pretty sure it was NFS1, and it was probably a few years later after release. It wasn't on my or my family's PC. It was on a friend's iirc.
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You would be the one to know, I just though you might of been thinking 2 because 2 was so much better than part 1 and how large the release gap was. HOMM3 came out a few years after NFS2
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Probably my most played game from the HOMM series. Such a great game series up until 4. I have not played anything after that.
SSIGuy
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VI is alright; worth trying at a cheap price. VII was a step down from that... but at the right price, and if you're not expecting too much, they can offer some decent fun. Just don't expect anything like 2,3, or 4.
EDIT: Just checked on Steam and I have 195 hours logged for HoMM VI, so it was "good enough" to play for a while.
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I forgot there was a VII. For some reason I had it in my head that VI was the last one.
Yeah 5 and 6 are okay games but the seventh version was a huge disappointment.
After looking them up, I see that V, VI, VII were all done by different developers. It's hard to keep any kind of consistent quality when a series keeps switching hands like that.
I'm surprised VII wasn't better. I thought Limbic did a decent job with M&M X.
I'm surprised VII wasn't better. I thought Limbic did a decent job with M&M X.