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carpatian
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I am very dissapointed the game looks awfull . Starting with maximum resolution 1024*780 windowed , crappy animation and movement, text font ,etc etc etc everithingh looks like a pain for me to play. I think Ubisoft give it to this guys the license just because they will not be a real competiton in homm market. I deleted the game from my pc and never return to install
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You were able to get it to play! Better then I've been able to manage!
I didn't delete it yet, but I just wanted to make a thread myself with the title "disappointed"
I mean the game is ugly as sin. It's from like 20 years ago. There are many browser games that are prettier. The water has no animation, half of the game is not even actual 3d. There are actually nearly no animations in general (like grass, trees or whatever). The text is ugly and sometimes hard to read. And... it's just... eeewww... incredibly ugly. And the music is bad too. And they even reused some of the graphics from HoMM 3 (which was released more than a decade ago). Seriously. They reused some of the graphics directly. God... Or spell effects are barely nonexistant. Or effects of any sort in general. There are no cloud shadows, no fog, no reflection, no spells lighting up the area, no shading of any sort since half of the game is 2D!. Or like, just as an example for the standard of the technology used in the game, when one of my unit shoots an arrow, then the arrow has a few selected fixed angles. If (as most of the time) the flight path doesn't coincide with the angle of the arrow, the arrow is flying through the air in an angle that makes absolutely no sense.
As said, the music is bad too, not to mention the sound effects! And there is of course no bit of voiceovers either, nothing.
Not to mention all the other annoying stuff about the game. Like, windows (that can't be moved) clustered on top of each other. An abysma auto-walk function that motivates you to switch that function on, alt-tab out of the game and then come back. I mean, you don't have to alt-tab, since the game doesn't have any full-screen mode, probably because the developer thought that if they'd shrink the window there would be no need for good graphics or details.
And don't talk about any form of mood coming up.
Like, I chose the swamp fortress as town, and a beastmaster (or something) woman as character, and selected the picture of some ugly gnoll for her. And I expected to come out in some disease infested swamp, in my foul stinking fortress, and slowly having my power to increase, first in my swamp and then slowly getting stronger and stronger assaulting players outside my swamp and start invading their shiny countries with my muddy scaly swamp thingies. So that's what I expected. What did happen? My character, despite the portrait, is a cute young woman looking like from some lingerie catalogue. And I'm not in some filthy swamp, I'm in a shiny polished castle. Not so polished as there'd be any reflections on the floor (because the game's technolgy ain't advanced enough for that) but still everything very clean and what not. If I want to access my swamp town, I walk through a sparkling shiny portal and then a 2D screen of my town appears. And even that screen is ugly as sin! And since it's too large for the tiny window of the game, I have to scroll around in a very annoying manner. Oh, and to top it off, the 2nd quest or so I got for my stinky swamp woman (who loos like a dainty princess): get a haircut!!!
Gah...
This game is soooo bad... it pains me.
And the controls are horrible too. And the interface. And... gah... And I'm normally a huge fan of the series. I played HoMM 1, 2, 3 and 5 to death (I didn't like 4 that much). But this abomination? Eeeewww...
Just look at it! And compare it with this, which is HoMM 3 from 11 years ago! To avoid confusion: the above picture is from the current game which is now, 2010, in beta. The below picture is from HoMM3 from 1999.
Oh for any people having problems with logging in: Since the game is for the chinese market, any capital letters in the username or password screw it up. Create a new account without any capital letters in username or password and it should work. High-tech at it's best!
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
i agree with what you guys are saying
what a huge disappointment from the interface to the gameplay
as if they went back 10 yrs
Hmm was going to check this game out loved the older games of it but guess i will pass on it now thanks guys .
So if what I gather is correct - this thread contains a bunchload of people who QQ about graphics.
Enjoying the game so far. Feels a lot like HoMMIII which i s great after a huge trainwreck which was HoMMV...
AS for that someone who cried that his character did not look "different enough" - you DO remember that it was the same in HoMMIII? Where a huge skeleton evil guy, a barbarian and a mage were all displayed as same "Knight on the horse" but with different colors?
# A GRIM, ODD, ARCANE SKY
# ANY GOD, I MARK SACRED
# A MASKED CRY ADORING
# A DREAMY, SICK DRAGON
Ok, I'm not so unhappy couldn't get it to work now...
As soon as I saw the system specs I know it was going to be pretty poor. 800MHZ, 16mb video card, and like 128mb ram? LOL!!
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
when i saw the official site first i already knew the game would be horrible.
Asian, cheap, ugly. Why would ubisoft (or whoever owns the game) let their beautiful game to turn into some ugly asian F2P style bullshit... Really really dissapointed.
The idea is good and i would definitely play a good turn based mmorpg, but what they made is just ridiculous.
Some rather good points for what I've seen of the game, although if you're complaining about the sound, then apparently you never liked any of the sfx and music of the whole HoMM-series. Considering they've taken them straight out of the earlier games.
