Heroes on TV: X-Play Review

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 24 Oct 2006, 00:59

Thanks to ambivalentvince in the official forum who links to the <a href="/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAjiAk1HKsc">X-Play review of Heroes of Might and Magic V</a>, which originally aired in June. The game received a rating of 3 out of 5 from the lovely Morgan Webb:

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I will confess that the fart noises that were added to the cutscenes made me giggle like a little girl. It just seemed... appropriate, for some strange reason.

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
https://www.celestialheavens.com/1161651557

atma6 · Unread postby **atma6** » 24 Oct 2006, 01:11

I have to say I've never watched that show, and I'm very very glad about that. Yes we'll point out the most minor problems, but we'll spend a lot of time calling the color scheme a gay pride parade and making fart noises.

Really, they complained about the loadtimes, and their example loaded in about 2 seconds.

kingcranium14 · Unread postby **kingcranium14** » 24 Oct 2006, 02:37

That was terrible! They complain about the littlest things! Who cares about leprechauns or if the devil looks slightly like a balrog? - which it doesn't! That was the stupidest review I've ever watched and I'll never watch that show again.

Kilop · Unread postby **Kilop** » 24 Oct 2006, 03:24

well it is tv review, it is not meant to be exhaustive, rather pertinent and funny which is was .. or almost

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 24 Oct 2006, 07:30

That was...silly.And really shallow.Obviously they had never played heroes before.Impressed by a leprechaun?Talk about ripoffs?Bored to death?Wow flying griffins!Yay!

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 24 Oct 2006, 07:45

Most of you don't watch X-Play much huh? They do this to every game they review, even if they give it a 5 out of 5. Morgan and Adam are more like game satirest then game reviewers..though they do review games. Oh and they don't give rpg's ect much of a score anytime. Anyhow, don't take a lot of what they say seriously.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 24 Oct 2006, 08:25

Kilop wrote:well it is tv review, it is not meant to be exhaustive, rather pertinent and funny which is was .. or almost

Thats so not true.Some of the best reviewes Ive seen were TV revies here.Brief but good.And I must admit they did hit the right spot with that might-magic quarel.First time I watched it I thought it was the original heroes dialogue

Oh,and wider variety of creatures?

Compared to HI maybe.Wow!30 main missions!Outstanding

jerseys · Unread postby **jerseys** » 24 Oct 2006, 12:17

this review is retarded. It's like so many others, they decided they won't like it and TRY to find a reason afterwards.

They say that that voice acting is horrible. Helo? Do you even remember cut scenes from previous games? Also saying that HOMM needs good voice acting in cut-scenes is like saying a good shooter or fighter needs a complicated plot. Yeah, doom sucked because it had contrived plot.

They also say that the load times are awful. You see them only once per game and they are not awful. They are like 6 seconds max. Maybe they need to play h3 again to see that it had longer load times, even on current machines.

After saying those 2 minor things they conclude: "yeah, if the makers fixed those (what, 2?) mistakes, it'd be a must buy". I hope they die in a car accident.

It's like everyone has an axe to grind on ubival, especially the val part. I understand that someone might not like the game, but more then a half of bad things people say about this game are simply not true. Maybe really try to experiance the game and only THEN make a judgement.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 24 Oct 2006, 12:32

jerseys wrote: They say that that voice acting is horrible. Helo? Do you even remember cut scenes from previous games?

The lack of cutscenes in previous parts is no excuse to have horrible cutscenes now.And they are horible.Ive seen cutscenes with no-lip-moving-big-handed-rough-edged characters years ago in EE.And those had great voice acting and excelent story in them.

jerseys wrote: Also saying that HOMM needs good voice acting in cut-scenes is like saying a good shooter or fighter needs a complicated plot. Yeah, doom sucked because it had contrived plot.

Yes,HOMM doesnt need cutscenes.They were put there just because shiny=good policy,which is a bad thing.

jerseys wrote: They also say that the load times are awful. You see them only once per game and they are not awful. They are like 6 seconds max. Maybe they need to play h3 again to see that it had longer load times, even on current machines.

