I do not know how many years ago, but some years back one of my cousins showed me this PC game he had. It was a turn-based war game slightly along the lines of Civliization, but less ambitious and fantasy-themed. It also had a map editor included.
This game was Heroes of Might and Magic II. Basically I like the whole series, including the kind of sort of wonky PS2 version.
Quote from: khyron1144I do not know how many years ago, but some years back one of my cousins showed me this PC game he had. It was a turn-based war game slightly along the lines of Civliization, but less ambitious and fantasy-themed. It also had a map editor included.
This game was Heroes of Might and Magic II. Basically I like the whole series, including the kind of sort of wonky PS2 version.
Never saw a PS2 version, but I've played and enjoyed the first three in the series.
I think the 4th (?) volume in the series is due out this summer.
I loved these games. Many lazy nights were wasted playing each title in the series.
Quote from: kanegrundarI think the 4th (?) volume in the series is due out this summer.
I loved these games. Many lazy nights were wasted playing each title in the series.
If I'm not mistaken, the HoMM 4 came out a few years ago and was not well-received. HoMM 5 is the one coming out, and it's being done by UbiSoft IIRC.
If you like that, you may also like Age of Wonder. Same type of thing, big strategic map for normal movement and switches to a tactical map for combat. You have much more freedom when moving your troops around in combat, though.
I only recommend the first Age of Wonder game. The later ones (Wizard's Throne and Shadow Magic) weren't as good.
Yeah, when IV came out I didn't have a machine that would run them. Did any of you ever try any of the differen versions in multiplayer offhand?
edited as Technomancer responded before I did.
YOu guys are right. It's the 5th in the series. My mistake.
Heroes IV looked like it was an almost completely different game from the earlier ones, that could have been a part of it's not being received well.
I don't really remember IV that well at all. :shrug: I played the hell out of III though. Great fun.
Quote from: kanegrundarI don't really remember IV that well at all. :shrug: I played the hell out of III though. Great fun.
I'm still playing it, :) one of these days I'm going to manage to actually finish one of the champaigns. (and as it's the complete version there are a lot of them)
I think I still have my old copy alying about somewhere...I'll have to try and find it...
Heroes 3 was the best of the series. Heroes 4 had some serious buggy issues at first, which turned off some people, and was different enough from the previous games that it turned off even more people.
This (http://www.mightandmagicgame.com/HeroesV/us/home.php) is the upcoming Heroes 5.
I liked HOMMIV. My stealth hero was the dog's bollocks. :)
But, yes, it was very different from the earlier games.
I enjoyed HoMM 4, though only after getting all the patches as it was buggy as all hell, it was even more enjoyable though when playing multi players :)
Quote from: JongWKHeroes 3 was the best of the series. Heroes 4 had some serious buggy issues at first, which turned off some people, and was different enough from the previous games that it turned off even more people.
This (http://www.mightandmagicgame.com/HeroesV/us/home.php) is the upcoming Heroes 5.
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Thanks, that looks like its going to be interesting, do you think they're keeping the resource system the same?
I wouldn't mind if they tweaked things a bit, like Sid Meier's gang does with the Civ series. Otherwise it kinda gets repetitive (same game, prettier graphics).
Who am I kidding, I'll probably get it anyways.
Me and my wife play HOMM3 very often. It´s a multiplayer blast! The campaign game is boring.
Conflux rulez!
Tower rulez!
Did you know that you can form a mega-artifact out of similiarily themed artifacts? The are awesome!
Multiplayers rocks, true. The official 1P campaigns tend to be rather monotonous after a while.
Quote from: SettembriniMe and my wife play HOMM3 very often. It´s a multiplayer blast! The campaign game is boring.
Conflux rulez!
Tower rulez!
Did you know that you can form a mega-artifact out of similiarily themed artifacts? The are awesome!
Tower's are my favorite!! :)
How hard is it to set up multiplayer on Heroes III?
I've only played hotseat (HoMM is the only game with which I find hotseat to be enjoyable) and that's very easy to set up.
I love Conflux, especially if I can get my magic hero to learn the skill Tactics and the spell Bless early on. :)
Quote from: cnath.rmYeah, when IV came out I didn't have a machine that would run them. Did any of you ever try any of the differen versions in multiplayer offhand?
edited as Technomancer responded before I did.
I've played one or two of these as a hot-seat multiplayer game, which is multiplayer on one computer. It works because it's turn-based.
Quote from: khyron1144I've played one or two of these as a hot-seat multiplayer game, which is multiplayer on one computer. It works because it's turn-based.
When you play hotseat, do people leave the room when it's not thier turn or do they get to stick around and see what each other are doing?
When me and my friend is playing, we generally play allies. Makes things more pleasant all around. :)
Steel Panthers works well as a multiplayer Hotseat.
Quote from: cnath.rmWhen you play hotseat, do people leave the room when it's not thier turn or do they get to stick around and see what each other are doing?
Usually we don't leave the room during the other player's turn; sometimes offer what we think is helpful advice, even to not officially allied players; but generally don't hover right by the other person's shoulder all the time (late in the game, a half-hour turn is not unheard of).
Quote from: bondetampWhen me and my friend is playing, we generally play allies. Makes things more pleasant all around. :)
This is what we did, yeah.
Just gamed a bit with my wife yesterday. We have two PCs, so we are in the same room, and can surf the internet or do some work while waiting for our turn. It´s very easy to set up, just type in IP adress and there you go. It´s the same over the Internet.
We only recenty found out, that you can combine several matching artifacts into Mega-Artifacts, which has become the new craze with us, yesterday I created the Armour of Dead, which casts Curse, Slow +2 others on opponent before combat starts!. Pretty neat catch up mechanism if someone else gets the grail.
Hrmmm... My wife and I love Heroes of Might and Magic... All of them.
It's one of the few games any more that we can play together, because it's got hotseat multiplayer... Age of Wonders and civilization are the other two.
We always play allied, because it's more fun for us to share resources and gang up on the computers. In the maid-late game when the turns get longer, we take turns doing the house cleaning while waiting for the other to finish.
...And oh, yes... Grandmastery Stealth in HoMM IV is the shit. Get experience for sneaking past a bad guy AND for killing him. It's like a two-fer.