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UnkaHaakon
Responsible
Famous Hero
happily tilting at windmills
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posted April 11, 2002 10:48 AM |
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I got my one wish about Heroes IV!
A while ago, I posted on the Altar that I was really hoping that some of the little bits of humor that made Heroes 2 so fun and seemed sadly missing in Heroes 3 would be brought back. So, having messed around a bit with all the alignments, I'm happy to say, the grin factor is back. Just as a few examples:
The monks with their Monty Python bit
The sorceress removing her wig
The little dance satyrs do to move
The 'stun' effect from squires ( a circle of stars and little birdie noises)
Leprechauns disappearing into their hats when they die, and walking like they have a severe chafing problem.
Vampires 'blah' again
The way trolls scurry forward ...
All in all, I spend a lot of time grinning. Now, if I could just stop hitting the 'defend' button when I really wanted to cast a spell ....
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Pure_Chaos
Bad-mannered
Known Hero
Destroyer of Morons
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posted April 11, 2002 12:20 PM |
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LOL
Its always small things that make a person love a certain game 
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ursula
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 11, 2002 04:01 PM |
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And dont forget
The crusaders with there big sword,
but walks like a wuss who needs to go to the bathroom realy bad.
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Follow me said the wise man, and walked behind.
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Slava14
Promising
Famous Hero
I am 16 now....
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posted April 11, 2002 06:46 PM |
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Naaah! You're all wrong!
The one that REALLY needs to bathroom would be... Pikeman!
If you see him walking from the back you'll notice that he's either ready to ...... right in his pants ( ), or the pike is much too heavy for this guy.
BTW, talking about funny stuff - Be sure to read the Artifact messages, some are really good
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I'm always happy to help.. unless I'm helping myself.
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promenad
Hired Hero
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posted April 11, 2002 08:43 PM |
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Heh, I always considered those things as crappy design/animation. Never thought of it as crappy humor. I do like the 'Blah' though.
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FuriousGeorge
Hired Hero
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posted April 12, 2002 08:18 AM |
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If you read the interview on Gamespot with all the really awful jokes, you'd realize it's all bad humor.
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Pootie_Tang
Tavern Dweller
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posted April 12, 2002 05:16 PM |
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Blah!! My friends and I have used that saying ever since we started playing HOMM2. It's the funniest thing when a buddy will call up and go "Blah" and I will go "Hey dude, come on over". Or when the chick at McDonalds asks if you want fries with your burger and you do the vampiric "Blah" in the drive-thru speaker. Heheehehee
Until next we meet....... Blah!
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Lord_Woock
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Daddy Cool with a $90 smile
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posted April 12, 2002 06:55 PM |
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Quote:
BTW, talking about funny stuff - Be sure to read the Artifact messages, some are really good
In HoMM2 when you picked some sort of flail up (I think it was the giant flail of dominion), you'd get to know that a clumsy giant killed himself with it.
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Yolk and God bless.
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My buddy's doing a webcomic and would certainly appreciate it if you checked it out!
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Slava14
Promising
Famous Hero
I am 16 now....
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posted April 12, 2002 09:33 PM |
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Some more funny stuff:
The "Cowardice" spell - a chicken
As I said the arts messages are good, i.e.:
(I don't remember exactly)
Vial of Acid - they say to you that some poor guy marked his Vial of Acid as a Potion of Healing.. and... drank it.. so you found another "Potion of Healing" in his back pack, but marked it right..
You know... it's better the way they tell it..
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I'm always happy to help.. unless I'm helping myself.
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DonGio
Promising
Famous Hero
of Clear Water Mountain Clan
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posted April 13, 2002 02:37 AM |
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But now, the vamps "blah" when they are attacked, not when they are attacking... at least mine do(n't)...
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There are 10 types of people: Those who read binary, and those who don't.
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Jenova
Famous Hero
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posted April 13, 2002 05:09 PM |
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I enjoyed the Sorceress removing her wig also.. It took me by surprise.. I was like on the floor. 
H3 did lack some of these touches of humor.
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Pootie_Tang
Tavern Dweller
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posted April 17, 2002 04:31 PM |
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bump....
Or how about when the Ice Demons get hit, they shake thier heads really fast from side to side as if they just shrugged off the blow.
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I'm gonna sign yo pity on da ruhny khine!! Thwack!!
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Jenova
Famous Hero
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posted April 18, 2002 10:37 AM |
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Also funny is the way the female order Mage hero attacks in melee.. She does a spinning kick. The female druid hero does a matrix style kick (the one trinity does). The archer disappointingly just whacks the enemy with his bow (it's not a melee weapon genius).
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DonGio
Promising
Famous Hero
of Clear Water Mountain Clan
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posted April 18, 2002 11:07 AM |
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I guess I like it when ghosts laugh that shrill laugh when you attack them...
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There are 10 types of people: Those who read binary, and those who don't.
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UnkaHaakon
Responsible
Famous Hero
happily tilting at windmills
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posted April 18, 2002 03:58 PM |
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A few more things that keep me grinning:
Watch the male Order Mage sometime ... or the Sorceror primping his mohawk
The Red Dwarf Mines: obviously somebody at NWC watches a certain BBC program
One of the maps has a whole little village set up in it, including a couple of inaccessible stacks of Nightmares ... so that there are 'horses' running around in the paddock
Sprites do a little flip when they're waiting
Skeletons keep losing their swords
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Jenova
Famous Hero
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posted April 18, 2002 04:56 PM |
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The Red Dwarf Mines: obviously somebody at NWC watches a certain BBC program
No.. Have you played an old game called Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen? Well early on in the game, there was a location you had to go to for questing called the Red Dwarf Range. And the mines you had to go into to kill the Dwarf King was called the 'Red Dwarf Mines'. That is where they got the name from, not some BBC TV show. M&M4 is much older than any BBC series.
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Hexa
Responsible
Legendary Hero
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posted April 18, 2002 08:51 PM |
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Yeah the Ogre Mages seem to scratch their backs every now and then ... just noticed it when I saw Romana playing on the other comp!@
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If you want to realize your dreams >>> you have to wake up!@
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pleuris
Promising
Known Hero
Look ma! No hair!
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posted April 19, 2002 10:43 AM |
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How about the hero Christian?
He seems to have visited a fountain of youth or something ;-)
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Columbus
Hired Hero
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posted April 19, 2002 01:37 PM |
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M&M4 is much older than any BBC series.
BBC started in the 1930s. PCs weren't even around then. Nor, clearly, were you ;-)
The series in question is from the 1980s I believe, but it's named for a type of star so NWC might have named it after either
Anyway, enough history ;-)
I like the mermaids
You go into a fight
"Right get em lads, that's it, wait! what are you doing, not them, those fishy women, stop stop, I'm your beloved commander, you can't do this to me, Noooooooooooo!!!!!"
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I got wiped out by them at the start of the Chaos campaign :-)
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Jenova
Famous Hero
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posted April 19, 2002 03:36 PM |
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No, I'm pretty certain NWC didn't name it after a TV series. If anything, the name was purely coincidental. Red Dwarf they used in M&M series. If they got the idea from anywhere, it's from that.
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