heroes 2 > heroes 3
>>748925285the artstyle, yeseverything else not so much
>>748927213Lack of balance makes it more and not less fun
I remember thinking HoMM3 looked so much better as a kid to the point that it pissed me off that the computer I had at the time couldn't run it. The game just seemed better in every way. It's funny being older and deciding that actually I was underappreciating how good HoMM2's pixel art was.
Entered the thread to say this exactly >>748927213I love the pixel graphics of HoMM2 over the pre rendered 3D sprites of the HoMM3 (which doesn't look bad imo).My only pet peeve with the graphics of HoMM2 is the look of the Necropolis, it looks so fucking goofy, I mean look at that pic, it's a damn themepark!
>>748927882We should go on mr bone's wild ride
Heroes 5 > Heroes 3
>>748925285>>748927213Actually, I enjoy H2 music far more than H3. https://youtu.be/7Zxb-RFOklg
>>748927882I agree, but also a pretty sick looking theme park.
>>748925285why can't games look this soulful anymore?
>>748927882Yeah a good warning when writing an undead faction in a fantasy game is mummies are a one way ticket to making it look like the monster mash.
>>748927882Lmao at that Gothic Revival style house on the left.
>>748927882>>748928458Halloween faction hahaha
>>748927882Reminds me of that Goosebumps game
>>748927213The musicThe mapsThe overall atmosphereAll 3 has going for it over 2 is random maps and more polished game mechanics, but in places they're even too polished - units upgrades feel less special when every unit has one, for example.
>>748927273HoMM3 had fucking terrible balancing just the same as HoMM2 did.
>>748927882Posting the town without its music is fucking criminal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnZ8ZRfMw00
>>748928874I remember HoMM3 at least making sure that knights and barbarians actually got flying units and that flying unity couldn't just travel everywhere on the battle field. Also avoided having a unit as abuseable as ghosts. (Admittedly took the fun out of it a little, besides having a means to get ghosts is entirely on the mapmaker)
>>748925285Is Olden Era any good?
>>748929037The music is excellent, I really love that it's a dark fantasy track that is foreboding without being too edgy, it helps to get across what the visuals kind of failed to, you can believe that a kind of society exists here thanks to the music, rather than it being a haunted house, which the visuals look makes it look like, I mean there's a literal haunted house right there.Personally I always liked the variety of unit types in the earlier games, later versions of this faction got really boring and everything was just skeletons, I wish they'd have figured out a way to depict this without it being FULL ON spirit of Halloween, but some of that isn't a bad thing exactly.
