Which should I buy ? Heretic / Hexen ?

[GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R]

As title said, which is the best experience and problematic free on modern system ?
Heretic / Hexen ?
Also Hexen 1 or Hexen 2 ?? Which would you guys suggest I trying and which should I avoid ?

[Muninn]

depends on what you want.
if you want a lot of varying locations and combat, Heretic and Hexen 1
if you want more puzzles, Hexen 2.

Heretic is mostly a Doom reskin, but for a more arcane setting, and with a few new features (inventory, flying, limited weather effects like wind blowing you around). still good though

Hexen is a first of its kind of sorts. you enter an area thats a Hub area, which connects to a whole bunch of other areas, and go back and forth to solve a puzzle of some sort in said Hub. there are sometimes sub puzzles (mostly hitting switches or putting an object in a clearly marked hole in a wall somewhere), but its still decently action-packed and the puzzles arent all that hard to think through or figure out.

Hexen 2 ramps down the combat (IMO) and ramps up the puzzles. you need to do a lot more for the puzzzles (find the bones of someone, grind them in another area to make bone dust, mix it with another componant found elsewhere as an example). i found it very easy to end up not sure where to go or what to do next to continue, which i never had an issue with in Hexen 1.

BUT i admit i'm not a puzzle player, so that being good or bad is up to the individual. just trying to make you aware of this is all.

my 2 cents at least.

[LiL blade]

all 3 games are great ( personally dont care for hexen 1 but thats just me)

if you want something close to doom but with more depth in its gameplay, then you play heretic.

if you want a something more atmospheric and unique then you go for the hexen games however both hexen games have there drawbacks, hexen 1s biggest problems is the absurd amount of switch hunting and the fact that it starts to get sloggy towards the end which starts around hub 4.

as for hexen 2 the only problem is that the some of the enemies are kinda tanky and also has some janky moments, also the "puzzles" in h2 are really just "bring an item to a certain spot in the level"

[GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R]

Originally posted by BLADE 69:

all 3 games are great ( personally dont care for hexen 1 but thats just me)

if you want something close to doom but with more depth in its gameplay, then you play heretic.

if you want a something more atmospheric and unique then you go for the hexen games however both hexen games have there drawbacks, hexen 1s biggest problems is the absurd amount of switch hunting and the fact that it starts to get sloggy towards the end which starts around hub 4.

as for hexen 2 the only problem is that the some of the enemies are kinda tanky and also has some janky moments, also the "puzzles" in h2 are really just "bring an item to a certain spot in the level"

I think I remember hearing GManLives review complaining bout puzzle being too hard in one of these games too lol.

[LiL blade]

Originally posted by GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R:

Originally posted by BLADE 69:

all 3 games are great ( personally dont care for hexen 1 but thats just me)

if you want something close to doom but with more depth in its gameplay, then you play heretic.

if you want a something more atmospheric and unique then you go for the hexen games however both hexen games have there drawbacks, hexen 1s biggest problems is the absurd amount of switch hunting and the fact that it starts to get sloggy towards the end which starts around hub 4.

as for hexen 2 the only problem is that the some of the enemies are kinda tanky and also has some janky moments, also the "puzzles" in h2 are really just "bring an item to a certain spot in the level"

I think I remember hearing GManLives review complaining bout puzzle being too hard in one of these games too lol.

theres only like 1 or 2 and i think thats in the egytpian style hub, its in hexen 2

[Muninn]

Originally posted by BLADE 69:

Originally posted by GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R:

I think I remember hearing GManLives review complaining bout puzzle being too hard in one of these games too lol.

theres only like 1 or 2 and i think thats in the egytpian style hub, its in hexen 2

the problem i found with Hexen 2's puzzles was that they'd say 'you need X item to progress', but wouldn't always tell you where or how to get it.

in act 1 for example, i recall it saying you needed a potion to progress, but didnt tell you all the steps to go through to get each ingredient to make it (if there was, i was unaware of such). you had to 'figure it out', which for me is the WORST thing you can tell me xP

some folks like that though. all a matter of preference.

[GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R]

Originally posted by Muninn:

Originally posted by BLADE 69:

theres only like 1 or 2 and i think thats in the egytpian style hub, its in hexen 2

the problem i found with Hexen 2's puzzles was that they'd say 'you need X item to progress', but wouldn't always tell you where or how to get it.

in act 1 for example, i recall it saying you needed a potion to progress, but didnt tell you all the steps to go through to get each ingredient to make it (if there was, i was unaware of such). you had to 'figure it out', which for me is the WORST thing you can tell me xP

some folks like that though. all a matter of preference.

Sounds be like Hedon lol....I kinda hate that game's puzzle. You actually need to read the notes etc....I mean it's fine for most people maybe.
But I'm more of a man of action lol. I used guide to make it through Hedon, I've completed the game yes, but if you were to ask me replay it again without guides, I most likely will get stuck on some part lol !

[Sollidottingen]

your title didn't say ♥♥♥♥, that said go for hexen 2

[DonutSteel]

If you are worried about modern systems, there are source ports for all those games available.

[dr_shew]

Hexen 2. Siege is an excellent multiplayer mod. We could use a few more ppl to get some good teams going

Hexenworld.org for the source port that runs excellent on modern machines