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

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• Yamanashi@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Its a Ubisoft game… What’s the catch?

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yes.

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  • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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 ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The day they start charging for playing a demo…

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• brap@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• dtrain@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s fun new version. Fresh but familiar.

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• hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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