Might and Magic/HoMM Thread

What's your favorite MM game?
What about your favorite HoMM game?
Are you a sci-fi patrician or a generic fantasy pleb?

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Are there any modern RPGs similar to the free movement MM games with real time and turn based?

Only grid based ones similar to 3-5.

can i play the original homm3 campaigns with horn of the abyss or should i finish them all before downloading it?

Use this guide
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Where can I download this gaem now with kat ded

only steam really
it never was on kat or else i wouldn't have bought it blindly
it's p good though if you don't mind having only one character

I found this though kickasstorrents dot website/the-quest-v1-6-8-t11948448.html and it has seeders

1.8.6 is the latest version
and an expansion came out

Ohhh thank you, I was about to ask you which version you had, what's the name of the expansion?

Islands of Ice and Fire.

everything is still on km

Found the expansion on MEGA, size is 212.1 MB

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If there's anyone here that wants to get into the main Might and Magic series, here's MM1-6.
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If you want to start from the very beginning, you can play the mac versions of MM1 and MM2 which have better graphics and interface.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B01-YeD38fqUSUpNSXJpeFROTzQ/view?usp=sharing
MM1 has to be played through vMac while the rest can be played on BasiliskII. Just remember to go to the control panel and turn off outSPOKEN8 if you get bombarded with text-to-speech when you open up BasiliskII.

CHOOSE ME OF SUFFER
>t. Medieval Jesus

>not christian bale

These types of games are my jam, I fucking love Lands of Lore, and there were some enthusiastic people at grimrock forums wanting to recreate it with the legend of grimrock engine
>tfw they haven't updated anything in years

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Post the best insane face

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Have you been following Bard's Tale 4?

Not lately, anything new announced?

I want to get into homm3, but I think I might be retarded. I can't beat one of the easy missions, even with help from /vr/

They announced the skill system

As a fellow newbie, don't be afraid to restart your campaign to do things more efficiently. Try to get sone ranged units early on and try to build stuff every turn.

Also if you are playing the first beginner campaign, get grand elves ASAP

>What about your favorite HoMM game?
IV

It just needed more time

>tfw I'm not alone
I know it's not the best one but it's still a great game, that just got buttfucked by 3D0 going bankrupt

You can see the money drying up in every NWC game after 1999

youtube.com/watch?v=oZ5XjRBTEpU

How did 3DO manage to fuck up so badly when NWC would have been making a killing with their games?

NWC WAS making a killing with their games. It's just that 3DO was extremely incompetent and took them to grave with itself

I wish forge town was a thing.
Forge would've be literally Aku.
The Knight campaign would've been literally Samurai Jack looking for allies.

they should've redesigned the look instead of scrapping it completely

They didn't just scrap the town.
Some of the buildings on the map had a technological spin on them.

Since Forge was evil, Dungeon was supposed to be moved to neutral (in MM7, they were actually pretty nice guys)

I'm just saying, we probably missed the greatest story never told.

It would have been a perfect tie-in to MM7.

MM6 has the best character creation music in any game
youtube.com/watch?v=9ojVwLPyYiA

You are at the castle of King Maximus and this guy slaps your GF's ass.
Also he and his 16 cronies steals the King's scepter or something.

What do you do?

Romero, King and Baca clearly deserve more recognition for their work.

Might and Magic has good music in general. I really like the tunes that play in world of xeen.

They came from the depths of the void. An ancient enemy of an ancient people. No one knows why they hate us so, or why they have made war upon us. Some say the struggle of evil is the mandate of heaven. Though their origins and purpose are shrouded in mystery, their plan is simple. They travel, they land, and then they conquer. Now, they are here on our world. To do to us what they have done to so many others. And they will do it. Unless someone stops them.

Stop time forever and turn all the world's water into wood.

>see this
wat do?

Yell "LOOK! I SEE A WAY OUT!"

