The Heroes Round Table

I was killing a little time, and thought I'd assemble the Haven unit artwork into a group shot just to see them all together next to each other, adjusted (on a guess) to scale. Why not? Maybe this already exists somewhere, I dunno - figured I'd share. Does the Priestess hover in the game? hard to te...

You mean Diablo 3, which is still not out and so you can't gauge it's level of improvement (and has also had it's art design dragged over the coals)? Starcraft 2 which has been notoriously criticized for not advancing the gameplay significantly? Regardless, your complaint is irrational because, and ...

Awesome.

I'm simply sick of the irrationally negative complaining here, and on other Heroes sites, about this game. As far as I'm concerned, we should be thankful we're getting a new game at all - if you just want to keep playing a 2D Heroes with the same old units, go play H3 forever. If you think, as you s...

There is absolutely no whine related to Heroes 3 similarity in there Really? You didn't long for a return 2D graphics? You didn't protest changing the factions? nor any "developper" decision is discussed. Are you sure you didn't say anything about their supposedly 'flavorless' plot? Cast ...

Heroes Forum Poster Recipe (from what I've gathered):

[*] Whine about how the game isn't exactly like Heroes 3
[*] Assume the absolute worst about every single decision the developers made

It's a 'giant having a single round eye in the middle of the forehead' and therefore, a Cyclops. Is there ANYTHING this site won't ***** about?

That's about 1/8 of a Small map in H3. Have they published anything about map size limits in H6? Regardless, look at that map editor above - I can't see why you couldn't make a horribly designed trainwreck of a map like the image you linked to if you really wanted to.

Lots of pretty, little stuff to interact with. Oh for chrissakes - we've been hearing this baseless complaint since H5 - I know that 3D is scary and the change of relative object size is terrifying, because GOD KNOWS the last thing the internet wants is anything that differs from H3 in any tiny way...

The totally different art style and the use of Asian characters seems rather less official. Cool, though.

The game doesn't come out until March at the earliest (and does anyone actually think it won't slip?) - of course there aren't any 'adds' on gaming sites. TBS games are pretty niche, PC gaming is marginalized, and this game isn't going to be out for months and months - there's never going to be a hu...

All the changes sound intriguing to me - I love the idea of being able to specialize in individual spells as an ability rather than being stuck with the random 'Summon Air Elementals' from the Guild. It opens it up for a lot of strategy, and with the game's apparent focus on smaller, specialized arm...

1. Nearly the same immature art style of the creatures, stupid anime pseudo-epicness. I've seen this a few times on here (perhaps by you?) and I can't see that at all. Clash of Heroes? That's definitely anime-inspired. This? I don't even see a vague hint of anime inspiration in the art design. It a...

Harder for GPU's then what, 3D?! Are you high?! Absolutely - GPUs from the last decade are built to render complex 3D models quickly, but there have been virtually zero changes to the way machines handle 2D animation. Besides just taking way longer to create individual frames of 2D, at high resolut...

So ? 7 is more complicated and have a higher strategically point of view than 4. But it doesn't work that way because different factions required different amounts of different resources - so certain mines were less strategically useful to one player than another. This eliminates that unbalance. We...

Compared to 3D? Dirt cheap. 2-3 black and white pictures don't require no motion capture nor time of modelers and texturers...and they can easily show thing the game engine cannot. No - 2D art is vastly more time-intensive to create, especially for a game of this scale, and, in high resolution, is ...

NB is short for 'Nota Bene' - Latin for 'note well,' as in 'pay special attention to' - don't they teach anything in schools these days?

Final Fantasy Tactics is downloadable for the PS3. The PS3 actually has a few TBS games - Valkyria Chronicles is stellar. Band of Bugs is on the XBLA, but it's pretty slight, and Greed Corp is fairly simple, but pretty good.

Man, fuck this forum. What a bunch of miserable short-sighted stuck-in-the-past whiners you are.

I'm pretty sure this guy has never played a HoMM game before here's why. The core change is an end to predetermined hero powers and skills. You choose your own path in Might and Magic Heroes VI. As you level, you determine the powers and skills you'll be using to dominate the competition. You can e...