Really?What about town load and battle load times?Those can be pretty long at times,and you see them very often.And the "quick" save lasting 10 seconds with 1GB RAM is too much.

Oh,and I think its you that need to play HIII more because loading is instantenious there.

jerseys wrote: It's like everyone has an axe to grind on ubival, especially the val part. I understand that someone might not like the game, but more then a half of bad things people say about this game are simply not true. Maybe really try to experiance the game and only THEN make a judgement.

Yes,the game has no bugs,yes the game has an excelent multiplayer,excelent support from the devs,more things than HIII,and all the good things from HIV.I really see no reason why anyone wouldnt like it.Especially because it is shiny.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 24 Oct 2006, 13:52

jerseys wrote: They say that that voice acting is horrible. Helo? Do you even remember cut scenes from previous games?

Yup, they we're between the missions. And Chaterine never sounded retarded enough to make me want to kill her. Neither did the narator in H2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutscene

eLric · Unread postby **eLric** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:27

I thought the review was pretty funny, and overall fairly positive.

On a side note, if your 'quicksaves' are taking 10 seconds plus it is because you have too many saved games. Clear up the old clutter from campaigns you have finished and you'll find your save times are fast again (the game loads a thumbnail for every save you have, every time you save...). Clearing out my old saves even made the main page animation stop chugging my system when I went to load a game.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:53

Yes,I know that.It starts rather fast(2 seconds),but ends up being ~10 seconds sometimes.I do the cleaning when I finish playing,but the effects are eing seen during the game,especially for autosaves.

atma6 · Unread postby **atma6** » 24 Oct 2006, 17:26

I agree that there are a lot of problems, but I couldn't believe that they spent the whole time on the leprechon and on fart jokes, then they say the game was alost a must buy, but the very minor issues they mentioned stopped it from being good. Its great to be a satirist, but don't pretend like you're reviewing a game.

addicted · Unread postby **addicted** » 24 Oct 2006, 17:30

Where's everyone's sense of humor!!!

Thanx Angelspit, I've never heard of this place let alone see this review so thanx for sharing this with us. I personally got a big kick out of it and I busted out loud laughing with the farts!!!

It does the soul good to laugh...

Red Guy · Unread postby **Red Guy** » 25 Oct 2006, 00:14

Fart jokes pfff. Next time make those green guys fight it out like in the Jerry Springer show Americans...

Wildbear · Unread postby **Wildbear** » 25 Oct 2006, 00:22

I've got a sense of humor huge and wide open and... well, fart jokes just aren't my cup of tea. Even though some heroes fan have fun with H5 I don't think this is the kind of humor most people here would laugh at (see the subtle link between the first and second parts of this sentence

), excepted maybe for over-stressed ones. (comme on dit dans ma douce langue natale, pète un coup, ça ira mieux).

Anyway, reviews are rarely good, whatever the game, and whatever the reviewer's opinion about the game he's reviewing. A real in-depth review of a game should be several pages long and detail everything. The few minutes granted to the review here are barely enough to tell the title, show a few pics and make a few jokes, so people shouldn't take it seriously. I'm just surprised they dare rating it, any serious reviewer should refuse to give one for such a short review.

Shauku · Unread postby **Shauku** » 25 Oct 2006, 00:41

What TT said:D Made me laugh more than the "jokes" in the review.

Cleanpea · Unread postby **Cleanpea** » 25 Oct 2006, 04:15

The first fart:not funny. The second, third, THE FIFTH FART! I couldn't help myself... HAHAAH!

gravyluvr · Unread postby **gravyluvr** » 25 Oct 2006, 16:41

For those players who are still new to the series and havn't learned to laugh at it... my heart goes out to you. It can be a life changer. For those of us who have been playing for years and have started taking it less seriously, my fart goes out to you!

Derek · Unread postby **Derek** » 26 Oct 2006, 01:24

X-Play is representative of the low nature of gaming journalism, it really is no shock of their foolishness. Truthfully, does anyone know of a good reviewing site for games?

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