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Thread: Hi everybody
Arbaces
Arbaces

Tavern Dweller
Marcus Arbaces Alexandros I
posted September 23, 2006 03:21 PM

Hi everybody

Hi

I've registered a new account since I couldn't find any clue how my username or password or email looked three years ago when I was registered here as well.

In the mean time though I will forever love Heroes of Might and Magic I have started to love the Total War engine more (from Rome - Total War or the upcoming Medieval Total War II ). And I belive it's even a more moddable engine then the one of Heroes 5 which... It's sad to say... was a total dissapointment. I couldn't find anything to like.

Now my childhood memories have came back and I found on web a lot of stuff related to the main story of Heroes of M&M and M&M. I started to seriously think of a mod for the upcoming Medieval Total war 2 which would revive this story starting from the Restoration of Erathia. Those who don't know what am I talking about should search for screenshots on this. Just imagine having thousands of orcs and most of the creatures on a battlefield as 3d high-detail models. Actually I was expecting half of this from a new H5 engine which actually is the same Heroes engine but with a crappy commercial 3d gfx.

Arbaces.
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zatoichi
zatoichi


Adventuring Hero
posted September 23, 2006 03:54 PM

Hi Arbaces.
Respect to Total War series, but Heroes were never about graphic engine. The fact that they had and still have nice graphics is just a bonus.
I'd say that gameplay and strategic thinking first, everything else later is a key for Heroes series success. I also believe that Total War falls a little short when it comes to gameplay. Still a great game though. One of my biggest gripes with HOMM4 was ruined strategic aspect of scouting and exploring, which was made absolutely free by 1 creature army. What would you want anyway with thousands of orcs as 3d high-detail models on a battlefield?
Another RTS? I am still furious about Ubisoft attempt to make HoMM5 another RTS, so if that is the idea behind your thoughts can I add you to that "hate thread for everyone"
What's your gripe with Heroes gfx engine? Not being published under GNU

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Arbaces
Arbaces

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Marcus Arbaces Alexandros I
posted September 23, 2006 04:13 PM

My gripe is with Homm5's gfx not with Heroes 4 or 3.

Yeah.. the gameplay was no match for Heroes III in Rome TW. Happily in the next Total War release which is expected in november they want to add America in... and this means unexplored land . Many of the Rome Total War mods (countless they are...) haved improved the gameplay by adding new strategic options, new means of recruitment (faster recruitment for example, almost like Heroes). The game is Turn Based like Heroes is, otherwise I wouldn't had liked it (1 turn=6 months but this can be modded). True, the battles are RTS-looking but not quite like Warcraft or AOE. And.. forgot to mention... I like that there are scripts which can be made, for purposes like, let's say... spells.

Just a thought... if I'll really want to materialize it it would take somewhere around 3 or 4 years .

I've heard new types of castles and races were added on WOG?? (Bastion, etc). Is there any downloadable release of something like this?

Arbaces.


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zatoichi
zatoichi


Adventuring Hero
posted September 23, 2006 04:36 PM
Edited by zatoichi at 16:42, 23 Sep 2006.

I really liked that Total Realism mod for Rome TW. What are your favorite mods? I believe also that aspect of recruiting was somewhat problematic in TW. It was not very realistic to have endless supply of heavy cavalry in some god forbidden mountain village. Or did they adress that problem? AI at tactical level was not that good, but hey that's a standard these days. I can't remember a single game with good AI. Still I could cope with such a situation in TW. AI was not that bad in TW, and at least I can't remember it cheating on production scale. HOMM5 OTOH ... bah, there is another thread for that.

I really don't know much about WOG, because I wasn't in a gaming world when it got out, but I heard that it's a nice expansion with some interesting new features. As to about downloadable release, I also don't know, but I bet you can manage it on your own

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Arbaces
Arbaces

Tavern Dweller
Marcus Arbaces Alexandros I
posted September 24, 2006 05:00 PM

Now this is quite crappish and leads me to spamming
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Your post count is insufficient to make another new thread. You need to make a few more posts (reply to other threads) before you can start a new thread. The ratio is 1 thread per 5 posts, to avoid forum flooding. Don't forget to use the search function and to browse through the forum to check if a thread of similar topic is already made.


Also I can't add an avatar. Also I'm dissapointed by such a low activity. Isn't there any better community for Heroes? This seems to be the biggest one and the oldest so I won't bother searching.

To sum up.

I was up to opening a topic on the modding workshop asking if there are any ongoing modding projects for HoMM 5. I'm decided to give H5 another chance though it proved to be a total crap story line. I wonder if I can use the models from here on the TW engine... .

Arbaces.
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