HOMM 5, 3, or 6?

[D.A.R.K.]

Which one do you think it's best? I like 3 more but the graphics bothers me a little bit, never got deep into 5 to be honest, and 6 have a better graphics but I'm not sure about game play.

[coyote720]

I enjoyed 3 a lot many years ago. However, I would never go back. 5 is everything Gorm said above. (I also played 6 years ago, but didn't like it.)

[Corrupted Slime]

HoMM V Arena

[Jäveln]

homm v arena?

[coyote720]

5 is best. Is this a trick question?

[[ENG] Swarożyc]

HoMM 3 and 5 are equally good for different reasons, versions before 3 have historical value, and anything beside that is pure garbage.

[Mooose]

Well this discussion is in 5 so you're gonna get a biased sample to those who like 5
I think 3 and 5 are the benchmark, they're both different though. Songs of conquest is shaping up to aim for that tier of quality as well, although it needs more development time, expansions, so on
6 and 2 are good, they do get outshined but they have their own flavor
i played 7, eh, better options. never tried 4

[Jäveln]

3 had best world building and characters. 5 had best leveling and battles and uniqueness between each civ.

i would be so happy if they did such a simple thing as remake entire homm3 in homm 5 engine and boom we would have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing game

[[ENG] Swarożyc]

Originally posted by Mooose:

Well this discussion is in 5 so you're gonna get a biased sample to those who like 5
I think 3 and 5 are the benchmark, they're both different though. Songs of conquest is shaping up to aim for that tier of quality as well, although it needs more development time, expansions, so on
6 and 2 are good, they do get outshined but they have their own flavor
i played 7, eh, better options. never tried 4

heroes 4 introduced a bunch of pretty stupid mechanics, which are not present in h5.
For example, monsters could move to attack you, and heroes were a unit and were killable within the battle itself. If you wanted to fk up someone's day, you could just kill off their characters.

[dcain3456]

5 is just 3 with better graphics, that you spend more time fighting the camera over than actually playing.

[misterfishy0]

Played them all.

1 and 2 are just old. Interesting to play a few times, but very basic, especially 1.
3 is classic for a reason(I'd recommend playing fan-made Horn of the Abyss), 5 builds on top of 3. Its the matter of taste which do you prefer. 3 is more fast-paced but 5 has better racial mechanics.
4 is good, but its too different from others to be accepted by a lot of old fans(who are often extremely unreasonable about it).
6 and 7 are low effort in terms of game design. I don't see a reason to ever play them again, unlike other parts.

[Teutram]

I guess it has a lot to do with the nostalgia.

I started HoMM with the HoMM IV and therefor was never upset by all the changes compared to HoMM III, such as Heroes and/or units able to move alone on the map. HoMM V seems to me like the best one, with still acceptable graphic designs and standard/conventional game-play while offering such a diversity of strategies based on the heroes. Not to mention the unique ability of each alignment, e.g. the rage for the Orcs, which is pure fantasy put into action. I loved HoMM V and still plays it.

HoMM VI was removing the idea of splitting your armies/heroes and was, in my opinion, only a race to the largest stack possible without the army of multiple targets and set of heroes. And not having random skills after each level meant that all best competencies would be chosen every time.

HoMM IV cannot be played anymore, if it weren't for its music, which is the best of all HoMM. Good enough for a short game :)

[Jäveln]

yeah homm v is weirdly good even through its bit of jankiness. just wish they continued its gameplay in the following titlesinstead of making all races feel like reskins

[SardonicJonez]

Is 6 the disasterous one with pirates where the screen kept going black? Whichever that one was is awful. At least it was when I tried it.

[Jäveln]

uh dont remember pirates lol but its th eone that removed like 2/3 of all resources and really made homm 5 story confusing

[SardonicJonez]

I don't why I had pirates in my head, but I looked it up. It was Danse Macabre. I couldn't get that stupid game to work. Every time I entered a castle, the screen went black and I had to restart. It was unplayable.