0-5 xeen
6-9 homm3

Finished downloading this, it is version 1.8.1, oh well, better than 1.6.8 I guess, it will have to do.

I could probably just upload my game folder if there's no DRM. Just nab it on sale to support third world hungarians if you like it.

That would be very kind of you and I would really appreciate it

Looks like the game does require you to have steam running but you could probably get away with copying and pasting the new data folders for a patched version on your cracked game. I'd make backups just in case.

Here you go user
hope it works for you
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Yeah I'm guessing that as well, here's a screenshot of the game's folder, I'm assuming the most important file is data.pak , the one in yours should be a bit bigger and maybe with a new soundtrack if they added one or something. But I think you uploading the data.pak would be enough if there's nothing new and if sizes of other files are the same as yours

Thank you very much bro

Is there a guide to players who never played HoMM?

Did 3DO even have any decent titles other than NWC games? Only other series of theirs that comes to mind is army men.

The beginner campaign for HoMM3 is basically a tutorial. Do that and read the manual for basic mechanics.

bump

Try building shit every turn and get used to quicksaving then fighting hostile groups defending resources since that's the best way to learn about unit types and how they work and how strong they are. Also try to avoid fighting shooter stacks.

What's a fun, underrated town to play as in HoMM3?

I never played HoMM, is it a RTS game ala Age of Empires?

Stronghold
Recognized as important but doesn't get enough love
Also the home of based Crag Hack. Tazar ain't got shit on this baddest of asses

It's a turn based strategy game with a campaign map and hex based battle map. Might and Magic is a turn based RPG series.

HoMM and AoE share a top-down perspective, and you build up your towns and recruit units from those towns into your army.

The similarities end there. HoMM takes place in a high-fantasy setting, is turn-based, you can't freely place structures, there are no gatherer units, there's technically no population limit, your units are limited to moving with "Heroes" which gain experience and level up a la RPG, and the maps are way more densely packed with resources and items the heroes can use.

They are both great and well-made game series, but for whole different sets of reasons.

Doesn't work sadly, data.pak is bigger and I can copy it no problems, the other bigger file is the executable, but trying to open it opens steam itself rather than entering the game inmediately (like the 1.8.1 executable does), so I am guessing it's a tweak in the exe to make it work like that. I don't know if that would bug the additional content data.pak might bring to the game, so I will leave it like it was before, thank you anyways bro!

Thank you for the explanation user.

Thank YOU for letting me vent my opinions

>high-fantasy
Only HoMMV onwards :)

MM6

I don't play HoMM

you should

But why?

because it's fun

youtube.com/watch?v=OPa3HBVM4_E

good review

why does he have a katana on his back while wielding a longsword

>do you wish to go to ZIMBABWE

Died right there

They don't call him Radical Yang for nothing

Why are there barely any Jon Van Caneghem interviews?

are there any of these labyrinths crawlers games with good story that will make me get in to them?

he recognizes the superior western craftsmanship

send me $200k to hire artists, please

This guy's funny as fuck. Too bad he only uploads like, three videos a year.

Xeen is love, Xeen is life.

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I really hope those are devs photos

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That feel when in Baa temple now

Devs are NPCs for sure

>dat waifu npc

Kek

The spiders in MM6 always give me the creepy crawlies.

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I guess the only way to find out is asking JVC himself since the in-game credits make no mention of them.

Is it extremaly hard to make dungeon crawler?

No... NO!! FUCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not hard to design some squares and put pictures that represent goblins in them.

It is extremely hard to make it fun.
Simple games are hard to make.

the hard part isn't the code, it's the level design and asset creation. M&M6 had like 4-5 artists/designers for every programmer.

That's not a problem for me. The only problem would be programming battles

Asking this in every M&M thread.

Are there any good mods for M&M 6-8 that just adds more weapons or something.

Ive seen pics being posted here and there but there are like 3 different websites in Russian per mod and they are different versions or shit.

What do?

well shit I already did that, give me some art then