r/heroes3 • u/KinzzaBadd • 1d ago

Fluff In popular opinion: HoMaM4 is freaking awesome!

So I've recently bought HoMaM4 off of gog for $2.49. and I can honestly say I can't get enough. It's a little poor in the quality, but the game itself is a masterpiece. Don't get me wrong, it has nothing on heroes, or the classic heroes2 gold. But this game gets way to much hate from everyone for being as awesome as it is.

Please I wanna hear everyone else's opinions on this. This game is underrated.

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u/ElementalistPoppy 1d ago

Agreed - I personally never understood the hatred. It's colourful, music is awesome, there's a whole lot of units, each item has a description as you pick it up, big maps are actually big. AI kinda sucks but besides 6th entry (where I feel like AI is cheating), its not uncommon.

No, units being capable of running solo is not a drawback.

Sure, lack of unit upgrades and heroes being just different portaits, lacking specialisations does kinda suck, but enough as to disqualify it? It's a great game and it's also a great HoMM.

A masterpiece or a cultural milestone? Definitely not. Lots of fun though!

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u/Simbertold 1d ago

I think a lot of people were expecting basically a slight upgrade to HoMM3, but 4 is very distinctly different in a lot of ways.

It was also kinda rushed iirc (wasn't there a thing with money troubles or something like that), so it was pretty buggy on release, and still has a bunch of issues and balance problems.

It would probably have done fine if it didn't follow 3.