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>>14917260

But do you actually want to play with people who abuse every single build they can?

>>14917239

I think it's wrong to compare it to Wesnoth, which in my opinion is an amazing game. They're different styles of game. Also this is like Dungeon Keeper clones where nothing has surpassed the original two games.

Age of Wonders, Op.

or Kingjs Bounty if you want RPG.

>>14917363

I've tried AoW. It feels completely different, units behave very differently without having actual numbers. It's not bad, but it can't keep up with HoMM.

Can't tell much about kings bounty. Do people actually like it ?

>Has any game actually stepped forth to take the spot of heroes 3 ? Does anything even come close ?

Nope.

I still like V though, despite it not being all that great.

>>14917378

I personally loved The Legends.

It's not as nearly detailed as HoMM3, but it has just enough variety in it to allow for some unusual strategies with different units.

You'll want to think thoroughly before picking any talents though, as fucking up your character build can really hurt you and maybe even force a restart.

The only other downside is the painfully slow animation speed even on the fast setting.

But overall, it's pretty good.

Armoured Princess is the sequel that kicks my ass any time of the day and I can't figure out how to beat it.

Maybe one day.

>>14917363

>AoW

>will you pick the rapefugees welcome faction?

>or the dark cave dwelling nazis?

That was a good laugh, but I still couldn't really get into it.

>>14917337

>Wesnoth

I've heard nothing but praise for it, maybe I really should try it.

>Heroes 3 alternatives

Heroes 2 :^)

>>14917528

Wesnoth is pretty fun. It has a ton of mods for it that you can download using an in game browser and plenty of co-op campaigns. It is also challenging. Even on the easiest difficulties the AI puts up a good fight. Lots of depth to the game despite how easy it is to pick up.

>>14917554

I also forgot to mention the graphics are very good. A lot of care was put in to it.

I found my fix with Conquest of Elysium. A bit primitive, but really fun.

>>14917239

Always wanted to get into this but the autism has kind of scared me in terms of depth. Is it really that easy to just pick up and learn or do I have to read Sun Tzu's the Art of War-tier guides to understand it?

>>14917744

Even if you lose at start just learning the mechanics and factions is super enjoyable.

>>14917744

It's really easy to get into, but mastering it is a whole different story.

I'd suggest playing the Restoration of Erathia chapter, starting with the Queen campaign and then followed by the rest in whatever order you like.

Those will get you familiar with all of the towns. Also make sure you save after every mission in a separate slot because the game does not keep track of your progress and make sure to pick a new campaign when you get the check mark for the one you just finished.

And get the HD mod.

19 FUCKING YEARS

And nobody managed to make Inferno viable

>>14917917

>And get the HD mod.

an important thing about this: do NOT get heroes HD, released on steam by ubisoft. it's utter dogshit. they improved nothing and fucked with the sprites in order to try and re-sell a popular old game for a few extra shekels.

there's a HD mod for heroes 3 complete version, which has all the expansions and is available on GOG (which means it is easily pirated)

>>14917917

>get the HD mod

Just get a random ass russian mod, it looks janky as shit and there's not much of a difference anyway

>>14917956

Dude, Demon farming is OP as fuck online. My first game ever I smashed the opponent with a horde of demons…

As for the question - no, except Horn of the Abyss fanmade mod, I guess.

>>14917239

Have you played Horn of the Abyss?

It's a fan expansion for Heroes 3

Eador:Genesis

It even has a mod that adds buckloads of content to an already huge game

>>14917239

Disciples series

Eador: Genesis

Master of Magic

>>14918386

If it didn't fuck with the hexes and would have slightly better graphics it would have been the best homm.

>>14918434

The world could use an improvement as well, but gameplay-wise you're correct. Did Ashan actually become any more interesting with the installments? I don't even mind the generic fantasy vibe, but I wish they actually developed the world into something fun.

>>14918452

I think Dark Messiah covers the events after Tribes of the East (which I haven't played yet).

The expansion campaigns are largely more of the same, but a lot more interesting and not as generic as, say, the mage or Sylvan were in the original.

>>14918386

It had some good ideas, but what I really disliked about it was how unpredictable the skill system could be.

If you wanted to get certain skills, or even just an idea of what might be offered to you provided you met the requirements, you'd need to look up a wiki.

>>14918386

heroes v is so ugly its unplayable

>>14918386

I tried playing Heroes V with friends, hotseat. It was so boring we all gave up after an hour or so. Somehow it just wasn't fun.

>>14918693

It's probably due to the fact that time in between turns unfortunately takes far longer.

>>14918993

This is the fatal flaw that makes V inferior to III. Everything just takes longer than it should.

The only strategy game that has come close to matching HoMM3's greatness is Sengoku Rance. Outside of that, I haven't found a single game that had close to HoMM3 in terms of strategy, tactics, town management, unit variety, combat and replayability. There's always two or three elements that end up falling short and bring the whole game down. Maybe the failed elements make the game tedious/grindy, maybe it makes it too simple or easy, but whatever the case is, nothing except Sengoku Rance scratches the itch.

>>14919038

Sounds about right. A ton of time was being wasted without anything remotely interesting happening, after all. It's why we quit playing.

