Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For those unaware, there is also Heroes of Science and Fiction, which is essentially homm 3 with a fresh scifi coat of paint and lots of qol stuff. It’s in early access but man it catches the vibe so well.

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You gotta share the link: …steampowered.com/…/Heroes_of_Science_and_Fiction…

    Oh man it looks great

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    • sirboozebum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I got it on Steam on sale.

      It’s great fun.

      Totally recommend.

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  • PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Songs of Conquest is another one of the same genre.

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    • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can confirm. SoC is great. For a slightly different spin (auto battler) there’s also Hero hour

      We’re in a rare run of good form where there are currently multiple gear Homm2/3 clones/spiritual successors that are all great in their own way.

      To top it off, og Homm3 still gets decent “updates” in the form of high quality mods that are still being worked on.

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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh shit. Free demo too. I’ll see if it has the same magic for my kid that it did for me

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  • Minnels@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The day they start charging for playing a demo…

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Zone of the Enders series is most remembered for ZoE1 being the game everyone bought to play the MGS2 demo.

      And the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games on the PS1 tended to have the demo for the latest of the other unlocked with a button sequence on the main menu.

      I want to say Final Fantasy also did that nonsense with one or more of their numbered installments?

      And all of that forgets that, in the days prior to the internet (or, the internet arriving on consoles), it was very popular to subscribe to a magazine to get a monthly demo disc.

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    • OrgunDonor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, not advertised as a demo but any beta you get access to as a preorder bonus and it is close to release, I consider more of a paid demo. Has become less common now though.

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was randomly up at 4, shouldn’t have been on my phone at all. Word salad.

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, not a remake, but a throwback. The thing that really stood out to me was how bland the music was though. The HoMM series has such incredible music in every entry (maybe not in 6, haven’t played it), but these songs sound super generic. Still, the games are great and it’s awesome there’s a new entry.

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  • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree that there is something bland about the aesthetics of the game. From a distance (or in a thumbnail), it looks very good and faithful to the art style of the original games, just with some extra bells and whistles. However, upon closer examination there is something about the design language which feels like I’m looking at a mobile game ad. It could be that I associate HoMM with a hyper specific micro genre of fantasy art. My views are very HoMM 2 coded, and that game feels its art was ripped from the book jackets of Del Rey and Tor published paperbacks circa 1987. I love the look, especially the hero portraits.

    So, this new look doesn’t really do anything for me. I’m not knowledgeable enough to suggest that AI was used to design some of these assets, but that’s the impression the art gives me, which I’m sure was not their intent.

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So many incredible memories with that game! My friend and I used to play really long hot seat games culminating in a big battle at the end. So much fun.

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• Yamanashi@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its a Ubisoft game… What’s the catch?

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  • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But, it’s not? Unless you’re aware of something I’m not, this game is published by Hooded Horse, and developed by Team Unfrozen.

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    • Yamanashi@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well I feel stupid. I’m pretty oblivious to homm and don’t really follow it. My bad for not looking too deep into it. Reason I assumed it was a Ubisoft game is because I saw somewhere on YouTube Ubisoft promoting the 30th anniversary. And Ubisoft is the current IP holder of homm. I never in my life thought Ubisoft would license out an IP they own to a non Ubisoft team.

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  • vane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They changed only 2 days ago before release so people no boycott it. Probably Hooded Horse is just middle man. Image

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes.

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  • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure they did that with all Homm games? Their first, HommV was done by nival interactive.

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    • Yamanashi@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The homm IP I’m pretty sure was acquired. Yeah Ubisoft didn’t make homm, but they bought the IP long ago

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I realize when you search Steam there’s a lot of successful iterations of the classic Fire Emblem formula. Makes me wonder if any teams have done the same for HOMM3. I remember there was the fanmade expansion for it, it seems viable to invent a story/system from scratch.

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• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is also Hero’s Hour, a fresh(relatively) indie take on the HoMM series. One major difference that might be polarising is that every unit is displayed rather than being a single stack, and combat happens live rather than in turns. But you can set it super slow and pause too if need be.

  I generally hate RTS, but I really enjoyed it. It’s got a fair bit of content. And so many factions that are all quite different from each other.

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I loved Hero’s Hour, mostly because of it was built using Game Maker Studio, that scrappy drag and drop game making tool.

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• silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eh…Homm2 was better.

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• SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  looks mobile, is done by a russian company that only did a copy of darkest dungeon

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man I really used to like HOMM3 back in the day, but the gameplay is just so dated right now.

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  • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dude, the gameplay, especially with HotA aged very well.

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As someone who’s has hundreds of hours on this and many 4x that came after it, agree to disagree

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• brap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No way! I loved II and III when I was at school. Absolutely giving this a blast tonight.

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• dtrain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s fun new version. Fresh but familiar.

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• hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Been waiting for this to release for a while now. I am occasionally still playing Homm3 Complete and have tried Songs of Conquest , which is a decent newer alternative, but I don’t think it comes close to Homm.

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Had the same experience with Songs of Conquest. Beautiful game, but something felt off that I can’t put my finger on. The game felt really snowball-y, where your chances to win depend strongly on what resources you control early on, and the magic system (while interesting) felt really imbalanced. Nothing really managed to recreate the HoMM feeling for me.

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a dream come true. I just need someone to do this for Alpha Centauri and I can die happy.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I never really got into Heroes of Might and Magic. Somehow the kind of strategy this is never really captured me.

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember spending a very long time trying to download a demo of that game over dialup, was absolutely worth it

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