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I caved and picked this up. I was finding extended play in the custom
maps playing always as the Fortress Heroes. For Tattalia!
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 16:03:10 -0500, sion F2 <sionf2@drum.cc> wrote:

I caved and picked this up. I was finding extended play in the custom
maps playing always as the Fortress Heroes. For Tattalia!

I think I've written about this before, but I really have a hard time
keeping all the HOMMs apart. I'm pretty sure I played all of them
(well, maybe I missed a few in the Chronicles series) but damned if
I'd be able to tell you what made HOMM1 different from HOMM5 different
from HOMM3.

Then again, I never really cared much for the HOMM lore, and mostly
when I played I just stuck to the 'instant action' scenarios. Tweaks
and minor improvements aside (and the usual new units/sides added by
each game), there really wasn't much difference to the core gameplay
with all the games.

I enjoyed the HOMM series, but for me they were always disposable
games; something I'd play between more 'serious' titles, as a sort of palette-cleanser. Fine for what they were, but nothing I could ever
get too excited about. ;-)


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On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 16:03:10 -0500, sion F2 <sionf2@drum.cc> wrote:

I caved and picked this up. I was finding extended play in the custom
maps playing always as the Fortress Heroes. For Tattalia!

There is a free and very good HD mod for this game if you are
interested. Supports HD resolutions and makes the interface more
functional. -->

https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/
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On Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:00:49 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

I think I've written about this before, but I really have a hard time
keeping all the HOMMs apart. I'm pretty sure I played all of them
(well, maybe I missed a few in the Chronicles series) but damned if
I'd be able to tell you what made HOMM1 different from HOMM5 different
from HOMM3.

HOMM 3 is considered to be the best of the entire series to this day.
As long as you played that one at some point, then you can put the
series aside if it doesn't do much for you. The only one that plays
somewhat differently is HOMM 4. But it was not as well received as the
third entry.
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 16:03:10 -0500, sion F2 <sionf2@drum.cc> wrote:

I caved and picked this up. I was finding extended play in the custom
maps playing always as the Fortress Heroes. For Tattalia!

I think I've written about this before, but I really have a hard time
keeping all the HOMMs apart. I'm pretty sure I played all of them
(well, maybe I missed a few in the Chronicles series) but damned if
I'd be able to tell you what made HOMM1 different from HOMM5 different
from HOMM3.

Then again, I never really cared much for the HOMM lore, and mostly
when I played I just stuck to the 'instant action' scenarios. Tweaks
and minor improvements aside (and the usual new units/sides added by
each game), there really wasn't much difference to the core gameplay
with all the games.

I enjoyed the HOMM series, but for me they were always disposable
games; something I'd play between more 'serious' titles, as a sort of palette-cleanser. Fine for what they were, but nothing I could ever
get too excited about. ;-)

It was the shiny graphics that hooked me somewhere around HOMM 2.
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 12:28:33 -0500, sion F2 <sionf2@drum.cc> wrote:

It was the shiny graphics that hooked me somewhere around HOMM 2.

That isn't surprising. They looked really good then and I think they
still look good now. Some prefer the look of HOMM 2 over 3.
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On Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:43:21 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 12:28:33 -0500, sion F2 <sionf2@drum.cc> wrote:

It was the shiny graphics that hooked me somewhere around HOMM 2.

That isn't surprising. They looked really good then and I think they
still look good now. Some prefer the look of HOMM 2 over 3.

As previously stated, I have a hard time telling them apart. Oh sure,
put screenshots of all the games next to each other and I'd probably
be able to sort them, because there has been advancement between each
game, but they still all look sort of the same to me.

That said, I think (after looking at various screenshots on mobygames)
that I'm probably most fond of the HOMM2 visuals. The HOMM3 assets
just don't blend as well into the game-map; the look too much like
they're pasted onto the terrain rather than something actually in the
world.

But YMMV.




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