Any Heroes of Might and Magic players? - II, III, or V

[Sack of Jawea]

So I have put in 100+ hours of play into Heroes of Might and Magic V within the span of a week completing all of the campaigns (on Steam) . I'm now going back to II and III which I have on GOG, though the campaigns are a little lackluster. I don't find much fun playing against a computer so I was thinking it'd be fun to play against some of you tards.

 

[Dark Edea]

III is the best one. Very enjoyable game.

The newer one was also surprisingly okay.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

III is the best, II is good but broken as fuck, IV is ok but still broken, V is a copy of III w/o flavor text.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Don't play the campaign, download a pack with 10,000 maps for HoMaM 3 and chip away at it like solitaire.

Age of Wonders 2 is really good, fun in multiplayer as well.

edit: Master of Orion 2, play that one. Not exactly the same but it's cut from the same cloth.

 

[Ungrim Ironfist]

Voted for III. Me and my cousins spent hundreds of hours around a shitty crt monitor playing the local multiplayer in '99 and 2000. Some of my best gaming moments.

 

[sasazuka]

I wanted to say "III" just because it was one of those PC games that could do digitized speech through a regular PC speaker without a sound card (an impressive feat in the early 1990s when you're used to your PC just delivering beeps and boops for most sounds) but I checked Wikipedia before answering and realized that the Might & Magic III I remember playing is a different game from Heroes of Might and Magic III.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

>tfw the game generates shooter stacks near every mine in your starting city

 

[Kill a Troon for Pikamee]

I'm a Slav, Heroes 3 and CS 1.6 is my racial heritage

 

[Lemmingwise]

The best is the real original, king's bounty

King's Bounty

Remember King's Bounty, an old video game from 1990? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware.

www.myabandonware.com

It's impressive how many iterations of the same game mechanics have been made. (Yes same publisher and developer)

Archers shooting zombies since forever

Riding boats to wherever

Paying skeletons money to fight is an idiosyncracy

As is meaningless roadsigns and turning treasures into xp

Trying to decypher how many few or zounds is without fail

Collecting a map where to dig for the scepter or grail

 

[TyrasGuard]

The best is the real original, king's bounty

King's Bounty

Remember King's Bounty, an old video game from 1990? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware.

www.myabandonware.com

It's impressive how many iterations of the same game mechanics have been made. (Yes same publisher and developer)

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Too bad the strategy at the end becomes "just find the cave where you can hire dragons and camp that" plus you can fly around the map and collect anything you missed that way.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Too bad the strategy at the end becomes "just find the cave where you can hire dragons and camp that" plus you can fly around the map and collect anything you missed that way.

That's funny. That's not how you spell "A complex logistics simulator of truckdriver heroes to move troops around instantly while trying to develop the neo-industrial magic revolution of dimension door"

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Checking in as one of the 3 people on the planet who actually likes HOMM4.

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

Does age of wonders count?

 

[Babs Dixon II]

Played the first, can't remember much about it. III was good. Just bought V in a fit of nostalgia

 

[Radical Cadre]

The best is the real original, king's bounty

King's Bounty

Remember King's Bounty, an old video game from 1990? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware.

www.myabandonware.com

It's impressive how many iterations of the same game mechanics have been made. (Yes same publisher and developer)

Archers shooting zombies since forever
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Riding boats to wherever
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Paying skeletons money to fight is an idiosyncracy
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As is meaningless roadsigns and turning treasures into xp
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Trying to decypher how many few or zounds is without fail
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Collecting a map where to dig for the scepter or grail
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Run a RP.

Torpedo your life and become on with the forum. For us.

SACRIFICE YOURSELF FOR US.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I have III and V installed on my laptop right now. They’re usually my go to games to pass time for short periods. Yeah I’m a fan

 

[Considered HARMful]

III is the best, II is good but broken as fuck, IV is ok but still broken, V is a copy of III w/o flavor text.

I played mostly II, III had only demo version of. I was a smol boi then and wasn't aware of "brokenness" in II. Could you elaborate more on what you mean by broken?

 

[Lemmingwise]

I played mostly II, III had only demo version of. I was a smol boi then and wasn't aware of "brokenness" in II. Could you elaborate more on what you mean by broken?

1 ghost = win.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Genies are also broken but not as much as ghosts lol, and warlock is the best faction since magic is op and black dragons are immune to it.

 

[Spunt]

I played the shit out of III back in the day. Many years later I checked out VI because it was like $1 on Steam and holy shit it was terrible. The good news about VI is that it will probably crash before you get to experience much of how bad it is (or the mouse cursor will just disappear, that's a fun one).

If you want a modern HoMM experience, the closest I've found is Age of Wonders III. Every now and again I boot it up and play nothing else for weeks, it's addictive as fuck. Not as sophisticated an economy system than HoMM, but a much better battle system and a huge variety of races, heroes, creatures and spells. The campaigns are surprisingly decent for this sort of game, especially in the modern era. Gigantic replay value.