Smoking_Squirrel wrote:I can tell you what has doomed HoMM-5 in one word: 3-D.
HoMM remains strict turn-based. This sets it apart from nearly every other game. So too did 2-D graphics.
We generally think of only good things about 3-D. but what about blurred images? Over-taxed processors? And over-taxing the brains of a game player?
There's also HoMM-4. A game which was never really completed (no AI). Yet what we saw had the best graphics to date in HoMM, plus the most robust game features. Ubi could have finished the incomplete areas, adjusted some game mechanics, then sold it as a new product. It may sound sleezy, but it would have been a great game.
See,thats where you agree with most of us,so dont worry about being booed,since you will most likely get a support from big deal of us(and by us I dont mean just me and my henchmen
).Oh,and I have a good memory about many of the ideas,so ask me and Ill probably find you a link to the thread if it was done before(or you can use the search,it is very good here).
Smoking_Squirrel wrote:
I've always felt that HoMM was played by a special demographic. Not stupid per se, but definitley reflex-challenged (both mental and physical - and I would fit into both categories). We HoMM players do not have fun in real-time games, and we don't want to be reminded of them while we play something else!!
Not true.I love many RTS titles(SC and EE especially),and some FPSs as well.I love both reflex and mind testing games,although I always lean a bit more towards the mind chalenging ones.
Smoking_Squirrel wrote:
So there you have it. That's why HoMM-5 isnt regaining HoMM's lost glory. I never bought H-5 'cause as soon as I saw 3-D, I knew it was doomed. I won't play H4 because I'm sick of bludgeoning a helpless AI. I wont go back to HoMM-3 because H4 has so many improvements. Aaaaaaauugh!
Try equilibris.Though AI is pretty much a moron there too,it does preform much better(I have no idea how they did it,but its not just about rebalancing the units).Oh,and I still play HIII from time to time,even though it lacks much of the HIV options.
Smoking_Squirrel wrote:Oh, and one more thing.
I know that H3's fortress is a really weak town,
and gnolls are by far the worst level-1 unit...
I think inferno is worse,because you can at least rush hydras and you have deadly dragon flies and gorgons in fortress.
PhoenixReborn wrote:
Homm 2 had the best graphics. My opinion.
It had the best graphics style,but as for graphics overal,HIV was better.It had nicer maps and better engine.Although the HV adventure map seems the best too me,it is much poorer the the rest.
chaosgorgon wrote:
i found disliking one comment about that "better to be few than a bunch of ignorant newbies" concept , ohh well was a ton posts ago, so i dont remember who posted such stupidity, but all communyties always needs new blood (yeah im a vampire...), discussions between the same guys turns boring..
Dont forget that we need only true and real fans here
Smoking_Squirrel wrote:
Ha! See pheonix, I keep learning more all the time, without even playing! (Advanced reading and deduction skills embodied in someone with slow mental reflexes like myself
). I already suspected H5 had a weak graphic engine, and TT agrees.
And many others.Check the evolution polls summarized
here to see which sequel has the best looking creatures(oh,and if you are going to vote,post comments only when you have much to say because some devs here dont like one liners
).
Or the opposite.
