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/Bu11ett00th 1d ago

HoMM4 is probably one of my biggest disappointments in gaming. And I don't want to say it's a bad game - because it definitely isn't. I was even open to the changes it made to the fundamentals.

BUT

I personally hate how it looks.

With pretty much all prior Heroes games - and especially Heroes 3 - being so aesthetically pleasing, I just couldn't get into the visuals of 4.

The landscape, the unit models, the animations, the castles, it's all just so... awkward. I also hate the top-down view of combat arenas, and how there's no proper grid. I know there are ways to enable it but again it looks and feels so awkward.

WITH THAT SAID

I'd never ever claim that it's a bad game. It objectively isn't - regardless of my or anyone else's expectations of it based on previous entries. But I couldn't get into it despite multiple attempts over the years.