Comments on: Heroes of Might & Magic II Bits

By: Solitaire

Solitaire — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:59:57 +0000

Oh I spent too long on this. I also got super addicted to Age of Wonders which borrows very heavily from this.

By: suhen

suhen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:55:23 +0000

hi, i was wondering if anyone could pls tell me which flash player do i need to be playing homm2?? its been very frustating .. as i have downloaded the game .. and i cant seem to be playing it .. because i dont know hw to mount it on a virtual drive .. i loved this game back when i was a kid .. i would really appreciate it if any 1 could pls gimme a step by step on wht to do … thank you ..

By: Tomis

Tomis — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:09:44 +0000

Why “were”? What bothers me is the Carmack-like attitude that games are consumables – you play them for a couple of month, two years tops, and then you throw them away in favor of the next “new” thing. That’s not how things should be. Being an aspiring indie developer myself I can understand this point of view (you want a steady cash flow through the years) but the gamer in myself just can’t let go from the past because a lot of games created in the golden era are still the best, by far.

Anyway, I’m still a huge fan of the HoMM (2&3) games and every “new” gamer should start by playing these. You can’t dismiss them by saying “oh, they’re old” because they’re simply too good to be matched by anything out there today. Gotta run for work. See ya.

By: The Management

The Management — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:09:05 +0000

Heh, so what you’re trying to say is that you were also a fan?

By: Tomis

Tomis — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:53:59 +0000

And by the way, how can you not love the artwork, sound and music in HoMM2 and HoMM3? How can you possibly improve on those to create a better game? You can’t, it’s like trying to upgrade the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling paintings. Living proof of this are the rest of the HoMM games, a disgrace to the HoMM universe.

*sigh*

By: Tomis

Tomis — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:46:02 +0000

I still play HoMM2 to this day (at least a few times every couple of months). It doesn’t matter if HoMM3 gets the popular vote, HoMM2 will always be very close to my heart. What you’re doing with this article is spoiling the fun, just like trying to dissect a joke to extract the humour. You can’t really explain this game, in order to understand it you need to play it.

Oh, and by the way – “HoMM II has a very steep learning curve that’s practically unimaginable these days”. Screw the pussies who whine about how “hard” a game is to learn or play. “Consolization” (or, as we call it, the run after the money) destroyed PC games as they once were and transformed the industry in a place where developers try to make not the best game but the game that will bring most money.

The hell with all that. If you want to experience what a real game feels like you’ll go back to the golden age (I’ll say it started somewhere around 1994 -at least for me, but it’s an open subject- and ended somewhere around 2003) and play what really made gaming history, now forgotten by the hordes of mindless zombie gamers. HoMM2, Total Annihilation, Freespace (1&2), Nox, Red Alert, Quake I (one of a kind), Bullfrog games (hell yeah…. Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital), Worms, Mech Warrior, Commandos, Thief, System Shock 2, NFS 4 & 5 (the last two proper NFS games), Half-life,Fallout, Abe’s Oddysee, Monolith games(Claw, Blood 1&2), MDK !!!, Myth – The Fallen lords, Planescape torment, Baldur’s Gate, Quest for glory V, Rome: Total War (2004, but still), Rainbow Six (the proper, first three games, of the series), Unreal, Rollcage, Ultima IX, Rollercoaster Tycoon (omg, great game, along with Theme Hospital), Gruntz, Max Payne (1&2), Battlezone, Sanitarium, Panzer general, Caesar III, Hitman…

And that’s just off the top of my head. If you’re a gamer you don’t need most of the shit they publish today. Make yourself a favor and revisit all the classics first, you’ll hardly need anything else.

I mean, what the hell… gog.com is opened 24/7 (amazon and ebay too). Why spend 60 bucks on utter commercial crap instead of buying proper games that catch you and don’t let go? I feel sorry for the ‘gamers’ that missed the golden age, really.

That’s my rant for the day, tomorrow I’ll code some more on my new game project. I want to make a proper game, as they once used to be. Gameplay and feeling, not marketing and flashy graphics. Games can be art if you let them.

By: The Management

The Management — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:33:20 +0000

Yeah, I've been meaning to give King's Bounty a try. It sounds like a pretty bizarre amalgamation of fantasy tropes and RPG/strategy gameplay, but people seem to dig it.

By: Robert Schultz

Robert Schultz — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:13:50 +0000

I loved Heroes of Might and Magic (HOMM) 1, 2 and 3.

After that they got a little iffy for my tastes.

The music in them were all great.

I also really enjoyed the original King’s Bounty which HOMM is slightly based on.

Might and Magic itself (1 through 6) were all superb.

Thanks for writing this article, it was a great trip down memory lane :)