Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Thoughts?

[Dv22]

Its been so long...Im actually looking forward to a new HOMM

[Hikari]

To buy the new game from the publisher who abandoned previous game in the series is a joke.

[Inquerion]

Originally posted by Hikari:

To buy the new game from the publisher who abandoned previous game in the series is a joke.

This.

Maybe the "Unfrozen" devs are actually trying to make a good HoMM game (like Limbic HoMM7 devs), but I'm not sure if they have enough talent and experience for it AND there is a high risk that Ubi$oft (publisher and unfortunately current owner of HoMM IP) will just pull the plug in mid development like they did with HoMM 6 and 7. And each time, inclduding HoMM 5, devs were crunched so Ubi$oft could save some money. Terrible corporation that treats devs and customers very poorly.

So far, Olden Era looks like a cheap indie mobile game. I don't like it's art style. And focus on competetive multiplayer instead of classic multi that most HoMM fans play and singleplayer campaigns. But I need to see more to properly judge it. Early impressions are not good though.

[BahamutXero]

^Give this person a medal! I will not trust Ubi with this IP ever again. The only games they've recently punished that I believe they did a decent job on are the first two South Park RPG's

[Dv22]

Originally posted by Hikari:

To buy the new game from the publisher who abandoned previous game in the series is a joke.

thats a fair opinion.

[Fendelphi]

So far, from what is shown, the game seems to be on the right track of things. So I am not so concerned about the game and gameplay itself.

The issue is that it is still published by Ubisoft, so depending on how much they want stuff to be "intergrated" into the Ubisoft "experience", it could be a nightmare to actually get the game to play, updated, mods etc..

[BahamutXero]

To be fair, Heroes VII seemed to be fairly moddable. Now, I'm not sure how labor intensive it was, but the Heroes 7.5 mod looks amazing and was kind of hoping it would go the HoTA route and create a private server so multiplayer was still a thing with the new factions. What killed the OG game was the new "Ubisoft" connect server which was total garbage and never ran as well as freaking battle.net. on an old dial up connection.

[Fendelphi]

Originally posted by BahamutXero:

To be fair, Heroes VII seemed to be fairly moddable. Now, I'm not sure how labor intensive it was, but the Heroes 7.5 mod looks amazing and was kind of hoping it would go the HoTA route and create a private server so multiplayer was still a thing with the new factions. What killed the OG game was the new "Ubisoft" connect server which was total garbage and never ran as well as freaking battle.net. on an old dial up connection.

The 7.5 Mod is roughly 15 GB. It is massive and is the culmination of many, many years.

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Of course I will. Through thick and thin, I will always support the M&M franchise as long as its fun for me