Anyways, another one who can't login here. Especially nice since right now you're unable to get an activation key anyhow.
To be honest, I don't really like the fact that they've just cross-overed Heroes 3 and Conquer Online, and apparently done a bad job at it :P
I don't know what OP was expecting when they played the game, and it's kind of clear they never or very briefly touched a HOMM game, regardless of what they claim. They most likely wanted a carbon copy of the HOMM series which, I hate to break it to you, is not possible in an mmo format unless you want it very slow and dull (i.e. Heroes of Gaia).
As far as graphics, HOMM has never been about looking pretty, it's been about good gameplay, which the Online version has. There is nothing wrong with the animation or movement that some slight tweaking wont fix, it's not like they are stuttering around. Everything I have seen has been smooth.
It has its issues. There are bugs and translations issues, which is norm for a port from a foreign country. A little polish would be nice as well. And the exploration/battle maps feel kind of sparse, at least in chapter 1. But all in all it's a fun game so far, even with its flaws. But I suppose, if looks are everything, it won't be your cup of tea.
I've never played a HoMM game before but am playing this now. I am really enjoying questing (no seriously I am) and the music is great. I've seen a few bugs and some text looks garbled in some parts (not very often) but it is first day of closed beta. Honestly everything about this game has impressed me so far. I like how it looks (has a nice classic feel to it). If you are a graphics whore and think "Graphics>>>>>>>More Graphics>>>>>>>gameplay>>music" then yeah you might not like this. Anyway the gameplay is superb and I can't wait to get more into the game....I've only just begun!
I had the chance to play a bit of closed beta ummm say no more, sorry to say. Deleting the game as I type this.
Bad Graphics, Bad Interface, Bad Game.
http://www.twitch.tv/got_game_tv/ (livestream)
The War Z Shenanigans(youtube)
DayZ FUNTIME!
Mortal Online Vids
http://mightandmagicheroeskingdoms.ubi.com/en/
this will be better!
im from bulgaria and it sais: "M&M Heroes Kingdoms™ has not been launched in your country yet!"
anyone outside europe manage to play it already?
Congratulations, sir. Your post is first unbiased non-elitist post in this thread with actual arguments.
As for difficulty of quests - latter on it gets harder. Even Chapter2 already has some different quests (like the ones with turn limits, or the "dig up the treasure" one).
Latter on, together with map size and difficulty, more creatures are added in a way that you actually need to think and re-arrange yoru army to succeed(as there are creatures resistant to meele or range attacks, creatures only harmed by certain magic type and etc).
Chapter1 is "sort-of" tutorial, teaching you on what various map stuff does.
Latter on they will seemingly introduce Player-VS-Player HoMMIII-like "raze their castles" maps
Its browser-based heroes, so I expect it to suck.
sadly not many people were able to try it as Ubisoft seemingly totally forgot about that game.
# A GRIM, ODD, ARCANE SKY
# ANY GOD, I MARK SACRED
# A MASKED CRY ADORING
# A DREAMY, SICK DRAGON
I don't know what OP was expecting when they played the game, and it's kind of clear they never or very briefly touched a HOMM game, regardless of what they claim.
Tell me more about me please, it's always interesting when random people on some forums know me better and what I did or not did than I myself.
They most likely wanted a carbon copy of the HOMM series which, I hate to break it to you, is not possible in an mmo format unless you want it very slow and dull (i.e. Heroes of Gaia).
I agree, that getting the HoMM feeling into an MMO is not possible.... if you just slap random components together without any effort, to get the most cash out of the famous name while delivering the least possible. It is possible to get a good HoMM MMO, if the developer would even remotely be interested to create such a game, which would require some effort obviously. But the developer is just interested to make some cheap money by taking a famous name and slapping it on a horrible product.
As far as graphics, HOMM has never been about looking pretty, it's been about good gameplay, which the Online version has. There is nothing wrong with the animation or movement that some slight tweaking wont fix, it's not like they are stuttering around. Everything I have seen has been smooth.
I agree, gameplay was always one of the most important aspects of HoMM. Still, for their time, HoMM games were always looking fine. They had no next-generation graphics engines, but they looked fine. This HoMM Online does NOT look fine. It looks horrible. Your argument is as if you'd say "watching TV has always been about watching, not about hearing. As such, the sound is irrelevant". And the big joke is: even the gameplay of HoMM Online is not great. If it would have awesome gameplay, then hell yes: graphics ain't that important. But the gameplay is bad too! And don't get me started about the animations. There is nothing wrong with them you say, I suppose, because they don't exist. Trees, grass, water, nothing moves the slightest.
It has its issues. There are bugs and translations issues, which is norm for a port from a foreign country. A little polish would be nice as well. And the exploration/battle maps feel kind of sparse, at least in chapter 1. But all in all it's a fun game so far, even with its flaws. But I suppose, if looks are everything, it won't be your cup of tea.