>>14919042

All I know about that game is that it's some JP hentai game. Pass.

>>14919350

Some JP hentai game with some of the best gameplay I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. I was reluctant to play at first because of "lol porn game", but once you look past the anime titties and pixelated crotches, it's one of the best games out there. When compared the HoMM3, the only downside would be that it has somewhat less replayability. Everything else is about as good or better.

Eador Genesis, bunch of eastern europeans made their own HoMM clone. It's in the share thread git I believe.

>>14919350

It's not a porn game, it's an erotica game, the gameplay and the story are honestly more important to this game than the porn itself. It's a side thing.

Besides does something that is only centered around porn would have a soundtrack like vid related.

>>14919042

>>14919387

Speaking of JP hentai games with amazing fucking gameplay, have you played Kamidori Alchemy Meister anon? It's like more adventurous Recettear with porn.

>>14919658

The combat lacks any kind of strategical depth and the story is below average. Porn is A+ though.

>>14919686

>combat lacks any kind of strategical depth

I disagree, enemies and allies present a wide variety of elemental resistances and weaknesses, not to mention defense and magic resistance actually play a role. Additionally, there's several variety in type of attacks, including different ranges and areas of damage (which also leads to having to manage friendly fire), buff skills and coordinated attacks that require two specific characters to stand together.

>story is below average

I'd say that depends on which route you choose.

>>14917528

>Armoured Princess is the sequel that kicks my ass any time of the day and I can't figure out how to beat it.

How do you play it? I allways play it on the imbossible difficulty and it's not that hard, the start can be a bit tedious though as you have to go back and forth between islands to pick the weakest stacks&easiest quests and perhaps some treasures&maps that are guarded by baiting the hard stacks out of the way then picking them up but once you get the ball rolling it becomes easy and a tad tedious since it's still a pretty fucking long game.

>>14919743

There's no opportunity cost to changing out the different elemental weapons around. Elemental resists and weaknesses for enemies never matter. Elemental resists and weaknesses for your characters don't 99% of the time, and the 1% of the time where they do matter is either in NG+ or on elemental type maps. Golly gee, I guess I shouldn't bring the fire weak unit to the volcano maps! You can bring along more consumables than you'll ever need, so as long as your characters survive the enemy combat rounds, you'll do just fine. Also, you can just grind all of your problems away since there's nothing to prevent or punish you for doing so (outside of a few side quests). I don't consider the kiddie pool to be deep. It's fun to splash around in, but I can't exactly swim in it.

And the story is only there to introduce more areas and more girls to dick. The story isn't immersive, it doesn't evoke emotions, it doesn't give you a sense of awe and wonder, it doesn't shock you, and it doesn't make you think or stay with you after you close the game. It's also not boring, cringe worthy, filled with plot holes or deus ex machina bullshit, inconsistent, or insulting to the reader's intelligence. Not great, not horrible.

I 100%'d the game twice. The game is fun, just not great. Elf tits best girl, worst route.

>>14918446

this is actually a good game

>>14919890

An alchemy game like this should be about preparation and bringing the right kind of gear along, so rewarding grind is good in principle, but golly gee that idea falls apart if you can bring along an infinite amount of buyable infinite-supply healing items and can use an infinite amount of them every turn.

Disciples 3 tried to be more homm-like and failed while simultaneously shitting on the disciples fanbase.

>>14919854

>paladin class

>4 ranged stacks

>1 melee

>use dragon to push the stronger enemy melee further away and spells to slow them down or buff my own

It worked very nicely at the beginning, but as I moved on, half my army or more would get wiped out during the more difficult fights and I'd have trouble finding good high tier creatures to use.

For the record, I didn't get very far, only up to the island where Daimon is and got regularly wrecked by the wandering stacks.

It's not that I can't beat any of them, it's that I don't know where to get decent replacements for all of my good lads.

>>14920371

Paladin's certainly not the easiest class to play, your offensive skills are pretty mediocre and rely heavily on decent troops and order buffs though once you get Resurrection spell from somewhere and got some points in the skill to boost it you'l end up being quite durable but yeah…

Try again with a warrior or a mage, mage is probably the easiest class especially once you can cast several spells in the same turn and can just nuke half the enemies by yourself before letting your troops deal with them and warrior makes sure you can use your pet dragon almost every turn+attack boost for your troops and i think they also had the highest leadership so expect a huge army eventually.

>>14917917

Also look into horn of the abyss. It has some janky shit nerfing heroes, but once you played normal heroes 3 to death, it and the included pirate campaign is pretty fun.

In the wake of gods is kinda fun too.

>>14921164

beat*

>>14921189

I remember there was some tiff about them modifying a bunch of other shit for balance reasons that pissed a lot of people off, I had been using it previously as it didn't change much besides Necromancy but I'm not sure if I'd want to use it if I start playing this again as I prefer mods that just leave shit be.

>>14917530

What about heroes 4.

>>14920481

>>14921164

When I played Legends, I picked the mage so I wanted to change things this time around by starting a paladin, but the lack of offensive power that the other two get really hurts.

I guess I'll just retry it again at some point. I have it installed anyway.