Posted May 16, 2009

michaelleung
YOU ARE ALL RETARDS
Registered: Sep 2008
From Canada

klaymen
Just as planned!
Registered: Sep 2008
From Slovakia
Posted May 16, 2009

Sure they must be, selling such an old game for that price......
As some of our Czech brothers wrote, for 10 bucks you can have Heroes 3 Complete (IMO far superior to Heroes1). If ever HoMaM3 arrives @ GOG, what will the price be like? 10$ for RoE + 6$ for AB and 6$ for SoD?

Faithful
Brain Freeze
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted May 16, 2009
I would like to buy this game, but a couple of things bother me.
First, the buy it now, or pay more later aspect. Clearly GOG knows this game is not worth $10.00 and to rush people to buy now or miss out is a tad frustrating.
I still believe GOG needs to work on fixing some of the games they are currently selling that people are having trouble running.
Second, I think there needs to be a bit more bundling of games. I think to sell more and keep customers happy combining older games into bundles makes more sense.
Gold editions, Complete editions and such should be the ones sold, not the game and then separate addons.
Well, I know this is only my point of view, but I doubt I am alone in holding it.
First, the buy it now, or pay more later aspect. Clearly GOG knows this game is not worth $10.00 and to rush people to buy now or miss out is a tad frustrating.
I still believe GOG needs to work on fixing some of the games they are currently selling that people are having trouble running.
Second, I think there needs to be a bit more bundling of games. I think to sell more and keep customers happy combining older games into bundles makes more sense.
Gold editions, Complete editions and such should be the ones sold, not the game and then separate addons.
Well, I know this is only my point of view, but I doubt I am alone in holding it.

WBGhiro
New User
Registered: Dec 2008
From Germany
Posted May 16, 2009

First, the buy it now, or pay more later aspect. Clearly GOG knows this game is not worth $10.00 and to rush people to buy now or miss out is a tad frustrating.
I still believe GOG needs to work on fixing some of the games they are currently selling that people are having trouble running.
Second, I think there needs to be a bit more bundling of games. I think to sell more and keep customers happy combining older games into bundles makes more sense.
Gold editions, Complete editions and such should be the ones sold, not the game and then separate addons.
Well, I know this is only my point of view, but I doubt I am alone in holding it.
well, i think the pricing and the normal edition are pretty much ubi's fault

DG.529
New User
Registered: Nov 2008
From Romania

Andresito_epi
Beauty Queen
Registered: Sep 2008
From Spain

stonebro
Love Lumberjacks
Registered: Sep 2008
From Netherlands
Posted May 17, 2009
HOMM3 was so good it basically dwarfs everything else in the series.
HOMM3 > HOMM1+HOMM2+HOMM4+HOMM5
HOMM3 > HOMM1+HOMM2+HOMM4+HOMM5

klaymen
Just as planned!
Registered: Sep 2008
From Slovakia
Posted May 17, 2009
IMO HoMaM3 wasn't the best from the series, mainly due to imba Conflux which can beat the crap out of everyone else quite easily.

Horus
Heroes addict
Registered: Sep 2008
From France

klaymen
Just as planned!
Registered: Sep 2008
From Slovakia

Thiev
Tech Commander
Registered: Jan 2009
From Other
Posted May 18, 2009

no Gelu? no sharpshooters? ;_;
Anyway, being complete strategy-retard, such complex matters as gameplay balance are mystery to me :)
I like all HoMMs, from 1 to 5. Especially 2nd - for the most beautiful graphics I've ever seen (at that time :) ) and 5th - for the way all the campaigns were linked.

AlphaMonkey
Head Primate
Registered: Jan 2009
From United States
Posted May 18, 2009
I think HoMM3 is my favorite in terms of art. 3 just had some absolutely gorgeous castle art. The best of the series in my opinion. I think 5 has the most fun unit graphics, though. They're cartoony, but I always felt that was the charm of the series, and even though they switched over to poly-based stuff instead of sprite-based starting with 4, 5 really did a good job with the unit graphics. As for music, I've pretty much liked all of them, but I think the opera selections from 2 were the best, though overall, it's a tossup amongst 3, 4 and 5 as to which has my favorite music all told. Both 3 and 5 had some good town music, but 4 had one or two towns that I just -really- liked, and a couple of pieces of map music and combat music that I also really, really liked. So, like I said. Toss-up.
Story-wise, I'd go with 4 or 5. Those were some pretty good campaigns. The ones in the first three games felt a little too disjointed for me. Still fun, but only loosely tied together. 4 also had the benefit of putting the heroes in the field, and I kinda liked the idea of having an "army" that was essentially nothing but a "special ops force" of heroes. Taking out piles of dragons with nothing but three knight heroes and three cleric heroes all at Level 20-30 was kinda fun.
Story-wise, I'd go with 4 or 5. Those were some pretty good campaigns. The ones in the first three games felt a little too disjointed for me. Still fun, but only loosely tied together. 4 also had the benefit of putting the heroes in the field, and I kinda liked the idea of having an "army" that was essentially nothing but a "special ops force" of heroes. Taking out piles of dragons with nothing but three knight heroes and three cleric heroes all at Level 20-30 was kinda fun.

Horus
Heroes addict
Registered: Sep 2008
From France
Posted May 18, 2009


Anyway, being complete strategy-retard, such complex matters as gameplay balance are mystery to me :)
I like all HoMMs, from 1 to 5. Especially 2nd - for the most beautiful graphics I've ever seen (at that time :) ) and 5th - for the way all the campaigns were linked.
I'm a strategy-retard too. And since I'm a -slow- strategy-retard, Heroes' turn by turn system is good for me ^^.

True. (to me.)
Post edited May 18, 2009 by Horus