So you are one of those dudes who ignore 90% of other peoples posts and make things up. I said that graphics are not everything. I wrote it before, I wrote it now. You still ignore it? I can write it again if that helps: graphics ain't everything. Read it now? Yes? No? If not, I can't help you. But in case you still keep ignoring what I write and make up things: graphics ain't everything. But what does HoMM online deliver please? Graphics obviously not. The atmosphere of beeing a hero? Uhm, no I just start in some random asian MMO town among hundreds of people, doing hair-cut quests. Sound? Either taken from games a decade ago or non-exist. And a cash shop to top it off, so that the one who pays most wins.
On the steam xmas sale I picked up "King's Bounty Armored Princess", which is also a game with a HoMM-like gameplay, for like 4€. It got no multiplayer apart from a highscore list with stats, where those who completed the game can compare their stats with others.
BUT: it got incredible music and nice sound effects, boss-fights where the bosses fill half of the screen and have unique abilities, like destroying some of the arena, the graphics ain't the best, but they look fine and give you the feeling of beeing part of a world. It even has interesting quests and humor, and adds new elements to the game with a dragon that you can level up and that has it's own talent tree.
Compared to:
Why on earth should I play HoMM Online instead of playing a round of Kings Bounty on a higher difficulty or with another class instead? The only thing HoMM Online has that's better than King's Bounty is a crappy multiplayer mode, that get's a kick in the nuts by the cash shop.
Not to mention Disciples 3, whichs english version should soon be available.
Yes, graphics ain't everything. But they can add a lot to an otherwise good game, making it superb. And horrible graphics can bring down a bad game that adds nothing interesting even more.
I mean if you like HoMM Online and want to sink your money and time into it, then yes do it if it makes you happy. In the end, only the entertainment we get out of the game counts. But for me, HoMM Online is a horrible made generic asian MMO, that got the HoMM name slapped on it, to milk people with the cash shop.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
It had been released in France a few months ago, the game could be interesting but there are several major flaws that makes it not very interesting. It doesn't feel like a HOMM but more like a Travian or any "strategy' browser games.
Stop comparing 2D images with 3D images
It doesn't make any sense
I agree with the rest
I actually like turn-based games and I do not really care about the graphics in those games. I did spend quite a lot of time on HOMM3 (and even HOMM4), so I know more or less what to expect.
However, I stopped playing this game after giving it a try because:
The user interface. It started quite badly: I usually start a game by looking through the Options or Settings screen - couldn't find it. Especially when a game starts in windowed mode - looking through the Options/Settings screen is quite urgent, IMO.
Maybe it shouldn't be an MMO, but just an ordinary online game with a lobby, singleplayer and multiplayer scenarios, either coorperative, competitive or both. Hmmm... this is more or less what it is, isn't it? No, the game shouldn't have real-time building of units.
I dunno, looks 3D and very pretty to me. Particularly with the real-time-looking-rendering-shadows.
I am playing EVE and it's alright... level V skills are a bit much.
You all need to learn to spell.
Also, I actually really enjoyed Heroes 4. Nothing beat a fully grand-master barbarian-type hero with some nice items. Magic immunity, two melee attacks, two ranged attacks... huge defense...
I could take on 40 black dragons with one of those heroes, haha!
I am playing EVE and it's alright... level V skills are a bit much.
You all need to learn to spell.
It's much the same as Homm3. Which...in it's time, was a great game. If Homm3 launced today?? ..not so much. I think they should have " expanded" a bit more with some of the Homm3 ideas. I confess I'm a bit disapointed that they did not....ie, more and bigger armies, more and bigger spells, more and bigger maps, more and bigger loots..etc. They did not, which is a disappointment.
I don't like the Asian influence either...ie, the over sized cartoon lookin gear, and wierd, clunky interface. Not being able to play more than two characters on one account sucks too.
My son likes it though cause it's easy to level, sooooo...good game for 10yr olds?
Overall i agree. HoMM online is a real disapointment.
Graphic was odd. I dont know but even UO looked more awesome and is some decades old. I could get over it if it would have been fun playing it. Gameplay copys only very basics of HoMM series.
Spells were or less same except you have to use your spell 3000 times to be able to learn level 2 or do ingame spell training, what a horrible idea. Did they never seen how you could do it other way? EvE online is a hint!
Castles a large disapointment. You can build only creature buildings to recruit them. No fluff nothing uniq.
And the bugs were aswell awesome. I thing they were most entertaining. If you leave castle = disconnect. If you wander around daily quest area and hit another play = disconnect or dark screen! Yay i had to restart HoMM online about 20 times to be able to finish ore / wood dailys ... and i think this game is already out on the market in china for half a year or even longer? Wtf were devs doing?
It kinda feels instead of making progress the progress is decreasing and going backwards till 1980 yay! Back to the roots ...
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They would have been better served just re-launching Homm3 with some online enhancements, ( ie..player lobby, chat, pvp, co-op, and player created maps) and left everything else exactly the same.