As an old timer i must admit to never playing any of the HoMM range, however i have liked what i have seen on the web and i am looking to purchase one of the games to try for myself.
To that end i am asking the members of these forums which version i should purchase? Is number one still far better than five? I need your advise as i have no idea myself.
Many thanks.
The Watcher
Luckily it was this one i ordered and all i can say is wow! The graphics are soo much better than version 3
BTW i cant seem to find how to purchase additional heroes? Plus is there no city construction in version 5?
The UI is shit, it's all in there.
For new heroes you need ... a tavern And there is city construction !!!
A question...
I purchased the Tribes of the East version but there does not seem to be that many senarios etc in there, should i purchase the vanilla version as well or maybe just get any additional expansions?
I never touched 4 and 5 so I can't testify, but I loved 3.
I should probably DL the 3.5 mod and give it another shot after I played through Wizardry 6 again (which would be by tonight *grin*).
Yes I'm becoming quite a bit of an retro player lately.
Concerning Age of Wonders 2:
I tried to get an english copy of Shadow Magic for ages - to no avail.
Go to that site : http://www.heroes-fr.com/pages/campagnes_originales.php
I'm sorry, it's in french but i'll try to explain to you what you need.
Just download
campaign data, textes anglais, voix des scènes de dialogue --> anglais.
Put all those files in your UserMods folder. Then you'll be able to play all campaigns.
There isn't a lot of maps in ToTE, but you can find a lot on internet
When you go into the custom scenario selection screen, be sure to check, on top, the show multiplayer maps option. If you do so, a lot of other maps will then appear, and if you download gamer created multiplayer maps from the Internet, they will appear in the list, if you have checked the option to show them in the list. There are a lot of interesting maps available on the Internet.
http://www.celestialheavens.com
A useful HOMM website. You can find campaigns and such. I'd recommend the unofficial manual and the skill wheel.
By the way, many of the campaign scenarios don't feature city building, even though that is still a major part of the game, so that might be where you're confused. I'd still recommend getting all three parts if you can.
Now this one caught my interest. How are the later Wizardries? I played 1-3 as a kid, and later Return of Werdna (is that 4?). Didn't really touch Cosmic Forge. I think I got stuck on some puzzle pieces and just stopped playing at some point.
Thanks..
How about " Animations pour les cutscenes (271Mb)"?
You can take those (in english ). It's "animations for cutscenes". Just put them on UserMods
In your Heroes of Might and Magic V - Tribes of the East installation folder, be sure to create a folder named Maps (next to the Music folder) : all downloaded maps that are not campaigns must be placed there to show up in the "show multiplayer maps" list, in the scenario selection screen.
The Maps folder might not have been created when installing the game : create it yourself.
If you use the HM&M 5 editor, you may easily open & edit maps that are located in that specific Maps folder.
The info contained in the Editor\H5MMods can be ignored.
The map-files (with a .h5m extension) located in the Maps folder represent the crucial data to load & edit maps & scenarios that did not come with the game's installation.
vieuxchat, Thanks for the links it is just what i was after. Loads of new campaigns to play now
Well, I can't really tell in comparison to the earlier games, since I only played 6 to 8, but those I really liked.
Have to admit though that although the graphics in 7 and 8 are considerably better, I liked Cosmic Forge best. But this is mainly due to me being a big fan of greek mythology and Ninjas which this one featured to a certain extent.
The puzzles can be really difficult and somewhat annoying though. Especially finding some specific places you need to go to , because there are hardly any hints.
Sylvius (a forum member I happen to know) stated that Wiz 5 was pretty much ground breaking because it put you in the place of the big bad guy trying to break free from his prison dungeon. I'd like to try this one some time too.
I would caution you that it is only being honest that you only use the campagns from the earlier parts of H5 in ToTE if you own them, since otherwise you are not paying for that work. Just my opinion. Also the Enlish site I linked to has everythign the French site has, in English.
I didn't know about the english site.. because I'm french. I just gave the informations I had. And if the first campaigns were a problem for the devs they would have already made a move against it, no? I think that playing the first two campaigns are a good thing for the franchise.
A thing about the three campaigns :
The first is more like a big tutorial. It's well done but the scenario is a bit .. weird, and the characters are a bit flat.
But the second and third campaigns are really really good. But they follow the first. So I recommend to do it even if it's the least appealing
I'm sure it's already been said but HOMM 5 was a huge letdown for one major reason - the AI. When I think about it, I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with an AI as with HOMM 5. And what makes it worse is that, outside of this, the game was well made.
I gave it a good 6 months of my time waiting for a patch to fix it but, unfortunately, none appeared to fix the AI. Very disappointing.... sold the game on EBay afterwards.
At the risk of dating myself, I played the Original King's Bounty, and HoMM 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 when they first came out. I have also played the recent King's Bounty remake. I tend to have a somewhat different take than the great masses on what was good and what was not. Having played a lot of wargames over the last 35 years or so, what attracted me to the series was its roleplay elements. For this reason I tended to rank the games more on their campaigns and the customizability of the characters. The campaigns and voice acting/stories in HoMM 4 were some of the best I have ever experienced so HoMM 4 was by far my favorite of the series. If you somehow were playing this series to play a wargame, then HoMM 3 is your game but for me it was the worst of the series for its weak RPG characteristics. The eye candy in HoMM 5 is nice, but I thought it was the least polished of the series from a gameplay perspective. All of the previous titles were very serious works with a lot of depth and thick manuals filled with information to demonstrate their first rate quality. HoMM 5 was a very different, and cheaper animal.
I would like to add that the new King's Bounty is probably better than the entire HoMM series and is extremely polished and benefits from an extreme developer attention to detail. It has a lot of replayability but is one campaign so it doesn't have as much replayability as HoMM 4 with all of its campaigns and scenarios.
Edit: Nevermind.
*cough*
Edit II:
With King's Bounty: The Legend in the mix, I have to throw my vote on it. I never really could get into HoMM5, for a variety of reasons (i.e. 'I suck') - but King's Bounty is an overall great game that I can really recommend, from the extremely detailed enviroments, to the quests, to the character development.
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