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Heroes of Might and Magic III was released on this day 24 years ago
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoStill one of the best turn based games I have played
- ttoinou 4y agoWhat makes this game so good ? The graphics are pixel perfect, no silly 3D and leaves room for imagination. The fantasy universe is unique, mixing all mythomogies into one coherent world. The music is first class epic. Similar game for me is Master Of Orion 2 (MoO II)
- olliej 4y agoRight? Pixel art simply has more detail and quality than any 3d modeling of the era. The 3d rendering in homm4 made the game a significant downgrade (there were no real game changes so the only thing that made a difference were the crappy 3d graphics).
- PetitPrince 4y agoHaving replayed them both a few weeks ago, you are very wrong. Creatures are no longer upgradable in 4 but have alternate path (so its either Dragon Golem OR Titan). You can caravan them to your towns ibstad of relying on mule heroes. Heroes are their own units in the battlefield instead of just being abstract generals that sometime cast spells.
- 988747 4y agoHeroes III purists will count all the things you listed as downgrades :) For me Heroes IV is the favorite game in the series. One piece of trivia that I learned recently about Heroes II Armageddons Blade: there was supposed to be a race based on high tech, which was ditched, because of the fan's outcry: https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_(town) https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_(town) I really wish they included it.
- ilyt 4y agofive kind of "men with some weird weapon instead of arms" doesn't look all that interesting. I think it would have better reaction if it was steampunk instead of outright "random future things in universe of magic"
- 988747 4y agoI think it is just a draft, given more time they could come up with better units. The thing is, Might and Magic RPG series was always merge of both worlds: creatures looked mystical, but you were made aware that the story takes place on some distant planet (and occasionally you visited a spaceship, and shot a blaster). Having Forge faction in Armageddons Blade would be a direct continuation of the plot introduced in Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor, but I think 3DO did not realize that Heroes series created their separate fanbase, not familiar with the RPG games at all...
- ilyt 4y agoI think you hit nail in the head. I didn't knew about any of that until much later and though of HoMM universe as purely fantasy
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- p_l 4y agoUnfortunately it wasn't coherent enough to avoid fan backlash with original plot for Armageddon's Blade, so the setting had to be retconned :-/
- wheelerof4te 4y agoThis game is a all-time classic. It's sheer popularity even after all these years is what cements it as one of the best games of all time. There's a reason why some games, like Morrowind, are still being played more than 20 years after their release.
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- mbajkowski 4y agoThis one is legendary especially in hot seat mode. So many summer hours with cousins were spent playing this, fond memories. Now if I can hook my young ones on this or civilisation, I will fear long airplane flights no more.
- ilyt 4y agoSame with HoMM2&3, I don't think we ever finished the hotseat game but spend countless hours on it regardless
- zabzonk 4y agogod, the time i must have put into this! really great strategy game, with great graphics for the time, and lovely music.
- l72 4y agoI haven't played this in 20+ years, but I can still hear the cha-ching for when you've collected taxes!
- haunter 4y agoDRM free https://www.gog.com/en/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_edition https://www.gog.com/en/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_comp... Should easily work with Wine/Proton
- l72 4y agoThere was a native linux port by Loki. I still have it!
- alexander-wilms 4y agoThere's also an open source engine for HoMM3: https://vcmi.eu/ https://vcmi.eu/
- unixhero 4y agoAnd for Android vcmi
- l72 4y agoI played a lot of this since I found Loki's linux port at a game shop in a mall in Springfield, IL!
- bsaul 4y agoWhy this game isn’t on the ipad is a mystery to me.
- unixhero 4y agoJust get an Android
- theragra 4y agoHoly cow I'm old
- xupybd 4y agoI feel exactly the same reading that Tweet.
- kcindric 4y agoDoes anyone still play this game? Did it stand for the test of time?
- nrclark 4y agoI still play it when I'm looking to kill some time. It's held up pretty well. There's an active modding community, which has produced (and maintains) Heroes 3 HD. Heroes 3 HD is a really cool addition that scales the resolution, offers some balance patches, etc. It also lets you install the fan-made Horn Of The Abyss mod that offers a new faction (Cove), new maps, and some miscellaneous tweaks.
- plorkyeran 4y agoI come back to it occasionally. I'm no longer interested in an extremely slow grindy turn-based game, but it turns out that the game isn't actually all that slowly paced and games taking 12 hours when I was a kid was just because of how I played it. IMO the gameplay never feels dated and it's still a candidate for the best game in the series. Visually it benefits a lot from being at the very end of the 2d era rather than the start of the 3d area. The HD patch makes it work at modern screen resolutions, and as long as you don't mind pixel art it's really quite good looking.
- badpun 4y agoIn Poland, there are tournaments where people compete. Also, I've recently seen someone play it on their laptop while on a train (also in Poland).
- 1123581321 4y agoGreat game. I can still play a couple of the faction themes on the piano. Inferno is the most fun. The combat is prone to over-optimism or shenanigans with fast spells and retreat most of the time, but in a nail-biter it’s satisfying to plan based on the numbers and timing. I wonder if any modding efforts have fixed the ways the tactical AI could be goaded into mistakes.
- GeekyBear 4y agoI keep a Windows 2000 VM on my machine just to occasionally play this. Sadly, the original version of the game with the expansion packs included crashes on Windows 10 and none of the compatibility settings fixed the problem for me.
- IntelMiner 4y agoIt looks like there's a significant community effort around fixing the game https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_III https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_...
- jakub_g 4y agoTIL the provenance of Sir Mullich :)
- ElCapitanMarkla 4y agoI spent hours playing the Windows mobile HMM on my old HTC Apache. I find it crazy that no one has green lit an iOS remake of the series.
- speg 4y agoOn December 10, 2014, Ubisoft announced an HD version of the game. The new version features updated graphics as well as widescreen compatibility and was released on January 29, 2015, for Microsoft Windows, iOS and Android. - https://web.archive.org/web/20141218220541/http://might-and-magic.ubi.com/universe/en-GB/games/all-games/might-and-magic-heroes-3-hd/index.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20141218220541/http://might-and-...
- ElCapitanMarkla 4y agoOh dammit how did I miss that
- patchymcnoodles 4y agoDefinitely one of my all time favorites, but long time ago I played it. But I had countless playing nighty with my undead army.
- unixhero 4y agoI have a dumb question. I tried to get into this on a long intercontinental flight, but couldn't figure it out haha. Anyone have a guide that teaches the basics?